I really didn't want to burn it.

"Senior... this shouldn't be some kind of ritual to summon an evil god, right?"

"It shouldn't be... right?"

Ritsuka found herself unable to answer accurately.

Red A felt a little embarrassed, so he turned his head to the side.

"farce."

Red A commented as follows.

"Perhaps this is Mr. Li Ang's way of relaxing?" Little Angel Mashu tried to think of things in a positive light.

Ritsuka asked in a low voice, "I've been wanting to ask this for a while now. Why was that guy so excited when he heard about Baiyun Mountain? What exactly is Baiyun Mountain?"

"It's hard to say... Back then, my godfather made an agreement with Zhang Liang: Zhang Liang would give up opposing the Qin Dynasty, and Li Ang would give him Baiyun Mountain to cultivate immortality."

Xiang Yu rubbed his chin and guessed, "My adoptive father has always valued that man named Zhang Liang highly, and that's probably why."

Ritsuka frowned slightly.

She had long heard of Zhang Liang, one of the three heroes of the early Han Dynasty.

Moreover, unlike Xiao He, who governed the country, and Han Xin, a military genius, the legend of Zhang Liang is often accompanied by all sorts of mystical and superstitious elements.

Looking at it this way, it's hard to say whether the Holy Grail's presence on Baiyun Mountain was purely a coincidence or due to some other reason.

"Haha."

Ritsuka was deep in thought when she was interrupted by Ying Zheng's loud laughter.

The First Emperor was turning to the side, admiring Li Ang's bizarre movements, and burst into laughter: "Interesting, Li Ang, you always like to come up with new tricks for me."

"Don't look at me! I'm just teaching people to dance, what's so strange about that?"

Li Ang turned around and complained.

"It looks really strange no matter how you look at it."

Ritsuka's eyes turned into crescent shapes, and her lips twitched as she retorted.

"Miss DD, why do you spoil him like this?"

"It's nothing. I will fulfill any request from my master," DD replied calmly, stating the facts.

"Arno... why would you do such a thing, Mr. Leon?"

Curious baby Mashu gave Leon a chance to clarify things.

"Mash, don't you find it boring?"

"Ok?"

"The road ahead is long, and every night there's nothing to do but eat and sleep. Don't you feel empty?"

"We can read books..."

"What kind of book can you read in the dark? Have you forgotten you wear glasses?"

"Why do you know, Mr. Li Ang... Never mind, you won't answer anyway, Mr. Li Ang... So you can choose another dance, right?"

"No pay... cough cough, I just had DD do modern dance to make you feel more at ease, right?"

Ritsuka interjected, "I don't think so at all. And what kind of modern dance is this?"

Leon snapped his fingers: "That guy from Chaldea... don't you think so?"

Romani gave a hesitant reply over the communicator: "Strictly speaking...indeed...probably...should be considered as such."

As a lazy, homebody, Romani Archman certainly knew that Leon was teaching the maid to dance homebody dances.

Otaku dance is indeed a form of modern dance, that's undeniable.

only……

"If possible, I'd prefer Magical☆Merry to dance..."

That would be too much of an eyesore.

"Distress System, don't stop people's dreams."

Li Ang encouraged Romani, saying, "Doctor, as long as you keep supporting your idol, she will respond to you one day."

Romani, who had always been looked down upon by the others in Chaldea, finally found a like-minded friend: "Leon, it seems only you understand me..."

Then the two of them were looked down upon by the other girls present.

"Is this what you call mutual appreciation between perverts?" —by a certain big bitch.

"...It's really terrible." —by a certain pink-haired shield girl.

"Is our Yan state really going to lose to these Qin people?" —by a white-clad assassin.

"Even if you're my master, I hope you have some bottom line." —by the expressionless maid.

"You big bad person, don't talk nonsense here and corrupt my Mashu-chan!" —by the last Master of humanity.

"Hey, Fujimaru Ritsuka-san."

Li Ang leaned closer, revealing a smile that said, "Hey bro, wanna play?"

"what?"

