Before seeing the person himself, any sexual fantasies would be of no help, and we couldn’t muddle through the water any longer, because Leng Linglan, who had finished her work, had angrily returned from outside the city, and when she saw the two of us standing and talking together, she first stared blankly, and then followed her in this direction.

  The conversation between Mao Yan’an and I, in which he had been leaning against the wall while I had been gesticulating and pointing at him, looked to the eyes of the onlookers as if we had been quarrelling fiercely for the purpose of this last wild drink.

  “Let me tell you, I don’t care how loud your name is, or who you really are, anyway, remember this, don’t think that you are something great, and don’t think that there is no one in my Alibda, I advise you to put on your eyes, don’t disregard our Alibda soldiers.”

  These words really have enough false, but listen to the ears of the whole field of soldiers, but extremely popular, more or less can help me this notorious bastard, pull up a little good feeling it.

  Mao Yan’an also knew how to make fun, and after being wildly drunk like this by me, he didn’t get angry, but just quietly said, “Young Yingjie, his name is true.”

  The so-called flower sedan chair people lift people, Mao Yanan these timely help, when I turned my head and Leng Linglan staggered, stride out, near and far soldiers have applauded, some applauded, for I can be a frustration of this arrogance of the VIP, greatly earn back the face of the soldiers of Alibaba and happy, think, in the future, this can be for me to reduce some of the trouble, right.

  When she and Leng Linglan passed by, she seemed to want to say something, but she didn’t open her mouth after all, and she continued to walk towards Mao Yan’an in a lonely and proud manner. As for what the two of them will say, I don’t care about that.

  This deliberate theatre worked on the second day, and some of the officers who had been far away from me began to gather round and chat, praising me on one side and showing me kindness on the other. I naturally went along with it, joining them in berating Mao Yan’an, and saying bad things about Her Highness the Second Princess in the process.

  Having Mao Yan’an in this position is indeed very helpful to me, but I have also made up my mind that if he is exposed and his identity is revealed, I will not only deny all my relations with him, but will also be the first to fall on the well and show my innocence. Anyway, he often said that he was born for art, so it is only natural that he is also prepared for the day when he will be martyred for art, right?

  In order to entertain the guests of honour from various countries, especially President Lane, the reception work besides the security is also as important as well. The most luxurious halls in Salane were repainted and decorated to receive the ambassadors and dignitaries from various countries, and even a luxurious manor house was built especially for the residence of President Lane and his party, which was gorgeous and elegant, and cost a great deal of manpower and material resources.

  And when that was ready, our long-awaited VIP group finally arrived.

  It is hard to describe the pomp and circumstance of entering the city. As a gesture of welcome, the gates of Sara were opened wide so that the VIP group could see the palace at the end of the street at a glance, and slowly travelled along the miles-long wide street towards the palace.

  In order not to be out of order, the final decision of that pedantic group of ministers was that His Majesty the King should greet the honoured guests of all nations in front of the main gate of the palace, neither inside nor outside.

  For such a grand political event, it was customary to mobilise the people and welcome them on both sides of the street. Naturally, none of these high officials and nobles took into account the people’s desire to sleep and rest at home, and favoured giving orders for all the people to come out and welcome the event.

  However, this time it is superfluous, hearing that the long unseen Princess Yue Sakura is coming back, as well as Grand President Lane, Special Envoy Ishtar …… and other internationally renowned figures, the people of Sara are like crazy, waiting in line outside the gate since the night before, with long queues, hoping to be able to catch a glimpse of the celebrities, and on the next day, we have to specially mobilise troops to maintain order.

  This time to participate in the meeting, large and small as many as seventeen groups of forces, the strength of which can influence the movements of the entire earth, including me, Ali Buda, a total of five countries.

  The Canary Blossom Federation was the host guest and the chairman who convened the meeting, and with the presidential entourage included, two hundred and forty-two people, which, compared to President Lane’s rows at home, was a deliberately compressed number of people in order to give us face.

  The elf power Solanthia, currently maintaining peaceful relations with our country for the time being, is still considered to be a bit sincere this time, even with the envoys, travelling with a total of thirty-three people.

  Rosetta also observed the proper etiquette, and the envoys numbered only a few dozen, not an exaggeration.

