“There really was such a cave?” Taehyung looked at the dark, dingy cave. He had always assumed that the cave’s existence was just a rumor, he didn’t expect to actually find that it existed with his own two eyes. Thinking back to the rumors that going into it would make you powerful, he turned his eyes to Jungkook. “Brother Jungkook, are the rumors true or false?”
Jungkook was silent, pursing his lips as he looked at the cave with a grim expression. After a while, he finally opened his mouth to reply. “It’s true, but the price is high.”
“What’s the price?”
This time, it wasn’t Jungkook who replied, but Lisa, “Your soul.”
There was no such thing as a free lunch in this world, and what you pay for was usually what you get. Though the cave would give you powers beyond your imagination, from the moment you walked in, you would no longer be yourself when you walked out.
Desire, money, fame, and fortune, these were the things that most people crave in their hearts. If you couldn’t escape this circle of desire, then you wouldn’t be able to avoid temptations.
“Soul?” Taehyung repeated, stunned. He turned to Jungkook again, silently staring at him for confirmation, and the latter nodded his head lightly.
This was beyond Taehyung’s scope of comprehension, he always knew that Jungkook was not an ordinary person, and that people like him were rare. But this was the first time he had encountered something that was so strange and despicable.
“Why did it appear here suddenly?” As someone who had gone through a lot of hardships and encountered many shocking things, Taehyung managed to pull himself together after only a short time. There were two masters in his presence after all, though his hands were still trembling slightly. “Can it be resolved?”
Lisa looked up at the negative yin energy that was swirling above them, her eyes wandered. “Yes, and the source of the issue lies with you.”
As she spoke, her hands were also moving. “This is not really a mountain cave, but an array. Its purpose is to deliberately harm ordinary people who are directly or indirectly connected to you. The person who deployed this formation is surely someone that you know.”
As she finished drawing her formation, the cave gradually faded behind a cloudy mist.
Jungkook, who had been standing next to her, was rubbing his fingers together. In the end, he didn’t need to do anything. This level of formation was still not dangerous, it was good practice for her.
“There’s actually someone who wants to do this to such an amazing and handsome man like me?” Looking at Lisa’s calm demeanor, Taehyung felt the fear that had gripped his heart lessen. He observed the foggy mist shrouding the cave, his eyes still slightly wide with shock. “Lili, you’re also cool!”
“It’s just you that was scared.” Lisa lowered her hands, glancing at the man lying on the ground. “Take care of this guy, he has talent, but he’s been suppressed all the while by those petty people. He can still be groomed.”
“Alright.” Taehyung glanced at the tanned man lying on the ground, not being able to make out his face. The military rules were extremely strict, this man had fled without proper permission and had ignored the military regulations. Normally, the person would be punished or expelled when he returns to the barracks, but since the things that Lisa said had made sense, he would let him remain in the military for now.
After surveying the area, Jungkook came back to find the two chatting happily, his eyes narrowed. “Taehyung, when you get home, let aunty know about this.”
“My mom?” Taehyung suddenly looked ill at the thought of doing so. “What’s the point of telling… Alright, I’ll tell her once I get home.”
Jungkook turned away, looking to see that the entrance of the cave had been sealed off by Lisa. He raised his hand. “Let’s head back.”
With a flash, the four figures disappeared instantly.
Taehyung had wanted to say something to Lisa, but the scene suddenly changed. As soon as he landed in his own dorm room, he staggered and fell flat on his back.
“… are you alright?” Lisa asked, looking away, trying not to laugh.
Taehyung: No, listen to me, this has to be that demon Jeon Jungkook’s doing!
Jungkook glanced at him, one elegant brow arching up, though there was a rare warm expression on his face. “Sorry, my mistake.”
“It’s fine, no worries.” Taehyung pulled himself up and patted the dust away. “I’m a man, this pain is nothing.”
“That’s good then, go and check on your subordinates.” Jungkook had his usual indifferent expression on his face again, his entire person radiating confidence, and every move he made was graceful and majestic in every way possible.
Taehyung stood behind him, goosebumps appearing all over him, and he resisted the urge to rub his arms. Why was it when Jungkook started being nice and friendly, he felt that something bad was going to happen?
Li Shun’s sleep was not peaceful, he had a nagging feeling that he was forgetting to do something, and his head was killing him. He wanted to open his eyes, but it was hard to do. He heard someone calling his name in his ear, and so he gritted his teeth, forcing his eyes to open.
