CHAPTER 459: AN UNLIKE ALLIANCE IS FORMED (1/2)
“How do you know that?!” The moment those words left her mouth, Mo Ning realised she had been tricked. She quickly came up with a weak excuse to try and rescue her folly. “Hmph, I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“Is that real ignorance or are you feigning it? I’m sure you know better than I do.” Zurnalin sneered in return.
With that said, both sides fell into silence, their ruby red eyes glaring at each other while the atmosphere around them got noticeably tenser by the second.
Maybe I should step in?
I felt a tug at that point. I turned around to find Jezsere looking up to me with a scared expression. “Master… are those two going to fight?”
“I don’t think they will…” Yet even I did not know if that was true based on how they were facing off against each other.
Then, it happened…
The one to strike first was Mo Ning. The rules of Purgatory were simple: if you didn’t agree, then you fight, winner takes all. To some extent this was true for the whole world, but even more so for Purgatory which was relatively backwards.
Mo Ning raised her lengthy body up high, rear hooves bursting with muscle as they propped up her upper half. Her white skirt was no longer able to hide her horse bits, revealing two menacing front hooves that were about to stamp down hard on Zurnalin.
Yet Zurnalin easily evaded those oncoming hooves, and with a quick grab, she reached for the sword at her waist and stabbed at Mo Ning’s abdominal area with its sheath still attached…
Zurnalin knew for certain that Mo Ning was related to me. That was why she tried not to hurt the half horse lady. But Mo Ning wasn’t one to be so easily caught as well. Before the sheathed sword could land a hit, she had already jumped backwards, and with the fastest speed possible, leapt forward in a charge.
In a direct competition of strength, Zurnalin was definitely no march for Mo Ning. As a knight, the lack of her steed also left her at a great disadvantage. She knew that Mo Ning had the strength to severely injure her, thus she wisely chose to play it safe.
If there was something to be thankful for in this crazy turn of events, it was that both sides weren’t trying to kill the other, merely teach the other a lesson. Because of that, the fight had only been restricted to simple physical strikes.
Still, the fact that they were fighting so brazenly in front of me was just disrespectful! What would people think of me if I couldn’t stop two ladies who were madly in love with me from causing a bloodbath?!
“Master…” Never a big fan of fights to begin with, Jezsere was already shaking from the hostility both sides showed in front of her. It wasn’t a true fight per say, but that didn’t stop our resident timid girl from ducking behind me.
“There, there. The fighting is over now.” I comforted her, slightly exasperated by that timid personality of hers. I then turned over to face the two ladies, face black as the ground I was standing on. “What are you two even thinking? Starting a fight like that in front of me?”
“Dearest, she started it!”
“Your holiness, that woman was the one who clearly struck first!”
I naturally knew that Mo Ning was the one who struck first, but it was Zurnalin who started this whole argument in the first place…
Yet that didn’t stop Zurnalin from being angered by Mo Ning’s accusation. “But you’re the one who hit me first!:
“Hmph, that’s because you had already caused me psychological damage before that.”
… psychological damage? What the potato is that?!
“Dearest, who are you planning to help here?”
“Your holiness, don’t tell me you’re interested in this odd-looking horse?”
“What do you mean odd-looking? I’m beautiful!”
“You’re neither a proper horse nor a proper humanoid… and you think yourself beautiful?”
“Hmph, I still have an engagement with my dearest.”