Chapter 0044 – Much More Comfortable Than the First Day – Absolute Returns

Unfortunately, it was not to be.

“Mr. Li, what’s going on here?”

Sword Honored One Flower’s voice trembled a bit, but she still maintained her composure.

Originally, she was supposed to think that she would easily let me have three moves first, and then use a couple hundred moves to tease me properly before finally defeating me. But she never expected that she would be defeated within three moves.

“Didn’t I warn you? My sword is a Black Demon Sword, so be careful.”

I purposely attributed the victory to the Black Magic Sword, but she didn’t, because of this statement of mine, deny her defeat.

“Even if your sword is a Heavenly Demon Sword, I can’t lose.”

She knew better than anyone else that it wasn’t the sword she lost, but her strength.

“Let me tell you a secret, I have already cultivated the Flying Sword Technique to the Great Perfection Realm.”

The One Flower Sword Venerable heard the words and was immediately shocked.

“You’ve already cultivated the Flying Sky Sword Technique to the Great Perfection Realm? How is this possible!”

The power of the Flying Heavenly Sword Technique was enough to rival the martial arts of a Demon Lord level.

It’s no wonder that she was so shocked that I had already cultivated such a profound martial art to the Great Perfection Realm.

“Don’t you forget, who is my father? He wouldn’t be so bad as to, just find a random cat or dog and make it the head of the Yellow Springs Pavilion, would he?”

“Even if you really cultivate the Flying Sword Technique to the Great Perfection Realm, but ……”

“Are you trying to say that my inner strength is not deep enough? I have taken the Heavenly Divine Pill.”

“Ah!”

I didn’t tell her that I had also absorbed, the Magic Spirit Pill from the Little Heavenly Cave.

“I won this contest, do you admit it?”

“……”

She was silent, obviously reluctant to admit it.

“Are you saying that if I had known that you were so strong, I wouldn’t have been so gullible?”

I did, indeed, take advantage of her gullibility, as well as letting her have three moves before I was victorious. Moreover, the reason why she lost in the end was because she was distracted from her speech, leading to a break in her sword technique. It can be said that she didn’t lose unjustly.

“So, you are not going to admit your failure? If the fact that you have gone back on your word gets out, how will the people in the Jianghu world look at you in the future? Aren’t you afraid of being labeled as a timid and fearful person?”

“You shut up! There’s no need to irritate me by talking about all this nonsense! I’m as good as my word! Say, what do you want?”

She wanted to retort, but the words reached her mouth and she swallowed back. No matter what, she did lose. It was she herself who was gullible in the first place, and it was also she herself who offered to let me have three moves.

“What do you want me to pay?”

“I didn’t say that I wanted your life. Although Blade Demon Elder often says that I’m crazy, I’m not crazy to that extent.”

“So what do you want?”

“I hope, you will accept my apology.”

Swordsman Ichika froze.

“Before, I have offended you much, so please forgive me, senior. I am sincerely apologizing to you, and I hope you can forgive me.”

She looked at me with a puzzled expression.

“Are you shitting me?”

“No, I did take some offense today. I should not have called you to that occasion.”

“Why are you apologizing to me when you clearly won?”

“You really want to know?”

“Of course!”

“I’m trying to win your favor in this way, and I hope you’ll support me sincerely.”

“Sincerity? How dare you talk to me about sincerity in the middle of a power struggle? Do you think that this kind of trick, will work on me? I really underestimated you, I didn’t expect you to be so naive.”

“Treat different people differently, of course. If someone throws mud at me, I push him into a mud puddle; if someone throws water at me, I hose him down. But with you, I want to try and exchange my heart for my mind.”

“Why? Do you think I look gullible?”

“No, it’s because you have a high moral character and are the most honorable of the Eight Demon Lords.”

When I think of what she has done since, I know that what I am saying now is a lie.

But those things, none of them have happened yet. If, with my presence, I can change her fate, so that her life, is no longer full of killing, how good would that be? I hope that I can plant a brightly colored flower in that barren spiritual world.

“You really think so?”

“Of course, you are noble and elegant and admirable.”

She bit her lip gently, seeming both pleased and disturbed by my praise.

I walked over to her, picked up the sword on the ground, and handed it to her.

“Then I’ll take my leave.”

I bowed deeply to her and turned back to my room.

When I got back to my room, I fell back to sleep and had no idea, when she left.

The next night, Swordsman Ichika came again.

She looked haggard, her eyes red and swollen, like she hadn’t slept all night.

“Your apology is accepted.”

“Thank you, Senpai.”

“But I have a request.”

“What request?”

“I lost the match last night, I admit it. But I want to fight you again.”

I refused without hesitation.

“I refuse.”

“Why?”

“Because, I can’t win against you anymore. If, you hadn’t been gullible and hadn’t let me have three moves, there’s no way I could have won you.”

“Haven’t you already cultivated the Flying Sword Technique to the Great Perfection Realm? Your internal energy is also deep enough, let’s fight again, you’ll definitely be able to win.”

“I can’t win.”

“What makes you so sure?”

“That was just one of the few times in my life that I’ve had a lucky moment. I’m not going to get ahead of myself because of one fluke.”

“This time, I won’t negotiate any more terms with you. If you win, I’ll promise you anything.”

She was just trying, to save her face.

I seem to understand a little, why she became, that, in order to compete for the position of the sect leader, by any means necessary, but ultimately ended up in the end of the rebellion.

Self-esteem, is it really that important? Doesn’t she know what I’m going to ask for? What a stupid, naive thing to do!

“Elder, I won’t tell anyone about what happened last night. You don’t have to struggle unnecessarily for, so-called, pride.”

“Who knows? Just in case one day, I get drunk and accidentally spill the beans ……”

“It won’t.”

I wasn’t in a hurry, and since the initiative was in my hands, I was perfectly capable of taking my time, step by step, and pulling her into my camp.