He returns home in the evening of that same day. When he calmed down enough to be safe, Sao freed him and sent him back, not without some additional threats.

Unlike the other IAs, Zhan lacks that humanity that normally stops the others from committing atrocities without a reason. He needs to be kept under a very strict control, unlike the others, also since he got tortured so much that pain hardly has any effect on him anymore.
Sao does have the key to torment him and keep him under terror, and it had been about time to remind his cousin of what the price of his failure and disobedience is.

He enters the house silently, wearing a clean and new uniform and with usual longsword on his back. Naturally there are no visible wounds on him, he is a KoZ, he heals too fast.
He is pretty shaken though, but also bitterly angry. He sure knows that, of all the present, only James was responsible of what happened, definitely not Siwang, Ethan, Hun Zin or KM.
Sao forbid him to seek revenge on the Hunter, but he still needs someone to unleash his frustration against. And since Siwang is so disrespectful towards him and provoked him multiple times, he and his dearest friends become his perfect target. If they thought he was bad before, it was because they didn't see how far he can go, when so desperate.

For the moment though, he simply heads to the living room and approaches the window, looking through it while keeping an hand on the long hilt of his weapon.

It is pretty early in the afternoon, around 4 pm. Shixing and Bun Tzi are walking in the empty earthy street in front of the only two houses of the area, their and Edward's.
It is a rather isolated place in countryside, there is wood at barely a couple of metres from KM's house. The closest town is at over 150 km of distance and even the small countryside villages are far, far away. Which makes it very rare and uncommon to see people walking in there, outside of those who inhabit the place and the people who visit them.

At the moment Bun Tzi and Shixing are totally alone, talking lightly as they walk.

«... What is it that you will want?» Bun Tzi asks, in a serious and calm tone. It is as if all of his fears and traumas disappeared ever since he was brought there.

«Only one simple thing. I want everything to stay the way it is now, for me. I want Xan island to stay uninhabited. No tourists, no guards, no miners or woodcutter. Only. Me.»

«Xan island is property of Lord Yung, unless he decided to return it to the Emperor's dominions, it will only be up to him to decide...»

«It will be fine.»

Lui non può mai lasciare casa di KM, perché è costretto ad obbedire agli ordini di suo cugino Sao, come ogni altro Assassino Imperiale. Si annoia da morire... quando non hai nessuno a cui rovinare la vita e la puzza del volpone che tenta di spiarti in segreto nonostante puoi sentire la sua puzza attraverso due mondi, il pomeriggio si fa davvero triste e cupo. Specialmente per uno come lui.

Al momento si sta sgranchendo un po' le gambe, facendo acrobazie assurde davanti alla casa, giusto per stiracchiarsi.

Starter #1, to Persida. When he is not busy ruining people's lives and damaging the world, he spends his whole time alone in his room, in the dark. He always keeps his senses sharp, to make sure Bun Tzi doesn't leave the place and that suspicious presences approach. Among all IA, he is the one who can afford the least to fail Sao and is possibly the one whom is the most terrified of him.
He often receives some mysterious letters and sends many himself, without ever answering to whomever asks him about it.
After paying a little visit to KM for his daily bite, he aims to return to his room to be on his own for some time.

Starter #2, for everybody else. Amiir invites them all to come over at his candy shop. He didn't even give them a reason, just sent messages with written: "come to my shop asap."

{After the little mission in the South, KM initially considered to go to Sao and tell him just the truth, while handing the token to him. He didn't manage to. Fear took over him and he went to buy a bottle of blood from the KoZ, to cover himself with it. He lied to the Captain, telling him he did just everything he ordered and Sao didn't bother to investigate, seeming to have trusted him.

Not too long after that, "curiously", a number of Southern mercenaries attacked one of Sao's residence, the one where Carlie and Bun Tzi were in, at that time. The shapeshifter, together with Sao's dogs, are enough to make a massacre of the attackers, most of which end up burned alive.
Dogs though, make sure to keep one alive for "daddy", for questioning purposes.}

Without any warning and with usual support from Edward, Sao simply shows up in the North, in front of KM's home. And he is not alone. With him are Bun Tzi and an Imperial Assassin, wearing the typical uniform but of totally new colours compared to the ones they are used to see.
The IA's uniform is very dark red with golden decorations. He has the mark on his neck like all the others and a long dadao (greatsword) on his back.
The mysterious IA keeps an amused smirk.