The Legendary F Rank

As Haru and Hong Xia were led inside they found that the third elder was already waiting for them at a desk with two cushions on the floor in front of it. Despite the fact that the elder was sitting at the desk in a wooden chair. The height difference between Humans and cat people made the desk look more like a coffee table.

Haru and Hong Xia both sat down at the table as the guards left them alone in there with the third elder after they instructed them to go. At first, they protested but after reminding them that he was the one that had trained all of the guards to fight they finally left, knowing that he was one of, if not the strongest member of their clan.

As Haru and Hong Xia sat there waiting for the guards to leave, the third elder wasted no time getting into his questions.

"So where do you two come from exactly? Do you live in the nearby town or did you come from a faraway land?" The third elder asked as he tried to make small talk while he knew that the guards were still within earshot.

"Yeah, we're currently staying in the nearby town. But probably not for long." Haru said as the elder looked at him with interest.

"Oh? Why is that? You don't like living there?" He asked as he tried to get a better understanding of what he meant but Haru smiled for a moment before replying.

"Well, we have Marco to thank for that. He killed two people from the Kastron Star Alliance during my interrogation." They will probably know that they have died within the next few days while thinking that I was the one that killed them too.

So we have no choice but to find somewhere else to go and soon. Or else they will send all their strong cultivators to kill me and anyone who even so much as interacted with me." Haru explained as a worried look formed on the third elder's face.

"Marco did what!?" He exclaimed as he couldn't believe the turn of events. 

"We have a deal with the Kastron Star Alliance. We will have nothing to do with their affairs as long as they leave our people alone. If they find out that we have broken that agreement then they will wipe us all out!" The third elder yelled out as no one had told him that the people Marco killed were from the Alliance.

"Hey, I'm not that bothered about the people coming to kill me. They have been trying to do that over the last couple of days already due to another reason. But I don't like taking the blame for other people's actions if you get what I'm saying.

The other reason I tracked him down and followed him all the way out here is that I want reassurance that he is held accountable for his actions. I'm not going to sit by and take the blame for his kills." Haru said as he reached to the side and yanked against the bindings on Hong Xia's hands.

"I will let you deal with that information. Do whatever you need to do. But I don't think that I need to explain to you what will happen if the blame for those killings falls upon your people. And it's safe to say that if they don't manage to find me that they will spread out all across the planet and try their best to locate me.

As long as I am here I am a threat to your people. And as long as Marco is here, he too is a threat to your people. But I don't know, Let's say that he was mind-controlled by a human into doing their bidding… It would stop your people from being guilty right?" Haru said with a scheming tone as he looked at the third Elder who seemed to be in disarray after finding out what had happened.

"You mean to say that the longer we hold you here that the more guilty it would make us look? If they find out that you came here with the one responsible for killing those two people then they will think that the rest of us had something to do with it too?" The third elder asked as he tried to think of a way that he could make sure that his people weren't held accountable.

"Well, I will let you deal with it all. We should really be getting back now." Haru said as Hong Xia sighed in relief as she didn't want to be there any longer. She had been uncomfortable the whole time and thought that there was a good chance that they were both going to die. 

But after she saw Haru break free from the restraints she felt better about the situation even if she couldn't understand everything that they were talking about.

Haru then stood up which was followed by Hong Xia doing the same as she was also ready to leave. But as soon as they did, the elder called out to stop them.

"Hey! Stop! We haven't confirmed that you actually came here to talk to Marco yet!" He shouted as Haru opened a spatial rift, connected to the room that they were staying in at the inn before holding Hong Xia in his arms once again.

"Well, that's your problem. Deal with it yourselves. Goodbye." Haru said with a smile as he stepped into the spatial rift and vanished right before him.

As the elder was left in the room all alone the guards outside burst into the room to see that the trespassers had escaped from right beneath their noses and they demanded an explanation.

"What happened!? Where did they go?" Shiba asked as she looked at the third elder who was sitting on his knees in the spot where they had vanished from and thinking about what he should do next. If the whole situation was exactly how Haru had said it was then it would mean that they were in grave danger unless they tried to smooth things over with the Alliance by handing Marco over to them.

"Bring me, Marco, right now! And call the other elders here immediately!" The third elder shouted out which came as a surprise to the guards as they had never seen the elder act like that before. It made them scared about what had happed and they were in no mood to waste any of his time. He looked up at them with fury in his eye but as soon as they caught a glimpse they all went running to do what he had said.

The only issue was that Marco hadn't returned yet and no one seemed to know his location since Shiba had made him run away.

"I thought we were going to die back there for a moment." Hong Xia said as they both appeared in their bedroom at the inn.

"You really think that I would let myself be killed that easily?" Haru asked to which she scoffed at the fact that he didn't seem concerned with her life as he made it about himself.

"Well, I don't have any idea what runs through that brain of yours. But most of the time it is something stupid which is kind of strange for someone with your strength.

You would think that it would take a wise person to become stronger than anyone back on earth in just a few years. But it turns out that it just takes an idiot." Hong Xia mocked him as she knew that Haru's plans almost always meant putting himself and others in danger to get the outcome that he wanted. But what she didn't understand was why exactly he had so much luck that no matter how much danger he was in he would always manage to make it out alive and often times with hardly any casualties.

But as she thought about how he treated his own life she was forced to think about the situation in shanghai when her master had vanished. She then realised that Haru had probably been living with the guilt that he was the one responsible for so many deaths and the disappearance of most of the strong people back on earth.

It was then that she understood that he put himself in danger so that he didn't have to put others in the same situation. All his stupid ideas seemed to stem from the fact that he was unwilling to ask people for help even when he needed it.

Unless he knew that no harm would come to them. She began to feel guilty for calling him an idiot when he had clearly been trying to keep as many people alive as he possibly could but Haru didn't seem to care about what she had just said as he sat down and began to cultivate at the edge of the bed.

"We're going to meet Annabeth's master once the sun sets. Make sure that you have all your things ready too. After that, we won't be returning here again. We will buy a map on our way back and set out to the nearest city.

It will be easier to hide in a city since it will naturally be a lot bigger than this place." Haru explained as he opened his eyes for a few moments before closing them again before Hong Xia could even question him.

She sighed in annoyance before laying down on the bed and closing her eyes to reflect on everything that she had experienced.