Grand Ancestral Bloodlines Chapter 2252

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Ryu slowly shook his head. There was no way he would do anything to her, but he was feeling frustrated nonetheless.

“There’s someone else who wants to see you, by the way,” Sarriel said.

“Wobbling Fairy?”

“You knew already.”

“I did know. She probably knows quite a bit about what’s happening here. But I didn’t ask her on purpose.”

“So stubborn.”

“There’s no need to worry about these things. Just wipe the enemies out and the end result will be what’s expected in the end.”

“I don’t think it’ll be that simple.”

Ryu’s lip curled a bit with his anger. “It seems that lesson two wasn’t enough.”

“Is that so? Well, too bad you don’t have time for lesson three.”

Ryu was about to reply when he looked off into the distance instead. Inwardly, he shook his head. The fact that Sarriel had sensed it before him—even with her eye missing—was its own problem.

It seemed that they were doing everything they could to tie his Fate scrying abilities down. But it wouldn’t be enough.

“She’s coming now. You’re not allowed to reject her. We’ve built a united front.”

Ryu didn’t even get the chance to respond before Sarriel vanished and Wobbling Fairy took her place.

In a rare showing, this most peculiar wife of his wasn’t drunk.

Of all his women, even including Taedra, Wobbling Fairy was the most enigmatic. Even to this point, he didn’t know her name, nor had he ever forced her to tell him either.

He felt like he would have all the time in the world to allow this wife to truly warm up to him. He didn’t expect her to have already opened up to him no matter how shameless he was.

So long as she understood what it meant to be his wife, that was more than enough for him.

But he also knew that she had a story that she hadn’t told him about as well. There was a great amount of pain this little woman had to have undergone for her to choose a path of constant drunkenness to escape it.

But the words she said surprised him.

“I hate you a lot, you know,” she said softly.

To go from one wife that confessed her undying love to him, and then hop right to another that said such a thing, gave even Ryu whiplash. He wasn’t sure how to react to it all, and he could only stay silent.

“You might think it’s because of what you’ve done to me, but it’s what you are going to do to me. Though, I would hope you understand that you haven’t treated me the best until this point as well.”

“What I will do?”

“You can’t sense it because they’ve targeted everything on you. Plus… the Fate that’s always the hardest to scry is your own, because the mere act of doing it changes it too much.”

Ryu frowned. He had always been able to see his own Fate Star, even back when he couldn’t cultivate.

“There’s a difference between vaguely glancing at Fate and delving into it in earnest.”

“I—.”

“Don’t talk for a moment. You’re more handsome when you’re silent. I prefer my men stoic and cold, you know. You talk too much nowadays.”

Ryu’s lip curled and he chuckled in response, not minding it.

“You know that I have control over the energy of the world no one wants. What you probably don’t understand about the way my methods and body works is that the absence of something that should be there is as good as evidence of that something. Do you understand? Just nod. No talking.”

Ryu nodded.

If you had the cutout of a shape, it was as good as knowing what that shape was.

Wobbling Fairy had a rare bodily constitution that Ryu had never seen before. She could absorb the impurities of the world to empower herself. The very same impurities that everyone else wanted to get rid of, she relished in, using it to strengthen herself.

But what wasn’t considered enough was what it meant for that energy to exist in the first place. The impurities of all things… it might even be an energy form that existed beyond Essence, Chaos Qi, Embryonic Qi, and Corpse Poison…

Because it existed in them all, capable of restraining them all.

An energy like this had no real form. It could be anything it needed to be, take any shape or being. And if you were talented enough, you could use it to comprehend basically anything by process of elimination.

All you had to do was reverse-engineer things from their impurities. Whatever could impede them and restrain them… just do the opposite.

As such, it wasn’t a surprise in the slightest that Wobbling Fairy was capable of seeing through Fate. What could have more impurities than the uncertain path of a person?

Clearly, she had seen something in the future that she very much didn’t like. But that made it more odd that she was still by his side. Why was that?

“Since you understand, you should know that I’m not just speaking for the sake of speaking. Your road ahead is probably impossible, and your stubbornness will lead to your downfall. Which will be a shame, because you are quite handsome when you’re not yapping.”

Ryu raised an eyebrow. Was Wobbling Fairy always so straightforward? Or was that just what she had become without the heavy depression that hung over her all the time?

Why did she seem… happier? As much credit as he wanted to take for it, he knew that he couldn’t.

“You wanted to know my name?” Wobbling Fairy suddenly said, completely changing the subject as though she had no intention of explaining any further.

Ryu nodded again.

“My name is Rose B—.”

“Tatsuya.” Ryu interjected before he froze, his pupils constricting into pinholes as a realization overcame him.

Rose? Why was that name itching at him so much?

Then it hit him.

“You… You’re Yaana’s Life Partner.”

The Black Rose.