Ah Shun, you’re finally awake!”
Li Shun struggled to keep his eyes open, and realized that the person talking was his bunkmate. He sat up, finding that he wasn’t in his own dormitory, “Liang Zi, where am I?”
“The commander’s dorm.” The one called Liang Zi said with a bright grin, “You’re so lucky, the commander is giving you a promotion!”
“Commander?” Li Shun couldn’t react for a while, his mind muddled. He kept feeling that he was forgetting something, but it was getting more confusing by the minute. “Why does he want to promote me?”
“How would I know? Now that you’re up, hurry up and go. The commander said to meet him in the training grounds once you woke up,” Liang Zi urged.
The two scrambled for a bit before heading towards the training ground, and it was unusually lively today. There were a lot of people who were standing in a circle outside, completely unlike the usual disciplined attitude they would be displaying.
The three people standing in the middle of the field were particularly eye-catching, and the one that stood out the most was the lone girl among them. Li Shun stared hard at the pale white figure, and she happened to turn around at the same time, letting him get a good look at her face.
Her face was like a beautiful picture, perfect in every way, and she dazzled like the sun. He felt like he was blinded by her radiance.
Liang Zi was standing speechless next to him. “I say, this sort of pick up method doesn’t work anymore. It’s too old school, you gotta have better and newer ones now, let brother teach you some when we get back!”
Li Shun didn’t bother to explain his words, and silently walked toward Taehyung.
Taehyung glanced at him, then ordered him to stand at the side. He then proceeded to call a few other names.
Lisa stood next to Jungkook, looking at the people that were being singled out by Taehyung, and her breath was caught in her throat. “Brother Jungkook, these people…”
“There’s no helping them.” Jungkook sighed, reaching out to rub her head gently. “Don’t think too much about it, they made their choices.”
“Mm.” Lisa agreed, looking down.
Taehyung had also heard Jungkook’s words, and he gave a sigh before handing them all over to Jungkook, no longer caring what would happen to them.
Lisa walked away while the two were busy, and she received a call from Yoongi.
His voice was heavy, like he had given up, “I got the result from the hospital today, it’s a 99% match.”
Lisa had already expected this result a long time ago, but hearing it from Yoongi’s mouth didn’t make it any less unpleasant. She was silent for a while, before speaking, “Where are you now, I’ll head over immediately.”
“The hospital, come on over.” Yoongi hung up and sat down on the hospital bench, staring at nothing in particular while he waited.
Lisa put away her phone and walked over to Jungkook to inform him of her intentions, he lifted his eyes to look at her. “Take my car. Xixi is inside, don’t forget to bring it along.”
“…Oh.” Lisa was reluctant, but it looks like there was no other choice but to bring Xixi, so be it.
Taehyung had given her the permit in the morning, and so she went to find Jungkook’s Bugatti with the permit in hand, finding Xixi sitting on the top of the car. When it saw her, it opened its mouth to greet her, “Beauty Lisa! Beauty Lisa!”
“If you go six hours without speaking, I’ll give you candy.” Lisa started the car, then gestured with her hand as a white light flashed in her palm, a brown pill appearing.
Xixi was a divine beast after all, and feeling the rich profound energy the pill held, it shut up instantly.
Finally having the silence that she wanted, Lisa pulled the car out onto the road.
***
The military base was located in a remote area, and so it took Lisa about an hour to reach the national highway. When she reached the exit, her car was stopped by someone.
The person who stopped her was a middle-aged man, and his smile was kind. “Miss, our car has broken down, and the tow truck is slow in coming. Could we possibly trouble you to take our young master to N City first?”
The man was not a bad person, and if it was in the past, Lisa wouldn’t refuse, and even if she did, it would be a gentle refusal. However, she glanced at the broken down car at that moment, and even though the window was tinted, she could clearly make out the face in the back seat.
“No,” Lisa said, her voice full of ice. Not giving the middle-aged man time to get another word in, she closed the window and drove away.
The middle-aged man was dumbfounded, and he turned his head stiffly to see that the young master had stepped out of the car, revealing a stunningly attractive face. “Young Master, I’m sorry I have failed you!”
