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Chapter 163: I’ll Beat You Up
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* * *
Click.
The white-haired woman ended the call.
In a flat voice, Tata murmured to herself.
“Thanks to the Princess, things have gone quite far off plan.”
According to the original plan, Ainsha should still have been on a date with her destined match.
And Ainsha was only supposed to realize what was happening after Tata had completed every preparation perfectly and set things in motion.
But that plan had collapsed.
The fact that Ainsha had called her at this point was proof enough.
Of course, Tata could have answered the call, pretended nothing was wrong, made up a suitable excuse, and bought time.
Ainsha trusted her absolutely.
Even so, Tata had not done so because she had foreseen a future in which she would ultimately fail when she met Ainsha.
“Still, it does not matter.”
The plan had fallen apart.
Ainsha’s trust had been discarded.
Danger was close behind her.
Yet Tata was neither disappointed nor worried.
She merely turned around and spoke quietly.
“No matter how the Princess struggles now, the future has already been decided.”
Following the path toward the future she had seen, Tata silently walked on with a briefcase in hand.
* * *
When Tata contacted Moon Cheon-yeop.
When Rimon found a Liberation Brigade business card on Moon Cheon-yeop.
Rimon honestly reflected on his own arrogance in thinking nothing could be more troublesome than that.
He had forgotten that reality always surpassed imagination.
“Your nurse said she was going to betray you, then hung up?”
“That is correct.”
“Didn’t you say your nurse could never have betrayed you?”
“That is correct. That is why I am shocked.”
It would have been better if she had said nothing.
Rimon felt another headache coming on as he watched Ainsha answer so clearly despite her expressionless face.
Then he spoke quietly.
“Princess.”
[The Black Dragon Clan has all shifted into an emergency posture.]
“What about the intelligence unit you had following her nurse?”
[Unfortunately, they say they have lost her trail.]
“Yeah, I figured.”
Rimon sighed.
He had no intention of blaming the Shanghai Wang Family’s intelligence unit.
They had only found Tata so easily in the first place because she had not been on guard.
Tracking a precognitive who had decided to flee was no easy task, even for the Black Dragon Clan, who excelled at covert operations.
Especially when that target was a grandmaster-level expert and an Elder of the White Dragon Clan.
[Shall I organize a pursuit team?]
“No. I’ll handle the tracking, so look further into that side instead.”
[Do you really think that is necessary right now?]
“We’re not the White Dragon Clan.”
[...
You are right.]
As though agreeing with that simple explanation, Li Qing-yu exchanged a few more words with Rimon before ending the conversation.
Then Rimon turned to Ainsha.
“Let’s go.”
“I have a question. I would like to know where we are going.”
“Where else? We’re going to meet your nurse.”
“Tata has run away. I cannot see a future where we find her. There is no way to find her.”
“That’s what you think.”
Rimon gave a faint snort at Ainsha’s blunt reply.
Then he stated matter-of-factly.
“You may not know this, but I have never let an opponent I have fought even once get away, no matter where or how they ran.”
* * *
No one could escape a Sword Master.
The saying had arisen after Rimon circled Earth thirty-seven times to kill a fleeing Demon God.
Rimon was that skilled a tracker and hunter, and he had many secrets to it.
One of them was Super Senses.
They were the Sword Master’s five senses, allowing him to distinguish an opponent’s presence precisely and find them even ten ri away.
Using those senses, Rimon was following Tata’s trail step by step.
“Hmm, judging by the footprints, she stopped here for a while... Did she have some business? No, this must be where she took your call.”
“There was no hesitation in her steps, but since she took time before moving again, she must have seen a future and considered countermeasures.”
“Then there’s a good chance she prepared something to deal with being tracked... Well, we’ll find out as we go.”
Normally, the tracks would have been difficult even to discern.
Yet Rimon could determine not only the route Tata had taken, but also her actions and thoughts from them alone.
Even a Tracer with a tracking Skill would have been astonished.
That was why Ainsha, who had silently watched Rimon, spoke in her usual blunt manner.
“Lee, I have a question.”
“What is it?”
“I would like to know why you are wasting time.”
“Does it look like I’m wasting time?”
“Yes.”
Ainsha immediately nodded.
Then, with an expressionless face, she continued.
“There is no need to inspect Tata’s actions one by one. We only need to know where she went. Then we can pursue her much faster.”
Ainsha had a point.
Rimon’s pursuit was slow because he was examining every action Tata had taken and when she had taken it.
Had he not done so, he could have moved several times faster.
But Rimon only looked indifferent upon hearing her.
“And if we catch up? What then?”
“We find Tata. We capture her.”
“So you’re saying I should hurry after your nurse and kill her?”
“...
First, we subdue her. Then we interrogate her.”
“Well, I guarantee that if I meet your nurse now, even if I have no intention of killing her, I will end up killing her.”
“...”
“You know why, don’t you?”
The words sounded less like a warning and more like a threat.
But Ainsha knew that what Rimon said was likely to happen.
So she did not argue.
