Book 4: Chapter 50: Dirty Tricks

Book 4: Chapter 50: Dirty Tricks

“So,” said Sen, “how do you feel about helping me burn a criminal organization to the ground?”

Lo Meifeng gave him a narrow-eyed look. “What did you do?”

“I told the Foggy Falcon Toe Club to get out of the city or else.”

Lo Meifeng closed her eyes and took three deep breaths before she spoke again. “Why?”

“Because they keep sending people to kill me, obviously.”

“How long has that been going on?”

“Pretty much since I woke up and started appearing in public again. They’ve been really persistent about it.”

Lo Meifeng looked like she wanted to strangle Sen. “And why didn’t you mention it?”

“Well, I’ve mostly just been disappearing and making them look stupid. But they just keep showing up. So, I decided to take a different tack today.”Embark on an adventure to the origins at Nøv€lß¡n#★

“I know I’m going to hate the answer to this, but what tack did you take today, Sen?”

“I killed most of them, tortured a bunch of information out of one of them, well, I say torture. It was her poison. She tried to shoot me with a poisoned crossbow bolt. I caught it out of the air, which just doesn’t get old. Anyways, I threw it back at her and, she was slow, so it took her in the gut. That poison must have been nasty stuff because she was writhing and moaning. I wonder what it was. I should have asked,” said Sen.

“Focus!” barked Lo Meifeng.

“Right. Sorry. So, long story short, bunch of dead people, torture, information, and then I issued threats of doom and destruction if they don’t clear out. I may have said something about a scorched earth policy.”

Lo Meifeng got a thoughtful look on her face.

“Be pretty?” she asked. “I know your burning lust for me must be distracting, but you’ll just have to learn to look past my incomparable beauty.”

“I appreciate your sarcasm less when you lob it at me,” said Sen.

“Too late. You’ve revealed your soul to me, Lu Sen. You can never take that knowledge back. Tell me, was it my eyes you fell in love with?”

“How is it that pretty and sarcasm are the things that you’re taking away from everything I just said?”

“Because those are things that maximize my amusement, and I’ve had very few opportunities to glean amusement from you lately.”

“You feel like that’s what we should be focused on right now? Your amusement? Not the sect of criminal cultivators I just threatened.”

“Oh, we both know you’ll get yourself into some absurd situation with them, do something impossible, then probably kill one of them in some very public and terrifying way. Then, if they’re really stupid, they’ll send more people after you. If you’re true to form, you’ll probably just make a big pile of their corpses in the middle of the street. All very predictable. My amusement at your expense, on the other hand, must be seized in the moment because it might be six months before I get another chance.”

Sen didn’t say anything for ten seconds as he thought over everything she’d just said. Is she right, Sen wondered.

Lowering his head a little and sighing, Sen said, “Proceed.”

“As I was saying, was it my eyes, or the unmatched feminine allure of my body? It’s alright, you can tell me the truth. I won’t clue in the princess.”

“If I just say it was your body, will this stop?”

Lo Meifeng threw back her head and cackled. “Not on your life.”