Death... and me

Chapter 3015: Convenient

"You... trained a lot?" Dancio had a hard time believing it. Yet, it was a fact that Rean signed

the contract, and the contract activated. "So you managed to learn everything fighting against your brother? Doesn't that mean he is as good as you with swords?"

Rean shook his head. "No, he isn't."

"I see..." Dancio sighed in relief. How could two of such geniuses exist? That would have been ridiculous.

Too bad Rean didn't finish his words. "My brother is much better with swords than I am."

Roan heard that and felt a headache. 'Why are you bringing more trouble to me?'

'Because that is the truth,' Rean answered.

'They don't need to know that!' Roan still complained. 'They don't know contracts are useless against us, idiot.'

'Obviously,' Rean didn't seem that concerned. 'But it is not a bad thing. Perhaps we can make use of it in the future.'

'Hmph! I highly doubt so,' Roan didn't agree, but now it was too late anyway.

Dancio and Kuslau's expressions contorted. That wasn't the kind of answer they were expecting. "Is he some kind of expert who reincarnated or some shit like that?"

Rean showed a puzzled expression. "Reincarnation? Wasn't reincarnation supposed to be impossible in our Universe? I'm pretty sure I heard something like that. Or did I see it in the system? I can't remember."

"Well... it is..." Dancio and Kuslau obviously knew that. It is mentioned in the Werdlem Empire System for anyone who wishes to see. It's just that not many know about it since it is such a hard thing to believe.

Dancio then shook his head and got himself together. "Alright, so no one taught you these sword skills and intent, right? You didn't find some other Jade Slip with the methods for how to use swords either, right?"

"Exactly," Rean confirmed. That wasn't a lie, either. Roan learned his sword... well, all kinds of weapons skills on his own during his time as a Death Spirit and passed to Rean. No one taught them. "Senior Dancio, Master, you saw my sword style back in the capital, right? Does it look like any sword style you have ever seen? My brother and I believe our sword style... if it can be called a style at all... isn't very common. At least I wasn't able to see anyone using a similar one back in the contest."

Isn't very common? Even Dancio, with his over a thousand years of life, had never seen that kind of swordplay. "Indeed... if someone had taught you, I would have noticed something in your style, but it is totally different from anything else. You could even say it is erratic and chaotic. Perhaps you are right when you say it isn't exactly a style."

Kuslau then took the chance to ask. "Master, what will we do? Should we go investigate the area where they found the Alchemy Recipes?"

"Obviously," Dancio heard that the twins didn't find anything else other than the Jade Slip. However, they are just two kids. Could they really match the Spiritual Sense of a Transition Realm expert like him? He had to go and see it for himself.

"What about me?" Rean asked, curious.

*Pah!*

*Ouch!*

Kuslau slapped Rean's back head. "What about you, you ask? Just because you told me the truth now, do you think you will have no punishment? You still deceived me even though I did so much for you. You are lucky I haven't killed you already."

Rean rubbed the back of his head and looked sad... Oscar-worthy sad. "But... we were afraid. If others found about what we know, we might have died. Would you have told anyone about it if you had found out? Master really took me as a disciple... but it is also true that we barely know each other." The Soul Binding Contract was truly convenient. Anything Rean said was taken as him speaking the absolute truth so he wouldn't die.

"This..." Kuslau wanted to retort, but he had no words to do so.

Dancio put the Jade Slip with the recipes away and patted Rean and Kuslau's shoulder. "Fine. I admit that I would probably have done the exactly same thing. The important point here is that he didn't try to cause trouble for the Clan, so that should count as something."

"However!" Dancio's expression turned cold. "We still have to discuss this bullshit about you becoming Diliy's disciple. What was that? Did you intend to abandon the Gondel Clan? I saw when you accepted Diliy's offer back in the Palace of the Rusbav Royal Family."

Rean pondered if he should just lie and say that he was pretending to accept Diliy's offer. However, he decided to come clean on this point. "He invited me to his airship and showed me his Sword Intent. I couldn't really refuse. It is far above anything Master has shown me." "Far above?" Kuslau was puzzled. "Are you saying Diliy managed to achieve the Fifth Level of Sword Intent?"

"No," surprisingly, the one who answered was Dancio. "Diliy does have a Level Four Sword Intent. However, Rean is right. I had the chance to see it recently. It truly surpasses any other Level Four Sword Intent, even mine. No, mine isn't worth mentioning at all. If we clashed, I would lose miserably. If there is someone who might reach the Level Five one day, that someone is Diliy."

"So that's how it is..." Kuslau was surprised to hear that. Dancio was his master, so he learned his sword intent from him. If Dancio said it, then it had to be true.

Dancio turned his attention back to Rean. "So you intended to join them and learn from Diliy. As a Sword Practitioner myself, I can't say I don't understand."

Rean nodded. "Yes! It is truly amazing!" Rean already had his excuse as well. "If you look into the pill recipes in the Jade Slip, you will also find one regarding changing one's appearance. That's how Roan and I looked so different during the contest. That's how I planned to become Diliy's disciple."

However, Dancion wasn't the least bit happy. "That's still called betrayal, idiot!"