"I'm known as Shan Dian in the Bao Fu Organization. Lu Wan is my junior brother, so you should be my junior sister."
Ye Jiao's mind was blank when she heard the young man's words. Did he just say that she was his junior sister? It meant that the senior brother that Lu Wan mentioned before was truly referring to this young man?
Seeing that Ye Jiao was still in the state of disbelief, he added. "I may be younger than Lu Wan, but you can be rest assured that I'm stronger than him."
"Are you really my senior brother?"
"Yes, you can call me Senior Brother Shan Dian*."
"Senior Brother lightning?"
Qi Huan smiled. "It seems that you have quite a large vocabulary. Yes, you can say that to me."
"Ye Jiao, I have finished…" Lu Wan appeared from one of the alleyway, but his word stopped when he noticed that Qi Huan was standing there. Frown appeared on his forehead. "Didn't I tell you before that we'll only greet each other when the hunt has started?"
"Both of us are the representatives of our kingdoms, so it's not weird for me to greet you first," Qi Huan has returned back to his calm and amiable demeanor as he put away his sword.
Lu Wan rolled his eyes. "That's that, but you don't have to follow me here."
"I can see that you're still researching poison," Qi Huan noticed the faint smell of herbs on Lu Wan. "It seems that you have improved a lot ever since I last saw you. Even your acting skill gets considerably better."
"Thanks to my junior sister, I have to learn how to act," Lu Wan pointed to Ye Jiao.
"No wonder."
If it was the usual Lu Wan, he would not care for any acting and immediately used poison to finish his task as an assassin. But because of Ye Jiao's interference, he had to make sure that he behaved and learned how to act several roles.
"Senior Brother Lu, why do you never tell me that your senior brother is younger than you?" Ye Jiao couldn't wait any longer as she asked.
"Ah…" Lu Wan face palmed. He truly didn't want to tell that to Ye Jiao.
On the other hand, Qi Huan was amused. "We met master at around the same time. At that time, we decided to determine seniority using our power, so naturally, I become his senior brother."
"Don't recount that!"
"I'm just telling our little junior sister. She deserved to know," Qi Huan shrugged.
"Anyway, with you staying alone in Chi Kingdom, how's the progress of your mission so far?" Lu Wan relented and asked.
"I don't do any mission."
"You what?"
Qi Huan smiled. "I'm the first prince of Chi Kingdom and naturally, I'll inherit the throne if not because of my talent. If I manage to pass the exam and become a disciple, the next in line will be my brother, but if I don't manage to pass, I'll be the king. Because of this position, many people are after my life. There's no need for you to worry that my experience is lacking compared to you."
Listening to this young man, Ye Jiao was speechless. It looked like Qi Huan was truly born with a silver-no gold spoon. He was given two different choices from birth, either to become a king or become an expert. And either one of them would be a high position with lots of people envied him.
"Fine, I believe you," Lu Wan waved his hand. "I'm going back first. We can have a hearty talk in the forest later."
"Sure. I just came here to meet with our junior sister since Master says that she's really interesting," Qi Huan responded.
"Oh right, what's our mission?"
"Master asked me to tell you that during the hunt, we have to hunt 10 rank 2 beasts. Aside from that, we have to breakthrough to Eon Energy Master rank 2 and stabilize our rank through arena competition and doing individual missions."
After they reached rank 2, they could start to take individual missions and no longer had to form a group with one another.
"I have a bad feeling about the next mission," Lu Wan furrowed his brows.
Qi Huan smiled. "Afterwards, he'll prepare a mission for us to assassinate Eon Energy Master rank 3."
Ye Jiao and Lu Wan: "…" master, do you want to kill us?
The difference between rank 2 and 3 were extremely large. As Eon Energy Master rank 2 had only started to use their Eon Energy outside their body, Eon Energy Master rank 3 would learn how to use it for their weapon and further distance. In a fight, Eon Energy Master rank 3 would have a better weapon, larger area of control, and obviously more amount of Eon Energy.
Even though they were three people, they doubted that they could survive.
"He didn't give the details, so we'll have to wait."
"I want to return back first. I feel that I need to ingest another portion of poison once again," Lu Wan rubbed his forehead. "Let's go back, Jiao'er."
"Yes."
Qi Huan also didn't linger around any longer. He sneaked out because he wanted to know more about Ye Jiao, so he had to return back before his guards started to search for him.
As Ye Jiao walked back, she asked. "Senior Brother Lu, is the reason you don't want to tell much about Senior Brother Qi is because of his age?"
"Of course not," Lu Wan's face darkened. If it was just that bet, he could just say that Qi Huan was better because that prince has trained since young. It was a plausible excuse he could use.
"Then why?"
"… Don't you feel bothered by his change of personalities?"
Personality?
Now that Lu Wan mentioned it, Ye Jiao did feel a shiver of fear when she saw Qi Huan start to show his killing intent. It seemed that the boy was thirsty of blood and would never stop until he was satisfied. Compared to his dignified appearance as the prince, it was a stark contrast.
"Everyone has their own reason to become who they're, right?"
Lu Wan chose not to comment and buried his face on his palm. Rather than telling this girl of how much change Qi Huan had, it would be better if she just saw it for herself.
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A/N: Shan Dian (third tone on first and fourth tone on the second word) mean lightning in Chinese words.