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Chapter 489 – A Choice
Claire was a bit hesitant. The rebels were their country’s internal affairs and Caesar was a Lombard Kingdom prince, even if he had no bad intentions, Claire didn’t know whether to tell him such important information or not.
Even if they were to reclaim the holy sword, it would be up to Claire, not you. Who knows what this guy is plotting?
Claire’s worries weren’t unreasonable, no one would easily give away such precious information. But after thinking about it for a bit, Claire felt like it was better to tell Caesar.
There were two reasons. One, she knows about how Caesar is as a person and was even more sure that he was a gentleman after meeting him today, so he wouldn’t do anything that would be bad for Gotham Kingdom. So she felt like it wasn’t a big deal to tell him and she gets a strong fighter that can help them with the rebels.
Two, and the most important reason, Caesar was Lin Xiao’s good friend! Based on what Claire knew, the two of them had a very good relationship and faced a lot of hardship together.
“Okay, since you’re Lin Xiao’s friend, I’ll tell you for his sake.” Claire responded honestly and then handed over the information related to the missing Holy Sword to Caesar.
“Thank you.” Caesar nodded and was just about to look into the information when he noticed something weird about what she said.
“Um… princess Claire, what did you mean when you said ‘for Lin Xiao’s sake’?”
“Exactly what it means.”
“I don’t understand, are you saying that because Lin Xiao helped you, you’re helping me to repay him?”
“Hm, pretty much.”
“So, you’re only showing me this precious report because I’m his friend?”
“That’s right, I’m helping you because you’re his friend.” Claire calmly responded then tilted her head and asked, “Is there a problem with that?”
“You!?” Caesar was angry after finding out the truth and then Claire looked at him innocently and stabbed him another time.
Is there a problem with that?
Yes, is there a problem with that?
Princess Claire, the king’s representative, had such high regard for Lin Xiao that she would blindly trust his friends, is there a problem with that?
Yes, there’s a huge problem, okay!?
Caesar never would have expected that they were nobodies to Claire and if it weren’t for their relationship to Lin Xiao, they might have not even been able to have a meeting with her!
Caesar clenched the document in his hand as he learned the cruel truth. The thick stack of papers was going to tear as it let out an unpleasant crunching sound.
Rosie quickly held Caesar’s arm to comfort him when she saw this. She could understand Caesar’s feelings, he wanted to be one step ahead of Lin Xiao, but in the end, he still had to rely on the fact that he was Lin Xiao’s friend to get important information. This was a direct insult to his dignity!
Caesar almost tore the papers in his hand in anger! He had no intention of trading his dignity for anything!
Thankfully Rosie was there. She was already used to helping him when he lost his cool, she just had to hold his arms and gently whisper into his ears to console this temperamental lion cub.
Caesar felt Rosie’s concern and quickly controlled his emotions, but he wasn’t willing to stay any longer. He received the important documents and politely bid farewell to Claire and got up to leave.
As long as he had that, he had a chance to find the hero’s sword, which was more important than anything else, so what about some pent-up frustration?
Caesar silently decided that he was going to beat Lin Xiao this time, find the Holy Sword and prove he was better!
But when he was leaving, he suddenly felt the need to ask something.
“Right Claire, do you know where Lin Xiao went? It seems he’s not in the city anymore.”
“Oh yes, he went to the west supply station to look for Deborah.”
“Supply station?”
Caesar didn’t know why he would go there and found out from Claire that he went to look for something called a sacred crystal fruit.
“Why is he looking for a sacred crystal fruit?”
“I don’t know… are you looking for him for something?”
“N-no, I was just asking… goodbye princess Claire, thank you for your help.”
“Hehe, goodbye.”
Caesar didn’t waste any more time and quickly led Rosie out of the house.
This meeting was very successful, they got important information from Claire and could finally start investigating the stolen Holy Sword. He should be happy, but for some reason, he couldn’t be.
“Caesar, you don’t have to feel down, you just have to help the hero find the Holy Sword, you don’t have to compete with that damn Lin Xiao!”
Rosie thought that Caesar was still trying to compete and tried to comfort him, but Caesar shook his head and talked about something unrelated.
“Rosie, do you know why he went to look for the sacred crystal fruit?”
“Hm… how would I know?”
“Guess if you don’t know! … I feel like he’s hiding something.” Although Caesar had no proof, his instincts told him it wasn’t that simple!
With how lazy Lin Xiao was, there was no way he would personally go look for something like that unless it was an important mission.
“Hm… it is strange, let me think about it.” Rosie thought about the recent intelligence she got and quickly came to a conclusion.
“I heard he was called to the church by Saintess Snow a couple of days ago, then he left the city after that… could he be helping Snow?”
“If you’re right, then the question is why does Snow need the sacred crystal fruit?”
“That’s obviously because… because… because of experimentation!”
Rosie’s brain churned quickly as she responded.
Her reasoning was simple… Lin Xiao was lazy, the only reason he would go looking for something must be because his little sister asked him to! And Snow has been experimenting on the black core recently, so there’s only one reason she would ask her brother to go look for the fruit!
“Snow needs it as a final ingredient for her experiments, so she asked Lin Xiao to go get it! That means Snow is close to completing the cure, that’s great!”
Rosie’s first reaction was to be happy about the good news, but Caesar focused on something different.
“If that’s true… then doesn’t that mean he’s in danger?”
“Do you mean that Lin Xiao’s already been marked by the enlightened?”
That’s right! As long as Lin Xiao leaves, he would be watched by the enlightened! No… not just watched, his name might have even been written into an assassination list.
“Could we be just too sensitive? Since we’re just making wild guesses and don’t have any proof.”
“No, it’s not just wild guesses! They won’t let him go and this is a perfect opportunity for them to act!”
If Caesar wasn’t wrong, then Lin Xiao is in a dangerous spot, and he isn’t vigilant, if no one warns him, he might be in trouble!
“Caesar… what should we do?”
Rosie bit her lips and silently looked down at the document that Caesar was holding.
Caesar was currently faced with a choice…