"Oops, looks like we're in luck today, right, Kali."

"yes, I didn't expect us to be able to meet Princess Yuling in a place where this kind of bird doesn't, you said that if we handed her over to the boss, would we get a reward?"

"That's for sure."

The two men, Kali and Karaha, smiled disgustingly as they made wishful thinking.

But the girl standing in front of them, that is, the princess Yuling they were talking about, only raised the corners of their mouths and sneered after hearing these words.

"Just because you two lowly scum also want to seize this palace? It's really unbelievable. ”

“…… Well? ”

Kali was a little skeptical that his ears had misheard, but after making eye contact with Wu Yu, he was immediately convinced that he had not misheard Yu Ling's words.

"What? You little devil is still hard-mouthed when you're dying! ”

In this uninhabited alley, except for Kali and Wu Yu, only Yu Ling is left alone, and now if you want to kidnap Yu Ling, it is simply easy, in fact, if Yu Ling is now shouting for help, no one will rush to help her in this barren place, even if someone happens to pass by here and try to rescue Yu Ling, it may not be successful.

But for some reason, even if he was in such a predicament, he didn't feel any sense of crisis from Yu Ling at all, but scolded Kali and Wu Yu as if he was killing himself, and he didn't intend to try to please them in order to escape, this may be the fault of Yu Ling, the princess, who was pampered since she was a child, Kali simply made such a guess.

"It doesn't matter if you're a princess or whatever, there's no one here to protect you now, you'd better stand still or I'll punch you in the face."

Kali clenched his fists tightly, making a crisp sound of "click" bones rubbing, and then leisurely closed the distance to Yuling, intending to teach her a lesson.

And yet, at this moment—

"What, why are you two again, you really don't change."

Such a helpless voice came from behind Yu Ling.

"Huh......?"

Kali and Wu Yu were puzzled, and looked forward reflexively, only to see that the two people behind Yu Ling, who were covered by the shadow of the wall, were slowly walking forward, and within a few seconds, they showed their faces, they were Zhang Hao and Li Hu.

"How...... How could it be you again! ”

"It's too much of a coincidence, it's that stinky boy from yesterday again!"

As if seeing Li Hu suddenly appearing here, Kali and Wu Yu raised their voices dyed with panic, and then, driven by instinct, their feet fell backwards for a long distance at an alarming speed.

"What? Do you know the two of them? ”

Presumably thinking that Kali and Wu Yu's reaction to Li Hu was a little exaggerated, Zhang Hao tilted his head and asked, so Li Hu scratched his cheeks and said with some embarrassment:

"Count...... Sort of....... ”

"Well, you're in the same group as them."

"You're the one!"

Regarding Zhang Hao's words, Li Hu made a fierce rebuttal.

Yes, the reason why Li Hu knew Kali and Wu Yu was because they robbed civilians yesterday and had a battle with Li Hu, although the final result ended with Li Hu's defeat, but it was just a fluke for them, to be honest, as long as Li Hu was serious, in fact, even if the two of them went together, they were not opponents at all.

Having said that, it is also an indisputable fact that Li Hu lost to them, in short, it is better not to let Zhang Hao know.

"Huh, Li Hu?"

Yu Ling tilted her head to look at Li Hu suspiciously.

"Huh——! How could it be you? ”

After seeing the appearance of the girl who was originally going to be rescued, Li Hu's eyes widened in shock, and then he called her name hesitantly.

"The Imperial ...... Manage............ Yuming. ”

“…………！”

So Yu Ling's temples were bruised, and the most annoying thing was this kind of person who could even give the wrong name, and then she clenched her fists menacingly and walked in front of Li Hu, and then quickly raised her right foot, and kicked Li Hu's lower body hard.

“…… Quack! ”

As a result, Li Hu sat on the ground on the spot, twisted his feet into an M-shape, and pressed the kicked part with a blue face, as if a wonderful picture of a broken egg appeared in front of him.

