559 Thank you for being this gentle (1/2)
This sudden but baffling urge was not a result of the stifling beauty just inches away from him. Neither was it because of the alluring fragrance that exuded from the ivory teeth that bit down on those pink lips. And it was definitely not because the growing boy with eighth-grader syndrome had finally matured to satisfy his hormones.
It was because Shi Xiaobai realized the girl's gentleness.
She would always appear when he was most exhausted. She would silently and noiselessly accompany him.
She had never participated in the most exciting escapades he encountered but every time the story came to an end, or when the figurative participants of a banquet scattered, she would be there for him when he felt empty, enervated, lost or at a nonplus.
When he turned his head, she would always be where the lights waned.
Thank you for being this gentle.
She lit a silent candle with a warmth that would not disturb his hibernation.
Shi Xiaobai did not know what the urge meant but he knew that such an urge was beautiful and pure. It delighted him.
He did not stop his urge.
The youth's ice-cold but somewhat parched lips suddenly imprinted themselves on the girl's warm but soft cherry lips.
”Uh...”
Kali moaned. With her strength, she naturally could react in time to such a sudden 'attack.' She could easily dodge but she did not do so. She even consciously pursed her lips, making preparations to 'welcome' him.
Hey, hey! You are being too shameless!
The girl's blue eye resembled a lake that had a rock dropped into it. Ripples stirred that phased the lake's reflection, producing shimmering flashes.
The tender snow-white face seemed to be masked by the most mesmerizing rouge, suffusing the most delicate and charming pink embarrassment.
Kali did not reject the sudden kiss from the youth. Instead, she was delighted with it.
Normal girls would enjoy an atmosphere under the moon and in front of flowers. A suggestive mood had to be built up and only with enough romantic development would they want to partake in the perfect mutual kiss at the most opportune moment.
However, she was no ordinary girl. Compared to the sweet talk of comparing her to the beautiful moon, she placed greater importance on the spotless true feelings of her beau.
A kiss was a way to express an indescribable outpouring of emotions between lovers.
He liked her.
That was enough.
It was truly good.
The girl's lips curled into a happy curve like a smiling crescent in the night sky.
”Uh!”
The girl suddenly widened her eyes.
T... Tongue?
No, don't come in!
Uh! Shi Xiaobai, when did you learn to be this naughty!?
Kali felt overwhelmed by embarrassment. Simultaneously, she felt that the World Tree powers in her body were beginning to decline.
'Purity' was the source of the World Tree's power. Kissing was an act that besmirched that purity. It would have caused her to lose her strength but she could not reject the happiness in her heart. Therefore, she steeled her heart to ignore the tiny amounts of power she was losing.
But with the youth's additional act of intimacy, the speed at which her powers were decreasing became faster. It was no longer at a speed she could ignore.
No!
Stop—
With a thought, Kali instantly appeared in another corner of the room. Her face was flushed red as she panted heavily. She could still feel that there was a strand of crystalline liquid hanging by the corner of her mouth. She was so embarrassed that she nearly fled to the other end of the world.
”Xiaobai, I...”
Kali opened her mouth and wanted to say something when she suddenly fell into a daze.
The youth had turned green.
His hair, eyebrows and all the hair on his body had turned green.
His skin, blood vessels, bones, organs, and everything in his body had also turned green.
That was a lush and luxuriant, tender and fleshy green!
But!
It was only for an instant!
The greenness vanished!
The green youth resembled a withered green leaf. He went from greenness to a withered yellow. The declining process of withering only happened for a short instant!
This instant was something that even Kali's perception failed to grasp.
”Xiaobai!”
Kali screamed. With a thought, she teleported in front of Shi Xiaobai. However, before she could probe the youth's situation or even extend her hand to take his pulse, the youth crumbled.
He crumbled like a withered leaf reducing to pieces in the cold wind!
Shi Xiaobai's body crumbled into countless withered fragments!
Kali stood there in a daze. Her heart tightened as it felt a pain so immense that she could not breathe.
In the next instant, when the withered fragments were reduced to dust, dissipating into the air, Kali saw that there was a seed floating in mid-air.
A dried and dark yellow seed that was void of all vibrancy.
The blue eye that nearly froze finally lit up once again.
”I see, you are...”
The girl's face was suddenly covered in tears.
She plopped down, kneeling on the bed. She trembled as she extended her hand to hold the seed. She embraced it gently in her bosom, clutching it close to her heart.
When her tears rolled down her face, the girl vanished.
Replacing her was a warm blob of light and a mass of pure darkness.
They existed side by side, wrapping the seed within as though they formed a world.
They were waiting for the seed's fate.
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