Chapter 235: Shocking Sin, Desperate Curse
On the way to the archives, Yuan Zhisheng noticed that the crow was secretly glancing at him, as if it wanted to say something but hesitated.
"What's the matter?"
This guy has been a little uneasy since last night.
He originally thought that it was caused by the death of Tachibana Masamune. After all, the latter was the mentor of the two lively retainers and gave them the opportunity to soar to the sky.
But after knowing what Masamune Tachibana did, that filter has almost been removed.
The crow did not really care about Tachibana Masamune's affairs, but just asked tentatively:
"Um, Master, Ying is now..."
"She is with Eri, and is safe." Gen Chisei glanced at him, and the scene of their first meeting six years ago emerged in his mind.
At that time, he had officially inherited the position of head of the Minamoto family and needed two retainers. Tachibana Masamune assigned him Crow and Yasha, who had already made a name for themselves in the underworld.
As luck would have it, on his way to the shrine, he ran into these two idiots teasing Sakura from behind, saying they would do anything as long as they were given food.
At that time, Sakura was just a marginal figure in the family, with a low status and lack of common sense. She couldn't even speak Japanese fluently. When Crow and Yasha talked about her, their tone was full of ridicule and mockery.
It was because of listening to their discussion that he changed his mind and went to the weapons storage room, bringing the girl covered in dust from the shadows into the sunlight.
Although after they got to know each other better, Gen Chisei discovered that Crow was most likely just trying to express his concern for Sakura in a roundabout way, but unfortunately he was a hooligan, and a lustful one at that, so naturally his tone was not serious when he talked about women with his brothers.
In the days that followed, Crow and Yaksha would occasionally say a few sweet words to each other, but neither of them coveted Sakura as obscenely as they did in the past.
And... Crow seemed to have misunderstood something and was always trying to match him up with Sakura.
I was young and didn’t understand at that time, and I thought that guy had awakened some strange habit. Now that I think about it, the crow is indeed a veteran in the love field, and he saw through the king and his ministers’ evil intentions at a glance.
"Oh, I see." Crow nodded. After learning that Sakura was kidnapped, he had been worried all night, fearing that some Japanese-style incident would happen in an unknown place. Now he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
However, he also knew that his young master and Ying had been getting closer recently, and he no longer needed to interfere, so he turned the topic to career, exerting his subjective initiative as a dog-headed military strategist:
"Young Master, the position of the head of the family is now vacant.
If we can achieve outstanding results in this plan to kill gods and destroy the ghosts, the position of the head of the family will be within our grasp. ”
He really wanted to imitate that guy and say, "I think the leaders of the five foreign families are like selling Seoul with a stake", but he was afraid of being punished for disrespect, so he simply said less and made fewer mistakes.
But Gen Chisei fell strangely silent after hearing that. Just as Crow was feeling uneasy and wondering if what he said was a bit like jumping on the ground before Tachibana Masamune's grave was even built, he spoke quietly.
As soon as he opened his mouth, he showed his detachment from the world, as if he was indifferent to the world and ready to become a monk.
"I plan to leave Japan as soon as this matter is over." Yuan Zhisheng's voice was calm, and one could hear that he was obviously tired, but to Crow it sounded like he was setting a goal.
Although he had heard Yuan Zhisheng mutter about retiring from society and living in seclusion abroad more than once, this time Crow could tell that his young master was no longer just talking.
"Boss, are you serious?"
"Yeah." Yuan Zhisheng nodded, raised his hand and pressed the fingerprint lock of the archive room, and walked in after the verification was passed.
"So where are you planning to develop your career, young master? Once I'm done with this busy period, I'll collect some information to see if I can make a career abroad." Crow probed carefully.
"Maybe it will be France." Yuan Zhisheng walked towards the depths of the archive room. The confidential files were sealed in the innermost part, in a separate safe.
"Also, I'm just tired of the fighting and killing in the underworld. I want to live an ordinary life, and I don't plan to take you and Yasha with me."
"Then what should Yasha and I do?" Crow followed him with a bitter face, "According to the family rules, if you leave, we won't have anyone to work for us. Do you want us to retire early in our prime and live on the family's relief money?
Young Master, you have such a cruel heart. ”
As retainers of the young masters of the eight Sheqi families, after Yuan Zhisheng left the family, Crow and Yaksha were destined to be excluded by other forces and would no longer have the possibility of entering the upper echelons.
Moreover, one of them is a military strategist and the other is a violent maniac. They have no political acumen and may not be able to keep their positions if they are hastily pushed to high positions.
So we have to find them a reliable ally to ensure they have a place where they can gather together for warmth.
