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Chapter 4: The Flying Cherry Blossoms (above)
October 15, 244 A.D.
Oriental Ocean Chiristi Sea (Sea of Kings) Central Chiristi Sea – a treacherous sea known for its strong winds and waves, unpredictable weather, and a variety of strange sea creatures, but because of the harsh conditions and uninhabited environment, many rare treasures were created, and it is a dream place for all pirates and merchants who want to get a thousand dollars.
However, this extremely treacherous channel was a deterrent, and only the best pirates or treasure hunters could approach and enter this area and return in one piece. Countless people had challenged this area, but most of them failed, and the price they paid was to be buried at the bottom of the sea forever… Rumor has it that only a true pirate king could completely control this area, and it was called the “Sea of Kings”. The Sea of Kings. The land that the legendary pirate king, Kor, once visited is now ruled by the new “Four Sea Kings”, who have taken control of the sea and efficiently harvest and sell its rare treasures.
Simply put, the “Four Sea Kings” took over the ocean and appropriated all its resources for themselves, although many people were jealous of this, but due to the superiority of the Four Sea Kings in the sea, they stopped, so this distribution of power has been maintained for a long time.
In the center of this vast ocean, there were dozens of long and similarly shaped pirate ships, but one of them was particularly huge, with a red and black hull that was nearly 300 meters long, covered with exquisite and beautiful carvings, and four huge main sails painted with four kinds of creatures, namely, a white wolf, a sea serpent, a giant whale, and a man-eating shark, symbolizing the four kings of the sea, with the white wolf being the most noble and exquisite of them all Among them, the white wolf was the most noble and exquisite… There was no mistake, this was the flagship of the four kings of the sea – the Emperor!
In a room deep within the ship’s bridge, a white-haired man sat slumped in a red chair on the main seat of the room facing the vast empty hall, leaning back with his head propped up with his left hand as he sat in the fine, elegant chair.
The man’s age will not exceed thirty-something years old, but has a head of silver-white long straight hair, quite clean handsome face, but there are respectively from the forehead to the opposite side of the jaw, cross to cross over the alabaster-like handsome face of the two huge blood-red scars, so that originally can be said to be a handsome face into a somewhat horrifying, but invariably added a few points of majesty for his image.
Seemingly thinking about something, the man’s brow stayed deeply locked and his expression was quite serious, his eyes kept looking straight ahead, as if he was looking at something in the distance that he couldn’t see with the naked eye.
“My lord! I have brought the… person for you.”
A young girl’s voice suddenly appeared in this silent room, sound extraordinarily crisp and moving, but looked around but could not see the figure of the young girl.
“Yes? …bring him in…”
As soon as he finished speaking, a fat, bald man in tattered clothes stumbled into the room… It seemed that he had been kicked in, but there was no one in sight to see who had kicked him… The fat man appeared to be very frightened, and his whole body was trembling continuously, with his two rows of teeth involuntarily making the sound of “khakkah”, and the fat piles of flesh on his face were also shaking constantly. The fat piles of flesh on his face were also shaking constantly. Although he was so scared, the fat man still didn’t dare to run away, so you can see how much he was afraid of the man in front of him.
Slowly walking to the front of the man, the fat man immediately kneeled down on both knees, constantly kowtowing to the white-haired man, his mouth also kept saying: “I’m sorry! Please forgive me! I’m sorry! I’m…”
The man did not pay any attention to it and asked, “Where are the goods?”
The cold, low and magnetic voice made it impossible to hear the man’s feelings, but it definitely wouldn’t be happy is all.
Hearing this, the fat man immediately kowtowed a few more times and said fearfully, “Yes… I’m… I’m sorry! I’ve been… robbed…”
“Oh~~”
Although he didn’t say anything critical, but the tone of this look made Fatty’s heart skip a beat, and the bucket-sized beads of sweat on his forehead kept popping out one by one.
“What about the boat?” The man asked another question.
“It was… they burned it…”
“Who did this?” The man’s voice still sounded cold and devoid of emotion, though it was clear from the conversation that he was quite angry.
“I don’t… I don’t know… At that time, I only knew that two people had come on board, but the entire ship’s guards were killed by the two of them, and even… even the captain of the third combat team died, so we… we just… we just… we just got away quickly.”
“Escaped? What about the other ship? What did it look like?”
“I… I… I don’t know… they were like devils… it’s amazing that they were able to board our ship… in those waters… and without a big ship…” It seemed that even he felt unconvinced by his own statement, the fat man continued to tremble incessantly while his body was already drenched in sweat.
“Are you sure it was just two? What do they look like?”
“Yes… yes! It’s a yellow-haired boy with two swords… and a black-haired girl with a tai-sword… I’ve never seen any information about these two people, and I don’t know why we’re…”
“Enough! Go down!” The white-haired man waved his hand to stop that fat man’s words like a succession of bubbles and asked him to leave the room.
The fat man saw after a hasty hush a breath of air, hurried to the man bowed a few head, as if relieved to leave the big room quickly. Did not think is about to walk to the door of the room that moment, a blue light from the fat man’s eyes swept past, the fat man did not feel pain, only feel the neck seems to be numb and itchy, reach out and touch, only to see a hand full of blood.
“Da… lord, you…” Seemingly puzzled by what had happened to him, the fat man turned around in disbelief, and just as he opened his mouth to ask a question, a few columns of blood instantly shot out from a shallow bloodstain on his neck, whereupon the fat man fell to the ground in a staggering manner, and his obese arms and legs twitched for a few moments before he became motionless.
“Raharu! Who told you to kill him?” To the dark shadows at the corner of the room, the man shouted.
“It can’t be helped! Even if I hadn’t killed him, you would have, wouldn’t you? You don’t need to use your sword on such a useless fat pig…”
Originally seemed to be empty corner, but slowly stepped out a seemingly quite clean and lovely young girl, with a playful tone answered the man in front of her, wearing a very exposed strong clothing, the body of the very little fabric can not hide her good body, short lavender hair and the same color of the watery eyes look very playful, the voice and just led the ground this brother into the room of the young girl seems to be the same person. The voice of the speaker seems to be the same as the young girl who led this man on the ground into the room just now.
However, what was rather incongruous was that in her right hand, she was holding a long, blood-stained, aqua-blue dagger, with blood dripping slowly from the intricately carved blade onto the ground, as the girl walked away from the blood… It seemed that she was the one who had killed the man just now, wasn’t it? However, she didn’t speak as if she had just killed someone, but rather as if she had done something completely normal.
“Hm… that’s right! But it’s not just that, is it?” Putting away the longsword that had been held in his hand at some point, the man’s expression softened, while his tone of voice regained some emotion.
“Hehehe~~ You saw through me, I was worried that I hadn’t killed for too long and had lost my touch! It was just the right time to practice with that guy just now.”
“Is that really true?” The white-haired man pressed again, though there seemed to be some hint of joking in his tone.
“Ah… it’s no fun, nothing can be hidden from you… that’s right! On top of that, I’m getting a little hungry.”
After finishing her words with a helpless tone, the young girl called Raharu raised the dagger in front of her without a care in the world, and stretched out her red tongue to skillfully lick every drop of blood left on the blade into her stomach, and the expression on her face became very bewitching, like a rosebush that had sucked up all the fresh blood.
