Dragon Clan: They're all insane, and you still want me to slay dragons?

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Su Enxi also glanced at the caller ID on Jiude Mai's phone. Jiude Mai had labeled the number as "John Wick," but Su Enxi still preferred to call the caller Constantine.

The two exchanged phones, separated to answer calls, and hung up almost simultaneously after a brief conversation.

"What did Constantine say?"

“He just smuggled himself into Japan by boat and has now landed. He asked me if I had any plans, and I told him to go to Saitama Prefecture and wait for me.”

"The world's number one bounty hunter is being bossed around by you, and you don't even utter a single complaint?"

"You know, his only obsession is to find his brother, and in this world, only our family has the ability and the willingness to help him."

After a pause, Mai Shude asked again, "What did the boss say?"

Su Enxi pointed to the ceiling: "The boss just arrived in Japan, and that gentleman is also there. They're at the New York Bar on the 52nd floor. He told us to go over there."

Also, the boss said that the important person had some bad news for you, and you should be prepared.

Chapter 126 Lord

The New York Bar, located on the 52nd floor of the Park Hyatt Tokyo, is one of the most famous tourist attractions in the hotel, or in Shinjuku and Tokyo. It gained fame thanks to Sofia Coppola's "Lost in Translation".

Tokyo, as an international metropolis, is never short of tourists. This city cluster has so many places worth visiting: Kabukicho in Shinjuku, Ginza during the bubble economy era which was said to be able to buy half of America, Yoyogi Park, which served as the Olympic Village during the 1964 Olympics, Roppongi, the birthplace of supernova Kirara Asuka...

Even though Tokyo has so many tourist attractions, there are still some special places that gain extraordinary popularity and significance among certain groups of people because of a work of art. New York Bar is such a place.

Mai Shude had been here once before, just as night fell, and to be honest, she didn't have a very good impression of New York Bar.

The view of Tokyo at night through the huge floor-to-ceiling windows is indeed beautiful. Just looking at those neon lights, you can feel the breath and rhythm of the entire metropolitan area, as if the city has come alive.

Aside from that, New York bar left Mai with only a bad impression, because it was packed with tourists taking photos at the Lost in Translation bar, a large portion of whom were not even guests of the Park Hyatt Hotel. The bar was open to the public, and you could enter and see the night view from the movie for just 2500 yen for an admission ticket.

Every table was packed with people, with waiters and tourists taking photos coming and going. The resident singer and band's acid jazz performance was completely drowned out by the noise, and in an instant, the special filter created by the movie shattered completely.

This place is no longer a place where music and silence flow in the darkness. Perhaps it was in the movie, or perhaps it was before the movie was released, but it is not now. It has become a vegetable market with 1000 middle-aged women and 1000 ducks.

Returning to the New York bar, Mai Shude's shattered filter was strangely reconstructed.

The bustling "market" that had been packed with people for hours was now almost empty. The dark figure and the owner sat at a table with their backs to the huge floor-to-ceiling window, each holding a knife and fork and eating dinner, or rather, breakfast.

A few hours earlier, an old-fashioned record player was placed on the stage where the singer and band performed. The record spun under the singer, playing Utada Hikaru's "Automatic" from the brass tube.

Good morning, girls.

The shadowy figure and the boss put down their knives and forks, and waved with smiles at the two neatly dressed girls who had even taken the time to dress up.

Good morning, Lord and Boss.

The girls waved back to greet the two big shots, and were about to sit down to the right of the shadowy figure when the shadowy figure known as Lord raised his hand to stop them.

"Wait, please don't sit on the same side as me."

"Why?" the two girls asked, puzzled.

The boss smiled but said nothing.

Lord spoke eloquently and approachably: “Your boss is sitting on my left, and you are sitting on my right, all four of you sitting on the same side of the table.”

Even though the number of people doesn't match, it still reminds me of some unpleasant experiences. Could you please consider my sensitive feelings and sit across from us?

Jiude Mai and Su Enxi were slightly taken aback, then suddenly realized: "You're in charge."

"Speaking of which, even you have things you're superstitious about?" the shopkeeper asked curiously. Logically speaking, a Lord shouldn't have any "taboos," as there's almost nothing in the world that a Lord should be superstitious about.

