East Meet West Chapter 40: Guilt

40- Guilt

After Orochi walked deep into the cave leaving behind Arlia alone, she started crying.

It is true that she failed to notice the dangerous situation they were in and how Orochi saved her from all this. And instead of appreciating his help, she punched him and injured him.

Thinking about all this made her feel more guilty. After few minutes she cald down and looked around, but it was completely dark. She got panicked and started running in the direction in which Orochi went. Fear can be seen from her expression or in her eyes, maybe she is scared of dark places.

(OfCourse, if you can see in the dark. Only then you can see the fear on her face or eyes. [Authors Sarcasm]).

She stumbled a few tis, she also fell down and got hurt, due to dark she could not see the way properly, so she walked by sticking to the walls.

(Author= Sticking to the walls in the sense does not an that she is now spider man, it only ans that due to lack of vision she is using walls as support to walk ahead)

After walking for few minutes, she felt her hands touching empty air, as walls ca to an end. She looked around and saw light. When she observed clearly, she saw that Orochi was looking at a Statue and was trying to find sothing. But after looking at it for a while, he gave up and sat at so place to have a rest.

Arlia still felt guilty about earlier, but suddenly an idea crossed her mind. She thought maybe Orochi was trying to find a treasure or sothing on the statue or sothing related to it, but failed to get it. And gave up. So, what if She could help him, and find whatever Orochi was looking for on the statue? After she finds it, she can give it to Orochi and after he receives it maybe he will forgive her. Or may even thank her for the generosity she has shown.

Thinking about all the future possibilities that may happen, Arlias eyes started sparkling. And she hurried towards the statues direction. Although, it was difficult to move in dark, but with so difficulty she managed to reach the statue.

She did not have a flashlight like the one Orochi has, but she is an Evolver and when a cultivator goes through Beginning stage and Refinent Stage, they undergo many changes and their senses also gets high. And when a person goes further and reaches Evolver stage or Demi-Human Stage, the senses are further improved.

(Note: High in the sense is improvent not the High when you use weed or sothing. Not Promoting Drugs guys. V Peace)

(Another Note: There is going to be explanations for all the Cultivation properly in future. And I am sure you guys will like it)

So, Arlia had little visibility in the dark and she still could see the statue vaguely. She started searching around the statue but nothing could be found and then she started touching the statue.

(Touching the statue without any Sexual intention, okay? sothing like searching or checking. Do not make a joke out of it. - Last sentence was just a bluff you can forget about that- Author's sarcasm).

But when she was moving around the statue, she tripped or stumbled on sothing. And as a reflex she used so strength and grabbed the statue to prevent from falling (again). And that lead to the breaking of the statue.

Although, Arlia used strength when grabbing the statue but it was a reflex, but still the statue was very old and when Arlias force acted on the Statue, it broke.

When Arlia realized that she broke the statue accidently; saw light flashing on her and she got panicked. She realized that Orochi was using Flashlight on her. She thought that she made another mistake, and due to her panic, she subconsciously kneeled and covered her head as an act of scared or defense, if by any chance Orochi got angry on her.

But clearly nothing happened, and after waiting for few seconds Arlia raised her head and saw that Orochi was looking at sothing on the statue. And he used so strength and broke the statue.

Seeing this, Arlia had a sigh of relief and felt good that Orochi did not get angry on her for breaking the statue. And when she saw Orochi picking up a scroll from the rubble, she got happy and curious.

Happy because maybe due to her actions, Orochi found sothing which might be valuable and may even thank her for that.

Curious because she also wanted to see what was inside it. So, she moved towards Orochi.

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I picked up the scroll. And tried opening it, but no matter how much strength I used, I could not open the scroll.

After trying different ways, I could think of opening the scroll, but still it was of no use. So, I gave up the idea of trying to open it for now and put the scroll aside.

I searched through the rubble of the broken Old Mans statue, to see if I can find anything else. And this ti my luck was useful, and I found sothing.

It was the book that the Old Mans statue was holding in his hands and reading.

The book was part of the statue and any normal person would think that the book was attached to the Old Mans statue. And even I was fooled by the looks of it.

But after the Old Mans statue broke, the book had cracks on it. Or more like, the books Stone like look was just a Faade or fake cover to hide sothing. And due to damage occurring on the book, that cover broke, and cracks were ford on it. And the inside object was visible through the cracks.

I removed the Fake Stone type cover and saw that inside of it was still a book.

The book was Brown in color and was about 3 inches thick.

I opened the book, but it was all blank. There was no written or pictorial content in it. It was completely empty. I searched through the book but still there was nothing.

Just as I about to close the book, I felt sothing when holding a page.

It was the last page of the book.