Assassin's Chronicle - Chapter 221

Chapter 221
Violet City was less prosperous after the war . It used to be a busy commercial city, so it still had a business city feel to it . Anfey and Suzanna walked side by side on the street and checked out the stores .


Shopping with Suzanna was not tiring . She did not have strong desire to buy things . Even if she saw something interesting, she would just look at it and continue walking . If it had been Niya walking for so long with Anfey, she would have carried a lot of shopping bags with her and walk very slowly with those bags .
Anfey looked up at the sun to tell the time . He now had better understanding how big Violet City was . He had walked around the city with purpose and plans . He only walked half of the city so far in a half day . He wanted to see more but he needed to leave tomorrow .
"Master?" A surprised and excited call arose .
Anfey turned around to look . He asked in surprise, "Why are you here?"
"My family lives here . " A smiling girl walked over . "Master, Suzanna, why are you guys here?"
"Doris, don’t you know?" Suzanna asked .
"What don’t I know about?" Doris asked .
"This city is his estate now . " Suzanna glanced at Anfey . "Where could we go if we did not come here?"
"Oh, my god . " Doris stared, her eyes wide . "I only heard he became an earl of the empire . No one told me about his estate . "
"Everybody in the city knew Anfey had come . Didn’t your parents know about it? Didn’t they tell you?" Suzanna asked .
"Don’t’ even mention them," Doris said bitterly . "I was so worried about them . That is why I rushed back to check on them . I already got into a fight with them after just talking to them for a little bit . "
"What did you argue about?" Suzanna asked .
"Nothing . " Doris did not want to talk about her family issues . She turned to look at Anfey . "Master, Congratulations . I did not know I would be your citizen so soon . "
"Call me by my name, okay, just as you did in the academy . " Anfey could not help shaking his head .
"Call you by your name? I do not dare . " Doris smiled .
"It is not important whether you dare to call by name or not . You just made me so uncomfortable when you called me master," Anfey said .
"There will be many people calling you master in the future . You need to get used to it . How about I help you out? I am going to call you master right now . " Doris joked about it, but she looked perplexed . Life was just so unexpected . The time she and Anfey chatted and laughed at the academy seemed like just yesterday . Time had past so fast . Anfey had developed with amazing speed . He now had become a big wig in the empire, while she was still no different than she had been . In fact, the title of "earl" was nothing fancy . There were a lot of earls in the empire . Some of them were even poor . Possessing the ownership of a city meant Anfey had a lot of real power . Power was way better than titles . There was a big difference between possessing a title and power .
"If you really want to help me, you gotta listen to me," Anfey said . His eyes were innocent and warm . Maybe only when a person had endured a lot of lonely moments could he appreciate more the bonds between people . No matter how far Anfey travelled, how high a position he attained, he would never forget a nice girl who helped pick out the right magic book for him in that library . It was not a big deal for Doris, but Anfey felt Doris had helped him a lot .
"Stop! We are old friends . Calling him master just makes us feel weird," Suzanna said .
Doris got caught by Anfey when she looked at him . She immediately looked away . "Ok, ok, my bad, ok? How about me taking you guys out for dinner to make it up to you . Suzanna, what do you want to have? Tell me, don’t try to save me money . "
"Where should we go?" Suzanna thought about it and said, "How about Garden Hotel? Urter said their chef is the best . "
"I cannot afford Garden Hotel . " Doris could not help sticking her tongue out .
"Hmm, it does not look like you really want to make up for it, does it?" Suzanna said .
"I am not like you, having a good man to rely on . I have to join a mercenary group to make money, otherwise I would be starving," Doris said .
"What are you talking about?" Suzanna blushed and posed to hit Doris . Doris ran to the other side of Anfey with naughty smiles .


