Chapter 31

"What God's Stone?" Lisa frowned and displayed a confused expression that was both innocent and pitiful.

Sana crossed her arms, squeezing her voluptuous curves into a seductive shape. Her soft-looking body stooped over, and she partially opened her mouth to blow out a breath that smelled like sweet incense.

"There's no need to put on an act in front of me." Sana expressionlessly said. "Several years ago you single-handedly obliterated ZERO. Though you do not appear to be as strong as the legends say, so perhaps you borrowed support from others. However, the God's Stone that was in ZERO's possession disappeared without a trace during their destruction. All the powers have gone to the ruins of ZERO to search for it afterwards, yet they returned without any harvest. As long as someone has a brain, they would be able to guess that the God's Stone is in your hands, and also the fact that you are the person who understands the value of the God's Stone the most......"

Sana noticed that Lisa didn't have any reaction, so she snorted and said, "If you had just stayed within your kingdom, perhaps we would've still restrained ourselves. But since you chose to return to Huaxia for no good reason, and even shook off your own subordinates, then don't blame us for adopting such measures. Even if we didn't take action, sooner or later somebody would. Everybody is just somewhat fearful of you, including the Yellow Flame Iron Brigade, that bunch of loyal and selfless Huaxia people. Those people just don't have as much foresight as our chief. Pluto, don't think that we wouldn't burn you in the sacred fire, for in our eyes, there is only the great Emperor of Imperial Japan!"

"Yep!" Lisa pouted and said, "Perhaps you don't know this, but Huaxia is no longer under feudal rule. If you mention about things like kings and emperors, somebody will come to slaughter you."

"Who?" Sana's brows raised as she smiled and said, "Do you think that there's somebody capable of saving you?"

Right as those words were spoken, one of the two ninja who stood by a side suddenly stumbled backwards and crashed into the ground!

"Who!?" Sana immediately entered battle state, and observed her surroundings in a composed manner.

The remaining ninja did not allow the fall of his comrade to mess up his priorities as a pair of sai appeared in his hands, and he vigilantly observed his surroundings.

Right at that moment, from a space above the alley, a dark figure jumped across several weatherboards like a graceful swallow; it was like the elegant figure was performing a delightful acrobatics show.

"Careful!"

Sana who noticed that something was amiss moved her feet, however it was already too late when she spoke out!

After a thin and nearly inaudible tearing sound, the other ninja did not manage to dodge, and a hole was suddenly cut open in his skull, blood spurted out!

After the ninja fell to the ground in disbelief, the only one left standing in the alley was Sana.

Sana looked at the object that was shot down onto the floor. It was a tiny concealed weapon that looked like a thumbtack. She raised her head with a grave expression, looking at the person who had reached the ground, and said, "Yellow Flame Iron Brigade's Flower Rain?"

The one who jumped down from the roof was a tall woman. She wore a pair of considerably tight black t-shirt and jeans, showing the outline of her well-developed yet dainty, her hair that grew over her shoulders lightly brushed across her cold face from the night wind, like a blossoming black rose in the night.

"This is not a place you people should be in." Flower Rain's voice wasn't very impactful, but the meaning behind it was clearly apparent. She was extremely disgusted by the woman in front of her.

Sana cleared up her thoughts, chuckled and said, "To think that Pluto and the Yellow Flame Iron Brigade have already formed an alliance that they would go so far to actually send Flower Rain, a member of the Group of Eight as a bodyguard. If this information leaks out, who knows what those old fellas from the other countries that have been maintaining peace on the surface would think. Oh, by the way, does this mean that the God's Stone has already been handed over to Huaxia?"

"No wonder you are stuck at the Jonin level, it's apparent that your talent is limited."

Lisa then suddenly stood up in a casual manner, wearing a playful smile as she patted away the dust on her trousers. "If I required protection from her, I would've died ten years ago."

"How did you?" Sana finally lost her composure with disbelief written all over her face, "How can you stand up!?"

"I was able to stand all along. I was just playing along with you earlier." Lisa then glanced at Flower Rain who maintained her silence, saying, "Moreover, if I didn't act like that, who knows when this woman would finally show herself? I don't want to be followed forever."

Sana was so angry that her face was flushed, "You knew from the very start that I was an impostor!?"

"At the start it was only just a hunch because when you came out of the toilet, the yellow color that was left on her tongue from drinking orange juice had disappeared. Well, you could think of it as my powers of observation being too abnormal, but I really noticed it only by chance." Lisa then continued to say, "Afterwards, you actually decided to directly follow the two men you weren't familiar with. In addition, what I saw from the two men's eyes when they looked at you was pure reverence, without the slightest bit of tenderness or concern. This could be considered as you guys having subpar acting skills."