And it just so happens that that bastard... ahem, that Sakura is a big, thick-legged guy, and he also had a brief exchange with the head of the Inuyama family last night.
After ending the curse of the White King's descendants, he will use all the credit to pave the way for these two clowns. How far they can go depends on their own luck.
Upon learning that the young master had made such detailed arrangements for the two of them, Crow was deeply moved. When Yuan Zhisheng opened the safe, he stepped forward and looked for it on his behalf:
"Then young master, can we come to see you again in the future?"
"For example, if you and Ying plan to get married abroad, you will have to find someone to be your best man and run errands and collect gifts."
"Besides, Yasha and I can't be gangsters forever. There will always be a day when we have to retire. If at that time our enemies bully us and we are too old and powerless, can we come to you abroad for help?"
These words somewhat implied that once you become the young master, you will always be the young master, don't even think about getting rid of us, but Yuan Zhisheng was not angry. He just crossed his arms and watched Crow rummaging around:
"Are you still planning on letting me take care of you in your old age?"
He didn't deny marrying Sakura!
Crow felt his heartbeat slow down a beat, and he felt a little disappointed, but more of a sense of joy that “the CP I recommended was finally locked in.”
When a person is happy, he is in high spirits, and even his hand speed increases: "Found it, the principal's information."
Yuan Zhisheng took it and found the file was visibly thick, with a conservative estimate of no less than three hundred pages.
There was no rush to open it because the archive room was too dim, and there was also a more important copy that had not been found.
Soon, Crow found a thin file bag at the bottom of the safe. The name on the file was blurred, as if someone had stepped on it, and only the word "Shang" could be vaguely recognized.
Taking the files back to the office, Yuan Zhisheng suddenly stopped before entering the door and raised his hand to let Crow go to rest.
After the Dog-Headed Military Advisor left, Yuan Zhisheng pushed the door open and walked in. He looked at the stunning female ninja who had come uninvited into the office with a slightly gloomy look.
Jiude Mai was playing with two eavesdropping devices in her hands. When she saw him come in, she nodded:
"Hello again, hot-blooded manga hero."
"Are ninjas nowadays so open and aboveboard?" Yuan Zhisheng frowned as he looked at the bug in her hand, his expression not very good.
No one would be happy if they were sneaked into private territory or a heavily guarded camp.
Even if the other person is a rare super beauty in the world.
"I can't help it. It's your network that is not secure. Both letters and online communications are at risk of being monitored."
Jiude Mai placed two eavesdropping devices on the desk, with an expression of impatience and naked contempt on her face.
Gen Chisei knew at a glance that the bug must have been found in his office. His opinion of Tachibana Masamune plummeted further and he wondered aloud:
"Did Sakura ask you to come?"
"Well, he plans to use your brother as bait to catch a big fish. He wants to warn you in advance in case you are distracted."
Shude Mai took out two reports. They were the head examinations of Eri and Genjiro. On them were written in red pen: "Burn after reading."
"What do you mean? Bondarev and Herzog are still alive?"
Gen Chisei failed to share the information in time. From his perspective, Tachibana Masamune was still a KGB agent named Bondarev, and the leader of the Demon Clan was the semi-evolved species who escaped from the Black Swan Port, and was most likely Herzog himself.
This was the conclusion he came to after thinking about it all night.
Unfortunately, one mistake is all wrong.
Shude Mai selectively shared the known information, concealing the most important fact that the White King might have returned to Honshu Island along the underground river.
After a long conversation, Jiude Mai looked at the file in Yuan Zhisheng's hand:
"It's impolite not to reciprocate. We are all on the same page now. Good things shouldn't be enjoyed by one person alone, right?"
"With such a large organization, haven't you collected information about Angers' past?" Yuan Zhisheng had doubts in his heart. Could it be that Sakura and that Susan were just top chaebols who were as rich as a country but lacked sufficient foundation?
"Anger is an old monster from over a hundred years ago. Many of his deeds are top secrets of the secret party. And you are the only ones who have dealt with him the most in Asia in the last century."
Jiude Mai took Ange's file from him, and took out a camera from somewhere, apparently preparing to transfer all the hundreds of pages of files in the form of photos.
Yuan Zhisheng hesitated for a moment, but ultimately did not stop it.
The revival of the White King, the whereabouts of Herzog, and Eri's body all require Sakura's help. The reward he can provide is limited, so this is just a token of his gratitude.
Yuan Zhisheng was not in a hurry either. He just watched from the side. After she took a photo, he took it and looked at it.
