"..." It took a while, but it was obvious that this mont would co, in the midst of the heavy rain, covered in mud, a little blood, and exhausted, I find Yeom, who is also completely soaked.
"..." We are silently staring at each other, the situation is strange, I wonder what is going through her head, her gaze is a ss of emotions, and the red color is now completely black, indicating the danger I am in.
If I can no longer see the color of the aura as red, it ans that the level of danger is at a degree where I can be killed at any second by anything.
Yeom just looks at my dirty and slightly injured body from the falls on the ground, I don’t know what she will say, I just know that if I’m not careful, my life will end here.
"Why did you betray like this?" Yeom questions as if we were lovers, girlfriends, or sothing like that, but it is a fact that we never had anything really official because she never bothered to ask.
She just did what she wanted and said she loved , but without ever making anything official or telling anyone about our relationship.
"I... didn’t betray you," I respond honestly, there’s no way I can betray soone I’ve never really been involved with, if she never said anything to anyone, then what really proves that we were in sothing?
Since at most, she used for what she wanted and then didn’t care about it anymore.
And in the end, even if there was sothing between "us," it wasn’t , it was never who was here until a few weeks ago, Yui has already explained how this works more correctly for .
She said that whoever stays in the location until I appear is like an artificial soul based on , the curse creates a body and an artificial copy of my soul that will live in a similar way to .
But that will obviously be different for reasons like race, living environnt, and close people who will shape the ntality of the body until I appear, taking on much of what that copy represented.
"Didn’t betray you? Are you really going to say that sleeping with another woman is not betraying ?" Yeom speaks with a sarcastic smile as she walks towards , the sound of the rain being muffled by her footsteps.
The animals around have disappeared when she found , as if they were fleeing from her, as if she were a predator so dangerous that other beings dare not stay close to avoid being killed.
"I may have done that... but... it’s not like we were in a relationship, no one even knows anything," I try to be honest, lying here won’t help at all unfortunately, since Yanderes always find out.
She pushes to the muddy ground, the cold not being the biggest problem as the raindrops fall.
"We have nothing? Is that all that we have ans to you? NOTHING!" She speaks angrily at , a vein appearing on her forehead as her hands grip tightly due to the anger, I think about what to say to not die here and now, I still don’t want to die at least until I recover a little.
It would be terrible to already go to another world when I’m still mourning the friend I had to kill.
"I’m sorry..." I apologize, rembering a strange philosophy of life, won are always right, and all that’s left is to agree and apologize if you don’t want to get into a fight or argunt.
"Ugfh" I let out a groan of pain as she simply sits on my abdon, falling on purpose just to cause pain.
"Apologies? Is that all you have to say? Do you think that just because you apologized, I’ll lose all my anger?" Yeom speaks with a disturbing smile that is clearly just to not have an angry face.
"Maybe I’ve given you too much freedom, don’t you think?" Her anger seems to have diminished when she says this, the color that was once completely black is now an extrely dark red, which ans the danger zone has decreased.
"...Yes... maybe I’ve had too much freedom..." I agree with her, if apologizing helped, maybe agreeing with her is enough to reduce her anger to a more peaceful level.
She’s the type that has an explosive anger, she’s not the type that keeps her feelings and waits, so if she decides to do sothing to , she’ll do it right away.
Fortunately, she has already spent a large part of her anger on Yesheon, of course Yesheon must be dead, but at least now that Yeom has had ti to calm her anger, the danger I face is less.
"I’m glad you agree... I see you’ve made a lot of progress in your cultivation, it seems I can’t set you back to square one now, but I just won’t let you advance further, you agree with that, don’t you?" The way Yeom says this seems like a test.
"Yes... I won’t try to advance further," I don’t even think I could go much further, I think the reason I’ve stagnated in cultivation is that at more advanced levels, cultivators affect the soul and can even move their soul separately from the body or sothing like that.
However, I can’t move my soul out of my body, or rather, my curse binds my soul to the body, it must be preventing from advancing in cultivation so that I don’t have that ability.
"Yesheon is so incompetent, not only did she fail to heal you, but she also tried to steal you from , but it’s okay, she’ll never appear again, you’ll co to the sect with and be much more restricted," Yeom speaks authoritatively.
"If you want so much for everyone to know about us two, then I’ll make it clear to everyone that you are mine and only mine, and if I catch you betraying again, I’ll cut off your head and use it as decoration in my room," Yeom threatens, and I know she’s speaking seriously.
"Okay, ..." I just agree, I don’t have the energy to try to justify my actions or do much, I just want a single mont of peace to properly process Lyuei’s death.
"I only have one last question, Shizune," Yeom says as the color darkens again, becoming completely black, it seems we’re back at the beginning, I wonder what she’s going to ask.
"Who did this to you? Who was it that beat you?" Yeom speaks, referring to the blood on my clothes, although the rain has washed away much of it, there are still blood stains along with the mud.
’Ah... that’s it...’ I don’t know if I should say it was Lyuei, if I tell her it was her, Yeom might try to destroy Lyuei’s soul, and since Lyuei died recently, this could actually happen.
I don’t doubt that it would be easy for a powerful cultivator like her to find Lyuei’s soul, and even worse, it would be extrely easy for her to destroy Lyuei’s soul.
"I... fought a bandit and... aagh!" She grips my neck with both hands, choking , the grip is extrely strong and painful, and I can’t even breathe and can barely make any sound.
"Lie" Yeom says just a lie and chokes forcefully, if it weren’t for my miserable level of cultivation, this would have killed instantly, or perhaps she has controlled the strength to my current level.
"S-Sorry... I-I lied... I-I tell the truth" I say with difficulty as the tears stream down my face along with the rainwater that drips on my face, her furious gaze making my body shiver.
My hair moves in the mud due to the movents of my head trying to get air.
"If you lie to again, I will break your Dantian" She threatens with sothing extrely serious, a cultivator who loses their Dantian will never be able to cultivate again.
"It was... a friend... I fought with her and killed her in the end..." I tell the truth, fearing that she will break my Dantian, it’s not out of fear of losing my powers, but because the pain of that must be insanely terrible, and it will leave vulnerable for a long ti.
"Friend? Since when can you have friends? I was very clear when I told you to stay away from others, 1 month, 2 weeks and 4 days away from have made you a complete rebel," Yeom speaks without containing her discontent.
"You betrayed with her too?" Yeom imdiately links friendship to betrayal, questioning if I had sothing with Lyuei.
"No..." I deny having had anything with Lyuei.
"...Let’s go ho," It seems Yeom accepts this no, which is good because I can’t think of an excuse at the mont.
"P-Please don’t do anything to her soul" I speak with tears streaming down my face, it’s not enough that I’ve taken everything from her and even killed her, now I’ve put her soul in danger as well.
But I know that if I don’t do anything, Yeom will certainly destroy her soul, and if her soul is destroyed, she won’t even have the chance to reincarnate again like other cultivators.
"Do you think you have the right to ask that? We’ll talk at the sect, stay quiet the whole way, don’t make break your body to take you," Yeom says, getting up from my body and taking a sword from her storage ring.
She simply grabs my waist and throws on her back like a sack of potatoes.
"..." I decide to just stay silent as she asked, I’m too tired for anything, and anyway, I’m not lucky enough now to test how much Yeom can hold back.
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