“It’s fine.” Lucas glanced up to see the rear of the black Bugatti disappearing into the distance, some doubts in his eyes. He had seen the girl’s expression when she had looked into the car, and it seemed cold? Had he offended her in any way?
But, he had never met her in his life.
***
When Lisa arrived, Yoongi was still sitting on the same bench, still in the same dazed state.
“Why didn’t you go up?”
Hearing her voice, Yoongi turned his head slowly to look at her. They stared at each other for a long while before he finally opened his mouth, “I don’t know what to say to him.”
His eyes were out of focus. After raising his younger brother for so long, to hear that he still had living relatives, he couldn’t muster up any feelings of happiness at all, and felt disappointment instead.
“Then don’t tell him, no one will know.” Lisa sighed. Xixi was flying around her, and it was a bit annoying. Slapping it to one side, she continued, “There’s nothing good about the Manoban family anyway, Soobin won’t care about these things.”
“Let’s go,” Yoongi said, acting like he hadn’t heard her as he stood up, his head still bowed, “This is his right.”
Though he said that, when they reached the ward, Yoongi didn’t have the courage to go in. He handed the paper that held the result to Lisa. “I won’t go in, go ahead and tell him.”
Lisa glanced at the expression on his face, and seeing that he really didn’t want to go in, she didn’t press the issue. “Then I’m going in.”
In the ward, Soobin was working on his oil painting, and Naeun was in the bed behind him, observing him without blinking. They didn’t even notice Lisa coming in, until Xixi flew forward in circles around them, which attracted their attention.
“Sister Lisa!” Naeun greeted her once she saw her, scrambling to jump out of the bed.
Soobin also stopped painting and turned around. “Sister Lisa.”
Lisa responded easily, and walked over to look at Soobin’s painting. His paintings were full of life and spirit, and in this he was very similar to the Manoban family, like how she and Eunha were both talented in art. “Not bad.”
“Not as good as yours, Sister Lisa.” Soobin felt pleased and embarrassed to hear her praise.
Lisa rubbed his head, wondering how to bring up the matter. After a while, Soobin turned back to continue his painting, and Lisa opened her mouth after some time had passed. “Soobin, I found your family.”
“Oh.” Soobin’s hand paused, his brush hovering above the canvas. He murmured softly, but there was no other emotion.
His reaction was flat, and Lisa felt a bit unexpected. “Do you want to know who they are?”
“Sister Lisa.” Soobin suddenly raised his head, and his eyes seemed like they could pierce through you, he said very slowly, “I only have one family member, and that is my brother. If there is anyone else, then it would be the people from the orphanage.”
He had grown up in the orphanage, and when he got out he had lived with Yoongi. In his eyes, Yoongi was his only family.
“Un, not knowing is good too,” Lisa said, patting his head gently. After giving him a few tips on his painting, she left the room.
Yoongi was leaning against the wall beside the door when she came out, his face in his hands and she couldn’t see his expression.
“You heard Soobin’s words, go on in and don’t worry anymore,” Lisa said in a low voice.
“Mm,” Yoongi replied, his voice unusually hoarse and scratchy. He stood outside a while longer before opening the door to head inside, and from the outside, Lisa could hear Soobin’s cheerful exclamation followed by chatter.
‘System, my bone marrow is suitable for Soobin, right?’ Lisa confirmed with the system as she turned to walk to the office of Soobin’s doctor.
The system spirit was playing a game in the void, and hearing her words, it left the void to appear in front of Lisa, [According to the information I have, that is correct, Beauty Lisa. However, it looks like Big Jeon is really reluctant for you to donate your bone marrow.]
‘Soobin is my younger brother. Although we have different mothers, he’s so much better than Eunha, right?’ This was an unexpected surprise, and Lisa felt strangely responsible for this.
[Alright, but you have to take good care of yourself. If Big Jeon knew that this entire incident was because of me, he’d most likely to flay me.] The system spirit shivered at that thought, [I keep feeling that he can see me, and that’s a horrifying thought.]
‘You’re thinking too much.' Lisa had reached the doctor’s office, and informed him of her intentions.
“You want to donate your bone marrow to Luo Soobin?” The doctor adjusted his glasses. The girl in front of him was a beauty, with delicate features on her pale face and a thin, petite figure. He strongly suspected that she had malnutrition, “Are you of age? Does your family know about this?”
“They know, doctor. Soobin is my brother, my bone marrow is definitely a match.” Lisa’s eyes were determined.
