They Called Me a Coward, My New Master Asked for Lessons novel · Chapter 23 of 24
Chapter 23: The Guests Who Stayed
The three strangers at the gate wanted three different secrets, and none of them was bread.
The first was a broad young man in a clean robe who stood very straight.
He had come, he said, to learn how Ji made her second ring appear from nothing.
"It did not appear from nothing," Ji said.
"It appeared from a stone that was falling on my friend."
"Is there a way to arrange that?" the young man asked.
"No," said Luo, from the doorway.
The second stranger was a thin woman with a patient face and a traveling pack.
She had come to learn which hidden mountain Shen had come from.
"I came from the other side of the river," Shen said, "by a bridge."
"You must be concealing something," the woman said.
"My knees," Shen said.
"They have been concealing themselves from me for years."
The third stranger was an old man who wanted the secret of the sword.
He said so in a whisper, as though the sword might hear.
Ji looked at the shelf where it lay between the bowls.
"We cut bread with it," she said.
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