“What a loss, it’s the bloodline, isn’t it?”
“Maybe? But I’m quite fond of this kind of thing too… but… yuck! This guy’s blood is really bad. I’m sure I can’t get a fat guy… or a teenager…”
As if he were complaining about the poor food at the restaurant, Raharu commented so to himself, his tone seeming quite natural, as if he didn’t think what he had just done was wrong in the least.
“Raharu, let’s get down to business first!” Interrupting Raharu, the man returned to that serious tone.
“Ah! I’m sorry…” Raharu realized his rudeness and immediately apologized to the man.
“It doesn’t matter much. But even Botanna was killed, so it seems likely that what this captain says is true!”
“Botanna? That guy who only uses brute force, there’s no surprise that he was killed.” Raharu criticized with a belittling tone.
“But… there aren’t many who can match such brute strength… It was because of this that I sent him to make the delivery in the first place, and added some good crew members, but I didn’t expect to… so that the plan would probably be impeded…” the white-haired man said slowly, his tone seeming quite worried.
“Then… should we issue a reward? In the name of the King of the Four Seas?”
“No! There’s no need to spook the other side, we don’t know what their intentions are, and we don’t know if it’s a coincidence or if they’re coming for us. More importantly, we can’t let the other three know.”
“Then… leave this to me! I have absolute confidence!” Raharu assured the man by patting her not-so-small chest, her very bouncy breasts bouncing up and down as a result.
“Then please, pick any ship you want and take it with you! I look forward to your good news.”
“Yes!” Raharu bowed and gave a nice salute before turning his head and walking away quickly.
“Wait! Raharu!”
“Can I help you? My Lord…” seemingly puzzled at being called out, Raharu asked suspiciously.
“The rest of those crew members, I’ll leave them to you. Remember, don’t let them suffer too much.”
“Aye! I know.”
Showing an impish smile, Raharu stepped out of the room once more, dragging the body of the fat man he had just killed away in one smooth motion, leaving a long trail of blood on the floor.
“Is it okay to send only her…?”
From the dark red curtain screen behind the man’s chair, a woman clad in a purple veil slowly walked out, even her face was covered with a black veil so that she couldn’t see her face, and her whole body exuded an aura that only a magical tutor could have.
However, her clothes were not embroidered with the symbol of the magic union, so it seemed as if this woman was a Dark Magician who was not recognized by the union, or else she was hiding her true identity for some purpose.
“There’s no way around it, although we’re not comfortable with it, we can’t move any more than we already have, it’ll be obvious, not to mention that other than you and those other three, she’s the strongest.” Not turning to look at the female beside him, the white haired man said with his eyes still looking ahead.
“Haha! ~~ I didn’t realize that I, a broken magician, could be compared to the King of the Four Seas, O Chris… you’re flattering me too much, aren’t you?”
The woman reached out her left hand to cover her mouth under the veil and giggled. It didn’t sound like an imaginary old woman, sounding like she was about twenty or thirty years old at most.
“Not really… with your strength, you might even be able to defeat me… never mind that… instead, did those three make any moves?”
“Currently no, it seems they don’t know about ‘the one’ being taken, but that shouldn’t be taken lightly.” The woman stopped joking as well and returned to her flat tone.
“And who the hell did this thing? There’s nothing the average pirate can do about it.”
“I’m not sure about that, but I probably know where they’re going.”
“Oooooh… remote viewing?”
“No! I just have a feeling that they’re going to Lilik… Lilik, the capital of maritime commerce!”
“Yes? Then go and speak to Raharu immediately! Don’t forget to ask her to be careful, that place is not under our full control, and although she is much stronger than Botanna, she is not that far behind… I don’t want to lose good men unnecessarily, and I want her to find out who did it!”
“Don’t be so hasty, it’s scary to see you with a serious look on your face~~ I’ll just go.”
With those words the woman disappeared in a flash, which was the usual trick of a magician.
“Who on earth did this? The young man with the two swords… could it be!” Subconsciously touching the wound on his face, the white-haired man called Chris had a worried and surprised look on his face.
“No… no way… he should have died… I’m pretty sure… four years ago…”
In the vast, empty hall, the undried blood on the floor giving off a slightly fishy odor, the white-haired, handsome Chris leaned his head in a fit of endless contemplation.
———- ———- ———- —– The warm sun of October gently cares for the whole sea, and it is really a great joy of life to enjoy the sunshine which is not scorching under the blowing of the wet and cool sea breeze, and it is also one of the most comfortable seasons for a few people in the harsh sea. It is also one of the few most comfortable seasons on the harsh sea. The rest of the seasons, either the hot sun that can kill people alive or the cold wind that cuts like a knife and pierces like a bone, in short, the life on the sea is by no means as leisurely as the general public imagines, and it is impossible to fight with the harsh nature without a firm will and determination.
In the channel leading to the sea merchant capital of Lilik, a long and slender ship without any burdensome decorations was rapidly advancing, although only two main sails were opened, it was still sailing at a high speed that could not be expected by ordinary ships, although such high speed was more or less due to the power of the tide, but the performance of the ship still accounted for the majority of the factors.
In an unusually wide cabin on the ship, a beautiful black-haired girl in aqua-colored civilian clothes was sitting in front of a high-class desk made of mahogany and writing rapidly, looking very focused, but from time to time stopping to look up at the sky in deep thought, one moment revealing a joyful smile, and the next time looking worried, and from time to time even sighed softly, so it seems to be writing about something quite personal, right?
Upon closer inspection, it appeared that she was recording something in a rather elaborate book, the ochre genuine cowhide cover delicately stamped with the following words in hot foil, along with a few more words underneath in red ink.
※Sakura’s personal history
BY Sakura-Ques Zelto
(No one but me is allowed to touch it, much less turn it over! Especially Chiakou. If you touch it, I’ll kill you!) *October 13th, 244th year of the Sacred King’s calendar.
I’m so ashamed to have been saved by that Jaakko guy, I’m so… ashamed! It’s a disgrace!
Luluca came on board today, she’s kind of cute, but it’s hard to believe that she’s a mermaid, even though she’s not a human, but that idiot Jako is still clinging to her all the time, that idiot!
In order to help Luluca find her captured companion, the Gale decided to head for the merchant capital, Lilik. It’s been a long time since I’ve been there, since the incident…
Lost a ton of money again, really bad luck.
October 14, 244 A.D.
Looking at Luluca and Jaakko, it seemed that they were already having an affair… I didn’t realize that even that innocent-looking girl was so promiscuous… The world was really going downhill!
That Dido guy seems to know too, but he’s leaving her alone. I don’t know what she’s thinking.
October 15, 244 A.D.
Today’s harvest of medium sized merchant ships unknown estimated 43,000 lar.
That big-breasted woman, she seems to have gotten into it with Chiakou today too. Shame on her! I’m so old What’s the big deal about big boobs? Watch out for sagging in the future
October 16, 244 A.D.
It looks like Jako’s bounty has been raised again to 13,000 Lars, so it seems like he’s happy about that, but it’s not even close to my goal!
A merchant ship has been spotted on the same route as us, and it looks like it won’t escape tomorrow.
October 17, 244 AH.
Harvested the light merchant ship Aaronti today, estimated at 24,000 lar.
That imbecile, Jaakko, seems to have made it with Luluca again, that lecherous devil! Idiot!
