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Chapter 1 : Anise’s Possessions

Seeing Lancelot"s judgmental look, Daylight, Kaiser, Meinan, and Purity all seemed to move in unison in front of Liola. The four of them acted like four mothers trying to protect their young, fearing that Lancelot might do Liola more harm.

Kaiser was the first one to snap, he opened his mouth and cursed.

"b.a.s.t.a.r.d! What the h.e.l.l do you want again? I don"t know how many times Liola almost died because of you, and you still came here shamelessly?!"

Though others did not curse like Kaiser did, but judging from the anger on their faces, they all agreed with what Kaiser said.

Lancelot, however, completely ignored Kaiser. His eagle-like eyes held their gaze at Liola. His deep and with a solemn voice, he repeated his words.

"Hand over your Dragon Cross Necklace."

Liola"s heart was pounding rapidly.

"Hand over Anise"s necklace? No!" Liola"s right hand held tightly onto the Dragon Cross Necklace in front of his chest.

"Never!"

Lancelot seemed to have known Liola wouldn"t hand it over readily. He waved his arm impatiently.

"Hand it over, you don"t have any power to resist, and I don"t want to harm you."

Liola knew that right now, he couldn"t even win against Daylight and others, let alone a rank-X person. But he could hand over everything and anything… except the necklace Anise had left behind.

Liola laughed bitterly in his heart. Even if he wasn"t willing to give it up, if Lancelot were to take it forcefully, other than giving up the necklace, even if he were to give up his life, the necklace will still be taken away from him.

Despite it all, Liola still wouldn"t allow himself to hand over Anise"s necklace. His face remained calm and cold, saying "if you want the necklace, then take my life with it".

Lancelot did not bother to waste any more of his breath. The unicorn ignored the presence of Daylight and others, and beelined towards Liola.

While charging towards Liola, Lancelot"s powerful aura pushed Daylight and others out of the way. Carrying Liola, Baolilong wanted to fly away, but its speed was no match for the unicorn.

In an instant, Lancelot had already jumped onto Baolilong"s back. Baolilong was angry and anxious, but it wouldn"t dare to move too much to try to throw Lancelot off. Baolilong didn"t want papa, who lost all his Kung Fu, to fall out of the air.

Though Liola could sort of make out Lancelot"s movements, his body could not respond in time. Without much efforts, Lancelot"s hand reached the Dragon Cross Necklace on Liola"s chest.

However, the strange thing was, as if he had been electrified, Lancelot"s body shook violently, and he even cried out in pain, then quickly pulled his palm back.

Liola"s eyes reflexively looked at Lancelot"s palm. He saw a burnt mark appearing on Lancelot"s palm, in the shape of the Dragon Cross Necklace.

Liola was a little baffled, and instinctively reached for the necklace on his chest, but the necklace felt like it was at room temperature, so why did it leave such a burn mark on Lancelot"s palm?

Seeing his palm had been burnt, Lancelot immediately used the healing magic unique to holy Knights. An intense white light gathered in his palm. After the light faded, the wound did indeed disappear, but a scar in the shape of a cross remained in the center of his palm.

Even though he used his healing magic again and again, the scar would not disappear. Lancelot"s face was filled with rage.

"What the h.e.l.l did you do?"

Of course, Liola couldn"t say anything, because he didn"t do anything at all!

Lancelot saw Liola, himself, was baffled, so he had no choice but ignore the scar in his palm. His hand reached towards Liola"s neck, trying to threaten him with his life to hand over the Dragon Cross Necklace.

"Stop! Paladin, are you really going to harm a helpless ordinary person?"

Seeing Lancelot"s hand was about to reach Liola"s neck, but being pushed back by Lancelot"s Ki and therefore having no way of rescuing Liola, Kaiser anxiously and tried to use the Paladin"s name against him, hoping Lancelot the Holy Knight would remember, the code of honor for Knights forbid them from harming weaklings.

However, Lancelot ignored Kaiser"s yells. His large hand wrapped around Liola"s thin neck. But another strange thing happened: as soon as Lancelot touched Liola"s skin, he jumped back as if he had been electrocuted again.

This time, both Lancelot and Liola looked towards his palm. The cross mark looked like it was newly made again. It was bright red then it turned black, as if it had never been healed.

Lancelot finally understood, perhaps he couldn"t touch Liola at all, so maybe he can"t s.n.a.t.c.h the necklace directly.

Lancelot felt his rage rising, and he cancelled the Ki blocking Daylight and others. Daylight, Flames, Purity, and her Angel Mecha, Nana, charged in.

Lancelot glanced around them, and finally settled his gaze on Kaiser.

Kaiser felt terrified from Lancelot"s stare, and a thought flashed across his mind.

"c.r.a.p! This guy probably couldn"t touch Liola for some reason, and can"t grab it directly, so he"s going to threaten him with a hostage!"

Though Kaiser knew what Lancelot wanted, but he couldn"t find any way out of it.

Lancelot hopped onto the unicorn, and a white shadow flashed past Flames. When Daylight realized something was wrong and turned his head, Kaiser was already gone.

"Hand over the Dragon Cross Necklace."

Lancelot"s cold voice could be heard from afar, accompanied by Kaiser"s moaned in pain.

Liola felt a chill, and he looked towards the unicorn. Sure enough, Kaiser had already fallen into Lancelot"s hands.

Sitting on top of the unicorn, Lancelot"s right arm was holding Kaiser"s neck, and his entire body was dangling in the air, struggling.

"Don"t touch him!" Seeing Kaiser"s life in danger, but he was an useless person who lost his Kung Fu, Liola felt a spinal shiver.

"Y-you d.a.m.n b.a.s.t.a.r.d, y-you went as far as using me as a hostage?!"

Kaiser desperately squeezed out curses at Lancelot between his teeth.

Lancelot furrowed his brow, and applied more force into his hand, which made Kaiser"s face turn red, and at the same time he continued to ignore the yells of everyone else.

However, Kaiser wasn"t someone who would sit idly waiting for death. He pulled out the giant gun hanging from his hips. When Lancelot"s attention was back on Liola, Kaiser murmured a few incantation, and a white light emitted from the gun, with its barrel pointed directly at Lancelot"s handsome face.

Lancelot sensed a power coming from the hostage, and he immediately responded. With a wave of his other hand, Kaiser"s gun fell out of the sky, and disappeared into the clouds.

The situation had turned for worse!

With a red face, Kaiser couldn"t believe he might die before reaching the age of twenty. Could it be that the G.o.ds were really jealous of his talents? d.a.m.n! But he didn"t want to die yet.

Kaiser gritted his teeth, and held Lancelot"s hand with both of his own, and squeezed out the incantation between his teeth.

"… Napalm Bomb!"

Lancelot had never thought the hostage in his hands would have any powers to resist. He was caught off guard and Kaiser"s bomb landed on his hand.

In reflex, Lancelot opened his hand, letting the hostage in his hand lose…

"Ah! d.a.m.n you, it was just a small bomb, and you actually really let go~~"

Without the support of Lancelot"s hand, Kaiser fell straight out of the sky.

