At Silva's words, Amane could not help feeling stunned as she looked at the young man seated there.
He had defeated Master Illumi, and the head of the family had even allowed him to become Master Kikyo's teacher-
Just who was this person?
Her confusion would not last long, because Dio asked with a smile, "Even if I want Kikyo to become a Hunter instead of an assassin?"
Hearing this, Kikyo could not help speaking up. "Hey, I haven't agreed yet!"
At the same time, Kikyo frantically signaled Dio with her eyes to stop talking!
Ever since she was little, her father and Illumi had drilled the idea of becoming an assassin into her. How could her father possibly agree if she told him now that she did not want to be one?
Yet Silva did not get angry. Instead, a rare trace of a smile appeared on his face as he answered, "Kikyo is my daughter. She will return to the Zoldyck Family and inherit her calling as an assassin."
His tone carried certainty that brooked no doubt, as though he were stating something perfectly ordinary.
The firmness in Silva's voice even made Kikyo begin to wonder whether she really had been born to become an assassin.
But after that brief moment of doubt, she decisively shook off those jumbled thoughts.
She did not know what the future held, but at least for now, she no longer wanted to kill people.
"Is that so? Then let's wait and see. I'm sure Kikyo won't make a decision she'll regret."
Dio had no intention of arguing, because having read the original story, he knew Kikyo's personality very well.
Being an assassin was the one profession she definitely would not stick with.
After spearing a piece of fish from the table and