October 18, 244 A.D.
I think we’ll reach Lilik in three days, but it’s such a problem. Jaakko shouldn’t have said yes. Why is he always so busy with other women? Then I…
“Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.”
Just as Sakurahime was trying to continue writing, a woman’s chirp came from the next room, interrupting Sakurahime’s thoughts of writing, she refreshed herself unhappily, and as she was trying to write more, that chirp came from next door again.
“ ohh～～ohh.”
(It’s early in the morning. They’ve got nothing to do…)
Sakurahime was very unpleasant, especially when she heard who the owner of the voice was, although it didn’t sound very clear through a layer of wooden planks, but she could probably still tell that it was Luluca, the colorful mermaid who pretended to be innocent, and the other one must be that absolute lecherous demon, Jia Kou.
However, they are in their own room to do things, so they can not find a legitimate reason to stop them, think of this Sakurahime, hate hard to grip the pen, purple and black altar wooden issued a “snap” a light sound will be folded in half, so hard things can be so easy to break, it seems that Sakurahime is really quite annoyed! Sakurahime really seems to be quite annoyed.
“Ah… no, that’s… that’s weird… Ah… Mr. Jaakko… no…”
“It’s okay, don’t worry, you’ll be comfortable after a while!”
“Aaahhhhhh… it hurts… softer! Mr. Jaakko…” Luluca’s voice became quite strange, and at the same time, there were occasional small whimpers.
(They… what the hell are they doing!)
“It’ll all be like that at first, and the next thing you know, it won’t hurt.”
Hearing this kind of unorthodox conversation, Sakurahime was quite furious and couldn’t help but shout back through the wall: “Hey! Can you guys keep your voices down? You’re making a lot of noise!”
It seemed to be heard across the street, but it remained the same.
“But… but Mr. Jaakko, this is really strange… ah~~”
“This is something that only we humans do, yo! …look! Isn’t it nice?”
“Mmm… really… ah… ah… ah… so… so good…”
Seemingly ignoring Sakurahime’s warning, the voices next door grew louder and louder, while the conversation became more “sensational” and sensationalized.
(Damn… damn it! Did you call me that on purpose?)
“Hey! Did you hear me? I told you to keep your voices down!”
The furious Sakurahime roared back in an ultra-high decibel voice, and even veins popped out on her white, thin and beautiful forehead, so it seemed that she was already quite furious.
“Come on~~ You can come and join us too!”
Through the wall, what seemed to be Jaakko’s voice shouted back, its tone full of teasing and contempt.
Sakurahime laughed in anger when she heard that, and with her clenched fists so hard that they made a “clicking” sound of her knuckles, she slowly left her desk and walked towards the wall near the next room.
“Okay… I’ll come over to you now!!!”
After finishing her words word by word, Sakurahime immediately threw a heavy punch at the wall, and with a loud bang, the wall, which seemed to be quite thick, didn’t seem to play any defensive role under Sakurahime’s iron fist, and a big hole was easily punched out.
Kicking away some of the remaining boards next to the large hole with her foot, Sakurahime broke through the wall and walked into the next room with an extremely impressive momentum.
“What are you doing!” Although she didn’t know what they were doing, Sakurahime intuitively shouted out immediately.
Reaching out to wave away the broken pieces of wood that were still flying in the air, Sakurahime fixed her eyes on the two men who were indeed on the bed, but her jaw nearly dropped, but the other woman’s expression of surprise was no less than hers, I’m afraid.
“What… what are you… doing?” Her voice trembling, Sakurahime asked, somewhat disbelieving what she was seeing before her eyes.
“Y… Yoga…”
The two of them lying on the bed were surprisingly not doing that, and both of them were wearing one piece of clothing.
Jakou seemed to be struggling to wrench Luluca’s other slender leg behind her head, while Luluca was also struggling to maintain her current position, both of them were completely unprepared for Sakurahime to come rushing in like this, and both of them had a strange look on their faces as they looked at Sakurahime, who was also wearing the same expression.
“Don’t do things like that that people will get the wrong idea!”
Looking at the frozen two, Sakurahime didn’t know what to say, her pink face gradually burned and turned red, but her pride didn’t seem to allow her to apologize, so she had to put all the blame on Jia Kou.
“What’s wrong with you?” “You’re obviously mistaken! You even broke the wall, are you… jealous?”
It was fine for anyone to say this, except for Jia Kou who couldn’t say it. Upon hearing the words spoken by Jia Kou, Sakurahime, who originally seemed to be feeling a bit guilty, for some reason immediately stormed forward and kicked Jia Kou away from Luluca.
“Damn it! Want to fight?” Jia Kou, who had come to a stop by hitting the other side of the wall, immediately gritted his teeth and endured the pain to get up, and angrily lunged at Sakurahime.
A “fierce”… no, I should say “low-grade” fight ensued, with all sorts of nasty moves such as clawing, biting, pulling and tugging, and both of them seemed to have forgotten what they had been taught, and were fighting in the most primitive way, but to the eyes of the onlookers, it looked incredibly violent and magnificent. But in the eyes of bystanders look exceptionally tragic and magnificent, looking at the two so intense battle, Luluca do not know what to say, also do not know how to stop them both, only to shrink in the bedside of a foot, hands clasping the head do not dare to move, for fear of being somehow involved in the two in the fierce battle.
“Ahhhh… is it starting again?”
Dido, who was on the deck directing the handling of the plebeian affairs, heard a series of loud bangs coming from Jaako’s room, and probably knew what had happened without having to go and see what was going on.
“Don’t bother! Focus on getting on with what you need to do.” Dido said to the group of minions who had seen it all before; it happened about once or twice a month, and the end was often fixed.
“Ah, Kirk! Get me the medical kit, I’ll need it later.”
Dido seemed to have thought of something and turned to a bearded strong man beside him, who answered and immediately dropped the work at hand and ran into the cabin.
“I hope I don’t break too many things…”
Dido smiled helplessly and bitterly, turning back to her work.
Back to the two just in the fierce battle, the battle has now fallen into a stalemate state, fighting for a while, both feel some physical strength and gasping for breath.
Wanting to end this pointless fight sooner rather than later, Jakou made a fake move to take a step back and then immediately flew up. Sakurahime had expected him to do so, and after calculating his position, she jumped ahead of him and cut Jiakou off in the air, snapping his neck with a cross choke with both hands.
Feeling breathless as his neck was suddenly tightly strangled by Sakurahime, Jia Kou immediately rushed to try to break free, but Sakurahime’s grip was quite firm, and no matter how much he struggled, he couldn’t free Sakurahime’s hand.
(I had no choice… I had to do it!)
After trying several close combat methods that were unable to undo Sakurahime’s stranglehold, Jia Kou suddenly felt in his heart that Sakurahime seemed to really want to kill him, so he had no choice but to use the nastiest of all moves to hit a double dragon grabbing the pearl, but instead of grabbing Sakurahime’s eyes, a hand grabbed at Sakurahime’s luscious and rounded breasts.
“Wow ~ ~” let out a seldom heard scream, Sakurahime immediately let go of the hands tightly clasped Jia Kou’s neck, back a few steps, at the same time hands subconsciously cover their not so small chest, it is true that even if it is a strong defender such as Sakurahime, the bones are still a real girl.