"Doris, if you still want to be a mercenary, why don’t you join my mercenary group?" Anfey asked quietly .
"Sure . " Doris nodded without any hesitation . Doris’s strength was that she was not pretentious . Her sincerity had caused her to fall into a wolfman’s traps . If Doris had pretentiously turned Anfey’s suggestion down, it would only make Anfey and Suzanna feel even more awkward about their relationship with Doris than calling Anfey master .
Anfey smiled . "Doris, did you tell Christian you left?"
"If I had told him I was leaving, he would not have let me go . He said he would have someone to escort me after we reached to Blackania City, but I could not wait that long . I ran away from him . "

"You got yourself in danger by being alone and you still have not learned from it . You cannot run around by yourself," Anfey said .
Doris looked a little weird after Anfey gave her a lesson . She murmured after being quiet for a while, "I just became one of your people and you have already scolded me . "
"What do you mean by becoming one of my people?" Anfey did not know if he should laugh or cry .
Suzanna could not keep from laughing on the side . This time it was Doris’s turn to blush . "I mean to join your mercenary group . What are you laughing about? I hate you . "
"I cannot laugh? Mind your own business . " Suzanna laughed even harder .
"I have never seen a couple like you . " Doris looked upset .
The smile froze on Anfey’s face . He saw a few patrolmen rushing towards the street ahead of them . "What happened?" Anfey asked .
"Let’s go over there and check it out . " Suzanna saw those patrolmen too .


"Let’s go," Anfey said .
"Should I come too?" Doris asked .
"Don’t come with us, just in case something happens . Hide somewhere so you can help us when we need it," Anfey said .
"Got it," Doris said .
Anfey and Suzanna walked fast to the street . They looked to the north, but there did not seem to be anything happening there . They could even see the city gate in the distance . The patrols were still running forward . They looked like they were running to the gate . Anfey heard more people running behind him . He saw a few more patrolmen running over . Anfey recognized the patrol running in the front . It was Iliverny .
"What happened up there?" Anfey asked worriedly . Violet City was his place . No matter what happened, Anfey felt it was his business . Anfey could not help but get worried .
"Master!" Iliverny looked happy to see him . "I finally found you . The mayor is going crazy looking for you . "
"What exactly happened?" Anfey asked .
"Master . There are troops coming to our city . They came from Blackania City . " Iliverny stopped next to Anfey . He turned around and yelled at the other officers: "You guys go back to tell the mayor we have found Anfey . "
"What happened?" Anfey asked .
Those patrolmen turned around and ran . Iliverny turned around and smiled bitterly . What could they do? They had to run with two legs when their boss gave an order with two lips .
"Master, should we go out to welcome them?" Iliverny asked .
"What did Urter say?" Anfey asked .
"I do not know . The mayor did not tell us," Iliverny said .
"Maybe we can wait here for a little bit . " Anfey scanned around . Many civilians noticed something unusual as well . They gathered in front of their houses to watch . Doris hid one the corner of the street in a distance . She looked nervous . In fact, Anfey did not expect Doris to help if anything happened . He asked Doris to stay behind because he did not want her to get hurt . If there were something Suzanna could not handle, Doris definitely would not help either .
After waiting for a while, three horses ran over in a fast speed . They were Urter, Black Eleven and Apa . When they rushed close to Anfey, Urter jumped off the horse and waved the patrols nearby to move to the side . He walked up to Anfey and whispered, "Master, the troops from Blackania came this way, but we were not notified . "
"I already knew about," Anfey said .
"I think the stuff I sent them has caught their attention, so they sent people to check it . Huh, I wanted to ask Aroben first, but he did not get to sleep until this morning . While this was going on, he was knocked out and could not wake up," Iliverney said .
"Nothing big . We do not have to bother him . " Anfey smiled . "Urter, what do you mean? Having a welcome ceremony for them?"
"Master, even if it is superficial, we still have to do it in case they picked on us for that . " Urter thought a little bit and said, "But we do not know who are coming so it would be hard to plan ahead . Master, if you go out to welcome them while the person sent by Blackalair City was not someone important, you would become a joke . "
"Then let me be a joke," Anfey said in a low voice . "Let’s go out to see . "
"Yes . " Urter turned around to look for a little while and frowned . "It’s weird . "
"Why?" Anfey said .
"After I knew troops from Blackania had come, I sent people to see how Marqius Djoser would respond . If Marquis Djoser was prepared, it meant this must have something to do with him . If Marquis Djoser did not know anything about it, then we have the advantage . It has been a long time, and they should be back to report to me . "
"Don’t worry," Apa suddenly responded . "They should be fine . " Apa seemed to be always confident . That was because he had the supreme ruler of Maho Empire behind him . He also had a secret order from Yolanthe . If he showed his real identity, even the military general could not ignore his opinions .