Chapter 20 (1/2)

Volume 2 – Birth of Heaven’s First Dragon Sacrifice

Chapter K Prelude to curse

Fruit’s golden yellow fur was covered in mud and its big elephant-like ears were dangling while it was sleeping upon Liu Zhenhan’s chest.

“Shoo, shoo, go away.” Liu Zhenhan was furious. This little guy was winking at him a moment ago and now it was pretending to be asleep on his chest. Fruit woke up lazily and casually looked at Liu Zhenhan as if just woke up from a deep slumber. Liu Zhenhan was fuming with anger because this little punk had just now destroyed such a warm atmosphere built up around him and Hailun.

“Fruit-Fruit” Fruit grimaced then uttered its own name in a loud voice and stuck out his small tongue.

“Go away, or I will hit you!” Liu Zhenhan made a slapping gesture to scare it away.

But, Fruit itself had the profile of a rogue hoodlum. There was no way it was going to bother about Liu Zhenhan’s threat.

A major part of the night sky was covered entirely by a giant moon with visible craters on it. The moon was visible through the shallow canopy of the bamboo forest. While showering in cold moonlight, Liu Zhenhan and the little rascal Fruit were indulged in a staring contest. Liu Zhenhan knew that Fruit understood everything he just said but his threats had no effects on Fruit whatsoever. However, Liu Zhenhan soon realized that in response to his threat, making loud noise was Fruit’s tactic to blackmail him.

Fruit smiled strangely and rose up its small paw.

“What are you trying to do, you little rascal?” Liu Zhenhan’s speculation hit the bull’s eye.

Fruit gently poked Hailun’s waist with its paw.

“Ah” Hailun uttered a loud cry while clutching her waist then suddenly turned back and her sleepy eyes saw Fruit making a funny face at Liu Zhenhan.

After waking Hailun up, Fruit immediately grabbed the feather robe in its mouth and ran away as fast as possible like a rabbit.

“Li Cha!” Hailun was pleasantly surprised, “You woke up? When did you get up?”

“Rascal.” Liu Zhenhan looked at Fruit proudly standing on the edge of the bamboo grove.

“Oh my G.o.d! Li Cha?” Hailun’s line of sight slightly s.h.i.+fted downward but she suddenly froze, and it seemed if someone poured red pain on her face. Despite the fact that she had seen enough in a fairly intimate act earlier, she still couldn’t help but feel embarra.s.sed.

“Hailun? Wait, oh fuc……” Liu Zhenhan felt her gaze sweeping away and almost fainted on the spot. His first reaction was to quickly cover his ‘strategic point’ with his hand. Of course, his hand was not enough to cover it completely.

“Where’s the feather robe?” Hailun’s said in a low humming voice.

Liu Zhenhan pointed in the direction of Fruit who was still holding the feather robe in its mouth and chewing slowly. While Hailun was distracted, he used his other hand to pull out some gra.s.s from the ground and cover his son.

Fruit saw the two of them looking at it and felt proud. It started to dance with joy.

“What is it doing?” Hailun looked at Liu Zhenhan and asked.

“It’s a jumping pot village dance.” Liu Zhenhan said.

“Dance? I know that frost type Picchu beasts like to imitate but are you really sure that it is dancing?” Hailun smiled and looked at Liu Zhenhan. She also discovered that the gra.s.s actually helped in calming her palpitation rate.

“Don’t tell me you taught this dance to Fruit?” Hailun covered her mouth and giggled: “This, whatever pot dance, is too funny.”

Liu Zhenhan pinched his nose subconsciously in embarra.s.sment and could only give a dry smile.

“I did it only once and did not even know when it learned from me.”

Liu Zhenhan regretted unknowingly teaching this dance to a mischievous rascal like Fruit. If he didn’t think of Fruit as his own baby son, he was almost on the verge of silencing the witness of his crime.

“It looks similar to the praying harvest dance of our shamans.” Hailun stood up, “I will bring that feather robe for you.”

“No, no, stop.” Liu Zhenhan hastily stood up while completely forgetting to cover his strategic point as he did, “Do not take that robe from Fruit, he will be angry.”

“What?” Hailun looked at Liu Zhenhan with a big question mark appearing on her face.