Volume 3 Chapter 40 (1/2)

A giant cascade of snow cae, Maoed like a waterfall from behind the cliff's top The snowy cascade quickly stopped, not flowing all the way down to where Maomao was, but the place that she assumed was the storehouse disappeared in a flurry of snow

Maomao watched that scene from the balcony

Most of the workers had escaped with the underground explosion The ones left were fighting the fire Further, the other people would have to split up Soldiers were ju out from the outer wall - she could see that they were dumbfounded by the situation

And there were people who couldn't escape that situation

White sos broke into the outer wall that had become short-handed

She couldn't see it fro However, they confronted the panicking soldiers, and she could see so

Blood splattered on the pure white snow

The white sos were invaders When they took off and threay their white overcoats, they revealed the theed his clothes into arance was still the sah he was on a bloody battlefield, it looked like she atching a sword dance

(Did he co from the inner palace, was equivalent to treason And above that, with her fa barricaded themselves in this kind of fortress, she had no excuse

Then she looked at Jinshi+'s appearance

Those with the social position to wear bluish purple on their body were limited She wouldn't think Jinshi+ was at this place as a eunuch

She felt a little relieved, but at the sauard yet

The stench of sulfur was still in the air Shetime Hoas the situation underneath? Since the fortress was constructed of stone and brick, the fire wouldn't spread much, but she had to pay attention to the smoke

Even if she didn't, it wasn't li froht not have realised she was related to the weirdo monocle Also, she wouldn't think Rouran would let her mouth slip

If it turned out like so, she had planned to jump down from the balcony, land on the snow and run away, but-

That would be the worse case scenario

From the balcony, Maomao looked at the prone children who look like they were sleeping It was pitiful that they had pallid skin, were not breathing and had no pulse either

(We should have just run away)

That was for Rouran, and for herself as well

Mao to do from here on, but she felt that she only understood the reason why Rouran brought her here

It was for that reason, that Maomao couldn't leave this place

Intense footsteps approached She heard the sound offall heavily, the door was kicked open

It was a soldier in a white overcoat who entered It was patterned like red dots scattering on a white background

”…you are?”

In his confusion, he squinted at Maonised approached therel she recognised

”Is this person the one?”

He asked Rihaku, the rel soldier, to make sure

Rihaku tilted his head, arms crossed He came closer with his brows furrowed

”Aard question I have a feeling that you look like a girl called Maomao orks in the imperial court”

”I'm that person”

Rihaku asked a stupid question, but he was in armour rather than his usual official robes He had a staff in hand

”Why are you here?”

”It seems I was abducted”

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The angle of Rihaku's head tilted even more It was bent to about directly horizontal

”Hey, is your daddy…”

”It's probably as you i that na”

In response to Mao more, but he blatantly shuddered, and after that, he smacked his fist into his palely understood