Travel To The World Of Ca Li
The Moon that Cuddles with Fear!
"Why are you taking me, Ban Xia?"
Shen Yuan Zi's voice asked flatly. Despite that—'s uncomfortable wrinkles are attached to her charming face.
Under the towering cedar tree with rustling branches and gusts of skin-piercing night wind, the figure of Ban Xia wearing his mysterious clothes slowly let out a straightforward voice to reply.
"As per command, I carry out the task by adjusting all my actions for you to do." Ban Xia explained politely, even though the one standing in front of him right now is the non-scary Shen Yuan Zi, he is still a respectful subordinate. "Targets are all around. You'll take some approach."
Shen Yuan Zi lowered her gaze, not intending to say anything. However, Ban Xia once again spoke: "Target will come to you soon. I've already spread out a bit of my demonic aura to be detected by it."
After saying that, Ban Xia quickly parted then turned around to leave.
Shen Yuan Zi stood blankly under the cedar tree and looked at Ban Xia who disappeared in the darkness of the night, her lips involuntarily pinched tightly. He hesitated about this.
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"However, are you alone in a place like this at midnight?"
Throwing a serious question, Xiu Qixuan's gaze tightened and moved closely scrutinizing the surroundings.
The girl did not immediately realize that there was an awkward situation on the figure of her interlocutor.
Shen Yuan Zi's reddened eyes were shaken deeply, cold sweat flooding her body that was trembling full of agony as if an earthquake was just happening to her. His breathing rhythm was now irregular, his heart was pumping so fast, Shen Yuan Zi felt suffocated by invisible hands. It hurts!
He looked at the long branch containing the grilled fish in Xiu Qixuan's grasp in fear. He tried to move both of his legs to run away, however, nothing happened when his entire limb was squeezed out he could not feel.
"Urghs!" Shen Yuan Zi fell down curled with her eyes closed and her hands clutching her ears tightly as well as her head as unpleasant memories slowly flowed like pieces of collage that instantly submerged her to the bottom sea of suffering.
Bugs!
Bugs!
Bugs!
"It hurts.., it hurts me, please dad!"
The body of such a tiny child was filled with blood-red stains. It was sad to see the child's teeth stuck deep in his lips make a tear as he tried to resist the roar of tears.
He can't whine! He can't cry!
Because if that happens, this suffering will last longer.
A single tear flowed from his eye patch. His body was full of dry scars covered by new wounds.
"Why don't I have heavenly powers but instead have a stupid bastard like you?!!" The screams filled with echoes of the terrifying fury of the dragon-robed figure sounded loud buzzing.
The boy's fingers trembled up to reach impossibility. He looked at the figure of the father with a miserable plea wrapped in despair.
"A—, I'm not a-kan n-akal..," his voice that seemed choked weakened, slowly he lost all sense of feeling of his body. "K-please, dad...."
This pain was no longer foreign to him. He who at that time did not know what cruelty meant. All he knows is that all this hurt him.
A long plank with a thick hard angle was like a sharp pointed thorn and was always ripping through the flesh as well as the bones.
The figure of the officer who raised the board and unsheathed the thorny whip on him was also very familiar to give him a sense of anguish.
Slowly his consciousness was thinning in the snatches by the endless pain. He could still hear the voice of his father speaking incessantly.
"Slow out.., lock him in the cold palace! Don't let me see her again!"
Like a piece of worthless meat on a rotting cutting board. He was left to dry, by the man he still calls father.
"He's not human. He's a wolf and a dog."
"Look at her hair it's like a soul-eating monster!"
"Stupid. Don't touch him, he's a disaster bearer!
The servants who were ordered to take care of it even threw insults as well as mockery. Physically he's injured, mentally he's screwed.
Deep within him was already dry and shattered into pieces so that the tip could not even be seen. Because all he wanted was to disappear.
".....lia, Your Highness!!" Xiu Qixuan made an anxious voice, calling out repeatedly with her face covered in a feeling of confusion and worry. He crouched down before Shen Yuan Zi with his raised hand hesitating to touch that skinny, trembling-looking shoulder. "What's wrong? When you're afraid of fish?" Xiu Qixuan spoke alone, lifting and twirling the grilled fish puncture that had been used to crush on the figure of Shen Yuan Zi. "It's a scary weapon, isn't it?" He muttered foolishly.
"Urghs! Please, this hurts..," Shen Yuan Zi muttered. He curled up when he felt the touch. Like trying to hide again in a shell that makes him feel safe. He squeaked trying to summon the darkness within that could protect him "Mo—," Paused.
Grebe...
"Hngh, it's okay. It's okay..," Xiu Qixuan grabbed onto the trembling body and patted the skinny back gently. He constantly whispered soothing sentences in Shen Yuan Zi's ears. "I don't want to hit you. Its alright. Don't fear...,"
Shen Yuan Zi's body stiffened by an unfamiliar warmth. But, the comfortable feeling that surrounded him naturally rolled over making his body tension slowly decrease.
This overflowing fear gradually shrank away with just a single helping hand clutching it in a warm whisper.
Feeling the soft breath like the spring breeze and the sound of a small heartbeat. Each one of them was now silent, letting the moon crib that was staring at them from the sky work suck all the restlessness that existed.
The next second, when he felt that his interlocutor was calmer, Xiu Qixuan slowly pulled her body away. He slightly took some distance to stare dejectedly at the empty figure of Shen Yuan Zi.
Xiu Qixuan was aware. He'll understand. Attitude and gesture defense that is often seen when feeling touch. All that, perhaps because of Shen Yuan Zi's trauma of violence that had been experienced since he had not understood anything.
He did not know how the suffering went. And how long the torture took. But, Xiu Qixuan couldn't help but feel emotional.
Shen Yuan Zi looked extremely lonely and vulnerable. The birth of a demigod and human baby was indeed something impossible and Shen Yuan Zi's own existence was already hated by the world. But, what's wrong? indeed in this pitiful scarred condition—he can still destroy the world?
His life has suffered more than others until it feels like he cannot open his eyes because of violence and mental exclusion since childhood. Even though it was alive, it felt like it was dead.
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