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Chapter 124: We haven’t even slept together!
“Why are you looking at like that?” Phoebe drank another cup of translucent and clear red wine that sparkled with a wondrous light. She flicked a glance at Han Shuo as she said lowly.
“No... nothing much.” Han Shuo panicked and he stamred a bit.
“Then why are you drooling?” Phoebe pointed at the corner of Han Shuo’s mouth as she lightly laughed playfully.
He touched his chin and discovered that there really was so trace of water on his chin. Han Shuo said awkwardly, “Eh, that isn’t drool. It’s wine, it’s really wine.”
“Oh.” Phoebe smiled delightedly, “So it’s wine. How is it possible that you’d miss so even when drinking wine? How interesting.”
He kept feeling that the atmosphere was a bit odd. Han Shuo felt very comfortable at heart as he listened to Phoebe’s soft and gentle words. His mind kept making connections as his eyes once again involuntarily drifted to the crack in the artificial mountain.
“It’s only been a short ti since we started eating, and you’ve already glanced to the left at the crack in the artificial mountain nine tis. Just what is there that deserves your attention?” Phoebe’s beautiful eyes darted around and landed on Han Shuo’s body as she said lightly.
Panicking inwardly, Han Shuo blurted out, “How do you know that I kept glancing at that area, and that I’ve done so nine tis?”
These words made Phoebe’s face even redder. She tsk’ed lightly and said lowly, “You’ve been looking around shiftily. Sitting in front of you, of course I saw everything. I know what bad thoughts you were harboring when you looked there.”
“Then what bad thoughts would you say I’ve been thinking?” After what he’d just gone through, Han Shuo suddenly felt that he was a bit too passive. A demonic practitioner was unafraid of all conventions and was most at ease when he did what was on his mind, no matter what others would think or say. When he suddenly understood this, Han Shuo no longer wildly casted around surreptitious glances, but rather stared directly at Phoebe and asked her with a smile.
Phoebe started as the red blush on her cheeks slowly spread down her slender, white neck. She stuttered and stamred, but didn’t say anything with her reddened face. Her affectedly bashful face was even more ill at ease than Han Shuo had been earlier.
Seeing Phoebe like this, Han Shuo gave a happy laugh, feeling that the depressing passivity from earlier was completely swept away. He said rrily, “Who would’ve thought that Miss Phoebe would care so much about ? You’ve even noted how many tis I glanced over. I’m truly overwheld by your favor.”
“Oh shut up Bryan, I’ve discovered that you’re full of bad thoughts. Looks like I’ll receive the short end of the stick whenever I do business with you in the future.” Phoebe flew into a rage and glared fiercely at Han Shuo, complaining as she did so.
When Phoebe said this, Han Shuo suddenly rembered the matter having to do with the McGrady Guild. The humor on his face was imdiately replaced with seriousness as he asked Phoebe, “Talking of business suddenly reminds of sothing. You ntioned the McGrady Guild last ti and said that they were your competition, right?”
Phoebe was a bit surprised that Han Shuo had suddenly ntioned this, and she looked at him, taken aback. Phoebe nodded and responded, “That’s right, the McGrady Guild belongs to the Brut rchant alliance and have been doing a lot of business in our Lancelot Empire lately. The items they transport do not travel through the towns of the Empire and thus they don’t need to pay customs taxes to the Empire. When their goods arrive, they can keep their prices low and thus impact our Guild’s business a bit as well.”
Smiling faintly, Han Shuo said, “Not going through the proper channels can indeed result in large profits, there are particularly huge, even frightening profits to be made in the industries forbidden by the Empire. The McGrady Guild is quite daring to act and risk a lot.”
“Why are you suddenly ntioning the McGrady Guild?” Phoebe looked at Han Shuo with confusion as she asked him.
“I have a friend in the Dark Forest with a rather particular profession. He robbed the McGrady Guild entourage lately and ca by many luxury items. He wants to get rid of them. I wonder if I can do that through you?”
