Vol 10 Chapter 13 (2/2)

Of course not.

If Xuan De is still alive, then all I can do is to crush him with all I have. When the time comes, we will never be able to meet or speak again as I will be the one who personally ends Xuan De. I do not want to do so, to the point where I wish that Xuan De is no longer alive, so that I can preserve the good memories between us.

Xuan De… The man called Shamoke… Is he you…

“My lord, I’ll be taking my leave then.” Cheng Yu said and bowed when she saw that I was deep in thought before getting up to leave. As I looked at Cheng Yu’s back, a sudden impulse hit me and I spoke up.

“Wait, Cheng Yu. Xu Shu’s mother, where is she now?”

Liu Bei POV

Back in the 21st century, I never liked the sound of drums as the loud beats made my head hurt. But for some reason, I have begun to like that sort of loud beat coupled with cheers after coming to this era.

“Look, my lord, Xinye’s commoners have come out to send us.”

“Yes, I saw it.” I replied Chen Dao who seemed very excited.

When we were getting ready to leave the mansion to go to Fan city, this information leaked out somehow and all of Xinye’s residents came out to send us. I thought they had come to chase us away at first but Zi Long later told me that this was a goodwill gesture.

“But they really sent us all the way huh?” I said as I turned back and saw that there were still commoners ahead even after taking 3-400 paces out from the city gates. I do not remember being this effective of a ruler to receive such treatment.

“Thank you all! Many thanks, everyone!” I yelled back happily to everyone around us.

We were not actually going to stay at Fan city and were just going there to hold a belated celebratory banquet since Feng Xian, Wen Yuan and the rest have more or less taken over the city and Yuan Zhi and Yi De were already fine.

And I am beginning to really miss those at Fan city by now and would really want to see them. At the same time, I also wanted to see the city that we finally took after all the effort we put in. It’s not actually a substantial victory but it holds a special meaning to me.

“Perhaps my lord is a lot more popular amongst the commoners than I thought.” Zi Long said as she looked about with her spear in her hands and smiled, “I don’t think that you’ve done much but you have gained the affection of practically all of the commoners in Xinye.”

“No, I really have done nothing at all. Moreover, I’m currently wearing this hat so no one should know that I’m Liu Bei.” I said as I waved to the commoners and pointed at Zi Long and Yuan Zhi in turn as I continued, “The ones they should be grateful to are you and you.”

I would like to point at more people but there are not that many in our convoy going to Fan city today. Apart from me, Zi Long and Chen Dao, only Yuan Zhi and Yi De were going. As for the rest, the Xu state 3 and Huang Zu and the rest of her city defence team remained in Xinye. It’s not like we can leave the city empty after all and they have a good deal of work to do as well.

I really wanted to go with them but there was no choice. They would have to make a separate trip to Fan city another time. As for me, this is a sort of off day for me. Otherwise, I would be back in the room buried in paperwork. Really, the ones who should be receiving the admiration and affection of the commoners are the Xu state 3 who worked tirelessly to clean up the mess we had made.

“But if their lord were not you, would those 3 have done the same things?”

(TL: Another clear example of MC’s inner monologue leaking out through his mouth.)

Un? Just as I was feeling sorry for the Xu state 3 for not being here, Yuan Zhi spoke up about them.

“They will.” I replied immediately, “They’re good people after all.”

Their faces popped up in my mind as I replied. Though they may seem like demons during our lessons, they are nice people normally.

“Be that as it may, they would still not take actions that would go against the will and intent of their lord.” Yuan Zhi said as she smiled at me.

Though Yuan Zhi was wearing a bandana now, I have seen her without a bandana enough times for me to know what kind of expression she had now and blushed.

“May I ask if there is anything wrong, Xuan De?” Yuan Zhi asked as she stared at me.

“Eh?” I realised that I was staring at Yuan Zhi and hurriedly turned away, “Ah, no, nothing.”

Naturally, I could still feel Zi Long’s piercing gaze at my back.

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