"I'll handle opening the doors and going in first... I'm experienced in this, so the chances of being discovered are much lower for me than for you!"
Myouji spoke up voluntarily at that moment.
"Mm, no problem. Then let's move out!"
Naturally, no one else objected. For the others in Night Raid... they had always simply smashed their way through doors.
Next, everyone began moving as a group.
Just as Myouji had said, she was highly experienced at opening doors. With a single glance, she could tell which doors would make noise when pushed open, which would not, which doorways had light spilling through them, and which did not.
Whenever they entered a room, Myouji would usually open the door and go in first. Drawing on her experience, she would swiftly scan the room to see whether anyone was awake or had heard something, paying special attention to the spots most likely to expose their intrusion.
And so, they passed over the rooms and dormitories with noise or light, letting Myouji lead them inside as they carried out silent assassinations room by room.
Discovered
Perhaps because no one had ever come to launch a surprise attack on the Imperial Fist Temple in its hundreds of years of history, everything went smoothly. Even after clearing more than a dozen rooms, the Night Raid group had not been discovered.
Some rooms held more than a dozen enemies, while others had only a few, or even just one.
And more often than not, the fewer people there were, the stronger those inside were.
But most of them died directly in their sleep. These people were probably at the bottom of the Imperial Fist Temple, lacking much strength and possessing little vigilance.
Others were different. Even after Leone and the others burst into their