Yamato was disappointed, but she did not dare press the matter. She only looked at Adrian with a trace of hope.
"Lord White Ghost, those three samurai showed me great kindness when I was young. Kaido once said you rescued them. I only want to know how they're doing now."
Great kindness?
Adrian gave Yamato an odd look.
If he remembered correctly, that "great kindness" amounted to giving her a bowl of rice and teaching her to read Kozuki Oden's journal.
The first certainly counted as kindness.
But her father Kaido hadn't actually starved her, had he? At the very least, he had raised her this far.
As for the second...
Was that really kindness, and not a curse?
"Ahem!"
Adrian raised a fist to his mouth and coughed, then answered briefly.
"They're alive. That's all."
Hearing this from White Ghost, Yamato immediately lit up and bowed to Adrian again and again.
"Thank you for telling me, Lord White Ghost!"
Adrian conjured another Spiritual Pressure Light Whip, deftly wrapped it around Yamato, and set her back where she had been.
Being thanked like that by Kaido's own daughter felt distinctly strange.
Especially when Adrian had already resolved to beat Kaido to a pulp...
Life was unpredictable!
"Boss White Ghost!"
Ulti suddenly raised the chicken leg in her hand and asked through puffed cheeks,
"Are we going to fight Kaido later?"
"Don't worry. Even if I fight Kaido, I don't make a habit of using child soldiers."
Adrian offered the reassurance casually.
Although he intended to take in Ulti and Page One, the Oni siblings, he had no plans to raise them like a full-time, round-the-clock nanny.
Once he had studied their Oni bloodline a little, Adrian planned to send the two youngsters to Little Sky Island and let them grow