Kill no more volume 08, p.7
Kill No More - Volume 08, page 7
Seeing Baolilong was really about to walk away as a 5 year old child (while naked), Daylight wanted to go up and stop him.
Baolilong pouted its face, and spit out a bolt of electricity as it yelled, “You’re not papa! You can’t touch Baolilong.”
Daylight had little time to react, and as he was about to be hit by the bolt, a figure jumped in front of him and yelled, “Your Highness, please don’t be mad. Master didn’t do it intentionally.”
Baolilong probably also knew Daylight was just worried about it. But as a Dragon Knight, Baolilong thought Daylight should know not to touch another’s Dragon.
Baolilong stood still though still pouting. A figure also walked to Baolilong, and took it up into its arms. Strangely, Baolilong didn’t seem to resist at all.
The figure slowly turned around. It looked like a young person of about fifteen or so of age, and it had an elegant face. Its golden eyes seem to suggest a sense of maturity a person of this age shouldn’t have.
One could call it a young man, but it had no characteristics a male should have, or one could call it a young woman, but its chest was flat, and it had no breasts either. It had a head full of long and dense red hair, reaching all the way to its knees, covering its naked body.
“Flames…” Daylight sighed in relief. Luckily Flames was there, otherwise, not being able to touch Baolilong, Daylight really didn’t know how to stop it from leaving.
Since Flames hadn’t matured, and therefore had no gender, the people standing by didn’t know where to put their eyes on its naked body. By this point, Yulie had already tilted her head with a blush.
Daylight, on the other hand, carelessly walked over. He had already seen Flames in its human form, but Flames’ capacity to maintain human form was a bit low, and therefore could only transform into a person for a short time. It was also difficult for Flames to maintain in this form, so it usually preferred not to.
“Master, since you will be training, how about I take Its Highness to find its master?” Flames suggested.
Daylight seemed shocked, “You can turn into a human for a long time now?”
Flames nodded, then explained, “With some effort, I could probably do it for five to six hours. When I’m sure there’s no humans nearby, I could take Its Highness as a Dragon, and if there are people, I will take my human form.”
Daylight thought with a frown. Flames and Baolilong would indeed have nothing to do while he’s training, so it would be better to let them to find Liola in the meantime. If they really do find him, Daylight could use his telepathy with Flames to talk to Liola for a plan.
Besides, Daylight had faith in Flames. After all, Flames was older, and it was mature by nature, so it should be able to take good care of itself and Baolilong.
Daylight then nodded, “Okay, you take Baolilong to look for Liola. But if you don’t find him, come back ten days before the duel at the latest.”
“Yes, master.”
Flames nodded seriously, then turned around to leave. As a Dragon, it had nothing to pack. This world was filled with forests and grasslands, so food could be hunted on the way.
“Flames!” Baolilong yelled.
Flames answered reflexively, “Yes, Your Highness?”
Baolilong looked with skeptical eyes, “What about clothes? Papa said I can’t go out without wearing clothes?”
“Did he?” Flames looked at its own naked body, and tilted its head, “It should be fine? I don’t have a gender yet.”
Baolilong nodded somewhat understandingly. It didn’t care, since Dragons never wore clothes. After deciding not to wear anything, the two “people” happily resumed their journey to find papa.
“W-wait!” Daylight tried to stop them, and he began to regret. Perhaps letting these two “people” walk out like this wouldn’t be a good idea…
* * *
“A bit stronger, and faster with the fireballs.”
Kaiser continued to sustain the headache resulting from overexerting his spiritual force. Every fireball he shot, he felt like someone was breaking his head open with an axe, but White Bombs continued shoot out from his gun one by one.
Gle’s cold voice beside him felt like it was coming from afar, almost to the point where he couldn’t hear. The only thing in his mind now was, three months, three months…
‘Liola was too strong!’ This was something Kaiser had never thought he’d hate so much. He even hoped Lancelot was here, so he could seal Liola again.
Eventually, darkness fell before his eyes. But Kaiser used the edge of his gun and slammed his thighs, forcefully using the pain to drag his consciousness back. Another White Fireball shot out from the barrel of his gun.
As Kaiser yelled loudly, a larger-than-before Fireball shot out into the sky. It then exploded like a giant firework in the sky, as if it was being juxtaposed with Kaiser’s odd declaration,
“Damn! It’s not your time to die!”
* * *
Daylight was naked, and soaked in a large, wooden barrel. The barrel was full of nauseating slime, and any ordinary person would want to vomit and get as far away from it as possible.
Daylight, however, didn’t seem to smell anything. He sat cross-legged in it, and exerted the Ki he just learnt around and around his body. Signals of exhaustion came from his body, and overexerting his Ki made him feel pain in every nerve in his body, but he continued to sit like a statue. There was no pain on his face, instead there was only unequalled determination.
