Chapter 42: ‡※‡Éponine’s Fiancé‡※‡
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Seeing these people around him, Cyrus actually felt a little cold deep inside his heart, he had never thought that he would be able to see multiple paladin ranks around him, even the normal soldiers here in the city had the same strength as him, what only differs is that they have different cultivation methods.
What a pressure… Cyrus mused to himself as he looked up at the five people on the top of the rooftops of the building on the surroundings of the alleyway.
Since Cyrus could not escape from the people around here, there is no point in trying to escape now and the only thing that he could do is to face everyone here!
"You," Someone already spoke coldly, its voice was not arrogant yet not warm either. It was as if its voice could make anyone hear it run a cold chill running around his or her backs.
Cyrus looked at the person who spoke with that kind of voice. The voice was coming from a youth older than Cyrus and right beside his looked alike younger brother. He wore a red, and orange hanfu clothes and his facial features were top notch compared to a common people around the city. Even if he looked handsome, Cyrus's face would be worth to compare it to a god rather than to him.
Moreover, seeing this man, Cyrus had quickly concluded that this youth has a higher standing on the Shi Clan, rather, this is one of their young masters!
"Where's my fiancé?" The older young master asked, with his paladin rank aura radiating on the surrounding and Cyrus could feel that this young master was actually probing the area.
"…"
Cyrus did not immediately reply to this young master as he stared at him coldly.
Seeing him silent and did not reply to his older brother, the smile on the younger youth turned quickly to a frown as he clicked his mouth," Oi you plebian, my brother is asking you." He coldly stated as he too, slowly radiated his early stage paladin rank and quickly pointed it at Cyrus to give him some pressure. However, despite this, Cyrus did not even flinch as he stared at the older brother of the youth that had just spoken right now.
"…"
"Oi! You dare to ignore me!?" This arrogant young master exploded when he actually realized that Cyrus had actually turned deaf when he asked him! He even did not look at him!
Because of this, the younger young master was about to step down but he was actually blocked by his older brother by using his hands to stop his immediate action. "Don't move and don't act recklessly… See this youth below us? Sense his aura and you will see how deep is the power of this young man." The older brother said as he muttered to his younger brother.
Startled by what he had heard, he looked at Cyrus once again and quickly identified Cyrus aura.
"!!!"
Sensing this, his eyes quickly enlarge as if he could not believe to what he had seen. This young man below us has actually had deep cultivation!? Where did this fellow come from!?
The younger brother quickly stepped back as he calmed himself down as he looked at Cyrus with more caution rather than looking down at him.
"I will ask you again, where is my fia-" When the older brother was about to ask the same thing again, however, Cyrus had quickly interrupted him as he blurted: "she killed herself."
"What!?" Everyone else except Cyrus and Éponine' fiancé did not immediately react when Cyrus suddenly blurted that out.
After everyone except the two heard this piece of news, they were all shocked!
Éponine' younger sister was also shocked when she heard this as well, her petite hands had completely covered her mouth due to the immense shocked that she's having right now. "W-why did she kill herself?" She asked faintly.
"The pressure that had given to her was extremely heavy for her to deal, what she only wanted is to have her own freedom… and also." Cyrus casually explained to Éponine' younger sister before looking at her fiancé as he said, "She doesn't want to live in the same roof with him."
Hearing this, everyone gasped in shock and even Éponine' fiancé was faintly shocked and he did not expect that his woman was actually this desperate for her freedom that she even took her own life?
"Don't talk nonsense! Princess Éponine would never commit suicide for such a childish reason!" The younger brother shouted as he shook his head, "If she indeed committed suicide, where is her body!?"
"…"
Cyrus was silent as he heard this question, however, deep inside he cursed, 'Fuck! Why the did I burned her body!? Is it because of the pity I had for her?'
Having thought of this, Cyrus faintly nodded to himself, he did it because out of pity for Éponine, she wants to have a peace and freedom. So he cremated her body into ashes and let the winds blew her ashes to let her have her own freedom and explore the world as she was carried by non-stop winds from the world.
