Ryu didn't say anything for a long while until he pulled up a chair and sat across from her in silence. Looking into the eyes of this woman, he could feel that she had a story. It was just that he didn't care to find out what it was before.
The reality of the matter was that he didn't particularly care about Wobbling Fairy. He couldn't drum up sympathy for a woman he had no affection for. It also didn't help that he seed to have decided that he was a hypocrite now.
But what was a hypocrite if not self-contradicting? He did things according to how he felt.
If he had forgotten about her, he wouldn't have even minded leaving this world without saying goodbye. He wouldn't have felt the need to co here at all.
But since he had rembered how, why wouldn't he?
Wobbling Fairy looked at him with a sowhat silly smile that hid everything about her true self deep within her body. She didn't seem to be a woman he had slept with before at all, but maybe that only made sense.
By now, it had already been decades since the last ti he saw her. Ti flew by at a blazing pace, and yet here she was, still sipping her wine and staring out into the world without much focus at all.
There was silence between the two of them for an entire three days. Neither one said a word, though Wobbling Fairy offered Ryu wine several tis as though she had forgotten that he had rejected before, or because she thought he might have changed his mind.
There was sothing particularly innocent about her current appearance, an appearance that made her the darling of the Rebirthing Cultus Sect, one that made everyone want to protect her with their lives.
She looked like a woman who still carried a bit of baby fat on her cheeks, but she had an undisguised beauty nonetheless. It was likely she was being pulled in two different directions at once, one side toward an elegant maturity, while the other was holding onto a childhood that Ryu knew nothing about.
Maybe Ryu could have looked through Ailsa's mories to find out Wobbling Fairy's past, but his Dao Heart seed to have kicked in again. The idea of relying on a wife he had yet to capture back to snag another one didn't taste right in his mouth.
So, in the end, after accompanying Wobbling Fairy, he stood and extended a hand. Wobbling Fairy looked at the hand a bit confused, almost like a curious child. She had such a pure innocence in her gaze that Ryu felt even his own heart soften.
A part of him was telling him that this wasn't the real woman beneath it all. But after
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observing her for so long... he realized that while it was true that there was a very real piece of her that was buried, this piece was no more real than what he was seeing right now.
Both won were Wobbling Fairy. It was just that she wanted to forget another half of her.
That innocence, that purity, not of body, but rather of mind... it reminded him a lot of Yaana.
Wobbling Fairy was still blinking in confusion, but she took Ryu's hand nonetheless, blushing slightly when she felt his warmth.
That was when Ryu realized... this version of Wobbling Fairy truly had no idea what happened between them.
When he understood that she had accommodated him all these days, while he just sat there staring at her in silence, without saying a single word or complaining a single ti...
Ryu sighed and pulled Wobbling Fairy into his embrace.
The Faerie was taken aback, not expecting such a thing. The blush on her cheek beca even more furious and for the first ti, she struggled a little.
Ryu could rember the words Wobbling Fairy had first spoken to them when they t. Well, her projection, anyway.
-I don't like you. You're too arrogant.-
Ryu could imagine that her current self probably felt much the sa way. Or maybe she felt that his current self was different from the one she had t all those decades
ago.
Wobbling Fairy might not have mories of what happened between them, but she could more than likely feel the closeness that ca from facing a man who had her Primordial Yin in her.
"I... I..." Wobbling Fairy was completely flustered, not knowing how to deal with this situation.
For as long as he could rember, she had been under the protection of her sisters of the Sect. Whatever had happened in her past, at the very least, couldn't be rembered in this state.
As such, she had two personalities... one that grew up with those mories and one that didn't.
The current her was practically a blank slate.
Although she had felt that it was weird a man would co to her courtyard, all but barge in, and then accompany her for so long, the only thing she was actually sad about was the fact that he didn't want to accompany her for a drink.
However, after a slight struggle, tears began to pour out from Wobbling Fairy's eyes for reasons she didn't understand.
She was now just as stunned by the hug as she was her tears. But soon, her lips were quivering and her throat was hiccuping, her sobs choking out as she began to cry harder.
Ryu didn't say anything, not even bothering to catch the wine she had accidentally tipped over and spilled all over the ground.
He didn't know what this woman's story was, but what he did know was that he hadn't
felt right just leaving her here, so he had co.
And now that he was seeing such an innocent soul in this state, he found himself
feeling angry.
A flash of fury lit in his eyes before he reeled it in.
Who was making his woman cry like this?
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