Powerful sword energy and sword intent spread unchecked, as though someone were pointing a sharp object between everyone's brows. The chilling menace kept ordinary customers away; only powerful sword cultivators still dared approach.
"What, finally done hiding it and decided to travel with your harem?" Xiao Yan maintained his warm, sunny smile and nodded. "I knew all that talk about transcending desire and being free of worldly attachments was a front. You'd fallen for someone long ago."
People streamed past without end, and the air was thick with the scent of food. A crowd of swordsmen lined up outside the Emiya Family Private Cuisine Restaurant, waiting for their turn to go in and spend money.
These sword cultivators had probably lost their minds.
Ever since they had plunged into Unlimited Blade Works after it was strengthened and made manifest as a real universe within the Sea of Vows, someone had turned up at the trading company's entrance every few days, asking to meet the "Supreme Sword Sect."
Most people would have driven them off for disrupting business. Ye Fan, however...
...had organized a promotion: spend money at the restaurant a thousand times and receive one chance to challenge the "Supreme Sword Sect."
"Brother Xiao Yan, you seem a little overheated today. Everything you say has fire in it."
Su Lin saw the dragon-long queue and abandoned the idea of eating there.
"I am. But I've brewed some honeysuckle dew to cool myself down," Xiao Yan said obligingly. "If we're going in order, I'll be the group leader tomorrow. Dangerous elements like you, who prey on the female members, deserve special attention."
Su Lin gave Xiao Yan a surprised look. "You should take some anti-inflammatory medicine."
Today, Xiao Yan could not only counter force with softness but also take the offensive.