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

Chapter 76: Angers: Don’t say anything that is detrimental to unity

Just as Lu Mingfei guessed.

Finger is indeed the so-called "Bull Slayer of Fire", and he appeared in cyberspace because he had some relationship with the AI ​​named Norma.
Not only that, he had even begun to pay attention to a person named Lu Mingfei.

He was ordered by the school leaders to monitor Lu Mingfei, an S-level person. The reason why he chose Finkel was not only because this man was used to dealing with people, but also because he had the ability that the school leaders trusted.

According to the original script, Lu Mingfei would not have been able to discover Finkel's problem - but now it is obviously not the case.

Lu Mingfei has changed, and the change is fucking huge.

Finkel was sure that the other party was already wary of him.

This is going to be difficult~~~~
Finkel himself didn't care.

Rather, he was deliberately using this clumsy way to remind Lu Mingfei.

Why?

Kassel

【Secret Party】

【School Board】

No one knows whose interests he stands on.

Two men, each with their own agenda, turned their backs on each other, waiting for time to pass quietly.
After the initial alert, Lu Mingfei relaxed his body.

——There’s no point in thinking about it.

If the other party doesn't want to reveal his true self, then there's no need to go deeper. Deliberately revealing a flaw to me is either a test or a gesture of goodwill.

Neither side will take action immediately.

Lu Mingfei recalled the common sense about negotiation that he had learned in Night City.

Then he closed his eyes completely.

In short, when you encounter difficulties, sleep well.

[Woo————————]

Lu Mingfei opened his eyes.

He heard bells and a train whistle and woke from his light sleep.

"Um"

Finkel also got up from the ground a little later. The two looked in the direction of the sound and saw a train just entering the station. The light of its headlights flashed on the platform. At two o'clock in the morning, on a night without overtime trains, the CC1000 express train arrived at the station.

This almost supernatural phenomenon did not wake up the guards at the train station or anyone else. Finkel nodded to Lu Mingfei, and Lu Mingfei confirmed the identity of this train.

The high-speed train stopped on the tracks, its headlights blazing. Its streamlined black body, with dazzling silver-white vine patterns woven across the black paint, was as gorgeous as a work of art.

Immediately, the car door slid open.

Lu Mingfei saw a strange figure.

He originally thought that if there was anyone waiting to pick him up on this train, it would be Professor Guderian.

But at this moment, the old man who appeared in front of Lu Mingfei
He was tall and slender, his back always straight. He walked towards him with a steady and powerful step, and his every move showed elegance and grace. The lights from the train that was slowly stopping behind him flickered, shining through the single-layer window onto him, making his white hair look like it was coated with a layer of gold.

The iconic black suit and the white silk handkerchief sticking out from the pocket of his jacket reminded Lu Mingfei of his equally flamboyant younger brother.

But if Lu Mingze is a handsome young man, then the one in front of him is a very handsome old man!

[Currently available information]

【Hilbert Jean Angers】

In a nutshell—the current pillar of the mixed-blood race. He appears to be a stylish old man with excellent demeanor and temperament, but in essence he is an out-and-out war fanatic.

Born in Yorkshire, England, but spent the most important years of his life in Germany. In Ange's time, the dragon race was still dormant, while the mixed-race races flourished at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Mixed-bloods from all over the world gathered together because of a certain existence, but their ending was not unity. Instead, they died in a grand funeral, and the only one left was Ange.

He is the most outstanding dragon slayer of this era, and one could even say that he is the only man worthy of the title of 'dragon slayer'. Fortunately, he is also an educator on the side, so you, brother, might be able to learn a lot from him.

Only one tenth of Lu Mingfei's attention was focused on the words.

To be honest, if other people's [Information Panel] is to help Lu Mingfei understand them, then it is a bit superfluous for Ange.

Even without those boastful words, Lu Mingfei could already feel it.
"first meet."

In reality, the old man smiled and raised his hand towards the boy.

The slipped cuffs allowed Lu Mingfei to clearly see the deep muscle lines on the other person's forearm. Just the movement of raising his hand made people feel a heavy sense of oppression.

If he had never been to Night City, if he didn't know the essence of combat, if he had never walked on the edge of life and death, he wouldn't be able to feel it so intuitively.
Fingel's previous experience made Lu Mingfei unable to help but use [Electric Current Drive] to scan.

turn out--

[Prosthetic modification rate: 0%]

However, feeling the inhuman oppression from the old man, Lu Mingfei was not at all relieved.

"My name is Hilbert Jean Angers, and I will be your principal for the next four years of your life on campus."

Ange smiled gentlemanly, his eyes revealing undisguised enthusiasm.

"I really can't help but meet you again at school, Lu Mingfei."

"Welcome to Kassel."
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[Whoosh——] The train sped through the dark night.