“Cough, cough, cough… do you… do you want to kill me?”
Jia Kou hurriedly complained to Sakurahime about her “bad behavior”, and at the same time touched her neck, which was almost crushed, and there were still bright red five-finger handprints on it, so it seemed that Sakurahime wasn’t joking just now, and probably really wanted to kill herself.
“You… you big fool!” Sakurahime’s pretty face suddenly turned red, as if she was ashamed of what she had just been done to, but Sakurahime being Sakurahime, instead of hiding her face and running away as a normal girl would have reacted, Sakurahime rushed at Jaakko with quick strides, and at the same time, her iron fists followed suit and met her face.
“Bang” sound, Jia Kou because just escaped from the strangling hell, a moment of reaction and received a punch in front of her, the body because of this great force and the whole person flew back, flew for a few feet and then fell to the ground with a “pop” sound, and there was no sign of getting up again. There was no sign of getting up, it seems that the center of the blow just now had already made him faint in an instant.
“Idiot!” Sakurahime didn’t even look at him and walked back to her room through the big hole she had just made, not forgetting to kick Jiakou, who was lying on the floor, one more time before she left, and left without looking back.
“Ughhhh~~! I can’t believe I hit you so hard, it looks like our Onii-chan is quite angry!”
As soon as Sakurahime exited with her back foot, Tidoe followed with her front foot and walked in through the front door with a large box of medical paraphernalia in her hand, looking over at Jia Kou, who had collapsed unconscious on the floor, and commented.
“It’s all right. You’ll see this all the time…”
Seeing Luluca, who was still cowering in a corner of the bed and didn’t dare to move, Dido comforted her with a gentle tone, but the content of her words was really not convincing.
“Really… really? Do… these… fights… happen often?” Luluca asked with some disbelief and doubt.
“Well… I think they were like this in the beginning… ever since we met…”
As if recalling the events of that time, a gentle smile appeared on Dido’s face, like a faint smile that felt a little helpless at her younger sibling’s incessant nonsense.
———- ———- ———- —– “That fool! Dumbass! Dumbass!”
Returning to her room in a huff, she grabbed a few boards and plugged the big hole she had just made… Sakurahime’s anger was still high, and she kept on scolding Jiakou, especially for what he had done… but a crystal clear teardrop rolled down her cheeks… and when the tears started to flow, she couldn’t seem to stop them, and Sakurahime began to whimper.
“Idiot… oooh… idiot… oooh… idiot… oooh… idiot… Jaakko…”
Crying but somehow pronouncing Jia Kou’s name, Sakurahime recalled something from the past, and a decision at the time that changed her future fate.
Chapter 4: The Flying Cherry Blossoms (Medium)
Sometime in August, 243 years (one year ago) of the Holy King’s Calendar
Royal Palace of Fermilo, capital of the Principality of Reis.
It was still a scorching hot summer, but the Duchy of Reis, located in the central continent, because it was located in the middle of the continent, was affected by the continental climate, the weather would not be quite so hot, instead, it could be said that it was somewhat comfortable.
The Duchy of Reis is also one of the new countries after the Great War, and the founder of the Duchy is also a very famous hero in the Great War – the Hot Wolf Zeldaul, by relying on the high popularity and the ability to gather popularity, the Duchy of Reis in the early days of the establishment of the Duchy of Reis, that is, recruited quite a lot of talent, coupled with the founder of the Duchy of Reis itself on the government of the country’s concern for the Duchy of Reis, no matter in the economic and military aspects are fast flourishing and powerful. The Duchy of Rath flourished rapidly in both economic and military aspects, and became one of the major sovereign states in the Central Continent.
In the center of the duchy’s territory stands a towering vermilion tower, the symbol of the Duchy of Reis and the center of its royal capital, while around it are a number of side halls, inhabited by, shall we say, unproductive nobles… although there are still some strange people living in them who are different from the nobles…
It was a leisurely afternoon, a middle-aged woman in a lady’s dress holding a packet of beautifully decorated parcels in her hands, crossed the long corridors in the royal palace at a quick pace, and finally came to the door of a room located in a side hall.
The Servant gently knocked on the door with her hand a few times, but received no response to allow entry, so the Servant voiced her question to see who was inside.
“Your Highness… Your Highness? Are you… Your Highness? His Majesty asked me to deliver something…”
The maiden realized that there didn’t seem to be anyone inside the room, but she didn’t have the guts to open the door to check it out either, normally breaking into the rooms of the general royal family – a light punishment would be banishment, or a heavy punishment would be killing the head of the king, but compared to this, trying to enter the room in front of her might require a higher level of courage.
“What should I do? His Majesty said that he must hand it over to His Highness himself… If I can’t do that, I’m afraid I won’t be able to live… well! It’s a gamble!”
The lady looked rather frightened, but comparing the pros and cons, she decided to take the gamble, and carefully pushed open the unlocked door and tiptoed into the wide, lightly scented room.
Looking around the room, she found the person she was looking for, a woman with long pale pink hair was slumped over her desk with her back to the Servant, who upon seeing it immediately went down on one knee in fear, holding the object she was to give to the other person high above her head and explaining to the other person, in a trembling tone of voice, the reason for her rude intrusion.
“I really deserve to die… I’m sorry for barging in like this without informing His Highness…”
Kneeling and bowing her head as she waited for her opponent’s answer, the Servant looked very nervous and a bead of sweat continued to break out on her forehead.
After a while, the Servant realized that the other party hadn’t been responding, and cautiously raised her head slightly to look at the other party for a while, and found that she seemed as if she hadn’t heard what she said at all, and still remained lying on her stomach with her back turned to herself all the time.
“Your Highness? Your Highness…?”
Two soft calls were made, but the other party remained unresponsive.
“Um… probably asleep? How can I sleep here? Oo… quilt quilt quilt…”
Even though he was quite afraid of the other party, as a subject he would still look out for his master no matter what he did.
The Servant took a thin quilt from the bed behind her and tried to gently drape it over her without startling the other woman.
Slightly touched the other party’s shoulder, but did not expect the other party to be so unsteady that the whole person fell heavily from the chair to the ground.
“Your Highness! You…”
Immediately wanted to see the other side clearly, did not think it was okay not to see, but a look scared her half to death.
After the woman fell to the ground, the head on her neck somehow managed to separate from her body, and jumped a few times on the ground, gurgling and rolling a few times before coming to a stop, the ground covered with red blood.
“Your Highness…”
When the lady saw this soul-crushing sight, she was flabbergasted for a while, then her eyes turned white and her face turned blue, and she fell backward with her whole body, foaming at the mouth.
“What the hell… it’s not working! You’re useless!”
This playful female voice came from outside the window, and along with it came a young girl in men’s clothing with nimble hands and feet, who easily leaped into the room and looked at the maiden, who was still lying on the floor, constantly convulsing and foaming like a crab, and said in a tone of contempt and flirtation.
That young girl has a head of elegant long pink hair, matched with a pretty face without powder, large and soulful eyes, small but straight nose, and tender red lips, looks like a cherry blossom is about to bloom.
The girl’s body was also first-rate, with long legs and a slim waist, but… her breasts were slightly smaller… Of course, since she was a young girl, there was still some room for development… but her exquisite breasts were still beautifully shaped.
