Chapter 504 - The long awaited meeting (Part-3) (2/2)

Yamamoto quickly sat up straight as he spoke with his head bowed low, ”A thousand pardon Your Highness I will not repeat such insolence, I was just shocked to see Lady Neacht, with her rather distinctive piece of  ...err I mean her rather exquisite sword.”

Ryuu let out a small chuckle as he spoke, ”Between you and me I also think the same every time I see her rather large slab of metal, but always remember never to mention it in front of her as she gets rather incensed when anyone calls it anything other than a sword.”

Yamamoto gave a small nod as Ryuu turned to face Yujie and his group, while Yamamoto sighed inwardly, 'He is behaving more like the second Princess, the more calm and happy she looks like the more dangerous and sadistic she is with her punishment.'

Yujie looked towards Yamamoto with his eyes wide, 'So this is the hidden expert who is helping Ryuu.'

While Fang frowned as he spoke, ”We asked for privacy.”

Ryuu shrugged as he spoke, ”Advisor Yamamoto's job is to advise me, so that is why he is here, now please leave.”

Salazar who was paying rapt attention to the small talk between Ryuu and his advisor could not help but ask out, ”The senior in this picture you know her.”

”Of course I know of big sister Neacht, she is a very good friend of my teacher's daughters, I have seen her many times and even sparred with her.”, Ryuu then turned towards Yujie as he spoke with a sigh, ”You misunderstand the guardian of Xia Empire, I did not feel overwhelmed by the essence of the Dao that has been captured in the picture but rather that someone offering me a picture of someone I consider as my big sister and telling me to meditate in front of her, the teasing I would get if my sister hear about this.”

His words confirmed many of the questions lurking in both Salazar and Yujie's minds, as they also understood the reason behind why Ryuu was being protected by someone of Yamamoto's calibre, someone whom they not only failed to detect but after being able to perceive him Yamamoto's aura felt suffocating to them.

Ryuu narrowed his eyes as he spoke, ”Though there is something I would want to know.”

Sabine gave an eager nod as she spoke, ”Please ask away Ryuu, we will answer you anything you wish to know.”

Ryuu snorted as he spoke, ”I wonder about that.”, he took a brief pause as his roamed over the group in front of him before he spoke, ”I want to why? Why did you all changed your mind from wanted nothing more to kill me, from causing my mother and her best friend to flee, to this trying to make amends bring me back to your house, I want to know why?”

The group was silent for a moment as Ryuu spoke with a tired sigh, ”If you do not wish to answer then the door is that way, I have work to do.”

Hearing those words Yujie hurriedly spoke, ”Ryuu, we what we did was a blasphemy against Heavens itself, we should not have acted in such a way, even if you were born without a dantian we should not have acted as such the shock of such incident made us react rashly and we made a horrible mistake, one we have been trying to rectify, a simple case of shock and misunderstanding which led to everything after all what parent does not love their child.”

Ryuu looked at Yujie for a moment without blinking before he let out a bark of laughter as he spoke, ”Liar, how can an old man like you lie to a junior like me is beyond my understanding.”

Yujie's face turned to be an interesting shade of purple, never in his life has anyone mocked him in such a manner making his temper flare up only to come to a grinding halt as he found under undivided attention of Yamamoto.

”There are so many inconsistencies about your statement not to mention my office is surrounded by arrays, arrays which informs me when someone is lying and whatever the truth was you skirted away from the truth, the real reason is different.”

Ryuu rubbed his forehead in exasperation as he spoke, ”Enough I tire of you lot, I do not need anything from the likes of you, and if you still do not wish to take them off my desk I will have them thrown them out on the streets, I have already given you enough of my precious time now leave.”

Sabine wanted to protest but with a growl, Ryuu shouted out, ”Yu Wu, they have already concluded their business so have them out of my building.”

Sabine wanted to protest but was stopped by her husband as the group stood up from their seat, Yujie gathered everything in his space ring as he spoke, ”I know you are angry at us but if you want to know more about your mother then please feel free to visit us, we will show you your mother's home.”

Ryuu did not even acknowledge his words as Beatrice spoke hurriedly, ”Ryuu can you answer a simple question to me, please I beg of you.”

Ryuu briefly looked at her and after an intense debate he decided to humour her as such he gave a nod for her to continue.

”How did my daughter die?”

”I do not know who your daughter is.”

Salazar bit back a grown as he spoke, ”We want to know how your mother Xiao Xiao died.”

Ryuu narrowed his eyes as he spoke, ”How do you know that my mother is dead?”

Salazar contemplated for a moment as he spoke, ”Our family has a treasure that my ancestor had found while exploring, a large mural, whenever a new member of our family is born especially of that person is related to the current clan head, the name of that person is inscribed on it, you name is there on the wall.”, he took a small pause before continuing again, ”We do not know how it works but it clearly shows when someone is in grave danger and when they are dead their name has a line crossing it.”

”I see, my mother died in her sleep.”

A silence descended before Fang exploded, ”That is a lie, my sister was a Golden Immortal and a Golden Immortal does not die in such a manner.”

”Believe what you want but you all asked me how not why and I unlike you all answered you as you truthfully, now leave the door is that way.”

The group quickly left with the men taking the while Yu Wu who had just arrived looked at the scene with a confused look on her face, she had not heard about much except a few words in the end, but alas she has a task given to her boss as such she quickly left to escort them out of Shangri-la.

As Yu Wu was out of sight Ryuu spoke in a serious tone while he stood up from his seat, ”Teachers I know you are listening I want to speak with you all, now.”

Meanwhile, the group back in Ayindril was stunned as Antariksh could not help but speak out loud with disbelief in her voice, ”Eh, How did Ryuu figure out we were eavesdropping on his meeting? Did Yamamoto tell him?”

Shamiran shook her head as she spoke, ”I do not know think so, though how he managed to detect us, but we better hurry and speak with him to find it out.”