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Chapter 796 - 445: Abalone Club - 3

Chapter 796: Chapter 445: Abalone Club - 3

Catherine gently held back a fidgety Greystone. When she heard that Master Lane was coming to the piano shop, she hastily dragged Greystone along to stir up trouble. She originally thought that Master Lane was just like any other man, impatient to see the two beauties of the piano shop upon hearing the news. Now it seems that wasn’t the case.

The hostess calmly asked, "It is indeed a surprise that Master Lane would personally come to kick us out. We truly do not understand, why would two weak women need to go? How could we be of such importance to a distinguished man, who simultaneously holds the positions of warden of East Prison Town and Commander of the Summit Metropolitan Office?"

Owen Bertram: "Do you recognize me?"

The hostess lightly laughed from behind the beaded curtain, and confirmed, "Of course." Then she added somewhat meaningfully, "I’ve heard of your reputation for a long time."

Owen Bertram snorted dismissively, and said pointedly: "Name a price. I’ll buy this place and you two will disappear. I can let bygones be bygones."

The little girl retorted indignantly: "What have we done wrong? Where does Master’s ’let bygones be bygones’ come from?"

The hostess behind the beaded curtain lightly tapped the table to stop her maid, then addressed Owen Bertram, "Although Master is domineering, we two weak women are not easily bullied. This is still the Wood Dynasty’s territory; we can come and go as we please.

If Master wishes to drive us away today, we insist on not leaving. Perhaps, on a day when Master forgets about us, we might decide to leave."

Owen Bertram frowned: "Are you really refusing to leave?"

The hostess shook her head: "Indeed, we are."

Owen Bertram promptly rose to leave, saying no more. Leroy Baker hurriedly followed, and Greystone grumbled angrily: "Master, should I order our men to bother them daily? I guarantee that they will willingly leave in three days!"

Owen shook his head, sighing: "It’s no use. If she doesn’t want to leave, who can drive her away besides Master Lane? And that’s only if she’s a cultivator of the Sixth Great Realm."

"What?" Everyone around was shocked: "Is... Is the hostess of the Sixth Great Realm?"

Owen Bertram nodded, a deep worry clouding his face: "This woman is targeting either His Majesty or me!"

David was even more startled. A cultivator of the Sixth Great Realm had appeared here in this bustling market?! That was like a massive shark lurking beneath the calm waters! It’s fortunate that he didn’t act hastily and decided to wait for Master to handle the situation.

"This is tricky," murmured Master Owen, massaging his forehead. A peerlessly beautiful woman of the Sixth Great Realm, playing this ambiguous game of cat and mouse with the Emperor—how could the Emperor possibly compete?

"This won’t do, we must find a way to send the Emperor back," Owen Bertram conceded that the lesser of two evils would have to do.

In order to persuade the Emperor to return, his "wish" would have to be fulfilled—namely, to leave behind a "courageous" reputation that would be praised by the local poetry societies. But, Lord Owen reasoned in reverse and found that it was still not feasible. That was the Emperor’s previous wish, now there was an addition—the piano shop.

Still, if the Emperor himself did not want to return, no one else’s admonishment would matter.

Owen Bertram failed to come up with any good solutions even after they returned to the Summit Metropolitan Office. He looked rather irritable, where in the world did this mysterious cultivator of the Sixth Great Realm come from? The elite cultivators of the Sixth Great Realm or higher were few...

An idea suddenly popped into Owen’s mind: Right, there’s only one possibility—that woman isn’t a cultivator of the Sixth Great Realm from our Wood Dynasty! Otherwise, the Horizon Bureau wouldn’t have failed to find any information on her!

Cold sweat broke out on Owen Bertram’s forehead: A foreign cultivator of the Sixth Great Realm, deliberately interacting with the Emperor of Wood Dynasty!

He immediately ordered: "Send a communiqué to the General Government, I want to review all available information on foreign strongmen of the Sixth Great Realm or higher. And make it quick!"

...

In the back hall of the piano shop, there was a tranquil and leisurely atmosphere. While no Array had been used, the hostess, being a Sixth Great Realm cultivator, had her own ways of shutting out all the hustle and bustle from the marketplace.

The little girl gently pushed the hostess on the swing. The hostess, dressed in traditional white-cherry blossom attire from Sang Island, looked as if she were a fairy with her sleeves fluttering in the wind as the swing swayed back and forth.

"That man is really bad. If he insists on driving us away, what will we do?"

The hostess’s gaze was as serene as an autumn lake, slanting her head to look at the bright blue sky, she responded indifferently: "He won’t be able to."

The little girl wore a "I’m stupid, I don’t understand" expression, but smiled immediately after: It’s okay, the hostess must be right.

The hostess was quite familiar with the Wood Dynasty. For hundreds of years, she had devoted more time studying the Wood Dynasty than she spent dealing with internal affairs on Sang Island.

In the Wood Dynasty, anything concerning the Emperor cannot be handled simplistically. Even if she seems to be isolated, the fact that she had access to the Emperor meant that she had a "hostage." Even the Imperial Ministers of the Wood Dynasty would be extremely cautious in handling this matter.

Such matters, in an ancient court, can’t be solved simply by telling the Emperor: "Your recent infatuation, is a foreign spy, and also a cultivator of the Sixth Great Realm." If anyone were foolish enough to do so, that fool would probably be the first to die.

Therefore, the Hostess was highly confident.

...

David was very efficient. Leveraging his connections in the General Government, he quickly obtained the information: "It might not be complete. In recent years, the Horizon Bureau has mainly focused on domestic affairs and neglected intelligence gathering from neighboring countries."

Newly advanced Sixth Realm cultivators might not be included in the records.

Master Owen went through the records one by one. Simply by reference to the characteristic of exceptional beauty, the majority of the foreign Sixth Realm women could be excluded. Although high-level cultivators could modify their appearance, and make the ugly beautiful, it is difficult to change one’s temperament.