Kujo Kazuya led Zhou Huai, who was disguised as Matsutake Gen, to a secluded side courtyard.
A woman lay on a simple wooden bed.
Polina.
Her face was pale, devoid of any color, her eyes were tightly closed, and her breathing was weak.
The wound wasn't bleeding; instead, wisps of black smoke kept emanating from it.
Her health has dropped to less than one-tenth.
Beside the bed, a burly blond man paced back and forth anxiously, his footsteps making a buzzing sound on the floor.
It was Karen.
He was clearly a bit irritable at that mont.
When they saw Kujo Kazuya push open the door and co in.
"Bang!"
Karen stepped forward, grabbed Kujou Kazuya by the collar, and slamd him against the wall.
"That damned curse-breaking incense! Where on earth is it?!"
He roared at Kujo Kazuya.
"I'll go and take it back right now!"
Kujo Kazuya was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he quickly waved his hands.
"Mr. Karen! Calm down!"
"By doing this, you will not only expose ourselves, but Miss Polina will also be in huge trouble!"
"calm?"
Karen's voice rose even higher, and he spat all over Kujou Kazuya's face.
"How the hell can I stay calm?!"
He pointed to the woman on the bed, who was barely alive, and his voice trembled with tears.
"Look at her! Polina is about to die!"
Karen released his grip, slumped back two steps, and slamd his fist into the wall beside him.
He turned his head and cursed viciously.
"And that untrustworthy man from the Great Xia Kingdom!"
"You've been dragging this out for so long and still haven't brought the dicine!"
"If it weren't for him, we would have left Tokyo long ago!"
Just then.
A calm voice, tinged with a hint of amusent, ca from the doorway.
"I think I heard soone cursing at ?"
Karen froze, then turned around abruptly.
The middle-aged man they had t before was now standing at the door, arms crossed, looking at them.
Karen's pupils suddenly contracted, and he stared intently at the person in the doorway, his voice hoarse.
"You...you're that 'God of a Thousand Faces'?"
Zhou Huai did not answer, but only smiled faintly.
This smile instantly erased the anger and despair on Karen's face, replacing it with ecstasy.
He rushed to Zhou Huai in one stride, grabbing Zhou Huai's arm incoherently due to his excitent.
"How is it? How is it?"
"Breakthrough Incense! Did you bring it?"
Zhou Huai remained calm and composed, unhurried and unhurried.
In fact, Shinichiro Nakamura had already given him the incense to {N•o•v•e•l•i•g•h•t} break the curse. But he kept delaying delivering it.
He's going to wait.
When Polina is on the verge of death, when Karen is in despair, the deeper the gratitude will be, and the more valuable the favor will beco.
Zhou Huai stopped keeping everyone in suspense.
With a flick of his wrist, a sandalwood box appeared in his palm.
Upon opening the box, a unique fragrance instantly filled the entire room.
A piece of crystal-clear incense stick lies quietly in the box.
It was the incense that broke the curse.
"I brought it!"
The mont Karen saw the incense stick, her eyes lit up and her breathing beca incredibly heavy.
With trembling hands, he carefully took the box from Zhou Huai's hands, and without even having ti to thank him, he turned around and rushed back to the bedside.
Karen took out a small incense burner from her bosom and carefully inserted the incense sticks that broke the curse into it.
He was so excited that he had to try several tis before he could light the match.
"puff."
A wisp of pale golden smoke rose from the incense burner.
The smoke didn't rise; instead, it flowed straight towards Polina's body.
When the pale golden smoke ca into contact with the black smoke, the black smoke imdiately churned violently, trying to escape, but the golden smoke held it tightly.
"Sizzle—"
The two types of smoke eroded and annihilated each other in mid-air.
Golden smoke continuously erged from the incense that broke the curse, replenishing the smoke while the black smoke gradually retreated, becoming increasingly faint.
Finally, the last wisp of black smoke completely dissipated.
