The Demon Swordsman 3
Ch. 35 - Removing Mask
A black strand of cloth waved fiercely against the wind currents, a woman treading on the ground surrounded by a whirlwind beneath her feet. Out of nowhere the crow masked woman appeared, which clearly no one was aware of her arrival. Except for Xin Chen.
His eyes locked on the woman. The two faced each other, staring at each other in a piercing silence until finally the masked woman opened her voice.
"Now you'll meet the figure you've been looking for all this time. This is what you want. Didn't we?"
There was no reply from Xin Chen other than to remain silent. His guess was still so gray, he couldn't take the worst of it to appear at this moment - rather, Xin Chen wasn't sure he could deal with the situation if it was exactly what he was expecting.
"Why are you so stubborn? You have the choice to give up. Give us what our Master needs, so you won't feel tormented like this."
The rant was completely unheard of, Xin Chen instead switched the conversation.
"What is your goal? I'm sure it's no longer about fighting over that Sky Treasure."
"It's none of your business. You'd better think of preparing to face your biggest opponent with such little remaining strength."
Behind her mask the woman smiled. Looking at his opponent's face was thick. There was a sense of anger rising within his chest. About the little girl crying to him, the injuries he had been through all this time and his desire to kill Xin Chen.
"Hey ..." Suddenly the masked woman called out to him, and even more strangely his tone changed. Loaded with resentment and anger, an annoyed growl sounded faintly from his mouth. As for the woman, Xin Chen was sure that something was wrong with her.
"I hate you so much."
"For what reason?"
Finally the question came out, the woman was a little pleased. His anger also became so, what he thought at that time only expressed his hatred.
"Because you've captured the only love I have."
The frown on Xin Chen's forehead meant that he really had no idea what kind of problem the woman was talking about. He felt he had nothing to do with her. Yang Xin Chen knew, the crow masked woman was the same person as the one who protected Qin Yujin when the man's hand was cut off. The woman was the right-hand man of Qin Yujin, the mastermind behind the raging war.
Xin Chen did not think of eliminating the woman, nothing would change if he did. But, I don't know why the killer air of the figure is very concentrated. It was as if he bore the vexation that had rotted in his flesh.
Unexpectedly, the crow masked woman opened the mask that had previously covered her beautiful face. Seen her plump eyes with thick and sharp eyebrows, her face contained several scratches - illustrating how hard life has been through so far.
"I have a sister, she's very beautiful. Not even a single man would turn his back when he saw him pass by. I'm keeping my sister at risk of my own life. You know, being a big brother is hard." Finally, their eyes meet each other. It was clearly the look of the woman, and for some reason at the same second Xin Chen felt familiar with her.
"I can protect her from anything. But I can't protect him from my master's orders." Slowly his tone sounded slow. "He was ordered to a mission in a sect filled with priests. To gather information and poison someone who would be a great mastermind in the plan that you have."
Xin Chen could hardly believe it. Was that woman talking about the girl from the Flower sect. And sure enough, his conjecture was evident when the woman introduced herself.
"My name is Fu Qinshan. You must remember who I am."
Fu Qinshan's memory goes back to a mission in a sect, where his sister was involved in the mission. And that's why his sister disappeared after that day.
"Give him this potion. Remember, you have to give this away without arousing a single suspicion. Understood?"
The girl looked down inside.
"Yes?" Fu Qinshan turned to his younger brother after goal, he felt sorry to see his younger brother like he wanted to cry. In the backyard of a temple where the two met secretly, his sister spoke in a trembling voice.
"Can I refuse the Lord's order?"
"Which one?"
"Everything."
Fu Qinshan involuntarily released a slap into his sister's left cheek, which was originally white turning red forming the marks of her fingers. Fu Qinshan covered his mouth with one hand, not believing what he had just done. She saw her sister leaving while holding her cheek like she wanted to cry.
"I'm sorry. Ii'm sorry. Pardon-"
"I don't want to follow his orders. Brother! You know he's been taking us too far? If it's all about the life debt you've always said, haven't you paid it off with your devotion all this time? Is that not enough? How many times have you almost lost your life? How many times have you been critical? How many times ... I had to cry for fear of losing my sister ..."
Tears spilled over his snow-white cheeks, his poor little brother was the only one Fu Qinshan had. The woman did not want to hurt him but in the end she was the source of the wound itself.
"You should do it, my brother. Master told you to do this, just follow. You just need to poison it. After that it's okay."
"That man saved my life, brother. He saved me in the woods. She ... She-" her voice choked in the esophagus, the little girl trembled.
"I don't want to marry you. One day, I want to marry someone I really love. But why is something that I really want to always be broken with the word 'Goal from Master?' it makes me sick. And I'm starting to hate that big brother who's so obsessed with that word of return."
Fu Qinshan was silent. Slumped shoulders. That hate word, never came out of his sister's sweet lips.
"Just do as you're told, stupid brother!" The blackboard's rising. "i've done whatever it takes to keep you alive! I'm looking for you food, making sure you sleep in a warm place and guaranteeing you a comfortable life without fear! But what you're retaliating for me"
After a long time, Fu Qinshan's tears fell in front of his sister. He had been trying to stay strong all this time, not wanting to make his sister worry.
One thing Fu Qinshan could not tell his sister. Thanks to their master, both of them could eat and live without needing to worry. Their lives are assured. Breaking your orders means they must be prepared to lose their homes and their sources of livelihood.
You want to be free from their Master. Fu Qinshan wasn't sure they could live longer. The threat of being 'killed' in order to destroy the information they already had overshadowed Fu Qinshan's mind.
The woman gripped her two shoulders tightly.
"I'm right here. You just have to do what I tell you. You don't want me to leave you, do you?"
His sister's eyes glazed over with tears, before long his sister nodded slowly.
"Follow this plan as it should. And for your wedding plans that ... I'll find a way for you to let Mister go. Youunderstand?"
The girl in the robe of the Flower Sect nodded in understanding.
"Now meet our target and give him this poison."