A careful look at the woman who just fell to the ground, found that it was just some quilts and clothes formed out of the dummy, that rolled to the side of the head, is just a pillow plus a wig from somewhere, and the “blood” on the ground, how to look at it is like cheap red ink, will be so scared by such a thing that fainted, no wonder the girl felt incredulous and contemptuous. No wonder the girl felt incredulous and contemptuous.
“This or that… ah… it’s really boring! Every single one of them… staying in this kind of place, will I become a weirdo like them sooner or later?”
Walking over to one of the mirrors in the room, the young girl sighed as she looked at herself in the mirror, a somewhat self-pitying tone slowly exhaling from her cherry lips in a hushed tone, sounding as if she wasn’t having a very comfortable time.
“I have to go to dance class later! Wearing those stupid clothes, doing useless dances, with that dirty smile on your face… it’s so meaningless…”
The young lady sighed again and again, as if this life was not to her liking, a life of nobility that most people could only dream of! That’s what they call people who don’t know what’s good for them… right?
Stepping away from the make-up mirror, she walked over to the half-open window, where the warm afternoon sunlight poured down through the light red curtains, filling the room with a gentle, elegant atmosphere. However, the young girl did not see it that way, for her, this was probably the harshest prison, and in such a “cozy” environment… “Ah… it would be nice to see the outside… I would like to see the outside as well…”
Pulling out a chair, the girl sat in front of the window, gently dragging her hand over her head and looking out of the window, her eyes showing a slight hint of sadness, which seemed very endearing, but it was only for a moment… “Damn it! Damn it! It’s all because of that old man! He said a girl should behave like a girl, so he took it upon himself to lock me up in this shitty place! I just don’t like it! Let’s see what he can do!”
The next moment, the girl suddenly hysterical up, full of anger and dissatisfaction like a volcano eruption general all out, not only is the mouth like a continuous firecracker like non-stop cursing, at the same time also can not control their own soaring emotions, “swish” a stand up, then all the hand to touch the things all around the messy slammed to vent their anger. It seems almost like a little shrew, the image given earlier has completely disappeared, turned into a messy debris scattered all over the ground.
“But… wait… what exactly did she just come for?”
The young girl approached the lady who was still on the ground, fortunately the “hidden weapons” that flew around just now didn’t hit her by mistake, otherwise she would really be in trouble.
Bending down and picking up the package beside her, the young girl looked at it curiously, “This… must be from that old man, right? What is it?”
Ripping open the wrapping paper haphazardly, the young girl pulled out a gorgeous ball of fabric from it, only to realize that it was a one-piece dress for a ball.
“What… what is this? ~~ So ugly, a ghost would wear it!”
Although the girl criticized this, but in the eyes of the general public, that can be considered the highest grade of clothing, and the so-called “ugly”, I’m afraid that the girl’s own aesthetic is just.
Instead, the young girl grabbed the jumpsuit with both hands and tried to tear it in half in one breath, not realizing that she was stopped by a voice.
“Don’t you want any of the clothes Dad gave you? Goodness! How did I get a daughter like that?”
A handsome man with short, bright red hair and a tall, strong build suddenly burst through the doorway, wailing at the young girl who was about to tear her clothes off.
“Damn it! Is this how you run into a maiden’s boudoir?”
When the young girl saw the man running into her room, she yelled at him, and at the same time, she smashed the clothes in her hand at the other man.
Reaching out and grasping away the clothes flying towards him, the man’s thick arms were strewn with scars, it seemed that this man must have been in a lot of battles before, and something could be seen in the fact that he was so athletic.
“Surely a father has the right to be in his daughter’s room lo! And why did you tear that dress? That was one that your dear father spent a long time to carefully pick out! Luckily I had the premonition to run to your room to take a look, I didn’t think that you’d actually hurt your father’s heart so much, I’ve really raised you for nothing~~” Keeping emphasizing the relationship between himself and the young girl, it seems that this father really isn’t just doting on his daughter.
“Oh… I don’t want something so ugly!”
With an expression of extreme disgust on his face he looked at the pile of clothes thrown on the floor, after which he turned his back to the man and said.
“My daughter… You’re a grown-up now, aren’t you? You can’t go around in men’s clothes all day long. You have to act like a lady, okay?”
“So? I’m supposed to wear something like that? It’s not practical at all. My whole lower body feels like it’s letting in air. I’m sick of it!”
It seemed that when saying that, her mind pictured herself wearing it, and goosebumps ran over the young girl’s body, and she hastily shook a few times to try and shake the unpleasant sight from her mind.
“Ah~~ How could I have raised such a daughter who would turn out to be like a man, your mother will surely cry in heaven.”
The red-haired man looked up to the sky and sighed, the tiger’s eyes were still slightly tearful, the expression of grief on his face was self-evident, this look in the eyes of the onlookers seems to be very exaggerated, and can even be said to be a bit funny, but look at the man’s performance and does not seem to be joking, maybe this is his nature?
“Don’t move and use your mom as a shield! Sada you dead old man!” Hearing the red-haired man mentioning about his mother, the young girl with cherry-colored hair immediately turned around and pointed at the man with a snappy finger and cursed.
“What kind of daughter calls her father by his name like that? How about a little discipline?” Hearing the young girl call her by her own name, the man called Sada also looked quite angry and sternly lectured the young girl.
“Hmph! It’s your own fault if you want to talk about poor parenting, besides, I don’t want to have a stinky old man like you for a father, I don’t want this kind of red hair that looks like a stray hair!”
Lifting up a lock of her own light red hair, the cherry colored hair that seemed extremely elegant in the eyes of others was not liked by the young girl, but rather seemed to feel very disgusted. However, from the color of their hair, it seems that they are indeed father and daughter.
“Whoa? Is that so? That’s good! I don’t want such a disobedient daughter anymore, I’ll just grab anyone on the street and raise them better than you!”
“Good! I’ll leave then, there’s no point in me staying in this house for long, don’t regret it if I leave!”
“Great! Just go ahead and leave! It’s useless to have such a disobedient daughter anyway.”
Though the speech seemed like a gamble, though how Sada sounded like she was mocking her daughter.
“That’s just right! Anyway, there’s nothing fun about staying in this uninteresting place with a boring old man all day.” As she said that, the young girl went off to pack her things, looking as if she really wanted to leave.
“Sakura! Are you really leaving?”
Sada called his daughter by her name, and it seemed that the girl was called “Sakura”.
But… she didn’t look like the Sakurahime on the Jharkhand ship, especially the color of her hair, one black and the other reddish, and if we were to say that it was an eruption of hair, then the difference in her face would be totally inexplicable, and this Sakurahime was even prettier… or should I say, prettier than the one on Jharkhand’s ship, wasn’t she?
So just exactly what was this Sakura exactly? However, such things were less important now.
“That’s right! What? Regret?”
After loading all of her almost-packed bags into her backpack and lifting it up over her shoulder in one smooth motion, Sakura was just about to walk out of the room, and it didn’t look like she was making a fool of herself.
“In that case, take that!”
In the face of Sakura’s behavior, Sada only faintly replied back, but before he finished speaking, his tall and strong body suddenly rushed towards Sakura at a fast speed, a red light flashed, and then there was a loud “clank” sound.
“K… damn it! What… what are you doing?”