Saying it like that, the doctor couldn’t retort with anything else. He started writing a list, “You have to take a test first, to check whether it will be a successful match. Then a check on your health, and leave a way to contact you. The results will be out only tomorrow.”
If her general health was not up to standard, even if the bone marrow was a match, the hospital wouldn’t simply do the transplant.
Lisa took the list and went to get her blood tested, and it took a while before she was able to leave. Recalling that she was lacking some painting materials, she left to find a shop to buy her things.
When she was heading down, she remembered that the paper Yoongi had given her was still in her pocket. Thinking back to Soobin’s reaction, she promptly tossed the paper into the rubbish bin.
***
While Lisa was getting better as the days passed by, the Manoban family business in contrast was getting worse as the days went by. Master Manoban had heart attacks quite frequently in recent days, and was being accompanied by the butler to the hospital today. The large machines were unable to be moved to the manor, and so he had to come to the hospital for check ups once in a while.
He didn’t expect to see Lisa at this time, and Master Manoban watched as she crumpled a piece of paper, tossing it into the bin. He was curious at this, and told the butler, “Take it out and let me have a look.”
Initially, he was wondering whether it could be that the young people were causing chaos again? When the butler handed the paper over to him, his eyes widened as he clutched his heart, gasping for breath.
The butler hurriedly tried to calm him, but Master Manoban waved him away. “It’s okay, it was just a burst of excitement. Go, hurry and investigate this boy called Luo Soobin!”
Eunha was useless, and Lisa had turned her back on the family, unwilling to return. The Manoban family was considered to have no successor, and unexpectedly another qualified person had appeared out of thin air, and was even his grandson by blood! There was nothing more exciting than this at this moment.
More importantly, this grandson of his and Lisa must know each other. As long as he could bring his grandson back into the Manoban family, how could Lisa ignore them in the future? Of course, if she was willing to teach his grandson, that was all the better.
Thinking about this, Master Manoban couldn’t resist it anymore. He didn’t even bother going for his check up, immediately sending for someone to drive him home instead. He needed to investigate and ponder over this matter carefully!
***
There was a specialty store not far from the hospital, and thinking about how hard it would be to find parking, Lisa left the car and made her way slowly towards the shops on foot instead. Xixi was flying around her in a show of tantrum for not being able to speak, and she had swatted him time and time again. For a long-lived creature, he sure didn’t have the best memories.
[Ding! Daily Mission activated: Help that mister!]
[Mission completion reward: 100 points!]
The system gave an alert while she was on her way back from buying her things.
Lisa had already seen a group of people gathering at the intersection, and instead of squeezing past them immediately, she lingered at the side to listen to the situation.
It went something like this, a woman was hit by a middle-aged man riding a motorcycle while crossing the road. She fell to the ground and wouldn’t wake up. Her brother had caught the perpetrator, but the man claimed that he had not hit the woman.
The woman’s brother was dressed in black clothes, and wore a black bandana. In today’s society, there was no surprise at his choice of clothing. He picked up the middle-aged man with one hand, and it clearly showed how strong he was. He spoke with inaccurate words which indicated that Chinese was not his first language. “The Great Heavens disappoint me. Scum like you, what’s the point of you being alive?”
He lifted the man higher, a glint of anger in his eyes.
He wanted to teach this scum a lesson, but before he could move, he realized that his wrist was being gripped by someone. He turned his head, and his eyes landed on a beautiful, petite girl. Feeling tolerant while faced with a beautiful girl, his anger diminished a little as he looked at her, “Little beauty, don’t be nosy.”
“He’s a good person, you’ve misunderstood him.” Lisa looked at the mister who was being held, his eyes were pleading and full of urgency. He was being held by the neck, and it was hard to get any words out.
“With such beauty, why is it that you lack the brains!” The man’s eyes slowly turned red, and he looked to be very short-tempered, and on the verge of throwing a fit.
At the same time, the people around were looking at Lisa with disapproval in their eyes. “That’s right, could it be that this girl is in cahoots with the girl who was knocked down?”
“They may look like people, but I didn’t expect their hearts to be so callous.”
“…”
This matter was already severely affecting the traffic flow, and a luxury black car was forced to stop at the roadside. “Young Master, it looks like there has been an accident in front. Do you want someone to clear a path?”
