"Damn teenage hormones...", I curse under my breath as I move like a shadow behind Seo, although I am curious to ask Seo what communist Korea is like, I am simply silent.
the village is of a medium size, at least twenty or thirty crudely made wooden houses are piled up as if it were thrown here, there is no order and it looks more like a jumble of wood piled up. i move quickly from left to right or passing through the shadows as Seo walks, passing through various places and passing by other people just as malnourished as he is.
None of them have a large amount of primordial energy in their bodies, they just look like walking corpses, this makes me doubt, What exactly is this sacrifice mentioned by Huanca?
It seems more like these people throw the supposed "heroes" summoned to this pseudo world and let them starve to death here, waiting for them to kill each other, or simply eat each other, cannibalism.
Finally Seo manages to reach a small wooden house that seems a little more well built than the others and is made of apparently clean wood.
Seo is about to knock on the door of that wooden house when a person interrupts him.
"Hey bitch, it's been a while since I've seen you", the speaker is a scrawny looking woman, but she still has more flesh than the other people I've seen here.
The woman with long white hair reaching to the ground touches Seo's shoulder.
"A bitch talking about bitches...", Seo replies with some annoyance, he doesn't turn to look at the woman.
"Hmph", the woman lets out a slight grunt, "You've escaped with Rat, Bear and Hare from the village, the chief wants to see you...", the woman's voice sounds a bit grating, as if she is giving Seo his death sentence.
"You still have a chance to become my husband, Seo, I hope your skeletal body rests in my bed tonight...", the woman says close to Seo's ear before walking away with a smile on her face.
Seo doesn't answer, simply sighing before knocking on the door. There was a slight silence, then, a few footsteps are heard inside the wooden house before a person opens the door slightly.
"Hello, May I come in?, I have news for you...", Seo speaks, thanks to my improved eyesight and my ability to perceive I can quickly identify the girl who opened the door, it's Diana.
Diana nods her head and opens the door a little more, which makes a slight noise with each movement.
Seo looks back slightly for a moment, however, that time is enough for me to move quickly out of my hiding place and quickly enter inside the wooden house.
A strong wind lifts Seo's and Diana's hair.
My body moves with speed and agility, I quickly get behind Diana, and with my right hand I cover her mouth while with my left arm I immobilize her so she can't scream or move.
In fact, my movements are so fast that Diana lets out a slight scream choked by the surprise of quickly calming down.
Despite all this I can smell the soft fragrant and intoxicating scent of Diana's hair, her delicate and well-proportioned body against mine, making me feel a light jolt of electricity that massages my body.
"Diana... no need to scream...", I murmur close to Diana's ear, she seems to understand and quickly realizes that it's me, I can tell because her tense body relaxes, at the same time I stop immobilizing her and covering her mouth.
Diana quickly turns around and moves one of her palms towards my face, however.
*Shock*.
One of my hands stops Diana's palm, her eyes fully charged with fury watch me, her chest rises and falls, and as I see this, my perception can sense Diana's current state.
Diana's ability is a kind of physical reinforcement that makes her look shiny golden, like a gold coating, but, at this moment Diana does not use that ability, somehow the primordial energy inside her is incredibly low, still higher than that of the people here, yet, if anything, it is negligible.
Diana's face is full of bruises about to heal, there is a slight burn mark running down her face from left to right, all this while her left eye is totally devoid of ... life, no pupil, no cornea, no nothing, just a milky white.
Diana grits her teeth in fury, but, in spite of that, she lets out slight moans of crying, her chest rises and falls, her body begins to tremble, her only functional eye lets out feelings that I can't understand.
"What happened?", I can't help but ask, although, I think it's a meaningless question.
Diana swallows saliva, she lowers her head and seems to remember something not pleasant at all, and as she begins to collapse like a puppet without strings, I can feel something warm on my back.
Diana is completely kneeling on the wooden floor, her trembling body gives way to her moans and cries, behind her Seo quickly closes the door of the house, and for a moment, only Diana's cries can be heard, however, something hugs me from behind.
"You came...", A soft voice reaches my ears, a warm breath blows on the back of my neck, a comforting hug warms my back, I can tell by her voice that she is, I had already sensed her a moment before, but still, somehow, it feels good to have her so close.
"Somehow...", I answer, stupid decision is what a part of me tells me, but, maybe I can rummage through thousands of things to find a reason I never thought of when I decided to follow Huanca par aencontra ra Cero.
Hope: when a living being has hope that everything is going to get better then its survival rate increases considerably, it has been demonstrated in experiments with rats.
I don't know why I have a predilection to not let a woman get so close to me emotionally, it's something that has been buried in my mind, an empty memory of something that seems to have never happened.
Hope, if I tell myself that I only came here to give Caero some hope to prevent her from committing suicide or having her will be low, maybe then I can find my actions rational.
If I have to say it, my body reacts to the stimulus of having a beautiful girl hugging me so tightly, but my adult mind prevents me from having useless thoughts.
Hope, for now I can only find this reason to justify such a stupid decision to come to this place.
"I'm stupid," I say to myself as I enjoy Caero's warm embrace. A drug your body has grown accustomed to and addicted to, a fleeting feeling, the workings of a young body eager for action, these are all just feelings that undermine good decisions, and yet it are powerful.
