Chapter 5 - Lame ass antagonist

"Enough! She obviously just fell down! Let her be!"

Zhu Jiao stood there slack jawed. "What the heck! That's supposed to be my line! He's the antagonist, he doesn't get to say those lines!"

"Sorry young master! But she blocked our way! Shouldn't we punish her in some way?"

The young master on the white horse looked at the guard.

"Sigh, just help her up and give her some money. We need to get going."

The guard bowed in obedience as he helped the poor lady up and passed her some money. The procession just moved on in silence, the only sound came from the footsteps of burly men and the clacking of hooves.

Zhu Jiao stood there confused at what just happened. "What is this! I'm supposed to stand up for justice? Why is he being nice? This is unacceptable!"

Zhu Jiao's eyes turned Blue as he exploded into smoke. Turning into a small green snake before yeeting himself to the shoulder of the Young master.

An ability that allows him to transform into different beasts or animals. Whether ancient beasts or mythical beasts, as long as he has seen it, he can transform into it. This ability first manifested when he was walking down an alley and he encountered a rat. The rat stared at him and wanted to attack him. Instinctively he transformed into a cat and pawed the rat away. Being young at that time, he didn't recover fully for a few days as he started craving for fish and getting attracted to bells.

Landing on the shoulder of the young master Zhu Jiao smiled in his snake form as he started whispering into his ear.

"Hello~ theressss." He whispered softly

"Who's there! What the f*ck is this!? How is an animal talking!" Young Master Long jumped in fright as he got the shock of his life coming face to face with the little green snake.

"Go with the flow~ Don't question it~ I'm here for fun just like you, let's do ssssomething fun~" The green snake on the Young Master's shoulder hissed away.

"What form of beast are you? What do you want?" It was evident that the young master was in shock.

"I'm jussst a friendly sssnake… I'm here to ask you to let go of your inhibitions, because worrying is for losersss! Ssayyyy, what'sss your name?"

"I'm Long Wu Que… you can just call me Wu Que." He spoke warily, unsure what the weird beast upon his shoulder wants to do.

"Ahhhh, an excsssssellent name, one with no flaws. Fitting for a man such as yourself"

"Ya right! The more I think about it the more flaws I find! I'm just an imperfect being." Long Wu Que continued, plenty of thoughts weighed down his mind.

"Life'sss too short to worry, Wu Que. Look at the girl over there.. Isn't sssshe pretty? Don't you want to force her to be your bride?"

The snake continued, with its tongue flickering in an out of its mouth.

"She is pretty, I'll admit… But…" Long Wu Que tried to rationalise and put his thoughts together.

"But?" Zhu Jiao asked.

"But if I force her to be my bride, wouldn't it be very bad, for someone's whose name literally stands for 'free of imperfections' would kidnapping her and forcing her become my imperfection?"

The space between Zhu Jiao's snake eyes furrowed together as he started getting more and more confused. Within his tiny snake head he started to converse with himself.

"What the heck is wrong with him? Must I force him to do it using my psychic abilities? For the sake of face slapping. I shall do it!"

"Hey, Long Wu Que… Look at me!" Zhu Jiao's snake eyes lit up with a green hue as he started to use his ability.

Using this ability Zhu Jiao can control the movements of the body of his target, practically forcing them to do whatever they want. This ability manifested when his father started playing with him while feeding him, Where's the airplane his father said. In my mouth he said.

Long Wu Que's body started moving, he jumped off the horse and started to move towards the girl, as soon as he got off the horse, his guard immediately rushed by his side.

'Smack!'

The guard swiped the shoulder of Long Wu Que, knocking the small snake onto the ground.

"Young Master! There's a snake on your shoulder, I just helped you knock it away." The burly guard bellowed.

"Thank you! I couldn't move my body! That thing is evil! It tried to make me do things I don't want to! I know how everyone I forced to do my bidding feels now! I need to atone for my sins. Ah Wei, you've been my guard for so long, you've also helped me by doing so much! I've also made you do things you don't want to do… I'm sorry Ah Wei."

Long Wu Que grabbed onto Ah Wei as tears flowed down his cheeks.

"Young Master! Your father has always wanted you to be a righteous man. For you to know your mistakes, it's a good thing! Ah Wei is happy to be your guard! I know you will do the right thing from now on!"

Ah Wei held back his tears as they had an emotional moment together.

"Quickly! Let's go to the temple! I want to atone for my sins! I want to be a monk for a bit! I want to find enlightenment!"

"I'll go tell your father, young master! He will support your decisions! Let's go to the temple first!"

The two immediately hopped onto their horses as the procession made their way off into the distance.

Zhu Jiao who got swept off the shoulder of Long Wu Que, transformed back into his human form and sat on the ground while he stared into the distance with his mouth wide open.

"What the f*ck is this!? He's supposed to be the antagonist! What's with this lame storyline! This really is a pain! I'll regroup! Right! My family are out to get me right? I'll just head home and find a face slapping there!"