After parting ways with those four guys, Li did not head straight home. Instead, he lay in wait around the tavern. When the city guards arrived, Li crouched there and silently watched everything unfold, carefully concealing his presence without leaking the slightest trace.
How could ordinary people like them possibly notice him?
What surprised Li was that the city guards did not make things difficult for the mercenary squad. They merely collected a token fine—so little that it was practically symbolic.
The squad could probably earn it back with a single trivial job, like catching cats or dogs. Hell, any one of them could make up for it by skipping a meal.
A faint smile appeared on Li's face. Sure enough, hiding here had been the right call. This mercenary squad was not simple—or rather, someone among them was not simple.
He stared intently at the silver-haired woman. Those young noble masters might not have been able to tell, but could he not? No matter how one looked at it, this silver-haired woman could not possibly have been in her twenties. Just from the sound of her footsteps, Li could tell that she was actually only a young girl, no more than sixteen or seventeen.
Sixteen or seventeen... Li had seen clearly how the silver-haired woman and the other two mercenaries had fought those four young masters. It had been three against four, but the two mercenaries had clearly not dared to lay hands on nobles and had fought cautiously. The silver-haired woman had relied almost entirely on the greatsword in her hands, practically taking on all four by herself.
Judging by the speed with which she swung her sword, she could wield two greatswords as if they were light swords. Li would not believe for a second that she