Sakura, who fell backward after being in a state of disarray by the sudden attack, stammered in surprise as she looked behind her at the wall that had been hardened by a large hole punched through it by Sada.
And the other party did not know when to draw out the bronze-colored sword inserted in the wall, from their own white jade fat like soft and thin cheeks only a few centimeters, if not for their own just flash fast, head may not have been it!
Suddenly Sakura felt that there seemed to be something wet on her face, she reached out and touched it, and brought it back to find that her hands were full of reddish blood, it seemed that although she had instantly dodged through just now, the high-speed sweeping wind of the sword was still unavoidable and left wounds on her soft and fine skin.
“You… Look what you’ve done! I’ve taken care of my skin for so long…”
Only halfway through her sentence, there was a sudden small crumbling sound from behind her, and Sakura turned around with a huge blush, only to see the reddish-bronze-colored sword plunging into the wall’s wounds gradually shattering and slowly expanding.
“Gravity… Gravity Breaking Chop! Are you… are you serious? …”
“Swish!” With a sound, Sada quickly drew his sword back and sank into a fighting stance in Sakura’s direction, with sharp eyes and a serious expression that did not look like he was joking at all, and his face, which used to look funny, now reverted back to how it had been during the war… back to the appearance of the inflamed wolf back then….
That’s right, this man in front of me does seem to be the war hero of the time, and also the lord of this country, but the lord of a country actually lets go of his business and comes over here to fight with his own daughter, one can only say that he’s really a messed up king ah!
“Where’s the seriousness in a sword match? Since you want to leave, step over your old me’s corpse first!”
Letting that out, Sada charged again without mercy once more, and the tip of his sword remained steadfastly pointed at Sakura, looking as if he actually killed his own daughter.
“Damn it! Come on if you want to!”
Not to be outdone, Sakura shrugged off the package she held in her hands, and after rolling on the ground to avoid the blow she had just received, she quickly stood up and took a delicately decorated taijutsu from the wall’s ornamental rack.
“With a swish, the taijutsu was sheathed, and a cold white light filled the room, but this was indeed Sakurahime’s special sword, the Tsukimai! How could it be in the hands of a girl with the same name but a different face?
After rubbing and sliding her hand against the hilt a few times, Sakura also took up a fighting stance, which looked almost the same as Sada’s. It seems that both of them had passed down their swordsmanship from one generation to another, and it’s even more likely that Sada had passed it down to her own daughter. However, if they were to fight in the same style of swordsmanship, the young girl, who was also named Sakura, could be said to have a very slim chance of winning… no… it could be said to be practically impossible. And with a former war hero as her opponent…
However, Sakura didn’t seem to think about that at all, and immediately after drawing her sword, she exchanged blows with her own father, the light of the greenish-white and reddish-brown swords constantly flashing in the wide room, and from time to time there was also a fierce sound of metal clashing.
“Oh? I guess I didn’t teach you in vain, you’ve been able to take so many… ah! You’re using the wrong kind of force! You can’t do that…”
Although Sakura’s aura was amazing when she attacked, however, the difference in strength between the two sides was simply too great.
Comparing the two of them, Sakura was sweating and panting, while using both hands to barely grasp her sword, while Sada was holding her sword in one hand, easily taking all of Sakura’s attacks, and was able to converse with her while pointing out the mistakes she made in her attacks.
“Bummer! You talk too much, don’t you? Damn old man!!!”
Seemingly quite enraged by what was said, Sakura surprisingly copied the small wooden table in the room with her foot and kicked it right at Sada, but how could such an attack have any effect?
As expected, with a swing of the great sword, the wooden table that flew at a rapid pace became wood shavings flying in the air.
“Oh! You seem to be a little smart…”
By the time the sky full of wood shavings had diminished a bit, Sada was the only one left in the room, and Sakura, who was supposed to take advantage of the situation to attack, was completely nowhere to be found.
“But… that’s just a small degree of cleverness!!!”
After surveying the room for a moment, Sada uttered the words, and then slashed the heavy sword in his hand across the room toward the powdered wall to one side.
As if it was a heavy crashing sound like cracking wood, the thick wall was actually easily broken under this blow, it seems that this big sword that looks like a broken piece of shit is probably a rare and good sword, but even if it’s a good sword, in order to break through this kind of wall like this, the strength of the person who made the sword itself is really something that should not be underestimated.
Sure enough, underneath the scattered and splattered rocks, there was a thin and thin silhouette that was rapidly retreating.
“I can’t believe I’ve been discovered!?”
I wanted to use my sharp taijutsu to attack the other party through the wall, but I didn’t think that this idiot-looking old man could actually find out where he was, was I really going to be stuck in this boring place for the rest of my life?
(Absolutely not! I want to do what I want to do! I don’t want to be stuck in this asshole place!) Sakura, who had originally thought of giving up after seeing her opponent’s firm and calm attack, calmed down a little after thinking about this, after all, there was no hope of defeating the man in front of her, who was like a ghost or a god, by trying to show off her courage.
(But… how do I defeat this guy? (Dad may look like an idiot, but his strength is top-notch, and he’s useless with all kinds of tricks…) Sakura stepped back to avoid the storm of swords, but she kept thinking about how to beat him, even though the chances of doing so were really slim…
The battle went from inside the room to outside the door, with both of them chasing each other and running away, from the corridor to the courtyard… broken beams, the beautifully ravaged gardens, and everywhere there were traces of the battle between the two of them.
However, when the two people were fighting, it could be said that the sound of the heavens was loud, but actually no one came out to stop it, in the Duchy of Rath’s palace this kind of thing happened, even a guard did not come over to check it out because of this, it seems that there must be some kind of taunt in it.
(Damn him, he must have removed the guards himself, no.) No… Maybe he ordered the area to be sealed off… That’s really…)
Sakura lamented the improper use of public power while continuing to try and find an opportunity to attack, unfortunately her opponent was after all an ex-hero with long years of experience in battle, it was almost impossible to find a single gap in him, and if she wanted to say that she would deliberately put in a break to allow him to attack, she might just botch it up and actually give him a cut.
Constantly evading and retreating, even a layman could see that Sakura was at a disadvantage, and it was only a matter of time before she was defeated…
(Oooh, how can it be this strong!)
Shaking both wrists which were extremely numb, although Moon Dance was still holding on, I was afraid that I couldn’t take a few more swords, and if I didn’t think of a way to end this unnecessary fight and wait for this old man to get serious before using the Gravity Breaker, then…
(It’s a mean thing to do, but… well…) Let’s do it! I don’t care!) Leaping onto the second floor balcony, Sakura carried Tsukimai quickly across the empty corridor. It seemed that this was one of Sada’s masterpieces, as if he was afraid that the battle would be interrupted, wasn’t it?
Though it seemed that the other party didn’t jump up after them due to their size, the sound of heavy footsteps downstairs was still following the direction of their escape.
Besides, for Sada, this thin layer of flooring didn’t even form the slightest obstacle if he wanted to strike the enemy upstairs, so Sakura had no choice but to run all the way forward, hoping to find a chance to shake off her father, who was in hot pursuit.
(Is it here? Very well… Here it is!)
Sada, who had been in hot pursuit of Sakura downstairs, also suddenly stopped and looked at the ceiling above him.
