Vol 9 Chapter 134 (1/2)

Chapter 134

VOLUME 9 CHAPTER 134: DON’T TELL ME THESE ARE YUAN ZHI’S WORRIES (10)

Liu Bei POV

“Yuan Zhi, this is…” I asked when Yuan Zhi was right in front of me.

“Don’t move!” She quickly interrupted me and pointed at my head.

When I saw this, I quickly closed my eyes as I thought that she was going to hit me. But even after a few seconds, I could not sense any force landing on my head so I slowly opened my eyes and saw that Yuan Zhi was touching the leaves on my gra.s.s hat. She looks like she’s think pretty hard too and I wonder if she is trying to figure out what type of plant they are from.

“The biggest deviation from my original script has to be this.” She spoke to herself as she looked at my face, “Liu Bei–”

Eh?! I panicked when she suddenly called out my name and turned around and saw that several people had heard her and were looking over. When I saw this, I hurriedly lowered my head and gestured to Yuan Zhi to keep quiet.

Why are you talking about me so loudly when you were the one who wanted me not to expose my ident.i.ty?

“Is dead.” Yuan Zhi said, and I heaved a sigh of relief on hearing that, and then pointed at me chest as she continued, “Why are you being so frantic? Shamoke?”

Eh? This is…

Ah, could it be that Yuan Zhi thinks that continuing to pretend that I was still missing could be used? Yes, from what I can remember, I do not believe that Liu Bei ever faked his death. Of course, I could have remembered wrongly but who cares. Yuan Zhi has alluded to it as much so there’s no need for me to doubt this.

“What you mean is…” I said as I nodded and tried to send my guess to her through my eyes.

“What are you staring at me for?”

Wu… It did not get through at all. As expected, being able to send messages just by a glance cannot be done so quickly huh?

“Let’s go, Shamoke.” Yuan Zhi said as she turned around and headed back to her horse. I have to say that it really is well-trained. It did not move at all when its master left and remained where it stood. Now that I think about it, Yuan Zhi does seem to be well-versed in horses so that might explain it.

I now know what Yuan Zhi is going to use but not how. I have some doubts but I am also very expectant. Compared to before, this is probably the real Yuan Zhi at work. And the actions she will take from here on out will be genuinely ‘Xu Shu’. As for history, who cares if it’s a little different? Right now, all we need to do is to win. Everything else can wait for later.

As I thought so, I hurried after Yuan Zhi out of the street we were in and eventually out of the market, feeling alive as I did so.

“Hu~”

“Don’t relax so quickly. We can rest later on.” Yuan Zhi called out to me just as I spat out a sigh and was about to sit down on a nearby rock.

“What’s the matter?” I asked Yuan Zhi as I got up and chased after her.

“Help me gather everyone. We’ll have a meeting in the afternoon.”

“Eh?!” I was surprised by this, “Have you decided on a strategy already?”

Is that not a little too fast?! She said she would consider the problem on her own and come up with her own strategy but she came up with one the moment she realised that my faking my death could be used?

“No way,” Yuan Zhi said with her hands behind her back as her eyebrows jumped, her bandana going up along with them, “But with how things are right now, time is of the essence, and I have some questions for those who took part in the last battle.”

(… I’d also

like to apologise to everyone.) Yuan Zhi added very softly as she turned back.

“I got it.” I said as I held back a smile, “Well then, what’s the main idea? Are we fighting or retreating?”

“…” Yuan Zhi looked at me from the side and said, “Of course we’re fighting.”

“Good.” I said as I nodded, feeling delighted.

“But don’t have too much hope.” Yuan Zhi continued just as I finished, “If I don’t succeed this time, that means that my abilities are insufficient for this battle and we’ll need to retreat when the time comes.”

“Un, I am ell aware of that possibility.”

Everything that needs to be said has been said. Let’s see how this third battle goes. I too made my resolve in my heart and looked at Yuan Zhi as I thought back to how we first met. Now that I think about it, she has been saying a lot of incomprehensible things back then that I should have picked up on. Things might have been very different if I did.

However, all of this is just hindsight. Be it me or Yuan Zhi, neither of us could have guessed that we would be in the current situation we are in. Nor do I know how much of a deviation there is between the battles here and those in history.

— Are you ready to be responsible?