Slash the Scarlet Eyes: Start with a Starburst Air Stream Slash Chapter 132

Outside the tavern.

Cang Jin Xiaokong, with a selection of elites, quietly arrived outside the tavern in the noble district.

They were all skilled hunters of Level 1 Danger Beasts, and working together, they could even encircle and kill High-Level Danger Beasts.

Cang Jin Xiaokong pulled out a map and whispered, “This is the place. Those noble scumbags are inside. I can’t believe they’re so arrogant, thinking that in the noble district, no one would dare to touch them.”

“Sister Xiaokong, let’s just rush in. I’ve wanted to teach these bastards a lesson for a long time,” a burly team member said, rubbing his hands together.

“Don’t rush, let’s check the situation first.” Xiaokong frowned, carefully observing the tavern’s entrance.

However, as they cautiously approached the tavern, they found it completely silent inside.

Xiaokong was the first to push open the door, and the sight before her stunned her—the tavern was a mess, the entire room frozen, tables, chairs, and wine glasses all solidified in place.

And the blue-haired man and the other noble guard members were all gone.

“This… what’s going on?” Cang Jin Xiaokong was a little surprised. Ice ability? Could it be Esdeath, who fought Captain Lin Yu at the base last time?

“Woah, did they just run away?” a team member couldn’t help but joke.

“Haha, maybe they were scared off!” another team member chimed in.

“You idiots, this is not the time to be funny!”

Cang Jin Xiaokong glared, annoyed, but seeing her team members unable to hold back their laughter, she herself couldn’t help but twitch her lips.

She couldn’t figure out where their forced humor cells came from.

“Wait, look over there!” a team member suddenly pointed to the corner.

Everyone followed his finger and saw several pistols scattered on the ground, which were the standard weapons of the noble guard.

“These are their pistols! Were they killed, and their bodies dragged away?” Cang Jin Xiaokong frowned, carefully observing the scene.

“Sister Xiaokong, this is too strange. Could it be Night Raid?” a team member cautiously asked.

“Night Raid? Possibly.” Cang Jin Xiaokong mused, “But no matter who did it, this is good for us. Anyway, we were planning to frame Night Raid anyway.”

“Haha, true, it saves us the trouble of doing it ourselves,” a team member laughed. “But we should hurry up and scatter the flyers, then retreat.”

Cang Jin Xiaokong nodded, pulled out a stack of Night Raid flyers from her, and the team members took them, starting to scatter them inside and outside the tavern.

“Hey, Sister Xiaokong, imagine how scared those nobles will be when they see these flyers,” a team member said excitedly.

“Don’t get carried away, retreat!” Cang Jin Xiaokong glared at him, but there was a hint of a smile in her tone.

The group quickly retreated, leaving behind a damaged tavern and scattered flyers.

Meanwhile, Lin Yu arrived at the guard’s headquarters and went directly to see Little Gray.

Little Gray was sitting in a wheelchair, and seeing Lin Yu walk in, he was very happy: “I knew you’d come back, Captain.”

Lin Yu walked up to him, a hint of teasing in his voice: “What, aren’t you afraid I’ll steal your position?”

Little Gray gave a simple smile: “It’s not stealing, this position belongs to the Captain anyway.”

“Alright, you’re the one who talks the most.” Lin Yu sat opposite him, looking at Little Gray’s empty right sleeve, and frowned slightly, “Your arm…”

“Oh, this.” Little Gray shrugged his right shoulder, “When I went out to encircle that new type of Danger Beast, I encountered a cloaked person. They should be the mastermind. They can teleport and are very strong in combat.”

“Optimize.”

Lin Yu immediately used Optimize without a word. He had wanted to use Optimize to heal Boss’s eyes and arm before.

But he was told something about not forgetting Esdeath’s terror and refused the kind offer, though he did fix some internal injuries that couldn’t be healed.

At that time, Boss was very happy, saying that his strength had recovered by about seventy to eighty percent.

At this moment, Little Gray only felt a warm power coming from Lin Yu’s hand, rapidly spreading throughout his body.

His severed arm began to emit a faint glow, and bones and muscles seemed to be regrowing.

“Cap… Captain, this… what is this?”

Little Gray looked at his arm in shock, the severed part actually began to gradually recover.

“Just a small trick, a standard skill, nothing to mention.”

Little Gray’s eyes widened as he watched his arm gradually restore itself, until finally, his right arm was completely intact.