"So you've been using me all along!" Sana felt incomparably humiliated, the disguising technique that she was most adept with was seen through by this lecherous woman!

"Wrong, it's your Yamata Sect that came looking for trouble. I didn't invite you guys, isn't that right, Miss Flower Rain?" Lisa winked towards Flower Rain, this young and pretty lady was actually a member of the Group of Eight in the Yellow Flame Iron Brigade, which was even more mysterious than the Dragon Team, while finding this hard to believe, Lisa felt that her looks seemed rather familiar.

Flower Rain didn't reply her question, and instead asked, "You aren't poisoned?"

Lisa shook her head, "I am, but a poison like this is too weak, and not enough to affect me."

Sana looked at Lisa as if she was looking at a freak, she found it hard to believe and said, "That's impossible! This poison can even paralyze an elephant, you... you monster!"

Lisa grinned, "Bingo! You guessed correctly, but unfortunately I can't give you any points."

"It would be best if you worry about yourself first." Flower Rain raised her arm. In her hands was a silver pocket-sized pistol.

Sana understood that this type of pistol couldn't shoot bullets, but it could shoot nail shaped concealed weapons that was no way inferior to bullets while being completely silent. This was a commonly used method in the world of killers, but there had been gossips for a long time that the Group of Eight's Flower Rain herself came from Huaxia's ancient Tang Sect. Because she inherited the extremely mysterious technique "Sky-filling Flower Rain," "Flower Rain" became her code name.

Other than from her gun, her concealed weapons could be shot from anywhere on her body!

Originally there was only Flower Rain, as one of the Yamata Sect's three great Jonin, Sana wouldn't be that fearful of her, for she could be a match. But behind her stood an unfathomable "sinister woman" who had an indescribable bearing. Sana knew that she couldn't force a fight.

"If you want to flee, then quickly flee." Lisa saw through what Sana had in mind, and urged her on.

Sana hatefully glared at her, and all of a sudden her body turned blurry. In the end, like a ball of smoke, she vanished from where she stood.

Flower Rain pursed her beautiful eyebrows, a light shined in her eyes. The pocket-sized pistol in her right hand swapped over to her left at lightning speed, she turned to the left and shot two nail shaped concealed weapons!

The two concealed weapons streaked through its path and embedded itself into the cement wall!

A portion of torn purple-red ribbon fell from mid-air, while Sana's figure completely faded away from the alley.

"Escape techniques." Flower Rain unwillingly kept her pistol, and questioned Lisa, "You have the capability of keeping her here, why didn't you take action!?"

Lisa shrugged, "If I took action, wouldn't that truly mean that I'm in cahoots with you guys?"

"You're originally a person of Huaxia." Flower Rain pretty face frosted over, "She's our country's enemy."

"If you catch her, it'll attract more enemies." Lisa pointed, "I will naturally take action if she appears in the future, but now is definitely not the time."

"Spineless woman." Flower Rain looked at Lisa with disdain, and turned away to leave.

Lisa didn't get angry as she thought of another matter, and quickly called, "Don't leave first. You look extremely similar to a policewoman I know, are you perhaps her sister?" To be honest, she didn't really give a damn about Sana, but Flower Rain here was honestly looked very alike to Irene.

Flower Rain halted and didn't turn back. With a slightly warm tone she said, "She is my sister."

So that was the case. Lisa happily nodded, they were actually a pair of beautiful sisters. She then asked, "What about that girl Ryujin? Have you saved her yet?"

"She's already safe. However, her clothes had been stolen, so I called her bodyguards, and gave her some clothes to wear. She should already have returned home."

Satisfied, Lisa nodded, "You're quite good at handling these matters. It looks like there isn't anything bad about being followed by you."

"My mission is a failure, so I won't be following you in the future. These corpses will immediately be handled by specialists, you should leave quickly." As she finished speaking, Flower Rain left the alley.

At the end, Lisa was the only one that returned back to the main street, the meal that Ryujin wanted to treat had ended in a dramatic fashion. However, that girl was pitiful too, getting impersonated and swapped away just from going to the toilet, and even losing her clothes. Lisa hoped that she wouldn't remember to treat her to a meal anytime soon either.

There wasn't anywhere good to have a meal nearby, as it was no longer early, and with some thought, she rode her car to ROSE bar; as if nothing happened earlier.

When she arrived at ROSE bar, there were already quite a number of people drinking and chatting inside. The bar recently changed its mood. In the lounge, Mozart's violin sonata was being played. There weren't many guests, but the ambience was much better than the other messy bars.

What made Lisa a little surprised was that Chen Rong was already donning a server's attire and working.

After the lily-like pure teenage girl took a bath and put on this contrasting black-white attire, her eyes appeared rather youthful and bright with the dirt and weariness washed off. Especially her innocent pretty face, it was white and clean like snow, yet moist and tender like a flower.

