Chapter 37

After Bai Luo entered the water, he didn't just vanish into thin air.

Once submerged, he switched to [Black] and activated his quantumization.

As mentioned before, his quantumization wasn't just for attacks and brief invincibility—it also had a teleportation function.

This teleportation ability didn't just work on enemies; it could also be used on allies.

Combined with his marking skill [Silver], it was a perfect tool for assassination.

Now, his target was the Fatui agent in the courtyard.

The agent had just entered the courtyard from outside and was about to knock on Bai Luo's door when he suddenly felt a chill run through his body.

In the next moment, the space above his head began to distort, and a black line seemed to slice through the air, appearing above him.

"Gurgle..."

The black line gradually expanded, revealing an eye-like pattern.

The eye was filled with red veins, and after scanning its surroundings, it finally locked onto the Fatui agent.

Once the target was confirmed, the eye's pupil contracted sharply, turning into a vertical slit like that of a beast.

And Bai Luo's figure appeared behind the agent.

"Tap."

"Ahhh!"

Bai Luo's hand lightly landed on the agent's shoulder, startling him.

After all, Inazuma was full of supernatural beings, and during his time here, the agent had seen plenty of strange and bizarre things.

Coupled with the feeling of being watched as if his soul had been laid bare, how could he not be scared?

"It's me."

Bai Luo removed the mask from his face and casually hung it at his waist.

When he switched to [Black], his attire also changed to match [Black]'s appearance.

And his [Battousai] outfit had also undergone some changes compared to the kimono he had purchased earlier.

The same went for the broken blade in his hand.

The reason the broken blade had transformed into a reverse-blade sword was also related to the system.

Both his attire and weapons had a binding option.

Once bound, these weapons and outfits would undergo changes.

For example, the dual daggers he now hid at the small of his back.

As mentioned earlier, he had crossed over after jumping into a river to save a child during winter.

When he jumped into the river, he hadn't been carrying any blades, but after saving the child and nearly drowning from exhaustion, he had been fished out of the water by the Fatui Harbinger [The Rooster].

According to The Rooster, Bai Luo had been carrying this strange dagger at the time.

Later, he simply converted this dagger into [Black]'s weapon.

However, binding attire and weapons also had requirements.

For example, color, type, and so on.

The system wasn't so strict as to demand an exact match, but they at least had to look similar.

This was also one of the reasons Bai Luo had worn a red kimono to the scene today. If he could activate the binding, he wouldn't have to waste time looking for clothes.

What surprised him the most was that switching between [Black] and [Battousai] would automatically clean his attire and weapons.

For instance, just now, his clothes had been soaking wet, but after switching to [Black], they instantly dried.

He didn't even have to bother washing them.

Fortunately, after quantumization, seawater no longer affected him, or he would have had to switch again.

"So it was you, Commander."

Seeing that the person behind him was Bai Luo, the Fatui agent finally relaxed.

If it had been one of the agents who had been with Bai Luo for a long time, they wouldn't have been scared by something like this.

After all, whether it was Bai Luo or the Pyro Agents he trained, they all had incredible stealth abilities.

They were used to it by now.

But this agent was part of the earliest advance team sent to Inazuma and hadn't witnessed Bai Luo's methods, so he had been frightened.

"What's the matter?"

Listening to the deafening "Eternity is vast! The Narukami is eternal!" coming from the Tenryou Commission next door, Bai Luo already had a rough idea of what was going on.

"Well, General Kujou from next door has come to visit you, sir. I didn't dare to turn her away, so I came in to ask for instructions."

When Bai Luo had left earlier, he had done so while invisible, without alerting anyone.

Not even his own subordinates knew.

Everyone thought he was in his room writing his novel.

"Let her in."

Bai Luo gestured for the agent to bring her in, then pushed open the door to his room and walked over to the desk, continuing to write the book he hadn't finished.

Before long, Kujou Sara stormed in.

Upon entering, she first glanced at Bai Luo's clothes, then at the bed.

It looked like she was checking for signs of infidelity, but in reality, she was suspicious that the person at the arena had been Bai Luo. She was trying to find similarities between the two and see if Bai Luo had left any clothes behind.

In all of Inazuma City, Kujou Sara had interacted with Bai Luo the most. Although the mysterious figure's aura had been completely different from Bai Luo's...

Before drawing his blade against the Shogun, that figure and aura had been strikingly similar to Bai Luo's.

As the current general of the Tenryou Commission, she trusted her judgment.

"Congratulations, General Kujou, on your victory in the duel before the throne."

Putting down his brush, Bai Luo congratulated Kujou Sara.

But his words only made her look at him with even more suspicion.

"How did you know I won?"

As she asked this, Kujou Sara's right hand moved to the hilt of the katana at her waist.

If Bai Luo couldn't give a suitable explanation, she wouldn't hesitate to draw her blade.

Even if rumors claimed she and Bai Luo were lovers, their relationship wasn't that close.

"The duel before the throne is a fight to the death. Since you're standing here alive, doesn't that mean you won? Or are you a ghost here to haunt me?"

"..."

Bai Luo's response left Kujou Sara slightly embarrassed. She had been so focused on finding a connection between Bai Luo and the mysterious figure that she had forgotten this detail.

"There was an unexpected incident during the duel, but it's more or less over now."

Kujou Sara didn't plan to hide anything from Bai Luo.

Even if he wasn't the mysterious figure who had intruded on the scene, given his current position, it wouldn't be hard for him to find out some details.

Thinking of this, her expression darkened again.

She had long realized that the Fatui had infiltrated Inazuma, but the extent of the infiltration was beyond her imagination. She even suspected that there were traitors within the Kujou Clan, though she wasn't sure who.

It seemed she would need to report this to the clan head tonight and have him prepare.

"Is that so? I can't believe I missed such a spectacle. What a pity... If it weren't for Yae Publishing House pressuring me, I would have definitely been there to cheer you on."

Bai Luo said this not only to provide an excuse for not being at the duel but also to create an alibi for himself.

"Yae Publishing House?"

Hearing this, Kujou Sara instinctively glanced at the paper and brush on Bai Luo's desk.

She had originally thought he was practicing calligraphy, but now it seemed... he was writing a novel?

This guy could write novels?

"Yes, but I doubt I'll be able to finish it now."

Of course he wouldn't. Before Kujou Sara arrived, he had indeed planned to continue writing.

But the constant drills and shouting from next door had thrown him off.

For example, this paragraph:

"The Shogun, taking advantage of the night, climbed onto Yae Sakura and slapped her awake, then said with utmost seriousness, 'Stand properly!'

T/N: (Because of the constant shouting, it distracted him and caused him to write "then said with utmost seriousness, 'Stand properly!'")