Vol 2 Chapter 3 (1/2)

In order to raise money and buy information, I had to accept several difficult missions

In the end, the president of the assassin’s Guild ca on my door

There’s even a guild for assassins! How ridiculous My sto

But this guild is pretty convenient for acceptinginformation Only, I still don’t have any tips on theHua’s whereabouts

The guild president brought me to meet someone

“If you can work solely for ive you the best reward!”

I’ve heard this phrase hundreds of ti it How extre someone provide for me However, the person who had said those words this ti

The guild president put it bluntly, “It’s your choice Either become the assassin of the royal family or die”

damn it, does that even count as a choice?

—Cas

“Someone wants to kill the Leaves? Is it part of the Danyas’ plans?”

Edward directed the question to the person in front of him It was a man with a scar on his left eye; even his code name was Left Eye Edward hadn’t known the assassin for all that long, merely six or seven years Compared to the time he’d knoen, his play However, he often felt that the man in front of him was the one who understood him best

That thought sometimes made him uneasy He’d always felt that Left Eye knew and understood everything about him But that was impossible, definitely impossible

“I don’t know anything about that,” Left Eye responded indifferently “You gave the order to protect the Leaves, so I did Anything other than that is none of my business”

Left Eye always did as his orders co overboard, and without any hesitation No matter how absurd his orders were, he did as he was told withoutany errors It was Left Eye’s style, an admirable style

“If I didn’t have you, then it’d be like I wasone of ht smile Left Eye’s expression darkened when he heard the praise Thinking that he knew the reason, Edward immediately explained, “Don’t worry, I’ve already promised you I will release you when I ascend the throne This agreeed In fact, I’m even more determined to do it You truly have helped me out a lot”

Left Eye coldly smiled and said, “Save it The more you rely on me and want to release me, the more you can’t allow me to actually leave”

Edas shocked, so much that he was unable to refute Left Eye’s claim

When he had reached adulthood, the king had given Left Eye to him as a present He was alarmed at the fact that, secretly, his father had several assassins under his command But he couldn’t deny that the existences of those assassins were necessary After he took over soovernmental affairs, he truly became more dependent on Left Eye He had leftmore inseparable from the other

Would he really be able to honor his promise and allow Left Eye to leave after he ascended the throne? Left Eye was extres, plus he also knew too much…

Left Eye looked detachedly at the silent prince He didn’t feel any disappointuessed this outcome

Unexpectedly, Edward gave a heavy sigh and said easily, “I will still allow you to leave It is a proe However, before you leave, I hope you’ll still be willing to help s”

The prince’s words left Left Eye a little surprised, but he revealed none of that surprise on his face As coldly as ever, he stated, “So you’ll feel better if I went about killing people willingly?”

Edward stared in shock at the assassin when he heard those words A wave of anger immediately rose up in him “Zhan · Cas · Tershi+ziel!”

Upon hearing that name, Left Eye appeared as if he had been stabbed with a knife He growled, “Don’t call me Cas! I’m an assassin who kills people! assassins never use their real name!”

Edward snorted coldly and said in a warning tone, “Then you best remember that I am your superior Don’t always address me as ‘you!’ ”

“Yes, it is as Your Highness has said Your subordinate here is at fault This huate the recent attack” Left Eye had used honorifics in his reply, but his voice was completely sarcastic It was a special talent of his

How polite of him Edward rolled his eyes and pondered over Left Eye’s words After hesitating for a ate It’s fine as long as you protect those peace offerings”

“I agree If the investigation turned out that a certain so, then the situation would surely turn ugly”

At those words, a light flashed in Edward’s eyes This was the fundamental reason why he relied so much on Left Eye The assassin could always pinpoint the root cause of any suspicious happenings

If it weren’t the Danyas, then the perpetrator had to be one of his own countrymen Most likely, it had to have been the pro-war faction’s doing The only thing he wasn’t sure of was the social status of theLeft Eye’s notion that his own father had been behind the whole thing, even if it had been one of leaders of the three spiritiments, the situation would still turn troublesome

Edward rubbed his teo and find the head of the Xialan Spiritiment, Chris, and have a talk with hio to Owen first The latter was the son of Warlord Paladin and the student of Cos

Thinking of Owen, Edas reht, what about the ate last time? The one on Yin Qie Zi”

A light flashed through Left Eye’s eyes He then calh several towns before and had told people that he lost his parents in the war 20 years ago He was then adopted by the spirit binder Lequilier and became his student”

