"What do you mean by 'alright, I guess'?" A noisy sound came from Wang Yao's side.
"...And what is the situation on your side?" Mo Bai was quite interested in the sounds of what seemed to be fighting coming from Wang Yao's end.
"..." Wang Yao looked around at the heated scene on the marble square where sabers, spears, swords, halberds, staffs, and fists were clashing, and couldn't help but sigh. "The martial arts training ground."
"M-M-Martial arts training ground?! Why aren't you in the kitchen? What are you doing at a martial arts training ground?"
Mo Bai felt as if he were witnessing the growth of another Head Chef Zhang Yu.
"Master said that as a chef, to forge iron, one must be strong oneself. Physical training cannot be neglected. So he sent me to train under Elder Han for a period of time."
Wang Yao said as he picked up a towel to wipe the sweat from his forehead; the steaming thin shirt on his body spoke of the volume of his exercise.
"Are you sure your Master isn't punishing you after hearing about your deeds of causing chaos in Japan?" Mo Bai, covered in black lines, happened to voice exactly what was in Wang Yao's mind.
"I'm wondering about that too."
"Forget it, let's not talk about this for now. Elder Han's closed-door disciple, Ziyan, should have arrived in the Far East yesterday. She should be able to find you today."
"Besides her, there's also Bai Zishu of the Dark Cooking Society's Twelve Lucky Generals."
"They are both great beauties, mind you. And the type that can beat up dozens of Gourmet Hunters single-handedly." Speaking of this, Wang Yao couldn't hide the schadenfreude in his voice.
Beauties? Can fight?
Mo Bai glanced at the investigator inside the room, then thought of a certain miko who, after calling home only to be told the shrine was under renovation, was still holing up in the presidential suite of the Tōtsuki Detached Palace, unable to return home.
Four beauties who can fight mixing together, it just feels... a bit dangerous.
"Gulp~ Can I apply for a return?" Mo Bai braced himself and asked.
"Return? Sure." Wang Yao smiled quite brilliantly. "Given the temperaments of these two favored daughters of heaven, maybe if they disassemble a few parts from your body, it might cancel out the matter of you ghosting them."
"..."
"Old Mo's days ahead will surely be very exciting."
After hanging up the call with joyous emotions, Wang Yao quickly fell into a mood of melancholy and loss.
Wang Yao also believed that the Dragon Head had received some snitching reports; otherwise, why would he be dumped here to train his body for no reason?
"Hey! How exactly did Master know I was messing around in the Far East?" Wang Yao was incredibly puzzled.
Elder Han, who was with him, was never a talkative character. Sometimes he would even step forward to cover for him in front of the Dragon Head.
As for whether there were other secret bodyguards, with his keen observation skills combining God's Ear and God's Eye, it was impossible for him not to detect them.
Unless the other party, like Elder Han, had already far surpassed the category of 'human'.
"Could it be that Master really has such a figure by his side?" Although he dared not believe it, this was the only conclusion Wang Yao could reach at the moment.
—Until ten seconds later, a young man with a somewhat fierce appearance appeared in his line of sight.
It was precisely Xu Yinhu, one of the Twelve Lucky Generals of the Dark Cooking Society whom he had brought back to the country.
Wang Yao suddenly felt he understood something.
If the other party also possessed God's Ear, perhaps they didn't need to appear in his field of vision at all.
This unruly subject actually dares to plot against Us?!
It's really a case of 'spare the rod and spoil the child', huh?!
Wang Yao cracked his knuckles "Gaba Gaba", stood up expressionlessly, and blocked Xu Yinhu's path.
"Yo~ Yinhu, been snitching quite diligently, haven't you?"
"Huh?" Xu Yinhu stared blankly at the ill-looking Wang Yao for a moment.
It was precisely this dazed look from the former that Wang Yao interpreted as the dumbfoundedness of being exposed.
"It really was you!" Wang Yao was now completely certain that it was Xu Yinhu's snitching that forced him to stay under Elder Han's tutelage to temper his muscles and bones.
"Hah?" Before Xu Yinhu could react, the next thing he saw was a fist the size of a sandbag coming straight at his face.
"Holy crap!" Using both palms to block the punch, Xu Yinhu retreated three steps in a row. He completely couldn't figure out why he was being beaten. "Wang Yao! Are you crazy?!"
"Hmph!" Wang Yao let out a cold snort, his attacks becoming more violent punch after punch. His unusually grim demeanor, however, elicited continuous screams of excitement from countless junior and senior martial sisters.
"...Holy crap! You've really gone crazy?!"
"If you keep this up, I'm really going to fight back!"
"Ouch!"
"Don't! Don't! I surrender! I surrender!"
Dark Cooking Society's Xu Yinhu: Talking trash, counterattacking, and losing—all in one smooth motion. Truly a hero among the Twelve Lucky Generals.
"...What is so noisy outside?"
Elder Han, sipping this year's new tea on the main seat of the spacious Main Hall, frowned. The plain aura around him instantly shattered, replaced by an aura of anger like an awakened lion.
The light in the entire Main Hall seemed to dim a few degrees.
"Master, Junior Brother Wang Yao and Junior Brother Yinhu have started fighting." As soon as Elder Han's voice fell, a disciple immediately came to report the situation.
"Those two? What is it about?" Elder Han stood up and took a step, feeling puzzled in his heart.
"I don't know either, but Junior Brother Wang Yao seems to be chasing and beating Junior Brother Yinhu while shouting 'That's for snitching, you bastard'."
Elder Han's foot, which was about to step out of the Main Hall's threshold, froze in mid-air.
"Master?" The disciple behind Elder Han didn't see his Master's crumbling expression.
"Cough cough! Young people, being full of vigor is normal. How can martial artists not fight?" Elder Han turned 180 degrees and sat back on the main seat, though his steps seemed a hint stiffer. "You go watch them, don't let them go too overboard."
"Yes, Master."
"Yao'er, this really wasn't me intentionally trying to screw you over."
Elder Han vaguely remembered the day the Dragon Head saw his beloved disciple behaving so wildly in the DV recording; the latter's facial expression was truly spectacular.
Perhaps in the Dragon Head's eyes, his beloved disciple had always been a persona of a gentle, jade-like, modest gentleman.
In short, having dealt with the Dragon Head for so many years, it was the first time he had seen so many changing expressions on the Dragon Head's face.
Putting aside the turmoil far away in Hua nation, at the entrance of Tōtsuki Resort, a woman in a blue-and-white high-slit cheongsam was dragging a suitcase.
Sensing the terrifying "strangers keep away" aura of the cheongsam woman, the bodyguard hurriedly called out for her to stop.
"Wait! Miss, what are you here for?"
"Looking for someone."
The girl with the melon-seed face and long hair coiled in a bun looked even more exquisite and fair. However, a mere glance from this beauty's dark, bright pupils made the bodyguard subconsciously pull out his baton.
"...Looking for whom?" Feeling a bit embarrassed but daring not to relax in the slightest, the bodyguard felt that the cheongsam girl with the cold expression was even more terrifying than a wild beast.
"Mo Bai." Her red lips parted slightly as the girl stated the target of her trip.
"Do you have any proof?"
"How about this?"
The girl took out a badge from the sachet at her waist. The badge, made of unknown material, shimmered with silver light in the sun.
"This is—an IGO certified Silver Gourmet Hunter Badge!?"
The long sword pattern engraved over a globe on the silver badge blinded the bodyguard's eyes completely.
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