Chapter 102
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Volume 2 + Chapter 102: Assassin
Xia Yi walked on the streets outside.
Night had fallen, and Corolle seemed to become even more lively after dark.
Among the tall buildings, there were colorful neon lights illuminating this city of the night.
She had heard that this was a new technology imported from abroad. By placing magic stones with different properties inside tubes and activating them with magic at a certain frequency, as well as cooling them with magic, they could emit light and be extinguished. As long as there were enough of them gathered together, they could display a coherent image and serve as an advertising billboard screen.
As a mage, out of curiosity, she delved deeper and learned that the quality requirements for the magic stones that made up the advertising billboard screens were not low. They were all of the quality that could be used to create weapons or magic scrolls, and were not cheap.
However, here, they were actually being used as disposables.
It was all flashy and impractical, a completely extravagant usage.
Xia Yi thought that if it were human mages, even if they adventured and risked their lives for a lifetime, they wouldn’t be able to afford the cost that an advertising billboard burned through in a single night.
This was just a glimpse of how luxurious the lives of the new nobles in Corolle had become after its rise.
Looking around, many glamorous dragons were coming and going on the streets.
These people were neatly dressed, talking animatedly, entering and exiting high-end establishments, experiencing a wonderful life.
“Sister, sister!”
Xia Yi heard a sweet voice calling out to her from behind.
Turning her head to look, it was a little dragon girl. She was half a head shorter than Xia Yi and not very old. In her hand, she was carrying a flower basket. She was wearing a worn blue dress with patches on it, and her face had an enthusiastic smile.
“Sister, do you want flowers?”
The little girl selling flowers raised the flower basket in her hand.
“My flowers are very popular, beautiful, and cheap too!”
Xia Yi glanced at the basket.
The flowers inside were not of very good quality, and the basket was filled to the brim, looking like they hadn’t sold much.
This girl must be making a living by selling flowers, right?
“Little sister, are you selling flowers?” Xia Yi asked.
“Sister, are you in a relationship?” The flower girl nodded. “Mm! Sister, buy some flowers. You can give them to your lover. It can help improve your relationship faster!”
Xia Yi shook her head. “I’m not in a relationship.”
“Then sister, don’t you have someone you like? The kind you want to be with? Then you should use flowers to express your feelings even more!” the flower girl continued her pitch.
The little princess hesitated for a moment.
She had never thought about being in a relationship.
However, the image of Xia Lulu came to her mind.
Hmm…
It seems she didn’t have someone she liked, but she did have someone she disliked.
Otherwise, why would she think of that person at a time like this?
“Alright then, I’ll buy a bouquet of flowers, little sister,” Xia Yi agreed.
Seeing how this little girl had been working hard to sell flowers and didn’t seem to be having an easy time, buying a bouquet was a way to encourage her.
Buying flowers and giving them to Serra was also not a bad choice.
Xia Yi took out her cute wallet and pulled out her own pocket money to buy a bunch of flowers.
“Sister, please wait a moment, you are my first customer today, so I’ll pick out the prettiest flowers for you!”
The flower girl began to select, picking out a bouquet from the basket.
“One, two, three, four…”
“Meow meow.”
A kitten appeared from somewhere and walked up to Xia Yi’s feet, meowing at her.
“Whose cat is this?” Xia Yi looked at the kitten. “It looks like a stray cat.”
“Meow meow meow!”
The kitten started rubbing against Xia Yi’s leg, an act of cozying up to her.
Xia Yi squatted down and petted the kitten’s head. After all, she had raised cats before… She wouldn’t ignore a kitten’s request for affection.
“Meow meow meow—”
The kitten was very much enjoying itself, letting out happy cries.
Its voice seemed to attract its companions, and the nearby bushes started moving, with a few more kitten heads popping out.
More kittens appeared, all gathering in front of Xia Yi, looking at her.
“Meow meow—” “Meow meow!” “Meow meow meow!”
There were quite a few kittens, all climbing onto Xia Yi.
The silver-haired loli was about to be drowned by kittens.
“Wah, what’s going on? Where did these cats come from?”
The kittens were rubbing all over Xia Yi’s body, making her feel ticklish.
“Sister, you really are popular with the cats!” the flower girl found it amusing. “You must attracts cats!”
Passersby also noticed the situation and found it quite interesting, smiling at the scene.
“You little guys, stop it!”
Only Xia Yi looked troubled, trying to get the kittens off her.
This didnt’t seem like attracting cats, but rather the cats were clinging to her.
“Alright, sister, here is the prettiest bouquet I’ve picked out for you! I’m going to go now!”
