Trigger warning: if you have triggers, stay out.
For the rest of you, here's the previous episode.
A couple hours later, Fu awoke after he heard a voice in his head.
"Can you
come to help me? Second floor, the door with two guards in front of
it...there's sleeping powder in my stuff, you'll find it in the
hollowed-out bamboo stalk. Make sure to not inhale it!"
Fu put on his beggar outfit, made his hair less kept, and splashed on
his face some alcohol from Black Fox's stash, then started stumbling
towards the guards, mumbling incoherently. One of them warned him to
stop.
"Stop?Me? A-ha-ha! But that's my room!"
"No it's not, you drunken sod!"
"Eh", Fu stumbled towards them and the wall, leaning on it. "Why so rude, man? I was told my room is on the third floor..."
"That's the second floor!"
Fu looked surprised.
"What? No! I counted it right!"
The guard just put the spear down, towards Fu's chest. Fu merely leaned
his hand on the spear, then suddenly stumbled towards the guys, throwing
ample amounts of sleeping powders in their faces!
Drop, drop.
"Ah...shoulda've let me in!", Fu mumbled.
Then he waited for the powder to dissipate, put a cloth over his face,
and entered. There was a big black fox in a magical circle, a wizard who
started saying a spell, and another guard.
Fu rushed by the wizard, then simply put his foot in the circle, and dragged it back across its edge.
"Ah", said the naked Black Fox inside, who'd suddenly turned human. "Now we're gonna fight!"
And he cracked his knuckles.
Fu simply looked at the wizard, and concentrated on the wrongness of
using magic. Surely that spell violated the will of Heavens!
And that's how the spell fizzled and died.
(In game terms, Qi Resistance, Fu's approach).
Fu merely smiled. "Care to try again, magorast?"
It wasn't necessary. Black Fox had removed the guard already (the guy
seldom needs more than a couple strikes, lots of enemies go down to one
of his attacks) and struck the wizard in an acupuncture point, rendering
him mute. Then taking him out was a matter of leisurely applying
pressure to the right spots.
"What happened, Black Fox? And for the grace of Heavens, dress up already!"
The black fox reappeared, jumped out the window, and Black Fox reappeared shortly after.
"Hey, thank you...you really saved my skin in there. I saw them and recognized them, didn't realize they've recognized me, too!"
"I guess they didn't like you. What did you do?"
"Just a chick, and she never mentioned she was going to wed that old guy!", Black Fox pointed at the wizard. "Saved him an unfortunate wedding, I'd say! But I though he'd have forgotten her and remarried..."
"Indeed", Fu agreed, not even bothering to comment on Black Fox's behaviour. "If she didn't say a thing, it was her fault. And he should be happy you did her before the wedding, not after! If she'd allowed her to have your ways with her after the marriage, he'd be wearing horns. Doing it before the marriage, you saved him that unfortunate fate. He should really be grateful you prevented him from getting married to an unfaithful wife! Who's to say she'd only allow that to you?"
"Oh...why didn't I think of this argument, back then?", Black Fox mused. "I'll tell him when he wakes up. Now let's move these two", he pointed at the wizard and the guard. "You'd be interested in the boy..."
"I. Don't. Swing. That. Way!"
"...oh no, I mean he's the brother of that gal you wanted to marry. Or have you reconsidered?"
"She's got a brother?"
"...you don't know a lot about her family, I see."
"We kinda met at a short notice", Fu reminded him. It was Black Fox that introduced them, if "introduced" is the right word.
We pushed them through the portal to the Golden Lotus, and much to Fu's
amazement, Black Fox woke the guy in question up, and told him that the
"missing Emperors" (well, really the Emperor and his half-brother, but
they look basically like twins, so we call them this) are with us and
not dead. The guy obviously started thinking about switching his
allegiances...
But Fu told them good-bye and went away. He had no idea how to impress his possibly-future-brother-in-law, other than by "he works for Black Fox", so he just went to the Beggar's Brotherhood.
I swear, he had every intention to just train calmly to improve his skills!
And concentrating on his footwork, he is really starting to master the use of the staff! Besides, his internal energy keeps improving...
His defence is much weaker, though.
And all of that happened over the course of a day! It was a nice day, a calm one.
"No, it's the knots. Different knots at different places have different meanings..."
She started explaining. Fu decided she just doesn't want to teach him this technique, since he can read anyway, and doesn't need it.
...and then we got summoned to help! Calmly training to improve one's skills would have to wait, again!
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