My wife is the stand-in.

Amidst the rising clouds and mist, a lithe man emerged, his flowing, swirling light truly captivating.

He was greeted by thunderous cheers and the men's triumphant whistling celebrations.

Then Amanosaki put the children down and watched them return to their parents' arms. Behind him, the goddess-like Icarus let go of his hand, and the second-floor floor collapsed.

She used her wings to protect herself, brushing away the flames on her clothes and covering her exposed thighs and arms, her eyes cold.

She was furious. Her date was ruined, and the clothes she bought, her carefully applied makeup and hair were all affected by the explosion, ruining her original beauty.

Moreover, the watermelon she had her eye on was gone, turned into a lump of no longer-perfect mud.

Amanosaki was also unhappy.

Anyone would be furious if a random passerby threw a bomb at them, rupturing their eardrums and causing burns.

He was sucking on his teeth, grinding them together like a large wild beast searching for prey.

Then, he strode into the crowd, reached forward with his right hand, and grabbed the head of the Fengdu swordsman in the crowd like an iron clamp, no matter how the other struggled, he could not get away.

Amanozaki twisted his waist and slapped him with his right hand.

The swordsman spun once in the sky before crashing to the ground, smashing through the cement, his head lodged in the ground, blood streaming down his face.

"Tell me! Who did it!"

Chapter 87: Flying in Fury

The news that Amanosaki had shoved the head of the Fengdu knight into the ground spread like wildfire throughout the high-ranking officials of the Fengdu Province government.

This means that the Fengdu branch also knew about this.

The reception room door was pushed open with a bang, and men and women dressed as underworld messengers came out angrily. Inside the door were A4 papers fluttering in the air.

The officer rubbed his head with a worried expression, shaking his head repeatedly. Li Junzi, who had been dozing off, suddenly woke up, stretched, and asked, "Is the meeting over? When can my brother and I go into the sewers? This stuff you've been talking about is driving me crazy."

"Your older brother is in trouble! This is Fengdu, not Yushan!"

The officer continued his accusations, his face filled with unconcealed sorrow.

Unlike Yushan Province, which was established based on economic, cultural, and administrative considerations, Fengdu Province was originally established to put into practice various ideas about supernatural abilities, and to cultivate heroes in a targeted manner by leveraging the rich local ghost and god culture and legends.

Therefore, the Fengdu branch is exceptionally powerful, and its power struggle with the government within the province has always been evenly matched.

Now, Wuchangwei has made a mess of things in front of the whole country, and a chivalrous knight has been bullied in the street by people from other provinces. And the culprit is Amanosaki.

Even if there are dirty tricks behind these things in Fengdu Branch, and they are being manipulated.

But at least on the surface, the reputation of a branch must be maintained.

Therefore, the negotiations, which were on the verge of reaching a result, fell apart.

But after listening to the officer's account of the events leading up to Amanosaki's attack, Li Junzi nodded seriously and said, "I think my older brother did the right thing."

He bowed to the dumbfounded officer:

"If my date with Jiajia were blown up by some bastard with a bomb, I'd be anxious too. Besides, the fault for not letting us into the sewers lies with Fengdu. Since we were bombed on Fengdu branch territory, we should naturally hold them accountable."

Li Junzi replied seriously, "Sir, to be fair, even if this matter were taken to the main headquarters teahouse, our Yushan branch would still be in the right. Don't forget, it was the chivalrous people from Fengdu who stood by and did nothing."

"You! You! You!" the officer roared, pointing at the departing Li Junzi and shouting, "This is a matter of great importance, concerning the conflict between chivalrous figures from two provinces and the safety of the people in both places! How could you be so reckless?"

Li Junzi didn't even turn his head:

"This is an extermination order from the capital! In ancient times, we would be imperial envoys, ordered to arrest people and execute them without prior notification. Do you think this is a joke?"

Li Junzi parted ways with the officials from Fengdu, while outside the fresh produce store, Amanosaki impatiently refused the arrival of the police captain once again.

“I say, officers, I have nothing to talk to you about. Send the people from the Fengdu branch.”

"My good brother! Please lift your foot, you're going to stomp this guy to death!"

The police captain patiently and earnestly tried to persuade him.

Amanosaki was eating a half-finished mango at the moment, her hands were busy, so she stepped on the swordsman's neck with one foot. The swordsman's head was half-buried in his own blood, and he was barely breathing.

"Lift your foot? Sure. Not just lift his foot, I'd even let him go."

Amanosaki swallowed the mango and mumbled, "Who ordered me to be bombed? What tricks is the Fengdu branch up to? Tell me."

The police captain's face turned ashen, a frighteningly green.

The news that Queen Fish and her offspring had sneaked into the sewers must not be spread in Fengdu City, and all actions to suppress evil spirits and heretics must be restrained to avoid provoking the people.

This is a consensus between the branch and the provincial government.

Amanosaki's blatant attack on Fengdu Xia Ke, coupled with the momentum of the bombing, has already broken the rules between the two sides.

As the team leader, what right does he have to speak out?

Amanosaki leisurely finished his second piece of fruit, licked his fingers, pulled the captain aside, and whispered nervously across from him:

"I won't make things difficult for you. Just give me a heads-up: how much do both sides know about the explosion? Tell me and I'll release them immediately."

The police captain gritted his teeth, his eyes darting left and right. Seeing the crowd growing larger and the situation rapidly escalating, he steeled himself and stomped his foot.