(No more footsteps… is that right?) (I see… I see…)
Sada looked up at the ceiling with a devious smile on his face, it seemed as if the trick Sakura had pulled seemed to have completely gotten through to him, was there really no way to defeat this horrible man?
(Control the force… good.) Go on!)
“Drink!”
Swinging the big sword low to the ground violently upwards, Sada used the famous gravity breaking chop in the war to the upper part of the world – the extremely fast swinging heavy sword with a peculiar impulse, while breaking the object, it will attach a highly destructive shockwave, making the target, even if it can block this powerful blow, the gravity shockwave coming one after another has the force of a mountain, how can it not be blocked? Even if the target can block this powerful blow, the successive gravity shockwave with the force of mountains and seas can’t be blocked down, which is one of the stunts of Yanwolf in the past.
As expected, after the bronze-colored sword made a muffled “pff” sound, almost half of the sword body was plunged into the ceiling, and then it seemed that a round of white shockwave could be seen, spreading outward with the center of the place where the sword body was inserted, and then the whole ceiling crumbled, turning into a piece of stone plate of different sizes falling down.
Ignoring the falling rocks, Sada retrieved his greatsword, and then kept his eyes above him, but there was no sign of Sakura, could it be that his estimation was wrong? But Sada still didn’t dare to have the slightest bit of relaxation.
Suddenly a slight tingling chill came from the back of Sada’s neck, and Sada, who sensed something strange at his back, turned backward in a hurry, only to see the blade of the Moon Dance stabbing in front of him as if it were a swift and furious wind.
(Not good! Is she…)
Looking at the pile of rocks behind Sakura, Sada probably had an idea in his mind, it looked like Sakura had hidden her scent, followed those things down, and then swooped in from behind while she was still paying attention to what was above her.
（”But that’s only 70 points…)
True to form, Sada’s expression of surprise only appeared for a split second, and then he regained his expression full of confidence.
Turning the greatsword in his hand into a sword face, he copied a boulder on the ground with the blade, and then, as if he were hitting a baseball, he slammed what appeared to be a stone half the size of a man at Sakura with a single blow.
“What!!!”
Sakura seemed to have completely not expected the other party to come to this move, originally predicted in advance a lot of backward simply does not come in handy, can only look at the huge stone quickly flying towards the front of the eyes, and one simply can not brake the force of the forward rush.
Seeing that it was about to collide with that stone into a pile, fortunately Sakura’s temporary reaction was fast, and she swung out the Moon Dance with force, cutting the stone into two halves, but a figure suddenly rushed out from the stone that had been cut into two halves, and jumped straight into Sakura’s arms.
There was no way to retrieve the sword that had been swung, and Sakura could only watch as Sada rushed into his dead center, but instead of using his sword, he delivered a hard elbow to Sakura’s lower abdomen.
Sakura, who had received a violent shock, spat out some bitter water, and the sword in her hand fell to the ground because she couldn’t grip it, so her body fell softly onto Sada and fainted, and this pointless battle ended here.
“Is everything okay? …Sakura?”
Even though she did it herself, Sada seemed a bit worried about Sakura’s condition and asked her, but Sakura didn’t reply. It seemed that she had just hit her too hard, especially on a “delicate” girl…
“Oops! Overdid it!” Sada also sensed that something was wrong and hurriedly carried her to the nearest room and made her lie flat on the bed.
“Uh… Better call the royal physician quickly?”
Sada, who had placed Sakura in a good position, thought of this and hurriedly ran towards the door, but when he was about to step out of the door, he only felt a sharp pain in the back of his head, and his tall and strong body fell straight back to the sky on the ground, and then he lost consciousness.
“Hmph! What kind of hero is that~~ In the end, you still end up crawling on the ground after being beaten by me!”
I don’t know when appeared behind Sada, is originally should still lying in bed Sakura, hand holding Sada’s heavy sword, contemptuously looking at his own “masterpiece” said.
It turned out that Sakura had known that the surprise attack just now wouldn’t work at all, and the reason for doing so was just to exchange for that earlier attack.
From foreseeing that the other party would not hit too hard, to the fact that just now he would neglect his guard in order to mistake himself for fainting to the point of caring for himself, and finally succeeded in being surprised from behind by himself, all these processes were within Sakura’s calculation from beginning to end, and even Sakura herself was a bit surprised that such a plan that seemed to be full of flaws could be succeeded so smoothly.
But even a strong man like Sada would fall into such a trap because of his concern for his own daughter, I think he must be very unhappy if he knew that, right? The so-called “care is chaos” is so?
Throwing down the sword in her hand, Sakura immediately ran out of the door, but she seemed to have thought of something else and hurriedly turned back in reverse.
Was she concerned about her father, who had been attacked by her? The power of love is great..! But… it doesn’t seem that way…
“You asked me to step over your corpse before I could leave! But since we’re father and daughter, I was kind enough not to turn you into a corpse…”
The spectators’ jaws almost dropped. Sakura seemed to be holding a grudge, and as she spoke, she stomped on Sada, who was on the ground, with such force that she couldn’t bear to watch any longer… If Sada woke up at that moment… I’m afraid that it would be another fight to the death… right?
After stepping back and forth over Sada’s body several times, Sakura seemed to be slightly satisfied, and without even looking back, she walked out of the room hesitantly.
———- ———- ———- —– Sada, who was still on the ground, suddenly opened his eyes, looked at Sakura, who was traveling away, and said to himself, “Qualified… With this kind of skill, it won’t be a problem to go out… I don’t think we’ll have any problem getting out, will we? Hee hee hee~~” He said this and laughed strangely from time to time… Had his mind been broken?
“But… it’s really similar… to your mother…”
Suddenly stopping his smile, Sada wore a melancholic expression that was out of character for him, looking at the fading back of Sakura and missing his deceased wife.
Lying on the floor watching Sakura, who was about to travel far away, her thin back gradually shrinking to a small dot and then disappearing around the corner of the corridor, Sada regained her original look, but immediately broke into a happy smile again.
“Come out! Stop hiding!”
Sada stood up and spoke to the wall of the room as if nothing had happened, as if those attacks from Sakurahime just now hadn’t affected him in the slightest.
“Hoo hoo~~ Still can’t hide it from you.”
From the original seemingly white and unsullied powder wall, surprisingly issued a sound, after which actually emerged in the shape of a figure, and finally the image gradually clear, a woman appeared in front of Sada.
No! After taking a closer look, one can realize that that person is not a female, but the mysterious beautiful man who has been following Jia Kou and the others since then, it’s hard to believe that he’s been following Sakurahime since this time? And what does he have to do with this?
“But… I didn’t realize that Sada, the former Demon Wolf, had become a good and considerate father to his daughter! It’s hard to predict! But it’s also true that a tiger’s father has no daughter, and your daughter is just like you, moving her hands faster than her mouth…”
A flirtatious expression appeared on the beautiful man’s face, as if he found the fight just now very amusing.
“Hmph! You’re still talking about me, aren’t you the same? I haven’t seen you for so many years, but you’ve turned out to be an old demon, making you look like this misogynist now…”
Sada also nonchalantly counterattacked back, but the tone of voice did not carry the semblance of anger, like old friends who had known each other for many years tossing words.
“An old demon??” Having received such a comment, the black-haired beauty revealed a puzzled expression.