“Being a robber is a robber, what particular profession? There are all sorts of robbers within the Dark Forest, there’s nothing strange about that. Heh heh, the McGrady Guild wouldn’t dare pass through the Empire’s cities because they want to avoid the high customs taxes. However, this naturally increases their risk of danger, but their McGrady Guild has private guards, and therefore, very few robbers are blind enough to make a move against them. Your friend is quite sothing to be able to rob them.”
“Of course. So, do you dare accept goods from the McGrady Guild?”
“Our Guild will accept everything as long as it’s not siege weapons. I’ve heard that the Empire is investigating this area rather closely recently. Forget it if it’s siege weapons.”
Han Shuo rembered the matter that Emily had ntioned when Phoebe spoke, and he seed to catch a vague hint of sothing. However, Han Shuo had long since promised Emily the batch of war resources. He’d only planned on selling to Phoebe the goods used by nobles, and so he had no particular concerns.
“Be at peace, I wouldn’t make life difficult for you. I’ve eaten well today and will co by in a few days to co find you again. Help take care of my matters as soon as possible if you can.” Han Shuo comforted Phoebe and stood up, preparing to take his leave.
Seeing that Han Shuo was about to leave, Phoebe hesitated and then said with a bit of difficulty, “I actually have a favor to ask as well.”
Looking at Phoebe in baffled surprise, Han Shuo asked, “What is it?”
“I need to attend a banquet in five days ti. If I appear alone, so annoying people may bother . I’d like for you to co with and act as my boyfriend like last ti.” Phoebe looked a bit shyly at Han Shuo and said lightly.
A rueful smile on his face, Han Shuo shook his head, “Forget it, I don’t want to be your shield again. If I trigger soone else’s jealousy and they co at from the darkness, I’ll be in so danger. Why don’t you find soone else?”
“No!” Phoebe shouted, and then explained with a wry expression, “I’ve previously introduced you to the founding elders in the Guild. If I suddenly change to soone else within a month, they’ll say I have loose morals! This absolutely won’t do.”
Han Shuo was still hesitant and appeared a bit ill at ease. Phoebe stared at Han Shuo, and then pouted. “If soone doesn’t agree, then I won’t be serious about my business either. It will be very normal if the thing that I promised him is delayed by ten days or half a month.”
This was what Han Shuo didn’t want to see. He had no choice but to nod after Phoebe’s words and say, “Then alright, as long as you don’t think I’m embarrassing you then.”
“There we go, how could you allow soone else to take to the banquet? What if they take advantage of , wouldn’t you be worried?” A faint smile reapppeared on Phoebe’s face when she saw Han Shuo agree.
“Then aren’t you afraid that I’ll take advantage of you?” Han Shuo rolled his eyes at Phoebe and said bad temperedly.
When he said these words, Phoebe’s beautiful face flushed again, and she turned her head away, too shy to look at Han Shuo. She said lowly, “No, you’ve already taken all the advantage you can.”
Han Shuo’s heart lurched as he looked at the redness of Phoebe’s neck and ears, and in a curious coincidence, blurted out, “Not all. We haven’t even slept together!”
Han Shuo imdiately reacted and swiftly walked towards the outside before Phoebe had a chance to speak. He hastily said, “I’ll be going now that I’m full. I’ll co by five days later.”
“You rubbish talking villain!” Phoebe hadn’t thought that Han Shuo would say such things and imdiately flew into a rage. She cursed at Han Shuo’s fleeing back and only broke out into a low laugh when his body sped up and vanished. “Damnit, how dare he say that to . Huh, he’s getting bolder and bolder.”
It was just past noon after leaving the Boozt rchant Guild. Since the last ti he’d reported into the Dark Mantle, it was almost a month. Thus, after seeing the ti, Han Shuo hired a carriage and set off for the Dark Mantle’s stronghold.
When he was a street away, Han Shuo disembarked and released the three original demons to survey the surroundings, walking to the manor on foot.
