Chapter 248: Kingdom

"You— You are— "

"Bed. Where did you get it?" Lyca interrupted him. First and foremost, this bed is better than her bed back home! She needed to know where this man got it! Priorities!

"That— That is in —" The Mayor's feet suddenly pivoted as he tried to run towards the door. Sadly, Lyca's knife was faster than him.

"I was being a nice and really polite little lady to an old man and yet you acted like a criminal trying to run away from the authorities." Lyca clicked her tongue and walked towards the old man. Then she squatted and asked. "Should I torture you instead?"

"No! No! Don't touch me!"

"You can scream." Lyca's pressed a dagger in the Mayor's neck, the sharp blade immediately caused a small cut on the old man's skin. "But that would be a very… very bad decision on your part." She smiled and used more force towards the dagger. "Now… let's do it again. Where. Did. You. Buy. Your. Bed?"

"It's… It's…" the mayor hissed when Lyca's other hand touched the knife that hit his leg. "It's in the northern part of the Xu Country!"

"Ah?" Lyca pursed her lips and nodded. She actually thought that the bed was bought somewhere abroad. It seems that it was locally sourced? "Really?'' 

"Really! Really! Now… get that… that knife away from my neck!"

"Oh! Right… Right… Here take this." Lyca suddenly flicked her hand before the mayor started choking. "It's Ummm… poison. If you scream. I will leave and you won't have the antidote. You die." She made a gesture using her thumb on her neck. "If you don't follow my words, I leave. You die. If you don't answer my question, I leave. You die. You get it?"

The Mayor just nodded his head as if his life depended on it. Who knows if this woman would say if he won't nod he would leave too? The Mayor shivered when Lyca smiled at him. Despite the light from the outside of the room, the Mayor felt that the woman was akin to a huge boulder of darkness. Her presence was too heavy, suffocating, and deadly. 

"Stand."

"I— I don't think I can walk."

"Oh? Should I just leave then?"

"I really can't! My legs! My legs are— "

"Oh?" Lyca squinted. She actually got excited— too excited she accidentally hurt the mayor! This was all an accident, alright? "My bad," she sounded apologetic. She wasn't really planning to physically hurt this man until he answers all of her questions. She wouldn't want him to bleed out and die without telling her everything. However, the thought of a new comfortable bed totally distracted her. "Then… let's talk here."

"…" The Mayor could feel sweat trickling down his forehead and back. "It wasn't me!"

"Huh?"

"I didn't plan it all! It was the Zhang Family! They sent their people here and ask for my assistance! They threatened to report some of my businesses in Long City too! I am telling you! It was the Zhang Family!"

"Really?"

"Really! I am not lying! Not lying! It was the Zhangs."

"Not the Longs?"

As expected, the Mayor's appearance changed. "Long? Long Family? Why would they— "

"See?" Lyca clicked her tongue. "I can see that you are lying. Should I just leave?" she taunted. Judging from the mayor's reaction, Lyca was able to confirm that it was the Long Family that wanted her to fight with the Zhang Family. While the mayor thought that his lies were pretty good, he actually made a small mistake.

He believed Lyca when she told him that he would die without an antidote.

Why would he do that if the Long family didn't inform him about Lyca's capabilities with poisons? Of course, the Zhang Family could also do this as Huang Ying is aware of her talents in chemicals. However, the fact that the Long Family didn't send some people against Shen Qui only cemented Lyca's conclusion.

In the first place, Lyca did some nasty things in the Long Family's building. It wouldn't make any sense if they just let the Zhang Family send an army here and not send one of their people as support. Nope. The only way something like that could happen is if they wanted Lyca to think that the Zhang Family attacked Shen Qui.

Making Lyca fight against the Zhang Family instead.

Lyca couldn't help but wonder why the Long Patriarch was trying to subdue the Zhang Family. Was he planning to control the Zhang Family forever? That is just very possible. Moreover, the Zhang Family's Huang Ying was currently too irrational to think about this. The moment Long Patriarch mentioned Lyca, that Huang Ying must have agreed immediately without even thinking that this was a war that they couldn't win.

Lyca stood and held her chin. It seems that the Long Patriarch would be a bit troublesome to deal with. The man loves scheming and making people do his bidding while he stayed behind and recover his strength. Lyca squinted. But why would the Zhang Patriarch allow Huang Ying to just come here without even analyzing the events first?

Lyca could only think of one possibility right now and that is… he wanted to get rid of his wife. Lyca thought about the reports that he received about the Zhang Family. According to the information, Zhang Patriarch and Huang Ying's relationship never recovered. It was because the patriarch is still blaming Huang Ying for his son's demise in Lyca's hands.

Even when his son woke up, the Patriarch was still adamant about separating from Huang Ying. However, Huang Ying was quite close with the Patriarch's mother so a divorce never really happened. Lyca let out a sigh. "So it was indeed the Long Family," Lyca concluded. "However, they wouldn't be able to do this without someone's help. You are the one who took care of the legal stuff so someone should have backed you up." She looked at his surprised face. "Was it another greedy lord in this City?"

"What? No— No! What are you talking about?" The Mayor's stutter was the only confirmation that she needed.

Lyca nodded and shrugged in response."Alright… I will leave now."

"Wait! Wait!"

"Hm? Do you have anything?"

"What about the antidote?"

"I don't have one." Lyca shrugged. Right now, the best thing that could happen is to kill this mayor and let Jessica think that this was all her fault. That would make her more disturbed, therefore, she will be easier to catch. At the end of the day, Jessica was really someone innocent in all this.

She was just a child who never got the attention of her father and developed some illness that could have been corrected if she was admitted to a hospital. However, the mayor wanted to protect his name so he chose to try and medicate his daughter inside his mansion. Then she developed some sort of obsession with Shen Qui.

"What are you talking about?" fear flashed in the mayor's eyes. "Give me the antidote! What are you— "

"Shhh," Lyca put a finger on her lips. In the first place, she never told him that she would give him the antidote if he answers her question. She only said that she would leave if he doesn't. Was it her fault that the mayor couldn't understand her words? "Question… did you regret it? Raising your daughter like this?"

The mayor turned silent at her question. No matter how much of a monster he was, the mayor was still a father to Jessica. "What— What does it have to do with you?"

Lyca shrugged in response. "Just curious." Then she used her palm to hit the back of the mayor's neck, making him lost his consciousness. The poison wasn't really something that could kill someone. However, the mayor would never wake up again while enduring endless pain as his bones will slowly disintegrate until his body won't be able to endure the pain and he would finally succumb to his death.

This would serve as a lesson to the Long Family. Lyca was never afraid of offending someone with power. In fact, she quite loved showing people that in this world, their money is useless. Slowly, Lyca retrieved her knife and exited the room. It seems like she needed to pay attention to the other Lords in this City first and finally established Shen Qui's kingdom? Kidding.

She only wanted to kill the other Lords except Santa and make Shen Qui the only leader in this Territory. Once this happens, Lyca's goal of living lazily would soon come to fruition.

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