“This… how is this possible?” Little Gray’s voice trembled with excitement.

“Nothing is impossible,” Lin Yu patted his shoulder. “As long as you have a breath left, a shred of consciousness, I can let you wander back and forth between life and death.”

“Cap… Captain.”

“The guard is in your hands. I’ve also dealt with the people who caused trouble at noon. Their abilities are very special, so no one will suspect you.”

Lin Yu patted Little Gray’s shoulder, chatted for a few minutes, and then left.

…

The night was hazy. Tatsumi and Lubbock walked on a mountain path. The surrounding trees swayed gently in the breeze, making rustling sounds.

Lubbock suddenly stopped, muttering discontentedly, “My partner is actually a guy. How unlucky.”

Tatsumi sighed, “But you don’t have to be so blunt about your disappointment, do you?”

Lubbock looked around, a hint of vigilance in his eyes: “Those guys from the Imperial Capital wouldn’t camp out in the wild, would they?”

“Didn’t the intel say? Since it’s close to the Imperial Capital, they’d go back at night, right? Lubbock, don’t be such a coward,” Tatsumi patted his shoulder, his tone relaxed.

“Let me tell you, being cowardly is a necessary condition for an assassin to survive. Najenda said so too,” Lubbock pointed at Tatsumi seriously, then added, “You remember that too, kid.”

“…”

Tatsumi fell silent, then.

“Speaking of which, I was thinking about it all day,” Tatsumi asked thoughtfully, “We call the boss ‘Boss,’ but only you, Lubbock, keep calling Boss ‘Najenda’?”

Lubbock’s face reddened slightly, and his eyes darted away: “Well… Najenda and I have known each other since the Imperial Army era.”

Tatsumi looked at him with interest, signaling him to continue.

“I’m the fourth son of a big local merchant, so I had everything I wanted since I was little, and I was good at everything. I always felt this world was boring.”

Lubbock’s voice carried a hint of helplessness, as if recalling the past.

“Alright, Lubbock, you don’t have to say it…” Tatsumi couldn’t help but interject.

“Can you let me finish first?!” Lubbock glared at him, then continued, “After that, Najenda came to my area for her assignment. The first time I saw her, I was captivated. So I left home and followed Najenda, hoping to use my talents to get close to her and become someone useful by her side.”

“I joined ‘Night Raid’ of course because of Najenda. Even when I left the Imperial Capital, I changed my records to show that I was already dead. I was so young back then…” Lubbock’s voice carried a hint of melancholy, as if immersed in past memories.

“You haven’t confessed your feelings to this day. You must find that sad, right?” Lubbock said softly.

Tatsumi grabbed Lubbock’s shoulder and said seriously, “Then stop peeking at girls bathing!”

“Huh?!” Lubbock was stunned, then reacted and argued, “Having someone you like and wanting to watch other cute girls bathe, these two things aren’t in conflict, are they?”

“Precisely because you have someone you like, you shouldn’t be watching others bathe! It’s precisely because of this that there’s no result, right?” Tatsumi’s voice carried a hint of reproach.

“I’ll show you, I’ll succeed one day.” Lubbock stubbornly raised his head, his eyes filled with determination.

“If you succeed, I’ll do anything you want that day.” Tatsumi raised an eyebrow, a hint of teasing in his tone.

“But speaking of which, there don’t seem to be any Danger Beasts here,” Tatsumi looked around, a hint of doubt in his eyes, “Maybe they’ve all been hunted by the Imperial Capital soldiers.”

Lubbock looked at the string in his hand and frowned slightly: “I’ve already laid out the lines, and no prey has taken the bait.”

Tatsumi put on Incursio, and a powerful aura instantly emanated from around his body, “Since it’s safe here, I’ll use ‘Incursio’ to check the top of this mountain. If there’s nothing, I’ll go patrol the next mountain.”

“If anything happens, run first, and we’ll deal with it together,” Lubbock instructed.

“Understood, I’ll be back soon.” Tatsumi nodded, and with a flash of his figure, he sped towards the mountaintop.

Tatsumi arrived at the mountaintop. It was dead silent all around, even the wind seemed to be swallowed.

He vigilantly looked around and muttered to himself, “It seems there’s nothing. There’s no sign of life on the mountaintop either.”

Tatsumi deactivated “Incursio,” a hint of doubt in his eyes: “Or are they all sleeping? I wonder about the others’ situation, I hope nothing happens…”

Just then, a shadow flew overhead. Looking up, it was Lin Yu’s Blue-Eyes White Dragon.

