V1C24

Little more than a week later, Matteo was placing his first step in China soil. The number of people moving around could make it feeling quite cramped for Matteo as he never saw such a busy street even in Italy except for special events where there are bargain sales. "Matty, the driver is here already" Erica called out to Matteo who was quite caught up looking at people who were quite used to walking in a crowded manner when Matteo turned to face Erica he felt his instincts telling him the man next to Erica was quite skilled.

Although Matteo could determine this man is no opponent of his, he could still determine when someone was skilled after training with his sword for a long time. The man who came to pick them up had short black hair, black eyes wearing a black sleeveless shirt that reveals a tattoo on his right upper arm followed by casual black pants and sandals.

Matteo came forward to confront this man only giving him a glance but the man thought he angered Matteo by mistake as he suddenly kowtowed, both Erica and Matteo was taken aback when the face of the man turned much younger with similar features. "Sorry, your Majesty the great Demon King of all Kings! This one was only ordered to guide you around the country for your mission!" The man spoke without realizing that Matteo only wanted to look at the man closely.

"I did not say anything but to think you would ruin yourself just from me coming close, are you afraid?" asked while looking at the young man with a confused face, "Y-Yeah! This one---" Before the man could continue, Erica smirked, "Lu Yinghua, the aide of the Chinese Campione huh?" Hearing this Lu slumped his shoulders not realizing that he mistook Matteo's curious gaze for an angered one, "Yes, My name is Lu Yinghua. Disciple and personal servant of the great Empress Luo Hao"

Matteo nodded, "Matteo Blandelli, I suppose you already investigated my history. Although I am not certain why you had such a wrong assumption of my personality, I will leave it at that" Hearing this Lu almost cried feeling relieved as he thought he might die an early death, "Thank you, my lord! This one thanks you for sparing his useless little life" Matteo hear heard what Lu said began to rub his forehead 'Just what did this man experience to make him so subservient that it is creepy' He thought

"Why did you replace our driver Lu?" Erica came forward causing Lu to take a step back, "Urk! To think I would come across the Red Devil who is renowned for her beauty and cunning nature... I can't deal with people like you the most" Matteo who was quite surprised to hear this kind of evaluation of Erica since there were quite a few missions she did on her own when he did missions on his own as well. "Fufu, it seems we have a lot more in common... I don't like you either" Erica answered with a smile.

Matteo sighed "Lu, where is our driver?" Lu turned to look at Matteo rubbing his hands "I bribed him to leave so I will be your driver for the day" Liliana came from behind Lu with the man in discussion following behind her, "I see, he is here" Matteo muttered, when Lu heard this he turned around with a shocked expressions. When he saw Liliana was the one who found the man he could only curse inside 'That is why I can't come to like women except for 2D's!' He screamed in his mind.

"Matty, I found our driver knocked out in the women's bathroom" Liliana reported to Matteo before standing next to him with a happy smile since he was gently caressing her back, "Good Work, now then it was a pleasure to meet you Lu Yinghua. Could you please relay a message to Luo Hao that I will only complete the mission given to me and I will leave, I will not disturb her operations" Matteo turned and left with the girls while the driver pushed the trolley which held their suitcases.

"Grrrr! My master is going to punish me!!!" Lu screamed out of grievances attracting the surrounding attention but Matteo was long gone, realizing that he spoke his mind out loud he coughed as he apologized to everyone before leaving swiftly, it was two hours driving that he finally arrived back home facing his sister while sitting on his knees with tears at the corner of his eyes "Hmph! You unfilial Disciple, you failed your master by simply bringing the man here to meet me! We will subject you to cleaning the public toilets for a week!"

"M-Master, hold on! Who is going to search for him then?!" Lu asked in hopes he could change her mind as he did not want to clean the Public Toilets of all places, Luo Hao glances at Lu thinking what he mentioned was indeed reasonable "Very well, this one shall go meet him" Hearing Luo's choice Lu almost fainted from shock, "M-master we can't pluck the eyes of the entire nation if they saw you! Nor can we provide gas masks for them nor noise-cancelling headsets either!"

"No need, it has been a while this one graced her people with her presence so they can once again pray towards me" Luo spoke nonchalantly while leaving the room with only Lu who was crying while thinking he had to wash toilets soon alone. 'Thee has grasp my attention, Matteo... Be sure to meet my expectations for making this empress come to thee instead' Luo thought as she vanished for the surroundings.

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"So our target is the Demon Gremory?" Erica asked Matteo who was reading some history books in regards to Gremory, "Yes, the troublesome thing is the fact there is records where it mentions that Gremory can see the past, present and future. If this turned into power then it will be difficult to face off against a heretic god that can see the future, Lilly how is the vision going?"

