Chapter 539: The Evening Ball (2/2)
Swish!+ Crack! Both sounds were heard almost simultaneously
The snowhound was pinned down on the floor by the butter knife The knife had entered at its throat Blood spluttered out along the knife The glow in the aniled in vain as it gurgled through the blood in its throat
Everyone was shocked by this sudden turn of events Many of them looked at the now innocent and adorable snowhound with pity Some of the noble ladies even tossed a look of hatred towards Ye Chong No one bothered with the three dead servants, ere now being removed quietly by the other servants frooodness you struck out so quickly! Brother, you saved my life! By the way, that attack ay too cool, can you teachexcited
”Snowy!” A lady's voice cried out with grief
The young lady approached the snowhound, stuck to the floor Tears sprang out fro the now lifeless snowhound and began to sob
Ye Chong recognized her as Shu Man'er, the lady as at the centre of the dance floor
A few energetic young ed what caused Shu Man'er to cry so pitifully
”Whichman yelled to the crowd
”Han, how many tiive you this tiht,” a young ynous voice
Both of theular face, like it was carved out orman looked around at the crowd As the other people quickly lowered their gaze, the young
Of all the people around hiaze
”Did you do it?” the youngnodded, ”Yes”
Standing beside Ye Chong, Yise panicked and whispered to Ye Chong, ”That's the son of the 2nd Legion's Legate His na man, but already a Level 6 shooter He's always been interested in Miss Shu Man'er, and the most likely candidate to beco to my sources, Miss Shu Man'er did not see is Man'er's beloved pet, why did you kill it?” George asked fir? That's a snowhound!” Yise could not help but spoke up froe flashed hi as you apologize to Miss Man'er, I'll let the
Yise did not expect the situation to be so easily resolved He was overjoyed and was about to agree with the young ave a reply thatreplied fire and his two companions looked surprised The two friends of his were about to throw insults when George lifted his hand to silence theive face?”
Ye Chong looked at George with cold eyes He could not understand why the ic was so bad He had only acted as protector, so why should he apologize to the lady?
Just then, Shu Man'er, who had been sobbing all the while, stood up abruptly with tears all over her face and approached Ye Chong She bowed down gracefully and said, ”Sir, I'm sorry I didn't know that Snoas a snowhound I' you”
Shu Man'er apology was like a slap to George's face George's expression looked terrible right now He did not think that Shu Man'er would make it so aard for him
His eyes flashed ruthlessly as he said, ”So it's just me ants this after all, I understand! However, I cannot let things stand as they are I request for a duel with this man!”
The crowd burst into an uproar upon his announcee, are you crazy? This is between you and et anyone else involved This is not his fault I didn't know that Snoas a snowhound, and that led to this terrible mistake I'm the one to blaetic look at Ye Chong
Ye Chong thought it strange Why would his opponent waste time ords? He should have just acted, like he was about to do now
Ye Chong closed the gap between hie so quickly that the crowd only saw hied looked startled and was about to react when he felt a tight grip on his throat His feet left the ground
Ye Chong held onto George's throat and lifted him up easily
The entire ballroo with horror George was the son of the 2nd Legion's Legate! Was he suicidal? As for the co had moved so quickly!
Was this the limit of human speed?
At the moment, the entire ballroouests dropped their glasses The crowd panicked again, knocking down tables and chairs and cutlery and even other people
”Let hio! Don't hurt thelike this?”
”Youngstupid You have to think about the consequences, think about your fa on?” Prince Desnio's low voice uests saw thebehind the Prince and were all startled They quickly bowed and greeted, ”Your Majesty!” When did the King arrive? So man who started this whole incident
Suddenly, everyone was down on their knees, leaving only Ye Chong holding onto George's throat
”What happened? Isn't that Aliz's son?” Sun Sieha saw Ye Chong lifting George off the ground and asked incredulously
”He asked for a duel,” Ye Chong briefly explained the situation
George, that idiot! Sun Sieha cursed the troublesome man inside Had it been anyone else, he would have just let the ate
”He's no o Don't uests were surprised by their King's words They all knew that His Majesty was a Level 8 shooter If even His Majesty thought that George was noindeed! On the other hand, the King had sided with the youngfor details of the incident This ireatly favoured Who in the world was this young ers Ye Chong was not i ball without understanding why, and now he had to deal with this nonsense
Sun Sieha could see that Ye Chong was not happy He looked at the five outstretched fingers and felt helpless and pained, but still he nodded, ”Alright” Inside, he cursed Aliz again for having that useless son He will get the uests understood the exchange between Ye Chong and Sun Sieha Only Duke Warren had a glimpse of the story behind it He lowered his head and felt deeply unsettled