Lafeier raised his hand and took off the human skin mask on his face: "Wearing this thing for too long is really not good for the body."
Under the mask was the face that Moon Shadow, Flowing Shadow, and Qiao Ying were all too familiar with. Just looking at this face and feeling his aura, Moon Shadow and Flowing Shadow would unconsciously tense up their bodies, like any student seeing a demon coach.
Except for Qiao Ying.
The old royal family was shocked by this change of face.
Lafeier's reaction was much smaller than theirs, calmly as if he had guessed it all along.
"To become what I am now, I didn't hold back on working on myself, even taking a knife to myself." Diamond J looked at the human skin mask in his hand and said,
"Body shape and voice can be changed through training, but this face, I really couldn't change it, so I had to rely on this."
He looked up at Moon Shadow and Flowing Shadow, smiled slightly,
"Long time no see, my children, especially you, Flowing Shadow, besides Blood Shadow, you're my favorite child. I really missed you after not seeing you for so long."
He thought for a moment, "Although your temper is as bad as Blood Shadow's, which gives me a big headache, you're more obedient than her."
Qiao Ying raised her eyebrows: It's so impolite to say that to her face.
Qin Hanyue looked at Qiao Ying, taking in her somewhat cute subtle expressions, and subconsciously guessed her psychological activities. She was probably 50% likely to agree with Diamond J, and 50% likely to be annoyed.
Flowing Shadow: "It turns out that my obedience actually saved myself." If he hadn't been obedient and acted as recklessly as her, he would have been cloned long ago, right?
Diamond J: "What do you mean by th-" He stopped himself, "Oh, sorry, after speaking French for so many years, I can't switch back right away."
He switched back to Chinese.
Flowing Shadow ignored him, and Diamond J didn't pursue what he meant.
Instead, he asked the two of them, "How did you two come with her to Country C to find me? No- to kill me. Don't tell me you two were also involved in the downfall of Dark Shadow- Moon Shadow, you were the most loyal to Dark Shadow." He answered himself, "Nevermind, it doesn't matter who did it anyway, Dark Shadow is gone."
Moon Shadow: "It was Dark Shadow's inhumanity first."
Diamond J: "So you know about the clones? You came to find me to kill me thoroughly?"
Moon Shadow: "You said that as long as we're alive, we can never escape from Dark Shadow. We don't want to die, so you have to die."
Diamond J smiled without replying. Instead he asked, "Speaking of clones, I really have to ask you two, tell me-" His sharp gaze fixed on Qiao Ying, "Who exactly is she?"
In his opinion, no, in the eyes of the entire Dark Shadow organization and the assassin community, Blood Shadow's talents were already the ceiling, incomparable. Even Flowing Shadow, who also had the one in a million talent, was still far from comparable to her.
But this girl proved to them with practical actions that she had both the learning talent and strength to rival Blood Shadow's.
She had even copied Blood Shadow's medical and hacking skills.
Other than their different faces, she was the same as Blood Shadow in every way.
But up until now, after she had destroyed the entire Dark Shadow organization, still no one knew what her relationship with Blood Shadow was.
Was she an assassin secretly trained by Blood Shadow,
Or a clone of Blood Shadow?
If the latter, it was unlikely, even with Blood Shadow's genes she would have flaws, far from the original's strength.
If the former, no matter how early Blood Shadow started training her, with her age...her talent was too frightening.
They had suspected that Blood Shadow might not have died, and came back in disguise to take revenge on them, but there were still too many inconsistencies.
Flowing Shadow fiddled with his mechanical arm, barely answering him, "You should ask her yourself, we want to know too."
Diamond J stared at Qiao Ying, but spoke to Moon Shadow and Flowing Shadow, "You don't know either?"
Qiao Ying's lips moved slightly, as if to answer, but with her personality, she probably wouldn't satisfy their curiosity. Sure enough- "Any last words?" she asked.
Flowing Shadow followed with, "If not I'll make my move."
Diamond J nodded, but looked to Lafeier instead, his tone still unhurried, "I was just thinking of having you die in my place to fool them, but they're too smart for that."
Lafeier glared at Diamond J resentfully, gnashing his teeth furiously, "You idiot! I shouldn't have believed you!"
Diamond J chuckled lightly, "Do you hate me that much? All you lost was power and benefits, but I'm about to lose my life."
Lafeier was very agitated, "Shouldn't I hate you? I thought I would lose to the Karolin clan, I thought I would lose to Lin Cheng, but I never imagined I would end up implicated by you in the end!"
He became hysterical, "What were you doing? I finally came back! Finally came back! I schemed for so many years! So many years! I was about to get everything I wanted, just one step away, one step!"
Lafeier was very distraught, seeming somewhat deranged. His expression was ferocious, completely different from his usual modest demeanor.
Having lost so thoroughly, he couldn't take the blow and even rushed directly at Diamond J, furiously grabbing Diamond J's collar.