The carriage is in an elegant European style, with the walls decorated with Victorian-style patterned wallpaper, the portholes wrapped in solid wood, and the dark green leather sofas embroidered with gold threads. There is no detail that is not exquisite.

Lu Mingfei and Finkel both changed into the Kassel Academy uniforms: white shirts, dark green suits with silver trim, dark rose-red scarves, and the Kassel Academy's World Tree emblem embroidered on the chest pocket. Although the academy's tailor had never measured his body, he made the clothes fit him perfectly. Lu Mingfei turned up his cuffs and saw the name embroidered in dark green thread inside: Ricardo M.Lu.

He didn't know where this English name came from, maybe Caesar helped?

Lu Mingfei looked up at the mirror in the dressing room again.

In the mirror, the boy had dark brown hair, dark eyes, delicate eyebrows, and slightly drooping eyes.

With his tall and straight figure, he actually looks quite handsome.

Lu Mingfei took a deep breath and walked out of the changing room on the train.

"Junior brother! Very handsome!"

As soon as he opened the connecting door between the carriages, he received an enthusiastic thumbs-up from his useless senior brother Finkel.

At this moment, he was half-facing his back to Lu Mingfei. Inside the train, there was an oak table on which a white porcelain plate had been placed. In one hand, Finkel was holding a crispy and delicious-looking German roast pork knuckle.

With his other arm resting on the cushion behind him and his neck twisted, Finkel scanned Lu Mingfei's body, smacked his lips, and sighed, "It reminds me of when I first entered school. I was also so high-spirited."

Unfortunately, before Finkel could get a response from Lu Mingfei, he was interrupted by the person next to him.

"You were indeed full of energy at that time, but you were a little too excited and couldn't calm down."

Sitting across the table from Finkel, Ange crossed his arms and smiled.

"And you, Mingfei, I don't know you well enough, but at least you did an excellent job in the operation on the plane."

The action on the plane, of course, refers to the heroic feat of Lu Mingfei and Caesar who jointly saved the entire passenger plane. To be honest, if there was no Lu Mingfei, Caesar alone would probably only be able to make the plane land with difficulty, but it would definitely not be able to glide smoothly.

There was a high probability that the cabin would roll over, and in that case, any one in ten survivors would be considered lucky.

"You did very well."

Ange's praise did not seem insincere. Faced with the old man's serious attitude, Lu Mingfei was unexpectedly flattered.

why?

This doesn't seem to be the first time.

Lu Mingfei suddenly thought of it.

When he first met David, he had a similar feeling, an inexplicable sense of closeness - and Ange gave him an even stronger feeling.

No, it's not just these two people.

There are also Fingel, Caesar, even Chen Motong and Guderian. Lu Mingfei seems to be more relaxed with them than with his classmates at Shilan Middle School.

So, what they have in common is
"Have you been waiting for a long time?"

The voice that came to his ears was a little gentler than expected, causing Lu Mingfei to pause subconsciously.

He looked at Ange, and Ange looked at Lu Mingfei with a gentle look, as if he could see through Lu Mingfei's doubts.

He uttered a word.

"Blood Mourning."

"Hybrids are born with a special bloodline. This identity, somewhere between humans and dragons, leaves them vulnerable to more or less rejection. It's difficult for them to fully integrate into human society, and they're fundamentally different from true dragons."

Ange began to explain. His voice was steady and slow, attractive enough to listen to. Perhaps it was true as he said, that he was an excellent educator.

The acceptance in his eyes made Lu Mingfei sure that Ange had similar feelings to him.

"The higher the level, the higher the concentration of Bloodsorrow. This loneliness is as vast as the glaciers in the permafrost outside, piling higher and higher in the snow and wind year after year, never melting, becoming taller and steeper, and sharper and sharper. But one day, when the weight of loneliness exceeds the limit, it will collapse, and the avalanche will engulf the entire world."

Bloodline?
In this world, bloodline seems to determine a hybrid's abilities.

Speaking of this, Lu Mingfei suddenly remembered today's plane crash.

In that accident, it was not only himself who saved the plane at the last moment, but also someone who could move in 'slowed' time and space.

Faster than myself, faster than David—

that person.
"I'm glad I found you before then."

Ange looked at Lu Mingfei and suddenly smiled from the bottom of his heart.

Looking at the old man's affectionate eyes, Lu Mingfei twitched the corners of his mouth a few times, and then spoke with the same serious expression -

"headmaster."

"Yeah." He raised his head and encouraged Lu Mingfei to continue.

So Lu Mingfei took a deep breath.

"Don't you think the Blood Sorrow setting is a bit too Chuunibyou? I think I'm just too socially inept to make friends. Is it the same for you guys?"

"."

Ange hugged his chest, leaned back, closed his eyes, and spoke gently.

“Don’t say anything that is not conducive to unity.”

(End of this chapter)