Chapter 144: Conclusion Part 3 (1/2)

In the end, the whole fiasco concluded with Ancarin and Regine being allowed to stay behind. However, the two girls themselves didn’t stay in the village. With the help of Moranthal and Dioh, they built a small wooden house near the the village to live in.

As a way of repaying Mo Ke’s sacrifices for the village, the female villagers would often send over supplies and chat with them. Naturally, there were male villagers who visited them as well. They were after all, single and beautiful girls. It wasn’t a surprise that they had their fair share of suitors.

The ex-prostitutes who were saved by Mo Ke would visit the girls at fixed intervals, and at the same time, they would pray for the safety of their benefactor. As for Regine…she was just as stone cold as before towards everyone except for Mo Ke and Ancarin, of who she would reveal a sliver of emotion from time to time.

Regarding Gaywitz’s failure to kill Mo Ke, while he was disturbed by the failure, he didn’t think too much about it and simply chalked it up to bad luck instead of his excessive showboating.

Having returned to Azure City, the first thing Gaywitz did was send away that girl, Samantha. While her lead didn’t result in a kill in the end, it was accurate. Thus, he generously gave her a princely sum of one hundred gold coins as a reward for her information, and expressed his interest in buying any further information should she come across any.

While the greedy prostitute didn’t end up getting what she wanted, she didn’t dare to doubt Gaywitz either. Instead, she tried to invite the demon hunter team leader to dinner in a bid to find a new sugar daddy. Unfortunately for her, Gaywitz wasn’t the least bit interested in her advances and summarily dismissed the girl.

Seeing as his failure was due to luck, at least it was in his mind, he wasn’t willing to give up on the hunt and tried to approach Nicole. Since she was the only one who understood that song, he deduced that the pair must have had some relationship. Yet, this pursuit didn’t end up as smooth sailing as he had expected.

Nicole’s master, in other words, the headmistress of the warrior academy, stopped the man from meeting Nicole. Her reason was that the freshman’s competition was about to start and she didn’t want Nicole to be distracted. Naturally, this ridiculous reason was rejected by Gaywitz. How could a paltry freshman competition compare to news about a dual-sin anointed apostle?!

Yet, whether it was ridiculous or not, he was immediately taught a lesson by the headmistress’ fists about what the phrase “not listening to your elders will end up biting you in the butt” meant.

Nicole had never heard the song sung by the reincarnated Mo Ke, but she more than anyone else knew that there was no one else in the entire Western Human Realms who knew Chinese except for Mo Ke and herself. Unless…he decided to teach someone else.

Gaywitz’s previous visit didn’t give her too much information regarding this subject, but her sharp instincts immediately picked up on several clues. Seeing as it was the demon hunters who approached her, then this matter must’ve involved devils in some way. In that case, who was the person that sang the song and what was her relationship to Mo Ke?

Nicole wanted to track down this mysterious singer but was unfortunately stopped by the headmistress.

Her headmistress was a ravishing beauty whose looks captured the hearts of numerous men. At a glance, she looked like a woman approaching her thirties yet her real age was actually 67. With a head of long, flowing, white hair and a beautiful but cold face, she looked like an otherworldly immortal.

Her almost boyish long robes would reveal a pair of shapely and perfect thighs as she walked through the academy. On her waist was an exquisitely decorated longsword that seemed more like a work of art than a killing machine.

“Master, Nicole wishes to…”

“No.”

She stepped in front of the girl cutting off her route out of the training room. Her beautiful yet icy face had an expression on it that clearly said no as she continued: “The competition is about to start, your mission right now is to focus on your training and not be distracted by other matters.”

“But…”

Nicole wanted to say something else but she was interrupted right away as the first word left her mouth.

“Master knows that you wish to look for your younger brother, but how will you even look for him by yourself? Just let Master handle this matter for you, Master will expend all the resources at her disposal to find your little brother. His name is Mo Ke right?”

“Is that true?!”

Originally, she had resolved herself to search for Mo Ke alone but who knew that her master would actually offer to help herself instead. She was well aware of her master’s special status in Azure City and even in the whole of Tarnia. As long as she was willing to help, finding Mo Ke was only a matter of time.

Of course, all this was assuming that he was still in Tarnia…

“Mhm, as long as you obtain one of the top five positions in the upcoming competition, Master will definitely fulfill her promise.”

“That’s great, I won’t let you down Master!”

With that promise in hand, she happily left for her sword practise. This was one of the rare occasions she smiled ever since Mo Ke left home. Only in front of her Master and Roscar would she throw them a forced smile from time to time.

Staring at her beloved disciples happy figure, she let out a helpless sigh. Having stopped that boorish team leader just now, she gleaned a great deal of information from the man. In her view, that boy Mo Ke was probably not coming back. However, in order not to influence her disciple’s future, she made the ruthless decision to lie to her…at least for the time being. Such matters could be left for the future.

Having sent away Nicole, the headmistress returned to her office once more. Normally she wouldn’t have to waste her time on such petty matters, but today was an exception. Just a few minutes ago, she received word from the Demon Hunter Division that their branch leader in Azure was about to visit.

After waiting for a while in her office, a thirty-odd year old man man walked into the room dressed in a blueish white attire that looked like it belonged to some wandering swordsman. On the man’s waist hung a thin, longsword. Perhaps it would be more accurate to call it a straight blade.

The man had a dashing appearance and an aura that made him seem like a cut above the masses. His long black hair was tied up in a neat ponytail behind his almost expressionless face. However, looking carefully one could notice a slight smile on the man’s face; the kind which naturally attracted people’s favor.

Just as the wanderer-esque man stepped into the room, the headmistress curtly cut the man off and questioned him with a slightly displeased look on her face: “Clear Water Mirror, don’t you have something better to do than visit me?”

In the face of her obvious dissatisfaction, the man didn’t mind it one bit and merely shrugged his shoulders while adopting a relaxed posture. “Thousand Snow Crystal, don’t give me that look right at the start, I’ve come here on serious business after all.”

“You have something to discuss with me?” The headmistress asked with a cold laugh. “Don’t tell me you’ve come here because of that boorish subordinate of yours? When did the branch leader of the Demon Hunters Division become so free all of a sudden?”