Matchmaking My Murderer
By @john1208
I died on the end of Dragomir Rostova's shadow-blade. I know this because I just woke up with memories of my past life right before the Sable Vanguard squad assignments. Naturally, I did what any sane, survival-oriented girl would do: I faked a highly contagious, embarrassing magical bowel disease in front of the entire courtyard to avoid being paired with him. It didn’t work. My commander magically healed me on the spot, the whole fortress laughed, and now I’m stuck on a two-person elite monster-hunting team with my future killer. My new survival plan? Get him a girlfriend. If Dragomir is busy swooning, he won't have time to murder me. But every time I try to shove him into the arms of a blushing sniper, a cursed bounty we accidentally touched snaps us back together. We are physically and magically tethered. I can't escape him. Worse, while we're trapped in a collapsed basilisk burrow, I catch this supposedly ruthless killer gently feeding my six-legged pet ferret. If he's so gentle, why did he kill me? And why does the mysterious shadow-beast hunting our outposts feel exactly like the dark magic he wields?
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