Chapter 42 - Inner Demon (2/2)
”Tell me, real me: Why are you jealous of other women that follow brother? You want to kill them, right? Just like when you thought of killing Yue when she spent a night with brother. You think that brother is yours and only you should have him and no one else, right?” White Qingyue said.
Qingyue narrowed her eyes as she said, ”I don't know what you are talking about. I admit that I was jealous when other women court brother but that's all, I never thought of killing them, and never did I though brother should belong only to me.”
White Qingyue smile was getting bigger, ”Oh~ then are you going to deny that when you saw little Myu, you thought of separating them. You didn't want him considering Myu as his child, right? You only wanted him to have your child and no one else! Isn't that why you proposed taking Myu back to her mother!” she said.
”That was not my intention! I just wanted her to meet her mother, that's all!” Qingyue said but one could see that she was sweating.
”Really? heh~, how about this Qingyue; why don't you and I become one? That way we can have enough strength to make brother ours! We can just kill every other woman who approaches him!” White Qingyue said smiling gently as if to tempt her.
”Shut up,” Qingyue said as she grits her teeth. She raised her handand a huge fireball was created.
White Qingyue saw it and snorted, ”Heh, do you think such a week attach would hurt me?” she said. She raised her hand and points her finger towards the fireballand the whole fireball freezes before disintegrating into snow particles.
”See? You are weak! That's why brother can never be ours!” White Qingyue said as she vanished and appear in front of Qingyue. She punched directly in her stomach, launching her straight backward hitting the wall and producing cracks on it.
”…ugh., cough* cough* If I kill other women than a brother will hate me!” Qingyue said while coughing blood. Standing up she did a gripping motion and appears in her hand. Making a thrusting motion, she releases her sword.
(A Thrusting Motion will create a bullet of sword intent in the form of a shadow, piercing the enemy.)
If one were to see it as a bystander than they would find out that once she did the thrusting motion, she didn't move from here place nor did her sword left her hand. They could only see something black, shadow-like, crossing the distance between them at tremendous speed.
It was another art that Qingyue and Wang Lei created. It was based on . Once this art was used, it would be almost impossible to dodge as long shadow exists. The only way to dodge it was to erase one's shadow or hide in a parallel dimension or change the place of your shadow at a different place/surface than the one who released it is standing.
White Qingyue saw it wide-eyed. Flying, she hurriedly points her finger downwardand a little light flash is created. Projecting her shadow on the roof instead of on the floor, changing the surface of her shadow.
Qingyue thrust misses its targets and vanished.
White Qingyue also does a griping motion and the same sword appears in her hand.
Qingyue wide-eyed looked at the sword, ”Impossible! Why do you have that sword?!” she said.
White Qingyue smirked and said, ”Didn't I said that we are the same person? What is yours is mine! Now die! I will take your body and make brother mine!”
White Qingyue takes the stance and releases a horizontal slash.
(Create different fake shadows, hiding the real one.)
Hundred to thousand shadows were created as they all go towards Qingyue who takes her sword and stabs it at her shadow.
(If both shadows are on the same surface, directly opposite to each other, then by attacking your shadow, you can attach your enemy.)
A sword came from the shadow of White Qingyue who hurriedly cancel her attach and moves sideways, dodging it.
”Why don't you admit it already, real me?! Admit that you wanted to kill them!” White Qingyue shouted. She vanished and appeared behind Qingyue and stabs her shadow.
(By attaching the shadow of the opponent, one can bind them and stop their moment for a certain period—depends on the user's energy.)
Qingyue whose shadow was stab stopped at her position. She gnashed her teeth, ”I never wanted to kill them!” she said.
White Qingyue smirked as she could feel her strength increasing with each passing second.
”Then you can die.” White Qingyue said while placing her hand on herand ice energy covers Qingyue, freezing her.
White Qingyue looked at her emotionless as she said, ”You even forgot what brother said before you left.”
Qingyue who was frozen was bȧrėly keeping her consciousness alive. There were tears in her eyes that were frozen because of the ice energy. She was alive because she, herself, cultivated ice element. If it was someone else, they would have been dead at this point. What White said she heard it. She remembered what her brother said when she was about to leave for the labyrinth.
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”Yue'er wait!” Wang Lei said to Qingyue who was about to leave.
Qingyue looked towards him, puzzled. ”What happened, brother?”
Wang Lei came and hugs her while softly saying in her ears, ”Remember this: Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself, Love possesses not nor would it be possessed: For love is sufficient unto love.”