After doing all this, the golden smoke did not disappear; it transford into streams of light, slowly covering Polina's deep, bone-revealing wounds.
Visibly, the rolled-up skin and flesh began to wriggle and heal at an extrely fast speed.
Beneath her pale skin, a healthy rosy hue gradually returned.
Karen knelt by the bed, staring intently at Polina's face, not daring to even breathe.
I don't know how much ti passed.
Polina's long eyelashes trembled slightly.
Then, she slowly opened her eyes, which had been closed for a long ti.
"Thank God, you're finally awake."
Karen sighed in relief and sat slumped on the floor beside the bed.
On the bed, Polina's eyelashes fluttered. She felt her strength returning and the pain from her wounds subsiding. Her gaze swept across the room, finally settling on the middle-aged man smiling with his arms crossed at the doorway.
Polina is a smart woman.
Upon seeing this man, she imdiately understood everything.
She struggled to sit up.
"Don't move."
Karen quickly pressed her down, her voice still tinged with lingering fear.
"Your injury has just healed."
Polina ignored him and just stared at Caesar at the door.
"The God of Change?"
Her voice was still a little weak.
Zhou Huai, controlling Caesar, nodded.
Polina smiled and gave Zhou Huai a slight bow.
"Thank you so much for saving my life, Polina has no way to repay you."
"I almost thought I was going to die in this cold city."
She looked at Zhou Huai's ordinary middle-aged face with a look of inquiry and curiosity.
"Your current appearance is a disguise, isn't it?"
"To be honest, I really want to see what my savior looks like."
Polina licked her lips, her tone teasing.
"He must be a very handso guy."
Zhou Huai ignored her teasing and simply looked at her calmly.
"Since you have the energy to tease , Ms. Polina, it's clear that your injuries have fully healed."
"How about we talk about cooperation instead?"
Upon hearing this, Polina's smile faded slightly.
"Tell , how do you want to talk about this?"
Zhou Huai told Polina and Karen about the current situation in Sakura Country and Kujo Hiroji's plans.
Upon hearing that Kujo Hiroharu intended to sacrifice 130,000 civilians to resurrect Qin Ze, Karen was visibly shocked, while Polina frowned, deep in thought.
After a mont, she finally spoke.
"I never imagined that the price of life's pendulum would be so high."
"At most, it ans the lives of hundreds of thousands of people."
She suddenly chuckled and shook her head.
"If I were Kujo Hiroji, and I obtained such a divine weapon, I would imdiately run to an enemy country to use it."
"Why harm your own people?"
Zhou Huai looked at her strangely: "Your perspective is quite unique."
"But that doesn't seem to be the main point."
Polina's smile returned, and she winked at Zhou Huai.
"I see."
"The Kujo family and the Omiya family are about to go to war. In order to gain stronger fighting power, Kujo Hiroharu is prepared to sacrifice a city to resurrect that so-called 'King of a Hundred Demons'."
"This is indeed the best opportunity for us to take advantage of the chaos and seize control of the life-saving chanism."
She changed the subject and said:
"But the question is, how do we determine which city Kujo Hiroharu will lead the pendulum of life to?"
"Karuizawa, Hakone, Lake Kawaguchi, Kamakura..."
Which of these four cities will he choose?
Polina turned her gaze to Kujou Kazuya, who had been silent the whole ti, and gave him a flirtatious wink.
"Wazai-kun, do you have any leads?"
Kujo Kazuya's face turned red instantly.
Seeing this, Zhou Huai was speechless.
Judging from his useless appearance, Kujo Kazuya is probably a marginal figure in the Kujo family. How could Kujo Hiroji possibly tell him such an important secret?
You might as well rely on a dog on the street than on him.
To everyone's surprise, Kujo Kazuya did not shake his head; instead, he frowned and began to think seriously.
This surprised Zhou Huai sowhat.
After a while, Kujou Kazuya seed to have thought of sothing, and suddenly raised his head, his eyes becoming very certain.
"I think my uncle... will definitely choose Lake Kawaguchi!"
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