After leaving the King's Hall and walking only a short distance, Fang Li heard someone call out to him.
"Wait!"
It was an energetic voice.
Fang Li turned around and looked back toward the King's Hall.
A Servant dressed in lavish clothing, with a longsword at his waist—too cute to be called a knight, yet too fearless to be called a girl—was waving this way as he jogged over.
He looked exactly like a cute girl who had arranged to meet a lover and had just arrived at their date spot.
"Rider...?"
Fang Li was slightly taken aback.
"Hehe!"
Rider ran over with a bright smile.
But the very next second, an accident occurred.
Clang!
A flash of blade-light swept across Rider's neck.
"Wah!"
Rider seemed to sense the danger. Before the blade-light appeared, he had already slammed on the brakes and crouched down.
Swish!
The passing blade-light sliced off several strands of Rider's hair, sending pink locks drifting through the air.
"Wahhhhhhh!"
Rider appeared genuinely terrified. He collapsed onto the ground like a girl, trembling as he pointed ahead.
Minamoto no Yorimitsu had appeared there at some point.
"Hehe..."
Her face was as gentle as water, yet the smile upon it, though seemingly unchanged, sent chills down one's spine.
"Y-you-you-you-you... what are you doing!?" Rider shouted indignantly. "That was dangerous!"
"Oh my, I truly am sorry." Minamoto no Yorimitsu said so, but there was not the slightest hint of remorse on her face as she smiled. "When it comes to pests trying to approach my son so casually, as his mother, I simply cannot help doing such things."
"No normal mother would do something like that!" Rider instinctively retorted, only to look at Fang Li in surprise and cry out, "Son? Mother? Are you two mother and son?"
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