“Lin Yu?”

But the Blue-Eyes White Dragon just flew over the mountaintop, heading to other areas.

After leaving the guard, Lin Yu flew back to the base on the Blue-Eyes White Dragon and found that Kurome, Sheele, and Sayo were all gone.

Since no one was warming the bed, Lin Yu flew the Blue-Eyes White Dragon to their patrol area. As for Tatsumi, he naturally saw him.

He originally wanted to say hello, but he had already discovered the presence of Danger Beasts on the dark side of another mountaintop.

“Boom!”

Divine soldiers descended from the sky.

A large group of bizarre Danger Beasts swarmed out from all directions.

They roared, charging towards Lin Yu.

Lin Yu stared at these Danger Beasts with human features, his brows slightly furrowed.

Could it be that some “Third Brother” was at work here? These Danger Beasts looked too much like humans, not like natural Danger Beasts.

But if it was “Third Brother,” it would make sense, as they claimed to be able to manipulate anything, even beehives and car exhaust pipes. Perhaps some female Danger Beast was still beautiful and fell victim to them.

“Ew, what terrible taste.”

Lin Yu shuddered at the thought of that scene, but these ugly Danger Beasts were charging right at him.

Lin Yu simply raised his hand, and cold air condensed, forming a large number of ice spikes around him.

“Go.”

“Puff… puff…” A dull sound came.

The ice spikes pierced various parts of their bodies like sharp swords.

However, the remaining Danger Beasts did not retreat because of this; instead, they charged even more wildly towards Lin Yu.

Lin Yu was about to strike again when suddenly, a huge whooshing sound came from overhead. Immediately after, a giant flying dragon beast glided through the sky.

The flying dragon beast flipped and landed, and an elegant, tall figure lightly leaped off it, making almost no sound upon landing.

“Es… Esdeath?!”

Lin Yu’s movements instantly stiffened. Damn it, why was this woman here?

Normally, shouldn’t she be sleeping at this time? Could it be that she missed him, her automatic pillow doll?

“Lin… Lin Yu, I can meet you even just by patrolling. Is this the power of love?”

Esdeath’s lips curved into a half-smile, and two faint blushes appeared on her cheeks.

“Ha… ha, what a coincidence. Look, the weather tonight is really good, the stars are so bright, and the Danger Beasts are so cute.”

“Esdeath, look, that Danger Beast can do a backflip!”

Lin Yu laughed awkwardly, then instantly changed his expression and ran away, but Esdeath saw through him at a glance.

“The same trick won’t work on me. It’s just a backflip; every Danger Beast I train can do it.”

Esdeath drew the sword from her waist and, in an instant, cleanly sliced all the remaining Danger Beasts in half.

“Now, if you make them do a backflip, I might turn back and look,” Esdeath teased, sheathing her sword.

“Of course…” Lin Yu’s eyes flickered, but the next second, Esdeath hugged him tightly.

“During this time, I missed you so much. This time, I won’t let you out of my sight.”

Feeling Esdeath’s emotions, Lin Yu also responded, his hands instinctively searching for a comfortable position.

Suddenly, Esdeath stopped moving: “I didn’t expect there to be so many troublesome guys. Come out, I know you’re there. Otherwise, don’t blame me for being impolite.”

Her gaze shifted to a nearby boulder, and she pointed her sword at it.

At the same time.

[Ding! Detected an owned Spatial-Movement Imperial Arm—Dimensional Formation: Shangri-La.]

[Dimensional Formation: Shangri-La: Can instantly move the target to a specified location. Requires energy to activate. If energy consumption is too great, it may prevent continuous activation. Possesses a special skill: Spatial Banishment, pulling the opponent into a special, independent space.]

[Owner: Minister’s Son: Shura.]

[Reminder/Suggestion: A very troublesome enemy.]

[Ding! Detected an unowned Ring-type Imperial Arm—Inferno Incineration: Blazing Ring.]

[Inferno Incineration: Blazing Ring: Allows the user to freely control flames. The rise and fall of emotions determine the temperature of the flames. Possesses a special skill: Inferno Incineration, the wearer can condense the power of flames within their heart, erupting into an Inferno Form for three minutes, ignoring all attacks. After the time ends, the user dies.]

[Reminder/Suggestion: Tasteless when eaten, a pity to discard.]