Accompanied by Kaiser"s screams, two Dragons and a Mecha flew towards him. However, since they didn"t expect Kaiser to use his magic. They were slow at start, so they could do nothing but watch as Kaiser headed to kiss the ground.

Kaiser desperately struggled to turn in the air, and held his head in his arms. He thought that even if he broke his arms and legs, there would still be good healing Maxun he could use, but if instead he hurts his gifted head, healing Maxuns would be useless on his head if it"s opened like a broken water melon.

While turning in the air, Kaiser"s sharp eyes spotted Barbalis, along with his rarely seen solemn yet deep in thought face.

"That guy is murmuring incantation?"

Kaiser acted as if he had forgotten he was free falling. He stared at Barbalis" mouth, trying to make out the spell.

"It seems to be… group teleportation?"

After thinking about Barbalis" spell, Kaiser saw images flying past his eyes: from a circle stadium to an open gra.s.sland, followed by a forest, and finally a barren plain.

"Aiya!" Kaiser finally hit the ground, and he immediately started screaming, "Oh my G.o.d, it"s over, I must"ve broken my arms and legs, c.r.a.p! My head, is my precious brain okay?"

Kaiser immediately started patting different parts of his body, and then finally sat baffled and cross-legged on the ground, wondering why he seemed to be unscathed?

It couldn"t be, he obviously fell from a very high place…

The confusion the others had was not any less than Kaiser"s.

They were still in the sky above the stadium, so why are they suddenly on a barren plain?

Other than confusion, Liola and others saw nothing wrong with Kaiser, and he could still pat his body in different places and calmly scratch his face, so it seemed Kaiser was completely unharmed. They could finally relax.

"Lancelot, how could you attack a students above the stadium? Aren"t you afraid you will harm your fame as a Paladin? Look, I especially used a group teleportation for you so we can fight somewhere else!" Barbalis laughed as he explained.

"You old geezer!" Kaiser jumped up.

"Did you purposely take us out here in the middle of no where so that guy Lancelot could kill us and you wouldn"t have to bury us?"

Barbalis acted surprised, and asked, "Kill you? That couldn"t be, could it? Why would a righteous Paladin kill a few students and an ordinary person who couldn"t fight back?"

Hearing this, Lancelot"s face turned cold, and with an even colder voice he said,

"Barbalis, don"t mock me. Killing them is not my goal, but if killing them will reach my goal, then I will not hold back."

Barbalis showed a clown-like smile, and jokingly replied, "Really? These guys are innocent, are you seriously going to kill them? This isn"t like you."

"Unless necessary, I wouldn"t kill anyone. As long as that a.s.sa.s.sin hands over the Dragon Cross Necklace, I will never make things difficult for him again." Lancelot impatiently waved his arm and said.

"Are you a robber now? It"s an alright profession. Did you finally have an epiphany, and decided to stop being a righteous Holy Knight?" Barbalis face was full of smiles, but his speech cut deep.

Lancelot roared, "I am righteous. That necklace belongs to the Dragon Emperor. I am simply following orders to retrieve the necklace."

Barbalis"s gaze was fixed in Lancelot"s palm, and he reflexively held his fist to cover up the mark left behind by the Dragon necklace, but Barbalis had already seen the entire process of Lancelot getting burnt by the necklace.

Seeing Lancelot was trying to cover it up, he lightly laughed, "Following orders? Whose orders? Was it the Dragon Emperor"s?"

Lancelot went silent, and his silence made Barbalis even more skeptical.

If it was the Emperor"s order, Lancelot should have admitted without any hesitation. So it"s not the Dragon Emperor"s order? Then who else could there be who could give orders to the dignified Paladin?

Barbalis" curiosity was not satisfied, but he better handle this situation well. Even for him, he couldn"t be sure that, in the event the Paladin attacks, he could ensure the safety of all five of them and two Dragons.

But the Dragon Cross Necklace was very important and too many mysteries were behind it.

Barbalis heard a voice inside his head constantly telling him, the necklace must not be handed over. But how can he make the Paladin give up without giving him the necklace?

Barbalis laughed bitterly, "Mizerui, you are great. You are hiding far away and throwing all the problems to me."

Lancelot also thought, he couldn"t touch the Dragon necklace or Liola. Barbalis was obviously siding with Liola, so taking back the necklace looks like a difficult task, but he did promise his good friend. Lancelot furrowed his brows.

"Liola!?"

Daylight"s yell made turn and look at Liola.

Liola"s face was getting paler and paler by the second, his body was fumbling around, and even his breath was irregular.

"I…"

Liola didn"t know what was going on either. He felt his breathing was getting more and more labored, and his body getting weaker and weaker.

Finally, he blacked out, and fell off from Baolilong"s back. Luckily, Daylight had already noticed something wrong with Liola, and commanded Flames to fly over, allowing Daylight to catch Liola.

When Daylight lowered his hand to examine Liola, he noticed that something was very, very wrong. Liola"s face was drained of blood, and his breathing was so weak, it was barely noticeable.

"Liola? What happened? Wake up!" Daylight was anxious.

Liola"s body was almost like a dead corpse. He was just fine, so why would this suddenly happen?

Flames landed on the ground. Kaiser and Barbalis hurried to Flames, and Purity jumped out from the c.o.c.kpit onto Flames" back before the Mecha even securely landed.

She desperately shook Liola"s body while continuously calling Liola"s name.

Kaiser looked at Liola, and immediately yelled.

"d.a.m.n! It"s Black Rose"s poison. Feir said he could only suppress it, and looks like Liola"s poison is recurring."

The moment everyone heard, and their faces turned pale. Barbalis said while crouching.

"I"ll go bring Feir here…"

But Kaiser reached out his hand and covered Barbalis" mouth.

After throwing a look at Barbalis to tell him to be quiet, Kaiser took big steps toward Lancelot, and stopped a few feet away. He said to Lancelot.

"Liola was poisoned because he lost his ability to defend himself, and his current predicament was caused by you and you alone. You have the responsibility of curing him."

Lancelot"s face froze. The balance of good and evil kept swaying in his heart. He thought if the a.s.sa.s.sin was dead, then a lot of problems would be gone, and at the same time he could take away the Dragon Cross Necklace…

"Paladin!"

Daylight"s roar awakened Lancelot from his thoughts.

Without any hesitation, Lancelot took a few steps towards Daylight and Liola. A dense and bright white light emitted from Lancelot"s palm. With the illumination from the light, Liola"s otherwise corpse-like face gradually filled with color, and his breath became normal. Seeing this, everyone sighed in relief.

Daylight lowered his head and looked at Liola, then raised his head again; a pair of firm eyes looked at Lancelot.

"Paladin, isn"t Liola your apprentice?"

Everyone felt their heart skip a beat, especially Kaiser, Meinan, and Purity.

They had spent a lot of time lately with Daylight, and even risked their lives in the Dark Street to save Liola. Daylight had already been a part of the gang, and the three of them had completely forgotten Daylight didn"t know the truth about the issue.

"Although I don"t know what is going on, but Paladin, can you promise me you have a righteous reason for taking away the Dragon Cross Necklace, and not for any criminal reasons?"

