Little ShiiShii carried Rai Shinah into the house, placing her on the bed. Her Mindscape shook due to her chaotic mental state, her body automatically started cultivating when she got near Little ShiiShii's body.
Shinah was close to breaking through to the next stage Spirit Warrior but her mental state nor body was strong enough to push through the bottleneck. Her unstable emotions kept causing her subconscious to reject her hold in her Mindscape. Her subconsciously made body kept fading in and out of her Mindscape.
Little ShiiShii fumbles around the contents of his medicine cabinet and pulls out a metal box with a burnt rock-like bottle and feeds her a drop of the translucent glowing-liquid. He anxiously applies pressure on her meridians helping her absorb the liquid.
Shinah felt a tingling shock and uncomfortable sting radiating from her bones. The dull pain left an electrocuted itchy sensation.
Shinah's eyes narrowed as the pain intensified becoming more unbearable with every passing second.
The pain felt like her bones were rubbing against a cheese grater, then melted against a scorching flame.
Shinah's body was drenched in a thick layer of sweat. She endured the excruciating pain for a month till the pain subsided. Her body was back to its feminine form, her plain dress clung to her petite toddler body frame soiled with splotches of red sticky fluid.
She relaxed her rigid position and sighed in relief. She raised her hand starring at the globs of impurities in the residue on her.
"Ughhhh.." I feel like crap, this is even worse than that uncomfortable feeling after sneezing, during that time of the month. My mood feels incredibly irritable, I feel like curling up under the blanket and sleeping for another week.
Light footsteps from a distance caught her attention, Shinah pulls the blanket up to her neck covering her tomato like appearance.
"Kitten, Your awake do you feel uncomfortable or aching anywhere?" Little ShiiShii places a large bucket of water down on the table next to her bed, while pulling her arm out to check her pulse.
Shinah pulls her arm back with more force than she intended.
"I can check myself." Shinah's directs her aggressive attitude towards Little ShiiShii.
She tested out the differences in her body... she didn't feel any discomfort. It's just her negative emotions we're overwhelming her. She felt so conflicted, she mistook Little ShiiShii as an aggressor testing her patience.
Her body's condition felt surprisingly stronger than before. Her joints were at least ten times more flexible, her muscles felt toned but light. She marveled at her excellent new physique, perfect for cultivating spirit energy! She now had the strength she needed to match her accelerated cultivating speed. This newfound strength with definitely come in handy when cultivating through the consolidation levels for future breakthroughs.
Shinah felt genuinely surprised yet slightly upset. "What did you give me, you know it modified my body's physique."
Little ShiiShii slurred his words in a dejected tone. "You-you..your upset with me? Why..."
"..." yes... no, not really... I'm just upset and your here. And you should learn not give me something like that without my permission.
"Why.. I... I didn't expect you to have such little trust in ..me. I wouldn't give you anything that could cause you harm.
Do you even know how precious your life is to me... your right, I fed it to you without your permission but so what ...it was to save your life.
So don't ask me to wait on your permission in this kind of situation, because I'd do it again without hesitation even if it means receiving your hatred afterwards. I figured you'd be thankful, not question me with that condescending tone.
Kitten your the one who let your emotions run rampant you were practically forcing yourself to face your bottleneck, you would have never broke through without my help.
And even after your emotions settled down I stayed by your side to aided you through your consolidation levels ...twice." Little ShiiShii explains in a panic, his haggard appearance showing signs of guilt and fear.
His heart felt an uncomfortable ache ...She's going to leave again...
"I don't care, tell me what it was it?" Why can't I stop myself, I can see he clearly is worried about me, why am I hurting him... is there a need for me to draw a line between us?
"... It was a rare form of soul essence from Master XiaoLong's cabinet, which I'll take full responsibility for... it was the strongest thing there... it was meant to help reform your body's tolerance and increased your strength.
You were stuck in that refining state for a month ...so it's only been a day out of your Mindscape.
But ...I stayed by your side cleaning off the impurity's oozing out your body and duel cultivating you through to Spirit Warrior Level Four Orange without rest, so the least you can do is not discredit or shame me for my efforts to keep you safe.
Never mind that... just go already your brothers been by your side since he found you last night, I'm sure you care more about his one night of sacrifice over a month of mine. I'd advise you to rest some more but you never listen to me, so just clean yourself up before leaving." Little ShiiShii explained with an hurt and irritated tone.
"Which brother?" Shinah's mumbles after a long awkward moment of silence.
"The strict one, that has the duel faucet fire-lightning attributes.. gold eyes, black hair— Kitten...You..what's with you. Shinah ...Why are you crying?" He fumbles in his inner robe pocket pulling out little cloth passing it to her.
Shen... her irritated mood extinguished, leaving her emotions in a fragile state.
"I'm hungry." Sorry Little ShiiShii I know I've hurt you, I seem to be good at doing that.
"... what would you like to eat? Are you really not going to check in with your brother?"
"Anything is good." I'm not myself, and I know that's not a reason, to treat you this way.
"Alright go wash up, I'll prepare the water for your bath, I leave some cut fruit on the table to hold you off till the foods prepared."
"Thank you." Shinah climbs out of bed slowly walking to her cabinet collecting a pink box containing two bottles of liquid a small wax covered square and a jar of jasmine flower petals; retreating to the back of the house where the bathing room was.
Little ShiiShii filled the round marble bath with water, before closing the folding screen around the tub. "I'll leave you some fresh water on the other side of the screen you could rinse off with. Send for me if you need more." With that he left silently.
Steam from the hot water clouded the washroom circling around Rai Shinah as she walked in. She poured some flower petals and oils into the bath tub before stripping down and entering.
The water sloshed around her as she sat down. She submerged her body under the water trying to cleanse the overwhelming sadness that sullied her. She scrubbed fiercely at the red residue on her body as if doing so would be the answer to all her problems.
Why am I so upset? Is it really because Shen's right? Or because I know nothing will be the same after this? I'm scared.. am I'm using that fear to push people away unjustly?
No...deep down I know what I have to do, so I cannot hesitate... I'll just enjoy what time I have left. There's no sense in being angry when I've made my decision.
Shinah drains out the dyed water and refills the bath... relaxing her body in the warm water, feeling at ease.
Yes .... it's time to put the plan in motion...blood will be shed.