A cool voice sounded faintly. “No need.”
Lucas rolled down the car window, his eyesight was good, and he could see what was happening in the distance. He noticed the girl was the same one that he had met that one time, and he could clearly remember her because she was really an exquisite beauty. Hearing the butler’s words, he furrowed his brows slightly, feeling his impression of the girl dropping into nothing, “Go around it.”
The low-key luxury car left quietly.
Having hurt my sister, you have to pay with your life. Little girl, stop being such a busy body. Otherwise, don’t blame me if you die. Don’t be arrogant just because you have a little more strength than average, I’m not an ordinary person!” The man sneered coldly and a ball of flame gathering directly above his palm. He was a ninja from Japan. Even if he killed an ordinary citizen of China, they wouldn’t dare to come after him.
Lisa smiled, a heavy aura emitting from her body.
Sorry, her ancient martial arts were not bad either.
“You’re from the ancient martial arts world?!” Yamamoto’s expression changed immediately and darkened, seeing the dense chi surrounding Lisa’s body. After coming to N City for so long, this was only the third time he had seen someone from the ancient martial arts world.
The system spirit floated around Yamamoto, shaking its head. [Although you’re a bad guy, I really pity you. I hope when you die later, it won’t be too ugly…]
Xixi stared at Yamamoto for a short while, its jet-black eyes full of sympathy. This man was obviously not as powerful as it was, but he was so full of himself. Foreseeing Lisa’s aggressive actions to resolve this, it couldn’t help but shed (fat) tears of pity for him.
A white light flashed in the slender fingers, and Yamamoto’s arm was numb from the impact, his grip on the middle-aged man loosening till he fell to the ground. The middle-ageed man shot a grateful look at Lisa, and she waved him into the crowd.
Without the presence of another person in the field, Lisa didn’t hold back. She gestured with both her hands, drawing a formation to trap Yamamoto inside. She had wanted to beat him up directly, but with a crowd behind her, she felt slightly embarrassed and awkward about the situation.
The system spirit could read the thoughts on her face, and it opened its mouth to speak, [Beauty Lisa, you can try using the smokescreen technique that you were practicing in the virtual arena last time.]
‘Bingo!’ Lisa snapped her fingers, and with speed that was visible to the naked eyes, the space around them started to twist, with them being at the center.
Yamamoto looked on in stunned silence. It wasn’t like he hadn’t fought against any other martial arts practitioners before, but it was always him that would end up at the top. Not to mention, most people in China were ordinary people, he could easily squash any one of them with just a flick of a finger.
Just as he said, his position was special, even if he killed one or two people, the government of China wouldn’t be able to do anything to him. That was how his personality had been warped to this extent, killing anybody that showed him even the slightest hint of disagreement. And since it was people from China, he didn’t feel a hint of remorse from his actions at all.
However, all this was useless in front of Lisa. After accepting the mission, she had clearly studied the information on these three people.
The ninjas in Japan were divided into the ranks, from the lowest Hatsunin, Genin, Chunin, Jounin, Hitonin, Jinin, to the highest which was Tennin. Yamamoto’s strength could be said to be just average, being only a Genin at the age of twenty-eight. Lisa could easily end his life with just a twitch of her finger.
The system spirit had already hacked into the network, pulling out the list of every single one of Yamamoto’s crimes for Lisa to see.
“You’ve been in China for ten days, and you’ve killed two murderous fugitives, but you’ve also injured four ordinary citizens, indirectly killed one, and outright killed two…” Lisa stated all of this with a sharp smile on her face, her eyes not betraying any emotions. “We can solve China’s affairs on our own, we don’t need your intervention.”
Yamamoto had been inattentive to her words in the beginning, but by the time she had listed all his actions, he was shell shocked, because she had not missed any details, while he himself had forgotten all the small things.
“I don’t care what kind of trouble you stir up while in Japan, but once you arrive here in China, you follow our rules. We will handle our own people, you don’t need to take any action, do you understand?” Lisa cracked her knuckles, her smile was unusually wide.
Yamamoto couldn’t move, and he looked up at Lisa with horror on his face. He felt a flow of energy coursing through his entire body, and then a pain that seeped into his bones bursting out from within suddenly. Lisa had sealed off his acupoints, he wasn’t able to scream nor raise his head, but he could see a slender fist coming at him.