“That famous spirit binder Lequilier?” Edward exclaimed aloud

“Yup, that’s the one I also found out that Lequilier isn’t human He’s of the Servile Spirits Tribe, the tribe where everyone is short,” Cas replied lazily

Edward stared in surprise He had heard that Lequilier wasn’t hued to the Servile Spirits Tribe The tribe ell-known but small in population; they appeared in all sorts of folklores

“But I’ve heard that the Servile Spirits mostly work as spirit charmers rather than spirit binders”

Left Eye shrugged and said, “I haven’t investigated that, but I am ninety percent sure that Lequilier is from the Servile Spirits Tribe I’ll remind you now that if you ever come across someone from the Servile Spirits Tribe, don’t ever mention that they work as spirit charmers They see themselves as servile spirits, so they’ll be unhappy if they were called spirit charht even severely lecture you on this, either by words or by fists Don’t think they wouldn’t just because you are a prince!”

Edward paused and pondered over Left Eye’s warning, but he couldn’t determine what use it was to him At most, he understood that he couldn’t keep Lequilier under his own personal employ He then reminded Left Eye, “Continue your report on Yin Qie Zi”

Left Eye nodded and continued, “Yin Qie Zi left his teacher’s side a few years ago and becao, he ca and opened a spirit h, but the qualities of his elixirs are very good”

Left Eye paused and then added, “As for his origins, I can say that I’m not even fifty percent sure of the information I’ve obtained I wasn’t able to find Lequilier to verify es that had been destroyed during the enty years ago”

“I understand” Edward nodded and changed the subject “I’eable about the Servile Spirits?”

“I’lanced at Edward, who nodded to show that he knew Left Eye then continued, “By chance, I ca my search I’ve also been to their land”

“You knohere they live?” Edward’s eyes widened He was greatly interested in the topic

Left Eye nodded and glanced sideways at his superior He warned, “Don’t provoke them needlessly Around half of them have the ability to becoes around one hundred thousand, which means they have around fifty thousand spirit charmers!”

Upon hearing that nuasped and mumbled, “What immense power If we could strike an alliance with them…”

“Dream on!” Left Eye said brusquely, “Unless you are a physical spirit, then they have no interest in you All they think about is beco of a physical spirit”

Edward stared blankly at Left Eye, his , “Why are the Servile Spirits so strange? They have fifty thousand capable spirit charmers! If we can obtain that power…”

Left Eye sneered coldly and said in a e, then all of Xi Zong would belong to theotten a turn at do the continent!”

Edward paused in shock and finally understood the seriousness of the matter If a tribe in possession of fifty thousand spirit chare way of life and became interested in warfare, what kind of dreadful attacks would huh to make him shudder

“Ah, Left Eye, you truly are like my own indispensible left eye”

“…My report is finished Can I leave?”

Edward sestured with his hand

Left Eye turned to leave A few steps later, he re He turned his head around and asked suspiciously, “Is the reason you especially investigated Yin Qie Zi because Warlord Paladin’s daughter truly plans on getting ins Even if Warlord Paladin dotes on his daughter, there is no way he would agree to such a ridiculous match”

“That’s hard to say” Edward gave a small smile “She’s of weak constitution, so she would be bad for the royal line Besides, the prince doesn’t want to marry her”

Left Eye glanced at “the prince who didn’t want to marry her” and asked doubtfully, “Do you think His Majesty the King and the Warlord would let you off that easily?”

Edward’s expression darkened slightly He then sighed and said, “Mila has said that she’s unable to bear children The physician my royal father has sent also confirmed this fact”

At this, Left Eye finally believed that Warlord Paladin hter off to Yin Qie Zi A woman who couldn’t bear children would be looked down upon by her husband’s faed to a family that one couldn’t afford to offend Yin Qie Zi was parentless If he were to marry Mila, then he would almost certainly live at the Warlord’s residence in the future If that happened, then no disservice would be done to Mila herself

If he truly married her… Ah!

Left Eye s to that guy After all, even if he didn’t lift a finger, he would be able to watch a tragedy play out before him So as the rush?

“There’s an auction taking place this afternoon, the biggest one of the year Ru up one of the Leaf slaves… Ah,up one of the Leaves for auction So go prepare yourself Yin Qie Zi We’ll be going this afternoon to buy the Leaf I don’t know if the Leaf isit’s a feht It’s a male, definitely a male”

After returning to his room, Yin Qie Zi sat beside the bed The more he mulled over Owen’s words, the more he frowned

Howas ten Leaves could serve as peace offerings between countries, their value was probably incredibly high, a price the average person could only drea to buy the Leaf and then gift it to hie!

