Chapter 460 – Unspeakable Identity
Su Jiu put the steel sword back into the ring and, under the gaze of the senior students and Mr. Luton, mounted the monster that resembled a unicorn. The monster obeyed obediently due to Su Jiu’s aura.
Holding the girl in his arms, Su Jiu waved to everyone and then pulled on the reins, heading back.
“Let’s go. This experience and the bodies of those snow demons should be enough for your graduation project,” Su Jiu said.
“It’s almost evening, we need to head back to town to rest,” Mr. Luton glanced at the bodies of the frost ghosts and pointed to them and the snow demon corpses in the large pit in the distance, saying with a smile, “These corpses aren’t worth much, but you’re in university, right? You can take them back for research.”
Hearing Su Jiu and Mr. Luton’s words, everyone exchanged glances and then picked up various corpses before following.
After all, these monster corpses that Su Jiu didn’t want were a considerable harvest for them, which they could take back to exchange for credits and money.
Riding on the unicorn-like monster, Su Jiu once again looked at the necklace on the girl’s fair collarbone. The pendant of the necklace was snowflake-shaped, with a special golden gemstone inlaid in each corner, and a rhombic blood-colored crystal in the very center.
Su Jiu was very familiar with this necklace, or rather, he was very clear about the image depicted in the book. In the book, the male protagonist Bai Ming was always helping one of the female protagonists, Hannah, the princess of the snow demons, find this important lost keepsake.
But…
Su Jiu lowered his head and looked at the small face splashed with bloodstains. It seemed different from Bairnis’s Western features, leaning more towards the East. After thinking for a moment, he reached out and pinched it. It was cool, soft, and felt good…
However, she was not a princess.
At this time, that princess was not in this place. This girl in front of him was kidnapped by a group of frost ghosts, so what was her identity?
She possessed the princess’s keepsake but was not the princess. Moreover, Su Jiu clearly remembered that in the original work, the princess’s cultivation level was around the Half-step Battle King, while the girl in front of him, although her aura was very weak, was a genuine Initial Stage Battle King.
As if disturbed by Su Jiu’s pinch, the girl’s eyes trembled slightly. Feeling the movement behind her, she suddenly opened her eyes and tried to turn around, but she had been given a medicine to suppress her external qi, so she couldn’t muster any strength.
However, she did not show panic. Instead, her eyes swept across her arm with the black lace cuffs, a thoughtful look appearing in her eyes. It seemed that her clothes were not the same as before. After a moment of thought, she said in a low voice, “Mr. Mos, it’s useless even if you capture me. My father will not agree to your demands, and I am not the heir to the throne.”
The snow demons in the book could easily communicate with Bai Ming in English. Su Jiu hadn’t expected that he could directly understand her language, which had an Irish accent.
Hearing the girl’s words, Su Jiu became increasingly curious about her identity. He narrowed his eyes, deliberately lowered his voice, and also spoke in a low, mocking tone in English, “Hannah, you are the heir, aren’t you? The old Snow Demon King personally designated it. We are from the Second Prince’s faction, and we are ordered to make you disappear.”
It was also mentioned that more intense battles were breaking out within the Snow Demon Clan because the King was seriously ill and nearing his end. The four heirs gathered at the Snow Palace. As the legitimate daughter and the Third Princess, Hannah was directly appointed as the next heir.
The Grand Prince, who had already been dismissed for practicing evil arts, wanted to reclaim the throne and contacted various demon forces to make a comeback. The Second Prince and the Fourth Princess were concubines, with the Fourth Princess having the humblest status, born to a maid. Neither of them was qualified to inherit the throne.
Su Jiu asked this to try and ascertain her true identity.
“Second Brother… he… it’s impossible for him to collude with the frost ghosts.”
Hearing Su Jiu’s words, the girl’s pupils widened slightly, and her body couldn’t help but tremble. Her equally plump buttocks tilted back slightly but quickly stabilized. She said softly, “You don’t need to test me anymore. I know you are from the Grand Prince’s side. Only he would do this.”
Feeling the touch of skin between her legs, Su Jiu instinctively clenched his legs. He quickly gauged the roundness of her small buttocks with his body, giving him an urge to press and crush them.
The girl clearly felt the pressure from Su Jiu’s straight legs, and her body trembled as if shocked. She glanced down at the black long skirt on his feet, a hint of surprise in her heart. Was the other party wearing a skirt?
Was it a frost ghost or someone else?
Could it be that someone came to save her and was pretending to be a bad guy to tease her?
Thinking this, her face inexplicably turned red, but it quickly faded. She inwardly mocked herself, thinking that she was just a scapegoat. Who would come to save her?
“Cough cough…”
Coughing twice, Su Jiu had some guesses, but he didn’t speak immediately. Instead, he slowly moved closer and whispered into her ear, with some speculation mixed in, “You’re not Hannah, are you? She should be on the other side of the Akans Mountain Range right now, about to be saved by someone heroically…”
Being the first time her sensitive earlobe was being blown on, a blush bloomed on the girl’s cold face again. She cursed inwardly, “Shameless frost ghost!” but quickly suppressed the urge to retort and closed her eyes, denying Su Jiu’s speculation, “I don’t know what you mean. I am Hannah. Kill me or flay me, I will not resist.”
“I won’t kill you. Since you’re hiding your identity, then keep hiding it,” Su Jiu said.
Glancing sideways down her collar, Su Jiu narrowed his eyes. The skin inside was fairer than the outside. Her hands had calluses from holding a sword, so she definitely couldn’t be a princess who stayed in the palace. He then raised his head slightly and asked with a slight smile, “However, I saved you, how about you help me with something?”
“You saved me?”
Hearing Su Jiu’s words, the girl’s face first showed a slight surprise. She tilted her head with some uncertainty and found that she was being held by a girl as cute as a fairy.
A unprecedented joy immediately surged onto her face. Listening to the other party’s tone, her second guess must have been correct. She hadn’t expected anyone to save her, this pawn being used as a smokescreen.
But before she could rejoice for too long, Su Jiu’s voice rang out again, with a hint of certainty, “You really aren’t Hannah. Then the necklace on your neck was most likely put on you to impersonate the Third Princess, wasn’t it?”
The girl didn’t speak, still lowering her head slightly, as if tacitly admitting Su Jiu’s assertion.
“What’s your name? You can’t possibly be called that, can you? I can’t keep calling you that all the time.”
Seeing her actions, Su Jiu smiled. She felt that the girl wasn’t very old, and her thoughts were all written on her face.
After a moment of silence, the girl stopped retracting her buttocks. She even leaned back slightly, placing her hands on the monster mount’s helmet, lowering her head. After a long while, she slowly spoke, “Call me Aisha.”
