Chapter 476: [ Li's Request ]
Maria Makiling let out a sigh as she turned and looks at the big flower. She said in a soft and surprised voice. “Well, doesn’t really matter. As long as you are fine and safe, then all things can be ignored but… aren’t you always too reckless…?”
“If you aren’t confident of victory, then please don’t push yourself too much and run away. It’s not your life anymore—the people around you, will not hesitate to throw their lives for you as well. Being reckless like this, it will only cost unnecessary lives…” Mari Makiling sighed. She pushed the Crimson Orb towards the flower in which, the Tulip once again blossod and devour the orb as well.
“Though I wish for you learn this lesson this ti but judging by your personality, I might as well feed those words to a dog…Oh well, let’s go—This world wouldn’t last long without the Monster King’s support…” Maria Makiling said this in her mouth, but her legs didn’t move a single inch.
“... Fine, whatever—let’s just treat this as if I indeed have a huge debt in our past lives as well,” Maria Makiling sighed helplessly. She waved her hand and a small light ball appeared floating on her palm. “This should be enough nature energy to heal your wounds in just a short ti…” After saying that, Maria Makiling pushes the light ball towards the large Tulip flower.
As she was leading the light ball towards Allen’s body within the Tulip flower, a light suddenly ca out from within and appeared in front of Maria Makiling, almost startling the latter.
“You—!!?”
“Hello, Sister Maria, it should be correct to say it’s nice to et you,” A girl appeared in front of her. Though calling her a girl isn’t really the correct term since her entire body was made up of a translucent jelly mucus.
A Sli…
“You are, ah, if I’m not mistaken, Sister Mireya told a bit about you, Li, is it not?”
The girl, Li, showed a smile. Her eyes glistened as if she were looking at a blood relative, and she emitted an excited cry, “He he, that’s right, my na is Li… Master’s number one loyal beast—well, actually, it should be guardian now.”
“Ho~” Maria frowned when she suddenly realized sothing wrong—“Your body, it’s not material—is it not?”
“As expected of Sister Maria, a forr goddess… your eyes are clear and bright.” Li gently bit her lip and smiled. Her eyes flickered with a bizarre light as she looked at Maria Makiling.
“Indeed, I am not a proper existence—or should I say, I’m just a ghost, a parasite at this mont.” Li sighed with a bitter smile.
Paying the price, her soul didn’t fade away into complete death; Li had rged her own life soul into Allen, creating a sort of symbiotic state of existence between them.
“What are you trying to say? How is it possible for you to beco like this?”
Li raised her head and starde at the Tulip, her gaze penetrating yet sohow gentle. She carressed the Tulip bud, looking at the figure within.
“In the previous life, when the master died… I heard a voice of death. I called out, wanting to follow my master in death… I don’t want to live in a world without my master… The death had probably pity and answers my pleas. However, the death told , master will return back to where he should belong and if I want to follow, there would be consequences I would pay…”
“Consequences…?” Maria asked in bewildernt.
“Yeah, consequences…” Li nodded. “Rebirth is not just a simple magic without any repercussions. It has sacrifices as well…”
“… …”
“Those who had co from the previous world, they call themselves returnees if I’m not mistaken… they didn’t know this but, due to it, they paid a price without realizing it…”
For example, Mia Bianchi. She had lost a part of her emotions—emotions towards love—a cursed to be alone forever.
Probably she had not noticed it but it wasn’t a trauma but a curse—a curse of fate. Fortunately, she had t Allen who was innately immune to a curse, changing her fate--or probably it was her destiny sicne teh beginning the mont she had desired him.
Mireya Icefang—familial bond. She had lost her affection to her clan in which, it shouldn’t have been possible as wolves has the strongest familial bond. In the previous world, what she desires the most apart from Allen was the prosperity of her clan but now she had beco a lone wolf…
Tang Yu—she should have died after eting the Arachne; Raya Idoria but Allen appeared and disturb their fate.
Celty whose obsession was akin to a curse--losing Allen would be her losing her sanity.
… And many more in which they still haven’t realized yet.
