Casius looked at Jude with a smile. He trusted that Jude would make the right call. Sure enough, Jude took a moment to grimace before gritting his teeth. With a decision made, he turned to the Ryokanian. “Mr. Sho, can you promise to give me the win?” Casius grinned. “You should know the Refined Blade’s ranking in Ryokan. They dominated the art of self-defense in the country. “Rio is one of the Refined Blade’s top ten fighters. “He has gone around Arcadia, challenging the best. I’m confident that no one can beat him here in Riverbank. “Hannah shows promising talent in the Viper’s Den. The Viper Queen has bestowed her a Nether Viper Sword too. “But given her age, she probably can’t withstand a blow from Rio. “With Rio’s help, I’m sure you will win tomorrow and become the branch chief,” Casius said temptingly. He would not have revealed his relationship with Ryokanian if it had not been necessary. Arcadia and Ryokan had a long-standing feud. Casius would be in trouble
The next day, Kaze got a call from Buffy first thing in the morning. Buffy said on the phone that Jude brought the family meeting up by a day. He informed her late last night that she should head to the family residence today to find out the truth. Hence, Buffy got ready to go to the family residence. To uphold the last of her dignity and not to air her family’s dirty laundry, Buffy would head out alone as agreed with Kaze. Jude’s eagerness did not sit well with Kaze. For all Kaze knew, Jude could give up fighting him after Kaze stripped his power in public yesterday to push Buffy to take his place. Kaze felt that Jude was not the type to give up so easily. “Since your father has expressed his stance, I should be generous and cure Faith at the hospital today. “Take Dayton with you. Call me for anything,” Kaze said on the phone. Kaze was not so kind as to help Faith. Faith was only his pawn. If anything were to happen to Buffy, Kaze could use Faith against Jude.
The Viper’s Den member put away his phone and said, “Mr. Gwake said that you can go inside.” “Lead the way.” Kaze stepped inside with a smile. It was not as if the Viper’s Den members could stop him if he wanted to barge into the place. Kaze was simply sounding Jude out. For now, things were in the all-clear. Outside the ward, the Viper’s Den member announced Kaze’s arrival through the closed door. “Kaze may enter on his own.” Faith’s soft voice boomed. Kaze did not think Faith would want to see him alone. Kaze opened the door and saw Faith slouching against the couch. In just one day, Faith underwent a huge transformation. She no longer looked sickly. Instead, she was glowing in health. Kaze even noticed that Faith had light makeup on. She looked delectable. She had traded her hospital gown for a silk slip.The dress barely covered her thighs and legs, adding a thrilling and sensual vibe to her presence. Faith was like a ripe peach, sweet and ready to be sav
“Come here, Kaze. I made this for Jude when I was free. It’s for men to get stronger down there and gain more stamina. “Jude doesn’t need it anymore. Why don’t you have some? I’ll feed you myself.” Faith poured the soup into a bowl and carried it to Kaze. The aroma of the soup and the feminine scent of the woman could easily arouse a man. Even Kaze was slightly shaken. Fortunately, he saw the woman’s true color before and he knew it was nothing like her current self. She must be up to no good. Kaze subtly and calmly took a step back and said, “I’ve eaten breakfast before I came. Thank you for the offer.” “Are you really going to turn me down?” Faith pouted and groaned but did not pressure Kaze anymore. She put the bowl down. Her eyes, adorned with a faint touch of pink eyeshadow, blinked twice as she gazed at Kaze. “Kaze, I’ve misunderstood you before. I thought you approached Buffy and stood against me because you are trying to leech off us, trying to take over our
Looking at Faith’s pretentious side, Kaze smiled and asked, “What do you think? Do you think I’ll do something like that?” “If I’m letting you treat my condition, that means I believe in you. You won’t do something that terrible, right?” Faith said coquettishly. Kaze replied, “Since we had a deal, as long as you keep your side of the promise, I will keep mine. The root of your condition is your practice, and I can easily treat it.” He did not disclose that Faith’s condition was not solely due to her martial arts practice going awry but also stemmed from other underlying issues. Given her current condition, the main issue remained her wrong martial arts practice, so the other symptoms were not that obvious. However, once Faith’s current condition was cured, other symptoms might start to appear. If Faith kept her promise and stayed away from him and Buffy, he would, in time, help her address the underlying conditions and cure them one by one. If she broke her promise, then
“Buffy is a dull girl and she doesn’t know how to capture a man’s heart. She’s boring. Why don’t you be mine? I can make you my personal bodyguard. “You can do what bodyguards do, and I will also let you do what bodyguards cannot do. As long as you wish, I can satisfy you however you want…” Faith moved closer to Kaze, pressing her body against his and her soft fingers dancing on his chest. She licked her lips seductively, looking at him with temptation. Even if Kaze had a heart of steel, it trembled for a moment. Faith was stepping over the line. Kaze shook his shoulder, causing his chest muscles to bounce her hand off. “Mrs. Gwake, I have to say you do know your ways around a man, but if you think this is enough for me to turn my back on Buffy, then you must have underestimated me,” Kaze said calmly. “Turned your back on her? Who are you to her?” Faith scoffed. “Don’t try to hide it from me. When I last saw her, I could still tell from her eyes that she was still a vir
