Chapter 516 - The Old Witch (1/2)

Eleven raised her eyebrows as she instantly had a cold look on her face.

“Why the question?” Su Man callously asked.

Eleven remained silent as she did not know whether to tell Su Man the truth. Whilst she remained guarded against Su Ruhua, she understood Su Man’s character and knew there would not be any problems.

It was just…

“Are they twins?” Eleven asked. While the answer had already leapt out, she was still clinging onto the very slim chance they happened to be identical.

How could she accept such a relations.h.i.+p – where her master was related to Mo Ye by blood? Who would she direct her hatred at?

“Yes,” Su Man’s gaze turned dark as he plainly replied. “Her other sister is called Su Ruyu.”

Ruyu…

Eleven smiled bitterly as the answer seemed largely set. While she did not know The Old Witch’s actual name, she heard The Blue Wolf call her name, Xiaoyu, before. Her head was starting to ache.

How could it be?

Ye Wei and Eleven only saw The Old Witch’s actual face once or twice, but those few times had left an extremely deep impression on them as she had an extremely eminent look that stole thunder. The Old Witch would typically wear an ugly mask that seemed to resemble a half-burnt face. When the children first reached the island, they would find her extremely terrifying and have nightmares of her in the middle of the night.

When Ye Wei and Eleven first began, they were no exception and felt that she was utterly ugly. The children did not know what name to call her by, and they would occasionally hear The Blue Wolf call her Xiaoyu. Young Ye Wei was extremely rebellious, and she often provoked The Old Witch into anger. There was once they were spanked by The Old Witch for not meeting training targets when The Blue Wolf was calling her Xiaoyu, hence Ye Wei – with arms akimbo – shouted, ‘All that jade in her name doesn’t matter. She’s really that d.a.m.n old witch.’

The nickname of “The Old Witch” hence spread like wildfire and the children equated her with an old witch.

She was a stern teacher, and Eleven – in her ten-over years on the island, never even saw The Old Witch coldly smile once. The Old Witch gave people the impression of her being an extremely cold and deathly person whose wrists were extremely strong. The training base, also known as “Devil’s Island”, was borne out of the impression she gave people.

Eleven and Ye Wei, since young, were often beaten by her irregardless of their condition and age. When they had to be spanked, she spared no expenses and did not preach untiring guidance, empathy or any other values. She punished them until they achieved their targets, and they felt that what they had been through in their younger days was nothing short of brutal.

A few later, the beatings reduced and they however became even more accustomed to it. Eleven and Ye Wei were actually the least beaten as The Old Witch extremely doted on them despite them going against The Old Witch and challenging her with disrespectful words. The Old Witch however favored Ye Wei the most.

Eleven had an immense respect for The Old Witch. The Old Witch and The Blue Wolf were responsible for nurturing countless talents who followed him or left. The talent The Blue Wolf nurtured were not as eminent as those nurtured by The Old Witch.

Ye Wei, Eleven, Chu Li, Bai Ye, Jason, Blackjack, Ross… were under The Old Witch’s wings from young, till their teenage years, until they went on missions and gathered experience to the point they could rise up to the challenge alone.

To Ye Wei and Eleven, while The Old Witch was an old witch in senses of the word, she was even more esteemed than their very parents.

This explained why The Old Witch had nary a reaction when The Blue Wolf betrayed the organization as though nothing was amiss. Her younglings were utterly indignant and swore to pursue him to the ends of the earth.

In their impression, they seemed to be a pair of eccentric lovers as The Blue Wolf seemed to always pursue her but she was indifferent. As The Blue Wolf was in his prime and in extremely good shape, he was virtually flawless. The Old Witch, on the other hand, was ugly, had a weird temper and vicious. There seemed to be a rotation of ident.i.ties in this game of love as it ought to have been The Old Witch pursuing The Blue Wolf rather than otherwise.

Following The Blue Wolf’s betrayal, they all thought that The Blue Wolf despised her looks.

Eleven saw how she reacted like a woman in love when she stared at the ring on her necklace engrossingly after The Blue Wolf left. As they a.s.sumed that The Blue Wolf had given her the ring, they thought she was in love with The Blue Wolf and hence had an agonizing look on her face.

That was why Ye Wei and all hated The Blue Wolf even more and hunted him down.

The Old Witch knew what was going on but did not stop them as though she had nothing to do with it.

Eleven only saw how The Old Witch actually looked like after The Blue Wolf left. There was once Ye Wei and Eleven arranged to go to the hot spring behind the mountain, but ended up hearing agonizing groans there.

They saw an inexplicably beautiful woman clutching her head in pain murmuring softly under the moonlight. Ye Wei and Eleven could not clearly hear her murmurs but only saw what seemed to be her having an immense headache.

Ye Wei then raised the incident to Eleven and felt as though she saw a divine beauty incarnate. While Ye Wei was slightly exaggerating, that was the closest to their thoughts. Eleven was extremely shocked.

They did not know when there was such gorgeous beauty on the island.

Following the shock, Ye Wei and Eleven wanted to go into the water to help her, but she coldly ordered them to stop. Ye Wei and Eleven, especially Ye Wei, was shocked stiff by her order and almost fell headfirst into the hotspring.

“Old Witch? Are you possessed by some G.o.ddess?” Ye Wei shot off her mouth as Eleven grabbed her shoulder and hinted to her to stop joking.

The Old Witch, in her immense headache, sunk to the bottom of the spring and the surface of the water became calm.

Ye Wei and Eleven were discussing which side of her was true?

They typically saw a person in their forties to fifties, and what they saw – a woman who was in their twenties at most – left an indelible impression. Ye Wei and Eleven felt they were scammed as it seemed that somebody who was not too much older than them was their master for ten-over years.

It was hence little wonder that everybody’s faces changed as they changed, including The Blue Wolf’s. The Old Witch’s face remained the same throughout time.

When The Old Witch came up from underneath the water, she was calm and her beautiful face was made even more attractive by the hot spring. Her pink lips, dark grape-like eyes and delicate features made her attractive beyond measure.

She walked towards them and quietly wore her clothes. Ye Wei whistled naughtily as she praised her immaculate figure. She gave them a stern glance before Ye Wei kept quiet.

Once she was done wearing her clothes, Ye Wei then scooted over and ran her hands all over her face to figure out if that was her actual face. Ye Wei was the only person amongst them all who dared to run her hands all over her. Anybody else who tried to follow suit would have been knocked dead by her.

She finally confirmed that it was her bona fide face.

The Old Witch left them with a ‘shut up’ before disappearing. Eleven and Ye Wei were utterly lost for words that month.

The second time they saw her actual look was at the same hot spring a year later and under the same situation. She seemed to have some condition that gave her chronic headaches which flared up under a round moon. The image of her clutching her head in pain and roaring was extremely unbearable.