"Why did you implicate me? Why implicate my Howard clan? Didn't you say you were amazing? Didn't you say you were the boss of the most powerful assassin organization? But you can't even deal with a little girl, aren't you an assassin? Kill her! Kill all those who block our path! Why isn't Lin Cheng dead? Why isn't Lin Guli dead? We had already won, won! Why did it become like this now, tell me!!!"
Diamond J forcibly removed Lafeier's hand, disgustedly taking his hand away and throwing him to the ground.
He didn't even deign to calculate with Lafeier.
Unhurriedly tidying his clothes, he said to Qiao Ying, "Even JOKER is not your match, let alone me, plus them." He glanced at Moon Shadow and Flowing Shadow.
He continued, "But being asked to close my eyes and let you kill me, I really can't do that. Did you think I didn't prepare anything?"
Qiao Ying: "If you mean the dozen plus assassins you hid upstairs, yes I did."
She had been in this palace hall for a day already. Diamond J had hidden people upstairs, that many of them, how could she possibly not notice? Noticing them, how could she possibly let them live?
Diamond J's motions of tidying his clothes stopped.
Qiao Ying: "Counting the time, the bodies should be cold by now."
Diamond J slowly put his hand down, expressionlessly looking at Qiao Ying.
Flowing Shadow clenched his mechanical hand, already impatient from waiting, "Stop wasting time, kill him quickly so we can wrap up."
As he spoke, he had already rushed forward.
Diamond J dodged to the side to avoid Flowing Shadow's hundred pound metal fist, entangling with Flowing Shadow.
Lafeier retreated to a safe area, shocked by Diamond J's skills. To think the one pretending to be his father and living with him all this time was actually such a powerful character.
Although Diamond J was older now and not as diligent in training as Flowing Shadow in recent years, even with neglected training, his skills and techniques didn't diminish much. His decades of combat experience wasn't something a teen like Flowing Shadow could compare to either. Although Flowing Shadow had high talents and a mechanical arm, he lost out due to youthful impetuousness, his fierce moves leaving many openings.
Plus, Diamond J was too familiar with Flowing Shadow's skills.
Flowing Shadow quickly fell into a disadvantage, being punched back several meters by Diamond J. Diamond J followed up to finish Flowing Shadow off, looking like he wanted to use him as a temporary meat shield.
Moon Shadow timely made his move, saving Flowing Shadow.
Lafeier raised his hand and took off the human skin mask on his face: "Wearing this thing for too long is really not good for the body."
Under the mask was the face that Moon Shadow, Flowing Shadow, and Qiao Ying were all too familiar with. Just looking at this face and feeling his aura, Moon Shadow and Flowing Shadow would unconsciously tense up their bodies, like any student seeing a demon coach.
Except for Qiao Ying.
The old royal family was shocked by this change of face.
Lafeier's reaction was much smaller than theirs, calmly as if he had guessed it all along.
"To become what I am now, I didn't hold back on working on myself, even taking a knife to myself." Diamond J looked at the human skin mask in his hand and said,
"Body shape and voice can be changed through training, but this face, I really couldn't change it, so I had to rely on this."
He looked up at Moon Shadow and Flowing Shadow, smiled slightly,
"Long time no see, my children, especially you, Flowing Shadow, besides Blood Shadow, you're my favorite child. I really missed you after not seeing you for so long."
He thought for a moment, "Although your temper is as bad as Blood Shadow's, which gives me a big headache, you're more obedient than her."
Qiao Ying raised her eyebrows: It's so impolite to say that to her face.
Qin Hanyue looked at Qiao Ying, taking in her somewhat cute subtle expressions, and subconsciously guessed her psychological activities. She was probably 50% likely to agree with Diamond J, and 50% likely to be annoyed.
Flowing Shadow: "It turns out that my obedience actually saved myself." If he hadn't been obedient and acted as recklessly as her, he would have been cloned long ago, right?
Diamond J: "What do you mean by th-" He stopped himself, "Oh, sorry, after speaking French for so many years, I can't switch back right away."
He switched back to Chinese.
Flowing Shadow ignored him, and Diamond J didn't pursue what he meant.
Instead, he asked the two of them, "How did you two come with her to Country C to find me? No- to kill me. Don't tell me you two were also involved in the downfall of Dark Shadow- Moon Shadow, you were the most loyal to Dark Shadow." He answered himself, "Nevermind, it doesn't matter who did it anyway, Dark Shadow is gone."
Moon Shadow: "It was Dark Shadow's inhumanity first."
Diamond J: "So you know about the clones? You came to find me to kill me thoroughly?"
Moon Shadow: "You said that as long as we're alive, we can never escape from Dark Shadow. We don't want to die, so you have to die."
