When he saw Lin Xiao and the others, it was like a hungry wolf meeting some bunny rabbits. His eyes were glowing and he just wanted to eat them up.
They were missing just two people, now with Lin Xiao and ShenDai Ying, wasn’t that just perfect?
Of course, Caesar knew that he couldn’t act too impatient. He was someone of status after all, and Lin Xiao hadn’t agreed to join their team yet, so it would be terrible if he scared him away.
But Caesar didn’t understand why his fiancée was with Lin Xiao… But that wasn’t important, as long as they could solve this problem, Caesar would be delighted even if Lin Xiao kidnapped ShenDai Ying!
“Uh… I say, can you two please get off me already… I can’t breathe.”
The youth that was squashed underneath groaned.
The three were stacked like a sandwich sprawled out in the doorway. Lin Xiao was the most pitiful since he was squashed at the bottom and was almost flattened. Elena was in the middle, thanks to her excess flesh, it provided a good cushion so she was fine.
“Ah! Sorry.”
The first one to react was ShenDai Ying, she was at the top so she jumped up to the side while trying to help Elena up.
Although she was squashed on top of Lin Xiao, hearing his painful groans gave Elena a refreshing feeling, a feeling of happiness that she succeeded in her revenge. but it’s not like she could always use her body and squish Lin Xiao, so she could only climb back up. The problem was because her body was too top-heavy, she couldn’t straighten her back and she lost her balance and fell forwards again. Thanks to ShenDai Ying catching her arm, a tragedy was prevented.
“Elena, be careful… grab my hand!”
“Tsk…”
Elena didn’t feel good about ShenDai Ying’s concern, even as she grabbed her hand she didn’t thank her, she just glanced at her then stood silently to the side.
“You two… why is no one helping me!”
The two beauties stood up by themselves and left Lin Xiao that was squashed flat on the floor alone. He stood up brushing the dust off his body and awkwardly smiled towards the people in the room.
“Hehe, everyone’s here? W-we were just passing by and accidentally tripped.”
“Passing by? Who are you? This isn’t a place for a brat like you!”
Abra thought it was some brat that came from somewhere and was ready to call somebody to chase them away, but was stopped by Caesar.
“Wait… Abra, he’s also an investigator.”
“Ha? Him too?”
That was something only Caesar could say, if it was anyone else, Abra would have thought they were pulling his leg.
According to Caesar’s explanation, this youth was called Lin Xiao. He was a classmate from Loran Academy and also received the prize from the academy tournament. He probably also came for the mission at Gotham Kingdom.
“…”
“…”
Caesar and Abra were silent, and the others didn’t understand what was going on and didn’t say anything either.
Unlike Caesar’s speechlessness, Abra was sizing up Lin Xiao and after confirming with Caesar he couldn’t help but sigh.
Weren’t the youngsters nowadays all too strong? He thought that only the famous prince Caesar would be able to become a qualified investigator at 16, he couldn’t believe there was another one. So was Lin Xiao also someone just as remarkable?
Wait… did Caesar say that they participated in the tournament together?
Abra realized that even though they knew each other and had the qualifications for an investigator, but this brat might not be as strong as Cesar. He might have just leeched off Caesar.
Even though they were lacking people right now, Abra couldn’t easily let some riffraff in. This was a life or death fight, any one person that falls behind could cause irreversible consequences. Abra couldn’t gamble with the lives of so many people.
On one side Abra and Caesar were mulling over the matter about the team. On the other, Rosie was clearly very happy.
“Why did you guys just get here? Aren’t you too slow!”
Rosie rushed over when she saw them and grabbed Elena’s arm while making a face at ShenDai Ying. Then started chatting with Lin Xiao about what happened.
“Rosie, this isn’t the time to be chatting!” Caesar interrupted Rosie and stared at Lin Xiao, “I think you heard all about it, so let me make it short… Lin Xiao, we’re still lacking two people, along with you and ShenDai Ying, we can set off!”
“Ah, Now? Caesar, wait, I still haven’t…”
“Abra, we have everyone we need!” Without waiting for Lin Xiao, Caesar decided for him and then turned to discuss with Abra, “It’s too late today, we’ll leave first thing in the morning tomorrow. At that time, I’ll lead a group for a frontal assault and you’ll take Lin Xiao and direct the others from the rear.”
“Un, Caesar, it’s a good plan, but… ” Abra interrupted him and indistinctly said, “I’m not calling your friends strength into question, I just think… look, they’re so young, it’s too dangerous for them to go with us. Also, your friend even brought a maid… so we should wait a bit.”
“… What?” Caesar blinked, “That’s exactly what you’re doing.”
“Un… okay, since you realized, that’s indeed the case.” Abra scratched his head and admitted it.
A random brat that crashed through the door wants to join the team to kill demonic beasts, no one would easily agree to that, right?
Although they were both young, but Cesar’s reputation had already spread far and wide, even Abra recognized him as a reliable person to fight with and didn’t see him as a child. But this Lin Xiao was a no-name…
Not to mention that he looked exceedingly normal, and he even brought two beauties along with him. One seemed to be an impressive-looking but useless girl, wearing black stockings and high heels and carried two swords. She looked impressive but was obviously weak, the other one was even worse, she was wearing a maid outfit…
Please, are you coming for a vacation or for a mission? Why did you bring a maid?
Even prince Caesar didn’t bring an attendant, who are you to bring a maid?
Do you expect the other inspectors to protect your maid during a fight?
What a joke!
Just based on the first impression, it was impossible for Abra to have any trust in Lin Xiao.
“Um, don’t be rushed, I was just… passing by and still don’t get what’s going on, so how did it become the talk of joining the team?”
“Lin Xiao, stop pretending, I know you heard everything earlier. The demons are occupying the canyon and we have to chase them away!”
“Uh, so what’s you plan?”
“To fight our way through! We’re just lacking two people.”
“So?”
“You and ShenDai Ying are those two, we can set out tomorrow… Lin Xiao, even though Abra may not trust you, but I trust that you will never let me down. With you here, we can surely succeed this time!” Caesar looked at Lin Xiao with eyes full of expectations.
Lin Xiao was uncomfortable from his look and still responded.
“But… did you say I was going to join your team?”
“…”
“…”
With those words, everyone fell silent. They all stared at him slack-jawed like they heard something unbelievable.
“You don’t want to join?”
Abra smacked his lips and was sure that Lin Xiao wasn’t joking. He frowned and shook his head in disappointment.
No one at the alliance office considered the option of not participating.
Everyone gathered here were the elites of Lombard Kingdom, whether for fame or whatnot, everyone shared a common purpose, and that was to head towards Gotham Kingdom and deal with the pandemic. So clearing the path was a clear choice to complete the mission.
Was everyone not afraid of death?
Of course not! If they were afraid, then they wouldn’t take the risk to go to Gotham Kingdom and would just stay at home!
Since everyone was investigators here, they should all bravely undertake the mission, but this youth doesn’t want to join… why?
Was he looking down on them? Or did he plan on sitting back and then safely pass by after others risked their lives to drive the demons away?
What a coward!
Lin Xiao hadn’t even said anything yet, but everyone there already labeled him as a coward.
“Lin Xiao, do you still not understand?”
Caesar never expected Lin Xiao to reject, and thought that Lin Xiao still didn’t understand the situation. So he calmed himself and explained everything to him again and then asked again.
“So are you joining or not?”