The girl stuffed the bouquet into Xia Yi’s hands and left these words before running off.
Why did she leave in such a hurry?
As Xia Yi was puzzled, her vision was suddenly covered in black, a fluffy tail slapped her face. It turned out a kitten had jumped onto her head.
The kittens surrounded her again.
“You keep this up, and I’m going to get angry! The consequences will be severe!” Xia Yi shouted.
Finally, the kittens relented, all running off her and diving back into the bushes, disappearing in a flash.
They came and went like the wind, their actions orderly.
“Seriously, even if I like kittens, they can’t be so willful.”
Xia Yi complained and tidied her bangs, preparing to continue strolling around nearby.
She walked out a distance and, thinking back on what had just happened, felt like something was off.
The kittens and the little girl seemed to have something unusual about them.
Could it be?
Xia Yi felt for her wallet and discovered that it was gone, stolen.
“It must have been those kittens. Those kittens and that girl are in cahoots!”
Although the money wasn’t important to Xia Yi, the more she thought about it, the more annoyed she became, because that wallet was a gift from Xia Lulu—
No!
Someone must be using the kittens to do bad things. Unforgivable!
…
Xia Yi tracked all the way, leaving the central district of Corolle.
The place she was now was dimly lit, the streets dirty and messy, the air filled with a lingering stench, few pedestrians around, mostly poor people in tattered clothes, their eyes dull… like walking corpses, a stark contrast to the central district.
This was likely the impoverished lower district.
Standing in the lower district and raising her head, she could see the brightly lit central district in the distance. It was simply the difference between heaven and hell.
Someone like Xia Yi, dressed nicely, appearing in the lower district was simply an oddity. Many people were looking at her with strange gazes, their thoughts unknown.
But she couldn’t care about that now. She had to get her wallet back and vent her anger.
“Found it.”
Xia Yi’s gaze locked onto a spot. She had finally tracked down the kittens.
“Meow meow!”
The kittens sensed the killing intent and fled in panic.
“Hmph, think you can escape?”
Xia Yi quickly gave chase, and sure enough, she saw the little girl who had been selling flowers earlier.
“Hehehe, how stupid. So easily fooled, actually mesmerized by the kittens. Too easy!”
The girl didn’t notice that Xia Yi had already hidden in the shadows to observe. She took out the wallet and flipped through the money inside, her eyes shining.
“There’s so much money in here!”
“Meow meow!”
The kittens meowed around the flower girl.
The flower girl patted one on the head. “What are you meowing for? What’s the rush? I’ll buy you something tasty later!”
“Meow meow! Meow meow!”
“Stop meowing, it’s annoying!”
“Meow meow!” The kitten kept meowing.
The girl turned her head and saw Xia Yi emerging from the shadows.
“Ah! Y-You actually chased after me!”
Xia Yi walked up with an expressionless face. “I’m here for my wallet.”
“I, I!” The flower girl was frightened, thrown into a panic.
“At such a young age, not learning properly, actually swindling?”
“Born into nobility like you, you’ve never experienced hardship, never worrying about food or drink. We struggle to survive, you’ll never understand the effort we have to put in!!”
The flower girl clutched the wallet and turned to run.
Xia Yi picked up a small stone, placed it on her thumb, and flicked it out, controlling her strength. It hit the girl on the leg.
“Wah!”
She lost her balance and fell to the ground.
Xia Yi walked over step by step.
Initially, the kitten tried to block her, but seeing that things weren’t looking good, it chose to slip away, leaving the flower girl behind.
“No, no!”
The flower girl got up, trying to run again, but found that Xia Yi had blocked her escape route. She could only shrink into a corner.
“Don’t come over. No, I-I still have many younger siblings to take care of. We were abandoned by our parents, we can’t afford to eat… If I don’t bring back food, they’ll starve!”
“That’s not a justifiable reason for you to steal,” Xia Yi said. “Give me back my wallet.”
“Wuwuwu…”
The flower girl squatted on the ground, crying miserably.
Xia Yi walked up to her, preparing to take back her wallet. She squatted down and reached out her hand.
“It’s indeed 1000%. I’ll be taking your life.”
At that moment, the girl’s expression changed drastically, all pretense dropped, she stopped crying, revealing a cold expression.
She is… an assassin!
Her eyes didn’t have a shred of childish innocence, only blatant killing intent.
A hidden blade shot out from her sleeve, raising a sharp, cold light. It pierced through the air and, at a speed that left no room for reaction, aiming straight for Xia Yi’s heart.
