Chapter 415 (1/2)

Taeya (2)

Therefore, she shook her head. “My gut feeling tells me this human and that Tai Ya share an unusual relationship. He would work as our hostage! You say you don’t know her but have you forgotten the person who pierced her weapon through your ear? If she hadn’t shown mercy, would you be standing here today?”

“What?! That was a teenage girl?” gasped Thomas. He could not believe that this person would have shared a friendship with a human kid.

“Yep!” Athena nodded. “The Tiger Goddess of War that people talk about is named Tai Ya. It’s alright if you haven’t heard of her, she has only appeared to fight in battle once! Now, do you understand why this is important?”

“Damn…” They didn’t know how young the tiger girl was because they’d never seen her face. She had always worn a peculiar mask and no one could identify her.

Athena seemed to think this news wasn’t shocking enough for she tossed another bomb. “You might not know that this tiger girl was trained by her human master. Her fighting style is completely different from traditional tiger tribe martial arts.”

“You’re telling me that tiger girl’s martial arts skills were from that human kid?! How is that possible? Did you see him? He didn’t look like a person who could fight at all, even the wind could knock him over…”

Everyone present doubted her statements. Based on their first impression of Ye Lang, how could this boy train a ruthless fighter?

“We cannot judge someone by their looks! Also, he doesn’t have to be able to fight to teach her,” said Athena.

“I understand now but don’t you think it’s lowly for us to do commit such a sin?” Thomas nodded but had a question.

“No, this is war. It is understandable to pull tricks like that. The humans have committed worse crimes, they do this too! At most, we’ll apologize to them when the war has ended,” explained Athena casually.

“...”

Wouldn’t it be too late for an apology by then?

“Alright, then it is settled. Tell Taeya to be careful, don’t let him find out… But really, what’s wrong with the kid? How did he recognise the wrong person?” Thomas was still confused.

“I noticed this problem too. It might be because he hadn’t met the tiger girl in eight years and Taeya, being also of the tiger tribe, looked similar. I think the kid is also a very clueless person…” Athena was a keen observer, how could she have not noticed?

“I think so too, he looks a little dumb,” another girl chimed in.

“Although he looks dumb, he’s not simple-minded at all! Look at what just happened, he could predict the outcome of the battle just by glancing at our plans. No regular person would be able to give useful pointers as he did.” Athena shook her head solemnly.

“Do you think he’s pretending to be stupid? That he’s spying on us for the tiger girl?” Someone raised his suspicions, which was something many suspected too.