Qingyue was stunned why he suddenly hugged her but then she asked, ”What does it mean?”
Wang Lei smiled helplessly, ”It means that no matter what happens, whether the world is destroyed or the end comes, I will always love you. I know that I am a selfish hypocrite man. I don't like others to be possessive while I am possessive myself. I want you or other girls to love me only while I, myself, loves more than one girl. But that doesn't mean that I will forget you or any other for that matter. The girl I fell in love for the first time and the girl I love the most, who has a special position in my heart and will always remain special existence, will always be you and no one else.” He said.
Qingyue had tears in her eyes but she didn't say anything and just listen quietly while hugging him tighter. ”Why to say it now?” she asked.
”Nothing. I just felt like it.” Wang Lei said while cleaning tears off her face. Leaning down he kissed her for a minute and then released her. ”Go and conquer that labyrinth. I know you can do this.”
Qingyue nodded and left the .
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Remembering it again, tears started to gather around her eyes. She finally understood what her brother meant and why he said it now. He knew that she would face her inner demons in this labyrinth and he knew what she was thinking and how she was jealous.
Thinking it, a helpless smiled form on her face 'You always know what would happen or what I am thinking. How stupid can I be thinking that other women would steal you from me? You were always there for me and never forgot me. Yet, I couldn't see it.' she thought as the ice—encasing her—started to melt/break.
White Qingyue looked at the breaking ice as she felt strength leaving her body. ”This…” she looked as ice breaks into many pieces. A smile form on her face, ”You found your answer, huh.”
Qingyue looked towards her fake personality or her inner demon and did a bow. ”Thank you for making me realize.”
White Qingyue shakes her head as her body started to become transparent as if she was there yet not, ”Didn't I said: You are me and I am you. Of course, I want myself to know their inner demons and face them.”
Qingyue looked at her fake personality silently as she was vanishing, she said. ”Don't forget to hog brother for yourself for at least a month, once you go back. He needs a little punishment for looking at other ladies.”
Qingyue grins just like her fake personality, ”Of course! Don't worry as he will be punished.” She said as she saw White her vanishing.
The whole hall went back into silence when Qingyue heard a sound behind her and saw a passage. She looked at it and started to walk towards it, leaving the room.
It was a dark passage leading to somewhere and she followed it quietly. Reaching the end of the passage, she entered another room where she saw Yue standing, absent-mindedly looking at the sealing.
Yue hearing the voice looked in her direction and said, ”You have completed the trail, big sist—” before she could complete her sentence, her head was blown away, scattering into different pieces as her body falls on the ground lifelessly.
Qingyue, whose finger was raised in her direction smirked as she saw Yue's body regenerating at a fast pace. Ever since her energy changed to Primordial Energy, her reintegration has also improved tremendously.
After some time—a minute—she was completely healed. She hurriedly jumped back and looked towards grinning Qingyue. Scared she asked, ”Why did you do that, big sister?”
Qingyue grinning said, ”Nothing~, that's what you get for trying to court hubby. But don't worry as I will not kill you. Since your punishment is done and for others., hehehe~”
Yue who heard her felt shiver back at her spine 'What the hell happened? How did she turn into Yandere mode?!'
”Let's go. We need to clear this labyrinth to make hubby proud of us. Also, tell me about your trial on the way.” Qingyue said as she walked towards the open passage on the other side humming happily.
Yue was praying hard and decide not to go against her order 'She is acting scary!!.'
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”Fu*k you Lyutillis Haltina! How could you create such a trail!” Miledi shouted as she saw hundreds of thousands of ċȯċkroaches coming towards her.
”Eeek! I don't want it! Save me Wang Lei-san!” Shea shouted as she saw them approaching her. She raised her sword to the maximum power level of —10 tons!
(By utilizing one's fire elemental energy and creating a—crescent moon shape—highly condenses fire energy, destroying everything in its wake.)
A huge energy sword intent was released with the same weight as that of the sword. The space around the energy was being distorted as it destroyed everything, though that everything only included ċȯċkroaches.
”Die! You disgusting creature!” Miledi said. Raising her hand and pouring her energy like a mad lad she said.
A sphere of special energy is created in the center of the ċȯċkroaches and burst into destructive energy, destroying every single ċȯċkroach. It also damaged the labyrinth itself.
Suddenly a magic circle bloomed below them, teleporting them away. Labyrinth must have considered them dangerous so it transferred them as the victors.