"I... I..." what to say now? He could feel the warmth on his face, did it look like a cooked shrimp?
He lowered his head to the ground and did not dare to raise his eyes.
Could it be misunderstood? His head was a mess. The silence was pressing even more, and the more pressure he felt, the more he could not speak. It was as if he had entered an endless curse loop.
Taking a deep breath, he looked at Yun out of the corner of his eye, astonished by his trembling body. He was covering his eyes and face with his hands.
"Are you okay?" she said worriedly. All his thoughts were shattered by the worry, his only concern being what the problem was.
"Haha…" he was confronted with a smile that filled his ears and a smile so quiet that tears came to his eyes as he removed his hand from his face.
It froze.
Already a charismatic person, he seemed to have leveled up while laughing. His heart was pounding, he just felt as strange as he could be. He was stunned and couldn't even pay attention when the other person was laughing. Just...
What the hell was going on?
"Yun" slowly stood up as her laughter was cut off by a voice from the tent. When he opened the tent, he was facing Mei.
"Can we talk?"
After some hesitation, he glanced at Nanren behind him, shaking his head as he thought the matter would be important, though he would try to turn around as quickly as possible.
When he stepped outside and the two bodies separated, the remaining Nanren stood silently. Slowly getting over her surprise, she looked disgruntled at the entrance to the tent, where Yun had left. She pressed her lips and, turning her head hard, slipped into her overalls, turning off the only light source inside.
Compared to the excited conversation, cheerful laughter and fun outside, the inside of the tent was depressed and bored. Maybe he shouldn't have come to this camp in the first place.
His eyes were pensive and unfocused.
She felt very uncomfortable. Both...
Weren't they in the middle of an important conversation? Where did this girl come from? And he was targeting her!
Moreover, he was going to talk to Yun, why did he choose the girl? Weren't they brothers? So all good fraternity ends in front of a girl?
With a grunt, he slid further into his overalls angrily. He stood uneasily in this quiet environment, burying his head in the darkness.
It was the first time that silence had hurt him so much. In the past, when his uncle was not at home, there was no fight and noise, so he always wanted silence and peace. Now is...
Very uncomfortable.
***
He didn't know how much time passed, but with every second, his patience was getting weaker. With growing restlessness, he finally jumped out of his overalls.
What would he talk to a girl outside at night? Today, the two of them left and came back with a disheveled outfit.
Admittedly, the situation looked rather misunderstood. This afternoon, long after Mei and Yun left, she couldn't sit still and quietly followed under the pretext of 'a wanderlust'.
Already when he left, he saw Yun's fight with the bears, when they were about to return, he came back before them. He admits that even if he didn't go to look, he could have misunderstood this 'duo with messy clothes' situation.
But this is noon, now it is night time.
Thinking about it now, although Yun didn't pay attention to Mei at first, she was more careful after returning from the forest.
He jumped out. A strange flurry came over him. Although he couldn't make sense of the sudden crisis he felt for no reason, his only thought right now was to go and see it.
He did not realize that he was overreacting, nor that his thoughts and behaviors were gradually changing.
When will he realize if there is an abyss at the end of the road, as if he is being carried away by the flood of emotions without realizing it? It's just that the water he's dragged into right now is warm and still, more than he can feel.
When he got out of his tent, he looked around. They weren't there. Of course, there must be a private conversation.
Although Nanren couldn't understand why this girl was so obsessed with Yun, it was too glaring to bother him. He made his way into the forest, feeling even more restless as he looked around.
The breeze blew the tree branches, the leaves kept flying. He moved forward, trying to make his way in the moonlight.
There is no one.
As he was about to return, a blackness caught his eyes. A small, light-moving shadow. He's at knee level.
Frightened, he slowly backed away.
As he was about to turn back quickly, he saw the white hairs in the darkness. White ? He moved slowly, as if he could see the red eyes emerging.
The tension was at a high level, he forced himself to move forward. Red eyes? white hair?
It was definitely familiar.
"Yun!" When he saw the person sitting weakly at the foot of the tree, he ran towards him.
What is this?
His face looked paler, though he couldn't tell if it was moonlight or darkness. Why did his eyes suddenly turn red? He was worried, though he had no idea. What happened? Moreover, has Mei seen this state of her? It would be troublesome for Yun for a normal person to see.
He looked around.
As if she understood her intention, she heard a small voice "Mei has turned" she turned her head, why was her voice so weak?
"Yun what happened?" He leaned closer. Looking from here, it now seemed to take on an even more fragile appearance.
"Blood bags, missing. Either I forgot or… I don't know, they don't exist" he buried his head in his hand. His voice sounded very tired. Had he developed an addiction to blood? He was just very tired right now.
Next to them are a few butts and ashes. He seemed to have tried to use the nicotine to suppress this situation, but it must have failed.
He slowly lifted his head, had his eyes grown even sharper? As his gaze focused on himself, as if clamping down on his prey, he gasped for a moment, and all his feathers seemed to rear up. He shivered with chills and chills radiating down his spine, why is he looking like that? He swallowed and called nervously Nanren.
"Yun?"
-To be continued-