Chapter 110 – The Illusion Known As Shen DaiYing (1/2)

“Lin Xiao, did you know? Actually… Shen DaiYing isn’t a normal princess!” Rosie said very earnestly.

“Of course I know that she’s not normal, she’s an extremely beautiful princess.” Lin Xiao replied very seriously.

“Eh… not that you idiot!” Rosie felt unwell and really wanted to give him a good punch, “I meant that there’s a problem with her identity! Did you notice the two swords by her side?”

“One long, one short, two beautiful tachis?”

“Right!” Rosie suddenly lowered her voice, and secretively said, “Did you notice that she only uses the long one and never the short one!”

“Short one?”

Hearing Rosie say that, Lin Xiao recalled that during the competition, Shen DaiYing only used the long sword Snow and never the short one, Soul Slayer.

“I thought it was strange, so I got Afu and my brothers to check it out. What do you think I found?”

Rosie’s brothers were all-powerful, and since they doted Rosie so much, there was nothing that they couldn’t do as long as Rosie asked! As for the money that’s spent… the Childe family fortune could rival a country, so money was worthless to them, nothing was worth more than Rosie’s smile.

“Lin Xiao, you don’t know yet, right… Shen DaiYing doesn’t train in battle aura, but a secret Eastern technique, called ‘Moonlight Soul Flower’, the Eastern’s number one assassination technique!” Rosie quietly revealed that unknown secret.

“What, assassination technique?”

There was no record of ‘ Moonlight Soul Flower ‘ in any of the libraries in Lombard Kingdom. Even Loran Academy’s ancient text area didn’t have any, Lin Xiao had no recollection of it.

According to Rosie, it took a lot of effort for them to find it, it turns out that ‘Moonlight Soul Flower’ was the technique that belonged to the royalty of the Great Zhou Empire, but after its collapse, it was lost and now only the people from Shen Dai house know of the technique, and Shen DaiYing was one of them.

Rosie wouldn’t make up something that significant, also, if Shen DaiYing was actually training in assassination techniques, then everything before would make complete sense!

It explains her ridiculous speed and concealment, even Elena’s magic detection radar can’t accurately sense her aura, that was probably why.

Shen DaiYing was probably used to conceal herself from practicing assassination Although normal people can’t sense it, Elena can detect her concealment.

“But, so what if she knows assassination techniques?”

“You idiot! It seems like you’ve turned stupid from being bewitched by that vixen! Have you not seen the recent news?”

“News?” Lin Xiao thought about the notable headlines he read a couple of days ago, “There was indeed a headline related to assassinations a few days ago… Are you suspecting it’s her? Stop joking!”

“Joking?” Rosie coldly scoffed, “Lin Xiao, you probably haven’t seen yesterdays newspaper yet, right? The headline was,「Mysterious Killer Reemerges, Kingdom’s Deputy Minister of Finance Decapitated 」”

“What? Someone died again?”

“That’s right, also the crime was committed in a similar way. David, like Jackson who died before, both had two mortal wounds. A stab to the heart and a cut to the neck… but because David struggled too much, he was completely decapitated and the ground covered in blood.”

“A mysterious assassination, two mortal wounds, the heart and the neck… so, the killer was the same person?”

“Hmph, that’s right. Lin Xiao, let me tell you something else.” Rosie squinted, and finally told him the crucial piece of information, “David was murdered two days ago before dawn, and the night before that, Ceasar originally made plan to practice with Shen DaiYing, but she said she had something to do and shirked out of it! Then when dawn broke, one of my servants saw her on the street and noticed that she had blood stains on the short sword that she never uses! Is that a coincidence?”

“Bloodstains? … So you’re saying that Shen DaiYing used that short sword to kill David?” Lin Xiao’s voice was slightly trembling.

“Exactly!” Rosie confidently exclaimed.

“Uh… isn’t your hypothesis too trivial? Conjectures can’t be used as evidence!”

Lin Xiao couldn’t accept those kind of accusations, like Shen DaiYing was actually a killer, how could that be possible? That gentle princess was a killer? He wont believe it even if you beat him to death!

Furthermore, they had no evidence at all, coming to a conclusion with just Rosie’s assumptions is just too rash!

“Evidence? What would I need you for if I had evidence?” Rosie rolled her eyes at him, “Lin Xiao, your task is to help me find evidence and expose her identity as a killer! If we can prove that she’s a killer, then as a princess she would have to be repatriated. As such, her engagement with Caesar would be annulled! There’s no way the king would allow his son to take a killer as a wife!”

“…”

Looking at Rosie’s confident expression, Lin Xiao fell silent.

Rosie was right, if Shen DaiYing was really the killer, then exposing her identity would undoubtedly be the quickest way to annul the engagement.

However, was she really a murderer?

Taking a couple of steps back, even if she really was a murderer, can Lin Xiao reveal the bloody truth?

“Hehe, what’s wrong, getting soft? Or you lost that love for her?” Noticing Lin Xiao sway, Rosie mercilessly ridiculed him, “Who knew that the woman you loved was actaully a cold-blooded killer, her hands stained with the fresh blood of many innocents…. Lin Xiao, so much for your love for Shen DaiYing.”

“Shut it! Rosie, what about you?”

How could anyone calmly face something like this?

“Me? Are you asking about Caesar?” Rosie stopped, then quickly felt provocation from Lin Xiao’s eyes, and calmly responded, “Lin Xiao, I’m different from you, I won’t hold back for Caesar! Even if he was a killer, I would still like him! No, let alone killer…”