Luna curled her body and closed her eyes, listening as the commotion became more intense.
The additional pain on her cheek clouded her mind as her fever steered back unpleasant memories about her childhood.
It was winter when her father forced her inflicted pain on Gong Xu.
Her brother was standing in the middle of vast plains with snow covered his barefoot, his small and frail body, that only wrapped with thin clothes, trembling uncontrollably. His lips had turned purple, but he stood there, refused to give up.
"The longer you do it, the more he will suffer." Modama's voice was as cold as the weather at that time.
Luna was only ten years old while Gong Xu barely six years old. Both children suffered under the cold wind that bit their skin.
"Father…" The young version of Luna whimpered, her teeth were clattering when another wind from the west passed her face.
Despite she was wearing a thick white fur cloak, it didn't help her much in this kind of condition. She was shivering due to fear and cold.
Luna kept shaking her head, refused to hurt her brother. "Father… I don't want…"
Modama stared down at his daughter impassively as he declared loud and clear. "We will not going back until you manage to do it. There is no place for weak people in this world, if you soft hearted to your enemy, they will use your kindness to destroy you! Like what they had done to your grandparents. They will hunt you like an animal and killed your family right in front of your eyes, forcing you to watch those nightmares unfold, before eventually kill you. But, you have died inside even before they killed your mortal body."
Modama averted his bleak gaze and looked at into the distance.
"They had done this to me. They killed my parents in front of me, maimed my brother and sister. I couldn't do anything because I didn't have power to prevent that from happening. I was weak!"
As long as she could remember, she had heard about this story over and over again. How she didn't know what her father intention?
"I will destroy their family like what they had done to mine!"
Due to her ability, Luna could feel the hatred that didn't belong to her from Modama. She didn't like this feeling, but she couldn't shake it off either.
"But, you destroy our family by doing this…" Luna murmured.
She maybe appeared as a ten years old girl, but all the hardship that her father had put on her, had developed her own judgment.
Those people from Xiao Empire had killed her grandparents and all of her father sibling, destroy Modama's childhood, but that didn't justify his action to destroy his own family now.
A harsh slap landed on her cheek, the strength was so great that was enough to send her fell on the thick snow beneath her feet.
"Do you think if the news comes out about the survival of mind controller you can still have your family!? There is no place for people like us!" Modama glared at his daughter ferociously. "We will not live in peace until we hold the supreme power and get rid those people who wanted to destroy us!"
Luna held her burning cheek and gritted her teeth to hold back the clattering sound from her teeth.
"We will destroy them before they destroy us! Do you understand!?"
The little girl who still sat on the thick snow and had her feet and arse soaked, nodding her head while holding back her tears.
"Now stop being weak and do what you need to do before your brother died under this weather!!!"
Luna looked at her brother who was hugging his tinny body, his breath became uneven as a white air came out from between his quivering lips.
"Do it."