Chapter 474: Stupid Legend

When Xu Ke went back to see Lyca, he was already smiling as if he didn't just kill his cousin. He sat on the only chair in the room as Lyca leaned against the metal table, staring at him, scrutinizing his weird gaze. "What's wrong with you?" she folded her arms across her chest.

"I just thought you are really good."

"You smelled the gas and live."

She snorted. "Only kids would think of ways like that to hurt me."

"I already punished him. You won't be seeing him in the near future."

"You killed him." That wasn't a question. It was something that she knew he would do to Xu Jihan.

"Are you blaming me?"

She shook her head. "I wasn't surprised."

"Really? Am I really that evil?"

"Yes," she nodded. "Why are you here? I am busy."

"The creature that you gave me… died."

She gave a dramatic sigh. "I expected as much. It would be difficult to have it live in this world as this world have no magic."

"There is no such thing as impossible. Look… our existence should be considered impossible but here we are."

"We are not like those creatures who survive through magic."

He squinted at her. "I want you to create a way to sustain its life."

"Do you think I'm a god?" She watched him stood and approached her.

"Close."

"Why do you want it to survive? Xu Jihan said that there's a lot of problems outside. Are you waiting for it to live instead of solving those problems?" she lifted her gaze and stared at Xu Ke who was now standing a few feet away from her.

"Those things have nothing to do with me."

"You are the President, aren't you? If you didn't want to rule. Then why bother pretending that you are your uncle?" she asked calmly. She could see that Xu Ke's gaze towards her had become a lot softer. Was it because of her dramatic performance earlier?

"As long as you find ways to make that creature live then… we could rule this world. These myriads of problems that Xu Country has been experiencing are nothing to my eyes. Once we rule this place… all of these problems will naturally disappear." He lifted his hand and touched her cheek. She shivered, goosebumps skittered all over her body.

Guilt flooded through her.

"You are scared of me?" he was standing too close towards her. She hated it. She gulped and stared at him. She wasn't scared, but she honestly felt guilty. Just letting another man touch her face felt like she was cheating.

She fought the urge to slap him and immediately ran into her room to take a bath.

She wanted to scrub her cheek and cleanse it.

"Ah, I understand. It was about the past?"

Again, she wasn't scared. In fact, she doesn't feel anything towards this man anymore. Not even an iota of hatred or disgust. It was just indifference.

"I did it because of an ancient story."

"What story?"

He let out another sighed. "This is your reward for what happened earlier, for showing loyalty."

Loyalty her ass, she cursed inwardly.

"In our world, there were already records of people who transmigrated and reincarnated, right? I'm sure you have read something about it. After all, it was in my family's library."

Lyca nodded. She used to visit him a lot and every time he was busy, she would spend her time in the family's library or practice her daggers.

"Well… there was once a legend about a man from another world who woke up in the body of a six-year-old child who cannot cultivate. Because of that man's sharp mind, he was able to analyze the boy's body and changed that boy's destiny. That man was one of my Xu Family's ancestors. And he wrote a few… interesting stories about this world."

"This world?"

He nodded and smiled, the back of his hand caressed her cheek. She cursed inwardly but managed to maintain a straight face. "You mean to say that he came in this world?"

"Yes. He is a Xu and he didn't come into our world by accident. He did it by using a moonstone."

Lyca gulped.

"Just like your stone," he added. "I have no idea where you put the stone but… it should be the reason why you came back and had your revenge against my family, right?"

"I don't know what you are talking about."

He chuckled. "I understand." Then he took a step back. "That stone… rather… the owner of that stone needed to die for the magic to activate. Just like how you died in our previous world with that stone in your hand. However, this wasn't the only legend. Another one accompanied it."

Lyca gulped. The necklace should be given by someone from the Ye Family, right?

"It is about killing … the family of the people who stole the necklace from my family. Slaughter them and stole the necklace back. You needed to bath the necklace with blood, the blood of the people who are considered as sinners. Obviously, the choice was pretty easy. Killing a family of assassins is just… the right thing to do."

"Ummm…." Lyca deadpanned. What kind of legend is this? "Let me stop you, right now."

"Hm?"

"So, you are saying that you killed me and my family because… of a stupid legend?"

"It wasn't some stupid legend. It was real. Look at me, now?" He smiled and went back to his chair. "Obviously, something is wrong with that legend as you are here too. And you managed to come back to that world. While I… I cannot." He sighed, melancholy rich in his voice. "I came into this world unprepared because I didn't know when it would happen. And just when I thought that I could travel of my own will… I got stuck. Here. In this stupid, powerless world full of greedy and weak people."

Lyca is speechless. Just as she expected, Xu Ke really had problems in his head. 

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