March 7th: That's Some Filthy Language

This was the March 7th news bulletin.

March 7th had been taking pictures of the snowy scenery when she suddenly spotted someone familiar. It turned out to be Bai Tang, so she naturally went over to see what was happening.

She wouldn't have known if she hadn't gone over, and what she saw gave her a fright.

A deranged-looking guy who was obviously a bad person charged forward with a sword in hand. She didn't know who he was going to kill.

The next second, a small bottle appeared in Bai Tang's hand, and she smashed it straight against the bad guy. A miracle happened: his body went rigid, and he fell to the ground.

As expected of a doctor!

Even her poison was first-rate.

Wait, no!

Bai Tang hadn't poisoned him to death, had she?!

She had to find a way to protect Bai Tang!

Then March 7th felt she might not need to protect Bai Tang after all.

Boom!

Bai Tang lifted the bad guy with one hand and slammed him into the ground, smashing a huge crater into it. A nearby house was caught in the impact and collapsed.

Was Bai Tang really that strong?

Then Bai Tang straddled him, grabbed his clothes with one hand, and clenched the other into a fist, pounding it into the bad guy.

But the bad guy looked a little familiar.

March 7th took out her phone and scanned him, and a wanted poster appeared on her screen.

March 7th: "!!! A Stellaron Hunter!!"

Was this the dangerous Stellaron Hunter Dan Heng had mentioned?

Seeing Bai Tang pinning Blade down and beating him, she lost all sense of fear.

Well...

She moved a little closer and heard Bai Tang cursing.

"Chasing Dan Heng down? What, did your brain ***, get stuffed into **, a furnace, and get melted away?"

"Just seeing your **** face, pisses me off."

"You just had to make me ***, use physics, to treat your *** brain, didn't you?!"

Yikes, that was some filthy language.

Even a language system like that couldn't stop Bai Tang from cursing out loud in anger. Even if she had to do it in fits and starts, she was going to vent.

Bai Tang was still somewhat affected. She couldn't get most of her long strings of curses out, so she could only use short ones to curse Blade up and down.

[March 7th: Dan Heng! Something terrible happened!]

[Dan Heng: What is it this time?]

[March 7th: It wasn't me this time! It's Bai Tang!]

[March 7th: Image]

[March 7th: Bai Tang poisoned a Stellaron Hunter until he went numb and pinned him to the ground to beat him up. She smashed a huge crater in the ground.]

[March 7th: The house next to them collapsed too. We'll have to pay for it.]

Dan Heng, upon receiving the messages: "..."

Bai Tang's poison was really potent. It could leave even Blade numb and unable to get up for ages. He would ask her for some when he got back, and use it the next time Blade came after him.

Meanwhile, Bai Tang had gotten carried away with the beating.

"You're not my companion. Actually, whatever your, circumstances are, I don't care."

Bai Tang grabbed Blade by the collar and lifted him so that his face was turned toward her. "Listen to what you've been, saying. Dan Heng is my, companion now. Of course I'm going to stand up for him."

Dan Heng had brought her aboard the train, given her books, and taken care of her.

From that point on, their lives had intersected, and they had shared memories. He could be called a companion, not some random substitute.

"What are you to me? Today's the first time, we've met. Kafka and Silver Wolf, could be called acquaintances, but what are you?"

Bai Tang had calmed down a little now, so she was no longer being censored all over the screen. She was usually sarcastic; it was only when she was furious that she made telegraph noises.

"Ha, good for you. All you have to do is go crazy, and General Jing Yuan is there behind you, cleaning up, your mess. How wonderful, to do whatever you want, without caring about the consequences."

"You're not my elder. My elders all died, and my family and companions are all dead too. You're not among the companions I've just made. You can't lecture me, and there's no way I'd listen."

"If you act like this again, even if you have, Yingxing's face, I'll still beat you up."

Bai Tang dropped him and dusted off her hands. After throwing so many punches, her fingers weren't even a little red.

"That was quite a show."

Silver Wolf had watched as Blade first saw Bai Tang and called her Baiheng, then heard Bai Tang deny it and point out that he wasn't Yingxing either.

Then Blade seemed to realize it and began to sneer, each thing he said cutting deeper than the last. He was being negative and wanted to drag Bai Tang down with him. Probably because Blade had Yingxing's face, Bai Tang had managed to hold steady at first, but later... well, the result was plain to see.

After Blade lost all reason and tried to kill Dan Heng, Bai Tang finally gave him a bottle of poison and beat him while cursing him.

Simply put, Blade had been jumping up and down on Bai Tang's trigger points for all he was worth, making her so angry that she exploded. She would probably get her tongue working properly before they reached the Xianzhou.

Silver Wolf also watched as Bai Tang, who had been a little evasive at first, was provoked by Blade into an emotional outburst. She finally considered Dan Heng a new companion and brought him under her protection.

She had also vented most of the anger she had been bottling up inside.

Bai Tang would at least hold back when beating Blade, but that might not be the case with others. It was better to vent her anger on planets, after all. The last one had been a planet full of bugs. What about the next?

Bai Tang's mental state wasn't much better. That made sense; if it had been, she wouldn't have done that thing. But it was precisely because she had done it that Elio had glimpsed a brighter future.

There were conditions, though. Naturally, the Stellaron Hunters wouldn't let fate stray from the right path.

"Take him away. Looking at him like this annoys me."

Bai Tang tossed him down beside Kafka and turned to look at March 7th. The words "touch to check in" also appeared above her head.

Her thoughts and attitude toward Dan Heng had changed, so naturally her thoughts about March 7th had changed too.

Thanks to the Stellaron Hunters for the gift.

She had figured it out!

"March."

Bai Tang gave March 7th an enthusiastic hug.

Check-in successful.

"Do we have to pay for all this?"

March 7th noticed the change in Bai Tang's attitude and felt both happy and worried.

After all, Bai Tang had demolished a building!

Bai Tang let go of Little March and turned to look at the ruins before her. It seemed she had been a little too thorough in tearing the place apart, but she had plenty of dubious ideas:

"No, the Stellaron Hunters did it."

"Oh, right. I'll talk to the others so we can get our stories straight."

March 7th took out her phone.

Bai Tang had only beaten the Stellaron Hunter to protect Dan Heng (March 7th had arrived too late and only knew the second half of what happened), so however she looked at it, the other side was at fault.

"Is it okay to say all that right in front of us?"

Silver Wolf didn't mind. She already had so many debts on her record that one more made no difference, and the company wouldn't increase the bounty on her wanted poster over this.

"Doesn't this mean Stelle's companions are lively too?"

Kafka held several photos Bai Tang had given her. In all of them, Stelle looked lively and cheerful, with a happy smile on her face. She was much more outgoing than she had been with the Stellaron Hunters.

She looked so adorable like this. Kafka was really looking forward to seeing the little one again.

Silver Wolf remarked, "Just keep spoiling her."

The two of them left with Blade. Both sides were satisfied, and the world where only Blade got hurt had come to pass.

Blade, unconscious: "..."