Liliana had been casting several spells to aid her spirit vision in hopes to see if the Heretic God was still in the same location but she shook her head, "The only thing I see is Hotan" Liliana muttered as she was about to attempt again Matteo pulled her up from the magic circle, "That's enough Lilly, rest" Matteo spoke with a warm yet stern voice causing Liliana to nod as she became meek allowing Matteo to carry her into the bed. When Matteo turned around he saw Erica stretching her hands thus he princess carried her into the bed as well.

Think she tricked him into sleeping together with them, Erica was taken by surprise as Matteo went over to the Magic Circle Liliana constructed. "Come to me, spells of the world carved into the book with disinherited knowledge" Matteo chanted the incantation as he stood in the middle of the already constructed Magic circle "Manifest before me thy wonders and let the world know of the sorceries which is forgotten."

When the Spellbook manifests Matteo cast a future sight spell to see if it would work, perhaps it was the luck of the devil that aided Matteo but the spell he cast had strong synergy with the magic crest Liliana constructed while he poured in some of his time power to assist the spell. This gave him a clearer vision of a desert, a Tang dynasty settlement with wind-eroded walls, Buddhist stupas and the remains of pottery kilns. In the middle of it all, he saw a woman wearing a crimson red dress turning to meet his vision gaze head-on while she waved at him.

He could make out from her lips as she was trying to say something to him "S-A-V-E M-E" When Matteo's vision ended he shook his head feeling what he saw was quite incredulous, 'Heretic God actually asking to be saved?' He thought but shook his head thinking that such a thing was impossible, he tricked Artemis's pride as a hunter to become a subordinate God of his but this was a Demon God which was completely different from normal Gods.

Just as he was about to head into the bed with the girls to sleep for the night his instincts screamed for a moment as he tilted his head to the left feeling a fast palm strike flashing past him as he lowered his body while turning it anti-clockwise with his right palm pressed against his left fist in attempt attack behind him with an elbow strike.

"Never expected you to be a martial artist" Matteo heard a feminine voice as his elbow strike touched nothing but air, a bit further away from him he saw an unearthly beautiful woman with black sleek hair and black eyes gazing deeply at him. "Never expected to meet a pervert that breaks into a man's room, could it be your here to rape me?"

Hearing this Luo Hao almost fell on her behind as her face became beet red, although she had no common sense between man and women relations she at least knew of the terms Pervert and Rape which caused her to feel humiliated "Ye! I am the empress of China, many envy this one's looks and my prowess yet none is more gifted than I! But this one certainly is not a pervert!" Luo Hao's voice was enough to wake up both Erica and Liliana who came rushing towards Matteo.

"But you entered my room, could it be you interested in me?" Hearing this question Luo Hao did not catch the hidden meaning but instead answered in a face value "How did ye know of this?" Hearing her question even Erica and Liliana glared at Matteo for using such a dirty talk towards a pure girl, Matteo was taken aback as he did not expect her common sense in such areas to be... This low. Matteo could only sigh while rubbing her forehead, "So why have you come this late at night?"

"Since ye refused to meet I, then this one would naturally come to see you in order to determine if ye are worthy of my presence before you" Luo Hao answered while raising her head a bit high before continuing, "Ye should feel gratitude towards me as those who witness this one's existence should pluck out their eyes, those who heard my voice should cut off their ears and those who breathe in my own breath should wear gas masks"

Matteo who heard this realized where the eight grade syndrome he had been faintly detecting from Lu Yinghua came from, 'This girl... Does she think we are still in the Tang Dynasty!? Hold on...' Matteo's smile became quite familiar to Erica and Liliana who knew him as this was the same smile he would have when he intends to tease his father, "Since your an empress you should have an Emporer correct?"

Luo was not certain why Matteo would ask this of her as she never thought of this before, "This one alone is enough, who else would I need if I can rule over my lands alone" Matteo nodded at Luo but then he point his finger at her with a stern face "That is where you fail as an empress!" Hearing this Luo was shocked as never did anyone tell her she was a failure, "What do ye mean? If ye dare slander me I would have thee beheaded"

"As an empress, it is your task to bring children into the lands so you can leave your mark in history, even if you live long we all have to die someday. If you were to die as you are then no one will remember Luo Hao because you had no children!" Matteo explained causing Luo's eyes to widen as she nodded "Then I shall take ye as my Emperor Husband! Be grateful" Matteo who heard what Luo said almost slip and fell on his butt looking at her with surprise 'How the hell did this happen?' he thought.

Luo took out of notebook and a pen from her sleeves as she began to write, Matteo stood up looking over her shoulder "What are you writing?" he asked, Luo, looked at him as if he was an idiot "Are ye looking down on me, even I know where babies come from. I am writing to the Stork Company so they can have a Baby delivered using a stork"