Seeing Lisa enter, Chen Rong somewhat bashfully called out to her "Lisa."

Lisa knew that Chen Rong wasn't accustomed yet, and joked, "If Bambam and the others bully you, let me know and I'll beat them up for you."

When Bambam and the others heard this, they voiced out their grievance, "Hey, how could we dare? She was recommended by you, and is even taken care of by the boss herself. We can't wait to curry favor with her, how would we dare to bully her?"

Touched, Chen Rong sweetly smiled, said "thank you," then ran to the back to help.

Looking at Chen Rong from behind, Lisa revealed a smile of relief. She then walked along the aisle at the back of the bar. She didn't know what Rose wanted to talk to her about, but she needed to have a meal first.

Entering Rose's bedroom that had her enchanting body fragrance all over, the beautiful woman's figure was nowhere to be found.

With her sharp hearing, Lisa quickly noticed that there was the sound of water splashing from the room's attached toilet.

She's showering?

Lisa felt that she should carefully inquire whether Rose needed help. For example she could help clean a certain place on her lower body, or perhaps massage in water, even spectating and studying how she showered would be good.

In any case, Lisa felt that she had many reasons to enter and watch Rose shower.

Sneakily pushing the glass door open, it was steamy inside, there was condensate all over the mirror that refracted the gentle light, causing the bathroom to seem rather sexy yet bright and clean.

Just as Lisa wanted to close in on the shower stall to initiate intimate contact with Rose in such a way that she wouldn't be able to resist, Lisa felt that something was amiss.

Although the frosted glass of the shower stall had water splashing against it, Rose's alluring figure didn't seem to be inside......

I've been toyed with!?

Lisa suddenly turned her head back, and as expected, Rose was standing at the door of the ceiling-to-floor window with a mischievous smile. Her pleased smile resembled a jester that just toyed with a monkey.

This woman is turning more and more uncute.

Lisa angrily thought, but maintained a calm and composed look on her face. She opened the door to the shower stall and turned off the tap, and said, "Baby, I think it's better to turn off the tap if you're not showering, saving water is a good habit."

Rose finally couldn't hold in her laughter and laughed out loud, she rocked back and forth before finally stifling it back down again and said, "I finally beat you, looks like the best way to deal with you is to use methods meant for dealing with perverts."

"Like I said, this concerns the problem of conserving water." Lisa held on to this reasoning and refused to let go. She then sat on the bed and lied down, and quickly changed the topic, "I haven't had dinner yet."

Rose didn't expose what Lisa just did, she instead tapped her chin to think and said, "Do you want to try my cooking skills?"

"You know how to cook?" Lisa was a little unconvinced, food cooked by an underworld boss?

Rose rolled her eyes at her and walked to a white wall in the room, pushed against it, and it was revealed that that part of the wall was actually a well concealed wooden door.

After that wooden door was opened, an 8 square metre kitchen appeared, like a refined kitchen of an ordinary family.

Lisa's mouth was wide open, "Why do I have no idea about such a place?"

Rose grudgingly looked at her, "Whenever you come, all you did is bad things to me, how would you know about what happens in my life?"

Being criticized, Lisa began to sweat and awkwardly smiled. She was the one who picked out this delicate fresh flower, but she truly didn't put in effort to tend to her daily

Rose let the topic end there, and cleverly asked, "Hubby, what do you want to eat?"

"Anything is fine, as long as it can fill the stomach." Lisa didn't have any special requests.

Rose's cooking skills were beyond expectations, when Lisa picked up the plate of beef fried rice with cilantro sprinkled on top, she immediately began wolfing it down.

The considerate Rose also served a bowl of Sichuan vegetable egg drop soup. This meal may be simple, but it was very well suited to Lisa who had a life full of bitter, toiling work.

After she ate, Rose took out a wet tissue and thoroughly cleaned her mouth, like a cute young wife serving her partner, her devoted look nearly made Lisa's bones turn into jelly.

Subsequently, Rose cleaned up the table and washed them in the kitchen, while Lisa switched on the TV to watch the news. They looked just like a couple in an ordinary family who had gotten off work; the two of them understood each other tacitly without the need for words.

Once all the chores were done, Rose closed the door to the kitchen, as if that meal didn't happen at all.

Unhurriedly, Rose sat down by Lisa's side, her alluring body that wore a silky translucent nightgown naturally leaned into Lisa's bosom, and she shifted her body to find a comfortable position, accompanying Lisa in watching the news quietly just like this.

"Thank you." When some time passed, Rose softly muttered.

"Thank me for what?" Lisa asked.

