(An: Early upload because I want to sleep well tonight)
(I-It's not like I care about you guys, hmph!)
--- Chapter 52 ---
In the inn room, we can see Yunlong lying on the bed while his sister is massaging his shoulder, making him groaned in delight for a moment.
"Ahh... Yeah, there." Yunlong said while Renxue is massaging his shoulder, which releasing slight stress in his muscles.
"Here?" Qian Renxue asked while pressing his shoulder with her delicate hand, to which he responded with a slight nod.
"Yeah, right there," Yunlong replied while burying his head in the pillow.
Qian Renxue keeps massaging his shoulder for a few minutes until Yunlong suddenly lifted his body and cracked his neck for a bit, making her startled.
"Uuh, it's more relaxing and pleasant than I thought." Yunlong praised with a smile on his face.
"Really!?" Qian Renxue stared at him like expecting a specific response.
"Mm, you're exceptionally doing a great job as a maid." Yunlong smiled while patting her head, making the tsundere inwardly laughed in happiness.
'Hehe~.' Qian Renxue thought while enjoying her brother's patting, but then she realized something.
"Of course, I do a good job. I have trained hard for this. Hmph!" Qian Renxue pouted while moving her head away to dodge Yunlong's hand.
'What a tsundere.' Yunlong thought while staring at his sister, who adorably pouted at him.
'Well, it's not what I expected, but I am satisfied.' He added in his heart while shrugging his shoulder off.
An idea suddenly comes into Yunlong's head, "I am satisfied, big sister, but a maid job is not only massaging their master, right?"
"Um, It's true. A maid also had to do cleaning, cooking, etc." Qian Renxue nodded her head in agreement, making Yunlong smirked in his heart because his sister already fell into his trap.
"Then, where is your cooking? I want to try one!" Yunlong suddenly requested with an innocent smile on his face.
"Eh, my cooking is a little..." Qian Renxue instantly responded with a bit of hesitation, but when she saw Yunlong's innocent smile, a feeling of don't want to disappoint him surging in her heart.
"F-Fine, I'll cook for you, just wait." She sheepishly stated before walking out of the room with a fiery spirit in her eyes.
"Easy, now I just have to wait," Yunlong whispered while observing the room, which was nicely built with a smooth floor made of wood and a few types of furniture like a chair and wardrobe.
"Hmm, Yuri?" He said while looking at a white-furred ball on a table, who seems to stare at him.
Yuri raised her head and paw while releasing a soft cry indicating that she is hungry.
"Haha, I forgot about your pill." Yunlong laughed before took out a pink pill from his inventory and throwing it to the white fox.
Yuri's blue eyes were brightened when she saw the pink pill flying toward her, and she gladly opened her tiny mouth to take her favorite food.
Yunlong is shaking his head in amusement while looking at his pet fox, and he suddenly feels a foot's steps walking toward this room.
Qian Renxue entered the room with a tray on her hand, which had full-set meat.
"That's fast? Are you sure that you're cooking?" Yunlong criticized with a confused expression on his face.
"You're underestimating my cooking skill." Qian Renxue quietly sighed while placing the tray on the table.
"Come here, I will feed you. It's my job as a maid, after all, right." She added while opening the lid on a bowl, which released a fragrant aura of beef stock.
Yunlong came to her side and took a seat, which makes Qian Renxue feel a little complicated because this is her first time someone will taste her dish.
'Don't worry, Renxue. You have trained hard enough for this.' Qian Renxue thought while gently taking a broth with a spoon and aiming it at her brother's mouth.
"O-Open your mouth." Qian Renxue said, which Yunlong gladly do while a spoon entered his mouth.
'It's good... But what's this taste?' Yunlong thought while staring at Qian Renxue, "You didn't put anything weird, right?"
"No, I didn't put anything weird. I'm using my own ingredient, which I already prepared, except for cooking tool that I borrowed from the inn waitress." Qian Renxue replied with a calm expression.
[I have detected a paralyzing poison in your food, host]
[This kind of poison won't work on you because of your poison immunity]
[But, if someone consumed this poison without awareness, they probably would completely be paralyzed in five hours]
'I see. That's why I feel the taste of this soup is weird.' Yunlong thought while looking at the soup bowl.
"There is a poison in this soup," Yunlong stated, which makes Qian Renxue shocked because she definitely never put something harmful when cooking.
"Don't tell me the inn..." Qian Renxue mumbled, to which Yunlong responded with a nod.
'That woman!' Qian Renxue thought while remembering the inn waitress, who politely offered to use the inn kitchen.
Qian Renxue gritted her teeth in distress because someone dares to sabotage her cooking, primarily because she served poison for her beloved brother.
"Yunlong..." Qian Renxue stared at him with a worried expression.
"I have a strong poison immunity, so you don't have to worry." Yunlong suddenly said while caressing Renxue's face.
"Hmph! Who worried about you! I'm going to tell Xiaoyu and Yu Ning'er about this." Qian Renxue blushed for a moment before walking out of the room.
Yunlong laughed while looking at his sister's back and then helplessly shaking his head because tsundere is maybe the most convenient type to be tamed.
'Poison, huh,' Yunlong thought while looking at the soup, which Renxue lovingly made for him.
"Let's wait and see how they expose themselves." Yunlong coldly stated while shifting his gaze at the open window, which shows a mountain's scenery.
--- The Night ---
Yunlong lay on the bed with his sister, who seems to have a worried yet shy expression on her face.
"You are so beautiful, big sister," Yunlong whispered with a smile on his face.
"H-Huh?! S-Stupid, don't say something like that!" Qian Renxue blushed and turned her body around, which makes Yunlong able to see her beautiful skin.
Yunlong chuckled for a bit while encircling his hand around Renxue's waist and said, "Good night, big sister."
"H-Hmm, good night." Qian Renxue responded as both of them closed their eyes.
We can see the carriage Yunlong used for traveling was being approached by many black-clothed men outside the inn.
"Young master's prediction is correct, huh." The driver said while watching the black-clothed men from the inn's roof.
"Let's finish them first." He added while jumped off the roof and quietly landed in the middle of black-clothed men.
"Who!" "What?!"
The bandits were baffled by his presence. Still, they can't react on time because the driver already materialized a black dagger in his hand and then swiftly moving it in the air.
The driver is calmly staring at them. Five spirit rings, yellow, yellow, purple, purple, and purple, float behind his back.
"Phasing Shadows." The driver's cold voice entered their ears, making a bunch of shadows scattered around the area.
As the shadows disappeared, the bandits' lifeless bodies fall to the ground with a confused expression on their faces.
'Not bad, that man is Bibi Dong's hidden agent, huh.' Jin Eyu commented while floating in the skies and calmly observing the inn.
Back to the inn room, the waitress calmly opened the door and entered the room, seeing Yunlong and Renxue sleeping.
"The poison should've worked from one hour ago." The waitress said while looking at Renxue and Yunlong's face, which makes her slightly jealous.
"What a shame that I should kill them." She sighed while pulling out a sharp dagger from her clothes and tried to stabs Renxue on the neck.
"Okay, that's enough." Yunlong'ss voice suddenly entered her ears, which caught the waitress off guard because he was already grabbing her hands.
"How? The poison should've paralyzed your body?!" The waitress said while staring at him in astonishment.
"Heh, that kind of weak poisons won't work on my body. Well, that's not important," Yunlong responded with a smile on his face and tightly gripping her hand, which makes the waitress shrieking in pain.
Yunlong is staring at her eyes and coldly said, "Don't touch my sister, begone thot!"