"If it's too similar to the scene at the time, you might feel psychological pressure."

It's not that I'm taboo, but I'm afraid it will put pressure on you.

Lord explained briefly, then looked at the two girls sitting across the table: "What would you like to order?"

Su Enxi raised her right hand high: "Double Wellington steak and a Manhattan cocktail."

Mai looked at the plates in front of Lord and Boss: "Just like Lord and Boss, Sicilian seafood pasta and lemonade will do."

It was past four in the morning, and the bar was empty. Even the chefs who prepared breakfast for the guests wouldn't get up this early, but Mai and Su Enxi weren't worried at all that their order wouldn't be answered.

Almost the instant the two girls finished speaking, a waiter emerged from the darkness and walked toward the table with two trays. No one could see his face clearly. After placing the trays in front of the two girls, he disappeared back into the darkness, even more magical than the gourmet tablecloth in Doraemon.

The girls picked up their knives and forks and looked at the Lord: "Do we need to pray?"

Lord smiled and shook his head: "Who do you want to pray to, and who do you want to get a response from? Gao Kui? He's still fast asleep among the girls at the nightclub, he doesn't have time to respond to you."

If you want a response from him, it would be more practical to go to a nightclub and give him a good morning kiss, like the prince in the fairy tale who wakes Sleeping Beauty with a kiss.

The owner, twirling the spaghetti on his plate with a silver fork, added, "Or Snow White. Similar fairy tales always have highly similar plots. The princess always needs a prince's kiss to wake up, and of course, the reverse is also true."

Since both Lord and Boss had said so, the girls had no choice but to give up praying.

Mai, cutting her pasta, got straight to the point: "Lord, Chip Girl said you have some bad news for me."

"You are really direct."

"Isn't it better to be direct? I don't like overly complicated back-and-forth. If you like it, then go for it. If you want something, then go for it. The result won't be too bad." Mai Shude summarized her directness theory.

"Is it possible that if you didn't hit a straight shot but instead pulled back a bit, the result would be better?" Su Enxi asked, half-jokingly.

In Su Enxi's opinion, Mai Shude's direct approach theory is too simplistic and crude, just like Chris Evans and Henry Cavill teaching their brothers how to woo girls: if you like someone, just go and ask her if we can go on a date tonight.

With the model in place, the outcome is usually not too bad, but it's not always useful. That's when you need to use some interesting tug-of-war techniques.

Mai Shude spread her hands: "Haven't I already started pulling at it?"

Su Enxi knew that Jiu De Mai was talking about her relationship with the Holy Son. The Holy Son didn't even know her name yet, which was indeed quite a mess.

After the two pretty girls finished bickering, Lord smiled and continued, "The bad news is that our, or rather your, original plan has undergone some changes that you didn't expect."

"My original plan has changed beyond what I expected?" Mai Shude was slightly taken aback.

The boss picked up a napkin to wipe his mouth and said, "We originally prepared four brides for Gao Kui according to the prophecy of the 'Lamb's Woman' in the Bible, to correspond to the three branches of Orthodox, Catholic and Protestantism, and he would choose the final three brides."

Your intrusion caused our plans to go awry, and now there are five brides to be prepared.

“Lord supports me; at least he didn’t say I couldn’t do it.” Mai pouted as she looked at Lord, knowing that with his kindness, he would never scold her for her little tantrum.

“I don’t mean to blame you. Having more brides to prepare is actually a good thing for us.”

The boss waved his hand: "What I want to tell you is that starting from 1 a.m. today, we have one more bride to choose from."

Another competitor?

who is it! ?

I'm not invincible yet, and now there's an enemy coming from the sky?

Mai Shude immediately turned her head to carefully examine Su Enxi, who was stuffing her mouth wide with steak. Her gaze lingered on the latter's small belly for 0.05 seconds before quickly shifting away, as if ruling out a possibility.

“I always feel like your gaze is rude.” Su Enxi swallowed a large piece of steak and puff pastry, and muttered unconvinced, “I’m a beauty too, okay? People in the finance industry call me the Finance Queen.”

Ignoring Su Enxi, Mai Shude's mind raced, going through all the possibilities: "Isabel, the director of the Kassel Dance Company?"

"No."

"Three no's?"

"She probably isn't Gao Kui's style. It can be subtle, but it can't be completely absent."

