"We used to play together when we were little"
"Of course"
"Then, do you remember the last time we met"
A bit of silence after, he said
"Yes"
A bit of reminiscence of the past, the last time they played together and met so often was years ago. They used to go to a playground which was built in the Li family garden. Then an unfortunate event happened when they were playing. Li Meiling and Li Weifeng played with toys at times. Li Weifeng only had a toy because he wanted to play with Li Meiling. As they played with them at times, one day as Li Meiling came back from the bathroom, she could see Weifeng sitting waiting for him.
"Gege, I am back"
"Welcome back"
"Gege, where is Mr.Puff"
"Didn't you bring it to the bathroom"
"No"
They searched for the toy for hours on end not knowing that it had fell into the trash bin while Li Meiling went into the bathroom and put it on a placeholder. As evening reached, they still couldn't find the toy making Li Meiling want to cry as she searched but to no avail. Li Weifeng didn't know what to do either. As he wanted to approach her to soothe her, he tripped on a tree vine and accidently pushed her.
Li Meiling already losing her favourite toy and also getting pushed by her brother, scraping her knee on the ground. Feeling the pain in her knees started to cry. Li Weifeng quickly approached her saying that he was sorry, helping her get up and trying to soothe her but
"I hate you, gege"
She said as she ran away. After that, they hadn't met that much and the situation wasn't recovering. Li Weifeng being the elder brother tried to go to her to talk to her but she locked herself in her room and made excuses after one another and as time reached for their studies, there was even less time and Li Weifeng ultimately gave up thinking that she really hated him which made his heart ache.
"Can...."
She swallowed her words as she said.
"Can we be as close as we used to be when we were younger, gege"
Silence filled the atmosphere but as Weifeng started to talk, one pair of his wind boots was scraped.
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"Really"
"Yes"
"Then, gege, I want to ask you another question"
"Why didn't you come with me when we were running away to the rift border"
She said as she wiped her tears and then showed a smile but the aura she was emitting was a bit of questioning and a small amount of anger.
"The wolves would have reached us before reaching it"
"They couldn't have"
"Yes, if they were normal wolf beasts"
"They were not?"
"No, they were wind wolves"
Wind wolves also called as mountain wolves, excelled at climbing mountains and their fast speed unlike normal wolves which were at tier 1.2, these wolves were at tier 1.4, 2 small stages ahead of them and were stronger and faster with speed being their greatest point as they wouldn't be called wind wolves.
"Let it be in the past"
"I am fine now, aren't I"
He said as he showed himself. Seeing Li Meiling looking at him, he sighed and brushed her head as he said.
"I won't do something too risky, ok"
"Fine"
Li Meiling had already brough the basket of flowers back onto the table remembering that she had accidently threw it on the ground seeing him awake. Luckily the basket didn't have breakable objects or it would have been a mess.
"How long have I been asleep for"
"It was yesterday around evening you arrived here, it's already morning"
"Gege, what are you going to do about the admission for the academy"
What was the academy she was talking about. There were multiple academies throughout the world with some competing for the position of the best academy. Of course that was not with anything else other than with the academy students. The academy was like a university but it trained for battle and knowledge about the rift and monsters. It was separated into two parts as scholars and combatants.
"Are you going to go as a scholar"
"With gege's fighting prowess, gege can get in as a combatant"
"You didn't even see me fight"
"I am sure"
"How are you so sure"
She just smiled at his question. Weifeng was surprised at such baseless trust and started to pinch her smiling cheeks. After talking for a while,
"Have you been slacking off on your training"
"Did you even listen your teacher?"
"What is your cultivation realm right now"
A barrage of questions arrived in front of her which she started to look away at the window.
"The weather is so beautiful today"
To which Weifeng didn't reply and Li Meiling sighed.
"Teacher was too strict"
"How was she strict"
"She tells me to do so many things and make goals for me and they are so high"
"She expects you to reach them because of your potential"
"But the expectation is too high"
"Humph"
"You should have been able at least get out of the rift if you were able to use your powers correctly"
"Show me your control"
"Craft a flower with your ice element"
"Gege, how about I get you something to eat, you must be hungry"
She said trying to divert the attention to something else but it was too obvious that Weifeng looked at her and she whimpered and tried to create a flower but what it didn't even look a single bit similar to a flower.
He sighed as he said
"What are you going to do at the academy"
"Even though you can qualify with your talent, you are going to have a hard time"
She whimpered again but
"I will let it be for now but you will need to train, you little miss"
"Go apologize to your master when you want to start training and start religiously training"
She became silent and then in soft voice she said.
"Mei Mei"
"What? I can't hear you"
"Call me Mei Mei"
"Gege said we would go back to being close but you still haven't call me like you used to"
Her face flushed as she said what she wanted to say.
"Mei Mei, please go train and become more stronger"
"Okay"
She felt like she was filled with energy as she heard that. It felt like the desire in her heart was somewhat fulfilled.
"Gege, aren't you hungry, how about I get something for you"
"There is a menu here right"
"Yes the food here is not bad, its quite good here, I also ate before I came here"
"Then I will order..."