"I don't know about other things, but as soon as the explosion happened, we immediately reported it to the capital."

Amanosaki nodded. The subtext of his words was that the Fengdu government had not concealed anything; they had acted openly and honestly and were not afraid of being investigated.

"As for the heroes, well! Anyway, there's a lot of commotion, and it doesn't seem like it was planned in advance. One group is arguing about capturing you, while another group is trying to stop them. The two groups are arguing, so we're going there first."

Now Amanosaki understood.

There are other forces at play in this murky water of emotions.

At least for now, the government has no clue what to do.

So he lifted his foot, scooped the swordsman from the pool of blood, used magic to stop the bleeding, and then pushed him to the captain: "I'm sorry for the trouble."

After saying this, the angel put his arm around Icarus's shoulder, flapped his wings, and soared into the sky.

"Nozaki, shouldn't we wait for the branch members to arrive? We can clear things up then and the misunderstanding will be resolved."

Icarus carried Amanosaki in a princess carry, her eyes flashing red circles as she searched Fengdu City. Drones hovered behind her in the distance, not daring to approach, but Icarus ignored them.

Amanosaki reached out and pulled on the fabric at Icarus's chest, tearing it from under his armpits and tying it into a tight knot with the fabric at his back:

"It's impossible to talk about it openly. The Fengdu branch is obviously hiding something. I'm staying here to represent the Yushan branch as a hostage. I'm not stupid."

"Besides, politics and all that scheming are enough to give me a headache. If I had the potential to make a living in politics, I would have gone to negotiate with Mr. Li long ago."

The handsome young man tilted his head back, enjoying the beauty's embrace; the cool breeze felt wonderfully comfortable on his face.

"Politics is like playing with fire; I, for one, keep my distance."

"Let the Yushan branch worry about these things. We are currently on an extermination order to hunt down the Four-Clawed Scaled Fish. As long as we stay on the right track, nothing will go wrong."

Icarus nodded. Her memories came from Amanosaki, and she found the things Amanosaki couldn't understand also troubling.

'Killing is simpler; even without massacring cities and destroying countries, it's simpler than politics,' the angel thought.

Amanosaki noticed Icarus's thoughts and quickly added, "We are law-abiding citizens now, we are chivalrous heroes. Chivalrous heroes don't live by the old ways of killing and arson and getting rich; that's for bandits!"

"Ah, I found it."

Suddenly, Icarus stopped, pointed to a construction site, and said with certainty;

“If we make a 20-meter-deep opening here, we can reach the sewer. This one should lead to the flood storage well. It's dry now, so there won't be any sewage backflow.”

"okay!"

Amanosaki rallied, pointing to the construction site with high spirits:

"Kabuto... Icarus, enter Super Transformation Mode!"

Chapter 88: Grip Your Crotch

"Friends at the construction site below! I am Xia Ke from the Fengdu branch! A demon has been discovered beneath your construction site! For your safety, please evacuate the area within ten minutes!"

Amanosaki roared from the sky, and the sound waves, amplified by magic, spread throughout the entire construction site.

The workers looked up at the foreman, who was smoking and cursing with disdain, "Are you kidding me? What kind of knight-errant from Fengdu doesn't wear the robes of a ghost messenger?"

As she spoke, the mother urged the workers around her to start work.

"Alright, I've finished speaking. Icarus, you can prepare to charge up your power now."

Amanosaki said this.

So Icarus let go, and Amanosaki, who was being carried in a princess carry, fell freely into the construction site, kicking up a cloud of dust.

"Queen of the Sky Mode activated."

As Icarus spoke, a halo symbolizing holiness, divinity, and purity appeared out of nowhere above Icarus's head.

Icarus's wings began to grow rapidly, reaching an astonishing 15 meters in wingspan, making it impossible for the workers on the ground to ignore.

"You, what are you going to do?"

Several men dressed in suits, completely out of place at the construction site, walked out of the prefab office and pointed at Icarus in the sky, shouting loudly.

"who are you?"

Amanosaki asked, brushing the dust off his clothes.

The man in the suit leading the group frowned and said, "I'm the project manager for this project, and I'm here today to inspect it."

"Alright, this person in charge, I am issuing this order to you as the 'Extinction Order' execution knight. This construction site has been temporarily requisitioned. I will fight against evil demons and heretics while trying to preserve the integrity of the construction site as much as possible."

"What a joke! What are you doing..." The person in charge was furious, spitting as he spoke.

However, Amanosaki interrupted him with his actions the next moment.

Amanosaki took immediate action, throwing out a scattering of shattered gems and using magic to destroy several unoccupied excavators and road rollers nearby.

Then they blew up the cement mixer and the prefabricated houses that had been occupied by people who had gathered to watch the commotion.

The person in charge looked at the tall, handsome man in front of him, who was holding a dangerous gem and aiming it at his head. The man looked like he had just been pulled out of the water, all wet.

"I've exhausted all the nice words, so I'll say the mean ones. You're recording this, aren't you? Make sure you've recorded it clearly. Now I'm forcibly requisitioning this construction site, and the Fengdu branch will compensate for all losses. Everyone, leave this place within five minutes!"

"Now." After finishing his logical statement, Amanosaki took a deep breath and roared at everyone, "Get out of here!"

The six-barrel Gatling gun fired a burst of bullets, which hit the steel bars and sparked a large spray of sparks.