“Boss, you’re finally here! I’ve been counting the days and knew that you would co and report soon. Therefore, I purposefully swapped shifts with others and have been waiting here to bring you into the organization’s interior.” The bandit Chester squird out from inside when Han Shuo arrived and said lowly with excitent.
“Eh, why are you calling boss?” Han Shuo looked oddly at Chester and asked him with confusion.
“I’ll follow you in the future, and I hope that you’ll give tips and pointers. Of course I need to express my respect towards you.” Chester said matter-of-factly towards Han Shuo.
“This title doesn’t sound very nice, let’s just go by our given nas. Heh heh, but don’t you worry. If there are any good missions, I’ll ask to bring you along as well.” Han Shuo said.
After receiving Han Shuo’s promise, Chester appeared overjoyed and brought Han Shuo inside with passion and excitent. He chattered away non stop, asking where Han Shuo had been during this ti, and if he’d gone out on any missions.
Han Shuo carelessly responded to Chester’s questions and walked slowly into the internals of the Dark Mantle organization. There was no surprise for him this ti, and he walked with an air of familiarity directly towards Candide’s room.
“Ooh, you really are here. I thought Emily was lying to .” Candide sat in a shadowy corner and was examining sothing in a magical flask. He didn’t raise his head when Han Shuo ca in.
Han Shuo hadn’t anticipated that Emily would ntion him, and was a bit surprised. He didn’t know what Emily had said to Candide, and thus stood there silently.
After a while, Candide put away the flask in his hands, finally speaking with his never-changing sinister face, “Emily said she happened to bump into you in the Dark Forest and rather admired your style and competency. I was quite surprised. I hadn’t thought that Emily, with her high standards, would speak so highly of you. It looks like there truly are so unique things about you.”
No shit, Emily’s my woman, of course she’d say good things about . Han Shuo thought with pride, but maintained his usual expression on his face. He opened his mouth to say, “It’s been one month since my last mission. I’ve co to report in as per the rules and see if there are any other missions.”
The Dark Mantle usually didn’t interfere in personal matters, thus Han Shuo didn’t go into detail about how he and Emily had t. Since Emily had already spoken of it, she surely would’ve concealed all that had to be concealed. As long as Han Shuo didn’t give anything away, nothing would happen at all.
Nodding, Candide said, “Emily gave you a round of complints and said that she wanted you to complete the mission in her hands with her. You’ll share the rewards and honor together then. What do you think? You’re one of mine. Emily won’t be able to make use of you without your agreent, but if you agree, then it’s another matter entirely.”
With Han Shuo and Emily’s relationship now, there was naturally no reason not to agree. Not to ntion Emily needed to get the resources out of the forest trolls through Han Shuo for her mission. He had already beco unwittingly embroiled in all this. If this beca a mission that he could benefit from, then it’d be even better.
“No problem, I’m willing to complete the mission with her.” Han Shuo didn’t hesitate and nodded in agreent. He paused and said, “The bandit who brought in, Chester, is quite smart. Can he join as well?”
“The mission is Emily’s, it’s up to her if she needs another person. You can ask her directly.” Candide said faintly, paused and then said, “Emily is Amyes’ sister by blood. Her status within the Dark Mantle isn’t low. It will be good for you to interact more with her. However, Emily’s identity within reality is a bit mysterious. Keep an eye out, don’t give others any gossip to talk about.”
Amyes was one of the three heavyweights of the Dark Mantle and was in charge of surveillance and investigation of all nobles and officials. He was a character within the Dark Mantle who was hugely active in the political scene, and one who held great power in his hands. To think that Emily was his sister by blood.
In addition, Candide seed to be alluding to sothing else about Emily’s other identity. This made Han Shuo a bit surprised, unsure of the aning within his words.
“Looks like you didn’t know all this, let this be a reminder to be careful. Mm. This will be all. She’s already pulled your information to peruse and will be able to find you easily. Co find after you complete the mission with her.” Candide said as he looked at Han Shuo.
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