Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Doesn’t Want to Become a Night City Legend

Chapter 327 Past
Caesar Gattuso's life was like that of the male protagonist in an urban idol drama.

He was extremely wealthy and exceptionally gifted.

But precisely because of this, the blood sorrow he experiences far surpasses that of ordinary mixed-race individuals.

Objects that are not on the same level cannot catch his eye, and those that are not 'unexpected' cannot attract his attention.

In his life, only a handful of people left their mark.

Chu Zihang was a worthy opponent for him. The two were extremely incompatible, completely opposite sides. But it was precisely because of this that they were able to objectively and even harshly examine each other, pointing out each other's shortcomings. In his anger and frustration, Caesar had to admit that meeting Chu Zihang was his good fortune.

Nuonuo was the woman he liked because she was unconventional and unpredictable. On their first meeting, it was Nuonuo who figured him out.

His accumulated knowledge and skills are beyond his reach, which is why he is so engrossed in them.

Even though he vaguely sensed it.

It's highly likely that Nono met him through an arrangement made by his own family.

Even though he knew that he held a special place in the family, and that his marriage to Nono was the result the family had hoped for.

However, he still decided to follow his heart and pursue Nono.

And in the end, it was Lu Mingfei.

Initially, Caesar didn't really take it to heart.

My first encounter with Lu Mingfei was during a practice game at the academy.

At that time, Caesar was playing chess with Chu Zihang. Both of them had staked their most precious possessions on it. It was a battle of kings, and they were determined to determine the superiority of the student council and the Lionheart Society.

The student council, represented by Caesar, is an organization that has risen in the new era and symbolizes the powerful influence of the board of trustees.

The Lionheart Society, represented by Chu Zihang, is the predecessor of the Dragon Slaying Organization, which has been passed down for a long time. It symbolizes armed forces and the perseverance that has not yet faded away.

Looking back now, perhaps the location where the two were at that time already hinted at something.

In short, it was the first time that Caesar had met Lu Mingfei. Before that, he had only seen the boy in the information. The timid, ordinary, weak, lonely and sad dead kid in Nuonuo's words stood in front of him and Chu Zihang and pulled out a gun in front of the two strongest students in the academy.

"A gun is faster than a spear from seven paces away, and a fist is faster than a fist from seven paces away"—this saying holds true for hybrids, but for Caesar, with his superb observation and perception, even the most experienced battlefield king could not possibly hit Caesar head-on in such a straightforward manner.

Moreover, at that time, Lu Mingfei simply raised his arm, and the way he held up the sniper rifle with one hand was both comical and terrifying.

You can dodge it, but you can't completely avoid it.

My feet stopped as if I had been pricked with a needle.

Both he and Chu Zihang were eliminated after being hit by Lu Mingfei.

That was the first time Caesar met Lu Mingfei, and then at a banquet he organized.

At that time, although Caesar was somewhat dissatisfied with the way Lu Mingfei won, he still affirmed Lu Mingfei's talent and intended to further confirm what kind of person he was and why he could be called an [S]-level.

However, at that banquet, Caesar only saw a mortal.

An ordinary, even cowardly, man could only barely hold his head high with the support of his woman and brother, and after a few seconds of eye contact, he would wilted again.

For a long time, Caesar only regarded Lu Mingfei as a little lunatic who needed to be taken care of. After all, having talent but not using it was the same as not having talent at all.

He believed he had protected him time and time again, and the two had formed a bond of life and death because of certain events.

When he came to his senses, he already considered Lu Mingfei a brother. Entrusting the student council and ballet troupe, which he valued most, to Lu Mingfei was a trust that Caesar was unwilling to express openly. He let that good-for-nothing kid become the student council president, while he himself tried to confront the darkness he vaguely sensed in the school board.

During that time, Caesar went from doubt to certainty. He knew that Lu Mingfei was a monster, and a monster powerful enough to overturn the world. Many of his proud achievements and accomplishments were the work of this young man.

He gave all of that to himself, while Lu Mingfei hid away, clearly liking Nuonuo but not daring to make a move.

That cowardly, incompetent little brother, yet someone I couldn't let go of.

and so--

In the end, it was this younger brother who saved the world.

That was the first time.

Caesar raised a finger, a look of reminiscence in his eyes.

In that timeline, Lu Mingfei hadn't experienced the cyberpunk revolution; he was just a loser, struggling to save his companions, looked down upon, hated, and despised by everyone.

[He's a loser, fawning over his female classmates and his senior classmates, secretly burning his bridges behind everyone's back, like a hapless bear causing trouble wherever he goes, unable even to save the girl who likes him.]

Caesar simply revealed the "secret" that Lu Mingfei knew.

"demon."

"You can make a deal with a demon named Lu Mingze, right? The true nature of that being is unknown, but it can be determined that it is a being related to the Black King. In the original timeline, you completed four deals, but lost Lu Mingze in the fourth one."

"Not only that, although you made the deal four times, each deal was only a temporary reprieve. You were always unable to save the people you should have saved. You were always a little late. It wasn't your fault, but it was indeed the reason that drove you to despair."

"In the end, you became a lonely king."

"You feel that you can't overturn everything up to now, but someone—hehe, that is, me—shamelessly tells you to get back everything you've lost, and thus the key to reincarnation is unlocked."

"On the throne," Caesar said slowly.

"The second timeline, that's my memory. Actually, my relationship with you is pretty good. Just like now, you call me boss, and I call you little brother. Although I look down on the you who pretends to be a loser, I still acknowledged you because of a few coincidences during the mission."

"You are much better in the second timeline than in the first. Perhaps you have a remnant body with the memories of the first timeline. Although you are not as good as you are now, you are more hardworking. You even saved Erii and the Genji brothers."

In this timeline, Lu Mingfei used the exchange method with bronze and fire, earth and mountains, and the White King, so he used it faster than the current Lu Mingfei.

It was at this moment that Lu Mingfei from the previous timeline recalled that his choice to make the deal was to wear down Lu Mingze's existence, until in the end, he would lose his younger brother forever.

Lu Mingfei was unwilling to make the exchange, but he dared not tell his companions about it until they found out.

Caesar was initially angry, until he realized that Lu Mingze held extraordinary significance for Lu Mingfei.

"It was Chu Zihang who said, 'The responsibility of saving the world should never have been entrusted to Lu Mingfei alone.'"

“I am ashamed of my anger, and I feel that Chu Zihang is right. With everyone working together, we managed to kill Odin without you exchanging anything.”

"Raise your head," Caesar said nostalgically.

"It was a great victory, a resounding one, a victory that seemed to only happen in Weekly Shonen Jump, full of friendship, love, and passion."

"Everyone thought that was the end of the story."

“Until the Black King arrives.”

(End of this chapter)