  As for Ista, the country of black magic guides, which has always been at war with us, it is as if it is deliberately provoking us, the legion of envoys has a total of more than twelve hundred people, of which only five hundred are the accompanying cavalry, but the rest of them are either proficient in martial arts or exude magic fluctuations, and are obviously not ordinary people, if something happens, it would be tantamount to luring the wolves into the house of an armed force.

  Normally, we would never have received the Ishtar to come in like this, and of course, the Ishtar would not have been willing to enter the capital of an enemy country. The only reason we were able to make this event possible was because of the great efforts of the Canary Flower Federation and the Temple of Mercy.

  Although the Golden Bird Flower Federation was the number one country in the world, the Golden Bird Flower Federation alone still did not have enough power to make such a call. However, the Cihang Jing Temple was the centre of faith on the earth, all the magi, monks and holy priests were appointed under its command, and its influence spanned across the globe, so any major country would have to be afraid of it.

  This time, President Lane, in the name of travelling before leaving office, visited the countries with which he was friendly, and because of the “pleasant conversation”, invited him to travel with him, and the result was like a snowball, and a large group of people came to Sara. Nominally, this is still just a private visit, but in essence, it has turned into the greatest summit on earth in the last fifty years.

  In fact, I cannot understand what is going on in the minds of those senior officials. For some strange or even ridiculous ideologies, when it is obvious that we can just laugh and shake hands, they have to put on gloves or use fake hands to shake hands first.

  But …… how I look over my eyes or not, the Light Divine Palace did use such a form to make this head of state meeting possible, and I have the honour to participate in it and witness this historic moment, only I would rather I was to buy a ticket to enter, not to be unlucky enough to carry the security work of this historic event.

  Mao Yan’an was really a fish out of water on this occasion, and I think that even if we had searched all over Alibda, it would have been very difficult to find a traveller as knowledgeable as he was, and what is more, with his experience in the Canary Flower Confederation, he recognised the political figures of various countries, and as a result, when we stood on a high place overlooking the people who were entering the city, Mao Yan’an pointed out to us that those who were now entering the city, were which number of people from a certain country, and that even some of those who had deliberately put on the costume of guards and whose names did not exist on the list of visitors had been identified by him by name. uniforms, and whose names did not exist on the visiting list, were recognised by him by name.

  Put aside that he pointed out the security work of the cracks, alone this hand of eyesight to convince people, I saw Leng Linglan viciously glared at the officer beside me, because our intelligence department, did not grasp so much information, if not Maoyanan recognised these people, they returned to the country, certainly thought that Alibudar no capable person, then our military will become a laughing stock.

  Looking down from the angle of the citadel, with so many carriages and horses, so many important people, I could clearly feel the tension that was pressing one’s breath, but also, vaguely, a kind of impassioned generosity.

  Even if he is a nobody, as long as he can make a name for himself in this grand event and leave a deep impression in front of the eyes of the important ministers of various countries, he will not only become an international man of the hour overnight, but will also be able to leave his name in the annals of history. That kind of grandiose feeling that the winds and clouds of the world are in my hands can easily turn into a fire that is enough to burn out people’s sanity.

  “Hmph, what’s the big deal about these guys down here? The pig dogs of Istar, at best, can only run wild for a while, for from now on, this is my time.”

  Looking back coldly at the several officers who were about to come forward to pat me on the back but were now dumbfounded in shock, I said in a disdainful tone, “And my legend begins today.”

  Suddenly uttering such grandiose words, the people next to me rightfully thought that I was crazy, while most of them thought that I was getting carried away, and as for the cold snort that couldn’t have been more piercing, it was naturally Her Royal Highness Princess Leng Linglan, who despised me to the soles of her feet.

  This feeling of being surprised by a single word is pretty good, but if it continues, it’s going to get me into trouble, and I’m not the kind of person who doesn’t know what I can do, at least, not like these idiots next to me who clearly think I’m talking bollocks but come to flatter me by saying that it’s a swan song.

  “Go on, you fools, do you think I’m boasting? Am I that shameless?” I purposely spoke loudly, respectfully waving my hand to the side, and laughed, “What I just said was all a sentiment on behalf of Her Highness the Second Princess, and by the time this event is over, everyone above the earth will know that I, Ali Buda, have such a prime beam.”

