25: Chapter 25 It turns out I'm the scumbag!?
Su Yun sat in his chair, not even blinking an eyelid.
The [black day] on his chest was in a frenzied state; as long as this lousy shadow blade dared to touch his skin, the spatial fault would directly fling Su Qing all the way downstairs.
But he hadn't yet had the chance to communicate with [black day] to suppress its defenses.
A slender figure suddenly rushed out from the side.
Chu Youwei.
She spread her arms, blocking firmly in front of Su Yun.
Her eyes were closed, her long eyelashes trembling violently, and her legs were shaking so much she couldn't stand steadily.
D-rank spiritual energy formed an extremely faint orange halo on the surface of her body.
The shadow blade stopped abruptly half an inch in front of Chu Youwei's forehead.
The sharp blade wind cut off a few strands of hair on Chu Youwei's forehead.
A chorus of gasps echoed throughout the Library.
Chu Youwei opened her eyes, looked at the black blade inches away, and swallowed.
She tilted her head up, meeting the pair of glowing eyes above Su Qing's mask.
"This is the downtown Library!"
Chu Youwei's voice trembled, but her tone was high-pitched.
"Are you going to attack a powerless civilian high school student? Have you treated the official regulations as scrap paper!"
These words were shouted with conviction.
Su Yun leaned back in his chair, looking at the girl blocking in front of him, and raised an eyebrow.
This woman really had guts.
Not only did she dare to use herself as a human shield, but she also dared to stand up to a high-rank Awakened.
This kind of backbone was rare.
The expression beneath Su Qing's shadow was incredibly vivid.
Of course, she couldn't actually kill Su Yun; she just wanted to scare her stinky older brother.
Breaking in through the window with such fanfare was meant to give her brother a lesson he would never forget, and to show him the consequences of his actions.
As it turned out, instead of giving a lesson, she was force-fed a huge mouthful of fresh dog food right to her face!
You, a grown man with no power to truss a chicken, are actually hiding behind a girl?
And Chu Youwei, you must be crazy too!
Even if you are from some secret Family, with just your D-rank spiritual energy foundation, you dare to throw yourself onto the blade of a high-rank Awakened?
Are you really not afraid that I won't be able to hold back and accidentally slice you in two?!
"Heh."
Su Qing suppressed the urge to retort, letting out a cold scoff.
With a flick of her wrist, she spun the short blade in a flashy maneuver between her fingers, and then the back of the blade slapped onto Chu Youwei's shoulder.
"What? Are you heartbroken that I'm going to chop up your little lover?"
Su Qing's intentionally lowered, neutral voice was full of mockery, "With your pathetic bit of spiritual energy, you aren't even qualified to block a blade. However..."
She changed her tone.
"You certainly have guts. Daring to stand out in a death trap like this—you've got a fiery spirit."
These were her honest words as Su Qing.
Although her brother was annoying, the sister-in-law he found could really hold her own at critical moments; she hadn't embarrassed him.
Chu Youwei's face was pale, her shoulder pressed down by the back of the blade, and cold sweat streamed down her temples.
She didn't understand the hint of admiration in the terrifying assassin's words at all; her entire focus was on resisting the pressure radiating from the high-rank Awakened.
At this moment, a hand reached out from behind Chu Youwei.
Su Yun stood up from his chair.
He didn't push Chu Youwei away, nor did he show any panic.
He stepped around Chu Youwei, half of his body blocking in front of her.
Then, he did something that made everyone present think he had gone mad.
Su Yun extended his index and middle fingers, reaching straight toward the shadow short blade in Su Qing's hand.
His eyes glittered with intense curiosity.
He was very curious about what this entity, condensed purely from spiritual energy, would feel like to the touch.
Seeing those two fair fingers reaching over, Su Qing's fur stood on end instantly.
"What are you doing!"
She exclaimed, taking a large step back abruptly.
The shadow short blade instantly dissipated into a cloud of black mist.
Are you kidding me!
This blade was imbued with high-intensity cutting rules.
For an ordinary person, let alone touching it, even getting within half a foot would result in severed fingers.
If she sliced off a piece of her brother's finger, she would be done for!
This sudden turn of events left the readers in the Library completely stunned.
When Dark Blade had broken through the window earlier, everyone was terrified and hiding under their tables.
But now, after several standoffs, everyone realized that this temperamental The Watchers member hadn't unleashed any substantial killing intent at all.
She had even voluntarily retracted her weapon and retreated when that boy reached out?
What kind of vicious assassin was this?
This was just flirting!
For a moment, the atmosphere in the Library became extremely bizarre.
A few bold boys even poked their heads out from under the tables, pulled out their phones, and started recording.
Meanwhile, on the street outside the third-floor window, the gossip souls of the onlookers were thoroughly ignited.
"What's going on? Why did Dark Blade stop attacking?"
"Are you blind! Can't you see there's a handsome guy and a beautiful woman in there?"
Someone in the crowd roared at the top of their lungs: "I get it now! Dark Blade is here to catch an affair!"
This sentence was like a depth charge.
The entire street instantly exploded into chaos.
"Holy crap! Breaking news! The Watchers Dark Blade's secret boyfriend is cheating with a female student from the No. 2 High School?"
"No wonder Dark Blade rushed upstairs in such a hurry; this is the original partner showing up to settle scores!"
"Exciting! So exciting! That scumbag really has the looks to be a gigolo; he actually dared to cheat on Dark Blade!"
"Hey scumbag upstairs, get out here and take a beating!"
The crowd's cheers grew wave after wave.
The sound waves penetrated the broken glass windows and clearly reached into the Library.
Chu Youwei was stunned.
Her face, which had been deathly pale from fear, instantly flushed bright red, then turned purple with anger.
Original partner? Cheating? The other woman?
As the dignified Young Miss of the Chu Family, having risked her life to protect her classmate, how did she become the 'other woman' stealing someone else's love?!
On the rooftop of the building opposite.
The walkie-talkie in Arbiter Qin Feng's hand dropped to the ground.
His mouth hung open, his brain completely unable to process the current information.
"Lei... Brother Lei."
Arbiter Qin Feng swallowed with difficulty.
"Your Highness... actually cheated on that crazy girl? How did this assassination turn into a relationship dispute? Is the Bloodline of Your Highness so wild when it comes to emotions?"
Arbiter Lei Zhen's face alternated between green and white.
"Shut up!" Arbiter Lei Zhen roared.
"Is the private life of Your Highness something you can gossip about? The situation is even more dangerous now! A woman scorned is more terrifying than an assassin; she might actually castrate Your Highness! Has the support not arrived yet!"
"Almost there, almost there! The teleportation array has already started locking onto the coordinates!"
Inside the Library.
Su Yun listened to the shouts of "Scumbag, get out here" rising one after another from downstairs, and was completely speechless.
He looked at Su Qing on the windowsill, whose eyes were the only thing visible behind her mask.
Su Qing was clearly holding back laughter at this moment.
Her glowing eyes had curved into crescents, her shoulders were shaking, and the shadow fluctuations around her body became extremely unstable because she was trying not to laugh.
"Did you hear that?"
Su Qing's intentionally altered voice was full of undisguised schadenfreude.
"The whole city is watching you. You vicious scumbag who plays with people's emotions."
She was absolutely thrilled.
She admitted she couldn't out-argue her brother.
But she could win the battle at the cost of her own reputation.
Given her popularity in Linhai, with something like this happening, her brother would definitely become a celebrity in Linhai City, and would be pointed at and scolded wherever he went.
Let's see if you dare to mock my height in the future!