It was several days later before Lin Xiao and the others got the news.
On the way back, Saint Nick seemed anxious until they officially walked out of the plague zone and got the report saying that Snow was ambushed but wasn’t too injured.
Under Snow’s leadership, they first repelled the living dead, then uncovered a traitor Bob, and captured him alive.
After getting the news, Nick’s anxiety finally disappeared and what replaced it was concealed anger. Lin Xiao was confused and thought Nick was just angry because of what happened between them.
Nick criticized Snow’s plans and attacked Lin Xiao’s analysis of the plan and thought he was useless.
After several days of observation, no matter how Nick looked at it, it seemed like Claire was interested in Lin Xiao. Even the pearl of the Childe family, Rosie, also joked around with him from time to time. Who knows what kind of tricks he used to get all these women around him, other than ‘useless sponger pretty boy’, Nick couldn’t think of anything else. With a brother like this, Snow must also be an egomaniac and would suffer sooner or later. Nick must have been thinking about something like that on the road, but the results were completely opposite to his expectations, so of course, he would feel bad.
Even though there was a spy, Snow easily dealt with it and captured them alive. That result was a complete slap to his face, so he couldn’t look down on that cute Saintess anymore.
But Nick still looked down on Lin Xiao.
“Wow, Snow is amazing! I just knew that she could deal with it even if there was a spy, as expected of my little sister!” Right when they got the news, Lin Xiao exclaimed in bad taste behind Nick and pissed him off.
“Tsk, she was just lucky, what does it have to do with you, what are you getting all pretentious for…”
Nick grumbled and went back to trying to court Claire.
Just like that, the rescue finally ended. Snow went back a step earlier catching a heretic alive and taking the import black core back to the city.
After returning to the city, Claire settled everyone in and then quickly left. She had to take care of the aftermath of the rescue mission and had to cooperate with the church to work with Snow to explain the plague, in short, she was quite busy.
On the other hand, Lin Xiao was idle.
After returning to the city, he didn’t have to suffer from the difficulties of traveling, worry about the living dead, or pull all-nighters, he could finally relax.
Even though Gotham kingdom was troubled, the citizens in the city still lived relatively peaceful lives, so Lin Xiao took Sister Ying and Elena and strolled around.
Of course, with both Elena and ShenDai Ying together, they still couldn’t see eye to eye. They rarely had big fights, but they were constantly bickering about small things, like whether sweet bread or savory bread was better.
What made it worse for him was that they didn’t just stop at bickering next to him, every single time they would end it by blaming everything on him. One was responsible for putting on a scowl and the other was responsible for corporal punishment, suffering both mental and physical attacks, Lin Xiao was breaking down.
The more they fought the more they got into it, and Lin Xiao broke down even more. Although he enjoyed walking with the two of them, being sandwiched between them was also painful.
Perhaps this is what they mean by from pain comes happiness.
And so, under the torment of ice and fire, Lin Xiao endured a couple of days before they got the latest news.
Gotham Kingdom and the holy light church, which was just Claire and Snow, reached a consensus regarding the plague and gave an official statement.
…
The plague was just a rumor and it was actually a newly developed black magic that changes a normal person into a living dead that lost their mind. The culprit was a heretical cult, and the church already captured one of their core members and was interrogating them.
As for the truth behind the black magic, Saintess Snow expressed that it was thanks to Caesar and the others that they were able to obtain the precious black core which was a medium for the black magic. The Saintess will personally organize a team to research the black core and they are believed to quickly find a way to help the people eliminate pain and clean up the plague zone to return their homeland.
…
Capturing white night, retrieving the black core, but they didn’t mention the enlightenment society, probably in consideration for the follow-up investigation.
After the official notice, the city was jubilant. The people who made the greatest contributions may have not been from their kingdom, but no one had any expectations for them initially, but they were now heroes and won the people’s praises.
Not just that, Princess Claire also played an important role, personally took command, and participated in a risky rescue effort, without her, Caesar probably would have died in Yellowstone and Snow wouldn’t have had the opportunity to catch the heretic. Claire’s title was just in name, she was outstanding!
A little girl, a prince and a tomboy… who would have thought that they were the ones who would solve this plague?
Something else no one would have ever thought was that the person who was really important was actually someone else unremarkable.
This time, Lin Xiao evaded the public’s sight once again, but it wasn’t of his own doing.
Snow obviously didn’t want him to be known so that she could take credit and Claire couldn’t say what happened. So the two came to an implicit understanding and wiped Lin Xiao’s existence.
Of course, Lin Xiao didn’t mind it and was happy.
Now there was only one thing left for him to do.
Wait.
He had to wait for Snow to decipher the black core before he could go back.
Since they knew where the plague came from, they just had to wait for Snow to crack the black core and find a way to deal with it so that they could clean up the plague zone and then finish everything once and for all.
At that time, Bob should probably have confessed as well, so they might even be able to find the third apostle and give a fatal strike to the enlightened society! They might even find out more about the demon rebellion and Elena will be happy.
As for when Snow will crack it or when Bob will confess, that was hard to say. Anyways, Lin Xiao couldn’t leave for as long as Snow didn’t leave, he had to wait until everything was over before going back home.
Everything?
Speaking of that, other than the plague, Lin Xiao had heard about two major events recently.
The first was that the rebel army to the south was beginning to stir, a while ago they attempted to cross the river and break through the kingdom’s army’s defenses but failed. Though it wasn’t an easy victory, from the looks of it, the kingdom’s army had more casualties than the rebel army.
Another thing Lin Xiao heard from Rosie was that the holy sword the hero lost seemed to have landed in the hands of the rebel army and it seems like they were planning to use it as a trump card to go against the kingdom’s army, but they didn’t know how exactly they planned to use it.
The restless rebel army and the lost holy sword, although they were both important things, Lin Xiao didn’t want to worry about them. He came this time to help Elena investigate the enlightened, the rebellion and holy sword had nothing to do with him. After Snow finishes her word, he’ll immediately go back to Winterless city and continue with his life.
Of course, Lin Xiao was always like this, but the problem is that every time he wants to slack off, it seems he’s forced to walk on the thorny road for various reasons, sometimes it was because of Elena, sometimes it was because of ShenDai Ying… then what about this time?
It seems like there’s no reason for him to get involved, if there had to be one, Claire may be one, but even if she forcibly kissed him, he was not moved at all.
But fate was something that no one can say for sure. Perhaps his attitude will suddenly change and he might even fight the rebels to the end?
But there needs to be an opportunity for his attitude to change, or perhaps someone’s words… anyways, this was far from over.
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