Book 11: Chapter 8
“Yeah, it looks occupied.”
Standing from a high spot, I squinted to look at the red building on the other side. It was a very standard rectangular room. The walls were surrounded by a large vacant area of land. There was the rare small room in front. In the rear was a large courtyard. The house was situated on a large flat area of land that protruded upwards ever so slightly. It was surrounded by walls, with paths leading outside from all four directions. Outside were large fields for farming. However, those fields had been left barren for a long time already.
Under normal circumstances, there shouldn’t be somebody in the property after the Moon Fox Tribe was exterminated, but I saw people entering and exiting the property as though they were the owners. They were either wandering mountain bandits occupying this place and declaring it their territory or the land had been given to somebody else. Regardless of what the case was, the place belonged to this fox next to me. A such, I needed to take it back on her behalf.
I tugged on my horse reins and told the messenger next to me, “Prepare the army. Prepare to attack. Don’t use cannons. Minimise damage to the building.”
The messenger nodded. Ling Yue grabbed him as he went to leave. She squinted and looked over in the direction of the building. She timidly said, “The panthers… are the ones occupying it…”
“Marvel’s family?”
I paused. I then looked at her hand grabbing onto the messenger. The messenger awkwardly stopped in place. He looked at me to plead for my help. I sighed, “What’s wrong, Ling Yue? Are you going soft just because it’s Marvel’s family? Don’t forget that it’s your home, and they’re occupying it!”
“But even so, I don’t want to kill any more of his family members… Haven’t we already won…? If we’ve already won, you don’t need to kill the people inside, either, right?”
I nodded and answered, “You’re right. Of course, if you can get them to come out on their own accord, then I’d be very glad, too. After all, I don’t want to have losses of my own. What, you want to convince them to surrender? Do you think that Marvel’s people would surrender to us humans, though?”