Kill no more volume 08, p.2
Kill No More - Volume 08, page 2
Interestingly, Kaiser had no idea Maylee gave Liola the jewel and asked for it to be passed onto him. But since Liola treated the gem as unimportant, he had completely forgotten about it.
“Is that so…” Gle’s face seemed to have completely lost the arrogance, leaving only loneliness and nostalgia behind.
He calmly asked himself, “Did Maylee give this to him?”
“Maylee? Do you know her?” Kaiser tilted his head and… he seemed to remember Barbalis called Auntie “Maylee”?
Tenderness could be seen in Gle’s eyes while he stared at the emerald, “She was a lover of mine.”
‘Lovers?’ Kaiser’s mind went blank for a minute.
‘Auntie?’ Kaiser’s mind went blank for another three minutes.
‘Auntie and my ancestor had been together?’ Kaiser’s mind went blank for another ten minutes.
The 180cm, muscular Auntie whose face looked like Schwarzenegger (plus it was jagged), and her explosive hair. With her white apron far too small for her and her pink chrysanthemum skirt, was actually devil Gle’s “old lover”?
The thought of Auntie standing with Gle caused an explosive curse in Kaiser’s mind, which made him dizzy.
He then thought about these people doing it… Gross! It must’ve looked 100x more disgusting than Liola looking like a monster!
“AHH! That’s impossible!” Kaiser grabbed his green hair with both of his hands, and exploded with a yell.
“What’s impossible?” Gle asked with dissatisfaction. He then said with arrogance, “Only a devil like me has the right to be with a peerless beauty like Maylee.”
‘P-E-E-R-L-E-S-S B-E-A-U-T-Y?!?!’ When he thought of Auntie’s look, foam began to ooze out of Kaiser’s mouth, and he looked like he was having a seizure.
The difference in a few hundreds years of age was more than a generation gap between them, their opinions were practically oceans apart! Kaiser cried as he shook his head. He would have never imagined that, a few hundred years ago, Auntie could be considered as a peerless beauty.
“What’s with your face?” Gle tilted his head and glanced at Kaiser.
“N-nothing! Just that Auntie… I mean, Maylee, didn’t s-seem as pretty as before.” Kaiser answered carefully,he didn’t want to play fire dodgeball again.
“Even if she aged, some beauty must have remained.” Gle looked absolutely certain.
Kaiser forced a smile, “Re-remained.” ‘At least the muscles remained…’
“Since Maylee is on Li’s side,” Gle’s expression no longer looked lonely, but instead seemed to go back to his previous arrogance, and even a hint of being sinister seemed to have been added,
“Having the Dragon Emperor killed by his own son, it seems like a pretty good idea.”
Kaiser’s eyes flashed, and asked timidly, “Why do you hate the Dragon Emperor? Is it because he launched a crusade against you, the devil?”
Gle’s angry eyes glanced at Kaiser, then said coldly, “No, so what if he starts a crusade against the devil. I’m a devil he created.”
Hearing this, Kaiser was shocked and asked without thinking, “Why would he create a devil?”
Gle glanced at Kaiser again as if he was looking at an idiot, but because of the emerald in his hands, Gle seemed to have relaxed a bit and he explained, “So he could send troops.”
“What?” Kaiser frowned.
Seeing Gle was looking at him unhappily, Kaiser immediately gave him a flattering smile, then said,
“Aiya, not everyone is as smart as you, grandpa. Even though Kaiser inherited a tiny bit of your intelligence, I am not even remotely close to your intelligence, so I have a bit of trouble understanding.”
The flattery seemed to work quite well, and Gle revealed an arrogant smile,
“That Dragon Emperor guy wasn’t satisfied with having the Dragon Continent, so he wanted to control the entire world. In order to convince the entire race of Dragons to attack, he had to find a righteous excuse.”
“A crusade against the devil… AHH! So Miluo must be the new devil!”
Kaiser wasn’t an idiot after all. As soon as he heard the Dragon Emperor’s wish to take over the world, everything made sense to him.
“Pretty smart, you really are my descendent.” Gle’s compliment carried praise for himself. After hearing Kaiser and Liola’s story, Gle already had an idea.
He continued, “A few hundred years ago that bastard, the Dragon Emperor, framed me. It was obviously him who wanted to control the world, but he instead put all the blame on me.”
“The Dragon race would never support the Dragon Emperor in conquering the world, and his strongest forces were his Dragon Knights. Without Dragons, what were Dragon Knights going to do? Be Infantry? So being the strongest Magician, you became the devil. He then started a crusade against you and the country you were residing, Aklan Republic. After defeating you, Aklan would be almost gone, and he would use the opportunity to take over it as well.”
Kaiser hurriedly explained, and many thoughts all came out at once. So, in reality, Dragon Emperor’s plan was identical to the one before, at least, the plan to create a devil was the same as before. Last time it was Gle, and this time it’s Miluo!
“Hahaha! But that bastard never imagined for me to really become the devil!” Gle burst out in laughter,
“Since that bastard called me the devil, I showed him the kind of things the devil could do! I beat him back all the way to the Dragon Continent, and almost even pushed him off his own throne.”
