Ch43 - [A gossip party] Simpler, please speak a bit simpler.

What did Sirius want to do? This was a rhetorical question.

Because his action already declared the answer to the question.

In the end, the Sheriff brothers still didn’t understand why the Admiral would help Nalun of the Prey team expand their numbers. For a while, they even suspected Sirius didn’t understand the rules of the game very well and attempted to explain it to him specifically.

“When the result is counted, it’s decided on the teams from the start!” Helping Nalun means screwing yourself over!

Sirius nodded his head, expressing he understood. The next second, he gave the two brothers a warning: “Careful.”

The Sheriff brothers: “???”

Sirius already arrived before the two brothers– After a short exchange, he took their emblems.

The two brothers froze, only recovering after a moment. They had ample awareness to recognize a fact: Sirius had already, physically and with the emblem, completely betrayed the Hunter Team. Furthermore, he seemed to have changed sides over to his own arch-nemesis Nalun.

The two people exchanged a look and saw a grave expression in each other’s eyes.

Similar to Nalun, the Sheriff brothers were strictly from the gamer gang. In their eyes, competing without victory as a goal was purely a waste of time.

Sirius had just snatched away the emblems. However, as long as the last step of ‘beeping’ and changing images wasn’t reached, there was still time.

They needed to steal the emblems back before Sirius handed them over to Nalun.

Tanglin pulled out his long sword.

At the same time, Maji spread out both hands and blocked between Sirius and Nalun– In comparison to swordsmanship, he was better at close-range combat. Very quickly, he charged over first.

However, the first round of attack was unsuccessful.

Sirius ducked down and dodged before happily and fearlessly meeting him head on.

Maji was extremely strong. A slight carelessness would lead to a heavy injury from his fists. However, he wasn’t very fast. In front of Sirius, this was his biggest shortcoming.

Maji only felt his swinging fists hitting the empty air. Everytime he thought he hit Sirius, the other always found a proper angle to evade nimbly. Maji couldn’t even touch the edge of Sirius’s clothes.

Just at this time, a huge force struck him. Maji was completely thrown to the ground.

He had very good reflexes. As soon as his back touched the ground, he swiftly adjusted into a roll and landed in a defensive, half kneeling posture.

However, by now, Sirius had already flashed beside Tanglin and positioned himself out of striking range of his long sword.

Tanglin couldn’t turn around, so he could only twist his wrist and hold the sword backwards to pierce straight down.

Nevertheless, his plan was very quickly thwarted. Sirius grabbed his wrist with a backhand and exerted force to a certain area.

Tanglin instantly lost his strength and the long sword fell out of his hand.

Without even blinking, Sirius gave a kick to the long sword. It flew and hit Maji precisely on the head.

Maji: “……”

This one vs two exchange once again reached a conclusion. The combined force of the Sheriff brothers wasn’t a match for Sirius either.

To the side, Nalun already completed his mental journey of ‘Should I go over to help him” to “Can’t win, can’t win. These two brothers are definitely going to lose” to “……” in the end.

The entire battle progressed naturally and smoothly, a complete one-sided suppression. Other than Sirius’s fluid movements, there was basically nothing else to enjoy– The Sheriff brothers didn’t even look like they could fight back at all. This was basically the Admiral’s personal Show.

Especially when Nalun saw Tanglin’s wrist being squeezed and his expression twisting briefly, Nalun instantly felt his wrist also starting to ache faintly.

The memories of his previous duel with Sirius was awoken.

Sirius seemed to be a master of every weakness in the human body. With just the smallest force, he could deal a heavy blow to his enemies. This was a kind of experience accumulated from constant year round battle. It’s a place where Nalun, and other pampered Academic fellows, could never reach.

Only through personal experience, can you understand the gap in battle strength between yourself and Sirius.

After finishing the fight, the Admiral returned with an addition of two hot and ready Hunter’s Emblems in his hand. His expression was cold and detached, as if he still didn’t pull out mentally from the battle just now.

“It’s over. You can count your spoils of war, your highness.”

This ‘your highness’ passing through Sirius’s tongue, actually sounded like a low murmur.

Nalun’s heart fluttered and jumped a few beats in fright, like it was just struck. He accepted the emblems and hastily ‘beeped’ it twice. After seeing the images change, he returned them back into Sirius’s hands. Then, he feigned composure and expressed ‘thank you for your hard work’.

Sirius said: “Let’s continue walking forward.”

Nalun obediently nodded his head.

Sirius very quickly found the correct direction and leisurely led the Honored Prince away.

The two fresh-out-of-the-oven Prey members looked at each other in dismay, both seeing a look of amazement in the other person’s eyes.

“Big brother, what’s going on with them?” Tanglin was puzzled: “When did these two people’s relationship get so good?”

Maji looked very dazed. Many minutes later, he finally said slowly: “I also want to know.”

Tanglin’s words were rather direct: “Why did I feel like I missed out on a lot of stuff?”

“Yes.” Maji expressed gravely, as if he could see through a certain ground-shaking mystery.

