Chapter 44 Branch Route Selection

Because as long as you successfully develop the rational use of the fruit ability, strengthen and amplify your own inherent electromagnetic manipulation ability, and combine it with the domineering of seeing and hearing, it seems that it will not be too difficult to achieve the level of a person with the ability of a Devil Fruit who claims to be a god.

For example, it's easy to spy on every corner of a huge island, and even eavesdrop on all the people in it. ——This is guaranteed to be much more powerful than the empty loops that are everywhere in the school city.。

It's just that the establishment of the project to exchange for Devil Fruits is still just an idea, because some of them can't easily ignore the past problems, and they don't understand that Mu Xiu will not make rash decisions before. Besides, a one-time A-level side plot is obviously not so easy to make up.

And the lord of the country obviously doesn't believe that the young man's perception ability is really so mysterious, she has suffered enough now, and she definitely doesn't want to fall hard again on the eve of success.

Therefore, no matter how Mu Xiu persuaded her, she was still very cautious and even trembling, paying attention to the movements around her anytime and anywhere, like a frightened deer, which invisibly consumed a lot of unnecessary mental energy.

Now, the black long straight girl seemed to be very stuffy, she rolled up her sleeves and wiped the fine beads of sweat on her forehead, then gently bit her lower lip, lifted the hem of her skirt and carefully stepped on the stones in the stream, and came to Mu Xiu's side. The traditional kimono makes it difficult for people to move, so she has had a hard time along the way.

But this is already the best result, if it is still the previous dress of twelve singles, a full twelve layers of single clothes, I am afraid that today is over, and she does not have the ability to walk to this position close to the foot of the mountain.

Immediately afterward, the lord saw the dirt road at the foot of the mountain, and roughly estimated that it would only take half an hour to get there.

Suddenly, an undisguised expression of surprise appeared on her face, and then she immediately turned her head to look at Mu Xiu.

At this time, Imagawa Yoshimoto didn't care about any aristocratic manners, calm and reserved, calm or anything, she just stretched out her hands and grabbed someone's arm, shook it gently, and whispered to ask for the other party's opinion, and said:

"Shall we hurry down and get out of here right away?"

"Of course, your will is my wish, Lord of the Kingdom—"

Mu Xiu turned his head and nodded again and again, looking like a loyal minister who was as good as a stream, and he would do whatever the lord of the country said.

However, the lord of the country will not be easily deceived by him, she knows very well that the young man in front of her is completely different from those doglegs who are submissive to her. Along the way, many of the opinions I have put forward have basically been ruthlessly rejected by the other party, and they are not the kind of euphemistic prompts that are side-by-side and tactful, but straightforward to point out the problem.

This made her feel very annoyed and embarrassed, and she felt that she was becoming more and more unable to mention the majesty and momentum of the lord in front of the other party.

"It's just—"

Sure enough, in the next second, Mu Xiu held his hands in front of his chest, looked directly at the girl's eyes with a serious and sincere expression, and his tone was as light as reciting poetry, but it was a turning point:

"It's just that until then, there is a little bit of a delay now, because we still have some problems that need to be solved urgently, otherwise it may have some bad effects on the next actions...... Whether it's you or me, I probably wouldn't want to see that happen. ”

“…… What the? Imagawa Yoshimoto asked vigilantly, is the other party finally going to negotiate conditions?

"Ahem, such an obvious question—don't you know it, Lord of the Kingdom?" Mu Xiu frowned of course, as if he felt incredible, and he coughed lightly twice as if to hint at something.

Sure enough, that's the reason! The black straight girl felt that she was relieved all of a sudden, what she was most afraid of was that the other party didn't ask for anything, and she was so good to herself inexplicably.

Because that may mean that what the other party is seeking and trying to do is a bigger, more and more excessive reward. And as the lord of a country, the most powerful name in Tokaido, she can rule the entire Imagawa clan at the age of sixteen, so she is naturally not a character who easily trusts others.

It's good now, the other party just needs to make a request-Imagawa Yoshimoto's gaze gradually became cold, and the power and aura that had been silent before seemed to have begun to resurface.

In this way, I can also take this opportunity to regain the initiative, instead of being like now, and I don't know what attitude to use to face this rude person.

Blindly giving grace and worrying about overindulgence, let the other party gain an inch, want to be gracious but afraid that the other party will abandon him directly, and even simply turn to the camp of the Oda army opposite......

So it's good to say - it's okay now, the other party just needs to ask.