“Yes.” “She got into power because of you and she gave you only half the shares? She doesn’t sleep with you either. Don’t you hate her for not giving back?” “Buffy is my friend. I don’t hate her.” Kaze looked blank and stiff but his lips curled into a sincere smile. “I see you are a… Simp. Yeah, that’s the modern way of calling it.” Faith scoffed and continued, “Are you my friend now?” “Yes…?” Kaze nodded after a slight hesitation. “You little ungrateful scoundrel.” Faith poked Kaze on the forehead and then said coquettishly, “Then if I want you to give me all the shares you have in Gwake Corporation, will you do it?” “I will.” Faith then went over to take the share transfer documents. “Here, sign this and I will give you a reward.” “What reward?” Kaze’s tone showed anticipation. Faith pointed at her lips with her finger. “I can give you a kiss here.” “Yes!” Kaze then quickly signed his own name on the document. “Hmph. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. Men. No matter h
“Hsss…” The maggot looked ferocious despite its size. It was struggling and hissing on the tip of Kaze’s finger. As he pinched it, the little maggot died. Heat energy from his palm burned the carcass into a crisp. “You know voodoo?” Faith looked at Kaze in fear. Kaze said, “Faith Gwake, voodoo works well on most people but to me, it’s just a cheap trick. I have to say, you’re disappointing. “You did all this to set me up and you wanted me to kill Jude Gwake? Do you know it’s lame?” His tone was sarcastic. He waved his phone and said, “If I send him this voice note, I wonder if he would kill his own wife?” “You! You! You…” Faith’s expression darkened. She glared at Kaze ferociously and shouted, “My voodoo spell didn’t work on you?!” She could not understand what went wrong. She was certain that based on Kaze’s earlier reaction, he should be under her spell. His looks and reactions seemed exactly like the other victims under her spell. To be safe, she even t
“Old bastards? They made you the scapegoat?” Kaze narrowed his eyes. He did not expect to get something useful out of Patrick. Based on what Patrick said, the elders of the Weathers wanted Patrick to take the blame, so they gave him to the Ryokanians. If that was true, then someone else in the family was working for the Ryokanians, not just Casius alone. Even the entire family might be involved. However, it was not a good time to ponder the question as Kaze had to deal with the imminent danger first. As the gas spread, the black color became lighter, ultimately turning into nothing. Kaze did not lower his guard. He gestured at the nervous Snow to stay in the car. Fortunately, they were halfway down the mountain and the wind was able to dissipate the gas. “Hehehe, you’re lucky, but you can’t escape!” The eerie voice came from the woods again. This time, Kaze got a clear visual of the ninja. The ninja dressed in a camouflage outfit, revealing only his eyes, was squa
Kaze scoffed, “You Ryokanians really love using cheap tricks to cover yourselves. It’s not really that hard to locate you.” “You bastard!” The owner of the voice was furious. Suddenly, the car door opened and Snow came over with an anxious look. “Mr. Chairman, we must go now…” Swoosh! Before Snow could even finish, black gas erupted from the woods, forming the face of a monster. The cloud of gas shaped like a monster’s face approached Kaze rapidly before dispersing and shrouding the entire area with it. The dark color of the gas became lighter as it covered more ground. Surprised, Kaze turned to Snow and shouted, “Get in the car and lock the door!” He then quickly took a deep breath, using a special technique to keep himself conscious. He grabbed Patrick on the ground and rapidly retreated. Snow had unconditional trust in Kaze, so she quickly went back into the car and locked the door. The driver had exited the car as well and wanted to help Kaze bring Patrick in,
Kaze’s phone rang. The call was from Snow in the car. He knew she was concerned about the situation, so he answered the phone and said, “It’s someone I knew. He was tortured and then tossed on the road. Stay in the car, and tell the driver to stay put.” Kaze realized someone set up a trap to keep him busy there. The mastermind behind this must be related to the person in the car that tailed them earlier. In other words, they might have been surrounded already. That was why he dared not let the driver drive Snow away. The driver was just an ordinary man, not a professional bodyguard. Based on his reaction to the crash, his mental state was fragile. If Kaze allowed the driver to drive Snow away, literally moving Snow away from his sight, it would only put her in danger. Kaze had to keep Snow close to himself. “Snow, call Conan. He’ll know what to do.” Kaze hung up the phone and took a pouch from his inner pocket. Inside the pouch was a set of silver needles. After per
There was only one mountainous path back to the city center from Emerald Bull Palace, and it was usually less crowded. After the car drove off and stopped tailing them, Kaze finally breathed a sigh of relief and got a shuteye.The Ghastly Thirteen Needles was indeed a powerful technique. He performed on Sasha yesterday and it consumed a lot of his energy. He had yet to recover fully after a whole day. Bang! Suddenly, a loud bang came from the front of the car, seemingly hitting something. The driver, assigned to Snow by St. Mary Hospital, immediately stepped on the brake and caused the car to screech to a stop. The car shook violently for a few moments before it stopped by the side of the road. “I’m sorry, Ms. Frost! Something suddenly appeared on the road and I couldn’t react in time. I think I hit it…” The driver turned around and apologized before he went out to check. When the driver had a better look at what happened, he was petrified on the spot, his face paled.