"Susie from the Lionheart Society in Kassel?"

"No."

"Aki?"

Every time Mai mentioned a name, the boss would shake his head and deny her guess. In the end, Mai even mentioned her unremarkable younger sister, as she remembered that Aki and Takagi had been in contact.

“Your sister has a boyfriend, and didn’t you say she’s inferior to you in every way?” Su Enxi thought that Shude Mai was really crazy, actually suspecting Shude Aki.

Mai Shude pouted: "So what if she has a boyfriend and he's just an ordinary one? Wasn't one of the four originally chosen brides also quite ordinary? Who can possibly guess Gao Kui's taste?"

The shopkeeper revealed the answer: "It's Kazama Ruri."

hiss!

Su Enxi and Jiu De Mai gasped simultaneously. Kazama Ruri? How could it be Kazama Ruri? Su Enxi thought Jiu De Mai was crazy to suspect Jiu De Aki, but reality and the truth were even more shocking than their guesses.

"Wind, wind, wind... Kazama Ruri, how could it be him? He is..." Overwhelmed with shock, Mai Shude couldn't even speak properly, uttering many "wind" characters in a row.

The boss interrupted Mai Shude: "She is a girl now, a genuine girl, a girl who is pure in the past, present and future."

Both Mai and Su Enxi looked at Lord again, wanting an explanation.

"This is indeed my responsibility."

Lord sighed helplessly: "Ruri Kazama disguised herself as a girl to get close to Gao Kui. When Gao Kui got drunk, his divine nature manifested very strongly, and I was unable to control him."

He was a glorious king; I am ultimately inferior to him.

Lord took the blame upon himself, and Mai Shude did not complain. There are very few beings in this world who would complain or blame someone, and Mai Shude was not one of them.

"Could you tell me the details of how Kazama Ruri became a girl?" Mai Shutoku asked after a moment of silence.

Lord took a napkin to wipe his mouth, then washed his hands in the silver basin beside him. Finally, he stretched out one hand, his five fingers spread out in front of everyone, with a crystal-clear drop of water remaining in his palm.

"First, create a singularity that existed before the Big Bang."

As the Lord finished speaking, the tiny, crystalline droplet in his palm began to collapse inwards, measured in Planck intervals. With each Planck interval, the droplet's volume was compressed by half. With each Planck interval, the droplet's mass and energy doubled from the previous instant.

Widely present in nature, it is believed that the underlying logic that sustains the existence of the known universe has been broken. Energy is not transferred from one place to another, but rather, under the premise that the external energy remains unchanged, the water droplet itself has achieved an exponential increase in mass.

After 187 Planck times, the droplet had completely collapsed into a singularity that was infinitely small in a physical sense. Strangely, Mai and the other two could still sense its presence.

At this moment, the total mass of this "water droplet" exceeds the sum of all superclusters, all celestial bodies, and all matter in the entire known universe. The basic physical rules, the beginning and end of time, cause and effect in human cognition no longer exist in the "water droplet".

"Next, let this singularity explode to create a material universe, and let the process of the Big Bang, the subsequent expansion and evolution of the universe, and the trajectory of every particle in the universe remain completely consistent with the universe we live in..."

The void rises and falls, energy is borrowed and returned. Accompanied by Lord's narration, the singularity transformed into the primordial universe after the Big Bang. The fundamental rules that were incomprehensible to humans in the original singularity also evolved into rules that humans can understand.

Time began to accelerate, and the universe began to expand.

Every Planck time interval, the time flow in the "droplet" universe doubles compared to the current universe. Within that exponentially accelerating flow of time, the Big Bang, expansion, superclusters, and the formation of celestial bodies occurred...

The most original and purest mysteries of the universe are fully revealed to everyone, and the evolution of the droplet universe has remained completely consistent with the current universe from beginning to end.

The Sun appeared, and the primordial nebula collapsed under gravity, with 99% of its matter coalescing to form the Sun. The remaining material formed the protoplanetary disk, and the solar system began to take shape…

The first drop of water on Earth, the first single-celled organism, the first marine life to come ashore...

Finally, when the timeline in the Droplet Universe reached the same point as the current universe, Lord canceled the exponentially increasing time flow rate of the Droplet Universe compared to the current universe.