  This statement, the surrounding is full of a piece of praise, all the officers regardless of faction, all nodded that I speak right, a few reaction to a little bright, has grabbed a big pat on the back of Leng Linglan, and she also seems to be my practice of this kind of suddenly arrogance and respect, to the reaction to the wrong way, only to see the beauty of the thin anger, cold grunted a sentence of “nonsense”, after the no She also seemed to be confused by my arrogant and respectful behaviour.

  Maybe others think she is in a rage, but I am confident that just now that some words, is her psychological words, these words can not be said to others to hear, but by my words in public, but also not good to attack, any how the heart of the defence of the woman, will be affected by a little bit of.

  This kind of teasing is enough, I have no intention to stimulate Leng Linglan again, so when the team finished entering the city, Leng Linglan steered his horse and ran down the city, asked me if this second person want to follow to the palace to participate in the banquet, I cited the reason that it is easy to supervise the situation on the city floor, said politely refused, Leng Linglan also do not have much nonsense, a pull on the reins, and led the crowd and went.

  I could see through Leng Linglan’s mind, and it was really enjoyable to play a trick on her like that just now, but retribution came quickly, and after she left, someone else approached me as well.

  “Sage nephew, why don’t you follow?”

  “The banquet is crowded and noisy, and it’s full of svengali scum like you, so I’m not going to go along for the ride. Just watch the stars here, banquet? Go after it’s over.”

  “What a pity, those words you just said sounded great, do you dare to say that those words don’t have a bit of your heart in them? There are a lot of VIPs at this welcome banquet, you’re the rising star of Alibda, and you’re also familiar with Lady Moon Cherry, go and show your face to earn some limelight, it’ll be very beneficial in the future, why are you hiding in this cold and quiet town?”

  “I say uncle ah, what are you trying to provoke me for again? If you do too many bad things, you won’t be able to cover your black tail in your trousers later.”

  When I said that, Mao Yanan seemed to have lost his temper, waved both hands and sat down next to me, saying: ‘’How am I such a bad person? I just simply feel sorry for you this good young man ah, even if you are not interested in the banquet, but listen to the snow girl said, you and the moon cherry lady affection is very good, a long time to meet again, don’t you want to go to see her one side? People may …… not, people must also want to see you very much.”

  “Uncle, if these words were said by someone else, I would consider them, but by your mouth …… Hey, let s both sit here together.”

  I knew how important that banquet, now taking place in the palace, was, but I didn’t want to get close enough to touch that world much.

  Tsukisakura sister …… will miss me too?

  The thought did give me a rush that was hard to suppress, but I resisted.

  Uncle is undoubtedly resourceful, but not everything may be to his liking. —Actually, I’m looking forward to seeing Tsukizakura-san.

  People always say that nearness to home is timid, but I never thought that when a long time old friend returned home, the one who was timid in his heart would be me. I had been looking forward to this moment before, but when it came, I faced it by retreating.

  Somewhere inside, I am really scared, after more than ten years of separation, has Sister Moon Cherry changed? I’m no longer the stubborn boy who wanted to be loved and pitied back then, is she still the gentle and lovely big sister she used to be?

  These are things that I don’t know with certainty, and subconsciously don’t want to know, so I have adopted this response, and helplessly, even though I’m avoiding things, things are still finding their way to my head.

  The next day, we continued our patrols on the Citadel, keeping a distant eye on President Lane’s guesthouse, while at the same time analysing the information we had received over the past few days. When I returned to Sara that day, I was immediately assassinated, and although the assassins were all slaughtered on the spot by Leng Linglan, the military still hasn’t given up on tracking down the source.

  The most likely sources of assassins would be Ishtar, who I slaughtered the Great Spirit Witch, Solanthia, who breached the fortress, and the …… Black Dragon Society, who I exposed as a mask of evil.

  Of these three, the Black Dragon Society is the most worrisome because it is very likely that the peace talks this time around will discuss how to deal with the Black Dragon Society, and who knows if they will send more people to assassinate VIPs and create chaos in the midst of the chaos? Because of this concern, we have repeatedly speculated on how we would strike if we were the assassins.

  “The guesthouse where Grand President Lane resides is in a good location and heavily guarded, there are almost no dead spots around it anymore, so if we want to attack, we can only take advantage of the times when he usually goes out and moves.”

  “So, when President Lane returns to the Row, the only way to assassinate him is to blend in, not by external force.”