Thinking of what Red A had just said about Stockholm syndrome, Ritsuka instinctively took a step back.

“Well…” Li Ang tempted, “Don’t you think this is a good opportunity?”

"what chance?"

"Let your lovely junior sister experience and learn, so that she can understand that dancing is a great invention of human entertainment."

"You mean..."

"Imagine your cute junior female student jumping around in front of you, doing the same thing DD just did..."

"I don't think Mashu needs to do that."

That being said, it's clear to everyone that Ritsuka doesn't want to let this opportunity slip by.

"This is a necessary part of a child's growth process. You see, don't parents all like to record every little detail of their child's development?"

A ghostly figure with two horns on its head appeared faintly behind Li Ang, constantly tempting Ritsuka.

DD dancing is just a basic reward; how could Li Ang just accept the minimum reward and call it a day?

"Well, senior..."

Mashu, sensing something was wrong, tried to leave, but Ritsuka grabbed her shoulder.

"Mash, come on."

"do not want!"

"With DD leading the way, you're just a backup dancer."

"do not want!"

"Listen to me, senpai, I also want to see the adorable Mashu-chan dance. *slurp*"

"Senior, please wipe your drool off!"

Mashu nodded helplessly as she watched Gudako's condition gradually deteriorate into chaos.

"ok, I get it."

"Really?"

Ritsuka clapped her hands happily.

But before she could even finish being happy for a second, Mashu's next words brought her back to reality.

“You’re coming too, senior. Don’t try to stay out of it.” Mashu grabbed Ritsuka’s shoulder at the same time.

"Very good, that's it."

When Li Ang saw that Mashu was offered a buy-one-get-one-free deal, he immediately agreed.

"No!!"

Ritsuka learned for the first time what it meant to be trapped in one's own web.

"Jing Ke, do you want to come and play too?"

Seeing that three-quarters of the girls in the group had agreed, Li Ang asked the last one.

Jing Ke, her face slightly flushed, pretended not to hear. She looked up at the moon in the night sky, drinking wine and reciting poetry.

"My singing moon wanders, my dancing shadows are scattered."

"Jing Ke."

"We make love together when we are awake, and we separate when we are drunk."

"Hey, Jing Ke."

"We will never travel without love, and we will meet each other in Miao Yunhan."

"Hello, Miss Jing."

"What?"

Jing Ke glared at Li Ang with displeasure.

"Um... I've been wanting to ask this for a while now, why do you, an assassin from the Warring States period, like to recite Tang Dynasty poems?"

"You—have—opinions—?"

Jing Ke asked through gritted teeth.

Unfortunately, Li Ang had already slipped away before Jing Ke uttered his first word.

"Ah."

Ying Zheng chuckled softly.

"You have something to say too?"

Ying Zheng did not answer; he gazed at the bright moon above his head.

Seeing that Ying Zheng ignored him, Jing Ke could only take a sip of wine in frustration.

···

After several days of rapid travel, Li Ang and his group finally arrived in Luoyang.

As Li Ang set foot on the soil of Luoyang, he also received a reward notification from the mourning system.

[Temporary task completed, settlement process underway.]

[The dancers are: DD, Fujimaru Ritsuka, Mash Kyrielight, and the host himself.]

[Obtained: Special Outfit (Female) *3]

[Received: Skill Exchange Ticket *1]

"..."

Li Ang stared at the task settlement pop-up for a long time before he realized what was happening.

When I was teaching a few girls to dance, I think I even danced the "Secretary's Dance" as a demonstration...

"Damage System, you tricked me!"

Hearing Li Ang yelling like that, Mashu asked in a low voice, embarrassed, "Um... Mr. Li Ang, have you realized that we pretended to be confused and made him dance the dance too?"

"Isn't it too late to realize this now?" Ritsuka tilted her head. "Besides, he deserved it."

DD said calmly, "Our master often says that we should lead by example. We are just asking him to put it into practice."

"This is probably what they call being cunning and manipulative..."

Mashu suddenly felt that she was no longer pure.

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P.S.: Consider this a belated Christmas present~ =w=