Tanglin perked his ears, getting ready to listen respectfully to his elder brother’s wisdom……

Maji: “After we return, help me search through the most recent news.”

Tanglin: “???”

Maji said with certainty: “There must be something that we missed. I need to figure it out.”

Tanglin: “…….” Making such a grave expression. Here he thought the other was about to find the truth using some amazing method. Yet in the end, it was just searching through gossip?

Maji narrowed his eyes: “However…….”

Tanglin held his breath: “You discovered something?”

Maji sighed: “I clearly have read every issue of <<Imperial Weekly>>, but I never noticed any suspicious reports.”

Tanglin: “…….”

Maji furrowed his brows: “The reconciliation between the Admiral and the Honored Prince. How could I miss this kind of news?”

Tangli: “…….” Don’t say anymore, big bro. Your serious expression makes me think you’re some super capable person. However, the truth is always so merciless: This is not the case.

Maji didn’t actually perceive his little brother’s wild internal cursing. Instead, he turned and asked his little brother: “What do you think?”

“There’s no signs.” A female voice forcibly inserted itself into the two brother’s conversation.

Mona stood not far away. She tucked her long hair behind her ear and walked over towards them.

“Miss YiSi?” Tanglin recognized the other.

Mona: “It’s me. Long time no see.”

Tanglin and Mona were college classmates. The two had a pretty good friendship.

She shot a look towards the direction where Nalun and Sirius left and said: “However, in terms of suspicious news, I can think of one.”

The two brothers simultaneously revealed the same curious, Sheriff style, expression.

With an anguished face, Mona said slowly with a gloomy voice: “No matter how important the news, they cannot avoid the fate of being buried by the passage of time. When discussed, it’s intense. When quiet, it’s soundless. They can cause a sensation, but are also forgotten in an instant. New gossips are born and grow old. And sometimes, people are very good at forgetting.”

The Sheriff brothers were both dumbfounded.

Why were the words of this General’s daughter so confusing and impossible to understand.

— Simpler, please speak a bit simpler.

Tanglin expressed the two people’s wishes.

Mona hung her head in disappointment: “Did you guys really forget what happened to Sirius on the night of the Princess’s banquet?”

Maji: “……”

Tanglin: “……”

The Princess’s banquet? Wait a minute, what do you mean?

Mona said profoundly: “Before there’s an official announcement, everything is only a prediction.”

Silence spread between the three people.

The news of Sirius rolling the sheets with an adult man during Princess Shasha’s birthday party could be considered the current year’s number 1, national headline without a doubt. However, why was Miss YiSi connecting this matter with the news of “the Admiral reconciling with the Honored Prince”?

Tanglin was the first person to speak: “I feel like…… it doesn’t seem very likely.”

Sirius and Nalun rolled the sheets together?

Oh. He’d rather believe that the two people had a fight in bed.

Maji also recovered from his thoughts and said accordingly: “That’s right. This is too absurd. Although what happened to Sirius made people feel astonished, there’s no need to connect it with everything else.”

Tanglin expressed firmly; “Mona, you might be overthinking this time.”

Mona: “……”

The General’s daughter shook her head. Seeing the two brother’s resolute, unconvinced expressions, she sighed internally.

How could she not understand these two people’s feelings?

Yet this was only a prediction.

Predictions were a byproduct of gossip. It didn’t have to be true or accurate, but it required a certain logic and supporting evidence.

Reasonable and well-founded predictions can strengthen people’s deductive ability. Most importantly: The truth is often revealed unconsciously and accidentally.

The Sheriff brothers’ gossip skills were clearly not on the same level as herself. Mona felt somewhat alone.

Surrounded by the pain of not being understood, she felt completely withered.

Fortunately, her pain didn’t last too long.

Because very quickly, someone who truly understood her joined this group.

The subordinate who followed behind Sirius all year round, Officer Diya, who held a great deal of data in his hands, had unknowingly appeared behind the three people. Furthermore, using his outstanding diplomacy skills, he merged smoothly into the discussion.

“The topic of your conversation seems very interesting.”

Diya started, first asking if there’s a little angel willing to share what just happened briefly?

The little angel Tanglin gave a general narration of what happened.

“…… That’s what happened. Our emblems have already become this.” He pitifully held up the emblem that already changed into the python and lion image.

Recalling that their emblems became like this because Sirius had snatched them away, the two brothers both felt extremely pained.

What exactly happened?

Was the Admiral being blackmailed?

In any case, they refused to believe that those two truly reconciled. There must be some unknown story hidden in the background here!

Diya: “…….” The inside story was that these two protagonists from your story, threw off everyone not long ago, to have a secret date in a private booth of a coffee shop.

Thinking briefly, he didn’t announce this matter. No one can predict how gossip will spread after dissemination. What if something happened? Diya couldn’t guarantee that he could bear the resulting fury from his superior.

He could only hint ambiguously that these two have really gotten rather close recently.

Mona thought pensively.