Daylight"s solemn and righteous speech, along with his unswerving eyes, almost reminded Lancelot of himself when he was younger.

Lancelot laughed in his heart, but his face remained solemn like before. Lancelot answered with hesitation, with the same righteousness as Daylight.

"Who do you think I am? I am the Paladin Lancelot!"

Seeing Lancelot not hesitating, and did not show any signs of guilt, Daylight"s face relaxed. He lowered his head to look at the unconscious Liola.

He grabbed Liola"s Dragon Cross Necklace, and when everyone thought he, too, would be burnt, Daylight tugged and took the necklace from Liola, and held the necklace towards Lancelot as if nothing was wrong.

Lancelot hesitated as he reached out his hand out, but when his hand was near the necklace, Lancelot clearly felt that the temperature in his palm was rising. Lancelot"s face sank, why would this child be unharmed by the necklace?

"Daylight! The necklace is Liola-dage"s treasured possession, you can"t give it to someone else!"

Seeing Daylight was about to give the necklace to Lancelot, Purity took the opportunity and grabbed the necklace before Lancelot had a chance to.

She held onto it tightly in her chest, then backed up behind Kaiser and Meinan. Meinan had the same expression as Purity; filled with discord. However, Kaiser"s face was filled with hesitation.

Daylight sported a serious expression and asked Purity, "Which is more important, the necklace or Liola"s life?"

"But…" Meinan and Purity clearly knew which was more important; if Liola"s dead, who would care who has the necklace?

"Up to this point, how many dangers did this necklace bring to Liola? Liola already doesn"t have his Kung Fu. If he were to continue to wear this necklace, he will most likely die because of it."

Daylight lowered his head to look at the unconscious Liola, trying to remember how many times had Liola been on the verge of death.

Hearing what Daylight said, Meinan and Purity"s faces both sank.

Indeed, ever since they"ve known Liola, he had suffered countless wounds, and almost lost his life many times.

Kaiser calmly said to Daylight, "Wrap the necklace in a rag and give it to the Paladin."

While everyone else was stupefied, Kaiser turned to Lancelot again,

"Sir Paladin, are you satisfied now? You"ve already sealed Liola, and now the necklace is yours too. Can you promise us neither the Dragon Emperor nor Miluo would cause us any more trouble?"

"I can promise for the Dragon Emperor. But as for Miluo…"

Lancelot lowered his head for a short meditation, then said, "I will tell the Knight a.s.sociation to a.s.sign patrols and guard towers around the academy."

Kaiser grabbed the wrapped necklace out of Daylight"s hand, and said solemnly,

"This necklace is yours, and we won"t beg you to release Liola"s seal. But if Liola still gets kidnapped or gets poisoned, or even dies, it will be your obligation to save him, or seek revenge for him. It"s not too much to ask, right?!"

Lancelot calmly received the wrapped necklace, jumped back onto the unicorn, and said one word, "Sure"

Then the unicorn flew up into the sky, and the little white shadow flew off into the distance.

"Hmmph!"

Kaiser watched with cold eyes as Lancelot flew away. But instead of relief, he seemed to be more and more worried.

"Kaiser, what"s wrong?" Purity asked.

Lancelot was gone, so what could make Kaiser seem this worried?

Kaiser turned around to look at Daylight and the unconscious Liola, and his body started to tremble and his face looked like he was in pain. He said while cold sweat ran down his face.

"I forgot to tell Lancelot to protect me too. If Liola finds out I handed over his necklace, would he forget about the promise to Ani-something, and kill me in one blow?"

"Waahhh, Daylight you must take good care of me, and don"t let Liola hurt me!"

… … …

* * *

Barbalis also watched as Lancelot left. He couldn"t believe Kaiser would hand over the necklace, and Kaiser"s sudden actions left him no choice but to simply watch.

"Hmm, what should he do now?"

Barbalis began to think about how he could retrieve the necklace for Liola… He suddenly noticed someone looking at him, so Barbalis alertly raised his head.

He saw Kaiser, who was moaning in pain because he thinks Liola might kill him, was glancing at him from the corner of his eyes, and Kaiser"s eyes seemed to be trying to warn him something.

Barbalis was shocked. When he looked at Kaiser again, Kaiser was laughing stupidly, with no signs of any warning. But his stupid laugh made Barbalis feel even more numb than his warning eyes.

"Other than being raised in the Dark Street, could this little runt have other…" Barbalis murmured to himself…

"Oh, c.r.a.p!"

"d.a.m.n! The ranking matches! Aklan Academy"s first place! My position as the best academy"s princ.i.p.al!"

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Chapter 2 : The Real Ordinary

"Gone…"

Liola was at a loss. His right hand kept touching his chest, where his necklace was supposed to be, but there was nothing. The Dragon cross necklace that had always been there was now nowhere to be found.

"Anise…"

"Gone!"

Barbalis shrank into the sofa, remembering when he got back to the stadium, the other princ.i.p.als all claimed that Aklan Academy ran away from the match, and therefore Violet Academy won by default. As such, his position as the princ.i.p.al of the first academy was gone!

Unlike the two depressed people on the sofa, Kaiser was in a celebratory mood. He crossed his legs, and said leisurely but roughly.

"Fortunately, my life is still here. Hahaha! I knew Liola would hold up his promise to Anise, psh, otherwise, why wouldn"t he kill me now?"

"Kaiser!"

Purity quietly scolded him, and at the same time turned to look at Liola. A dark, depressed aura was gathering around the a.s.sa.s.sin.

Liola"s face looked like he was in despair, which made Purity extremely worried, especially with Kaiser gloating on the side, but she didn"t know what she should do.

Kaiser heard Purity"s yell, but not only did he not put on a sad face, he raised his eyebrows, and crouched in front of the a.s.sa.s.sin to scrutinize him. He even used his index finger to poke the a.s.sa.s.sin.

Liola was already enraged at the fact that Kaiser handed over the necklace when he was unconscious, but now Kaiser was rubbing salt in his wounds. Liola"s eyes flashed with murderous intent, and he reached out and grabbed Kaiser"s d.a.m.n index finger tightly.

"What! Wanna kill me?" Kaiser acted as if he didn"t know he already made the a.s.sa.s.sin furious, and threw more gasoline on the fire.

Liola gritted his teeth, and desperately thought of Anise"s promise so he could control himself from pulling out Broken Silver to slice his friend in two…

Kaiser pulled back his finger, and asked Liola. "Let me ask you. What"s more important, Anise or the d.a.m.n necklace?"

Liola was shocked, and didn"t understand the purpose of Kaiser"s question.

Kaiser patiently waited for his answer.
Liola said after furrowing his brows. "Anise."

"Then let me ask you again. Whose life had been lost in exchange for yours?"

Kaiser"s question hit Liola like a bolt of lightning. His murderous aura had been completely washed away, and he was back to his depressed look.

However, Kaiser still wasn"t willing to let it go, so he opened his mouth and asked again.

"You are living because of Anise, do you really think you could easily throw your life away?"

Hearing this, Liola lowered his head as far as he could.

Seeing Liola abnormal action, Kaiser finally felt a little bit of sympathy. He said awkwardly.

