Three years.

"I personally find them quite barbaric, but if you'd like, fine," Seto commented as Ian eyed two heavy metal chains that lied on the table among other weapons.

He lifted them with ease and examined them. Two sets of straps were on each chain, meant to wrap around the user's arm as they swung the heavy weight. Ian fastened the straps to his right arm, then the other to his left.

"How do you use these?" Ian looked back up to Seto. He lifted his arms up and brought them down sharply, making the long chains lift up and crash back down to the ground with loud thuds.

"That is not my place. Someone else can teach you that," he responded.

"I want these!" Adam exclaimed from behind him.

Seto turned to see the 7-year- old child holding two black leather whips lined with small metal spikes. The spikes bore small dancing flames.

"You two will learn how to use them in due time," Seto patted Adam's head as he strolled out of the room, with Ian and Adam following.

~

Jerome and Mitch crept through the house silently. Close behind them, an assassin followed, as a supervisor and a guard. This would be their first assassinations.

A wooden crib lined with soft blankets rocked gently in the corner of the room. Mitch stood in Jerome's back and stood on the edge of the crib, observing his victims. Jerome followed, jumping up silently on the crib.

Mitch took out the small knife he was given for the task, dipped in poison. He gently lowered himself into the crib and ran the blade across the sleeping baby's throat. Mitch wiped off the blade on the blanket beside him.

The baby let out loud wails when Jerome foolishly jumped into the crib, landing on the baby. Frantic to find a solution, Jerome simply skewered the baby's neck with his small, but quite pointy claw. He wiped the blood, and as he looked back to their supervisor, he nodded and gestured them to follow him.

They obeyed and silently creep out the house just as they got in. Once they were away from the death scene, Mitch has a cheer of happiness and hi-fived Jerome, now assassins at age 3. The children they once had been were now long gone.

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