"See!? He's quiet about it!" The younger young master had quickly noticed that Cyrus went quiet after hearing his question and with this kind of action that Cyrus had made; he concluded that Cyrus was lying!
"Hmph! young master with our power, we could dispose of this guy for you our young lords." The leader of the patrol coldly harrumphed at Cyrus before looking respectfully bowed at the two young masters of the Shi clan as he suggested.
"No, don't rash quickly." The young master waved his hands signaling the soldier to stop before coldly looking at Cyrus, however, this time his eyes were cold.
Soon, a mid-stage paladin rank aura quickly seeped through the air. Although it feels a little heavy for Cyrus, it was something that he should not be frightened by something like this.
"As far as I can understand the situation right now, before arriving here, you burnt the body of my fiancé. Now, you are telling us that she committed suicide and we're going to believe you if you presented an evidence, however. You burned her body to ashes and not only that, her spatial rings were all not to be seen right now around here, meaning you stole them right? Now tell me. How should I believe you?" The fiancé coldly uttered these words as he was trying to probe Cyrus' as guilty.
Hearing this has quietly startled Cyrus, he had never thought that this young man was actually this sharp. Moreover, here he thought that the people on this barbaric world only know how to think with the fist rather than their minds, but right here, right now. This guy appeared and used his brain to deal with this situation.
'What a clever guy… It seems like we're really going to fight here now.' Cyrus quietly thought to himself as he sighed, if he told his reason and it was out of his emotions, it would be invalid to their ears and trying to defend against it would make things worse.
"There's nothing I could say, I do indeed have her three spatial rings. However, what if I said that she gave this to me before killing herself, would you believe me?" Cyrus bitterly smiled as he opened his palms, revealing three shiny spatial rings in the eyes of everyone!
"This brat really killed the princess!"
"Hmph! Committing such an act and even trying to deceive us!"
"As her personal bodyguard, our royal princess would never dare to commit such act, because from what I always see to the royal princess, she was always happy and very kind!"
The surrounding quickly got rowdy and noisy as their anger quickly rose through the air in the surrounding. However, hearing their opinions, Cyrus could only smile in pity because; he was the only one who saw the true color of their 'happy and very kind' princess.
"…" Éponine' fiancé did not join their bickering as he silently watched Cyrus, and seeing that Cyrus had indeed his fiancé's spatial rings. He should not hold back anymore, however, deep inside of his heart, he feels something weird.
"My sister has never been depressed and had always smiling and laughing even around with my father! I'm sure that you're lying! To avenge my sister, I will personally kill you!" Éponine' younger sister shouted in anger.
Soon enough, her recently broke through paladin rank aura exploded into the air as she quickly jumped towards Cyrus, with her petite body, her beauty was something really astonishing to the eyes of everyone, even her future husband, the younger young master had his eyes blazing with sparkles as he quickly got affectionate by her beauty.
With a smile on his face, he took a big step on the roof as he shouted! "As his future husband, I shall help her to settle this pathetic liar!" With that announcement, his aura has also exploded and jumped towards Cyrus.
Every Shi clan members: "Ohh!"
Hearing this had quickly made the guards and soldiers from the Shi clan gasped in amazement.
Cyrus, on the other hand, was quiet as he stared at the incoming sword from the princess, As soon as the princess knew that Cyrus is within her sword reach, she slashed her sword towards Cyrus.
As Cyrus had seen this, he just made his foot move with some footwork as it quickly avoids the slash of that sword, However, as Cyrus was about to return to an offense on the princess, he quickly sensed a circulation of anima running towards his back.
'Hm?!' Cyrus quickly turned around and using his right hand, he made a fist and struck the younger young master with all of his strength as he quickly activated his gates to the sixth gate.
However, this fist was quickly avoided by the young master despite the speed he had thrown this fist towards the young master and taking this advantage, he struck his palm at Cyrus' fist and once it made a contact with his palm,
*Bang!*
An abrupt explosion occurred when his palm struck Cyrus fist!