"Anyhow, this is what I think: Anise would definitely not want you to lose your life over her necklace. She saved you not so you can die later, but instead for you to live well, right?"

Liola"s body shook again.

What would Anise say in this situation? It must be… for him live well, right? She had always said so in the past.

"I can"t believe Kaiser would actually talk seriously like this." Purity widened her eyes, and even Meinan was in disbelief.

"What? I am serious sometimes." Kaiser immediately protested.

"Haha, but it"s really rare to see Kaiser this serious."

Even Daylight laughed, which made all three of them turn around to look at Daylight. Six widened eyes made Daylight feel awkward, so he asked.

"What? Why are you all suddenly looking at me like this?"

Kaiser frowned, "Uh, about the fact that we told you Liola was Lancelot"s apprentice… We didn"t lie to you on purpose, the situation required it, you know, b-because… oh right! I almost forgot, it was to save Liola."

"Not on purpose? It was practically premeditated…" Purity and Meinan listened to Kaiser lying again and cold sweat started running down their foreheads.

Daylight sported a solemn face, "Lying is wrong, but let"s forget about the past. I knew you guys were trying to save Liola and had to lie, but I hope from now on, you guys won"t use lies to achieve your goals."

Daylight"s righteous demeanor made Purity and Meinan nod immediately, and even Kaiser looked embarra.s.sed, indicating he agrees, but n.o.body knew how sincere he actually was, and even Daylight looked skeptically at Kaiser.

Kaiser gulped, then waved his hands and said,

"I won"t. I only lie when I have no other options available. Now that Liola already handed over the necklace, and his Kung Fu sealed, not to mention Lancelot said he would send people to protect us. I don"t believe there will still be situations where I would be forced to lie…"

Purity immediately used her hand to cover Kaiser"s big mouth, and looked at Liola worriedly, fearing Liola would be provoked by what Kaiser said.

When they were all looking at Liola worriedly, he raised his head, and said as if deep in thought.

"Really? So you"re saying there will be no more trouble?"

After Liola heard what Kaiser said, he finally realized, from now onwards there wouldn"t be a ton of troubles pressuring him into breaking his promise with Anise, and he wouldn"t put his companions into dangerous situations.

A plain and boring school life? Isn"t it how he had always wanted to live?

Kaiser answered lazily, "Yeah, no more trouble."

Liola"s darkened eyes began to flash silver lights.

He turned to look at Kaiser and others, and the four of them looked worried. For the first time, Liola felt it wasn"t such a bad thing losing Anise"s necklace. At the very least he wouldn"t have to worry about harming the four people around him, and not having to worry they would lose their lives because of him.

Liola remembered when he was in the Dark Arena Pyramid, when he realized four of his companions were risking their lives to save him from the Dark Street. That feeling of fear and pain was something he would never want to experience again.

"Hmm, papa?"

Baolilong, who was lying on its stomach on Liola"s legs and sleeping happily, suddenly woke up. It rubbed its sleepy eyes and yawned, then it tried to reach for the necklace as a habit, but only felt Liola"s chest.

Baolilong was baffled, then it tilted its little head and said, "Mama is gone… Oh, right, mama said she will be back."

Liola and others were confused by what Baolilong said, but it was not unusual for Baolilong to speak nonsense.

Baolilong"s babbling seemed to have attracted everyone"s attention… Except Barbalis, who was sitting on the side still depressed for losing his seat as the top princ.i.p.al, but a light flashed across his eyes.

Liola softly touched Baolilong"s white hair.

Baolilong was a bit surprised, because it was rare for Liola to do something indulging. The only time he acted like this, was when Liola decided to run away from them, so such tender action actually made Baolilong feel uneasy.

Its little chubby hands and feet wrapped tightly around Liola, and its eyes looked were saying,

"I"m never letting go".

Looking at Baolilong"s cuteness and his companions, Liola thought, if he lost the necklace so he"ll never endanger these four people and a Dragon, then Anise would forgive him, right?

"Excuse me, uh…" They all heard a timid voice coming from the door, and everyone"s attention was diverted towards.

They all saw Lanski standing at the door with a frown.

* * *

They were still in the lounge of the stadium where the ranking matches were.

However, if they were to raise their heads, they could clearly see the blue skies and white clouds. Being able to do so from the lounge could only mean one thing — the ceiling had all but disappeared.

If they were to look around more closely, they would notice some of the walls were missing, and only two remained.

The only thing remained in the entire room was probably the sofa where Liola and Barbalis were sitting.

Among the dust and debris, having a complete sofa sitting in the middle was unspeakably strange.

Originally, the lounge had only a hole caused by Yizhou"s Dragon, but when Kaiser and others carried the unconscious Liola back, Yiyu and others from the Violet Academy swaggered over, informing them of their loss because they had deserted the match. Therefore, all the other princ.i.p.als decided for Violet Academy to be crowned as the winner.

Other than Barbalis" yells for unfairness, Kaiser and others wouldn"t care at all.

However, Yiyu started to mock them… Mocking would have been fine, but he decided to mock the unconscious Liola and a Dragon.

Then there was someone who couldn"t stand it anymore, so a Sacred White Dragon and the Angel Nana started battling against them… As soon as the Dragon and Mecha start fighting, the remaining three obviously join the fray.

It wouldn"t have mattered much if nothing else happened. At most, it would have been two teams finishing the match they were supposed to have, since the arena was just a few steps away.

But things weren"t so simple.

Aklan Academy students were very unhappy of losing their t.i.tle as being students of the best academy. In addition, Violet Academy had extreme hatred towards them, so then things escalated into a brawl between two academies.

But if it"s just a brawl between two academies, it wasn"t unprecedented, and normally wouldn"t destroy the stadium…

The problem was, Barbalis had gone crazy. When he heard he had lost his t.i.tle as the top princ.i.p.al, he froze on the spot.

Until the brawl started, and a student carelessly shot a fireball towards him (to this day, it is still unknown which side the student belonged to). Barbalis then lost it and became a human fireball launching machine.

And now, the entire stadium only had two walls left, along with the sofa where Liola was placed.

Originally, the ground was covered with students moaning in pain, but at this time they were all cleared out… Erm, sent to the infirmary for treatment.

* * *

"Sorry, I should"ve knocked first, but… there wasn"t a door here, so…"

Lanski stood awkwardly at where the door should"ve been, but there was nothing left of the door.

An angry, puffy face surfaced from behind Lanski — Jasmine. She was not polite like Lanski.

As soon as she saw Liola on the sofa, she immediately ran up, and put her hands on her waist, yelling like a lioness,

"Liola, you were ridiculous. Did you know everyone was worried about you? How could you walk away without saying anything, what do you think your baby is? How could you abandon him so easily? You, you really are…"

Jasmine kept saying "you", but still couldn"t say the following words. She sighed and her angry expression dissipated, replaced by worried expression. She then asked,

"What happened to you? Why did you leave without saying anything?"

"I misunderstood you, I"m really sorry."

Lanski lowered her head, because she was very clear she had done something wrong. Though she didn"t know what happened after, but she knew everything started with her accusations.

