CHAPTER 16

Li Qiang and Wang Wei looked at each other with shocked and started running after the guy with their swords in their hands. The guy was running very fast, pushing those that were hawking and entered different corners. Li Qiang and Wang Wei too were running after him very fast and jumping over the goods on the floor.

"Leave the way! Leave!! Sorry!!!" Two of them were saying as they were pushing people away and running after the guy. The guy didn't stop running as he was hearing their voice, just continued pushing people away and running.

"This guy is bastard! Stop there!" Wang Wei said as they were entering the corridor he was making them to pass, people were looking at them and clearing way for them.

"They are thieves! Attack them please!" The guy said as he ran inside a gambling house and talked loudly to the gangsters that were there.

Those gangsters stopped Li Qiang and Wang Wei with knives in their hands as they wanted to run inside with the guy, two of them first stepped back.

"Please let us enter, that guy stole our money and we must deal with him for doing such!" Li Qiang said with anger.

"He has told us who you are and he has told us to attack you thief! Attack them!" A guy said and all of them walking closed to Li Qiang and Wang Wei. Two of them removed out their swords from it case and started fighting them.

The guy entered the house with smile on his face as he saw that they had attacked Li Qiang and Wang Wei and sat down on a chair among the other gamblers.

"I am back! And I am ready to win this time around!" He brought out the money that he stole and put it on the table. Waiting to get back to his turn.

Li Qiang and Wang Wei put their backs closed to each other and fighting and turning around on the same spot, that was how they uses to fight even during there school time.

Two of them looked at the guys on the floor injured after finished fighting with them, passed beside them with anger and going inside.

The gangsters were unable to do anything again just looking at them going inside. Two of them held the guy from the back as they entered and pushed him to the wall, holding his cloth with anger showed all over them.

"How dare you stole our money that we work hard for to get and still told those fool that we are thieves, they should attack us. You this fool!" Li Qiang said as he hit his face.

"I am so sorry! Please forgive me, I need a money to play not that I really want to steal from you!" Said with fear.

"You can't work for money and everything you get there you should bring it here for gambling, how dare you stole from us. Where is our money!" Wang Wei asked.

"Please! I am sorry. Let me use it to gamble and i will give you triple of it after I have win!" Looking at them.

"Are you okay! So what if you loss!" Wang Wei said.

"I can't loss without having any money left, I begged you let me use it and promised I won't do that again!" Wang Wei and Li Qiang looked at each other and they had been attracted with the money.

"Okay! Three hundred yen right?" Li Qiang asked.

"Yes! I will give you just let me play it!" The guy said as he was adjusting his cloth and breathe heavily as they had released him.

"Go! And we too will be here with you!" The guy looked at them and sat down, Li Qiang and Wang Wei too sat down on the chairs beside him and looking at them.

Li Qiang and Wang Wei were looking at the guy as he was playing and it had been like he had been losing. Two of them looked at each other and Wang Wei talked.

"You know what will happen?" Said and took two hundred yen out of the two hundred and fifty yen on the table and stood up, the guy stood up with him.

"Hey guys! Your money is just one hundred yen now, return back my money!" Two of them faced him with red eye.

"Are you mad! You said triple of our money and we just took two hundred yen and left fifty for you and you still have gut to be calling us back!" Wang Wei said with loud voice.

"You see that I don't win much now! So why will you---" Li Qiang stopped him with sword on his neck.

"You better shut up you this thief!" Wang Wei said and two of them leaving the house. The guy was unable to say anything because he couldn't fight them.

The gang that they fought with moved to a corner with fear as they saw them coming out, two of them looked at them and leaving the place with their sword under their clothes.

They got to the market side back, and went to the small roadside food selling that they always uses to buy food from, got what they wanted to eat and leaving the place, working around maybe they could find another work to do.

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Zhang Min opened her eye on the bed, saw the tea which was their traditional herb tea that her father put beside her. She wrapped her face and took the tea, looking at it for few minutes and drank everything.

She got down from the bed with a small cloth and went to the bathroom, took water inside a bucket and uses it to wash her face. Took a small towel on the hanger, used it to clean her face and returned it back, leaving the house.

She met her father outside arranging the instruments that he was selling on the table and blowing dusty away from them, Zhang Min walked closed to him.

