Chapter 32: Request a favor
We welcomed him and thanked him for hosting us. Then he said to us, "I forgive you for killing the soldiers and I hope they will not be the cause of problems between us in the future."
But Ai-sook stood in front of him, objecting to his killing of the soldiers, so he shouted, "Ai-sook, that's enough. You couldn't do anything to your soldiers, so forget it, my daughter. This is for your own good."
She remained silent, so I lowered the commander and the paramedics came and told us to come in. We entered a huge room, sat down, and he offered us some tea and told us to stay here for a while until things improved between us.
Then he provided us with clothes, housing and accommodation. After I put on my clothes in my room, the leader called me to his room and we stayed alone. He said to me:
"I want you to take Ai-sook and that man away."
I was surprised and asked him why and why he chose me, and he said to me:
"You killed her squad but you didn't kill the leader and neither did she. That's why I knew you weren't someone who likes killing but rather had to. I'm begging you to do this. If you want anything, just say money home clothes any just tell me"
I told him to stop bribing me and tell me why and I told him that I am a nobleman where I come from so he should tell me why
He said "I have to start from scratch so listen carefully to what I have to say,"
The story begins since his birth, when he was the first son of the leader of the province. He had a brother who was one year younger than him and was jealous of him. Years later, he became the leader of the province and his brother left for the capital and married a girl he loved very much.
A year after their marriage, they gave birth to Ai-sook, but right after her birth, his wife died.
His wife was, as he described, a beautiful woman with soft black hair, clear skin, green eyes, and was always smiling.
But fate willed that she should die, so he did not marry any woman after her and decided to devote his family life only to his daughter, so he compensated her for the lack of motherly affection, so he was her father and mother and everything to her.
But he could not fully compensate for the loss of her mother, so after she turned eight, she decided to train with the sword, so he gave her the legendary crimson sword made from the bones of the red phoenix.
He also formed a ninja squad to help her train and protect her, and she became stronger over time, but he couldn't focus only on his daughter.
He had to deal with the affairs of the province, he had to revive the province, and also his brother who convinced the current emperor who was considered a tyrant in the country.
He is pressured to leave the province to his brother,
But he refuses out of love for those in the province, because his brother is like the emperor, a tyrant who loves no one but himself.
So after three days an army consisting of the emperor and the leader's brother will come to ask him to abdicate his position, so he wants to make his daughter escape and face them alone.
He begged me and wanted to kneel before me, so I held his hand and said to him, "This is enough. I will not go and I will help you leader. If I have to escape then I will take your daughter with me. Agreed."
He warned me that the Emperor is a very powerful person who can easily destroy the province, but he is a person who likes to keep people under his interests, so he asked me to escape with his daughter tomorrow and get out of Murim.
I told him to shut up and that we could help him and that we hadn't seen our true power to ninja.
He agreed to let me help him, but he stipulated that I should express my condolences to his daughter if things got worse. I agreed, and we shook hands.
Then when I went out he asked me my name. I told him my name was Tatsuya Takumi. I went out and found Ibn Battuta waiting for me at the door. He took me into his room and said to me:
"What does this mean? How can you speak Chinese? Who is Tatsuya Takumi? It's a murim name, right?"
So I told him to calm down, then in shock from me he pulled out his sword and said to me "Who are you really? Are you really Aaron Lionheart? If I find out that you are lying, I will slit your throat."
I calmed him down and explained everything about my previous life and how I had memories of the previous world and made it and proved that I was Aaron.
He was shocked by my words and said, "Previous life, another world, how is this possible?"
I told him that in my previous life I was searching for this topic and ended up here. He stood up after falling from shock and said to me:
"It doesn't matter now, we will help this leader later, so explain the matter carefully."
So I agreed, then I went out of his room and found Ai-sook practicing in the middle of the house and using attractive techniques, and the band leader was watching her and correcting her mistakes, and I interrupted them and said:
"You seem to be training hard but your movements are full of glitches that could get you killed."
The leader looked at me with hatred and said angrily, "What do you know about the snake arts?"
I was shocked that she was practicing snake arts and I told her that I had no experience in Kung Fu but that snake arts required agility and speed more than strength and destructive effect and she said to me
"Who do you think you are? You're not even from the Murim. How can you know anything about Kung Fu?"
I took out my sword and started using the lion arts but in the Kung Fu style and especially the snake arts.
I started using the most famous Kung Fu technique and they were still shocked and I told her that she should improve her technique and focus on her body agility and speed only.
She asked me how I knew Kung Fu techniques and I told her I had a friend from Murim who taught me.
But in my previous life when I was a fighter I learned some basic techniques of Kung Fu so I have a general knowledge of Kung Fu.
And after three days on a red day as if the world will end in a cloudy atmosphere
The red clouds were blazing and the atmosphere was turbid. The drums of the small city were stunned as thousands of soldiers gathered in their golden armor and black dragon-shaped engravings on the armor.
A man in a gloomy black outfit, pale white skin, solid black eyes and white eyes with long white hair hanging down, comes out and says in a low voice, but his voice spread throughout the small town powerfully. "Hang huan, get out now and resign from your position, or you will not be happy with what I am going to do."