Li Yu had not expected that on the day he punched in for work, Ireya would saddle him with such a major task.
"Who told you I could find people through an oracle?"
"Eh... I can’t? Doesn’t His Holiness provide such a service on Saturdays?"
"I’ve never said Saturday was omnipotent," Li Yu said, "and when faced with problems, it encourages us to use our brains to solve them first."
"That’s bad, I’ve already boasted in front of David that I could do it. How about you don’t go out for now, and I’ll tell others you haven’t arrived yet?" The girl said, a bit sheepishly, looking like a primary school student who had done sothing wrong.
"That won’t be necessary," Li Yu said. "News of our successful dragon slaying nine days ago must have already reached Acorn Castle. Caroman, if he’s not stupid, probably senses the danger. He’s still in the mood to go hunting at such a key mont, and only brought along one attendant... There’s a good chance he’s on the run."
"Doesn’t that make it even harder to find him?" the girl worried. "As long as he hides in so corner of his own territory, we could never hope to catch him unless we search every inch of the land."
"No worries, there are others who are even more anxious to find him than we are."
"Are you talking about David?"
"And Hels," Li Yu said. "Since you stepped forward to accuse him of colluding with Gabriel in commanding the Black Dragon to attack the Western families, Hels’s situation is rather dire.
Especially since Gabriel’s death, your testimony and the recording in your hands have beco the sole evidence. If Hels wants to overturn his fate, he must first prove he’s not the murderer of your father."
"Ha... But what if David finds Caroman first?"
"Then we’ll imdiately set off back to Green Field," Li Yu said. "David will definitely use Caroman as concrete evidence of Hels’s collusion with foreign enemies. At that point, at best, we can only add to his troubles, but it won’t change the overall situation. It would be better to do nothing and temporarily lay low in our territory, continuing to wait for an opportunity."
Miss Rabbit seed sowhat unwilling as she had felt she was so close to the murderer at one point, only to face the possibility of ending up with nothing.
The girl lanted, "If only I hadn’t brought Gabriel to Rock Snow City in the first place."
Li Yu disagreed with this view, "Gabriel was never going to be honest with you about his relationship with David. While in Green Field, he still fantasized that David could save him, which is why he tried everything to entice you into taking him to Rock Snow City.
"On the contrary, it was precisely because you brought him here that forced David’s hand, risking exposure to solve this big problem that might reveal his identity."
Miss Rabbit took a deep breath, clenched her fists, and struggled to control the anger in her chest, "These high and mighty individuals, for their own selfish interests, are capable of committing any despicable acts!"
"Rember how you feel this mont."
"What did you say?"
"I said rember this feeling, and then don’t beco soone like that."
"I’m not so big shot, just a small Lord on the edge of the Empire." The girl shook her head, "Why would I need to worry about such things."
"Ever since you killed the Black Dragon, you’ve ceased to be an insignificant character," Li Yu said.
"Haven’t you noticed that both David and Hels take you very seriously this ti? And as ti goes on, you’ll beco more and more important, not just in the west, but across the whole Bratis Continent. So rember, don’t beco the person you hate."
The girl pondered thoughtfully, but after a while, she seed discouraged, "But my opponents are all very cunning. If I can’t let go of those naive ideas and make up my mind, how can I compete with them?"
"You still have ," Li Yu said. "Don’t worry, I’ll always be by your side."
Upon hearing this, Ireya’s heart trembled violently, and an inexplicable emotion surged within her.
Just then, moonlight stread in through the window, casting a hazy silver glow on Li Yu’s shoulder and causing Miss Rabbit’s eyes to beco misty, with her heart pounding fiercely.
But in the next mont, soone knocked on the wooden door of her bedroom, "Miss Ireya, Miss Ireya, are you asleep? I have sothing important to report."
"Oh, no, I’m not asleep, what is it, Thomas?" The girl suddenly woke from that wondrous feeling, reaching up to steady her twitching long ears, calming them down as well.
She then opened the door to see her Guard Captain holding an arrow.
"Soone just shot this into the second floor, and there’s a letter tied to it," Thomas said, noticing Li Yu in Ireya’s room, but as soone familiar with the girl’s surroundings, he was not surprised, and he even greeted Li Yu with a nod.
Since the incident that night, Miss Rabbit had found an excuse to move out of the Marquis Mansion and into an inn to live together with her warrior subordinates.
David had not objected to this, and he indeed seed to have kept his promise afterward, or at least he had superficially kept his promise by withdrawing the people who were tailing her outside the inn.
At least according to the observations of Thomas and the others in the past few days, no suspicious figures were seen outside the inn anymore.
But surely, there were still other spies of David hidden in more secretive places.
Miss Rabbit took the arrow from the Guard Captain, untied the attached letter, and unfolded it.
The letter contained only one sentence — Caroman is in my hands, I want to talk to you. Face to face, no tricks.
The signature read: you know who I am.
Miss Rabbit’s spirits lifted as she read it, "Wow, looks like you were right, Hels really did find the person first, but this might also be another trap. What should we do? Go or not go?"
"Given our current situation, we definitely need to et with Hels and hear what he has to say, but there’s no need to play his ga," Li Yu said. "Did you get what I asked you to retrieve from the Double Rest Sect last ti?"
Thomas nodded, "I sent soone to Green Field urgently, and they’ve obtained the items you requested."
"Good," Li Yu said, "Next, I’ll set up the inn, ’First locate the ssenger Hels sent and the spies David has on the outskirts. Then we’ll arrange the ti and place for the eting.’
"Will Hels agree to our demands?" Ireya wasn’t worried about whether Li Yu could achieve this, she just wondered if Hels would join the ga."
"He has no choice, ti is not on his side."
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