Diamond J smiled without replying. Instead he asked, "Speaking of clones, I really have to ask you two, tell me-" His sharp gaze fixed on Qiao Ying, "Who exactly is she?"
In his opinion, no, in the eyes of the entire Dark Shadow organization and the assassin community, Blood Shadow's talents were already the ceiling, incomparable. Even Flowing Shadow, who also had the one in a million talent, was still far from comparable to her.
But this girl proved to them with practical actions that she had both the learning talent and strength to rival Blood Shadow's.
She had even copied Blood Shadow's medical and hacking skills.
Other than their different faces, she was the same as Blood Shadow in every way.
But up until now, after she had destroyed the entire Dark Shadow organization, still no one knew what her relationship with Blood Shadow was.
Was she an assassin secretly trained by Blood Shadow,
Or a clone of Blood Shadow?
If the latter, it was unlikely, even with Blood Shadow's genes she would have flaws, far from the original's strength.
If the former, no matter how early Blood Shadow started training her, with her age...her talent was too frightening.
They had suspected that Blood Shadow might not have died, and came back in disguise to take revenge on them, but there were still too many inconsistencies.
Flowing Shadow fiddled with his mechanical arm, barely answering him, "You should ask her yourself, we want to know too."
Diamond J stared at Qiao Ying, but spoke to Moon Shadow and Flowing Shadow, "You don't know either?"
Qiao Ying's lips moved slightly, as if to answer, but with her personality, she probably wouldn't satisfy their curiosity. Sure enough- "Any last words?" she asked.
Flowing Shadow followed with, "If not I'll make my move."
Diamond J nodded, but looked to Lafeier instead, his tone still unhurried, "I was just thinking of having you die in my place to fool them, but they're too smart for that."
Lafeier glared at Diamond J resentfully, gnashing his teeth furiously, "You idiot! I shouldn't have believed you!"
Diamond J chuckled lightly, "Do you hate me that much? All you lost was power and benefits, but I'm about to lose my life."
Lafeier was very agitated, "Shouldn't I hate you? I thought I would lose to the Karolin clan, I thought I would lose to Lin Cheng, but I never imagined I would end up implicated by you in the end!"
He became hysterical, "What were you doing? I finally came back! Finally came back! I schemed for so many years! So many years! I was about to get everything I wanted, just one step away, one step!"
Lafeier was very distraught, seeming somewhat deranged. His expression was ferocious, completely different from his usual modest demeanor.
Having lost so thoroughly, he couldn't take the blow and even rushed directly at Diamond J, furiously grabbing Diamond J's collar.
"Why did you implicate me? Why implicate my Howard clan? Didn't you say you were amazing? Didn't you say you were the boss of the most powerful assassin organization? But you can't even deal with a little girl, aren't you an assassin? Kill her! Kill all those who block our path! Why isn't Lin Cheng dead? Why isn't Lin Guli dead? We had already won, won! Why did it become like this now, tell me!!!"
Diamond J forcibly removed Lafeier's hand, disgustedly taking his hand away and throwing him to the ground.
He didn't even deign to calculate with Lafeier.
Unhurriedly tidying his clothes, he said to Qiao Ying, "Even JOKER is not your match, let alone me, plus them." He glanced at Moon Shadow and Flowing Shadow.
He continued, "But being asked to close my eyes and let you kill me, I really can't do that. Did you think I didn't prepare anything?"
Qiao Ying: "If you mean the dozen plus assassins you hid upstairs, yes I did."
She had been in this palace hall for a day already. Diamond J had hidden people upstairs, that many of them, how could she possibly not notice? Noticing them, how could she possibly let them live?
Diamond J's motions of tidying his clothes stopped.
Qiao Ying: "Counting the time, the bodies should be cold by now."
Diamond J slowly put his hand down, expressionlessly looking at Qiao Ying.
Flowing Shadow clenched his mechanical hand, already impatient from waiting, "Stop wasting time, kill him quickly so we can wrap up."
As he spoke, he had already rushed forward.
Diamond J dodged to the side to avoid Flowing Shadow's hundred pound metal fist, entangling with Flowing Shadow.
Lafeier retreated to a safe area, shocked by Diamond J's skills. To think the one pretending to be his father and living with him all this time was actually such a powerful character.
Although Diamond J was older now and not as diligent in training as Flowing Shadow in recent years, even with neglected training, his skills and techniques didn't diminish much. His decades of combat experience wasn't something a teen like Flowing Shadow could compare to either. Although Flowing Shadow had high talents and a mechanical arm, he lost out due to youthful impetuousness, his fierce moves leaving many openings.
Plus, Diamond J was too familiar with Flowing Shadow's skills.
Flowing Shadow quickly fell into a disadvantage, being punched back several meters by Diamond J. Diamond J followed up to finish Flowing Shadow off, looking like he wanted to use him as a temporary meat shield.
Moon Shadow timely made his move, saving Flowing Shadow.
