Chapter 15

Ash's POV

I observed Lin Fan's movement and noticed him staring at a man in white, in '30s and looking feminine.

His type? wait..no

Lin Fan followed where the feminine looking man is staring which I also did..is he?

{The man in a white suit who looks feminine is the assassin in disguise}

Really? white suit? an assassin? I guess he won't be suspected by how Eye-catchy his clothes are, he also looks pale and weak..well, except Lin Fan..no one will notice that it's an assassin in disguise.

Having a Plot Armour must be nice, trouble and Glory alike follows him anywhere.

I speculate that if we're not here, Linfan must be the one the King managed to employ to guard his sons or maybe there was someone else but it's Lin Fan who found the Assassin and Protected Justine.

As for Josh, he's literally surrounded by the Military so they can fend off the assassin by themselves..there might be an injury but they'll survive.

Without us, Justine will sit with the officials..although they're strong, their combat sense is not that good..they lean on handling paperwork more.

The Military wants Josh to be the King while the Officials want Justine.

Typical fight for the throne, except that both Justine and Josh don't want the throne..for them, it's just a troublesome responsibility.

The King knows it and trained their younger cousin, a 14 years old boy to be the heir.

Josh teaches him the Military Affairs and Battle formations while Justine teaches about the outside and how to deal with scheming bastards, how to get the best out of a deal and how to behave in front of others by not showing how you feel. The King teaches about the responsibility of a King to avoid going on the wrong path.

This Kid, Jules was only known by the higher-ups and trusted persons so the others still thought that the next king will either be Josh or Justine.

Josh and Justine themselves are closed to each other and not affected by the competition the others created for them.

I ignored the assassin and looked at Lin Fan, he must have noticed me staring and looked in my direction..coincendatally meeting my eyes.

Well, typical reaction..he blushed.

I smiled a little and nod my head to show my respect to the protagonist.

He hesitated then walked in my direction after seeing Derek beside me whose now chatting about random things.

"This is?" he asked Derek

"I'm Ash" I introduced myself before Derek did it.

"ohh, I'm Li-" I cut him off

"Lin Fan, I know," I said

"You must have heard my name from the others then. I'm flattered." What the fuck, humble narcissism?

"Yeah, I heard a lot about you. Derek here literally told me about your life, you got one of a hell cousin here" I said and I caught him staring at my face, he's not in a daze or something..he's more like contemplating about something.

"any problem? you've been staring at me for over a minute now" I said after waiting for a while.

"oh sorry, I just find you familiar..did we meet before?" he asked

"impossible, I just arrived here earlier," I replied, his eyes suddenly shone and...

"I remember!" He suddenly raised his voice.

"What did you remember?" I asked

"Earlier, when Prince Justine was walking around besides those 3 people. I saw you behind them, beside Prince Josh..you even smiled at me, don't you remember?" he said pointing at my guild members, I tried recalling his face but I smiled at a lot of people back then.

"Sorry, I don't remember you. I smiled at everyone who stared at me back then, you must be one of them." ahaa, you think you are the only one who can show off humbly.

"you're good looking, it's hard to not stare at you," he said with a noticeable twitch on his face.

"I know, you're not the only one who told me about it" I replied, determined to see how long he can last.

"I noticed it back then too but you have a weird presence," he said

"not weird presence but NO presence" I corrected

"yeah no presence, may I know the reason?" he asked

"I don't know" I replied

"You have a knack for angering people aren't you?" he finally said

"Are you angry?" I asked while smirking.

"That's what pissed me off, it's hard to get angry with you looking at me like that," he said

"What kind of look?"

"you know! always smiling, looking polite..you look like an angel talking to me kindly yet the words that came out contradict the image," he said, trying to explain it to me. hehehhee, this is why I like my face.

"don't be jealous, you must have attracted a lot of hate since you can't use your face to offset others' anger," I said, comforting him viciously.

"you- sigh. I can't waste my time here, I still need to do something important" he said, intending to leave.

"Btw, you have a tracking spell on you..you need my help to remove it?" he said with a smirk.

"I know about it, after all..assassins are targeting me," I said softly, removing the smirk off his face.

"you're the target?" he asked seriously.

"one of the targets," I said

"then you talked to me because?" he asked

"I know you noticed it and for your information, you're the one who took the initiative to know me," I said while looking at the feminine man.

"well, I guess I did..the other targets are those three?" he asked looking at my Infinity members.

"not, it's the Princes. I just happen to be here and get targeted, I must be the B-plan if the assassination towards the Prince's Failed." I said

"you look like an important person after all..then why are you here? there's an assassin close by, maybe you're just confident in your strength?"

"That assassin didn't look at me all this time, he probably doesn't know I'm here since I don't have a presence in the first place..he's not the one who put a tracking spell at me and there's a bunch of powerhouses nearby, they won't dare attack me since powerful cultivators here watch me one way or another," I said, the moment we started talking about the assassin..we started conversing softly.

I wonder what his harem is thinking right now while looking at us whispering at each other.