This was a genius!
And likely a genius related to swordsmanship.
Although his aptitude met the requirements, Fu Hua was still very conflicted over his gender.
Should she take a boy as her disciple? There was no denying that he was truly adorable—the kind of cute, pretty boy who could charm both men and women alike.
That was why she had agreed to escort him. Fu Hua decided she would spend some time with him first, then make her decision...
"Really? Then thank you in advance, my benefactor!"
Hearing that Fu Hua was willing to escort him, Minamoto Hikari hurriedly lowered his head and bowed to thank her.
With this beautiful woman accompanying him, he would have nothing to worry about for the rest of the journey! Even if his brother had prepared countless more contingencies along the way, Minamoto Hikari believed that, with what Fu Hua had held earlier, they would all be sent to their deaths!
In truth, he had liked his brother when he was young. He had genuinely felt brotherly affection for him, but... he had never expected that the brother who had doted on him since childhood had wanted him dead at every moment.
All of that concern and affection had merely been an act, performed for him and his father to see...
Perhaps in his heart, if Minamoto Hikari, his father's biological son, had never been born, then he would have been the heir of the Minamoto clan, right? If Minamoto Hikari had died in an accident, at the hands of monsters... then the position of heir... would have fallen to him.
After all, his father had only one heir.
With the methods his brother had arranged, there was indeed no way he could have returned alive. Spies had been planted even among his