Chapter 413 - 413: Is there such a rumor? (2/2)
”Humph!”
Richard snorted again, and returned to concentrating on creating pills. He was confident in proving to Alison that he was a better ”wife” than Hilary. In terms of gender difference, he already had a solution, he just needed money to create a gender change pill...
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”Apparently, the man likes another man, but it looks like he believes the girl Hilary likes the same guy.” Aine said, ”But it seems to be an illusion, since it doesn't look like she was lying when she said she wasn't interested in the guy named Alison.”
”Alison is likely to like Hilary, and because of that, Richard is jealous, but instead of admitting it, he makes it look like Hilary is in love with Alison.” Zaira said.
”Mm, I don't see any importance in that.” Theo stretched on the couch: ”I thought it was going to be more interesting, but in the end, he was just a deluded and jealous man who suffers from unrequited love.”
”How do you know it is unrequited?” Ariana asked.
”It is not obvious?” Theo said: ”If he had the courage to say that in front of so many living beings, it just means that he has already declared himself to the man in question and to be so resentful, it means that it was rejected and likely that Alison said he liked Hilary.”
”Mm, it makes sense.” They agree.
”Enough about that, let's talk about something more interesting.” Theo said, ”Did you see the news of a ghost whale flying over Isle of Fallen Star?”
”Oh! I saw this news.” Alice said: ”There are even rumors on the internet that the Leader and the Great Elder of the Sect of Ten Thousand Souls tried to capture, but it has never been seen again, and they are now missing.”
”Is there such a rumor?” Mizuki was surprised: ”How strong it has to be able to go against these two. Wasn't that something made up?”
”I don't know, but...” Alice said: ”It seems to be true, since the Ten Thousand Souls Sect is in chaos. It seems that some rival sects are ready to attack at any moment.”
”That is why many disciples of the Sect of Ten Thousand Souls left the sect.” Mizuki said: ”I heard from some acquaintances of mine from other empires that many disciples of the Sect of Ten Thousand Souls were seen asking for refuge in other sects.”
”Mm, this is true.” Theo said: ”I met one of the disciples before, and he deserted the Sect and came to the Naga Empire.”
Theo remembers the disciple who was sleeping with Cleopatra, and read some of his memory. At the time he did not care much about this information, as it was not very specific, he just said that the disciple fled at the moment when his sect was about to go to war, but Theo did not imagine that it was because of the disappearance of the Leader and Great Sect Elder.
”Although it is so.” Mizuki said: ”This is not going to end anytime soon. The Ten Thousand Souls Sect has been around for a long time and has many hidden ”monsters”. So, at most, they will lose a little of resources and some weak disciples who fled or died in the middle of the war.”
”Mm, at least they'll be busy for a while.” Theo smiled: ”They must hate me... Or rather, they must hate Panic. At one time or another, I must settle accounts with them.”
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