More than half an hour into the movie, Li Yan said he needed to go to the bathroom, suggesting Xiao Di continue watching alone. Although Xiao Di was reluctant to be apart, she didn’t insist on accompanying him to the bathroom.

...

There were only a few people in the entire row, so Li Yan quickly slipped out. But he didn’t actually go to the bathroom; instead, he maneuvered to the back row and sat next to someone who had come alone. The entire row behind them was mostly empty.

Li Yan sat beside him, from this position, he could clearly observe Xiao Di’s seat in front and also get a good view of the entire theater.

"Are you ready?"

"All set." The person beside him continued to stare at the screen while quietly handing a package to Li Yan.

Li Yan took it over, his eyes still focused forward while his hands moved swiftly. It was a gun and bullets. These familiar objects, even with eyes closed, he could handle with clarity—he knew them better than the anatomy of a woman’s body.

"King... what big case requires you to personally make a move?" This was one of ’their’ organization’s logistics staff responsible for preparing weapons and such. Typically, any task was communicated by Yue Yao under the name Queen, but this time, Li Yan bypassed Yue Yao and contacted him directly to deliver weapons here.

Upon discovering Sonia was an assassin, when she chatted with Xiao Di, Li Yan accelerated his meal and, when he went for another serving, used his phone to reach him, asking him to bring weapons to this cinema.

Li Yan calculated that if Xiao Di wanted to watch a movie, she would choose this place with shared memories. In fact, if she didn’t want to watch a movie or wanted to go elsewhere, he would have suggested coming here. When he bought the tickets earlier, he had already confirmed this logistics personnel was waiting below and would only come up once the show was about to start, aside from observing the surroundings and ensuring this favorable logistic personnel came early to secure an advantageous position.

Before the lights dimmed, he scanned the audience. The idea was to spot any suspicious individuals and note where they sat. Going to the bathroom was just a pretext to fetch the weapon.

This is because Li Yan currently didn’t live as an assassin but as a regular individual, not a hidden assassin among people but an ordinary person with an assassin’s identity. Hence, he couldn’t carry guns or weapons daily, or else it would trouble him continually. But now faced with the threat from a professional assassin, lacking a weapon would be dangerous!

Admittedly, if Sonia really intended to kill him, breakfast at the hotel with Xiao Di would have been the perfect opportunity.

Just as Rocana’s Rose had concerns back then, Sonia probably couldn’t imagine Li Yan being completely unarmed! Faced with an expert of such legendary status, any assassin wouldn’t believe he’s unarmed. Or rather, even if they had that suspicion, they wouldn’t dare bet he was unarmed.

A super assassin’s prowess isn’t merely in the moment of attack nor solely in strength! Their excellence extends to aura, observation skills, decision-making, judgment, vigilance... in all aspects, they excel. Thus, even when three super assassins faced off against Li Yan covertly, it was a contest, not a reckless gamble.

Despite Sonia’s ignorance and cautions regarding him, Li Yan knew without a gun, he would be highly vulnerable, except in close combat, and unable to protect others!

...

At his words, while securing the gun and magazines, Li Yan nonchalantly said, "Don’t ask what shouldn’t be asked." 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

"Honestly... I’m still young, and I don’t want to remain just logistics. I hope, King, you could give me a chance..." The logistics personnel’s breath became slightly heavier, revealing a hint of excitement in his voice.

"Your name is...?"

"I’m Xie Xuanji, my name is hard to remember, so I gave myself a codename—’Ted’!" The logistics staff quickly introduced himself.

"Hmm, you can apply to Queen."

Xie Xuanji hurriedly said, "I’ve applied... Queen thinks I’m not qualified. She believes I can’t even reach ’Gun Level,’ that executing a mission would easily result in failure."

Gun, Blade, Fist, Flower, that’s Queen’s classification within ’their’ ranks. Concerning assassin levels, Flower Grade is S-Class, Fist Level is A-Class, Blade Level is B-Class, and Gun Level is C-Class. If S-Class equates to top-tier and A-Class first-tier, then this would be third-tier. If one can’t even reach third-tier, even if the organization could assign a C-Class mission, the success rate would be low.

"Queen’s decision is correct!"

"But... I have extensive logistics experience, and my abilities in environment analysis, observation, and judgment can compensate for my lack of physical prowess, contributing to overall strength, although these are not considered in evaluations. As for mission execution experience, unless they let me start, I’ll forever remain in logistics." Xie Xuanji seized the rare opportunity to directly liaise with King, hoping for some mentorship.

"Is this your dream? Not afraid of danger?" Li Yan glanced at him.

"An ideal, dream, and goal!" Xie Xuanji asserted confidently.

Their growth relies on young successors. Like last mission in H city, giving Shi Jian’en, Feng Wuqing, and Liu Xi, three Fist Levels, exposure to S-Class missions and opportunities for direct engagement with a dangerous and formidable enemy, greatly benefitted their progress. Experiencing near destruction when cornered, lent them new insights into crisis awareness, arrogance, resolution, etc. Maybe this young man could get an opportunity too.