Sword Princess is not as clumsy as you...

Not as clumsy as you...

clumsy……

Clank, clank, clank, Nia could almost hear the strings in her head snapping one by one. She lowered her head and gripped the hilt tightly, her shoulders shaking with anger. When she took a step forward, she slashed out with the most violent sword power in her life.

If she had held back a little just now, now she was truly unleashing her full strength, vowing to cut the man who had crawled out of the trash can in front of her in half, three cuts and six eyes, and finally execute him by slow slicing!

But her aggressive moves revealed more flaws, and Ash dodged and defended with ease. In the fierce battle, he even said, "You're still not convinced? Your lying skills are worse than mine. After all, Sword Princess can see through my lies, and I can see through your lies too. If you calculate, you are not only clumsier than Sword Princess, you are even clumsier than me."

"Shut up!"

"Not only are you clumsier than Sword Princess, you're also more shy than Sword Princess. During this trip, you messed around without asking any questions, and I had to keep an eye on you. Sword Princess, on the other hand, asks questions whenever she has them, wishing to dig out all my secrets. What about you? Do you know what my favorite food is?"

"Who doesn't know that you love to eat Lala fat!?"

"You actually knew that, huh." Ash curled his lips, "But you never ask me personal questions. You ask Sword Girl more questions than I do. Sometimes I even doubt whether you like her."

"I just... shut up!"

"There's also this point. You won't correct your problems when they are pointed out to you. Although Fiora won't change either, she will proudly say "I am just like this, if you have any opinions, just keep them to yourself", but you just avoid them directly. When you encounter problems, you shrink and pretend not to hear them. You are much more fragile than Fiora."

“Ahhhhhh!”

Facing the furious Nia, Ash was not hurt at all, but the wall was in trouble and was scratched by dozens of sword marks, and was about to collapse.

"This is also the difference between you and Sword Princess. When you are too angry, you will lose your temper regardless of time and place. It was me who offended you, why are you throwing your temper at the wall?" Ash said, "But Sword Princess is different. At least she will wait until it is safe before losing her temper with me, although this kind of afterwards settlement often has a heavy interest..."

"I'm just not good at everything, okay!?" Niya's eyes were red, and she cried, "I already knew that I can't compare to Sword Princess, can you just shut up!?"

"Inferiority complex." Ash didn't intend to let her go: "Although you have the same inferiority complex as Sword Princess, Sword Princess overcame her cowardice after gaining power, but you still can't get out of it after gaining power. Instead, you sink deeper and deeper into the quagmire of inferiority complex, and you feel sorry for yourself."

"I'm going to... kill you. I'm going to kill you!"

Niya, who was extremely angry, regained her rationality. This time she used all her real skills, and displayed various sword skills one by one.

The special training she had received over the past few months was not in vain. The high-intensity sparring with Vishi and Ash made her swordsmanship more refined. Her sword-swinging movements were as gentle as dancing in the wind, and her petite body seemed to be about to leap into the air. She almost merged with the storm, and was no longer limited to swordsmanship. Ash's boxing and Vishi's leg techniques were all integrated into her fighting techniques.

Compared to herself a few months ago, Nia has made tremendous progress.

However, Ash has made more progress than her!

Ash stepped heavily, and the puddle of water on the ground splashed up, slightly blocking Nia's sight. It was this fleeting opportunity that Ash's two swords hit the weak point of Nia's sword path, and he pressed her against the wall with his body, successfully suppressing her!

"Fiora will not be defeated by me." Ash looked into her eyes closely, and said the most heart-wrenching words with his soft lips: "It's not about talent or hard work, but if Fiora can beat me fair and square, then she will fight. But if she thinks the chances of winning are not high, then she will simply not fight, or she will prepare a conspiracy to make me reveal my flaws. And you will fight even if you know you can't win, and you will persist until the very last moment and refuse to give up."

Nia was speechless. Her eyes were filled with tears. She bit her lips and stared at Ash, looking aggrieved and unwilling to let the tears fall. She found that although her foot was pressed, her calf could still move, so she stepped on Ash's foot desperately, and she whimpered every time she stepped on it.

The sound of rain gradually became fainter, as if it was about to stop.

She found that Ash didn't speak or move, just letting her vent, but for some reason she didn't dare to look at Ash, and could only squeeze out a few weak notes from the corner of her mouth: "Let me go."

"I didn't chase you here to let you run away." Ash sighed, "I want to take you back."

"You said I was such a bad person, why did you take me back?" Niya lowered her head and sniffed: "Is it okay for me to turn myself in?"

"I didn't say you were bad."

Nia looked up at him without saying a word. Her aggrieved expression alone was enough to accuse Ash of being shameless.

"I'm just talking about the differences between you and Sword Princess." Ash said with a smile, "I just want to prove that I haven't transferred my feelings for Sword Princess to you. I treat you as completely independent individuals."

"You are not Sword Princess's shadow, you are the one and only Miss Servi."

"Your clumsiness, shyness, fragile heart, petty temper, inferiority complex, and your persistence in not giving up even when you know you can't win... together make up the lovable and lovely Miss Servi." Ash said, "Maybe not all of them are good qualities, but they make up a beautiful existence."

"You're lying." Nia said in a trembling voice, "I framed you. You must be very angry with me now, right?"

"I am a little angry, but not because you framed me. I am angry because you killed for me." Ash sighed: "I don't know what you have been through before, but I always hope that you will not dirty your hands again."

