182 GOODBYE, VICTORIA CITY (1/2)
THE first thing Argent did when she entered the shuttle was to look at her unconscious mother. She had been afraid that something might happen to her mother while Lynx was carrying her out of the forest. Like the possibility that the two might have encountered another Apostle. It would have been hard for Lynx to fight another person with her mother in his arms. Good thing something like that didn't happen. With both her mother and sister here, all her worries and fear finally turned into relief.
”Master!” Black exclaimed and was about to pounce on her.
But before he could, Aurum stood in front of Argent and then put her forefinger on his forehead to stop him. ”Don't even think about it. Brother is injured, you'll hurt him if you just jump on him like that,” Aurum scolded.
Black was about to complain because Aurum stopped him from hugging his master. But when he heard that his master was injured, he walked around Aurum and looked worriedly at Argent. Then he saw the bandage on her shoulder and calf. ”Master, are you alright?”
Argent put her hand on top of Black's head. ”I'm fine, just a few wounds.”
”Master, there's a medicine kit in the shuttle. Should I clean and put medicine on your wounds?” White volunteered.
”Let me do it,” Aurum said before Argent could answer. ”Where's the medicine kit, White?”
White pressed something on one of the screens in front of her and a small opening suddenly appeared on one of the walls. Inside was a box which was probably containing medicine.
Before Aurum could walk, Argent stopped her. ”Let's do it later once we landed somewhere safe away from here,” she said. The wound on her shoulder was a bit deep. If she didn't go to a healer later, the people here who didn't know about her special constitution might find it weird.
”But Brother-”
Argent gently shook her head, silently trying to make her sister understand her predicament. It looked like it worked because Aurum just nodded and bit her lips in frustration.
”Rather than me, I think Viper needed the medicine more,” Argent said instead.
Then she looked back at Lei Feng who was supposed to be carrying Viper on his back. She was slightly taken aback when he saw his expression. His face was extremely pale. Not the pale that a sick person would have but the kind of pale when someone saw something extremely shocking. She's not even sure if he's aware that he subconsciously let go of Viper who was now lying pitifully on the shuttle's floor.
”Lei Feng?” she said, trying to catch his attention.
Lei Feng seemed to finally realized what he's doing. He looked away and tried his best to sound as normal as possible. ”Sorry. I seem to have overused my Mana. It's making me a little bit dizzy.”
”Then sit somewhere so you could rest,” Argent said, not asking more even though she felt like what he said was not truly the case.
Lei Feng nodded and sat on one of the empty seats. He clenched and unclenched his fists. His heartbeat was still beating uncontrollably. The shock of seeing a face he didn't think he would see again in this life was just too much. It felt like his heart would just jumped out of his chest. His brain couldn't even think properly. His mind was just filled with memories of the past. Those bittersweet memories that always left him with regret and pain.
It was the time of his life when he discovered that he discovered the true meaning of happiness. But that didn't last. That happiness soon turned into his personal nightmare. A nightmare that was still wrapped around his subconscious even until now. There's only one person who could free him from it. But he didn't have the right to ask her that.
And now, he suddenly saw that face. The face of the girl who gave him so much happiness but at the end, he failed her in every possible way.
Lei Feng closed his eyes, trying his best not to look back the white haired girl sitting at the very middle.
”Lynx, could you look after Viper?” Argent said to Lynx. If she didn't, Viper might just stay lying there in such an awkward position. Which was bad, since the wound on his stomach seemed pretty deep.