  “I can’t find it on all sides, so what about above the slant?”

  Halfway through the discussion, I frowned and suddenly interjected myself like this, causing the crowd to freeze, and it took a moment before anyone knew how to answer.

  “Slanting up? That’s hard, isn’t it, there aren’t many neighbouring buildings around the Row House for security purposes, and the enemy ……”

  “But doesn’t the lack of cover also mean that the Row House’s terrain is open and good for attacking? The enemy doesn’t even have to move to an expert, just prepare a few heavy weapons, and that would be something to see.”

  “Honourable Farrell, we can’t agree with that statement, to attack the Guildhall from the outer buildings, that kind of distance, do you know how many heavy weapons would be needed? This is the royal capital anyways, would we let the enemy set up heavy weapons so stridently in the neighbourhood?”

  Leng Linglan wasn’t there, but her men looked down on me all the same, speaking condescendingly and treating me as if I were an imbecilic character just like them.

  “It doesn’t have to be huge, just prepare a few heavy crossbows will be quite enough to look at, I used to be mixed with the imperial army as well, my knowledge of weapons and ordnance is no less than yours, don’t confuse me with those noble soldiers who eat and don’t do anything.”

  “Sage nephew, what does your so-called heavy crossbow look like?”

  “Big …… I mean, Uncle Oren, we’re busy, please don’t interrupt.”

  “Hey, isn’t it removable, has four wheels on the lower head, crossbow frame is triangular, fires eighteen crossbow bolts at a time, can be fired in bursts ……”

  “Sounds like the same thing. Eighteen shots at a time, and that’s the newest model on the black market… Uncle, where did you see that image?”

  “Eighteen of them, and there are scratches on the crossbow frame, it seems that they were not very careful when they were transported …… Oops! That guy was so careless, he got his foot run over by the wheel, it must have hurt.”

  Mao Yanan had been standing behind us, not participating in the discussion, but when he heard these words, whoever knew that something was wrong hastily turned his head to look, only to see Mao Yanan with one hand on his sword and a telescope in the other, looking out to the west, and following his gaze, we also vaguely saw that a heavy machine crossbow was being set up on a building a few hundred feet away, aiming at the guildhall below from a distance.

  “What’s with the rack of those things?”

  “Dismantle it! This must be a plot by the agents of some country!”

  “Luckily, we found out early and it’s not too late ……”

  Just as these scum in front of them were scrambling, shifting blame and preparing to find a scapegoat, Mao Yan’an pointed his hand, crushing their hopes once again. The atrium of the guesthouse has a human voice, more than ten from the people came out to place the carriage, obviously it is the Lane grand president and his wife to leave the guesthouse, and that heavy machine crossbow next to the emergence of ten or so people, agile, adjusting the machine crossbow, immediately about to launch an assassination attack.

  At the critical moment of the fire, the scene was immediately in great confusion. Sending someone from us to notify us, the crossbow and arrows would have already been shot out before we could run; even if we shouted from here, the side of the guild house wouldn’t be able to hear us; as for attacking the crossbow machine directly from our position, unfortunately, it seems that none of us here have the cultivation to do so.

  The scene was so chaotic that it was impossible to do anything, this group of losers usually complained about being governed by a woman, but when it came to things everyone refused to contribute, only thinking of the stupid method of immediately looking for the Second Princess Her Highness to deal with it.

  If the one who died was only the president of the neighbouring country, this I wouldn’t have thought anything of, but thinking that Tsukizakura-san would also suffer a crisis, in my haste, I drew my sword and slashed a few of the losers who had lost their minds, and stabilised the chaotic scene again.

  “That’s right, our cultivation is insufficient, but Mr Oren is a supreme expert, so as long as we have his hand in the fight, we’ll definitely be able to destroy the machine crossbow.”

  A couple of guys came up with this idea after they calmed down. As a matter of fact, it was really a wonderful idea, but Mr Oren was a crook with no hands, so they were immediately turned against each other.

  “Righteous, but I have a better idea.”

  Mao Yan’an’s idea sounded like a real nine to one. To celebrate the arrival of the VIPs, Sara had recently put up a number of large hot steam balloons that floated overhead, and now we just happened to have a few at the top, and Maoyanan’s idea was to form a raiding party, where each person would tie a rope around their waist, and then send out bows and arrows to get the rope up to the steam balloons, and use the steam balloons to move the people over.

