In the vast night, faint candlelight flickered.
"...Is this everything recorded above concerning that incident?"
Forcibly suppressing the emotions in his heart, Bai Zhi took a deep breath and looked at the young woman before asking.
"Yes, that's basically all of it."
Closing the tattered tome in her hands, Li Ruo Yue nodded.
"This is only a collection of miscellaneous notes, after all. If you want more specific information, you'll have to check with the Xing Bu Division..."
Before she could finish, Li Ruo Yue stared blankly at the person who had suddenly vanished from before her.
"Hmph, what a rude fellow."
Wrinkling her nose, Li Ruo Yue unhappily tossed the tome in her hands onto a nearby table.
It was bad enough that he had arrived without so much as a greeting, but he had left in exactly the same manner. From beginning to end, he had not regarded her, the head of the Li Family, as worthy of notice. It was simply unforgivable...
While Li Ruo Yue sulked by herself, Bai Zhi had already arrived at the pavilion atop the highest point of the Li residence.
"So it really was..."
Using his connection with the Shadow Guard to look into the distance, Bai Zhi narrowed his eyes slightly.
Ever since learning some of the details surrounding the incident from eighty-five years ago from Li Ruo Yue, he had known that something was wrong.
If Dead Zero had played a positive role eighty-five years ago, that would have been one thing. But judging from the notes left behind by that Li Family ancestor, she had nothing whatsoever to do with the righteous side. She might even have been one of the instigators of that disaster...
If that was the case, then the problem was huge.
As one of the