CH 474

“Lin Xiao, make it clear by what you mean before leaving!”

Claire stood at the door and shouted toward the outside, but he had already left.

What? In the end, Lin Xiao couldn’t even give her straightforward rejection and just ran away!

And her? She wasn’t any better, she mustered up the courage and in the end she couldn’t even confess, how embarrassing.

“Princess, h-how could you just let Lin Xiao leave like that?” Barrett quickly ran next to Claire and nervously asked.

“Hmph, so what?”

“Ah, princess, you can’t let him leave! Do you know how strong Lin Xiao is? If we can keep him and get him to be my adjutant… no, no, he should be the grand marshall and I’ll be his adjutant!”

“Hah?”

Claire finally snapped out of it and felt like Barrett was making a big deal out of nothing. Lin Xiao was strong, but not to that extent, right?

“Princess Claire, you don’t even know how strong he is! As a magician, he’s far stronger than me! And he’s smart as well, if he’s willing to help, then he’ll be our secret weapon, an invincible trump card!”

Seeing Claire doubt him, Barrett spoke about his observation without any reservation.

Robust magic power that surpasses a seventh-level, precise magic control as well as a maturity that didn’t belong to a 15-year-old. Barrett predicted that as long as Lin Xiao was willing to help them, Gotham Kingdom could take care of the rebels within a month!

“What? He’s that strong? I can’t believe I didn’t know at all…” She knew that Lin Xiao was stronger than her, but not that he was that scary!

But… even if she knew, it wouldn’t change anything.

“Uncle Barrett, I also want him to stay… but, I’m not enough.”

“Not enough?”

Barrett carefully digested her words and understood something.

“Princess there’s something I don’t know if I should say or not.”

“Go ahead.”

“Okay then… I want to ask whether you have feelings for Lin Xiao that’s more than just friends?”

“Um… did you hear everything earlier?”

“No, I didn’t hear anything, it’s just a guess. Princess, everyone saw how much you trusted him, and more importantly, you sacrificed yourself to save him… it was clear that Hardy was aiming at Lin Xiao and not you, so normally avoiding it would be the initial reaction right? Yet you did the opposite, so that’s why I made that guess…”

“Hehe, so you saw everything.”

“If that’s the case, why didn’t you make him stay?”

“Make him stay? No, I can’t do that.”

“Why? You’re Gotham Kingdom’s representative king, you possess an entire kingdom!”

“That’s right… but what he wants is an entire world.”

“An entire word?”

“Those two women are his world.” Claire barely put on a smile.

When Barrett saw that expression he immediately understood and didn’t ask anymore.

“Princess, you’ll surely meet someone even better.”

“Will I?”

Perhaps, perhaps she will meet a man better than Lin Xiao, but the chances were slim. But even if she waited a thousand years, so what? That youth who stole her first kiss, who made her weep, who opened her up to the delights of a woman couldn’t be forgotten.

“No… it’s not over yet!”

Claire bit her lips and suddenly thought of something. Lin Xiao never actually rejected her, so that meant she still has a chance! He just blew her off without giving her an answer, doesn’t that mean he feels something for her and didn’t have the heart to reject her!

That means she couldn’t give up yet!

“Lin Xiao, just wait, after I take care of the rebels, I’ll come for you!”

Claire didn’t realize that the reason Lin Xiao didn’t reject her wasn’t that he had feelings for her, but he was just bad at dealing with these kinds of relationships.

But Claire was at least right about something.

Their ill-fated relationship was far from over.

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And so the war meeting finally came to an end and everyone returned to their respective work. The grand marshall returned to the front-lines while training the soldiers waiting for the time to counterattack. Taike and the other officials who were tricked by Hardy turned over a new leaf and were afraid of being blamed by Claire so they worked hard to find more funding.

After this meeting, the atmosphere within the country completely changed! All the normal people thought this was thanks to Claire and everyone praised her, but only those in attendance knew it was actually Lin Xiao. That mysterious youngster quietly came and quietly left without asking for anything in return.

What made Claire happier was that after she told her father the good news, his sickness got a lot better which made Claire think of Lin Xiao even more…

On the other side, Lin Xiao didn’t have much free time either.

After Rosie got the news about Lin Xiao helping Claire, she told Caesar and it had the opposite effect it did on King George. After Caesar got the news he almost passed out in anger!

He had thought he did pretty well this time, having uncovered the secrets of the plague and brought back the black core, he was the top contributor.

The hero Greenton was already satisfied with his achievements and he got Evelyn’s promise that after everything was over he would take him as the hero’s only disciple!

Caesar was ecstatic and thought he was finally one step closer to his dreams, but that damn Lin Xiao got ahead of him again.

That Lin Xiao secretly hooked up with Claire and even helped her take care of a huge internal trouble and became her savior!

Although Caesar had achievements, Lin Xiao also did, and he even saved him in Yellowstone… so in the end, Caesar still felt like Lin Xiao beat him and was worried that the hero wouldn’t take him as a disciple anymore and instead take Lin Xiao in.

Caesar originally planned on returning to Lombard Kingdom with Rosie after a while, but now he changed his mind!

He heard that the hero’s sword ended up with the rebels, so if he could find a way to cooperate with Claire and retrieve the holy sword, then he could beat Lin Xiao and be recognized by the hero to become his disciple!

Actually, Caesar’s concerns were completely unnecessary.

Lin Xiao was just an unmotivated slacker to Greenton and Evelyn, so even if he had achievements in Gotham Kingdom, Greenton would never take him as a disciple.

But only the parties involved like Barrett and Claire knew how outstanding Lin Xiao actually is, to the point that he didn’t need anyone else’s recognition, let alone becoming their disciple.

“Sigh, sometimes it feels like a sin to be too outstanding, with great power comes great responsibility, so I can’t avoid some things even if I wanted to, how difficult.”

Lin Xiao murmured in his sleep shamelessly while he slowly woke up. He smelled the delicious scent of porridge and knew that it was Elena making breakfast so he quickly woke up ready to but when he looked he saw something strange.

Other than a few dishes on the table, Lin Xiao saw two people.

“Elena, sister Ying… why are you both here? Did you wait long?”