บท 14: Mystery behind her
East side of the Dark Forest where the upper limb of the sun started to appear on the horizon.
A red-haired man with an unconscious woman in his arm, was running non-stop towards the border between the Beast Kingdom and Human Kingdom, his sweat was oozing from his forehead.
Shu Ren didn't stopped to rest because he was afraid that they might encounter some beast inside the Dark Forest.
As his aura was currently concealed, the beast might mistaken them for a human and attacked them.
Being a beast himself, he doesn't want to hurt his own kind, so sprinting continuously was his only choice.
Scurrying relentlessly until the sun was up and totally illuminated the surrounding. Shu Ren was now on the edge of the border.
Looking down the steep hill, he took a deep breath and turned his gazed on the face of the woman in his arms.
"Mistress, we were now on the border. Do we continue? Won't you miss the Lord?" Shu Ren talked depressingly to the woman on his arm, but those words was not only for her but also for himself.
Looking up, his gazed was fixated in the Dark Forest, Shu Ren felt lonesome since he doesn't know when will they be able to come back to the Beast Kingdom.
Leaving his birth place will surely caused him a heartache, but protecting her was also his priority.
So, he could only sighed and turned his back from the Beast Kingdom, and started his very first step towards the edge of the border jn the Human Kingdom, signaling the start of their journey towards the unknown future.
Shu Ren doesn't know what lies ahead of them, but one thing was for sure, he would never neglect his mission, no matter what happens to himself.
...
Emerald Town, Azure Kingdom
Inside a room, Rae Gu was in her deep slumber lying on her bed. While a doctor was currently checking for her pulse.
"How was she? When will she wake up? It's already been three days." Shu Ren asked the doctor with a disturbed expression on his face.
It was just three days ago, when he take his oath to protect her, but until now Rae Gu still hasn't woken up yet.
"Young Master Ren, you don't have to worry, she's just fine. Being asleep for these past few days was because all of the energy from her body was overdrawn. So, next time when she practice with the elemental force, you should remind her to do it moderately else this will be the result."
Tormented with anxiety, Shu Ren rubbed his right hand on the back of his head with a troubled expression on his face.
He sighed and took a glanced at the sleeping Rae Gu. "Physician Kao, you can go now. I'll just call you if i need anything."
"Okay, I'll be going now Young Master Ren." Physician Kao bowed his head and walked towards the exit.
Shu Ren walked beside the bed and sat at the side of Rae Gu. He grabbed a clean towel on the table beside the bed, and dipped the tip of the cloth to the lukewarm water inside the basin.
He then squeezed out the excess water on the cloth and gently press it on her dry lips to keep it moist. [What am I going to do with you, Mistress?]
Putting back the towel on the table. He stood up and sat on the chair across the bed, watching Rae Gu on her sleep.
...
Three hours later, Rae Gu woke up from her long dream. Her long lashes fluttered as her eyes slowly opened.
Rae Gu was half-awake and half-asleep, while her consciousness drifted from clear to vague. She hazily pictured out a silhouette of a man sitting on the chair across the bed.
Wanting to fully opened her eyes to checked who it was, but she failed to do so, as her eyelids was too heavy, and could only opened it slightly with much effort.
Rae Gu tried to move her arms, but she couldn't muster her strength and could only move her fingers.
"Hey!"She also tried to call out to him, but she could only opened and closed her mouth, but her voice would not come out from her throat.
Sensing the movement on the bed, Shu Ren looked over the direction of the bed, and saw her half-closed eyes, as well as her mouth that kept on opening and closing as though she must have wanted to say something but couldn't voice it out.
He felt ecstatic that the mistress has finally regained her consciousness, therefore, he abruptly stood up from the chair and dashed towards the bed.
Reaching his steps atop the bed, Shu Ren leaned his ears near her mouth to listened to what she wanted to say.
"Wa... ter..." Rae Gu's voice was so hoarse because it was too dry from a unconscious for the last three days.