“Then how did you end up losing?” Kaiser asked without thinking.
Gle’s face darkened, “Because the Dragon Emperor framed me again, spreading rumors that my true intentions were to destroy the world. F— destroying the world! Why would I possibly do such a thing? I haven’t played enough! My bastard Magicians decided to defect to their side, and surrounded me with the Dragon Emperor. Had it not been for Mizerui and Barbalis secretly helping me, and Maylee helping me with my escape… Hmmph!”
When he was getting to the end of the sentence, Gle’s expression looked rather strange. A person as proud as him still could not accept he had the help of others. Nevertheless, he had no choice back then; his whole body was practically falling apart, how could he have declined help?
Kaiser’s jaws dropped, and said with a stutter, “M-Mizerui and Barbalis helped you?”
Gle grunted, “Though few knew, but Mizerui is actually my apprentice. Barbalis and Qiusi were my classmates back in Aklan Academy… Hmph! Even Dragon Emperor’s wife Susanna was my classmate. The four of us were the infamous ‘Crazy Four’ back in the Academy. Susanna was just too stupid! Who cares if she helped her bastard husband, but she ended up getting killed. Stupid woman! Idiot!” Gle gritted his teeth while cursing, while holding the emerald tightly.
Bombs exploded one after another in Kaiser’s mind, and he was so in shock that looked like a deer in headlights.
He then asked, “Dragon Emperor killed his wife? How do you know? I heard she died from childbirth.”
“Nonsense! Susanna was strong as an ox. Even without magic, she could use her fists to beat me, Qiusi, AND Barbalis.”
Gle suddenly rubbed his chin with his hand with a lingering fear on his face, as if he had been struck before. He continued, “Her? Dying of childbirth? Hmmph! Even if she had any trouble, she would just grab her child out with her own bare hands.”
‘…Liola, perhaps you really were grabbed out by your mother with her bare hands.’ Kaiser felt sad for his companion, for a total of 0.3 seconds.
‘Would the Dragon Emperor be killed by his own son?’ Gle sported a slightly sinister smile.
Although he had never believed in fate and had a disdainful attitude towards fortune tellers, this prophecy was to his liking. He didn’t mind helping to push this prophecy along just like Mizerui and Barbalis.
Gle’s eyes were then fixed on Kaiser, and a smile surfaced on his mouth. He thought the runt’s magic wasn’t bad, and he could make a good assistant to killing the Dragon Emperor.
Seeing Gle’s smile, for some reason, Kaiser began to feel it would’ve been a good way to die if he had actually been burnt by the flames before. At least he would die quickly, and his body would even get a free cremation.
Chapter 2 : Kaiser’s Path, Liola’s Road
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“Right, what’s with the people on the ground?” Gle impatiently kicked Lin Jiyun on the ground.
Though Kaiser told Gle about their story, it ended when they entered Purity’s black hole, and therefore, he didn’t know of Lin Jiyun, Void, and Yulie.
When Kaiser heard him, he told Gle what happened in the past year, especially Lin Jiyun’s story. He hoped Jiyun wouldn’t wake up to see the idiot-like Xin Jietian, and then run up and kill him with a sword. Although it wouldn’t matter to Kaiser if he killed Xin Jietian, he feared the action might anger Gle, and he might not even have a corpse for burial.
“Oh, I see.” Gle’s expression remained normal, and he didn’t seem to care at all.
“Can we let Lin Jiyun kill Xin Jietian himself?” Kaiser asked carefully.
Gle glanced at Kaiser, and his response did not answer the question, “To make a person suffer, killing him is the stupidest way. There is no pain when he dies. If he seeks revenge, then he should keep his enemies alive, then strip away his everything, make him wish he were dead!”
Kaiser shivered uncontrollably. The devil Gle did make sense. Had it not been for Gle’s personality, framing him to be the devil wouldn’t have been so easy.
Kaiser suddenly saw Lin Jiyun’s body shaking slightly, and his hand was strangely reaching into his pockets, as if he was trying to reach for something.
‘Could it be that Lin Jiyun was pretending to be asleep? And did he want to try to kill Xin Jietian when Gle wasn’t paying attention?’
Kaiser was in shock, if Gle finds out… No, Kaiser paused. Gle was someone whom even Liola couldn’t beat. If Kaiser could notice Lin Jiyun was pretending to be asleep, Gle must have already known for a while.
Kaiser could never forget Liola’s terrifying ability of being able to examine enemies hundreds of meters away. Gle’s alertness must be above Liola’s.
“Why…” Kaiser opened his mouth to ask, but he saw that Lin Jiyun was already getting up, so he shut his mouth.
“Thank you, senior, for avenging my father’s death.” Lin Jiyun got up, then suddenly knelt down to kowtow.
Gle didn’t even look at Lin Jiyun, and instead said with disgust, “Nobody avenged your father’s death! This guy used Shalong Hall’s name and blamed me for the death of the Lin family. Hmmph, I abhor people framing me, so he’s practically asking for it!”
