6 Cui Fen and The Brothel (2/2)

The moment he relaxed, Ming Yue stabbed her blade into his foot and twisted it causing immense pain and agony. The leader tightened his grip from the pain but he felt mush weaker now and the woman saw this chance to escape and she pushed out his arm, running to Ming Yue. The man knew that his time was up but he did not go down before secretly pulling out some knives. As Ming Yue approached him, she pulled her blade up and prepared to kill him. In that moment, he struck out, throwing knives at her. She tried to dodge but still got cut in the shoulder.

However, that did not deter her as she attacked him and stabbed him through his heart. Then she rummaged through their clothes and found multiple items that were of use to her. There were some gold and silver coins, a blade manual titled,”Shadow Blade Arts”, and a ring. She didn't know what the ring was but the other two things helped a lot. Especially the shadow blade arts, although ti wasn't suitable for her style of fighting, it could help her improve and maybe she could create some techniques. With the end of that, she began to leave again to find an inn and recover. Then the woman grabbed her arm.

”Wait, please. I need to thank you for your help. My name is Cui Fen, come with me, we can't have you walking around with that shoulder.”

She was right. Although Ming Yue had managed to dodge most of the knives, she did suffer a somewhat deep wound on her shoulder. She silently agrees and followed her back but not before introducing her self.

”Ming Yue...” She said.

”Oh what a pretty name! It quite suits you.”

As they walked, Cui Fen talked along the way, she needed to take her mind off of what had just happened and tried to keep herself from breaking down. Then they stopped in front of a building. It was quite large and fancy but the most eye-catching thing were the women right outside flaunting and flirting.

It was a brothel, to be specific, the one that Cui Fen works in.

”Oh! Cui Fen, where were you? Who is this?” said one of the girls.

She had not been here for several hours since her work was suppose to start and now she came with a injured girl.

Cui Fen replied, ”I'll tell you later just let us in first.”

The girls decided not to interfere any longer and decided to wait until they were done to hear her story. Ming Yue felt somewhat uncomfortable here. After all this was a brothel and she had heard some things about such places from her father.

Cui Fen seemed to have sensed her unease and reassured her that this place is different from what she may think. Even she herself was surprised.

Ming Yue relaxed after hearing that but she still kept her guard up.