“This is for the abuse you’ve piled on the people of China!”
Boom!
“Proud of bullying ordinary citizens, aren’t you?”
Boom!
“Do you know why blood is red?!”
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Five minutes later, Lisa waved her hand lightly, and Yamamoto felt his body lighten, the acupoints that were sealed washed away like water flowing into a stream. However, the pain was engraved into his mind, he never wanted to experience that sort of pain ever again in his life. Such a petite girl was already so strong, China really lived up to the saying of ‘crouching tiger, hidden dragon’.
Lisa dispelled her smokescreen, scanning the surroundings with an indifferent expression on her face. She was only about seventeen years old, yet she had stunning features, a real beauty that was flawless.
Just a few minutes have passed since then, but the people around her suddenly couldn’t spit out any more words of accusation which they had been doing previously. It felt like this petite girl had changed into a completely different person in an instant, and the person she was now made it hard for them to look at her.
Lisa pulled out a few silver needles, poking it into the girl who was still lying on the ground. After a few beats, the girl woke up slowly. Lisa pulled out the needles. “Did this mister knock you down just now?”
The girl shook her head, her voice weak as she replied, “It’s just low blood pressure, nothing to do with the mister.”
“You hear that?” Lisa said, turning around and getting to her feet. No one dared to meet her eyes, and Yamamoto was even more ashamed of his actions, shrinking into himself as he slipped to his sister’s side, not daring to make even a sound.
The mister wiped the tears that had slid down from his eyes, his voice hoarse as he spoke, “Thank you, miss.”
He was in a hurry to send money today, his wife was waiting for the money for a life-saving operation in the hospital, but he was unlucky to be caught up in this situation. Being held by the neck by the Japanese made him feel like he was going to die in that moment, and he didn’t expect to meet and be rescued by such a righteous person.
“It’s alright, hurry up and go, Aunt is still waiting for the money. Don’t worry, your family is safe, don’t do anything rash.” Lisa patted his shoulder lightly.
The uncle felt his shoulders lightened, but thinking about how his wife was waiting, he didn’t linger on those thoughts, instead hurrying to get back on his motorcycle towards the hospital.
Midway to the hospital, he suddenly realized that he had never mentioned his wife in the hospital, how was it that the girl had known?
Lisa glanced at the siblings with a cold expression on her face, turning to grab the painting materials on the ground and wanting to head back to the car that was parked at the hospital. As soon as she picked up the materials, her phone rang.
Pulling out her phone to see that the caller was Jungkook, her face brightened, and people would mistake her for a goddess with the radiance that she was emitting, “Hello, Brother Jungkook.”
“Mm, look to your left.” A deep velvet voice came through, and Lisa looked over in the direction that he had said, her eyes widened in surprise.
“Why are you here?” She asked, staring unblinkingly for a moment before coming back to herself.
Jungkook put down the phone, cutting through the crowd, he slowly walked towards her. He was wearing a sleek, white shirt, with the top two buttons on top undone. His sleeves were rolled up halfway, revealing a thin, slender arm. The clothing was meant to be simple and casual, but on him, it gave off a flare of elegance. His defined face looked to be sculptured, standing out like a sore thumb among the sea of people. It seemed like only the words magnificent and phenomenal could be used to describe him.
“Brother Jungkook, why are you here?” Lisa repeated her question, staring at him in stunned silence until he stopped in front of her. She reacted only then, reaching up to touch her nose awkwardly.
Elegant eyebrows furrowed slightly, and a slender finger twitched. Jungkook was feeling slightly resigned. He had been intending to drive to the base, but then he suddenly felt a familiar fluctuation of energy, as well as a faint ninja aura. Though he knew that Lisa would be fine, he still couldn’t help but stop the car.
Xixi saw Jungkook, and it started flapping its wings and flying around in circles around him. Jungkook felt himself getting dizzy from the motion, and with a smooth gesture a frost blade appeared and he used it to swat the bird away.
Xixi who had suffered 100 million points of damage: Jeon Jungkook is even more cruel than Beauty Lisa! Break off friendship! Break off friendship!
As it was a commercial street, there were many people coming and going. Jungkook narrowed his eyes in annoyance. “Let’s go, where did you park the car?”
“The hospital.” Lisa followed Jungkook’s side, often getting shoved and pushed as people rushed past them.
