Vol 2 Chapter 15 (1/2)

The Hero and the Reunion (part 1)

I leaned forward on the table at the pub, adopting a drunken expression.

In reality, I was very sober. I couldn’t get drunk here or else my ident.i.ty might be revealed.

If someone were to call out to me saying “Isn’t that Leon?” then I would be surrounded and sent to the galley, or maybe I’d be directly killed. No matter where I hid, there was an innumerable amount of people who hated me.

It was just like I had undergone some war, trying to calm my breathing as much as possible, but I still breathed heavily.

If I didn’t do this, my chest might’ve burst from depression.

“The princess will be married? To whom?”

Asked a male voice.

“That kind of woman will not marry someone from a big country like ours. She’ll probably marry into Yi Quan or the type; there’s hope for her to marry some small country’s princeling. I only heard that the emperor has already decided on her marriage. At year’s end she’ll have a big wedding. If she doesn’t, the princess will be forced to commit suicide or be exiled.”

The boss lady prattled off without stop.

“If it’s exile, then us brothers……hehe.”

“More beer.”

I slammed my drinking cup on the table with a clang and spoke in a low voice.

I wanted to go see Ailee.

Right then, I decided.

Those who remain pa.s.sive must die.

As I was lamenting that my life had no purpose, Ailee was receiving punishment in my place.

I had once told her that there are people who have to bear even harsher suffering than you, so please continue to live.

I was the one who taught her this, but because I betrayed mankind, I was killed.

Even if I had regained my consciousness, I continued to blame myself. While wallowing in regret, I drifted through life without a purpose.

But what then?

If Ailee came here for the tour, if I saw her with that haggard appearance. I definitely would–

“What are you going to do?”

Mademoiselle Phantom said softly near my ear.

My eyes snapped open.

It was like waking up from a nightmare. I fixed my gaze forward.

Her voice was still reverberating in my ears when Mademoiselle Phantom had sat across from me in an instant.

An existence that was both there and not there. Her face held not even part of a smile as she looked at me strictly.

That’s right, I almost forgot.

I don’t have the right to run away with Ailee to somewhere far, far away.

Because this body doesn’t only belong to me; it also belongs to Zhai He.

Just as Ailee was waiting for me, they were also waiting for Zhai He.

“Guest, your beer.”