After writing down everything that needed to be recorded, Jiu Ming began pondering when to make his move. Tomorrow?
So it was happily decided.
Having made up his mind, Jiu Ming picked up a newspaper and began reading. How should he put it? The Black Knights were still quite active. They had not disbanded because of Lelouch, and Zero had not disappeared either. Hmm, he had probably found a stand-in.
It was just that Lelouch was already Emperor now, so the Black Knights' significance no longer seemed all that great. At most, they could prune away a few rotten maggots.
Shaking his head, Jiu Ming found no other interesting news.
"Um... isn't this a bad thing for us to do?" Her body trembling slightly, C.C. hugged the little black cat and softly asked Jiu Ming beside her in an uneasy tone. They were currently within the Vermilion Forbidden City...
"It's fine, it's fine. No one can discover us." Jiu Ming grinned and gently stroked C.C.'s long hair, helping her relax a little.
"But... stealing things is wrong, isn't it?"
"Ahem, who said we're here to steal things?" Jiu Ming gave a light cough, looking slightly embarrassed as he tossed a pearl in his hand back where it had come from. They were not merely inside the imperial palace—they were in its treasury. "I'm just looking. Just looking. I'm not interested at all."
Naturally, Jiu Ming had no interest whatsoever in things that even the Mysterious Shop rated as trash, even if they were jewels and gold. The only things barely worth looking at were two swords he had found in a hidden compartment.
The names were very familiar: Heaven-Reliant, Blue Steel...
Well, they were two fairly decent swords. Their quality had barely reached the Fine grade—just barely—but at that level,