The Romance of Old Bai and the Dark-Skinned Little Slave Girl — Bonus Chapter 710
"I can't get in touch with Old Bai right now. It's probably because of the psionic tide. Even my connections to the gods have become difficult here.
"But judging by the timing, Old Bai should have already set out with his troops from the western border of Callem and be crossing the Gray Desert. He said it would take him about twenty days to reach the vicinity of Hive Zero. If all goes well, he'll arrive just in time to join the battle at its most intense.
"I strongly suspect this was all part of that guy's plan.
"He doesn't care about fame, but he does enjoy making a dramatic entrance at the last moment, just like the traditional habit of important figures. Hm? Why are you looking at me like that?
"Is there something on my face?"
In this hidden smuggling den, beneath the light of a few lit gas lamps, Murphy sat at ease on a crate full of contraband, watching the Shadow Grandmother undergo a physical examination by Vilance.
The vampire wore a handsome, gentle smile, but Lady Drusilia kept staring at him with a rather strange look.
Only after Murphy asked did the matriarch speak.
"It's nothing. I've just never heard anyone call him 'Old Bai' before. Sigh. In the western border military city, that name alone would be enough to get you thrown into a dragonkin prison and sent to a penal battalion for at least five years of hard labor on the charge of 'disrespecting a revered one.'"
"But that's what I called him the first time we met. I even pulled him out of the water so he wouldn't drown."
Murphy quipped, "Of course, an original dragonkin like