Reiko spoke those words with a smile on her face, yet her expression remained frosty. Even when she opened her mouth, her teeth glared coldly. Aiden said, “The Krad family doesn’t care, and neither do they want to care, what the Refined Blade Clan wants to do. I came to Riverbank just to deal with Kaze Lee. “How dare a live-in son-in-law lay his hands on the woman my brother fancies? He’s already dead! Even though Snow and my brother are not yet married, for the sake of my family, he must die! Only then can the true strength of the Krad family be demonstrated.” His tone was calm but the murderous intent was obvious. To the Krad family, killing Kaze was like squashing an ant. Reiko smiled and nodded. Her hand moved upward, subtly unbuttoned Aiden’s shirt, and then reached into his shirt to stroke his chest. “Your goal is aligned with ours. There’s a saying in your country that we should always pick on the weakest. We also have to crush Kaze Lee first, so we can flush out his
“That’s right.” Reiko nodded and added, “More precisely, we are after the ones behind Kaze Lee, like Hannah Delmore, the chief of the Viper’s Den South River Branch, and Kent Synder, the mayor of Riverbank. “We tried helping Casius to get control of the South River Branch and then slowly infiltrate the West State Viper’s Den.” Her words put a frosty smirk on Aiden but it faded quickly. Reiko did not notice the unusual expression. She continued, “Too bad our actions fell short. We’ve been planning for so long and spent countless efforts, but Hannah recovered even after she was completely stripped of her powers. She made a comeback and became stronger than before. “Yesterday, Casius was decapitated and Jude Gwake, the deputy chief of the South River Branch, was defeated. We lost big time…” “Wait!” Aiden interrupted her and asked, “Casius really died at Kaze Lee’s hands? If that’s true, then this guy is more than meets the eye. The so-called Riverbank Seven is a joke to the
The killers from Hell might not be the strongest but they could easily overwhelm the target with numbers. Not all organizations had the power to withstand their relentless attacks. It was also the reason that the Frost family lived in fear once they found out Midas King was after them. The fact that the Frost family members were not frightened by the news was a testament to their strong mental fortitude. Snow nodded and said coldly, “That’s why the Frost family hired the Krads and sent Aiden…” …In the car tailing Kaze and Snow sat Aiden, dressed in a white suit. He leaned back with legs crossed and a cigar smoldering between his fingers. He expressionlessly stared at the car in front, his gaze icy. Beside him was a woman in a traditional Ryokanian outfit. Her black traditional outfit had golden linings around the edges and an open chest design, showing off her large bosoms wrapped in bandages and her shoulder with a tattoo in red and green. The woman’s hair was tied i
The Frost family wanted to unite with the Krads by marrying Snow to Aaron. Therefore, when Kaze mentioned the Krad family, Snow turned to him and asked softly, “Mr. Chairman, did you know which organization of assassins was after the Frost family?” “Which one?” Kaze had no idea. When May visited Lilyrose, he overheard a mention of the Frost family’s enemies returning for revenge, with the leader being Midas King. Snow said, “The organization has many names. At first, they were known as Hellsearch, but people eventually just called them Hell. “I heard they don’t take normal payments to take lives. It’s either gold bars or a debt.” Kaze narrowed his eyes and said, “So once they had their eyes on a target, they would do whatever it takes and send them to hell?” There were meanings behind their name. The first would be that the killers of Hellsearch were difficult to find, or in a more direct iteration, as hard as hell to search. Secondly, once Hell received an assignment
Draig’s expression might have darkened but he was able to hold his emotions back. He knew Snow was trying to make him mad. As for Kaze, if even Cyan had no respect for him, he believed Snow would never lower herself to such standards. Draig was confident that he could move Snow with his actions and eventually, he could get under her pants. “What’s the matter with Draig?” Kaze asked Snow after they got into the car. Snow lifted her chin slightly and said, “We were at St. Mary Hospital for a while back then. This guy wanted to protect me 24/7, and on the first day, he tried to hold my hands and said it was love at first sight. “The second day, he tried to get into my room. After I scolded him, he said he grew up in Uleania and people there are open-minded. “I kicked him out, but then he got to Cyan and used her to bring me here. He’s just a shameless guy. I hate people like him.” After going through thick and thin with Kaze, Snow started to show her more vulnerable and fe