Chapter 79 - Kushi The Deaf (1/2)

Back at the Citadel, Elon didn't do much except cultivating her own energy, prying no mind to the surroundings or the anguish of peripheral anxiety upon the next thing that will happen after the trials end.

She opened one of her eyes to dart around as she saw a young boy curling up on his small territorial area.

'Appraisal.'

[ Name: Kushi

Gender: Male

Race: Aiseirighian

Age: 15

Mana Deposited: None

Mana Gathering Speed: None

Physical Prowess: 16(G-)

Intelligent: 73(C)

Soul: 22(G-)

Charisma: 30(G)

Handicap: Deaf | Voiceless ]

Elon closed her eyes to meditate once again, not long after she stood up and approached the boy. She remembered the sentence from the Ouroboros that echoed in her mind

'Pity was never a factor, when mercy is a sign of a talentless actor.' She took out a couple of her mystical fruits from the pocket space to the boy, throwing one of them as it gave him a thud on the stomach from the lob. ”I still don't know what it was all about, doesn't mean I can't ease the pain that you pent.”

The boy didn't know what Elon said, but he knew that the fruit was something edible and delicious. He then prostrated in gratitude before gnawing on the heavenly fruit. As soon as the first bite permeated his mouth, tears fell from his eyes. The boy paused motionless for three seconds before gnawing on the fruit again and again.

His tears eventually tainted the food but he didn't care.

Elon sat at the inside of the edge of her living territory. She wondered how the boy managed to reach this point.

'He must be really scared from the beginning, not knowing anything and eventually trying to imitate the first person he saw marking the ground with a rock to get the living privilege, he is so scared that he didn't leave his small box because nobody did it, and it might be the only safe place he ever had in this world.'

The boy was so malnourished that he fumbled the fruit over and over. Luckily, the fruit that Elon gave him was enough to nourish the body with the needed nutrients and healing property. In fact, the boy didn't ate anything for three days.

After finished eating, he prostated again as he smiled and moved his hands in sign language, ”'Thank you, kind immortal.'”

Elon noticed that the sign language was the same as the one within his former era. They boy didn't hope for Elon to understand it but the single horned chimaera tried to reply.

”'I'm not an immortal, I'm just a normal person.'”

The boy froze for a second before gesturing her hands again with a lightened face. '”Big sis knew sign language?”'

”'Indeed, are people rarely able to perform this?”'

”'Yes, only a few could do it, only the people from the slum could do it.”'