"You're lying!" Nia shook her head and said, "Your plan to travel around the stars has been ruined, don't you care?!"

"First of all, it may not be destroyed." Ash said, "Secondly, you stopped the plan to protect me. Even if I am angry, I should be angry at the Starry Lord. It is fate and the Starry Lord who created this dilemma for us. As individuals in the tide of the times, we can only make the choices we think are right."

"You're lying! You just want to trick me into going back! Don't think I'll believe you just because you say that!"

"I didn't lie to you. I have never lied to you, not now or before."

“This is the biggest lie!”

Nia yelled angrily, and took the opportunity to threaten Ash with the straight blade: "You lied to me when we first met. At that time, you said--"

"That's not a lie anymore."

The straight blade pressed against Ash's cheek, leaving a thin bloody mark. The blood slid down his face and mixed with the rain. Nia stared at Ash blankly, and this time she finally saw her own reflection in his pupils.

She put away the straight-blade knife, slid down the wall and sat down, biting her lower lip lightly, and said in a crying voice: "You lied..."

Ash squatted down and stared at her: "Let's go back."

After waiting for a long time, Niya finally hummed unwillingly. Ash stood up and found Niya still slumped on the ground, "What's wrong?"

"I..." Niya sniffed hard, "I fainted at the sight of blood..."

Ash didn't seem surprised by this. He helped her up and asked, "How do you cure fainting with blood?"

"Ice cream." Nia grabbed the corner of his clothes and followed him. "Eat ice cream and you'll be fine."

"Then let's buy a few boxes of ice cream on the way back." Ash said cheerfully, "They must have worked hard overtime tonight."

"Hey, the rain has stopped." Ash stretched out his hand. "Are you kidding me? Why did the rain stop only after we returned? Are they targeting me? It might as well continue raining!"

Nia looked up and saw the dark clouds in the sky dissipate and the shining stars emerge.

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…

The next day at the high-speed railway station, the business class carriage No. 1 of the Jiashi Express welcomed the same group of passengers again.

"We can still travel after such a big event last night." Vichy complained, "I thought today's plot was to fight our way out of the city and face the army."

"There are two key points in this serial murder case: whether the criminal has a tendency to kill violently, and whether the criminal really has a strong ability to fight alone." Rose said: "The tendency to kill violently is self-defeating when all the victims are still alive."

When they heard that Nia threw all the victims into the river, everyone realized that something was wrong. As expected, Rose used the underground world to investigate and found the victims who had already died in other cities.

It turned out that Nia had only beaten them with the back of her sword, and the wounds didn't bleed much. She first threatened them that they would be killed if they dared to return to the city, and then threw them into the river. That's why the police department couldn't find any bodies in the river - because no one was dead.

"I knew Nia didn't kill anyone." Ash was relieved: "She just looks cruel, but she is kind at heart."

Nia was anxious: "I am not!"

Vichy asked, "Then why didn't you do it?"

"I just don't want to..."

Nia shut up halfway through her sentence, but Yaxiu guessed the second half of her sentence immediately: "You don't want me to be wrongly accused of murder, so you left someone alive so I can get away with it?"

Niya moved her lips slightly, turned her head away and said nothing.

"As for the individual combat power, it's easy to solve," Rose said, "I threatened the victims and asked them to submit a confession that 'I knew the other party was Ash Seath so I didn't dare to kill him.' This turned it into 'vigilante attacking evil forces' and 'poor people playing games with rich people'. The nature is completely different. The National Police Agency's evaluation of Ash's force is also broken down into the combined effect of influence and money."

"What a pity! I thought I could really stop the plan now." Wei Xi sighed, "Now I can only watch my master die..."

"If anyone tries to stop me again, I'll smack you on the head, Vichy." Ash said calmly as he switched his chair to reclining mode.

"Why are you filming me when someone stops you?"

"Who told you to disrupt the morale of the army? Now is the time for you, the demigod soul, to encourage everyone."

"Well, when the master returns, he will probably be addicted to the gentleness of the Sword Princess Witch and completely forget everything about the Kingdom of Stars... Hey, can't you just tell the truth? Are you really going to take a picture!?"

After patting Vichy hard three times, Ash went back to lie down in the chair and yawned loudly: "I didn't sleep all night last night, I'm so sleepy..."

"Switch it to sleep mode." Rose pulled down the window through the control panel, and the lights in the room became dim. "Everyone didn't get much rest last night, so get some sleep. Flight attendant, everyone here needs a towel blanket."

Everyone had no objection and fell asleep one after another in the business class.

Fili waited silently for ten minutes, got up quietly, and without even putting on her slippers, she tiptoed to Ash's seat.

But just then, she saw Nia also got up.

The two looked at each other, and after intense eye contact, they finally put aside their differences and jointly developed the project. When others asked about it, they would just say that they went to the bathroom and lay down somewhere because they were sleepy.

Although the business class seats were spacious, it was still too tight for three people to squeeze in. Ash's eyelids were drooping, but he didn't dare to move his body. Seeing that it was impossible, Fili had to pull Ash's hand over and hug her so that she could sleep in his arms.

Niya followed suit, and the three of them were finally able to lie down comfortably and have a good sleep.

But they were able to fall asleep, and they woke up the others. Igulla, Harvey, Vichy, and Rose sat up and looked at each other, silently turning off the shutter sound and flash of their mobile phones to test who was better at taking pictures.