“… Most of them should have died without even eting Master again but Master had changed their fate without realizing it.” Li sighed. “Rebirth doesn’t co easily—because of Rebirth, a fate that was once weaved would be entangled again, so snapped while so will change into a new course…”
“That is why Rebirth is a forbidden thing in any kind of world… but so Gods just went and disturb this kind of system, turning everything into a ss…”
“Then, you’re saying that the price you pay…”
“Yeah, it’s my physical body…” Li shrug. “The Gods who had disturbed fate knows of this aftereffect before they did sothing like this. Thus, they had already prepared things beforehand. There might be consequences but it was randomized and was pushed to least possible sacrifices they could have—those things that are difficult to have an effect in life and hardly noticeable… but mine was different. I don’t want to just return… I want to beco one with my master that is my dearest wish. To be able to help him when needed, protect him just as he had protected all those years… I want to repay the favor…”
“And so, I paid a huge price and that is my physical existence…!” She cocked her adorable cute head as she looked at Maria Makiling. Then, she suddenly flashed a bitter smile. “I was actually wrong—”
“What?” Maria Makiling looked at Li, startled. What did she an?
“At that ti, I was just a monster with little intelligence and so I made a mistake. I wished for sothing I couldn’t revert back… see? Without my physical body, how could I protect my master and save him whenever he needed it?” Li looked at her translucent body. Right now, she was using her magic power to materialize but it wouldn’t last long. Tears suddenly began to roll down her cheeks—though calling it tears would be sowhat strange as it was just a liquid that would be absorbed in her body the mont it fell down.
This was not the first ti she regretted the past.
However, now that things had gone like this, there was nothing Li could do but sigh and bury her bitterness deep within her heart.
“I only exist in master’s soul realm—of course, with this I have much power to protect him from inside. And had even learned so new things, a revelation for all of this happening…”
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“What do you an? Talk clearly…” Maria Makiling frowned and confusion appeared on her face.
But Li shook her head. “I can’t say too much. Master Solomon had warned not to because he said that—the more master or the people around him learned of it, the more the impending fate would occur. Right now, I couldn’t make another fatal mistake that I had made… all I can do now is do everything I can and could…”
“Solomon…?”
“Un, before he had disappeared, Master Solomon had taught everything and even, in the end, passes all of his mories, even those that he couldn’t give back to master… Thus, my intelligence had sowhat grown…”
“Then why are you telling all of this…?”
“Because I choose to have fate in you—!” Li said with a determined expression.
“… …”
“I can’t protect my master outside, but you can…”
“Why ? There are many people wanted to do the sa thing for that man. They were even willing to throw their lives away without hesitation just for him! Of course, I would do the sa but not because of affection but because I had a debt I wanted to repay—not love, not whatsoever.” Maria Makiling frowned and said with a cold voice.
“I know…” Li was unfazed and walked towards the flower holding Allen. Gently stroking the surface, Li’s lips curled into a beautiful smile. “However, that is also the reason why I can leave master to you…”
“What?”
Li turned around and faced her again. “They love master just like … I am not saying that it was bad but that is also not good all the ti. I can’t say much to the others but I can also understand because I’m certain that what I would do, they would also do with just a second of hesitation.”
“For Master, even if it ant destroying the whole world, killing millions of people, destroying every life in the Thousand Worlds—we wouldn’t hesitate to accompany him—till the depths of Hell! We wouldn’t care what other people think; morals? Principle? Good? Bad? Evil? We won’t care because our lives depend on him. Our happiness depends on him.”
“… …??!”
“If he was hurt, we would rage because it was similar to hurting us. If he was sad, then we also fell down and cried, sobbed and wail. If he was happy then our lives will also be feeling complete and content… “
“You’re depending on him too much! That I can’t agree. You also have your own life—why rely on him?”
“… …”
“Besides, how can you be sure that the others would also feel the sa?!” Maria Makiling admonished with a cold icy voice. She really can’t accept how foolish it was.
“Because we love him…!!” A relaxed smile appeared on Li’s face.
There was love in her eyes, and it was clearly very strong.
Maria Makiling’s eyes widened in shock. Li’s expression doesn’t answer the question but as if stating a fact—a logic!
But how?
But why?
Maria Makiling had never trusted love. She had given her heart once but in the end, everything of it was just her fake reality, a delusion that love can be so sweet when it was in fact, a massive cauldron of pain. The heart you gave could be torn apart when you wanted it back.
When you hold it again, it wasn’t whole anymore but just a piece of it!
What’s there to love when you received in return was nothing but pain…?
Li didn’t care about Maria Makiling’s expression as she looked at her directly without flinching a bit. “That huge part inside of us, souls or whatnot, all of them had his existence within it. We lost concern about the world a long ti ago, with all of its complexity, pain, problems, troubles, we already throw them all away."
"What we wanted was just one single thing. We just want to be rembered in a way where we can an everything to a single person we cherished the most.”
