บท 137: You Don't Know How To Love Him.
After cultivating for nearly the entire night, Iris slowly opened her eyes and was slightly surprised with the amount of Qi she had managed to condense into her dantian within a single night.
After all, she had only expected herself to reach to the 7th level of the Body Tempering Realm, possibility the 8th level if she was lucky, and yet here she currently was, at the 9th level, the very peak of the Body Tempering Realm.
This was undoubtedly the fastest cultivation progress that has ever been accomplished by modern cultivators within the past decade or so.
However, despite knowing how amazing this feat was, especially for a person who had just begun their cultivation journey, she knew that now wasn't the time to be complacent about it, as she was still nowhere near her peak strength back in her previous life.
Glancing at the clock hanging from the wall, which showed that it was currently 5:57 am, Iris got up from the floor, packed the bloodfire ruby back into her duffle bag for a later date, cleaned her room, and quickly did her morning routine before leaving her room to stand guard at Ronald's door as usual.
As soon as she had left her room however, she immediately took her dagger out from her right hand and threw it at a dark corner of the hallway.
"Come out." Seeing as though the dagger didn't pierce the wall and sounded like it punctured through flesh instead, Iris knew that her intuition was right and called out.
Moments later, a shadow began to emerge out of the dark corner with Iris's dagger pierced in their right hand, and Iris was surprised to find out that it was...
"Luna... what do you want." Iris spoke coldly but cautiously.
"Oh, nothing much. I just wanted to thank you for protecting my fiance this past month in person, and then tell you that you're no longer needed here." Luna, despite having blood dripping down her hand, paid no attention to it.
"What? I'm sorry, but I must've heard that last part wrong, can you repeat it again?" Iris couldn't believe what she was hearing in the morning all of a sudden and asked in an annoyed voice.
"No, you heard it correctly." Even though Luna smiled back in response, the smile appeared completely devoid of any emotions.
"So what you're saying is that I should just completely forget about Ronald and never come back? But why? What gives you the right to just drive me away like this?" Iris was absolutely furious now.
She didn't know why Luna was acting the way she currently was right now, but to try and seperate her and Ronald away from one another like this, especially when both her goals and Luna's are completely aligned, was completely unacceptable to her by all means.
"Because he's my fiance..." Luna spoke calmly before switching up to a more cold tone, "And because you prioritized collecting materials and becoming stronger over your duty to protect him, jeopardizing his safety in the process."
"That's it?" Although Iris had no idea how she had jeopardized Ronald's safety when she had absolutely made sure that he would be safe before she left, nor did she know how Luna knew of her current activites yesterday, she didn't try to refute back.
"Mainly? Yeah. I had specifically told my subordinates ahead of time to let you know that they'll be gone away from Ronald's side for a little while, and yet you had also decided to disappear from Ronald's side as soon as they left. What else are you good for if you can't even do such a mundane task while my subordinates are gone." Luna said harshly.
In Luna's mind, she felt as though permanently removing Iris from Ronald's side was the best course of action to do.
After all, based on everything that her subordinates had reported back to her about Iris, she could tell that Iris still had an extremely unstable mind even after regressing back, and Luna was worried that Iris's unstable mind would directly or indirectly affect Ronald's bright mind in the near future.
Besides, everything she had said to Iris up to now was completely true.
Otherwise, why would Iris willingly go out to buy materials to begin with when she clearly knew that Ronald would be alone and unprotected ahead of time?
In Iris's mind however, she felt as though...
"...You're such a hypocrite. You know that?" Iris tightly clenched her teeth together to prevent herself from absolutely losing it with Luna and stated.
"Mm? How so?" Luna saw the absolute fury in Iris's eyes and smiled.
"You want to get rid of me simply because you think that I've jeopardized Ronald's safety and act as though you've never endangered his safety yourself when in reality you've much worse than me!" Iris still tried her best to keep her cool and replied back.
"You must be referring to the masquerade party that Ronald had went to last week. Okay, tell me then, how am I entirely to blame for that incident when you could've easily prevented him from going out to the party." Luna responded calmly.
"By doing what? Hurting him and knocking him out? Have you seriously forgotten that the only person he ever listens to is you!? Plus, I've told you repeatedly on the phone so many times back then that as long as you don't attack the masquerade party, then the party will go smoothly and none of the criminals there will cause a ruckus, and yet you still went against my better judgement and caused chaos anyways!" Iris couldn't hold back her anger anymore and absolutely lost it.
