Vol 3 Chapter 5 (1/2)

Volume 3 Chapter 5: Don’t tell me this is my first meeting with Sun Ce (2)

As we walked into their encampment, we found that the camp was brightly lit by torches everywhere and there were several soldiers silently and vigilantly patrolling. Seems like military discipline is fairly tight here.

As I looked over, I saw a girl with an aura of elegance sitting outside a large tent. She was looking at the night sky with a bottle of liquor and seemed to be deep in her thoughts.

“This is–”

“This is my lord, Sun Ce Sun Bo Fu.”

Though I’d guessed it already, looking from afar, she really does have an uncanny resemblance with Sun Jian.

“Let’s do our greetings first.”

“Un.”

And so we went to where Sun Ce was and introduced ourselves before bowing.

“Oh~~ So you’re Liu Bei Liu Yu Zhou huh~~ I heard of you from Tais.h.i.+ Ci.” Sun Ce hurriedly got up and bowed when she heard my name. “Seems like you recommended Tais.h.i.+ Ci to come over to my place back then. Because of that, I was able to gain a brave general. I owe you thanks for this.”

“A brave general~~” Tais.h.i.+ Ci covered her reddened face and fidgeted about.

“No need to specially thank me. In the end, the one who chose her lord was herself after all.” I bowed once more as I said so.

As I bowed, I took a good look at Sun Ce under the illumination of the torches.

Since she’s Sun Ce’s daughter, she’s probably about 16 or 17. Her yellowish hair was short, and only extended to the lower half of her neck. Her fringe, on the other hand, was long and almost covered her eyes entirely. Under her high bridged nose was a small, elegant and dignified mouth, which was slowly chewing on a pastry presently.

Overall, Sun Ce seemed like a good-natured person but the aura of a beast that hung about her exposed the fighting spirit in her.

“Un, what brought you here.”

Ah, that’s right. We haven’t gotten into the main topic yet.

And so, we quickly gave her a run through of what happened and finally resolved the misunderstanding.

“Hahaha, so that’s what it was huh. And you even came here specially to explain it.” Sun Ce said as she laughed loudly and then returned to a calm expression. “But then that means Tais.h.i.+ Ci has need for more training huh, how could you have let your weapons be stopped just like that?”

Just then I realised, behind her long fringe were a pair of eyes that held a gaze as sharp as wolves and just looking at them sent a chill down your spine.

“Ah… Yes.” Tais.h.i.+ Ci said softly with her head hung low.

“What General Sun Ce said is not quite appropriate.” Just then, Yun Chang stepped up, which surprised Tais.h.i.+ Ci and Sun Ce. “I believe that General Tais.h.i.+ Ci’s skills are top notch and the only reason why I was able to defeat her in a short span was purely because of luck. Additionally, when you consider General Tais.h.i.+ Ci’s nightblindness, my win isn’t spectacular in the least. If we should cross swords once more, I’m not sure the result will be the same.” Everyone sank into silence after hearing what Yun Chang said in one breath.

I understand that Yun Chang’s intent in saying so was not to support Tais.h.i.+ Ci, but because she really thinks highly of Tais.h.i.+ Ci’s skills and feels that her victory was not conclusive.

Since she thought as much, she said so. Saying what she means is one good quality of Yun Chang’s after all.

After a moment of silence, Sun Ce broke into laughter.

“Hahaha~~~” She laughed as she walked over to me, who was slightly taller than her, and patted my shoulders. “You really have an interesting bunch of subordinates huh.”

“Un, I think so too.” I said, and heaved a sigh of relief as Sun Ce was not angered. “But personally speaking, I’d rather call them my companions.”

“Maa maa, anything goes.”

“Un? Oi, this…”

“Tais.h.i.+ Ci, bring Liu Bei’s companions to somewhere they can rest. I’ll be speaking with Lord Liu Bei.” Sun Ce said as she pulled me into the tent, not forgetting to grab the wine bottle that was not empty yet.

Entering the tent, I found that though it was large, it was mostly empty except for a bed, a desk covered in bamboo scrolls and an armour rack.

Come to think of it, this is a girl’s room right… No, this is something different altogether on various levels.

No good, I don’t know what to say all of a sudden.

“Hai, I scared my subordinates again.” Sun Ce said all of a sudden.

“Ah?”

“Eyes, my eyes~” She said as she parted her fringe, revealing the ferocious pair of eyes that gave me such a shock, I backed up. On seeing my reaction, Sun Ce looked very sad. “As expected, my eyes are just too hateful.”

“Eh! Oi! Don’t dig out your eyes!”

I hurriedly ran over and stopped Sun Ce’s stupid act… So that’s why you let your fringe grow out huh.

It took a great deal of persuasion before Sun Ce finally regained her composure.