“Because of him, he reminded us what it’s like to live in a mont, be happy and be loved. He understands us and protected us not physically but ntally and spiritually as well. From feeling alone, depressed, we beca content and filled with love and happiness. And so, in return, what we wanted was also to save him from all the insecurities this world has created for him.”
“In the deepest part of us, we might have already understood loving him was the most painful thing in this world—even still, we grabbed the bullet he offered, loaded the gun in our hands and prepared ourselves to die…for him, and for him alone…”
Liking soone might just be a deception of this world. Reason knows that there is never a reason to like soone because they are just repulsive creatures in actuality.
Soone said before that, if a woman loves soone, their IQ would surely turn zero. And that if your love wasn’t similar, then, it ant that she didn’t really love you at all… it was just a misconception of adoration and worship—sadly, these two things were the farthest thing to love…
But Li and the others, if what the forr said was the truth, then, Maria Makiling was certain that their IQ’s didn’t just beco zero, it had already turned into a negative number!
Fools of love.
These won had beco dented…!
A disappointnt and aversion flashed across Maria Makiling’s eyes, however, for so reason, Maria Makiling also felt a bit envious. Such pure-hearted love—she was once like that but in the end, she fell into the abyss of hate and pain. And then found herself having difficulties in standing back up, no matter how she wanted.
“Just what is it that you wanted to do…?” Thus, she could only sigh.
Li smiled. However, her feet were already started to beco a blub of water but she didn’t care and start directly at Maria Makiling.
“Please, I’m begging you—no matter what happens; protect master—to any kind of enemies, including us and himself…”
“Why are you always speaking in riddles…?!” Maria Makiling exclaid in anger.
“Sister Maria, you who were not affected by any kind of outer influences and can think through with clear mind and reason, would know when you will appear or not… just like what you always did up until now."
"You know what you need to do when everything turns awry—you can admonish and scold master, because you might think it was wrong, unlike us who were clouded by love and affection, that always thought what he did and do in the future will always be right--that he would never make a mistake…!”
“If you can think like this, then you can do the sa… do you not?!”
“Hmm,” Li shook her head with a bitter smile. “For , although I can think logically, my actions will always be the opposite. Because, in my heart, nothing is much more important than the master—everything else is just unnecessary additions… Whatever my reason dictates, my action prevails.”
“… …”
“Please keep looking after my master…”
Maria Makiling’s face was a bit unsightly as she stared angrily at Li.
The way she looked right now caused her fury to flare up. “I’m not a babysitter…” she said, glaring at her.
“I beg of you…” Li bowed her head to her causing Maria Makiling’s face to beco extrely distorted.
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“Brother Wolf, Lord Wolf, please don’t co over here. My at doesn’t taste good, haven’t you heard that human at is sour…” Mulan continuously backed away on a quivering sword with a slightly pale face. One hand held onto the sword on the side while the other grasped her storage bag.
Obviously, her hands are not shaking because of the cold.
However, it was certainly not because she was terrified and didn’t learn fighting—it was a natural psychological phenonon.
In fact, she was hailed as a prodigy of her clan-but sadly, this was the very first ti she had been in this kind of situation. Besides, her age was just a bit 16 years old.
In her entire life, this would be the very first ti she would fight a powerful monster, much less a ferocious one at that.
Her nervous little eyes looked into the giant wolf’s big eyes. That wolf wasn’t small. Probably over two to three ters tall, with a mohawk-like mane composed of blazing flas that extended from its head through its tail.
Several crimson colored spikes can now be seen protruding on its head, while the rest of them were on its neck running till its tail.
It has crimson colored fur on its face and legs which was the sa color with the flas emitting from its body. At the upper part of its mouth was a pair of dagger-like sharp fangs like a prival saber tooth-tiger.
With ruby colored pupils, it radiated despair against soone like her.
It was probably amused watching her silly self, trembling in fear causing her mind to be blank. She didn’t know what to do…!!
She didn’t know what kind of monster it was but she was certain that it would be above Foundation Building Rank. In fact, even if it was below Foundation Building Rank, for soone like her who hadn’t even reach King stage and was still a peak Grandmaster rank, this monster spelled despair for her!
Tears started falling on her eyes as her body trembled when it saw the wolf walked like so friggin cat in a ramp.
Its ruby colored eyes emitted a deep ice cold radiance, its saliva dripped from the corner of its mouth.
Mulan nearly cried but had no tears as her chest unceasingly grieved about how bad her luck was.
Just what did she do to rit this kind of things…?!
Just what did she do to that b*tch for her to plan her like this…?
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