Just when Lisa was about to be shoved away again, Jungkook grabbed her hand with a pensive face, saying calmly, “Follow closely.”
“Mm,” Lisa said, but her attention was on their clasped hands. He emitted a chilling aura, yet the temperature of his hands was warm. She could also clearly see the smooth and sharp outline of his jaw when she raised her head slightly. The two of them had their attention on their hands, and they didn’t hear the Yamamoto siblings in the distance.
“Miko, look at that, isn’t that the person you’re looking for?” Yamamoto pointed towards Jungkook with a look of surprise as he turned to his sister. “I heard that he would be in N City, but I didn’t expect that we would be fortunate enough to see him!”
“Brother, who is that person next to him?” Miko smiled, but then she saw Lisa beside him, and became anxious again. “They look very close.”
Miko was Yamamoto’s younger sister. She had been weak from birth, and her body had not recovered to this day. Even though her health wasn’t good, she was very talented. Yamamoto was just a Genin, and his sister was younger than him by five years but already at Jounin level. In Japan, she was also recognized as a genius, and she was here to compete for a spot in the Ranking List.
“No matter who she is, she will die.” Yamamoto was a sis-con, as long as it was something his sister wanted, even if it was the stars in the sky, he would take it for her. “I’ll bring you to someone, they will definitely have a way.”
Yamamoto had a friend in China, and that friend was someone in a high place. In his view, there was nothing that his friend couldn’t do, and it so happened that his friend was also currently in one of the secret bases in N City. His friend’s abilities were also decent, and not long after Yamamoto passed on the message, his friend had managed to find Lisa’s identity.
“Miko, don’t worry. My friend is an administrator of the ancient martial arts world in China. It won’t be a problem for him to clean up one of their own. Just wait for his good news.” Yamamoto said, giving her the good news. “Mr. Jeon is also in N City, haven’t you been admiring him for a long time? I’ll ask my friend for help, and ask to arrange a meet up for you.”
“Really? I can really meet Mr. Jeon?” Miko’s face had a disbelieving expression, looking at her brother with a bright smile on her face. However, her heart had doubts, afraid that Yamamoto was just pulling her leg.
“Really.” It was rare for Yamamoto to see his sister like this, and he thumped his chest with a fist, “Believe in your brother, you’ll see. My friend is calling now.”
He accepted the call with a beam on his face, but just as he was about to speak, his friend’s voice came through, cursing, “Ida Yamamoto! I consider you to be a good friend, a brother even! I arranged everything that you wanted when you came to China, even covered up for the killing spree that you went on, and this is how you repay me?! Do you know who Lalisa Manoban is?!”
“Who… who is she?” Yamamoto was still in shock over the scolding that he received, and couldn’t help but stutter. This was the first time his friend had spoken so harshly to him.
“The forums lists her as a confidential person, with only two words on her profile, a formation master! Do you know what it means to be a formation master? The number of formation masters in the entire China can be counted on one hand, and they are China’s last line of defense. You’re asking me to kill a formation master, is it you or me that is stupid? Forget it, don’t contact me anymore in the future, and you better find the opportunity to leave China quickly. Otherwise in a couple of days, you might not be able to leave even if you wanted to!”
The ancient martial arts world was big, and management of it was very strict. All registered people had an identity level when they first registered, and they were split into ordinary, intermediate, advanced, and hidden levels. The higher the level, the stronger the person. This was also the reason why Yamamoto’s friend was afraid, he had actually investigated a person on the hidden level. He feared that the top brass of the ancient martial arts world would come and arrest him in the next second.
Yamamoto didn’t have time to say anything before his friend cut off the call, and when he called again, no one answered. He must have blocked his number.
“Brother, what has happened?” Miko looked at her brother, asking cautiously.
Yamamoto forced a smile on his face. “Miko, we’ve been out for so long. Do you want to return home?”
Hearing this, Miko was startled, and there was a flash of disappointment in her eyes. “I…I’m still okay.”
“I’ll head down to get you a meal and book the tickets, once we’re done eating we’ll leave.” Yamamoto didn’t give Miko a chance to reply, heading downwards once he was done talking. They were staying in a hotel in the city, and they had no luggage, easing their coming and goings.
Yamamoto went down and grabbed a meal, and trudged up to the room. When he reached the room, he found it completely devoid of life, Miko had gone from where she was sitting on the bed!