A middle-aged man sitting next to him looked out the window, then said, “The effect of the medicine is gone. Go train outside. I’ll tell you when the next barrel of medicine is done.”
Daylight opened his eyes slowly, and nodded to the middle-aged man.
Jumping out of the wooden barrel, Daylight grabbed his shirt and pants to put them on. He didn’t seem to even notice the disgusting slime on him, and he didn’t bother even washing his hand, because he didn’t have the time.
He stepped out of the medicine room, and quickly walked to the yard. Wanyuan was leisurely sitting on a bench. Without even looking at Daylight, he pointed his pipe at the four bags next to him, then resumed smoking leisurely.
Daylight quickly tied those four bags to his four limbs, then ran up the hill without even looking back.
Wanyuan looked as Daylight ran away. He tapped his pipe, then said to Little Grass next to him, “After supper, you go find something even heavier.”
Hearing this, Little Grass said with a long face, “Master, those bags were already filled with iron. If you want something heavier, then we’d have to buy gold.”
“Then buy gold.” Wanyuan tapped his pipe again.
* * *
‘Where could I find Anise?’ Liola walked into the Bandit Mountains without any reason or logic. He believed, the place where he first arrived in this world was where he would find the answer he had been searching for.
No matter how much area the Bandit Mountains spans, Liola walked through all of it step by step. His body was not tired, but his soul was more tired than the twenty years of training he had received from Gle.
On one hand he desperately wanted to find Anise, on another he felt uneasy. This dilemma made his soul feel even more tortured.
“Promise me, you won’t kill anymore, okay?”
‘Anise, if you’re the White Dragon, you have no reason to ask me not to kill, right? After all, didn’t the White Dragon want me to kill the Dragon Emperor, right?’
“I lied to you, the necklace can only allow one person leave…”
‘Then, how did Yasha go with me? Anise, would you give me an explanation?’
Yandi quietly followed Liola and looked at his back, then into the sky. The intense sunlight had a color similar to Anise’s cream hair. She began to talk towards the sun,
“Sister, please don’t lie to him…”
* * *
The three people who arrived here together, went on three different journeys, all in pursuit of the same final result.
Chapter 5 : One Soul, Two Names
* * *
Liola walked through most of the Bandit Mountains with Yandi, but Anise was nowhere to be found. He couldn’t resist holding the Dragon Cross Necklace tightly. Of course, the necklace was now with him instead of Yandi.
“Where are you?” Liola murmured. However, unexpectedly, the necklace did not emit any light, nor make any sound.
Although Liola became more anxious, Yandi seemed to be unexpectedly patient, despite her normal hot temper. In fact, because of the rumor of Anise being alive, she patiently went everywhere Anise had been. Even though she didn’t see Anise, she proved the rumors were not groundless with her own power.
Being keen eyed, she suddenly saw something floating around on a tree from afar. She beckoned, “Follow me.” And then she began to run without turning her head.
She grabbed the small piece of cloth hanging on a tree branch. In Liola’s eyes, there was nothing special about it, but Yandi examined it attentively, while she thought out loud,
“Green, embroidered, and the material is light. This should be a piece of cloth from a woman’s clothing.”
“So what?” Liola tried to be patient and asked.
“Why would a woman be around here? Even if there was a woman among Bandits, she would never walk alone in these forests.”
Yandi gestured around as she continued to explain, “Look, the grass and trees are all undamaged, so obviously there weren’t many who passed by. Perhaps it was a few, or maybe even one. A group of a few people including a woman is unlikely to be passing by here. Even I wouldn’t dare to walk through here if it weren’t for you being here.”
“Is it Anise?” Liola’s heart skipped a beat.
“I don’t know. Sister has no habit of using fragrance, and her clothes weren’t anything special. It’s impossible to determine if it was her just from this cloth.”
Yandi said honestly, then continued, “Since we are basically wandering around aimlessly, we may as well follow this lead.”
Liola nodded, and he lead Yandi in the direction where the cloth pointed. On the way, he cut off the branches, so Yandi could have a much easier time to walk through. She looked at the small path the Assassin created for her, and followed quietly, not sure how she felt about it.
After walking for a short while, the Assassin suddenly stopped with a frown. Yandi opened her mouth and asked, “What’s wrong?”
“Ahead of us, there’s someone, just one person.”
Yandi was shock. After exchanging glances with the Assassin, they ran forward as fast as they could.
Liola grabbed Yandi’s arm and ran with her. For some reason, he was now afraid of seeing Anise by himself, so even if it slowed him down, he still held onto Yandi.
“There’s an empty space!” Yandi yelled, and Liola had already noticed it. They continued to run as fast as they could, but as soon as they stepped into the empty space, Liola’s sensed the person had suddenly disappeared. The person… was gone. Not moving away, just suddenly disappeared.