"I really like that kind of feeling from earlier. When I brought out the food for you, I enjoyed watching you finish the dishes I cooked, and I also liked how you sat nearby to watch the TV while I washed the dishes; I can feel that you're by my side, and that I'm not alone in this room......"

Lisa affectionately stroked Rose's face, "I like it too, though it would be even better if you cooked a larger serving."

"I wish that everyday could be like this...... though that just isn't possible."

"I will strive to make that possible." Lisa replied, "I rarely make promises to women, so you have to believe me."

"Why is it that after you accepted me, the way you speak has totally changed?" Rose looked at Lisa with confused eyes, "In the past you would never ask of me to trust you, because you never allowed me to trust you...... Is it because you're now afraid of me? Afraid to lose me?"

Lisa faintly shook her head, she held Rose's silky white body in her arms, "I'm not afraid of you, I just simply respect you."

"Really?" Rose stared straight at Lisa.

"Yes and I'm not afraid to lose you, couz that'll never happen." Lisa replied.

Rose sweetly smiled, "This is more like you."

Lisa dotingly pinched the woman's nose, "Alright, you've heard the words you wanted to hear, next up you should say what you want to say for me to hear. I don't believe that you would specially call me over just to hear my sweet speech and honeyed words."

"You're not giving me any time to bask in happiness, a real mood killer." Although Rose spoke discontentedly, but she still sat up in the end, and resolutely spoke, "My father sent me an invitation letter, and wants me to participate in a party."

"Your father? Park Seo-joon?" Lisa puzzlingly said, "Haven't the two of you gone separate ways? He still dare to send you an invitation letter?"

Rose tartly smiled and said, "It's different this time, there's a special guest."

"Who?"

"Park Si-hoo and his son."

Lisa wracked her mind over trying to recall the information regarding Zhong Hai's underworld that Rose previously provided her with before remembering who Park Si-hoo was.

If one was to say that the West Union Society and Red Thorns Society were adversaries that were evenly matched in the west region, then the east region would seem much more peaceful in comparison. This is because over ten years ago, with the nickname 'Old Catfish', Park Si-hoo had already conquered the entire east region of Zhong Hai through means of arms trafficking and drugs.

These years of development and expansion led Park Si-hoo who was purely an underworld boss grow into a half underworld, half real world overlord in the east region. Even their gang's name 'Dongxing Gang' was turned into 'Dongxing Group'.

Park Si-hoo's son had already deeply rooted himself in this fertile land called Zhong Hai. It didn't matter whether it was the West Union Society or the Red Thorns Society, in Park Si-hoo's eyes, they all seemed puny.

A few years ago, before Rose deserted her father and parted ways to set up the Red Thorns Society, the West Union Society had enough strength to compete on the same level as the Dongxing Group, but now that the west region has been split into two, they seemed extremely frail in front of the Dongxing Group.

For Park Si-hoo and his son to take part in Park Seo-joon's small scale party at this time, possessed a message that was worth pondering over.

Lisa had a little headache as she asked, "What do you want to do?"

"What other choice do I have?" Rose forced a smile, "Although I can choose not to give them face, the Dongxing Group's strength is not something that we could contend against at this moment. If I don't go, that would be facilitating Dongxing and West Union Society to join hands in dealing with us." When she reached this point, Rose paused to look at Lisa, then continued, "Perhaps because you're here, we could do what we did with Sung Dong-il, capture the boss first followed by his followers. However, the Dongxing Group has already formed into a tightly knitted group a long time ago. Even if Park Si-hoo and his son are killed, there would still be a large number of Dongxing's members against us. Nothing would happen to the two of us, but I can't ignore the well-being of my men."

"Which means, you're perfectly aware that there's a tiger on that mountain, yet you still choose to hike on that mountain to meet that tiger?" Lisa more or less understood her intentions.

Rose suddenly showed a queer smile, leaned close to Lisa's ears and whispered something.

Lisa immediately wiped her forehead and put on her guard as she looked at Rose, "I say that you're a vixen yet you still don't admit it? Looks like you've already made the decision to treat me as Wu Song."

[AN: Wu Song is a fictional character from the classic novel Water Margin who is well-known to have killed a tiger with his bare hands.]

Rose hugged Lisa's elbow, and flirtatiously said, "In any case, in a couple of days when the time comes you must follow me there, you can't leave me all alone."

Feeling Rose's exquisite soft chest coming into contact with her elbow, Lisa who had been thinking of doing a certain thing ever since she ate her fill felt that it was time to do it. Right as she was about to extend her evil claws to that mysterious hemisphere shaped area, the phone in her pocket suddenly rang.

She gloomily took out the phone to take a look, the caller was Auntie Mi-kyung. The last few times she called, something bad had happened, therefore Lisa didn't hesitate and quickly answered.

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