Tramp, tramp, tramp—!!!
Before San Ye could say anything, the street was instantly surrounded by dense, orderly footsteps from all directions!
No… it wasn’t just footsteps, but also… the sound of armor clashing!
“San… San Ye! San Ye!!”
Soon, a member of the Gravel Gang who had been keeping watch on the periphery came running back, his face panicked, scrambling and crawling.
In the past, San Ye would have surely kicked this guy down and cursed him for being so flustered and unsightly.
But now… he himself was feeling uncertain, so he just looked at the messenger… with a dark expression.
“San Ye… outside, outside there are a lot… a lot of City Defense Army troops!”
The guy stammered, his eyes filled with almost tangible panic.
“City Defense Army?” San Ye’s brows furrowed even tighter.
“Yes… they’re all fully armed, carrying weapons… our brothers on the perimeter… have all been taken into custody…”
The guy’s voice grew softer, after all… he had only managed to run back while the brothers were being caught.
“Did you see who the leader was?” San Ye had just uttered this question when a flurry of hurried footsteps sounded from the side again.
Then came a loud but extremely urgent voice…
“Lady!!”
And that voice instantly drained the color from San Ye’s already dark face, turning it a ghastly white!
This voice… although he didn’t hear it often, he knew it all too well.
Tramp, tramp, tramp! Before his thoughts could even settle, a large number of fully armed soldiers had already poured out from all around!
“Hey! What are you doing?!”
“I… I’m just a bystander…”
“Please… sir, sir, I was just passing by…”
In an instant, everyone present was forcefully pinned down by the soldiers!
A few even tried to struggle and were brutally knocked unconscious by the soldiers with a single punch.
And at that moment, the soldiers parted to both sides, and a tall, burly figure came jogging out from among them…
He was dressed in a luxurious brocade robe, with fur trimming at the collar.
In this Gobi, scorching hot during the day and freezing cold at night, only one person lived so exquisitely.
That was the City Lord of Gilliris.
“Lady… you… ahem, are you alright?” The City Lord suppressed his urge to complain and walked over to this young mistress with some helplessness, his face full of bitterness as he spoke.
Tonight’s incident was just an unexpected encounter during her idle stroll for this young lady.
But if word of this ever reached the Marquis’s ears, he would really be in deep trouble…
“Cit… City Lord…” San Ye, who was forced to kneel by two soldiers, opened his mouth slightly as he watched the City Lord of Gilliris, who usually only cast sidelong glances at high-ranking figures of the underworld, show such a humble demeanor toward a thirteen- or fourteen-year-old girl…
In that instant, he no longer had time to find his previous words laughable; he only felt…
His future seemed to have become an endless, pitch-black abyss.
With just a light breath from this Lady, he would fall off the cliff in the most tragic, most miserable, most ridiculous manner…
“Let… let me go!!”
Just as San Ye was stunned, a commotion came from the side…
“Do you know who I am?! Do you know who my sister is?! My sister is Maikala!”
Maikala… who’s that?
The City Lord was slightly startled and turned his head to look at Fukadi, who was standing respectfully beside him.
This guy was originally a nobody, but he was the one who had brought the Lady back to the city, and his relationship with the Lady was more natural, so the City Lord had specifically brought him along for this trip.
“My Lord, Maikala… should be the mistress of Jisong, the head of the Gravel Gang…”
Tch.
The City Lord sneered.
This scum of the Gravel Gang, they were usually arrogant enough, but at such a tense moment… they were still so high-profile.
He had mobilized the City Defense Army and the City Lord’s Guard multiple times as a display; he didn’t believe these vermin hadn’t received word that a “Benefactor” was here…
Now wasn’t this putting him on the fire?
The more he thought about it, the angrier he became.
As the City Lord of this desolate border town, he was a shrewd man, but definitely not a kind one.
Clang!
The City Lord personally drew a long blade from Fukadi’s waist beside him and took two steps toward Shashu, who was still shouting.
In the other’s somewhat dazed eyes, he unhesitatingly slashed the blade across his neck!
Splat!!
Even as his head rolled to the ground, his eyes were still full of bewilderment.
For a punk like him, who never had a chance to even meet the City Lord, how could he understand why he, the brother of a gang leader’s mistress, would die so casually like trash in a place like this?
“Vermin…” Throwing away the blood-stained blade, the City Lord looked around with a dark expression.
“By the Lady’s order, everyone involved here today is to be executed on the spot!!”
Rustle!!
The people being held down snapped out of the shock of Shashu’s death and, upon learning they were to die, immediately broke into a commotion!
“I… I’m not a member of the Gravel Gang?!”
“Please… please don’t kill me… I’m just… I’m just a resident nearby…”
“Mir… Little Mir! You have to save your auntie!!”
The neighbors who had been attacking Mierpasi were scared out of their wits by the blades hovering over their heads, shouting in terror.
But alas, just as they had felt earlier.
Mierpasi was just a mixed-blood grunt in the City Guard; someone of her low status, even if offended, there would be no consequences.
And now, the situation was the same.
The lowly catgirl had no room to speak at all.
“I’ll give you all the money the Gravel Gang gave me! Don’t kill me… don’t…”
Whoosh!! Splat…
Over a hundred heads fell to the ground simultaneously.
Whether it was San Ye, who had been so imposing just moments ago, or the malicious neighbors begging for mercy.
Everyone was now on the same starting point.
At this moment, the smell of blood filled the entire street.
“Amisa, bring her along…”
Only then did the Lady speak slowly, and she reached out to point at the catgirl, who was lying on the ground with a mix of bewilderment and fear in her eyes.
“As for the corpses… pile them all together. You don’t need to worry about them afterward.”
Ileya glanced sideways at the City Lord of Gilliris beside her.
“Ah… yes, Lady.” Although somewhat puzzled by her decision, the City Lord had no intention of saying more, only nodding slowly.
After saying this, Ileya turned and walked away gracefully, yet she added another heavy stroke to the infamous record of the “Bloodblossom Demon.”
Legend has it that this Bloodblossom Demon killed people in the street just because of a verbal altercation, even killing the bystanders.
Headless corpses were piled in the middle of the street by her minions…
Completely inhuman, absolutely terrifying…
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