"If it hadn't been for me being there, inside and desperately taking him out of the masquerade party before he got hurt, who knows if he would still be alive now!"
"..." Luna didn't know how to respond back to this and stayed silent with an indifferent look on her face.
"And what about the time when Ye Fan had hired an extremely powerful assassin to kill me and tried to frame Ronald for it? You know, the thing he often tried to do back in our previous lives in order to have all of us going down at each other's throats and get us off of his trail for a bit! What do you think would've happened if that assassin had succeeded in killing me!? Oh wait, I forgot that you didn't know about this incident because you only send over your stupid, incompetent subordinates to watch over Ronald on your behalf and can't even be bothered to meet him in person yourself!"
"..."
"In fact, back in our previous lives, when every single one of us was kneeling infront of Ronald's graves, crying and praying for him to come back to life, I heard everyone there say something along the lines of 'if only I could meet Ronald once again, I'd be willing to spoil him, protect him, and spend all the time I can with him,' and yet, not once have I seen you and the 3 other bitches even attempt to drop by his house and even say hello to him after regressing back!"
"..."
"Are you going to say something? Or are you just going to fucking stand there silently just like you always do and not say anything back!?"
"...You wouldn't get it because you decided to take the easy way out after Ye Fan's death, but everything that we're doing behind the scenes is to ensure that Ronald has a long future ahead of himself." Finally for the first time ever since she chose to stay silent during Iris's rant, Luna began to speak up.
"Oh yeah? Well I couldn't care less about his future right now? Want to know why!? Because he's suffering in the present right now and won't have a fucking future if you keep neglecting him like this!"
"..."
"Do you know what I saw him searching up on his phone the instant I came back home yesterday? It was about you, Luna! He was looking through all of the successful achievements you and your company has ever accomplished ever since your regression back, and my heart couldn't help but ache for him when I saw that because deep down in my heart, I know that the person he's deeply in love with is some heartless bitch that doesn't love him back!"
"..."
"To you, he's just another person that you're simply indebted to, but since he's given you so much in the past to the point where it would be impossible to repay it back even if you have lived up to a million years, you try to repay him back by pretending to care for him!"
"..."
"But your true nature has never changed, Luna, and even if you did truly love him with all of your heart, you don't know how to love him! So stop giving him a false sense of hope and leave him be!" Iris finally finished her long rant and took a deep breath.
Even though Iris knew that she had just went completely ballistic against Luna just now, she knew that Luna wouldn't understand any of it.
After all, having personally known Luna for practically over two and a half decades now, she knew that Luna was the most subborn person to ever grace this world.
And just as she had expected...
"...Are you done now?" Luna asked in a tone so bone-chilling that the temperature in the room couldn't help but drop down a couple of degrees.
It had been centuries since anyone had spoken to her like this without instantly getting killed, and now that she was being spoken to like this again, by someone she considered as insignificant no less, she wasn't too happy about it.
"..." Iris silently nodded back in response.
"Then pick up your dagger and let's get this over with." Luna ripped Iris's blade right out of her bloodied right hand and tossed it over to Iris's legs.
Although she was only at the 3rd level of the Body Tempering Realm while Iris was currently at the 9th level of the Body Tempering Realm, she was fairly confident that she could still easily beat Iris.
After all, other than the fact that she had watched Iris cultivated, she knew that the only way that Iris have managed to reach such a high level of Body Tempering Realm in such a short period of time was if she had used the Fragmented Soul Refinement Arts cultivation method.
And while the Fragmented Soul Refinement Art cultivation method did have its major advantages to it, it also has the major disadvantages and flaws that most normal cultivation methods have...
And Luna intended to display its flaws to Iris today before killing her.
Iris, having already somewhat expected Luna to be like this, effortlessly kicked up the dagger back to her hand and reverse gripped it as she got into a defensive position.
As the killing intent coming out from both Luna and Iris gradually grew stronger and stronger, both of them had arrived at the conclusion that this place would undoubtedly be the last time they would ever see each other again.
And just when both their killing intents were completely heightened to the max and Luna was about to make the first move however, the door to Ronald's room suddenly swung right open.
"Luna?"
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