Although Lanski was prideful and arrogant, she will never push blame onto someone else, and she will apologize if she knew she had done something wrong.

Liola"s expression changed. However, as soon as he saw Lanski"s familiar hair and face, he couldn"t stop himself from reaching for his necklace, but there was nothing in front of his chest.

A feeling of guilt surged in his heart. He couldn"t save Anise"s life, and now he couldn"t even save her last possession… Liola was starting to feel a bit relieved, but now sank into self-loathing again.

Jasmine saw that Liola"s depressed face, and thought he wasn"t willing to accept Lanski"s apology, so she spoke for her friend.

"Liola, don"t blame Lanski. You know she was just being her righteous self, and she meant no harm. Forgive her, okay?"

Lanski felt she went too far. She completely forgot who she was and did a 90 degree bow towards Liola, then said loudly,

"Sorry, please forgive me."

Liola, who was absorbed in his own world of self-loathing, was dragged back to reality by Lanski"s loud voice. He was baffled as he looked at the bowing Princess, unsure what Lanski was actually doing.

"Liola-dage, you should forgive the Princess!"

Purity finally spoke. She shook Liola"s arm trying to help Lanski, but her action made Liola even more confused.

He thought, they wanted him to forgive Lanski? But what did Lanski do that he needed to forgive?

Liola face remained expressionless.

"Sigh, this guy must not even know what the heck is going on."

Kaiser scratched his head, and knew making a Princess bow to Liola for too long was never a good thing, but unfortunately Liola was unparalleled in being obtuse…

Kaiser couldn"t stand it anymore. He grabbed Liola"s arm and whispered into his ear.

"Hey, a beauty is apologizing to you. You better coax her, say something like, "Baby, I don"t care what you do, I forgive you" and it will be all good!"

Liola glanced at Kaiser, and then diverted his attention back to Lanski.

Liola hesitatingly did as Kaiser asked, "It"s fine, I forgive you."

As for the word "baby" and rest, he thought it was best to leave them out…

Lanski immediately raised her head. She carefully examined Liola"s expression, and sure enough, she found no signs of him being angry with her. Liola seemed like he didn"t really cared.

Lanski was very surprised, and thought Liola"s tolerance was much higher than she had originally thought, and she was the one who seemed childish and naive.

Lanski couldn"t help but blame herself. She said earnestly.

"Liola, I"m really sorry about how I treated you before. Can we forget about what happened, and I sincerely ask you, will you be my friend?"

After saying so, Lanski reached out her right hand to try to shake hands with Liola.

Kaiser immediately used his shoulder to push Liola, trying to tell Liola with his eyes to be friends with the Princess immediately.

Being friends with a Princess must have a dozen pros and no cons, so how could Kaiser let this opportunity go? Though the person being friends with a Princess wasn"t him, but Liola"s friend was practically Kaiser"s friend too!

But what Kaiser and Lanski didn"t know, was how much of an effect Lanski"s actions had on Liola.

What Liola saw was Anise"s smile and friendly hand. This scene looked as if Anise herself came out to tell Liola it was okay to lose the necklace.

Liola didn"t need Kaiser"s reminder, and he had already reached out with both of his hands to grab Lanski"s right hand tightly.

Lanski was surprised at Liola holding her hand tightly, or it should be said that everyone was shocked by Liola"s abnormal actions. But Liola himself found nothing wrong as he swam in the joy of Anise forgiving him.

Lanski uncomfortably glanced at her good friend Jasmine.

Jasmine was also staring at them with wide eyes. Lanski was worried about her good friend misunderstanding the situation, so she desperately withdrew her own hand, and said with emphasis.

"Then Liola, we will now be good friends. Oh, I hope we will always be good friends."

Liola raised his head to look deeply into Lanski"s eyes, and his face was smiling.

The original cold face actually showed a rare warmth and kindness, which made Kaiser and other bystanders drop their jaws.

Kaiser even murmured while trembling.

"A smile is horrifying enough, and now his whole expression… Could it be, the world is going to end tomorrow? Waaahhh, I still have to earn a lot of money, and taste a lot of good food!"

Lanski was also somewhat surprised, but since she wasn"t familiar with Liola and she didn"t act exaggeratedly like Kaiser, she only felt strange that the ice cold eyes actually felt as soft and warm as the moonlight.

Liola"s soft smile accompanied his clean and beautiful demeanor well. Though it was weird to describe a man this way, but Lanski still couldn"t help but think,

"Could this man be a fairy under the moonlight?"

Though Lanski was worried Jasmine would misunderstand, but at this time she couldn"t even take a glance at Jasmine with the corner of her eyes. It seemed her eyes… couldn"t move an inch away from this silver-eyed man"s face?

At this time, Jasmine"s situation was near identical to Lanski"s.

Her eyes stared at Liola greedily. Other than letting this moonlight fairy consumed her mind, Jasmine did not realize Liola"s smile was currently directed at another girl.

Two girls staring at the same man, the atmosphere was very romantic…

Yeah right!

One man and one woman would be romantic. Two women one man is trouble. Kaiser held his head with both hands and shook it vigorously.

G.o.d!

Finally becoming friends with the Princess, but from what he could see, this entire debacle would more likely become trouble instead! No, he couldn"t let this thing continue…

"NO!"

Everyone was stunned, and then they all looked at the person who yelled "no" — Barbalis.

They saw his messy hair, his blood-shot eyes, and his wrinkled Sorcerer robe. He didn"t look anything like a princ.i.p.al (but did he ever?).

Everyone was confused while looking at Barbalis. Barbalis went crazy, and then pointed at his students and ordered.

"I must get back my position as the top princ.i.p.al! If you don"t get it back for me, you are all expelled!"

"d.a.m.n! That"s not even reasonable, how could we do that?"

Kaiser fought back without hesitation, but Barbalis didn"t flinch like he usually did, but instead moved his terrifying face in front of Kaiser"s, and said word for word.

"When I tell you to get it back, you get it back. If you can"t get it back, then prepare to be buried alive with the dead!"

Though surprised by Barbalis" words, Kaiser wouldn"t rest until he made a comeback.

"What do you mean buried alive, there has to be someone dead before you can bury us with them."

Barbalis ignored Kaiser, and then started murmuring and dancing again.

"Ahaha, right, let"s do that. I will send students to a.s.sa.s.sinate all of the students in Violet Academy. Without any students, there won"t be an academy, hahaha!"

Seeing Barbalis" crazy look, Kaiser coldly dragged Meinan over.

"Hey, go talk to your dad, otherwise you will have to be an a.s.sa.s.sin soon."

Meinan weakly nodded. Though he didn"t want to look for the father with whom he was in a cold war, he also didn"t want to become an a.s.sa.s.sin or be expelled after years of suffering in the academy.

"Do you like Lanski?" A question surfaced out of the blue.

While everyone"s attention was on Barbalis, they were shock to hear such as question.

Who was it that brought up this question?

Everyone looked at the three people in a love triangle, only to realize the person who asked was someone part of the triangle.

Jasmine stared at Liola with wide eyes, awaiting his answer without hesitation.

