Chapter 26: Alright, Fengzi
"Boss, you died such a horrible death…"
Aburame Mafune collapsed onto the ground, crying and sobbing uncontrollably.
"Cry my ass. These little guys are still alive!"
Li Jie xuan curled his lip in disdain and picked up the hornet called Boss. "Look carefully—I only cut their wings."
Aburame Mafune spread her hands in a daze. The hornet called Boss was indeed full of life, crawling around energetically, with only one wing slightly damaged.
Li Jie xuan really had only sliced their wings!
"So strong!"
Orochimaru couldn't help narrowing his eyes. Li Jie xuan's strength had once again exceeded his expectations. Just that kunai-throwing technique alone was enough to make anyone who wanted to fight him at range abandon the idea entirely. What a troublesome opponent!
"Thank you…"
Seeing that her hornets were fine, Aburame Mafune broke into a smile through her tears. The dark-green hood slid down, revealing a fair, tender little face. Aburame Mafune was actually a girl. Her cute face, tear-streaked like pear blossoms in the rain, was both adorable and pitiful…
"Actually…"
Hugging the hornets with their damaged wings, Aburame Mafune shyly nodded at Li Jie xuan. "You can call me Fengzi!"
Seeing this, Tsunade felt a sharp pang in her chest. That damn Aburame Mafune—what right does she have to let Jie xuan call her Fengzi?! Jie xuan hadn't even called her that intimately before!
At the same time, Yamada Tsugiyuki, hiding in the shadows, stared with his mouth wide open. "This works too…?"
Is picking up girls really that easy?
"Alright, Fengzi."
Li Jie xuan smiled gently and extended his hand toward Aburame Mafune, who was kneeling on the ground…
The scene was breathtaking. A handsome, angelic gentleman extending his hand to a lost girl fallen into the dust of the world—the story of a knight and a princess in distress was always this beautiful.
Tsunade's heart tightened. So Jie xuan really does think Aburame Mafune is cute too?
Others whispered among themselves as well: although Li Jie xuan was a bit arrogant, at least he knew how to show tenderness toward girls…
"Hand over your wallet."
Everyone froze. They hadn't even finished their thoughts—what kind of development was this?!
"What?"
Aburame Mafune looked up at Li Jie xuan in confusion, her outstretched hand stiffening halfway. "What did you just say?"
"I said, hand over your wallet."
Li Jie xuan matter-of-factly extended his hand again. "We agreed, didn't we? If I beat you, your wallet is mine."
"Uh…"
Aburame Mafune was completely stunned, her mind blank. What just happened? What was going on now? What about the knight and princess?
"Hey, don't tell me you're planning to welch on the deal!"
Li Jie xuan's smile suddenly turned cold as he pulled out the space-time kunai again and threatened, "Don't force me to kill all your hornets!"
Aburame Mafune instinctively hugged her hornets tightly, and in the next second burst into loud, aggrieved sobs. She'd never suffered such humiliation in her life—this was mortifying…
"Take it, you big jerk!"
Furious, Aburame Mafune threw down a hornet-shaped pouch and ran crying out of the academy.
"Tsk tsk. In the end, she's still just a little girl—can't handle even a bit of setback."
Li Jie xuan clicked his tongue dismissively and thoroughly emptied out the "hornet."
"Y-you beast!"
Yamada Tsugiyuki and many of the students hiding nearby ground their teeth in fury. Only Tsunade stood there with a flushed face…
"One thousand ryō. So it really is 'raise sons poor, raise daughters rich,' huh?"
Li Jie xuan casually tossed the uniquely shaped hornet pouch to Tsunade. "Tsunade, tomorrow help me return this pouch to her."
Tsunade froze for a moment as she took it, then nodded eagerly with bliss written all over her face. "Okay, I understand…"
To her, this felt like acknowledgment of her position as the main wife. Tsunade was so happy she was about to faint. If Jie xuan didn't care about her feelings, why would he let her be the one to return the pouch? After all, stories that start with returning something were on TV every day…
Who knew she would read so much into it? The steel-straight Li Jie xuan simply thought that girls would be more familiar dealing with other girls.
The atmosphere suddenly fell into an eerie calm. Everyone was completely stunned by Li Jie xuan's ruthless series of actions…
This wouldn't do. The mission had only been completed twice so far—(2/10).
He hadn't even earned a single treasure chest yet!
At that thought, Li Jie xuan suddenly threw his head back and laughed arrogantly:
"Hahaha—who's next?!"
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