Their commission was suspicious.

"That's outrageous!" Mine punched Tatsumi directly.

"I'm the boss, and you're the subordinate. Subordinates aren't allowed to talk back to their superiors!" Mine said, arms crossed.

Although Mine doesn't have breasts.

It has to be said that this is a sad fact.

“Even if he’s a boss, isn’t he just a temporary boss?” Tatsumi retorted.

"Hmm? What are they talking about over there?" Tatsumi was about to say something when he noticed that a number of people were heading in one direction, which piqued his curiosity.

“It must be a public execution. This is a common occurrence in the capital.” Mine was not surprised at all, but since Tatsumi knew nothing about it, Mine took Tatsumi to take a look as well.

"This...this is too much!" Tatsumi's eyes widened as he looked at the people groaning in pain as they were nailed to the cross.

In reality, if the raiders are killed during the assassination mission, the punishment could be far more severe; for example, it's not impossible that they might simply have their heads severed and impaled on a spike.

"Hey, isn't that Mine and Tatsumi?" A familiar voice rang out, attracting their attention.

"Oh, it's Lolo. What are you doing here?" Tatsumi turned his head and saw Chen Luo standing near the execution platform.

"Just passing by, but this reminds me of what happened a few days ago. I encountered a similar situation and rescued these people. I think those hanging on the crosses were revolutionaries." Chen Luo looked up at the people hanging on the crosses and said.

In Beijing, the public executions seem to all involve hanging people on crosses and nailing them to them. This was the method a few days ago, and it's still happening now.

"Hey, hey, hey, no way, you don't mean you're planning to rescue these people too, do you? You'd better wait until we leave before you do, otherwise all the few people we managed to get out to gather intelligence will be wiped out," Mine quickly said.

Main was relatively friendly towards Chen Luo, her partner with whom she had initially reached a cooperation agreement, but she did not want to be unable to shop openly in the capital in the future.

"Don't worry, I have special rescue skills. Look at the time I rescued that group of revolutionaries, and they haven't posted any arrest warrants for me yet, have they?" Chen Luo said.

"Right, why weren't you wanted for saving the Revolutionary Army last time?" Mine was taken aback when she thought of this.

“I already said this is a special rescue technique,” ​​Chen Luo said.

"This will not be passed on to outsiders, and even if it were, you wouldn't know how to use it," Chen Luo added.

"But speaking of which, Tatsumi, have you started following Mine now?" Chen Luo looked at Tatsumi and Mine with some curiosity.

“Well, the thing is, you introduced three people to our organization, right? We don’t have many people in our organization right now, so we need to find someone to train these newcomers. At first, the three newcomers were all with Akame, but after they went through some training, they started to be assigned their own mentors,” Mine explained.

“Iyeas will follow Lubbock, Tatsumi will follow me, and Sayo will follow Hill,” Mine announced the assignment list.

"What kind of strange allocation list is this? Why were they chosen like this?" Chen Luo wondered.

"It seems that Ieyas followed Lubbock because neither of them is very serious and they sometimes look like playboys, so the two of them are birds of a feather, and the boss assigned Ieyas to Lubbock," Tatsumi explained from the side.

"As for Sayo, it seems the Boss wants to pair her with Sheele. Because Sayo possesses a long-range sniping Teigu, a melee fighter paired with a ranged attacker would be a very suitable team composition," Mine said.

However, Mine was still a little unhappy when she got to this point, since Hill was originally Mine's partner.

"Speaking of the elven bow that Sayo has, Sayo said that you gave it to her, right?" Tatsumi looked at Chen Luo with curiosity.

"Ah, this was indeed given to me." Chen Luo nodded directly, without denying it.

Chen Luo only told Sha You not to tell anyone about the bar incident, but he never said not to tell anyone about the Elf Bow.

Anyway, the matter of the Elf Bow isn't something worth keeping secret, so let's just talk about it.

"However, it's worth mentioning that it's not an Imperial Arms, but a special item from Gensokyo. Only those who can manipulate wind elemental power can perfectly unleash the true power of that item, but Sayo obviously can't. So if Sayo wants to carry out an assassination, she should choose a situation where one hit is enough to kill. Otherwise, if the first hit doesn't kill anyone, the second hit will hardly have the same effect as the first, unless there is a strong wind to enhance it."

Chen Luo had also considered having Sayo learn wind elemental magic, but magic might not be compatible between different worlds. So Chen Luo was thinking of equipping Sayo with a simple wind attribute Teigu after he obtained the method for making Teigu.

"This thing must be extremely valuable, right?" Tatsumi said with a look of envy.

"It's not exactly valuable, but I happen to lack any special sword-shaped items, though I do have a gun."

If Chen Luo remembered correctly, Iyeas was using a gun.

The gun here refers to the demon-slaying spear that Chen Luo received as compensation from the church.

"But now is not the time to talk about that."

“That’s true. By the way, Lolo, who’s this little kid next to you?” Tatsumi asked, looking at a long-haired child next to Chen Luo with curiosity.

"He's just a little kid who's never experienced the harsh realities of life. Let him experience what the real capital city is like today while we have some free time," Chen Luo said, glancing at the child standing next to him.

