Chapter 532 Zhao Men
After cooking for Yuki and the other patients, Shiro had a proper medic examine them. Hearing that they were completely healthy now, Shiro let them do whatever they wanted while she prepared to make her way to the east of China.
Yuki stayed around for a little while before deciding to make her way back to the Winter's Grace main headquarters so that she could reorganise the faction a little. After all, she has been away for quite a while and was not able to run the faction how she wanted to. Sending small letters and secret phone calls was not optimal.
Watching Yuki leave, Shiro had a small smile on her face since Yuki was now getting her life back on track after Duan Han Ying f*cked it up.
"Do you want to make your way to the east now? Thankfully, there's a teleport shrine in the city so we can get there immediately." Nan Tian asked with a smile.
"Sure. I guess it'll be just me and you for a bit then." Shiro shrugged.
Of course, that was excluding the spirits that were following her, Estrella, Nimue, Iziuel and Atesh. With Keiko and Keomi making their way to the front lines to get some levels, their current group had thinned out a little.
"I see, perhaps you could call this a date?" He said with a smile and removed his mask.
"You wish. Unfortunately for you, I have a few permanent tenants with me." Shiro grinned before summoning Nimue, Iziuel and Attie.
"You know, if you're gonna summon me, at least tell me. I was about to rest ya know?" Nimue sighed.
"Fine fine, you can go back then." Shiro chuckled and let Nimue back in the mana realm.
"What about you Iziuel?"
"I'll stay out here." She smiled as she enjoyed staying out in the world. It was soothing in the way that it made her feel free.
"Mn." Nodding her head, they started to make their way out of the village as Shiro held Attie in her arms.
Seeing Attie glance towards his face curiously, Nan Tian gave him a small wave. To which, he only looked the other way in boredom.
"Pft, seems like Attie doesn't like you." Shiro laughed as Nan Tian could only smile tiredly.
"I guess that's a sign that I'm not too good with children." He sighed.
"Too bad for you then huh? I already have 3." Shiro chuckled.
"Well I don't exactly mind."
Rolling her eyes, Shiro sped up ahead of him as she started to walk towards the closest teleport shrine.
Shaking his head, Nan Tian followed behind her.
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Arriving in the city of Zhao Men, the duo made their way to the last known location of the monster.
Surprisingly, when they arrived, there were already a few people searching around the place for clues.
"Mn? Why are there so many people here?" Shiro asked as she turned to Nan Tian.
"Hm… I'm not too sure. Let me ask the member we had dispatched to this city." He replied as he brought out his phone. At this point, he had already placed his mask back on his face.
After a short while, a woman arrived at the scene with a rather curious guest.
"Branch Master." The two said at the same time.
"I didn't realise that you were visiting this place Huan Er. How goes your training?" Nan Tian asked as the second woman was Huan Er, the one that Shiro would like to call a second rate hacker girl.
"It's going fine Branch Master. It seems like you're with Miss Shiro today." Huan Er bowed slightly before glancing towards Shiro.
Feeling Huan Er's gaze on her, Shiro grabbed Attie's hand and gave her a small wave.
"Mn, so what brings you to this city? I thought you would have been training with the elder down south?" Nan Tian questioned curiously.
"I'm here for the mission. Master has told me to practice my puppeteering on this monster and see if I can bring it under my control. If I'm able to do that, I'll be able to proceed to the next step of my training." Huan Er replied.
"Hm… I see. That's quite unfortunate since we're here to kill that monster too."
Hearing that they were also here to kill the monster, Huan Er had some hope that she could show off her potential to Nan Tian but stopped when she realised that Shiro was around.
Seeing the child in her arms, she couldn't help but wonder who he is. Seeing how affectionate Shiro was being with it, she could guess that it was a child of a good friend that she's looking after.
Plus, there was no way that it was going to be her child as she was still….
Thinking up of this point, Huan Er finally realised that Shiro seemed to look a bit older than the last time she had seen her. Previously, she looked about 13 but now she seemed to be around 18 to 20 years old.
"If you're curious about Attie, then I can tell you that he's my son." Shiro smiled. Since Huan Er liked Nan Tian and Nan Tian liked her, if Huan Er found out that she had a son, she would be quite annoyed no?
Plus, Shiro was in a good mood so she decided to mess around with Huan Er a bit.
"!!!"
Widening her eyes, Huan Er