Chapter 160 - 157: Call
Kei understood completely what the Old Master was thinking at. However, their questions remain the same what will the son of Akasaka Group use Li Lian as? Though Ryouma Clan has been the highest of all clans, they are smaller compare to Akasaka who had took well control of Tokyo.
Just then a knock resounded from the door but it didn’t surprise both Kei and the Old Master as they had heard the slow sound of footsteps in the wooden floor.
"Come in." said the Old Master as Kei helped him to bring aside the tray of food to the table beside the bed.
A young man in his late twenties appeared from the sliding door. Black straight hair with two locks of hair framing his face and with most of his hair parted to his right side. A smile appeared on his face but his brown eyes was dimmed and dark in a sense that make him seemed to be an eerie person. Under his short sleeve black shirt, a tattoo of maple leaves covered both his arms starting from his shoulder to end on his wrist.
"Soma." called Kei when he saw the young man.
"Senior Kei, Master." Soma greeted to kneel down at the wooden floor for a bow.
The Old Master look first at Soma. It had been about six years since he met the young man. Like Kei, the Old Master took in Soma when he was still in middle school. Although he had taken in Soma, in fact, it wasn’t him who had taken in the young man but Li Lian.
The Old Master could still remember his battered face when he was first taken by the family and now the young man had completely turn to a handsome and proper man.
"Stand up," The Old Master said when he tried to sit further up from the bed only to be stopped by Kei who gave him a frown of objection. The Old Master sighed and moved back to his position and leaned his back to the headport of the bed. "What make you come this late?" asked the Old Master.
"I apologies for ruining your sleep master. I came to report to Senior Kei and heard that he is in Master’s room and thought it would be better for me to come and directly report to you two." Soma explained with his hardened gaze that had the two know how classified the report was and gave Soma a cue to close the door firmly.
"What is it about?" asked Kei as Soma and him closed the windows in the room.
Soma walked toward the edge of the bed and stood to say, "It is an information relayed from the people of Ryouma Group that stayed in Akasaka Group. It seemed a rumor that the young master of Akasaka Group, Akasaka Harumi had held a meeting with the whole group."