Lanski immediately waved her hands and said, "Jasmine, why are you talking like this? You should know it"s impossible for me to like Liola, didn"t you already know?"

Lanski"s face had turned completely red, and her speech stuttered. But she saw Jasmine was still stubbornly staring at Liola as if she had to have an answer. To prevent her friend from misunderstanding, Lanski said loudly,

"The person I-I like is Silver Mask. Jasmine, didn"t you already know?"

"Isn"t she practically confessing to Liola?"

Everyone looked at the a.s.sa.s.sin with dropped jaws, waiting to see how Liola would respond to Lanski"s love confession.

"I know you like Silver Mask, but I just want to ascertain whether Liola likes you is all. If the person he likes is you, then at least I would be emotionally prepared."

After saying so, Jasmine held her gaze at Liola, and asked again, "Do you like Lanski or do you like me?"

"This is really fun to watch…"

Everyone"s eyes returned on the male lead of the love triangle, waiting to see if he would choose the Princess with unparalleled beauty, or the affinitive girl next door.

"Of course he should choose the Princess!" Kaiser and Purity both yelled in their mind, but their reasons were far different from one another.

Princess equals money, and Liola"s money was also Kaiser"s money, so of course Kaiser wanted him to choose the Princess!

Kaiser"s eyes glowed. Lanski, in his eyes, was like a breathing gold mine.

A handsome hero Silver Mask being with the beautiful Princess would be the perfect ending to the fairy tale.

Purity looked sympathetically at Jasmine, "Too bad you"re not a Princess, sigh…"

"Jasmine is definitely 100 times better than Princess!" Meinan seriously protested for his good friend.

If Liola would score a perfect 100 on his Kung Fu, then his score for romance would be negative 100.

The a.s.sa.s.sin who didn"t understand love answered directly, "I like you more, Jasmine."

In Liola"s heart, Jasmine was easier to be with than Lanski, so he answered he liked Jasmine more, but that was the full extent of his feeling for her.

To the a.s.sa.s.sin, love was still a mystery.

However, this answer not only allowed Lanski to sigh in relief, it also made the straightforward Jasmine blush.

She answered with a stutter, "O-oh, is t-that so?"

The atmosphere finally seemed to return to normal.

Other than Barbalis, who was pulling his own beard and murmuring some strange ideas to himself, everyone was lazily enjoying the afternoon sun, to the point where they almost want to thank Yiyu for breaking the ceiling.

It wasn"t strange, considering this group of late teens and early twenties went into the Dark Street just a few days ago with the thought of dying there, then ran into the Paladin, and fought with Violet Academy. The series of confrontations was too much even for the Aklan Academy Troublemaking Squad.

Everyone looked a bit lazy, but Lanski seemed like she had something to say. With the encouragement from her good friend Jasmine, Lanski finally said with a blush.

"Excuse me, do you know where Silver Mask is?"

Everyone froze, and they all looked towards Kaiser, including Silver Mask himself — Liola.

Lanski thought Kaiser knew Silver Mask"s whereabouts, and a pair of beautiful and hopeful eyes stared at Kaiser.

"b.a.s.t.a.r.ds! What does this have to do with me?" Kaiser cursed in his mind, sported a smile.

"Silver Mask? He left with his master, and probably won"t be coming back anytime soon."

Lanski looked like she had been hit by lightning. After the shock, her whole persona seemed to sink into depression, and her face was filled with sadness and despair.

The gang almost wanted to push Liola into her arms to try to comfort the Princess, but Kaiser"s fierce eyes made everyone decide otherwise.

Kaiser had planned to make Silver Mask disappear from now on so he wouldn"t cause them anymore trouble.

Kaiser had already forgotten the reason why Silver Mask appeared in the first place, and forgot it was because someone was greedy for Purity"s brooch, therefore forcing Liola to become the man to fight the Dragon.

"T-then when will he be back?" Lanski tried very hard to hold back the fl.u.s.ter in her heart, but couldn"t cover the trembling in her voice.

Everyone looked at Kaiser, trying to stop him from provoking the Princess.

Although Kaiser will often take pity on a girl, but if this girl were to bring him more trouble, he"d be the first one to push her into a fire pit.

Kaiser said without any hesitation, "He won"t be back for a very, very long…"

"He will be back, soon."

Liola interrupted Kaiser"s sentence, and even said this to Lanski. Kaiser"s jaw dropped and looked at Liola,

"T-this guy just said he likes Jasmine more, and now says this to comfort Lanski… When did he become such a playboy and putting his feet into two doors*?"

[*: Chinese proverb for two timing.]

Liola, who didn"t understand emotions, definitely didn"t know anything about being a playboy.

The only reason he said it was because he didn"t want to see Lanski… and by extension, Anise… having a sad expression on her face.

Lanski clearly sighed in relief, but still said in a worried manner,

"If Silver Mask is back, please tell me immediately."

Ignoring Kaiser"s glare, Liola calmly nodded. Satisfied when he saw Lanski"s smile resurfacing, he felt as if he saw Anise smiling at him, and Liola felt warmth in his heart.

Perhaps this time… he could really live a quiet and calm life?

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Chapter 3 : Auntie

The days after losing the ranking match had not been easy, especially when the reason was due to their absence. Even if Kaiser were to come up with random excuses, such as the Paladin was in need of rescue, etc, it was of no use.

"Nonsense! Why would the Paladin would need rescuing? Even if he did, he would look for the Dark Knight or the Dragon Emperor. He would never look for you unless everyone else in the world was dead."

Some Knight ignored all the chivalric codes and started swearing.

That"s… because we all got food poisoning, so we all had to go to the bathroom.

Kaiser thought about it, and the Knight was right. If the Paladin was in trouble, the situation couldn"t be handled by a couple of students, so he immediately changed his excuse.

"So you"re saying the princ.i.p.al was so kind, he used a group teleportation spell just to move all of you to bathrooms?"

All the Sorcery students present said with a sunken face.

Uh…

Everyone who knew Barbalis would know he would rather force the students to p.o.o.p in the stadium than let for them to give up on the match, let alone being kind enough to teleport them to the bathroom.

Kaiser also understood it was impossible to fool the Sorcery students whom Barbalis had tormented for years.

And the result of all the failed excuses was the Troublemaker Gang being chased by students from all three schools for a week.

Every place they could possibly hide, Kaiser had been there at least once, and now Liola and Kaiser were hidden in a very secretive place.

"Liola, come a bit closer." Kaiser"s voice could be heard in a pitch dark place, together with some tinkling noises.

Liola quietly moved a bit closer.

Kaiser continued to say, "No no, I can"t hold myself back anymore. Liola, I have to hug you."

Liola hesitated a bit, but he himself also couldn"t restrain himself. He thought about it, and Liola actually reached out and grabbed Kaiser, who also hugged back. As they did, they felt their bodies getting warmer…

"AHH?!" Along with a scream, the dark place was suddenly lit up. Under the bright light, Liola and Kaiser couldn"t see who it was.

"W-what are you guys doing in the freezer? Haha, even your hair has frosted. Even if you guys are willing to die for love, did you really have to commit a lovers" suicide by freezing yourselves in the freezer? Ahaha…"

The person who opened the door rolled on the floor laughing at the two frozen human popsicles.

