I'm really not the Saviour! (我唔係救主囖!) [danmei/BL xuanhuan]

53 - Just blame a god

Gaam Yuk Ying rejoined the carriage before it reached the outskirts of the city. Dzue Dziu Ming lifted his soft eyebrows in askance.

"Teem Djeung Baak."

"Did you deal with her?"

"No."

"But there's no immediate danger?"

"She's gone."

The Regent nodded and sat back.

"Is something the matter, Your Majesty?" Cheon Maan Ging asked.

"Not at present, Your Highness. Sir Jade Exorcist has dealt with it."

The princess turned her placid smile to Gaam Yuk Ying. "Thank you, Sir Jade Exorcist."

The guards stopped jumping around and walked before and after the carriage, Gaam Yuk Ying following at the rear.

As the carriage pulled up to the main palace, two figures appeared at the doors, one rushing to greet them. Gong Ming Dzue stayed back, as the young noblewoman Mun Gong rushed forwards, her pale pink robes flapping in her haste. She almost stumbled to a halt as Dzue Dziu Ming left the carriage, then reached his hand out for Cheon Maan Ging as she stepped into the sunlight, blinking in astonishment at the towering buildings of Dzue.

Mun Gong bowed, hands gripped tightly. "Your Majesty."

"This is Princess Cheon Maan Ging," Dzue Dziu Ming said quietly. "Princess, Lady Mun Gong is of one of our oldest noble families and is similar in age to you. I hope you will get along."

"I hope so too," Cheon Maan Ging said in her soft voice, smiling at Mun Gong. "Let's be friends, Lady Mun."

Mun Gong smiled back. But when Dzue Dziu Ming and Cheon Maan Ging walked past, the look she turned on their backs might have set them on flames.

Gong Ming Dzue greeted Cheon Maan Ging and Envoy Laam graciously, although her eyes drifted over to where Mun Gong stood still in the courtyard, alone as the carriage was already pulling away to rest the horses.

"Sir Jade Exorcist."

Gaam Yuk Ying turned his eyes towards Mun Gong. Her head lowered, she spoke as if to the ground. "That lady... Dziu Ming is going to marry her, isn't he?"

"... I don't know."

"You don't know, or you can't say?" This girl was like a praying mantis, innocent-looking, but capable of vicious strikes.

"I don't know."

She raised blazing eyes at him. Gaam Yuk Ying's hand unconsciously closed on the hilt of Yiu Tsing. There was Fire energy in that look. Not at a level that he would be concerned, and yet...

"Thank you for your time, Sir Jade Exorcist, and for bringing His Majesty back safely." The flames were extinguished, and Mun Gong bowed. "Rest well."

She turned, and walked away, away from the palace. Gaam Yuk Ying watched her go.

*

Barely a day had passed when the rare male loong, Dzit Dzan Fan, appeared at the palace with the news – the assembly was arranged, and it was time for the Dzue Regent to leave.

Dzue Dziu Ming and Gaam Yuk Ying sat on the loong's long, scaled back, the former carefully wrapped in furs against the cold of the high altitude. Gaam Yuk Ying rode in his usual silence behind the king.

"Is there something you want to ask me?" Dzue Dziu Ming said, without turning around.

"No."

"If you say so."