  If we can stop the assassination, it will be a great credit and international fame, if President Lane is killed, the security personnel will definitely be questioned, especially those who don’t have a hard enough background. So it’s simply a multiple choice question with no choice, not to mention the fact that I’m holding the sword in the back and threatening it.

  The raiding party was immediately formed, and while they pulled up the rope and shot their bows and arrows at the biggest balloon in the air, I stood beside Mao Yan’an and laughed coldly, “Despicable enough, Uncle, what raiding party, this kind of abusive tactic is simply a daredevil team that cheats people to their deaths, aren’t you afraid that these people will come after you after their deaths?”

  As might be expected, it is not easy to entangle a balloon in such a situation, but the chances of piercing it are very good, and a balloon with a hole in it is more formidable than a maddened bronco, and soars out at high speed. If they were lucky, they could land accurately and fight the enemy; if they were unlucky, to the people on the ground, this string of things floating and shooting in the sky was a more effective warning sign than fireworks.

  And watching the string of people spinning through the air at high speeds and letting out a mournful, unearthly scream, it was clear that they were being used as pyrotechnics more than a raiding party.

  “Oh, I came to lie with unparalleled courage, but you, virtuous nephew, have a lot of guts as well.”

  “I’ve always been bold, so I’m not sure which one you’re referring to?”

  “It’s nothing really, I’m just a bit curious, how can you be so calm when your feet have obviously been wrapped round and round with ropes, and you’re looking at nine deaths?”

  “What feet? What ropes? What loop after loop? Wait …… oh! No good!”

  The string that shot up into the sky, with the end dragging across the ground in a quick pull, wrapped itself around my right leg at some point, and before I could do anything about it, I was ripped up by the goddamned string and sent flying wildly through the sky.

  Compared with the centre of rotation, I am located at the end of the undoubtedly in the most intense position, as if holding the tail of a raging dragon, let it shake, only to hear all the wailing and whistling wind, not a few moments of work, dizziness, vomiting in the air.

  Sometimes, even I hated why the calculation was so accurate, because being in mid-air, we became the most obvious target for arrows, and the agents beside that heavy machine crossbow, when they saw us flying that way, hurriedly turned their crossbows and shot at us indiscriminately.

  In this situation it was a blessing to be at the end of the line, for being swung around I was the hardest to aim at, and invariably dodged several volleys of arrows, while the officers above, wrapped up in a mass, unfortunately became skewers of meat amidst the wails of the dying.

  If this goes on it will be the end, I prayed to the gods indiscriminately, but I was so dizzy that I couldn’t remember any of the prayers, so I could only scream in my mind that if I could be saved from the danger, even if it was the devil’s hand, I would be willing to hold on to it firmly.

  Strangely enough, right after I had this thought, we, who were being dragged all over the place by the broken balloon, suddenly stabilised our direction, and then we even crashed into the crossbow as if by magic.

  The enemy fired a few arrows this way, but those who were no longer alive wouldn’t hurt just as much, even if there were a few more large holes in their bodies. The crossbow interception was ineffective, the impact before the balloon ran out of steam was hard and violent, and the string of men linking up behind them, though no longer alive, was shaped like a giant mallet body that hit the machine crossbow hard.

  “Boom,” a shattering sound, the machine crossbow to this destroyed most of the heart, I see the heart is happy, while being dragged over the time, force to make up a foot, the crossbow machine destroyed into a ground of iron debris and wood, to solve the assassination of the crisis.

  (Success!)

  Joy came along with pain, and when I was slowed down by a heavy leg kick through a crossbow bolt machine, the enemy next to me slashed me in the back with an excruciatingly painful blow.

  I was so dizzy from the previous shaking that I couldn’t restrain myself from the pain and vomited on my enemy’s face with a “wow” sound, taking advantage of the fact that his face was covered in filth and he was screaming repeatedly, I pulled out the Hyakki-maru and killed him with one blow of my sword.

  “Kid! You ……”

  The accomplice next to him drew his sword and chopped at me, but I was dragged away by the ropes on my feet, and while avoiding the blow, I flew off the roof of the building and fell straight down towards the outside.