Cyrus was unhurt by the fire it creates but slightly got hurt due to the abrupt burst of force it generated causing his fist to knock back around his shoulder making him step back in two steps.
Startled by this, Cyrus had finally remembered her mother's word that the Shi clan had an explosion affinity and they cultivate in many styles of martial arts to assist their explosion affinity to be extremely effective in combat, especially on hand to hand combat.
Cyrus looked at this young master and he noticed that this young man was actually using similar martial arts that he had seen back in his previous life! It was slightly similar to kung fu!
"Hehe… Now, this is extremely interesting." Cyrus mused to himself as he quickly stance himself on krav maga defensive stance. He actually never studied the Kung Fu that has a lot of styles and the same as Taichi. because back on earth, these martial arts was weak and really could not protect yourself to the point that it can only describe as an art, not martial arts.
However, in this world, where your punches and palms strikes have assessed with elemental energies that could harm someone and even potentially killing them!
…
Seeming that he was getting an advantage, the younger young master smiled as the palms on his hands quickly made a claw as he lowered his body, "[Martial Explosion style: ninth stage! Tiger style!]"
Once this young master was about to stop, his body suddenly flinched as if he had seen something. Having keen eyes, Cyrus realized this quickly as his body quickly dropped on the ground and threw his kick at his back.
Once he did this, his feet had quickly struck the princess foot causing her to lose balance, Cyrus had taken this opportunity as his fist quickly stroke on the abdomen on the princess while he was on the ground.
"Guah!" The princess spits out saliva out from her mouth and due to Cyrus heavier strength than normal strength of a paladin rank, her petite body slowly jumped from the air after getting struck by Cyrus quick yet fierce strike on her abdomen.
"Princess!" The young master called out as he tried to save her.
However, Cyrus while on the ground quickly made himself comfortable support his body on the ground and struck a kick on the princess falling body making her to flew directly towards the young master that had startled him!
"Guah!"
The body of the princess had quickly yet harshly collided with the young master making them suffered from self-inflict damage as they both collapsed on the ground.
Seeing this fast brawl, Cyrus sighed as he slowly stood up from the ground with his spirit on high alert if someone around him, he would quickly sense it.
"In the end, I would be still a felonious criminal even if I admitted the truth… Since if this the case, I am the enemy of the entire kingdom of Annesly due to being accused of killing princess Éponine." Cyrus smiled bitterly as he looked at the two partners.
"That's right… In the end, you are still going down. It was due to your stupidity yet also to your actions right now… Today, you are now an entire criminal of the kingdom and since you killed my fiancé, Éponine. I practically have the right to kill you, no?" A cold voice coming above the roof once again echoed on this alley.
Éponine' fiancé was the one who spoke just now, and with a single step on the air on his front, he quickly jumped down on the ground while both of his hands are on his back, while his demeanor is cold yet fierce at the same time.
"…" Cyrus was quiet as he fiercely observed at the older young master, He was quite a little nervous due to the fact that despite the two of them are in the same rank, Cyrus is still an early staged practitioner while this guy on his front is already mid-stage.
If Cyrus was to describe what he was feeling now, he would reply, "Nervousness and excitement."
"I am the oldest young master of the Shi Clan in this generation, Shi Chen." The young master and Éponine' fiancé named Shi Chen, introduced himself as he spreads his palms in an awkward tiger position yet emitting a frightening energy radiating on his body.
In short, he is threatening to look at!
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Dicky_Cummie
Dicky_Cummie Sorry guys for the late updates, problems occurred here in home... You may know that I am a writer suffering from a depression, and having that would have a bad impact on writing a novel due to the characters would be affected too by my depression...
Imagine, everyone is depressed in a single chapter... haha, that would be hilarious. And it's also funny that I am writing with depression which is prone to criticism by everyone. It's like I'm having a suicide right now.
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