Although "reason" is constantly reminding her to think so. But the frowning brow and the subconscious lip biting action showed that her "sensibility" seemed to be reluctant to accept the nature of such a thing. Because Imagawa Yoshimoto is a daimyo of Hime, he is in the most competitive class in this Warring States period.

Compete with other daimyo for resources, game and strategize, and try their best to improve the strength of the Imagawa clan.

Intrigue with the chaotic factions within the family, the art of checks and balances, division and suppression, but there are still many constraints.

Even her subordinates and retainers have different interests, and they don't necessarily have the same heart as themselves in everything, and they may fool her or betray her interests.

All of this made Imagawa Yoshimoto full of exhaustion, especially after the death of the only military advisor who could be trusted and helped her seize the inheritance of the family governor, Taiyuan Xuesai, she almost lost confidence in the future, and sometimes even had some dangerous thoughts.

It seems that her insistence on stationing troops in the danger zone yesterday may not have been a decision under the influence of the subconscious extreme personality, or there may have been some factors. It's just that she herself definitely doesn't know, and she won't admit that she actually has self-destructive tendencies.

Therefore, like the past two days, the feeling of being able to really have someone to rely on is what the girl subconsciously doesn't want to give up.

To be precise, she now urgently needs a real, trustworthy helper, a real retainer who can be her core team. Instead of taking her as the target of the pursuit of interests, the biggest source of benefits, those opportunistic guys.

It's a pity, how can such a person be found so easily......

Imagawa Yoshimoto bit his lip, clenched his fingers, and said lightly: "Say, what do you want?" ”

Mu Xiu glanced at her strangely, and always felt that the smile of the lord of the country at this moment seemed to be far-fetched, but he didn't think much about it, just said bluntly: "I need to know which Imagawa army is nearest nearby and in what direction." ”

"Hmph, although your request is a little excessive, but for the sake of your ...... in the past two days" According to the sentence that had been thought of a long time ago, the black straight girl shook her head arrogantly, and after saying some of the words she had thought of, she reacted violently: "Huh? Wait—what did you just say? ”

“……”

“……”

"Are you listening to me?" Mu Xiu didn't ask again, but squinted his eyes slightly.

He really felt that the girl in front of him seemed to be really wrong, the kind of something wrong in his mental state. Could it be that the difficult situation of the past two days has made her dizzy and subconsciously cranky?

"No, no, it's not...... What do I mean, I mean—" Imagawa Yoshimoto froze for a few seconds before shaking his head like a rattle, "I mean, why do you want all this information?" ”

"Isn't that obvious? We're still in Owari now, and even if we do, we'll only be leaving the encirclement temporarily, my lord. The corners of the boy's mouth twitched slightly, "Even if they don't find it for a while, but when they search the entire mountain or find the soldiers we killed along the way, they will definitely know that we have escaped......"

"Next, we're still going to have to flee, and we don't have a lot of room to maneuver like in the mountains. In this way, isn't it the most natural thing to find the nearest Imagawa army and rush over as quickly as possible? ”

“……”

The Lord seemed to be completely stunned, and fell into some strange gray state.

Mu Xiu raised his eyebrows, and suddenly a sense of foreboding suddenly appeared in his heart: "Wait, if you don't remember the distribution of the nearby Imagawa Army, then—you should at least remember the route that is the fastest and can go directly back to the territory on the other side of the Three Rivers, right?" ”

"This, this...... I—I should ......"

Imagawa Yoshimoto's eyes wandered, and her white little face also had an embarrassed flush, and she looked away from her face with a weak heart, looking in the direction of something empty.

The boy's brow twitched, and he felt like he had reached his limit. However, he just took a deep breath to relieve the pressure in his brain, and then nodded clearly, and said lightly: "That's the case, then I probably understand, then the next arrangement will change a little......

"W-What?" The lord of the country of Kurocho Nao hung his shoulders and said weakly, as if he was waiting for the judge's trial.

Mu Xiu first glanced at his task, and sure enough, it was not displayed as completed, and the reward points and side plots were not issued.

He laughed heartily and gave a thumbs up to the Lord, "Well, Lord, can you keep the speed of the horses at least a quarter of an hour?" ”

"How is this possible!"

“…… Actually, I don't think it's likely, so, do you want me to carry you on your back or just hug you? ”

"Hmm——!!" The Lord of the Kingdom's face turned red all of a sudden, and she bit her lower lip and stared at Mu Xiu with tears in her eyes, with an expression that couldn't believe what she had heard.