Chapter 2 Part 1 (1/2)

The tip of Sue Kirin’s nose itched. Something was messing with her nose and whatever it was, it smelled like jasmine. It was that scent that helped her wake up.

The pillow beneath her was a bit warm and it had incredible elasticity, it felt really good.

“Umm...” Sue Kirin groaned and turned her body to adjust the position she was in. Then, she felt something.

What is this? She grabbed it unconsciously. The object was hard and wide didn’t seem to radiate any heat. If it had she might’ve been scared enough to jump in the air.

Sue Kirin opened up her eyes slowly; the flickering light made her feel uncomfortable. When her eyesight adapted to the lighting within the room, she finally realized recognized what it was that she grabbed earlier. It was a longsword, a blue-cyan long sword. What she held was its scabbard.

Why is there a sword here? While Sue Kirin wondered that, a soft voice came down from above.

“Little ancestor, that is my sword.”

“Oh, my bad.”

Sue Kirin put the sword down in a hurry and suddenly noticed something strange.

Why is someone here? Sue Kirin turned to the source of the voice and the first thing she saw was a pair of cyan-blue eyes.

The owner of those eyes was a girl that was about eighteen or nineteen years old. Although her looks were ordinary compared with Qi Qiqi she had an expression that transmitted an unknown sense of kindness. She was like green tea. Although it only possessed subdued colors and a faint scent, when you drink it you can feel something exceptional from it. They looked at each other.

Sue Kirin was a bit lost because she had just woken up.

“You are…?” She asked stiffly.

“I am Luo Qing, Chief told me to come take care of you. ”

“Uhm, so how should I call you?” Sue Kirin didn’t like calling people by their full name.

“I am your martial Nephew, you might as well call me Qing Er.”

Qing Er? Sue Kirin pursed her nose. To be honest, she didn’t like calling others using such honorifics. Her eyes turned clockwise.

“How about I call you Little Qing?”

“Qing, Little Qing?” Luo Qing seemed to be taken by surprised.

“No?”

“It’s not that I don’t like it…”Luo Qing flashed a smile, “I am just a bit surprised by this nickname.”

“So, Little Qin...ACHOO!” Suddenly, Sue Kirin sneezed. Her nose felt uncomfortable. The culprit, she discovered, was a long strand of hair.

It was at that moment that Sue Kirin realized that she was lying down while facing up at Luo Qing with Luo Qing’s waist next to her ear. She turned her head a bit, then she realized that Luo Qing was kneeling and that she was using Luo Qing’s lap as a pillow.

Was this the legendary lap pillow thought only to exist within legends? Sue Kirin was stunned for a moment when she realized her situation.

“Ah! Sorry! I’ll get up right away!” Sue Kirin said frantically as she tried to support her upper body before frowning as she was taken aback by a sudden pain.

Luo Qing extended her hand to help Sue Kirin, “It’s okay, don’t rush yourself.”

“No! I must insist. ”

Luo Qing blinked before saying, “Little ancestor, you are pretty interesting…Ah.” She felt that she may have said something wrong, so she covered her mouth with her hand.

“Yeah-mie? Am I interesting? ”

“I didn’t mean to insult you, little ancestor.” Luo Qing looked down, seemingly blaming herself.

Insulting? Sue Kirin was surprised, how was that insulting her?

On second thought, respecting your elders was pretty important to the so-called sects. Sue Kirin understood her problem and thus responded with faux anger.

“It’s fine, I am pretty chill,  just consider this as talking to a friend.”

“Friend…” Luo Qing repeated her words with shock. Sue Kirin didn’t worried about it and decided to change the subject.

“By the way, why was I…uh, sleeping on your lap?”

“You pa.s.sed out. Don't you remember what happened?”

“Uh…”

How did I pa.s.s out? Sue Kirin started searching her memories. Before she lost consciousness she was having a conversation with Qi Qiqi and accidently p.i.s.sed her off. Qi Qiqi then crushed a table as a threat causing Sue Kirin to immediately apologize, but then she said something wrong again, and...

Sue Kirin jumped and said, “I remember! I was beaten up by that violent girl!” Her voice filled with indignation.

“V-violent girl, you say?”

“That d.a.m.n ‘Twenty One!’ How long was I pa.s.sed out for?”

“About half day.” Luo Qing said with a laugh, some anger hidden in her tone. “Is that so, the Chief claimed that you suddenly pa.s.sed out. Turns out it was all her fault.”

“How dare she lie! n.o.body would pa.s.s out without any reason!”

“Actually, Chief has a good character; she just might…um, loses control sometimes?”