Lin Jiyun raised his head, and continued to thank him, “Senior, you helped Lin Jiyun seek vengeance. Lin Jiyun is beyond grateful. From now, no matter what senior tells Lin Jiyun to do, even if it would cost me my life, Jiyun would obey without question.”
Kaiser swore secretly! He didn’t realize this Lin Jiyun guy was even more of a suckup than himself. (He’s sincere, you’re the one who’s a suckup!)
Gle seemed very satisfied of what Lin Jiyun said. He originally didn’t even want to look at him, but now he seemed to be glancing at him. His mouth, however, still had a smile that would make Kaiser’s hair stand.
Gle said, “I was just thinking your vengeance was a bit too easy, and too boring. Since you said I can ask you to do anything… Okay! You will receive training from me alongside Kaiser. When you’re done with training, I will release the hypnosis on Xin Jietian. At that time, you must rely on yourself to fight against Xin Jietian. This fight will be on every level: intelligence, martial arts, and your connections with other people. Haha, the World of Martial Arts would be in turmoil then, and it will be fun.”
‘Devil! A devil indeed!’ Kaiser suddenly felt the Dragon Emperor didn’t even need to frame Gle. He may very well have, in time, found it boring and became the devil himself.
“Training…” Gle spun the emerald in his hand, and it reflected off his eyes, “Since this jewel is here, let’s do an experiment.”
‘Experiment?’ Kaiser stood stupefied, didn’t he wanted to train them?
If it was Liola standing here, hearing the word “experiment”, his face would’ve immediately turned pale. Gle’s experiments were always extremely bizarre, and the success rate was less than 10%. It wasn’t a training normal people could pass!
“Training!”
Lin Jiyun, who was kneeling on the ground, seemed to have flashing eyes when he heard “training.” He was originally worried his low strength couldn’t be a match against Xin Jietian, but Gle was now here to help him train, and he had also successfully trained the top Assassin. Lin Jiyun could almost picture the day when he becomes one of the strongest Martial Artists…
Even though Kaiser was lazy, he remembered he might once again end up in his original world, just like the White Dragon must’ve spent ages planning, and it wouldn’t possibly leave Liola in this world.
Thus, to Kaiser, learning more magic to protect his life would definitely be a good idea. He wouldn’t possibly dare to ignore the troublemaking ability of the Aklan Troublemaking Squad. It would already be a miracle if they don’t run into the Dragon Emperor plus Lancelot the moment they go back.
“Good. Luckily there’s a pile of idiots who could be your training targets.” Gle rubbed his chin like usually, and a thick smile formed on his face.
“Idiots?” Kaiser’s mind had trouble connecting the dots.
Gle raised his eyebrow, “Those idiots competing for a sword.”
“Uh… I don’t think that’s a good idea. If something goes wrong, we could be the enemies of the entire Martial Arts World. Even if you’re the Alliance Leader, we can’t just screw around like this, right?” Kaiser was hesitant, because he didn’t want to take refuge in a third world.
“Hmmph! There’s nothing to be afraid of.” Gle looked completely relaxed. “I’ve got plenty of Amnesia Honey. This stuff is enough to make someone completely forget about being the Alliance Leader. Worst case scenario, we’ll grab all these people, and pour it down their throats. Are you really afraid they won’t forget?”
… Such a horrible guy. An idea flashed across Kaiser’s mind, and he asked with hesitation, “Have you already done it before?”
Gle’s eyes slowly glanced at Kaiser. Whether he had done it… Kaiser knew the answer without hearing a word.
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On the way, Yandi quietly followed Liola. Since she had spent some time with Liola before, she was familiar with his personality. Seeing his darkened eyes, Yandi knew deep inside, no matter what question she asked, it was impossible to get the answer. The Liola before her eyes was no different from the original Assassin, the one Yandi hated the most, the Assassin Silver Moon.
The first time she saw Silver Moon was during one of his mission. It was a summer day, hot enough to make people sweat bullets.
Having been around the Martial Arts World, Yandi had a nickname from people who hated her; Flaming Butterfly. The people who hated her the most were probably the Assassin organization; Shalong Hall. Though no one knew what their Leader looked like, everyone would instinctively think of the top Assassin when they think of Shalong Hall — Silver Moon.
At that time, her sworn sister, Anise, had been kidnapped by Shalong Hall. People of the Martial Arts World were all discussing how they were going to save her. The number of people saved by Anise at this point was countless. As soon as anyone mentions Shalong Hall, they all wanted to have their own “rescue plan”.
“Hmmph! What rescue plans? If she gets killed while you guys are coming up with a plan, then we wouldn’t need to save her!” Yandi said coldly after hearing the long debates between the crowd.
Many people loudly protested, saying things like a rushed attack would be suicide, and they would not be able to save the godly healer…
Yandi knew full well what these people were thinking. Having lived in the Martial Arts World since she was young, she knew them very well: these people did indeed want to rescue Anise. After all, they all knew Anise practically never rejected anyone who asked for her help, and injury was quite common among Martial Artists.
If they were injured, they wish a godly healer would come and help them. The problem was, however, it was Shalong Hall who abducted the godly healer, and it was the largest Assassin organization.