“Obviously you’re in your thirties or early forties, but you look as young as a twenty-something, and you’ve become more beautiful than a woman, and your hair has turned black, so what is this if not an old demon? At first glance, I don’t recognize you at all…”
Hearing such an explanation, that beautiful man caressed his extremely beautiful face with his alabaster-like fingers, but showed a sorrowful expression and sighed quietly.
“Well… to be fair, I’m not really much of a ‘person’ anymore, am I?”
The silence lasted for a while, and Sada seemed to realize that he had said something he shouldn’t have, but he wasn’t in a position to comfort him or anything, so he had to let the other man settle his emotions down on his own, a way of getting along that he had learned from being acquainted with the beautiful man for almost twenty years.
“Right! How did you know it was me? I look quite a bit different now than I did before too…”
Seemingly realizing that now was not the time to feel sorry for himself, the beautiful man suddenly opened up another topic as if he had completely put what had just happened behind him.
“It’s that scent of yours! My Sakura that brat can’t feel it, but I’m very sensitive yo!
That kind of tenderness that wraps around you is something that only you have…”
“Is that so? I…”
Hearing the other side so commented on himself, the beautiful man seemed to feel that he could not bear it, and his face surfaced a little dark look, like flawless white jade leaking a layer of haze.
“No more of that! What brings you back from that godforsaken hellhole? Where are the others? Your three…”
Not wanting to annoy the other man any further, Sada immediately pulled the conversation away and mentioned something else that had less to do with him per se.
“No! It’s four…”
Interrupting the other party, the beautiful man very rarely showed some embarrassed expression, as if he was embarrassed by what he had said.
“Wow! I can’t tell you’re such a philanderer even for an innocent boy, where did you abduct a nice girl?
You must be a great beauty, too, according to your sense of style. Why don’t you let me see her next time? But… she’s not a ‘human being’, is she?”
Sada gently elbowed his opponent in the side of the waist while grinning wickedly, his face full of sarcasm as the two bantered like old playmates.
“Um… yes… and she is what is called… ah! Let’s not talk about that for a moment, I was listening to ‘No’
of advice so come back.”
The beautiful man who was about to explain thought that now was not the time to talk about such boring things and immediately turned back to mentioning business.
“‘No’… is that the guy?”
Having heard the other mention the forbidden name, he knew that he was going to start talking about business, and Sada turned serious, no longer bantering with the other.
“Hmm… but it’s with me now, that’s why I’m the way I am now… hmm… that’s its interest, isn’t it?”
Caressing and feeling his body, the dark-haired beauty smiled bitterly, seeming to feel a bit dissatisfied and helpless with his current appearance.
“I see… and that’s why it returned Liliya to you, right?”
Clapping his hands together, Sada looked as if he had a dawning understanding of his current situation.
“You could say that… it was part of the deal…”
“So… what did… what did it… tell you?”
“Not quite sure, but it’s pretty certain that the world will be plunged into a war again, and when it does the winds will blow hard across this recently revived world, and to stop it, so I’ve come back.”
Looking at the distant sky, the man said this, his beautiful face carrying a hint of nostalgic sultriness.
“Oh~~ I didn’t realize that you had become a so-called ‘Guardian’, huh?”
Looking at the sky with the other, Sada’s chipped face fell into a slight smile, as if he wasn’t terribly concerned about it.
“No… it’s just a little selfishness on my part… I shouldn’t have been involved at all… but I couldn’t let go of it… after all, this used to be the world I lived in…”
A dark look once again appeared on his face, as if he was hesitant about what he was doing, and the beautiful man fell into a state of contemplation after saying this.
“Don’t say such boring stuff! Come on! Let’s go have a nice drink! To celebrate your return, someone…”
Seeing that the other man was bothering him again, Sada immediately reached out and hooked his shoulders to pull him out of the room.
“No! Leigh is still waiting for me outside, and I’ve only brought her back with me, she said she used to beat you up so she’s too embarrassed to come in…”
“What’s the matter! I’ve long forgotten what happened more than ten years ago, but she still remembers it so well, ask her to come in and drink with us?”
Laughing in reply to the other, Sada’s tone was rather grandiose, and there wasn’t a hint of displeasure on his face.
“I don’t think so. In fact, we came by on our way to see you… about the ‘Red Devil’…”
“What! Does that have something to do with you guys too?”
Hearing the name, Sada looked quite surprised and stared at the other with wide eyes.
“Well… it’s kind of my fault, isn’t it? After all, I caused most of it…”
“Ugh… What kind of destiny are you carrying? Why do you always encounter the most difficult things?”
Sighing, Sada seemed to be holding her tongue for what had happened to the beautiful man.
“So… I’m leaving soon, and I’ll come back for a nice drink when this is over!”
As if he didn’t want Sada to worry about his business, the man tried to leave quickly.
“Well… that’s it, you can’t miss your appointment! We’ll come back and get drunk again!”
Slapping the man hard on the shoulder, Sada spoke bashfully to the other man.
“Huh! Do I look like that kind of person to you? I’m a man of my word!”
“Indeed… ~~… But could you do me a favor in the meantime?”
“Hee… it’s about your baby girl, isn’t it?”
“Just please keep an eye on her, I don’t want her to run into anything dangerous!”
A slightly worried expression appeared on his face, it seemed that even though he said that with his mouth, he was actually still very worried about his daughter in his heart.
“But I’m not cut out for babysitting! I’m not very good at this kind of thing!”
Laughing in reply to Sada, the man seemed to find it very funny.
“It doesn’t matter, as long as you keep an eye on her, the rest is up to you… I have complete faith in your judgment…”
“Not afraid I’ll go down on her?” Jokingly, he said to Sada.
“With Liliya around… do you dare?”
Sada didn’t show any weakness in firing back, hitting him where it hurts in one sentence.
“Oh… that’s true… without further ado, I have to leave early!”
“Ah… wait… no… nothing is wrong…”
The man, who was about to turn around, was interrupted by what Sada had said and looked at the other man questioningly.
“Is there something wrong? The way… look at you, you just look like you want to say something.”
“Um… that… Mari… no! Is… Selena, is she okay?”
After thinking about it for a moment, the stunningly beautiful man answered Sada this way, and seemed to nod his head lightly in order to affirm what he had said.
“It’s okay… She was a little uncomfortable at first, but gradually she got used to it…”
“That’s good, that’s good… In fact, we’ve all grown up together… I don’t want you to favor other people over her… In fact, I’m afraid that guy loves you the most, even after what she did to you in the first place… but she…”
“I know all about it, don’t mention it again…”
After waving his hand to interrupt Sada’s words and turning his back to Sada, the beautiful man’s figure gradually faded and disappeared in the air like a layer of light mist disappearing under the blazing sun.
“Right, Sada.”
Before he was about to disappear, the beautiful man suddenly turned his head and left a meaningful sentence.
“Huh?”
“Take care of yourself… you don’t want to be blown away by this wind!”
When he finished speaking, he was completely invisible, leaving only his elegant voice echoing lazily in the silent room.
“Yes? If you’re there… everything…”
Walking to the window of the room and looking into the distance, Sada said as she looked at Sakurahime’s diminishing silhouette with tender eyes.
“O my daughter! Just go ahead and make your way! Like we did… even if it may be a difficult journey, experience it well…”
Even though the other party couldn’t receive it, the message was conveyed… in order to honor my heart…
(to be continued)