Esteban Zaragosa stood up and then reached out and patted Claudio Belles on the shoulder, “The Court Master has something for you, remember to come.”
Claudio Belles nodded and waited for Esteban Zaragosa to leave the training ground before getting up and wiping his face before getting up and going to the Occulus Organization.
Inside the Concealment Organization.
“Court Master, you wanted to see me for something?”
Orlondo Marta boiled a pot of biluochun, sipped it slowly and spoke in a soft voice, “Ice Blade is on his way to rescue you, do you know that?”
Claudio Belles stood stunned, fingers dangling from his clenched legs, and shook his head wordlessly, “I don’t know.”
“Claudio, you’ve done a great job with this, it’s the first big assignment you’ve done on your own as an adult, I’m your teacher and half father, Claudio, you’ve grown up very fast and I’m very proud of you.”
Claudio Belles pursed his red lips and his watery eyes went straight to Orlondo Marta, “Yes Master is our half father, but why did he leave me to be sent as bait?”
The tone of her voice was interrogative, word for word.
And her eyes even more stern and rebellious.
Orlondo Marta looked into her eyes and paused with her hand on the teapot for a long moment before an unidentifiable smile curved at the corners of her mouth and water from the teapot poured into the cups, steaming hot.
“Claudius, are you questioning my master, do you think it’s unfair to you that he sent you to do this?”
Claudius Belles bit his lower lip, his eyes stubborn, “Claudius wouldn’t dare.”
But the clenching fist grew tighter and tighter.
Orlondo Marta has the gift of reading people’s hearts and minds, and she knows exactly what Claudio Belles is thinking.
“Claudio, before you went to R, my master told you over and over again that you could move for anything, but never for your heart. Did you move to Ice Blade?”
“I didn’t.” An answer without hesitation, but when it came out, not to mention Orlondo Marta’s disbelief, even she didn’t believe it herself.
But the thing about emotion is that if you could control it, you wouldn’t move.
One can control one’s brain, but not one’s innermost being.
“When I have negotiated a deal with Ice Blade, and this is over, you will have all the Qishan lands you have asked me for before, as your commission for this time.”
…
Late in the evening, Claudius Belles was tossing and turning in bed, so he put on a jacket and got up to walk around the base of the Ming organization.
The moon is full tonight and the sky is full of stars.
He just wasn’t in the mood to enjoy the moonlit night.
Esteban Zaragosa came over with two beers, sat down next to Claudio Belles, handed him one of them and said with a slight smile, “It doesn’t seem so bad to be in the mood for the moon this time of year.”
Claudius Belles opened the easy-open can, the beer clanked and bubbled, cocked his head to one side and took a sip, saying, “I have contradicted the Master of the Court today.”
“I heard.”
“Am I being treacherous?”
Esteban Zaragosa gave him an amused look, “You’ve never been a good boy in my eyes, the usual is your treachery.”
Claudio Belles brushed his red lips and squinted his pretty eyes at Esteban Zaragosa, deliberately asking, “So you like nice guys?”
Esteban Zaragosa’s thin lips curved at the thought of the tender girl he had met not long ago, and his long fingers tightened their grip on the beer can as he mused, “So you say, and it seems to be true. I like the good and kind ones.”
Claudio Belles gave him a contemptuous look, “You mean I’m not good and kind, that I’m vicious?”
Esteban Zaragosa joked, “It’s true, you’re much more impressive at eighteen than the average eighteen-year-old girl.”
Claudio Belles tapped him with his shoulder, “Tomodachi, and speaking of treating me like a real sister, what kind of a real brother would call his sister vicious?”
Esteban Zaragosa looked at her and his eyes lifted earnestly, “Claudio, if you really like Ice Blade, I can help you leave the Ming organization. ”
He squeezed his fingers on the can, harder and harder, his knuckles slightly pale, and after a long while of looking at each other, he suddenly smiled contemptuously and said, “If I leave the Ming organization, the Ming organization will also send people after me all the time for my betrayal, and once my identity is exposed, Ice Blade, even if he likes me, will not accept me, and even if he does, the Occulus Organization and the State of R behind him will not accept me. And you will also be punished by the organization for helping me. So I can’t leave the Ming Organization, and I can’t with Ice Blade. ”
“Now that you have the answer in your mind, long pain is better than short pain, so forget it.”
Claudius Belles tilts his head, takes a big sip of his beer and the corners of his eyes dip slightly as his gaze touches the beautiful night sky.
Such a beautiful night, I wonder if President Eduardo is watching.
After finishing the beer from the easy-opener can, Claudio Belles left the empty bottle on the steps, got up and said, “I’m sleepy, I’m going back to bed.”
After Claudio Belles went down the steps, Esteban Zaragosa looked behind him and said, “Ice Blade has set foot in Z tonight at ten o’clock and will arrive at the Ming organization to meet with the Court Master by dawn at the latest. If you want to go with Ice Blade by then, let me know and I will help you.”
Claudio Belles paused in his stride, then fell silent and, without looking back, raised his hand and waved to Esteban Zaragosa behind him.
…
2 o’clock in the morning.
Concealment organization, negotiation room.
Orlondo Marta and Eduardo Tercero are seated at opposite ends of a long conference table, exchanging direct glances.
Orlondo Marta seemed pleased with himself as he won: “I really didn’t think Lord Iceblade, the Lord of the Concealment Organization, the ruthless Lord of the Organization, would enter my Ming organization just because of a woman. This is brave.”
Edward the Third was not unprepared as he had come and knew a lot about Orlondo Marta, “Cut the crap, I want to see my people.”
“Sir. Eduardo really wants to meet? I am very afraid that Senor. Eduardo will then know the truth and feel that ironic tenderness of yours has shone down the drain.”
Edward the Third’s fist under the table, clenched tighter and tighter, came today to see what kind of woman, his heart, had given him.
“If I don’t see her, nothing Mr. Orlondo wants will be given to him.”
Orlondo Marta nodded and clapped his hands, “Claudio, come out.”
Eduardo Tercero looked up and there stood a girl dressed all in black leather, the face, just like his Claudio’s, but with an aura and temperament that had completely changed and was unfamiliar to him.
When his Claudius does not speak, though he is cold from time to time, his little foxy eyes look at him with a light and touching smile, like a river of stars scattered in them, bright and clear.
But the woman who appeared in front of him, although her face was still incredibly beautiful, when she looked at him there was nothing but indifference.
And she exuded the aura of a mature, independent mercenary should.
And her Claudius, though more precocious than the average young woman, strong and independent, shrewd and intelligent, has a girlish side, the side that is fond and pampered and heartbroken.