"Axel, I...," Caero is silent for a moment, her low voice barely audible, her breathing calm, her warm body somehow warming my heart.
"And here we go again..." somehow this makes a part of me angry, again, again with this fucking shit, Why can't it be any different?, Why can't I just let Caero die like I don't care if Huayta died or not?
"I want to get out of this hell...", Caero murmurs close to my ear, "I want to escape, go back to the other world, see my parents, see my family... I want to go back to when everything was better, maybe then you and I could...", Cero's voice starts to crack, some warm drops run down the back of my neck, "Axel, Can you take me back?", Caero murmurs with a broken voice full of hope.
What makes her think I can do that?
I can't even, well, I don't really know, I've never used all my power to fight or train, so I don't know how powerful I really am.
The fact that Caer says that is simply because of the happiness of the moment, perhaps because she saw someone she knew after being brought here made her, upon seeing me, have a cocktail of feelings boiling in her heart.
She doesn't necessarily mean what she said, or at least, I hope that's the case.
Again, Why did Caero have such a close relationship with me?, ah, I don't remember, hahaha.
Caero is sleeping, her breathing is even and her head rests against the back of my neck, she sleeps peacefully.
I get up as I slowly and calmly maneuver to take Cero in my arms, there is a bed nearby so I carry her there to rest.
Raccoon, this is the word that comes to my mind when I see Caero's face, her dark circles under her eyes somehow make her look more beautiful.
Diana seems to have recovered from her mental breakdown and watches me as she rests in a small wooden chair.
"I want to check something...", I mutter under my breath before placing one of my hands over Caero's closed eyes.
The next moment I concentrate, primordial energy passes through my body and reaches my palm, with my thoughts, this primordial energy becomes a kind of spell.
My palm glows slightly with a green color making Caero's tired state a thing of the past.
As I lift my palm, Caero's body has returned to normal, her dark circles under her eyes have disappeared and her breathing is more even and calm.
A thought, an action... a single way to control the primordial energy, a stroke of luck, or perhaps, an instinctive way to use this energy. The truth is that the primordial energy, known as the energy that makes up the universe is malleable, it can be used in different ways depending on the thought, this makes me capable of using all kinds of spells, or at least that was the theory.
The truth is that there are some "spells" that I cannot use and I have proven it more than once silently, I still remember when I tried to read Kamila's mind when I was touching her hair, hahaha, it didn't work.
"Kamila always takes care of chasing away some maids that try to get close to you," I murmur as I caress one of Caero's cheeks, "I wonder what she would do if she saw me doing this for you," I smile lightly.
That girl, Kamila, I should tell her to get away from me, she really is strange, if I think about it, Who the fuck is waiting for you to sleep with her while standing with a smile in a dark room?
In my defense for not being as evil and ruthless as I would like, I can only say that this shitty teenage body is playing tricks on me, and Kamila's thing is just because of her sister...
*Sigh*
"You really are...", Diana has stopped crying and is talking to me, she lightly touches the wounds on her body, her one eye watching me hopefully.
"Caero's dark circles is easy to disguise, I could heal your wounds, however, that would raise suspicions, "I'm sure the people here saw you with those wounds, what do you think will happen if those people see you healthy from one moment to the next?" I shake my right hand.
Diana seems to have something to say, however, she remains silent.
"I mean, just look at me" I said as I take a few steps forward, "I can get in and out of this place thanks to Huanca..."
Diana's eyes widen enormously, her mouth opens and her body starts to tremble, a sign of her surprise, "I'm not one of the king's or prince's friends or anything like that, it's just that I have a special ability, just wait, I'll soon get you out of here...",my serious words and my confidence make Diana close her mouth, her one eye moves as if she's looking at me from head to toe.
"You really are a son of a bitch", Diana smiles slightly.
"In a good way or in a bad way?", I couldn't help but ask with a smile, "In both, really, you are a rude bitch, a son of a bitch, sexist, but, at least you have some power", Diana spits with some anger.
I really want to let Diana have her grave in this place, but, I think I won't be able to do that, Caero would be sad if that happened, I quickly walk over to Seo to place a hand on Seo's shoulder, and place a hand on Diana's shoulder.
Diana flinches a little and instinctively wants to avoid my palm, but, after a second of hesitation she simply stands still.
My palms glow a shade of red for a moment before returning to normal.
"This is a kind of reinforcement, it will allow them to resist in the face of hunger or cold, or at least I hope so...", it really is the first time I use my primordial energy in this way.
While I speak I do not forget to extend my perception to know if someone is listening nearby, perhaps a spy, luckily for me, I cannot sense anyone nearby.
Although, if there is a spy, and that spy is good enough to leave no trace of his primordial energy, then that would be a problem, but I hope that is not the case.
"Seo here is a boy I made a deal with, if you can take care of each other it would be a good thing," he looked at Diana as he spoke, "For now I must leave, Huanca must be angry, time is running out, I will return soon..."
...
After some talking and using the "reinforcement spell" on Caero, I left the small wooden house and quickly returned to Huanca.
Huanca was a little furious about the weather, but we quickly went back the way we came, opened and closed the steel door of this place normally using the primordial energy, climbed the stairs and returned to our rooms before dawn.
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