"You have wake up my daughter! How was your night!" He asked with happy face as he uses to do when he saw her.

"It was fine Father! Good morning, why don't you wake me up when it's morning already!" Helping him to arrange them.

"I want you to sleep very well and that was why I put tea beside you gently for you to drink it when you wake up and able to feel fine because I know that your night maybe somehow stressful or scaring you!" Zhang Min looked at her father with surprised and didn't believe what he just say.

"How did you know that I will need herb tea when I wake up?" Asked with low voice.

"I saw the way you are sweating from your sleep!"

"Father! I was hearing a man's voice from my sleep and keep calling 'Young Queen Demon fighter!' 'Young Queen Demon fighter!!' Without stop and I don't really get it, and I don't know who the person is! I don't really get what is happening and the voice of the man didn't stop!"

"Calling you 'Young Queen Demon fighter' and not the 'Queen of the Demon fighter!' It mean you are the Young one, so it's nothing to be worry about. King or Queen of the Demon fighter are those that this Kingdom rest on their shoulders, so you are the young one to them!"

"I don't really get this! I remembered you told me that it's Demon and Human that are living in the palace. I am the person that will kill the Demon?" She asked with low voice.

"I don't know that! Don't brother on that my daughter okay. Go and bath, eat and go to market to start selling of your drugs, just find a place and use it as a spot!"

"Why can't I be with you here and be selling my drugs here? Why at the market square?" Her father lauged

"How many people do you want to be selling it for here and also it there you will see those that will join you to carry out this mission! If you start selling it, you will meet them!"

"But how will I know them, you just told me to go there and I will meet them, how exactly Father?"

"Just don't worry about that, I will tell you!"

"It's confusing! Do you know them father?"

"Nothing is confusing here, when the time comes you will know them and for now I too don't know them!" Zhang Min looked at him and said Okay.

"Don't show your true identity there, don't let anybody know that you can fight. No matter what could happen!"

"But you know that all those bad boys use to be many in the market and use to harass people anyhow---" Her father stopped her with loud voice.

"I know how market side use to be like. If anything happens call for help and predent totally that you are a weak lady, don't let anybody know that you can fight. I know what I am saying and listen to me Zhang Min!"

"Okay Father! I heard you!" Said with low voice and going inside to take her bath. Her father left the shop and went inside to get something to cook for them.

Zhang got back to her room, off her cloth remained underwear and went to the bathroom. Her father was cutting some vegetables as what he was cooking was on the fire. After some minutes, he served the foods inside different three bowls and taking to the living room.

Him and Zhang Min came out at the time. He put the food on the small table, put wine beside it and sat down. Zhang Min checked the drugs one after the others.

"Why is it that it's drug you asked me to be selling!" Zhang Min was so incisive, always what to know the reason behind everything and asked questions.

"Nothing! I just see that it's cheap and it uses to work. It's someone that bought it for me when I travelled and the stomach pain that I am having went away within a few period!" Said as he was putting food inside a plate and with a soup.

"If you don't want to be selling it, I can return it back and buy you another thing!" Zhang Min sat down with her father.

"Not need! Father, thank you!" Said with smile and joined him in eating.

After finished eating, Zhang Min packed the plates to the kitchen and came back to arrange everywhere.

"You can go to work! I will do all these!" Zhang Min told her father goodbye with smile, carried the bag and leaving the house. Her father looked at her still she gone far and went to the kitchen to clean the place.

Zhang Min was looking at everywhere as she entered into the market, with her needle sword under her cloth and also used needle ring for a secret protection. She was looking at her surroundings as she entered the market and finding a place to stay when a man walked closed to her.

"Come to me My lady! Let me give you a permanent place that you will be staying and to be selling your drug!" Zhang Min shocked and looked at the man.

"Who are you? How do you know I am here to be selling drugs! I haven't see you before and this is a market place full of people, so how do you know what I am here for!" Asked with loud voice.

"Don't be afraid My daughter! It's me that told him!" Her father said behind her and walked to the front.

"How do you get here father! I left you at home cleaning the living room--" She was so surprised and didn't know what to say again or how to say it.

"Don't worry about that! Follow the man and let him show you the place that you be staying!" Said and leaving, Zhang Min was looking at her father still he gone far and didn't believe how he could have got there from home. And she didn't see any traces that he was following her.