(Big sis, I don’t understand. Why do you dream so big?)

(Hong, how big do you think the world is?)

(The world? How am I supposed to describe that? Well, it’s as big as you want it to be, I guess.)

(What I think is the world is as big as your heart, since everything else you cannot accept can be considered outside of your world.)

(If that’s the case, then big sis’s heart must be really big.)

(Of course– Someone has to accept everything after all. Even if it is tiring.)

(But why is big sis willing to be such a person? Can’t you leave it to someone else?)

(… I’m only doing it because I can, that’s all.)

Meng De POV

*Cha*! The sound of something tearing rang out for an instant, and in the next moment, blood sprayed out in all directions; onto Yan Liang and into my eyes.

“Kuah!!!” Hong’s scream filled the air and brought me back to my senses from my daze.

“How is it? Cao Cao! Does it feel good with 1 less arm!” Only after hearing Yan Liang’s delighted voice did I accept the scene before me as reality.

Hong’s right arm was completely severed from her shoulder, and all that was left was a bleeding wound. She lay on the ground and looked lifelessly at her severed arm. She was biting on er lips from the pain and a grim expression as she desperately tried to stop her bleeding with her other arm.

“Hong!”

“Big sis, what are you doing!” Hong yelled out as she endured the sheer amount of pain and raised her head to look at me with a smile, “The world can do without Hong, but it cannot do without Cao Meng De!”

(TL: This conversation also happened in original but elsewhere obviously. It was supposed to take place when Cao Cao continued to pursue Dong Zhuo alone after Luoyang was burned down.)

As she finished, a fresh spurt of blood flowed out from her wound as she picked up a sword beside her and threw it to me.

“What?! You’re Cao Cao!” Yan Liang’s eyes wavered for a moment but she soon regained her ferocious expression as she lunged at me once more.

As the blade Hong threw spun in the air, Yan Liang’s glaive came for me.

… Little sis, I’ll do something about your arm.

I, Cao Meng De, am no ordinary person after all!

*Ding*! I bent backwards and felt the glaive slide across my body, and hurriedly reached out to grab the incoming sword.

“Don’t think you’ll get your way!” When Yan Liang saw that her blade did not reach me, she followed through with the momentum of her initial attack and rotated as she slashed at me from the other side.

“Yan Liang! Your story ends here!” I yelled out and used whatever physical strength I had left and jumped up, dodging the glaive’s path and also the blade Hong had thrown over.

Another clang rang out as the blade crashed into Yan Liang’s glaive and deflected Yan Liang’s glaive.

“Kuh!” Yan Liang clicked her tongue and readied herself for another attack on me.

But…

“Yan Liang! Don’t think you can use the same move twice!” I yelled as I flashed her my confident smile and looked behind Yan Liang.

Hong was there and she was holding a dagger in her remaining arm.

“Wh–” Only now did Yan Liang realise something was wrong. But it was too late and she wouldn’t be able to defend in time.

“Yaaaaaaa!” Hong cried out as though she had infused all the pain that Yan Liang had given her into the dagger she held and stabbed–

“Wu!” Yan Liang’s smile completely vanished as Hong’s dagger slipped through Yan Liang’s red plate and buried itself deeply into her back.

“Kaa!” Blood flowed out of Yan Liang’s mouth, “You… b.a.s.t.a.r.d!”

But in the next instant, Yan Liang swung out and knocked Hong to the ground with the last of her strength before dropping to the ground on her knees and panting hard as she lost her grip on her glaive.

She didn’t keel over even though she can’t continue fighting anymore. As expected of the most ferocious general in Hebei.

I sighed in amazement and looked at the battlefield. Hong can no longer fight but from how things look, we’re winning and breaking down Wu Chao’s gates is just a matter of time. As I thought so, I began walking towards Hong.

“B, big sis!” Hong yelled and pointed as she looked into the distance, “T, there!”

There?

I looked in the direction where Hong was pointing and saw a large cohort of Ben Chu’s troops rus.h.i.+ng towards us. I thought that it was strange and squinted my eyes to get a better look and found that the one leading this unit was Ben Chu herself.

Un? Is Xuan De here too?

He wasn’t very noticeable but I could catch his figure sitting behind a warrior general on a white horse.

Hm hm, Xuan De has come to witness the showdown between I and Ben Chu huh!

Is that so, well in that case, it’s time. I thought and tiredly raised my right hand and pointed at the sky.

Liu Bei POV

Un? Why does it feel like the ground is shaking? And it’s pretty violent too…

“Zi Long! Did you hear something?”

“I heard it long ago already…” Zi Long sighed when she saw I only just realised this and pointed at the slope to the right, “We’ve been ambushed.”

I turned and saw a continuous stream of cavalry troops charging down the slope.

How did it become like this!

“Ben Chu!” I hurriedly yelled out to her in the hopes that she could give an appropriate response to the ambush as soon as possible.

“Never fear, Xuan De!” Ben Chu yelled back as she raised her sabre and swept back her long, wavy hair, “We just need to charge at them!”