"Is she also from the countryside? She must also be someone who longs for the capital. It's just a pity that once she gets to the capital, she will find that the real capital is completely different from the capital she imagined," Mine said.

"..." The young emperor glanced at Mine before turning his gaze back to the person being executed.

"Why doesn't he speak? And this little kid seems quite arrogant," Mine said, stroking her chin.

"He has temporarily lost his ability to speak due to certain special reasons, which is why he can't talk. As for why he seems a bit arrogant? It's probably because, in a sense, he's the foolish son of a wealthy landlord. His family is quite rich," Chen Luo said after glancing at the little emperor.

Whether the young emperor's father was a genuine landlord is debatable, but the entire country belonged to the late emperor, so calling him a landlord wouldn't be a problem.

As for whether the young emperor is stupid or not... at least compared to the late emperor, the young emperor is certainly not much more shrewd or capable.

Taking the young emperor directly to the capital and letting him see what the capital is really like is far more effective than spending a lot of time advising him.

Although Chen Luo wouldn't offer any advice at all.

This is one of the reasons why Chen Luo kicked down the young emperor's door and kidnapped him to the capital.

To ensure the young emperor becomes a good ruler, simply turning him into a puppet is insufficient; he must also experience the hardships of ordinary people.

"Could it be that his father is the village chief or some higher official?" Mine asked curiously, looking at the young emperor.

"Well, perhaps his status is a little higher than you imagine. But he really doesn't know much about the capital. So, are you interested in letting this little brat experience the harsh realities of society? Let him understand the cruelty of the capital?" Chen Luo asked.

"Oh? To make him understand the cruelty of the capital? Hmph, then let me do it!" Mine looked at the young emperor, her eyes full of interest.

In the eyes of us Night Raid assassins, what good is your high status? No matter how high your status is, is it higher than a minister? We dare to kill even ministers!

Although we haven't managed to kill them yet...

In short, it's enough to let you understand what it means to be brutally beaten by society!

Chapter 897 Cute boys can breed perverts

Rescuing people was something Chen Luo was quite skilled at. He could drive away all the passersby, beat up all the officers guarding the executioners, and heal all the rescued people. Then there would be no problem at all.

However, Chen Luo wasn't sure what to do with the people he rescued, so he could only let them hide at Arya's house for a while.

Sigh, what was originally a den of thieves has now become a good place to shelter those with a conscience. This can be considered as them accumulating some good karma.

Arya and her family would surely be comforted if they knew this from beyond the grave...

Oh no, there's no one in the underworld. It seems the souls of this family are all in the soul lamp. So it's alright.

Saving someone and then ignoring them makes no difference to not saving them at all; you should help them to the very end and see them through to the end.

As for the soldiers who were stormed at the execution ground and stood there dumbfounded, forgetting even what their rescuers looked like, Chen Luo no longer cared about their fate.

At worst, they can just die and be resurrected. Chen Luo couldn't possibly bring all these soldiers, whose good or bad intentions we don't know, to Arya's house.

Arya's house is indeed very large and can accommodate all these people, but who knows if these soldiers will fight with those conscience-based officials?

……

"Hey, kid, help carry this. What are you standing there for? Don't you know you should help girls with their luggage when you're shopping? Someone as clumsy as you, how are you going to survive in Beijing? I'm worried about you."

"Little brat" is Mine's temporary nickname for the young emperor.

Both "Little Emperor" and "Little Kid" have the surname "Xiao" (meaning "little"), so there's absolutely no problem with them.

Well, the main reason is that Chen Luo hasn't told Mine the little emperor's real name yet, so he just lets Mine choose any name she wants.

And Mine lived up to expectations by giving the young emperor a name that sounded like a little kid.

Although this result almost made Chen Luo lose his composure, it wasn't a big problem since it wasn't his own little kid.

The young emperor had no room or power to refute, even though he had been deceived by his ministers. Those wrongdoings could not be completely erased simply because of the word "deceived".

So the young emperor still has to suffer the punishment he deserves.

As for the young emperor's opinion? Sorry, after being temporarily stripped of his right to speak by Chen Luo, the young emperor has absolutely no right to resist.

One kind of puppet is another kind of puppet. The little emperor's puppet is one where everything except control of the body belongs to him, and he has the ability to think independently. However, because he was stripped of control of his body and Chen Luo gave Mine considerable authority, the little emperor can only obey Mine's orders now.

"Why are you dawdling so slowly? Sigh, a kid your age should be full of energy, but you look so listless. And Luo Luo, you don't need to follow me around all the time. Don't worry, I'll make sure he gets a good beating in the capital."

"Hmm, do you have any money with you? Getting scammed is a major part of the capital's scam culture. After all, there are always some naive outsiders whose first experience of being scammed in the capital is being cheated out of money, and they do it willingly. The capital is full of tricks," Mine sighed.

“Hey, Mine, I have reason to suspect you’re deliberately trying to mock me,” Tatsumi said, displeased.

"Idiot, don't interrupt."

"Well, even if you can't speak up, you shouldn't cheat children out of their money."