When she heard the words “Loses control”, Sue Kirin shuddered in fear. An image of that poor, innocent table came to mind.

“Does she usually lose control like that?”

“No, it rarely ever happens.” Luo Qing smiled while covering her mouth. “Little ancestor, you were the only one to succeed in making her losing control in the past few years.”

“Yoyoyo, should I be proud of that?” Sue Kirin responded snappily.

“That's not a bad idea.” Luo Qing joked.

“No thanks.” Sue Kirin stood up and replied.

Luo Qing followed suit as Sue Kirin left her lap. However, maybe because she had been kneeling for too long, her feet felt a bit sore. As such she almost lost her balance and fell down. Sue Kirin quickly pulled her up.

“Thank you, little ancestor.”

“Don't go thankin' me! This is just me returning the favor! By the way, you didn’t need to give me that lap pillow, why not just put me on the bed?”

Luo Qing blinked a bit, realized something, and pointed to the side while smiling bitterly. The item she pointed at was the bed in question. It had a large hole blown into the center.

“What happened?”

“The Chief said that you crushed it.”

Shameless Qi Qiqi! I can’t believe that there is another person in this world that is as shameless as me! Sue Kirin felt a strange admiration for the girl.

“Sorry that you have to go through all this headache.” Sue Kirin scratched her hair and apologized with an awkward face.

Luo Qing squatted down to unpack a bag that was sitting next to her feet and responded, “the Chief works hard taking care of all kinds of business for the temple; it is my duty as the seventh elder to relieve some of the weight from her shoulders.”

Oh? So this Little Qing is an elder of Tian Xuan Temple? Sue Kirin was surprised because she expected that all of those so-called elders would be at least 70 years-old.

Then, Luo Qing took out a set of clothes and placed them in front of Sue Kirin. It was a small dress tailored to look like Daoist clothing.

“That is…?”

“The clothes that I wore when I was young,” Luo Qing answered with a bit of hesitation, “The clothes that you are currently wearing don't seem to suit your body.”

Sue Kirin looked down at the T-s.h.i.+rt that was lazily covering her body and nodded with a sigh.

“Uh, I will go ask someone to bring in hot water, little ancestor, you might want to wash your body off before changing your clothes. But, if you mind that I wore these clothes before...”

“No problem...” Sue Kirin suddenly thought of another matter, “Wait, you said that you are going to ask someone to bring hot water? You guys don’t have water heater here?”

“Water heaters?”Luo Qing seemed a bit lost.

“Eh? You aren't going to tell me you don't know what water heaters are, right? You know, those things that use electricity---”

“Elect…?”Luo Qing tilted her head, “You mean thunder?”

“Well, it's sort of the same thing I guess.”

“Little ancestor, you must be joking. Thunder is the work of heaven, how could it be used in such a convenient way?”

Old fas.h.i.+on clothes, Wu Lin sects---No way….? A possibility came to mind and grew like gra.s.s after the arrival of a new spring… it continued to grow bigger, and bigger, and bigger.

“What time period are we currently in?” Sue Kirin swallowed her saliva and asked after a bit of hesitation.

Luo Qing blinked a few times.

“Hua Dynasty. (Hua华, came from 华夏, 中华, which is the word that refers to China mainland)”

Hua Dynasty? Sue Kirin never heard that before. But since it was named after dynasty, it was obvious that she is at ancient time. BUT, even Qing Dynasty (Last dynasty of china) was the history happened hundred years ago!

Sue Kirin felt lost. The question that she'd originally put aside due to all of the recent events rose again from her mind and p.r.o.nounced its existence. Putting aside the fact that fact that she'd been pulled into a transmigration scenario, it seemed that not only had she world traveled, but she had also gone back in time. To Sue Kirin it is like she is been put into the middle of an unknown forest, unstable feeling surrounded her. She didn’t have any knowledge of this place, not even the time period.

“Little ancestor, you seem shocked? Go shower now, seems like you are tired as well. ”

“Oh, okay.” Sue Kirin responded and shook her head. She pushed back the sense of fear to the corner of her consciousness, doing her best not to pay attention to it. Not to mention that after Luo Qing pointed it out, she found that her body felt kind of heavy, she must really have been tired.

“Alright, if you insist.” Sue Kirin put on a smiling face and blinked at Luo Qing as she spoke.

Luo Qing smiled as well, it seemed as if to found Sue Kirin's actions to be very cute and funny, “Okay, I’ll help little ancestor prepare the hot water.”

“Thanks, I'll foot the bill for your next meal!”

“The meals in our temple are free…”