"M-Mi-zerui." Shivering, Kaiser called out the person"s name, and then he looked around to see if there were any other students.

Kaiser was freezing to the point where his blood almost froze, or rather, it had already frozen. He wanted to jump out of the freezer… but then he was shocked to he realized that…

"d.a.m.n it, my hand is stuck on Liola"s shirt!"

Kaiser desperately struggled, but his hand really felt like it was part of Liola"s shirt, his hand was firmly glued onto Liola"s shirt.

Liola frowned as he tried to move his hand; unfortunately, he was in the same predicament as Kaiser. Thus, in the freezer, there were two people who were stuck together, and outside was a man rolling on the ground laughing so hard he almost suffocated.

After struggling for quite a while, Kaiser and Liola finally escaped their "bondage" predicament. Kaiser looked at Mizerui, who was still laughing, bitterly.

Had it not been Mizerui; someone who Kaiser couldn"t mess with, he would have already chopped the man into minced meat and thrown him inside the freezer, so the kitchen staff could make dumplings out of him.

"When did you come back?" Kaiser grunted, and decided not to trifle with this wanted criminal. Instead, he was curious. Why did Mizerui suddenly come back after being gone for so long?

Hearing the question, Mizerui finally got off the ground and stood up, and seriously answered Kaiser"s question. Although the corners of his mouth would occasionally tilt upwards, especially when he looked at the freezer with the corner of his eyes.

"I"ve been back for quite a while, but I"ve been busy. When I finally had time to look for you, I searched the entire campus but couldn"t find you…"

"Duh, we hadn"t done anything this week other than hiding desperately. Didn"t you know? All three schools are hunting us. If they find us, I think we really would end up being chopped into pieces and thrown into the freezer."

Kaiser continued to murmur with dissatisfaction, "Why do we have to be hunted while that guy, Daylight, is completely fine. He"s still walking around the School of Knight minding his own business. He was a part of the M.I.A. group too!"

"Daylight is very strong." Liola said bluntly.

Compared to the protective shield user Meinan, the Mecha-less Purity, the seemingly useless Kaiser, and Silver Mask…

After some thought, Liola suddenly remembered something.

Strange, he didn"t even go to any of the matches, and everyone didn"t know he was Silver Mask… So why… would he have to hide with Kaiser?

Could it be he didn"t need to hide at all? Liola suddenly found out the shocking truth.

"Liola, you lost your Kung Fu and your dragon cross necklace. What do you plan to do now?" Mizerui asked with a smiling face.

Liola said after a moment of silence, "Live peacefully."

Mizerui"s eyes flashed with interest, and his smile seemed to carry a bit of mockery, but Mizerui didn"t say anything in response. Instead, he took out a silver mask from behind him, and held it up to Liola"s face,

"Looks like this will be useless, then?"

The moment Liola saw the silver mask, his heart trembled a bit.

Seeing the intact mask Mizerui held up, Liola felt the mask was calling for him, hoping it would be worn again.

Liola saw it as a dilemma. However, he had planned to live peacefully, and therefore he wouldn"t need the mask, but for some reason, Liola felt a strong desire to get the mask again.

Wavering between two choices, Liola reached his hand out, but froze before touching the mask.

Mizerui seemed patient, held the mask without moving, and watched the a.s.sa.s.sin"s every move of indecision.

Mizerui was practically laughing coldly as he thought, "How could it be so easy for an extraordinary person to live an ordinary life?"

Kaiser grabbed the mask, and looked at it while salivating.

"Shiny, hehe, this mask must be worth quite a lot of money! I"ll just keep it then."

Kaiser quickly put the mask inside his coat, giving neither Mizerui nor Liola any time to grab it back.

"You…"

Mizerui was shocked, the mask can"t possibly be sold to others. He immediately wanted to retrieve the mask from Kaiser, but Kaiser mischieviously hid behind Liola, and even poked his head out from behind Liola"s back with a shameless expression.

Mizerui grunted, how could the sealed Liola stop him from getting the mask back?

However, Kaiser"s eyes suddenly looked wise, and his joking blue eyes suddenly turned into a deep, ocean blue.

The look in Kaiser"s eyes made Mizerui stop all of a sudden, and suspicions filled his mind:

"Is this guy putting on a disguise, or…"

A million thoughts ran through his mind, but the last one he thought of was one pessimistic thing Barbalis said: "If it"s meant to be, it will be, if it"s not meant to be, no matter what you do, it won"t be."

Mizerui glanced at Liola, whose cold a.s.sa.s.sin presence was now completely gone, and the only thing left behind was a pessimistic big boy who wanted to live day-to-day.

Mizerui sighed. Everything he had done before sank into the sea like a big rock, just as Barbalis had said…

"Perhaps one day it will resurface again?"

"Well, whatever. Up to you then." Mizerui sighed again as his body faded away, but before he was completely gone, he said,

"Liola, when the world is no longer at peace, how would you live a peaceful life?"

Liola felt his heart skip a beat. But before he had a chance to ask Mizerui what he meant, his body already completely faded, leaving behind only a shadow imprinted in Liola"s heart.

Could it be… the peaceful life he had just started was already ending? Could it be he can never live in peace? Liola thought, and his mood was at its worst.

* * *

"Ahhhh, Liola, save me!"

Kaiser suddenly cried in pain. Liola was surprised, had his peaceful life pa.s.sed by already?

Even though he was sad, Liola still tried to do what companions do, and immediately turned around to try to save Kaiser.

As soon as he turned, Liola"s silver eyes saw a strange scene: Kaiser was held in the air like a little kitten, and the "person" holding him was about 180cm tall (~5"11") with a body full of muscle, and the Arnold Schwarzenegger-like face was complemented by a head full of curly hair.

The strange creature wore a white ap.r.o.n along with a long skirt with little pink flowers.

"What is this creature? Even the seen-it-all a.s.sa.s.sin Liola couldn"t help but take a step back.

"Why did you two little pretty dolls come to play in the kitchen? Are you hungry?"

Though this unknown lifeform looked vicious, the statement it made didn"t seem ferocious at all. Instead it said with a smile and spoke gently… that is, if the arc formed by the muscles on its face counted as a smile.

Although the voice was as deep as nails on a blackboard, someone with such a deep voice talking about dolls would already count as soft.

"Liola, save me…" Kaiser"s hand and feet waved around for a while to no avail, so he ended up simply helplessly hanging in the air, and used his tears to beg Liola, who was slowly backing away.

Liola"s a.s.sa.s.sin instinct was guiding him. Judging from what he saw, this unknown lifeform didn"t seem hostile. But being foreign, who knew if normal instincts applied with them?

While Liola was examining his potential opponent, and Kaiser thought he was going to be eaten alive, the unknown lifeform grabbed Kaiser like a doll and set him on a chair. Then a big hand grabbed the thin a.s.sa.s.sin, and placed him on another chair. The unknown lifeform then patted both Liola"s and Kaiser"s heads.