"Just kidding. In the capital, children's money is the easiest to swindle, especially from a country bumpkin like him, the silly son of a landlord. But never mind, he was entrusted to me by Lala after all, so let's skip the money-swindling part."

"You shouldn't have cheated him out of money in the first place. Look at him, he can't even speak. How can you bear to cheat a child who has lost the ability to speak?"

“That makes sense.” Mine nodded.

"Then come and give me a back massage. After all, Lolo asked me to give him a good beating, so I can't let Lolo down." Mine, sitting on a chair in an open-air restaurant, instructed the little emperor.

The young emperor looked puzzled.

"No way, you can't even give a back massage? You're really just a rich man's stupid son. Tatsumi, show him how."

"..." Upon realizing that the matter had affected him as well, Tatsumi instantly lost his sympathy for the young emperor, because he was now in the same boat.

“I’m telling you, Mine, I asked you to let him experience the beatings of the capital, not to let him experience beatings from you. And I advise you to be nicer to him,” Chen Luo, who had been sitting silently to the side, whispered.

According to Chen Luo's plan, after the empire is reborn, all those who participated in the Night Raid will be exonerated.

It doesn't matter what happens to the others during the night raid; what matters is that Mine will eventually fall into the hands of the young emperor.

Let me tell you, if you keep mocking your future boss like this, you'll get the short end of the stick.

"Why should I be nice to him? I'm letting him experience what the customs and culture of the capital are like. The capital is such a heartless place. The weak have no human rights in the capital. You either have to be rich or powerful, otherwise you'll be bullied like this little kid. Besides, I'm just letting him carry things and massage his back. If he really came to the capital alone, he might have his legs broken and be sold to a beggar gang to beg on the streets, or even directly sold to rich merchants."

“But he’s a boy!” Tatsumi exclaimed in surprise.

"What's wrong with boys? Those perverted tycoons and high-ranking officials have interests beyond your imagination. On the contrary, cute boys are more likely to be popular than girls." Mine gave Tatsumi, whose thinking was outdated, a disdainful look.

“You don’t understand what a man is at all.” Tatsumi remained skeptical.

Tatsumi found it hard to believe that there really were men in this world with such outrageous interests.

"Ha, you have no idea what the capital city is like." Mine sneered.

"Anyway, I don't care. After all, it's not me who's being bossed around now. Just don't regret it later, Mine. I told you, this little brat still has a slightly higher status." Chen Luo picked up his teacup, took a sip of tea, and said.

Such rare moments of leisure are indeed quite uncommon for Chen Luo.

"Hmph, I'm not afraid of him. I'm neither an official nor a businessman. What does his high status have to do with me? Besides, if he really had a high status, why doesn't he go and kill the minister? Kill that Ernest who made the entire capital corrupt and even the people miserable? He can't even kill a minister, so don't talk about his high status in front of me." Mine's words were filled with extreme contempt and murderous intent towards Minister Ernest.

"..." Since Mine has said so, Chen Luo is too lazy to persuade her anymore.

In theory, as long as the little emperor is turned into a puppet, this world and this empire will be reborn.

It was precisely because the young emperor obeyed Ernest's every word that General Bud didn't harm him. If the young emperor had simply told the general to kill Ernest, Ernest would certainly not have survived the next day.

Although Ernest does possess an Imperial Arm that can destroy other Imperial Arms, the Great Shogun is not a strongman who fights solely with his Imperial Arms.

Even without her Imperial Arms, she could still beat up ministers. Moreover, General Budo commands the Royal Guard, which Esdeath considers the only elite force comparable to her own army.

In the eyes of military generals who control the armed forces, civil officials are sometimes so weak that, with just one order from the young emperor, a minister can single-handedly kill tens of thousands of well-equipped and highly skilled guards.

He's not Esdeath.

So in a practical sense, the young emperor really could defeat Ernest.

However, Chen Luo felt that it would be too easy for those corrupt officials who had exploited the capital for countless years to die like this, so he planned to make them work themselves to death hundreds of times before throwing them into the soul lamp.

"Hmm, Chen Luo, why is your little brat so excited? He's putting a lot more force into pounding my back now, though he's still so weak and powerless." Mine glanced curiously at the little emperor standing behind her, pounding her back.

"Who knows? Maybe he's just resentful of your beatings. After all, it's normal for a landlord's foolish son to have never served anyone before, isn't it?"

“That’s true.” Mine nodded, then contentedly began to enjoy the little emperor’s back massage.

However, the young emperor was probably so angry because Mine had spoken ill of Ernest.

Although he had spent some time on the streets of the capital and had witnessed people being publicly executed, the young emperor's trust in his ministers had indeed become too strong. More facts were needed to bring the young emperor to his senses.

When the young emperor is in a state of uncertainty, tell him that the late emperor and his mother whom he admires were poisoned to death by Ernest. This will be a decisive blow.

Chen Luo actually quite enjoyed the young emperor's current impotent rage, which led him to increase the intensity of his back-pounding. This was one of Chen Luo's few quirky pleasures, because it was genuinely quite amusing.

And most importantly, the one who was wrong was the young emperor, not Mine.