Chapter 874 Do You Take Me For A Fool (Part 2)


    Leopold sat in front of ric with a calm look on his face. Both of them were sitting on the ground under the shade of a willow tree and there was a small tea table between them.


    Haruto, the fox with eight tails, poured tea for both of them and stood silently behind ric.


    Leopold held the teacup and took a light sip, nodding his head in satisfaction when he found the taste of the tea quite good.


    ric also took a sip of the tea and nodded his head in satisfaction.


    "So, why are you here?" He asked while looking at Leopold and the man in ck clothes who was standing behind him.


    Leopold ced his teacup on the table and instead of answering the question, he looked sideways at the pond where a beautiful woman with short red hair and ck eyes was sitting, looking at the fishes with a bored expression.


    "Before I tell you my reason foring here, do you mind telling me who she is?" Although the aura around the red-haired woman was very calm and Leopold felt she was quite weakpared to him, his instincts told him that she wasn''t normal.


    ric nced at Anastasia, who had changed her appearance and took another sip of his tea.


    "You don''t need to mind her. She is the subordinate of one of the governors of my forest and came here to help me with some matters rted to the Dark Forest."


    Anastasia rolled her eyes upon hearing ric call her a subordinate of one of his governors but didn''t say anything. She nced at Leopold from the corner of her eyes but soon lost interest because even though he was a Rank Five Core Evolver, she could tell that he wasn''t specialized in fighting and was more like a rich businessman.


    "You allowed her to enter your hidden realm without taking any security measures against her..." Leopold said while looking at ric with a small smile on his face.


    He knew that ric was a very cautious individual, and even now, the person sitting in front of him was just a fake projection instead of his real body. Before allowing him to enter the hidden realm, ric asked him and his subordinate to leave their weapons and storage rings outside.


    But when he saw Anastasia, he immediately noticed she still had her storage ring and more importantly, from her expression, he could tell that she did not care about what ric was saying one bit, which was quite strange considering she was practically working under him.


    "I thought with your cowardly personality you would never allow anyone to enter your hidden realm with their weapons and storage ring," Leopold remarked.


    ric sipped his tea hearing Leopold and looked at him calmly. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om


    "I think you''ve got something wrong, Leopold," He said in a in voice while cing the teacup on the table. "Even if I allow you to enter my secret realm with your weapons, I can still kill you easily because you are too weak."


    "You—" The person in ck clothes who was standing behind Leopold was angry when he heard ric and wanted to say something, but his words got stuck in his mouth when a world-crushing pressure fell down on his body, forcing him to kneel on the ground.


    "I advise you to keep your dog on a leash. I am an old man and I don''t like undisciplined people," ric said in the same tone as before and the pressure the man in ck clothes was feeling disappeared. The man panted heavily with cold sweat pouring down his forehead and he looked at ric with a wary expression.


    Leopold didn''t nce at his subordinate and looked at ric without any expression on his face. Although he wasn''t showing any emotion, he clearly understood that ric was telling him to mind his own business and that he didn''t need to tell him what he could or couldn''t do.


    ''He is more aggressive than usual,'' Leopold thought inwardly. He had provoked ric in the past, but most of the time, ricpletely ignored his provoking and didn''t care about it too much. However, earlier when he called him a coward (which he usually does whenever he meets him), ric was quite angry.


    ''Don''t tell me he was angry because I called him a coward in front of her,'' He thought and nced at Anastasia who was looking at the pond whilepletely ignoring them.


    ''Is he trying to impress her?''


    Leopold looked at ric strangely and felt this old man was trying to eat young grass. Though, he didn''t know the young grass he was thinking about was as old as the world itself.


    If ric knew what Leopold was thinking, he would have definitely broken his third leg. The reason he was annoyed when Leopold called him a coward was because for the past few days, Anastasia was also calling him a coward for staying in this hidden realm most of the time, and he was fed up with being called a coward.


    He wasn''t a coward; he was just a pacifist who didn''t like fighting and needless troubles.


    "So, care to exin why you are here?" ric felt the way Leopold was looking at him was quite strange, but he decided to ignore it and asked him in a in voice.


    Hearing ric, Leopold stopped thinking about useless things and his expression turned serious. "I am here because of that thief."


    ric raised an eyebrow upon hearing Leopold.


    "You know, you don''t need toe here for such a trivial matter," He said in a calm voice. "My subordinates are still looking for him. I will immediately inform you the moment I find any clues about him."


    Leopold took a deep breath upon hearing ric and clenched his fist. "ric, do you take me for a fool?"


    "What do you mean?"


    Leopold didn''t say anything and looked at the man in ck clothes. Seeing his master''s gaze, the man in ck clothes took out a few papers from his pocket and ced them in front of ric.


    ric nced at Leopold, who signalled him to look at the papers. ric picked up the papers from the table and looked at them and upon looking at them his eyes narrowed.


    "This—"