She merely offered an alternative.
“Then you can just kill her.”
“...
Weren’t you the one who said you wanted to save your nurse somehow?”
“That was me earlier.”
Rimon stared at her, dumbfounded by the statement that overturned every premise so far.
Ainsha spoke coldly.
“Tata has betrayed us. She cannot be spared. It is the code of the Seven Dragons Society.”
She had wanted to save Tata even if it meant killing Lee, her destined match, because Tata was someone the White Dragon Clan desperately needed.
But now that Tata had betrayed the clan, she had to be executed.
With a masklike expression.
With an emotionless, blunt voice.
Above all, with an unwavering gaze.
Ainsha declared it without the slightest hesitation.
Rimon understood anew.
Though she might look like a somewhat foolish girl, she was the White Dragon Princess.
One of the Seven Dragons Society’s seven rulers, standing shoulder to shoulder with Li Qing-yu...
“Right. I thought it was admirable for an idiot, but an idiot will always be an idiot.”
“...?”
...
Ainsha was the greatest idiot in the Seven Dragons Society.
As if she could not understand why he was calling her an idiot, Ainsha tilted her head.
Rimon spoke quietly to her.
“Ainsha, no, White Dragon Princess. I will not interfere with your choice. Your clan has always been that way, and you have merely made the natural decision as their Princess.”
No matter how pathetic or lamentable it seemed, that was their way.
He had no reason to interfere.
“But if you intend to interfere with what I am about to do, you will need the resolve to match.”
They were already bound together by prophecy. He might not have reason to interfere with her, but he had the right to do so.
Ainsha could not say anything as she looked at Rimon speaking so coldly.
She merely blinked blankly.
Leading her along, Rimon continued to follow Tata’s trail.
He carefully read and analyzed every action Tata had taken as she moved, every thought she had entertained.
The result of that persistent pursuit was that Rimon finally found it.
A burning oil drum, slightly off Tata’s escape route, and the briefcase thrown inside it.
Its contents had already burned to ash, leaving only the half-melted shell of the briefcase.
But Rimon had followed Tata’s trail with ruthless thoroughness, and that alone gave him much to consider.
‘She burned the briefcase? Why?’
‘Did she take out the contents?’
‘No, there were no signs that she deliberately opened the case along the way.’
‘...
The contents were not what she needed. She needed to obtain the causality of acquiring this briefcase, so she could establish the future that would result from it.’
‘That is an awfully White Dragon Clan sort of method.’
‘Then...’
“Ainsha.”
Ainsha did not ask why he had called her.
As she had foreseen the moment she found the oil drum, she simply spread out the cardigan she was wearing and covered the back of Rimon’s head.
Clang!
A dagger that would otherwise have struck the back of Rimon’s head was lightly deflected by that alone.
But Ainsha did not take the slightest pleasure in what she had done.
She merely murmured with an expressionless face.
“I am confused. I am shocked. I am astonished.”
“What is there to be surprised about?”
Rimon gave a faint snort.
Keeping his gaze fixed on the burning briefcase, he spoke quietly.
“You thought that just because the Elder holding the real power in your clan betrayed you, the rest of your clan would continue to be loyal to you?”
“...”
Ainsha did not answer.
She only stared expressionlessly at the figures surrounding them, dressed in something like white priestly robes.
They were White Dragon Clan monks who should have knelt and paid her their respects.
But now, each held a weapon aimed at their Princess.
“Hold them off for a moment. Do not kill them yet.”
“They are all traitors.”
“If you are confident you can find your nurse without my help and the Black Dragon Clan’s, then go ahead.”
“...”
With an expressionless face, Ainsha let her shoulders droop.
Leaving her to deal with the obstacles, Rimon sank back into thought.
That left Ainsha to face her former guards alone.
She spoke quietly.
“I warn you.”
With her expressionless face and blunt voice, she addressed the many White Dragon Clan members surrounding her.
“I advise you to throw down your weapons and surrender now. If you do, I will show some leniency.”
Objectively speaking, it was absurd.
Ainsha was alone, while the White Dragon Clan members encircling her numbered in the hundreds. There was a difference of a hundred to one in sheer numbers.
And they were not ordinary White Dragon Clan members.
They were monks equivalent to Black Dragon Clan warriors, combat unit members who had each attained mastery.
The fact that they had accompanied the Princess as her guards proved they were the White Dragon Clan’s finest.
Yet not a single person laughed at Ainsha’s warning.
Instead, each of them pushed their psionics to its limit amid even greater tension.
Naturally.
The opponent before them was the White Dragon Princess.
Before she was the greatest prophet of her generation, she was the White Dragon Clan’s strongest expert.
“Very well.”
Even as she watched the monks refuse to surrender, Ainsha was not disappointed.
She already knew through her precognition that this would happen.
She had only made the offer because she had seen herself make it in the future.
And with the same blunt attitude she could hold because she had already seen the outcome of this fight, Ainsha spoke coldly.
“If you all want to die like that, then I will kill you all... I will beat you up.”
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