He Should Be Thanking You

The next afternoon.

Huai Shi sprawled lazily in his office, flipping through documents that basically only needed his signature. Once again, he felt the emptiness and tedium of life.

He had suddenly bid farewell to his thrilling, nerve-racking adventuring life and started building industries and raking in money, climbing to the peak of life... It felt like there was nowhere to go after this but downhill.

A day or two was fine, but after too long, he started getting itchy.

He had brought it on himself.

"When will days like this ever end..." Huai Shi sighed toward the heavens.

His secretary could not help shaking her head. "You must be joking, Lord Huai Shi. Everyone hopes these days will never end."

Huai Shi was about to speak when he heard a knock at the office door.

Yamashita entered with a grim expression. He was about to speak, but glanced at the secretary and said nothing. Reading the room, she rose and left on the pretext of making tea.

"What is it? Why so serious?" Huai Shi raised his head from the sofa and looked over.

"Boss, people from the Dojo are here."

"Oh, let them come." Huai Shi shrugged. "Tanba has no checkpoints or roadblocks. If they want to look around, let them look around..."

Yamashita coughed. "They came to see you."

"What do they want with me?" Huai Shi smiled curiously. "Are they here to ask me to join the Sword Hunt?"

"They sent people to ask whether we had anything to do with yesterday's incident. Their attitude was extremely overbearing." Yamashita said darkly, "If you ask me, this kind of baseless accusation..."

Huai Shi cut him off.

The young man slowly rose from the sofa and said seriously, "But we really did do it, didn't we?"

"..." Yamashita