"Huh?"
Mazao wore a look of bewilderment, as she might have thought that with the direction this conversation was taking, I should be giving up the idea of meeting with Water Navy Xuanwu.
"You're not planning to save your own friend anymore?" she asked, at a loss.
"No, I am going to save Changan. I've decided to set aside the matter of the Spirit Pill for now, and I'm sorry about that," I said.
She hastened to say, "That's not an issue at all. It's something I feel shouldn't be pursued any further myself."
"The reason I say I want to go see Xuanwu is twofold."
To straighten out my thoughts, I gathered the clues in my mind and began to explain them to Mazao.
"Two reasons?" she asked with doubt.