"Oh! Water? Wait let me help you up first." Propping her up from the bed, Shu Ren put a pillow on her back to support her from sitting up on the bed, before he darted towards the table and got a glass of water.
He went back to the bed, and sit beside her then slowly guided the glass of water to her mouth to let her drink.
After feeling the cup on her lips, Rae Gu's gradually gulped down the water.
*Cough cough cough*. Drinking too fast caused Rae Gu to choked on the water. She was too thirsty a while ago because her throat was too dry from being unconscious, so she was too eager to drink more water and incidentally choked herself.
"Slow down Mistress, no one will snatch the water from you." Shu Ren smiled and gently rubbed her back to help her catched up her breath from being choked.
After seeing that Rae Gu helplessly banging her chest with her little fist, Shu Ren could only shook his head and grinned.
"How are you feeling Mistress?" Shu Ren asked gleefully.
After drinking the water, Rae Gu's mind cleared up, and she could now see Shu Ren's face clearly, but she ignored his question and looked at the man's face who had help her drank the water with a stupefied expression.
[Omo! Another handsome guy! Did I actually come into a world full of yummy man?] Her eyes wondered at his handsome face down to his body.
With his clothes distinctively fit on his body to formed out his muscles. She could imagined how good it would be to touched those well-built muscle.
Shu Ren was oblivious on what was on her mind and was just smiling joyfully in front of her, if only he knows, he would really run far from her, or else if the Lord would know about it, his head would surely roll out from his body.
But Rae Gu's inner hunger was keep on itching with desire. She bit her lips trying to control it but suddenly a handsome white-haired man with a dark expression on his face pop out in her mind.
Rae Gu sneered after being disturbed on her fantasies, and that made her wanted to swat him like a fly in her mind.
But now that she think about Huang Ryu, Rae Gu now remembered that he lose his consciousness during their fight, so she anxiously looked at the red-haired man in front of her and try to probe some information first.
"You are?" Rae Gu thought that just now, this man has been calling her his mistress, so he must be his subordinate right?
"I'm called Shu Ren, the Lord's subordinate." Shu Ren grinned from ear to ear.
"Oh? Where is he? is he alright?" Rae Gu worriedly asked.
"Don't worry mistress, the Lord is totally find."
"Take me to him now." Rae Gu moved her body to the edge of the bed but before she could drop her foot on the ground, she was stop by Shu Ren.
"Ah that, I'm afraid that..." Shu Ren smiled wryly and scratched his nose.
Rae Gu stopped moving and stared at his face, observing his every actions, "That what? Just now, you said that his totally fine, then why can't you take me to him? Are you perhaps hiding something?" her brows wrinkled and waited for him to answer.
Shu Ren didn't know wether to tell her about her father's instruction or not. He looked at her and pondered that maybe she doesn't know about her father, and for the sake of her living a peaceful life, that man instructed him to hide her out from everyone, and must not want her to be involved in this conflict.
For that reason, Shu Ren needed to take her out from the Beast Kingdom, and lived a normal life with humans.
[Wait..] Now that Shu Ren tried to think about, he realized something. [If that man was her father, so that means she's...]
"Hey!" Seeing him dazed, Rae Gu waved her hand to captured his attention.
"Oh! Sorry. We were currently in the Human Kingdom and the Lord was in the Beast Kingdom. The Lord sent us here, for you to recuperate and live here with the humans." Making up some lies, Shu Ren scrutinized every part of Rae Gu, just like what the Lord had said, that even when he was near her, be it her aura nor her blood, she was a human through and through.
Unlike him, though that man had concealed his aura, if a human or a beast were to approached one meter from his body, his beastly aura would surely be sense. So, Shu Ren wondered what's the mystery behind Rae Gu?
"Okay." Feeling disappointed, Rae Gu solemnly looked down and her eyes became misty red. She doesn't know the reason, but her heart felt so heavy after listening to what Shu Ren had said.
[Did he not want me? Is that why he sent us here?] Feeling lonely, Rae Gu looked far outside the window on her left.
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