Liola glanced around the place. He was certain he sensed someone here before, so how could it suddenly disappear?
“Just a plain, large rock…”
Liola heard Yandi’s sound of murmur, then turned around to look. An ordinary rock appeared in front of his eyes. With the trees and grass around it, this rock seemed rather out of the ordinary.
Yandi walked slowly towards the rock, and suddenly noticed there were words carved into the rock. She read it out loud, “Who you are and where you’re from are not important, what’s important is who you want to be, and where you want to go.”
Every word Yandi uttered left a mark in Liola’s mind.
‘This couldn’t possibly be a coincidence. Could these words be left behind by Anise? Why would she leave words behind, but be unwilling to appear before me?’
Liola walked towards the rock, and writing on the rock was identical to the letter Anise had left him. He could not help but stroke the writing lightly on the rock.
‘Perhaps she hadn’t gotten far!’ Liola suddenly got up, and looked around, wondering which direction he should go to find her.
“You can stop looking.” Yandi said instead, “I understand what sister means.”
Liola was shocked. The silver eyes looked towards Yandi, waiting for her explanation.
“She won’t appear, no matter where you look, unless…” Yandi crouched down and touched the writing, “What you’re looking for isn’t Anise, but the answers to the questions in your heart.”
Yandi raised her head, and looked sharply at Liola, “Do you want to stay?”
Liola stumbled, but could not bring himself to answer.
“Do you want to leave?” Yandi approached Liola, her shining eyes made Liola fluster.
“Do you want to be Silver Moon?” She had no plans of letting the Assassin off.
Yandi gritted her teeth, and spit out the cruelest question, “Or do you want to go back to be the Dragon Emperor’s son? Kill your father, and replace him!”
Liola took a deep breath, and said with a trembling voice, “I can’t kill.”
“What if sister asks you to kill?” Yandi’s face was practically in front of Liola’s eyes. Her hands were also holding the Assassin’s shoulder to stop him from running.
Liola turned his face, trying to avoid Yandi’s eyes. He answered, “If it’s Anise’s request, I will kill.” The Assassin didn’t notice the shaking in his own voice.
Yandi looked at him for a long time, and said slowly, “Lies.”
“I’m not!” Liola yelled back almost immediately, like a cat with its tail stepped on.
“What if your companions don’t want you to kill, but Anise does?” Yandi asked again.
Liola stared blankly. He had never thought about such a dilemma. He was hesitating, but he didn’t know why he was hesitating.
Anise was the most important, isn’t it? But Kaiser, Daylight, Purity, and Meinan, they’re important too. Which one was more important? The Assassin couldn’t decide.
Facing the uncertain Assassin, Yandi sighed, “Silver Moon, do you still not understand? You’ve met good companions and Anise. Anise doesn’t want to interfere with your decision, and your companions wouldn’t, either. On the contrary, they are all waiting for your decision. You must choose your own path.”
“My… decision…” Liola panicked. Was he the one who had to decide? He had to decide by himself? No one would tell him what to do? Suggest to him, or even commanding him would be better.
“We can stop looking. When you have decided on an answer, everything will come to you.”
Yandi quietly walked away, to give Liola some personal space. She decided to do something more realistic, such as, putting up two hammocks, starting a fire, cook some food, etc.
“Taking good care of Silver Moon is probably the best way I could repay you.” Yandi raised her head to look at the full moon. Its color resembled Anise’s long hair.
“But, what exactly is he in your heart?”
* * *
Liola touched the writing on the rock, and repeated the words again and again, but the answer did not come to him, and instead make him fall even deeper into his perplexity.
He didn’t know how long this lasted when he felt a bit stiff in his body. He changed his posture, and sat on top of the rock, but he unknowingly lied down slowly. This was just like the first memory he had of this world. Luckily the rock was large enough that, if he curled slightly, he could lie on the rock with his face to the sky.
The sky was already covered with his stars. Liola remembered the sun was still up just then. It wasn’t until now that he realized he had already been thinking since when the sun was still up to when the sky was covered in stars. No… perhaps even longer. When he first woke up at Skyward Overlook, he had probably began to think, and he was never brave enough to admit it.
“Which one do I feel more familiar, the smell of metal, or the smell of wood?”
“Magic, sword, Mechas, Dragons… Dragons!”
Liola suddenly stood up. Crap! He had completely forgotten about Baolilong. Where was it now? Hopefully not where the Leader was at?
Liola felt anxious. No one knew the Leader’s experiments better than him. He would never allow the possibility of Baolilong becoming the materials for experiment.
“And Kaiser, Kaiser…” Liola’s face went pale.
How could he be so crazy, leaving Kaiser and Baolilong with the Leader? If something happened to either of them, he would never be able to forgive himself.
