Temple Girl
34. Reckon

"Because of me," his voice was slowed down and uttered off-goals, so slowly that Chiharu felt her hair standing on its back. "had killed a God, just like you."

The girl's face felt pale, blood as if it was being absorbed from her skin so it felt so white. His lips that were blue with cold air seemed to tremble, his eyeballs staring at Gin with a horrified and sinister look. Vibrating in fear until the girl took several steps back to neutralize her feelings, she tried to digest any information to refute or defuse everything that was now pounding.

"It feels like calling the God of immortal beings is a mistake, because even Gods or Goddesses can still disappear and disappear. Like the Earth God before, and like the Nurturing Goddess." Gin's explanation further left Chiharu clueless, staring at the man as if the most dangerous being she had ever encountered.

His voice did not come out at all even though a lot of what the girl wanted to ask, the heat of the sun was getting up. Despite the coldness that bit the bone remained reluctant to stay away, his head felt empty. He kept trying to get his words out, "ba–how can it be?" his voice felt heavy and heavy.

Gin chuckled for a moment, feeling strange when talking about the past he had buried so deeply. "Nobody knows this secret, not even the elders." now the past is trying to come back to the surface to be revealed before teenage girls who are even very young.

"Who knows that when you absorb the core of the Earth God until it disappears, you are granted immortality just like the other Gods." Gin's gaze, tone of voice, tone of voice, as well as his manner of speaking reminded Chiharu of this man's bad attitude. He corners Chiharu, and feels shocked when Gin finds out her story even when the girl is not telling it.

The girl grew even paler when Gin was able to explain the events of his past precisely, as if he was one of the cast. Feeling how Chiharu is going through her suffering, how the girl was thrown away and not wanted Gin as if she could feel it all. "Bagamanauto–"

"How do I know?" cut the man off quickly, unavoidably as the man made his way back towards the temple where they were staying. "Because I can taste a person's spiritual energy, I know how he lives. His past, everything.

"Chiharu, I know everything about you."

***

The fragments of the bowl were heard again that afternoon, the girl again dropped the bowl for her lunch. This has happened the third time, when staring at the eyeball as dark as that night then only the innocence that was in it because Chiharu seemed to have a different body and soul place.

Fu and Su who saw it were worried because the girl felt so empty and empty, "Mr Gin is Miss okay?" Fu asked with a worried tone behind it, the tea shakes sounded relaxed from the man that Fu was referring to. Enjoying the thick yellowish water, and then answer the potluck.

"A very peaceful day." the white mane commented when he saw Fu and Su stir because Chiharu was really like an undead, even he did not answer when his two servants asked the girl's condition.

Chiharu's first bribe manages to miss and fall all over the dining table, painstakingly cleaning up the food scraps lodged in Chiharu's face. Without asking anything and just showing that attention, maybe if Chiharu's soul was here the girl would come back to scold him. He said he was weird and stuff like that.

Staring at Chiharu's pale face, Gin's fingers stretched out to touch the girl's forehead and then felt the girl's body temperature in her hands. Frowning when Chiharu's body temperature felt so high, the dining table that blocked their distance was thrown away by the man.

Gin approached the girl's face, pressed his forehead and changed his face when he learned that she had a fever with a high temperature. And the treatment was also successful in getting Chiharu's soul back to reality, surprised when the yellow-styled man's figure was so close to his face. The red hue stuck out hot, until Chiharu's entire body blushed.

"What are you doing anyway?!" the girl's voice trembled as Gin began to distance himself from Chiharu, his gaze probing. Think about what drugs are effective for a human fever. Because the man wasn't very proficient in medicine.

"You have a fever, I'm remembering what medicine is suitable to lower your fever."

Both of his eyes were closed, his body was uncomfortable due to the disturbing fever. Conversations about Gin back ringing, divided to make the dizziness even more crashing himself. What if Chiharu becomes an immortal? Then why could the elders not know when Gin killed a Goddess?

Really why there are so many things that Chiharu does not know, why fever attacks him when everything feels so dizzying. Then since when did Gin find out about his past, t!it's not fair that the man knows all about himself. However, Chiharu did not know anything about the man at all. Was their meeting a fate or just a coincidence? Chiharu doesn't know.

It seems that the man also knew that he had committed the forbidden blood oath, Gin's incomprehensible strange treatment Chiharu became one of the centers of his pain. Something cold touched his forehead, relieving his pain slowly and providing a sense of comfort. In between his consciousness he was still able to stare at the silvery white mane, making him think of Mr. Qi who used to always take care of him.

"You've always liked that Mr. Qi huh." even though Chiharu's consciousness almost disappeared, he was still able to hear that voice. A familiar voice in his ears, the girl smiled at the name of Mr. Qi.

Memories of being with Mr. Qi returned to his memory, "I've always liked Mr. Qi."

"Why?"

The girl tried to think for a moment, why? Why did he like Mr Qi? Because Mr. Qi gave life to him, saved him from death, gave him a place where he could return. The two blue eyeballs emanating warmly from Mr. Qi filled the entire scope of Chiharu's heart, making her smile even wider. "Because Mr. Qi is my life." then the darkness took Chiharu away from the real world.

***

Gin looked at the girl before him, watching the girl with a big smile there. Seeing the current Chiharu for some reason making the buried past inside the man stick out again, the man felt that this girl was so similar to him in the past. Gained the love of a Goddess, well maintained until that time Gin was very admired the figure of a great God.

Is it possible that the meeting between the two of them is not a coincidence? Rather than a tangle of destiny that seeks to bring the two together, to uncover the takbir of the buried past. Gin touched the gentle manes of the girl who was now closing her eyes quietly, undisturbed though her fever continued to fall.

Maybe if Chiharu found out what the man was doing, the girl wouldn't be enough with just an apology. However, Gin's head had indeed from the beginning been getting crazier when it came to the girl. The sun began to turn yellow to rise, the silhouette of Gin's face was able to make anyone who saw him fascinated. The man did not look like a Devil or an ugly-faced Demon, the man was so handsome that he almost rivaled the Gods.

It was so beautiful that it came from the world of the sky, so radiant. His gaze was directed at Chiharu's pink lips, bringing her face closer there to steal a warm kiss from the girl. Slowly just to feel the warm object stuck in the man's lips, he had gone mad when taking advantage of Chiharu who was helpless like now. Just like the girl stole a kiss from him when the chain tied up a Gin, it's not a big deal.

This kiss was merely retaliation for the naughty girl who dared to tie him up twice, this girl indeed had to be punished. It was not a great thing, even though it had said so in his heart. His body and heart had betrayed Gin for overreacting, why he wanted Chiharu so much. The little girl had unknowingly entered his life, ravaging him. Perhaps this feeling grew on the day of their first meeting, as Gin could not get away from the girl for a moment.

The man rubbed his face in frustration as Chiharu looked unperturbed by the treatment he received thanks to her, sighing harshly to simply reduce the overreaction to the attack he gave. "You always ask me why I do that?" ask the man who he knows.

Smiling gently and then touching the hair between the fingers of Gin, feels comfortable. "This is why I do the weird things you say."

And to reduce his frustration, Gin went from there. He needed to calm himself for a moment, breathe fresh air and ease his shoulders. He's really crazy right now.

The To Be Continued...