Chapter 131: Wandering Sound is a Fool (2/2)
”Melting Snow is right, although blunt about how he said it,” Xinya said, giving a sidelong glance to the boy. ”You need to stop acting stupid, we can't be wasting time here. The sooner we get to the center, the sooner this will be over.”
Xinya knew they were wasting valuable time trying to console Wandering Sound right now when they could have been finding the center of the maze. Throwing another floral attack potion at Wei, he grabbed Melting Snow's hand and begin to rush through the maze, not caring if Wandering Sound was following them or not.
It wasn't his job to take care of the man, there were more pressing matters at hand. He should know better than this, him hurting Wei wasn't dire, not finding the cure was. If Wandering Sound wanted to act like a lovelorn fool, he would let him.
With the knowledge they gained, Xinya and Melting Snow started to make their way through the maze with ease.
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Wandering Sound watched as Drifting cloud and Melting Snow left. He knew he should have followed them, all he needed to do was get to the spring and find the cure and Roaming Wind would be fine, but he couldn't bring himself to do so.
He felt as if he needed to stay here with Roaming Wind so that she wouldn't be alone in her madness. A part of him knew that it was the guilt for hurting her that was taking away his common sense, but he didn't care.
Seconds passed and the binding from Drifting Cloud, floral attack potion faded away. Roaming Wind was released and started to wildly look around herself before her eyes settled on Wandering Sound.
”So they left you here to finish the job?” Wei asked, angrily.
Frantically shaking his head, Wandering Sound said, ”No, that's not it at all. We want to help you Roaming Wind.”
”Help me?!” She questioned with a hysterical laugh. ”You called attacking me, helping? I'm not stupid you know!”
”In our defense, you did try to kill us.” Wandering Sound said as calmly as he could.
With rage in her eyes, she stared fiercely at him, raising her guns at him once more. ”Than you should have died.”
Using her strongest skill Soul Shot, she shot at Wandering Sound knocking him back against the wall. The impact of the shot was so strong that it stunned him while taking almost all of his HP only leaving one point left.
Since Wandering Sound was in a stunned state, Wei in her madness thought that he was dead and took off to find the others. It would be quite easy since the curse gave her a red smokey trail to follow to find them.
After Wei left, minutes passed before Wandering Sound's stunned state disappear. Getting up quickly, he knew he needed to stall Roaming Wind before she reached the others. It was the least he could do, for being so stupid, this was his last thought as he ran to find her.