Chapitre 180: XXV: Papers Part II

Thankfully, a few minutes later we found out that the worse part of the registration was waiting in line among groups of gossiping ladies. Most spoke a language we didn’t understand, so Kumiko and I kept to ourselves, talking through our hands under the watchful eyes of the parties that had arrived before and after us.

Every lady seemed to come prepared to conquer China by the amount of people they brought with them. Odsar and I were the only oddities, she with her five, tall, amazon-like female guards, and I with my three, but most of the others brought at least a dozen.

One caught my eye, because she had around thirty men and women fawning about her, praising her for her every move and the way she batted her eyes or sighed. That amount of pampering gave me goosebumps, making me feel nauseated at the very thought that a woman so vain could vie for the attention of my Shen Mu.