Red robes, covered eyes, bare feet, silver bells.
There was a beauty of contradictions about her, mysterious yet pure.
But the words she spoke were fiercely domineering.
Sixty years ago, her family had wiped out three thousand schools of Eastern Japan's martial arts?
What a staggering declaration!
After a brief, deathly silence, the live comments exploded again!
[Holy crap! Who is she? Did she bring her cosplay onto a battlefield? She's incredible!]
[I love that line! True or not, I'm a fan of that confidence alone!]
[Wait! The Ning family? I think my elders mentioned an ancient family by that name that lives in seclusion. They said... they're terrifying!]
Online, Eastern Japan went from stunned silence to a frenzy of outrage!
[Baka! Who's this girl spouting nonsense?]
[Wiped out three thousand schools? What a joke! This is an insult to our great Eastern Japan Empire!]
[Seize her! I'll show her what happens when she says things like that! Make her the empire's plaything!]
The comments were filthy beyond belief.
Inside the private room, however, the roiling shadow suddenly froze!
A roar burst from the darkness, more violent and venomous than any attack before it!
"The Ning family! She's from the Ning family!"
The voice was dry and distorted, brimming with uncontrollable rage and hatred!
"The humiliation of sixty years ago! I, Kurosaki, will never forget it!"
"I never thought the Ning family's heir of this generation would dare appear before me!"
"Ning Hongye! Good! Today, I'll wash away a century of humiliation for the empire's martial arts world with your blood!!!"
Ning Hongye?
The moment Yue Xiaofei heard that name, he froze.
It was her?
The Ning family girl he was engaged to?
They had never met, but they had spoken on the phone.
Back then, she had divined