The information shows that Ange was first adopted. His adoptive parents specially trained him to beg for money. Because he was too outstanding, he was noticed by the local bishop, who sponsored him to study at Cambridge University, where he met Menech Cassel, the founder of the secret party Lionheart Society.
That was the benefactor who changed his life and one of the greatest dragon slayers in history.
They formed the best dragon slayer team in the world and gained great glory. Everyone believed that this group of little lions would be the light of hope for the Secret Party, and the Lion King Menech Cassel would become the next leader of the Secret Party.
But they unfortunately died before they could grow to their peak. An enemy at the level of a Dragon King almost killed all of the first generation of the Lionheart Society, leaving only the seriously injured and dying Hilbert Jean-Anger.
Now, Yuan Zhisheng finally understood why the principal hated the dragon clan so much.
Just imagine, if Tachibana Masamune was not Herzog, but his adoptive father who treated him as his own son, the little girl had not fallen into a demon but was still a well-behaved and obedient brother, and Eri was in good health and was the most beloved little princess of the eight families of Snake.
In this way, they, together with Crow Yasha, attended his and Sakura's wedding with smiles on their faces. When the master of ceremonies announced that the groom could kiss his beloved bride, the White King suddenly revived and broke into the wedding scene, killing all the guests and the bride, leaving him alone to survive.
Faced with such overwhelming despair and pain, Yuan Zhisheng felt that even if he fought until the end of the world and until there were no more pure-blooded dragons in the world, he would not be able to eliminate the hatred in his heart.
Delayed by this brutal battle, his browsing speed could not keep up with Jiude Mai's filming speed. He simply stopped looking at the principal's information and turned to see what glorious past his father, who was the shame of the Eight Snake Families, had.
Uesugi Yue, male, born in...
When you open the file bag, the first thing that catches your eye is the personal information introduction.
Yuan Zhisheng looked at the handsome and somewhat charming man in the information, and suddenly he seemed to see the evil ghost who made a wax figure of the girl's warm corpse in the basement. Both of them exuded a bit of evil charm.
Compared to his grandparents who had passed away long ago, Yuan Zhisheng's biological father's first eighteen years of life were unremarkable. At best, he was a genius with a high IQ, and he obtained a doctorate degree from the University of Lyon at a young age.
Uesugi Yue was still a human being during his time in France, but his life changed dramatically after the White King's bloodline awakened and his words exploded, destroying an entire street.
Looking at the ugly side that Uesugi Koshi showed after he sailed to Japan, it was really hard for Gen Chisei to imagine that this man was born in the Church of Our Lady and had been bathed in the glory of the Lord for eighteen years.
According to archival records, Uesugi Koshi was undoubtedly a dandy boy who lacked patriotism, had no sense of belonging to his family, and was arrogant and dissolute.
The Eight Snake Families gave him all the resources they could, but he always just did things perfunctorily, always stayed away from the family, and behaved like a foreign master from the advanced Western civilization.
When he finally had a sense of identity with his country and nation, the war broke out and he was tricked into becoming a "Japanese captain". He did nothing every day but encourage his family members to join the war, committing endless killings around the world.
Yuan Zhisheng looked at the information with a frown.
In recent years, some people have been trying to deny that history, and the voices are getting louder and louder, including the descendants of "war heroes" from the Eight Clans of Sheqi.
Although I didn't pay much attention to it, I could still hear some rumors that someone seemed to be planning to put false history into textbooks.
Before this, he was indifferent to these things. After all, he was just an orphan, and living a good life with his younger brother was more important than anything else. He didn't need to worry about family and country.
But now that he knows that he is actually the descendant of a war criminal, his emotions are very complicated.
He clearly has a heart for justice and dreams of being a friend of justice, but why is the blood on his body so dirty?
First he was a gangster boss, then a war criminal. What dark history is waiting for him to dig up next?
Yuan Zhisheng suppressed his disgust and continued to flip through the pages. The more he read, the more his brows furrowed.
When he saw that his heroic attempt to assassinate Angers failed, Yuan Zhisheng just frowned and had a new understanding of the principal's strength.
When I saw him fly into a rage after receiving Ange's gift, rush into the family's original shrine and kill people and burn down the shrine, I felt a little puzzled, and I had a new understanding of Principal Ange's means of manipulating people's hearts.
As he was turning the pages, a crumpled piece of letter paper fell out of the file. He reached out to pick it up, and after reading the contents on it, he was stunned.
It records a shocking massacre, and also carries a mother's most sincere, yet most desperate curse to her son!
Looking at the tearful testimony, Yuan Zhisheng felt a constant buzzing in his mind, as if a huge bell was enveloping him, and he was unable to come back to his senses for a long time.
(End of this chapter)
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