After Ichiro and lina split up to give Yujun and Leslie a bath, she went to Lady Bao’s room, rembering that the noblewoman had a big bathroom inside her bedroom.
When lina entered the room, Jane, the maid, beca alert of any potential danger, but when she saw the little girl in lina’s arms, she relaxed.
"Oh my, who’s that?" Lady Bao asked with curiosity.
"There is no need for you to know that..." lina replied coldly as she made her way to Lady Bao’s bathroom.
"Sorry for the intrusion, but this bath looks best for her," lina continued.
Even if she wanted to be indifferent and cold to her hostages, she couldn’t barge into another woman’s bathroom without feeling rude, so she still excused herself.
Seeing the tub, lina filled it up with water magic and heated it with fire magic, leaving Leslie astounded by the spell she was casting with barely any effort.
"Alright, have you taken a bath before?" lina asked the little girl.
"Yes, in the river with Yujun!" she replied.
"Uhh, right. Well, this is a bit different..."
After helping Leslie take off her shredded dress, lina noticed the excessive amount of lash marks on her back.
She was aware of the cuts and bruises on her arms and legs, but she never expected the abuse they received to have been so severe.
Seeing that Leslie was acting a little shy, lina decided to put her rage aside for the mont and undressed herself to get in the tub with Leslie.
The little girl was enjoying herself as lina applied the shampoo to her long, ssy hair, and she couldn’t help but express herself at the girl’s beauty.
"I think you are pretty too, big sis..." Leslie said.
"Your black hair, I like it!" she exclaid.
lina had forgotten that she still had her illusion spell active that made her hair look jet-black, and with a smile, she snapped her fingers and dispelled it for a mont.
"This is my real hair color..." said lina as her long, silver tresses floated on the tub’s water.
Leslie’s eyes widened with surprise, letting out a sweet smile and placing her hands on lina’s cheeks.
"Mhmm, that looks much better!" she said, making lina chuckle.
"Hey, big sis. What’s your na?" Leslie asked, hiding half of her face under the water with shyness.
"I’m lina, but you can’t call that while we are in this country," lina replied, keeping her gentle smile and brushing the girl’s hair.
"Hmm? Why not?"
"We are trying to hide the fact that we are here, so we need to use fake nas..." lina said, explaining it in a way that a little kid would comprehend.
"Big sis, are you here to take down the bad guys?" the little girl asked.
"Sothing like that. Who are the bad guys to you, Leslie?"
"The bad guys are the people that hit Yujun and !" she answered with confidence.
"Do you know their nas?" lina asked, her eyes turning sharper.
Leslie told her that all she rembered was waking up one day in one of the commoner’s areas on the outskirts with Yujun lying next to her.
She didn’t know how she got there. All she knew was her na and age.
They were left inside an abandoned hut, so Leslie took the unconscious Yujun with her and escaped from that area to another one.
When Yujun woke up, he didn’t speak to anyone, and it wasn’t until weeks of living with Leslie that he said his first words to her.
They would walk down to the river to wash their faces, which they mistook as a bath, and scour the fields around for berries and anything that was edible.
The nobles from the capital would venture into the commoner’s areas from ti to ti. Sotis, they would take so of them back to their hos to act as personal slaves, and others would just go to tornt them.
Leslie didn’t know the reason, but there was a married couple that would always look for them whenever they visited the commoner’s area and would torture the kids in front of everyone with a whip.
Most of the marks on her back were due to Leslie protecting Yujun from the whipping, but she felt sad that she couldn’t protect him from all of their strikes.
The more Leslie spoke, the more lina’s anger rose to the point where she had to control herself, as she felt like her energy would make the entire tub blow up.
"There was one ti that I heard soone call their nas... Xuanji, I think..." Leslie elaborated.
The na "Xuanji" would now be etched on lina’s brain for the entirety of her stay in Guanghua, as she promised herself that she wouldn’t let those people get away with it.
Once the two girls were done with their bath, lina gave Leslie a silky dress that Vespera made for her, saying that it was only for sleeping as she had more clothes for her.
When Leslie put on the dress, she felt a little emotional at how soft it felt. She was so used to the rough, shredded dress that she couldn’t believe that clothing could feel that comfortable.
After lina applied the illusion spell on her hair again, she tied up Leslie’s long hair so that it wouldn’t get ssy so quickly and left the bathroom.
Lady Bao, seeing the two of them getting out looking and slling fresh, expressed her admiration for the beauty of the two girls.
lina, however, was still indifferent to the lady’s remarks. Even when her servants vouched for her and said that she wasn’t a bad person, lina couldn’t forgive any enslaver that easily.
Without responding to Lady Bao’s complints, they left the room and sealed it back again.
"Let’s see how Yujun and Ichiro are doing..." lina said.
"Ichiro?" Leslie pondered out loud.
"Ah, I an, don’t call him that while we are in this country. But yes, his na is Ichiro..." whispered lina.
However, the girl seed to be in shock at the revelation of Ichiro’s na and suddenly felt even more determined to look for him.
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