However, Yu Ling didn't care about Li Hu's pain-like appearance, and still corrected loudly with a dissatisfied face:

"Listen clearly! The name of the main shrine is called! Do! Yu Ling! ”

"No...... I'm sorry to ......, I'm sorry. ”

Zhang Hao, who was standing next to him and witnessed the whole process, couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth and bend it into a moon shape.

"Aha, what, Li Hu, your appearance is too funny, your balls shouldn't be kicked to pieces!"

He twisted his body and laughed at Li Hu mercilessly, as soon as he heard this annoying laughter, Li Hu seemed to have the pain dissipated instantly, and stood in front of Zhang Hao with a face that he couldn't stand it.

"Hey! Are you that funny? ”

"No...... It's not funny, it's ...... Very...... Funny! ”

After speaking, Zhang Hao seemed to be smiling, and began to hold his stomach and keep laughing "haha", so Li Hu let out a "hum" sound from his nose, crossed his arms and said in a mocking tone:

"Looking for ~紴~Oni~"

Just hearing these three short words, Zhang Hao felt as if he was being in the middle of his arms, and the smile just now disappeared in an instant.

"I don't need to mention the nickname of hundreds of years ago here."

Then Zhang Hao replied with a grinning smile that was so stiff that he seemed very reluctant to be mentioned by others.

“…………！”

At this moment, Li Hu's mind turned, and he immediately remembered that there was one more matter that had not been resolved.

"Ah, by the way, Yu Ling, there is something I almost forgot, this thing will be returned to you."

Li Hu reached into his pocket as he spoke, took out the wallet that Yu Ling had used to frame her, and gently threw it in her direction.

“…… Well? ”

Yu Ling's hands just received the wallet, and immediately showed an expression of incomprehension, it seemed that she had almost forgotten about this matter, and before Yu Ling could react, Li Hu stretched out his arm as if he was asking for something from Yu Ling.

"Then can I give my katana back, that sword is very important to me."

After listening to Li Hu's words, Yu Ling hesitated for a while as if she was considering whether to return it to Li Hu, and then narrowed her eyes and replied seriously:

"Okay, just give it back to you."

After saying that, Yu Ling took off the katana hanging from her waist, squinted her eyes and handed it over without hesitation.

“…… Well? ”

Yu Ling's sudden move made Li Hu feel strange.

I thought that a willful and even somewhat unreasonable girl like Yu Ling might more or less resist or plan to flee the scene, but Li Hu didn't expect that she would be so well-behaved and agreed?

And yet—

"Uh-huh......!"

Just after Li Hu grabbed the handle of the knife, he tried to take all the katanas, but at this moment, something strange happened, no matter how much Li Hu applied force to his arm, the katana seemed to be still in the air, and Li Hu suddenly noticed that Yu Ling's hand was holding the scabbard tightly, and it seemed that he was also exerting force.

"Hey! You'd better let it go! Didn't you promise to be good just now, and now you regret it? ”

"Don't negotiate the price anymore! Hongu is willing to pay a high price! ”

"No way!"

After this negotiation broke down quickly, the two sides continued to exert force, and just like that, a tug-of-war game unfolded on the spot.

"Hmm——!"

"Uh-huh——!"

Both sides spared no effort to use all their strength, and the tug-of-war took less than five seconds to decide the winner.

“………！”

“………！”

The blade and the scabbard were separated in an instant, and Li Hu, who grabbed the hilt, and Yu Ling, who grabbed the scabbard, both of them took a few steps back at the same time because of the influence of inertia, unable to maintain their balance.

And yet at that moment—

Li Hu, who was holding the handle of the knife, couldn't control the blade, and as a result, an arc-shaped trajectory was drawn in the air, so the blade began to gradually approach Zhang Hao, who was standing beside him.

At that moment, Zhang Hao looked at the blade that was close to his head, his eyes widened in shock, and at the last moment, Zhang Hao subconsciously tilted his head back quickly, but unfortunately it was too late, and he still couldn't escape the attack of the blade.