Someone suddenly knocked on his door

“Who is it?”

“It’s me, Mila”

Yin Qie Zi looked down at his injured shoulder, thinking that there was no hare later He called out, “Come in”

Mila did her best to roll her wheelchair into the roo behind her, but did not offer any help Yin Qie Zi wasn’t the least bit astonished at the scene; Mila always tried to do the things she could do by herself

Yin Qie Zi paused when he saw Mila co on her lap His brows iht

Seeing Yin Qie Zi’s expression, Mila lowered her head and asked dejectedly, “Do you think I’ like this?”

“No!” Yin Qie Zi quickly explained, “I just think that this kind of thing is unsuitable for soe by myself”

“It’s because you are alwaysto heal!” Mila instantly becary at him

Yin Qie Zi was at a loss for words Mila was right During his trip to the palace, not only did he dive in and out of water, but he had also fought off an assassin After he ca in pain

“Then I’ll get Litelli to help”

Mila becaht, you e it by yourself Promise me!”

Yin Qie Zi nodded in response, but Mila was unsatisfied with the action He opened his ht, I promise you”

Even though she received Yin Qie Zi’s promise, Mila waited in the room until Litelli arrived She then personally instructed Litelli to help change Yin Qie Zi’s bandage and prevent the latter fro behind the reed to leave

The master and servant left in the room stared at each other Litelli blinked innocently at Yin Qie Zi “I did promise her to help you, but if Master wants me to break the proht? So don’t stare at e by yourself, then feel free to do so!”

Yin Qie Zi was silent for a while He subsequently let out a sh and said, “Come and help me”

How very unusual! Litelli’s eyes widened and he stood still in his spot When Yin Qie Zi shot hilance, he finally opened the es and other supplies Yin Qie Zi had already taken off his shi+rt, revealing the soaked bandage on his shoulder that was dyed slightly red with blood

His wound originally wasn’t a heavy one; it had closed up and was already forh, the scab had been torn off and his wound began bleeding heavily again The flesh around the wound had become bloated and infected due to the water

Litelli prattled on as he changed the bandage, “You shouldn’t run around like this Medicine is pretty much ineffective on you If your wound doesn’t heal, then there’s no way you can be saved!”

“I won’t die that easily” Yin Qie Zi said lightly, “I had suffered burns all over my body before The only place left unharmed was my back Even then, I didn’t die A s to me”

At those words, Litelli remembered the first time he had met Yin Qie Zi The latter’s battered and beaten forht to behold He had never seen a physical spirit in such a sorry state Physical spirits were superior existences; they were always above everyone else! They weren’t like that, not like…someone who had been injured in both mind and body

Litelli helped Yin Qie Zi clean his wound Although Yin Qie Zi didn’t co at the muscles that were stretched taut around the wound He also knew that the pain wasn’t light, as Yin Qie Zi would only react if the pain was excessive

“Oh right! Thefor, the one with a scar on his left eye, I’ve finally found hi to pull the other’s attention from his wound

Litelli was proud of the infore aet

“He’s an assassin with the code-name Left Eye His identity was kept unusually secretive, but I dug it all out! He’s the royal family’s personal assassin That’s why it was so hard to find hi in the palace in the first place!”

Litelli was extremely proud of his report, but Yin Qie Zi wasn’t all that surprised He had already guessed that Cas was somehow involved with the royal fa for praise, he couldn’t help but destroy the other’s delusions “I know I saw hiht when I infiltrated the palace to see the Leaves He’s protecting them”

An earth-shattering expression appeared on Litelli’s face when he heard Yin Qie Zi’s words Even as indifferent as he was, Yin Qie Zi was slightly sorry that he had ruined the other’s ed the topic

“Owen and Mila are acting extre me differently than a friend They’ve provided my own private rooer, push Mila around in her wheelchair Just recently, they even said that they would gift a Leaf toto do?”

Litelli broke into laughter at his e around Yin Qie Zi’s shoulder, “That’s simple! The beautiful Mila wants to marry you!”

Yin Qie Zi’s eyes widened in surprise “Mila wants towhile, he finally said, “I’m not human”

“Why does thatas you are ‘

“…I can’t be counted as male”

“Your na Hua, so how can you not be male?”

“Shut it!” Yin Qie Zi stood up abruptly

Litelli quickly slapped a hand over hisnonetheless, “I didn’t say anything, nothing at all I didn’t say your name!”

Yin Qie Zi’s anger dissipated quickly Regaining his calhtly, “I don’t have the sexual characteristics of a human I can’t marry her”