If] don't do this on your behalf, my master will kill me anyway.

A karate master does not kill people with his bare hands.

My master will very probably kill you when you reach his sanctum.

That is unless the other thieves wanted their master killed, which wouldn't surprise him at all.

"The master and the mistress would kill me," the driver said, his voice flat.

They drank together and the other master killed our master.

Her masters hadn't killed her for two reasons.

Would you wait till your new masters have killed you all one by one?

You lead our nation to ruin, but you insist on deference from someone whom your master almost killed.

Kylar had seen his master kill innocents, yet he'd never let himself see the evil there.