"Don"t move around, Auntie will now make you some food." After saying so, the unknown lifeform, calling itself Auntie, grabbed a wok big enough to fit both Kaiser and Liola, and then used a shovel like a spatula.

Auntie muttered a few lines, and then intense flames suddenly appeared on the bottom of the wok.

Although Kaiser lacked magical strength, he didn"t lack any magical knowledge.

While trembling, he said, "It"s actually a Firewall spell. Is this Auntie going to use Firewall to burn us into corpses?"

Liola looked at the wok and explained calmly, "It"s not going to be burnt, because then it can"t be eaten."

"d.a.m.n!" Kaiser jumped up from the seat.

"I"d rather be burnt than eaten, especially if I"m going to be made into the same dish as you? Should it be called Kaiser Fried Liola or Liola Fried Kaiser? Hmm, the former one sounds better."

"That"s really not what"s important here." Liola thought quietly.

The reason why Liola sat calmly on the chair instead of using his speed to escape was… he had already saw Auntie tossed in whole chickens, fish, bowls of vegetables, salt… and other large quant.i.ties of ingredients into that super-sized wok.

The wok that was large enough for two people was already 80% full, and there was no more room for a whole person. Therefore, Liola guessed, neither him nor Kaiser would be one of the ingredients.

Bam! Bam!

After two loud noises, two pails were placed in front of them… Liola realized the pails were filled with food.

"So these are… bowls, right?"

"Little children, eat more. Look at how small you are, you must not be getting enough food."

Auntie laughed as she used her hands to pat Liola and Kaiser on the back, which made them almost faceplant into the pails.

"Is this edible?" Liola looked at the whole chicken and fish inside the pail.

"It does smell quite delicious…"

"Delicious! Tasty!"

Kaiser already started chewing on the whole chicken. At the same time, he verified that, despite the horrific appearance of the food inside the pail, the taste was unexpectedly good.

Liola hesitated, but Auntie patted Liola"s back again, hurrying him to eat. Liola then grabbed a fish and started to eat, so Auntie would stop patting him on the back and pushing him head-first into the pail.

After fighting with the food for a while, Kaiser"s pail was actually only half empty! But the result was Kaiser holding onto his stomach and couldn"t move an inch while sitting on the chair.

As for Liola, his pail looked practically untouched, he hadn"t been hungry, so the a.s.sa.s.sin stopped after eating a fish and some vegetables.

The Auntie was clearly unhappy. She held the kitchen knife and the shovel, and stood behind the two like a mountain, as if she was saying no one was allowed to leave if they don"t finish.

Even for the eataholic Kaiser, he was so full now that he wanted to vomit whenever he saw food, so how could Liola possibly finish his own pail of food?

Auntie narrowed her eyes and asked. "If you guys aren"t hungry, then why are you in the kitchen?"

"Hey hey, maybe Liola wasn"t hungry, but I ate half a pail, doesn"t count as hungry to you? Unless you usually cook for Dragons? c.r.a.p, I said too much… ugh."

Kaiser coughed a few times. The food reached his throat and almost came out of his mouth along with his speech.

"Dragons?"

Liola saw the mountains of food, and an idea dawned on him. He immediately called for Baolilong using telepathy.

Compared to the pathetic situation of hiding constantly for a week, Baolilong, who was loved by everyone who saw it, was comfortably sleeping in the dorm, until Liola called it.

Baolilong rubbed its little eyes and responded to papa"s calling.

A little magic circle formed underneath the table, and little Baolilong appeared from it, then crawled out.

Before Liola mentioned anything about why Baolilong was summoned, it had already started reducing the mountains of food inside the pails as well as the ones in the wok.

Auntie, who was originally dissatisfied Liola and Kaiser had left more than half of the food, started to show a satisfied smile after seeing Baolilong eliminating the food by eating a whole chicken with every bite.

"You sure eat a lot and fast. Such a good baby." Auntie sighed with satisfaction, but the air produced by her sigh messed up Liola"s shoulder-length hair.

"Holy cow, I only knew of an interdimensional bag, but now I know there"s such a thing as interdimensional stomach. Hey, Liola, looks like you would need several stadiums worth of food to feed that little runt of yours."

Kaiser looked at Baolilong clearing the food like a tornado as he rejoiced in the misfortune of the penniless Dragon"s father, Liola.

"Making money."

Liola remembered something he couldn"t forget. For him, making money would have been simple. Although different worlds had different needs, the Adorning Flowers" a.s.sa.s.sin organization clearly showed Liola that every world needed a.s.sa.s.sins.

As the best a.s.sa.s.sin, what stopped him from making a lot of money? Unfortunately, he made a promise not to kill, what was worse was he was completely sealed…

"How do I make money?" Liola whispered.

Though Liola murmured quietly, Auntie heard it clearly.

The giant body suddenly moved from beside Baolilong to behind Liola"s back, and Liola found himself engulfed in a giant shadow.

The shadow could belong to n.o.body but that unknown lifeform named Auntie, but why would Auntie stand behind him? Liola began to wonder if his battle power was enough to beat Auntie.

A pair of heavy hands landed on Liola"s shoulder, and a face three times the size of Liola"s got close to his ear and whispered,

"Little baby, are you the little little baby"s father?"

Liola"s ear rung for a long while before he could answer, "Yes."

Auntie"s giant head shook.

"Look at how much this baby eats. It probably needs three cows per meal before it would be full. Little baby, you would probably have to make a lot of money to feed little little baby."

Liola and Kaiser were both stupefied. "T-three cows? Can it be?"

Although Baolilong ate a lot, but not to the point of having three cows per mean, right?

Burp~~ Baolilong finally licked the wok clean, and then let out a long burp.

Baolilong patted its slightly protruding belly, and yelled, "Baolilong is now full, full~"

Hearing Baolilong"s declaration of being full, Liola felt bad. Baolilong had never said it was full before, but instead simply continued eating without stopping.

"Could it be… Baolilong had never been full before?"

Thinking about the subject, Liola felt disappointed. He turned to Kaiser, who was sitting beside him and asked, "Kaiser, how much is a cow?"

"A cow? Let"s go with the cheapest one, so probably at least three Gold coins."

Kaiser had probably also guessed Baolilong"s real appet.i.te. Thinking of Liola"s money as his own, Kaiser"s heart started to feel a pain because of money.

Three cows per meal, nine cows for three meals, three gold coins for one cow, so that"s 27 gold coins per day…

Liola remembered that being Purity"s bodyguard, they would only get one Silver coin per day, and ten Silver coins equals one Gold coin, so how was he to get the remaining 26 gold and 9 silver?

Sigh, Kaiser sighed and patted Liola"s back, "Looks like you should raise your baby by being a duck."

[T/N: Duck — In Mandarin it"s the same as being a male prost.i.tute or a host.]

"Being a duck?" Liola frowned.

"How would being a duck feed Baolilong? Unless ducks were worth a lot on this world?"

"Hahaha, come to Auntie. Auntie has nothing here, except a lot of meat."

Auntie hit Liola"s and Kaiser"s back with her large palms. Liola"s face turned pale as a result, and Kaiser lied face down on the table, and blood could be vaguely seen fro