  Before falling from the upper floors, I heard a series of miserable cries, and in a shocking glimpse, I saw a tall brocade-robed man, making a curved-moon sword with a string of bells hanging from the hilt, and in the midst of the ringing bells and clanging bells, his blade was like a lightning bolt, and he quickly cut down the assassins on the upper floors.

  (What master? It’s awesome!)

  The man’s clothing, not the uniform of Ali Buda, so I wonder which country’s masters are here to kill the assassin? Or come to silence his accomplices who are not doing their job properly? And I only had time to see this scene before I was dragged by the rope and fell out.

  The situation is really bad, if I continue to be dragged by this broken balloon flying in the sky, in a short time, I will surely fall and break my bones, although I have already taken the sword in my hand, I can cut the rope, but falling from this height is no different from committing suicide.

  (Phineas, you stinking bitch and lousy salesman, where have you been hiding when your help is needed?)

  In mid-air to give dizzy, I suddenly found that I have reached the upper part of the guesthouse, there is a pond below, most likely my last chance to get away, immediately without thinking, see the position, swing the sword to cut the ropes on the legs.

  According to the expectation, I should have fallen into the pool in a terrible state and saved my life, but the wind blew me down to a big banyan tree.

  “Whoa! Shit!”

  With just such a cry, I had already fallen into the branches and leaves of the banyan tree, creating a series of splintering and snapping sounds, my body was in severe pain like cracks, and I didn’t know exactly how many branches I had broken, before I fell out from the other end.

  “Ah ~~~~~!”

  Dazed and falling to the ground, it would not be too much for me to scream, even if I screamed miserably, but sadly, this scream was not from me, but from a female official who was carrying a tea set and was about to walk to a certain place, but was crushed by me falling through a tree, and letting out a miserable scream on the ground.

  “There’s a lecher! There’s a whoremonger! Help!”

  In my haste, I could only vaguely see that she had a clear face and some good looks, but my head then cleared, knowing that the female officials here were all from the Golden Sparrow Federation, and it was impossible to say that there was also a background in the Palace of Light, so I couldn’t afford to be offended, so I got up in a hurry, and busied myself with explanations with my fuzzy brain.

  “Hey! Look closely, I don’t have ……”

  At the moment I got up, the buttons of my clothes suddenly tightened, followed by a burst of cloth tearing sound, when I finally got my sight clear, I only saw a female officer being pressed under me, her legs being pushed apart by my knees, the hem of her skirt lifting up, a complete misunderstanding posture, worse, the whole of her upper body’s shirt was torn, revealing the light blue lace underwear inside, as well as half of her snow-white round breasts.

  “Miss, actually I just want ……”

  “Ah, the lecher!”

  If I let these shrieks attract people, it would be very bad, for this reason I do not hesitate to take the risk, one hand covered the female official’s mouth, and put the Hundred Ghosts Pill against the side of her throat.

  “Shut up! Just one more cry out of you and I’ll slit your throat right now.”

  Being covered by me, that female official couldn’t cry out and could only make a tiny whimpering sound, while I even took advantage of the situation and intimidated, “Don’t scream! Let me tell you, there are only the two of us here, even if you shout your throat out, no one will hear you.”

  For an ex-convicted rapist, I don’t know how many times these lines have been said in the past, and I even came close to squealing in passing. The woman officer was too intimidated by my hideous appearance to scream any more, but just stretched out her finger and pointed timidly to the right.

  Pervert Dad once said that there is no cure for downfalls and fools. Just after I’ve managed to, with great difficulty, risk nine lives and unparalleled valour, set up the assassin, I’m caught in this embarrassing scene.

  When I followed the direction of her finger and glanced sideways to the right, well …… I’ve probably had very few opportunities in my life to open my mouth that wide.

  Not far to our right, there were a dozen or more guests, dignitaries and ministers from different countries, with silver cutlery in their hands, having a picnic and talking, and hundreds of servants and guards beside them. Such a large number of people were looking at me in amazement, and among them was our king, whose mouth was wide open, and he was no less astonished than I was.

  Straight after a while, such as thunder roar only surging catharsis out.

  “Fa, Farrell, what are you doing …… you actually …… you actually …… you national scum, I will flay you to death! “

  As a country of 10,000 horsemen, actually in the countries important ministers elegant breakfast conversation, rude to the extent of the intrusion, but also unscrupulous, public forcing rape, lewdly insulted the courtesan of a friendly country …… this offence, enough handsome it?