The woman wore black robes and looked little different from the man in black. She was probably also a member of the Jie Sect, but no matter how I looked at her, something felt off. Wherever she attacked, I saw shadows of things I had seen before. Even her movements and the way she activated her spells were so familiar that they could not have been more familiar! If I had to name the difference, it might have been her attributes—or perhaps just a faint sense of strangeness.
I shook my head, then immediately looked toward the man in black. "When it mattered most, who knew where you'd run off to! And now you know to show up?"
The man in black froze for a moment, then looked at me and laughed. "Heh-heh, didn't I have something to deal with before? I received an order at the last minute, so I came rushing to Lanzhou as fast as I could. I also had to help you investigate a few things. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to rest so easy now."
"Fine, I know I can't argue with you. Since you're here, hurry up and help! I'm going to my grandmother's place. She's facing Zhou Qiping and an army of thousands all by herself!" I said at once.
With the man in black here, I should be able to go help my grandmother. I couldn't exactly keep fighting a chaotic battle here. While I was speaking with him, the woman in a black cloak beside him—whom I had been watching closely but hadn't dared speculate about—looked over as well. After meeting my gaze for a moment, she said nothing and continued attacking the enemy.
It seemed it had only been my imagination. The two of us did not know each other;