章節 149: Mortal World 15
Sweat drops fell onto the ground. A pair of dirty hands dug into the earth. A loud exasperated voice tore through.
"It's impossible!" Lia shouted as Yano stood by the side and only watched.
"You're not properly using your lifeforce."
"I'm aware of that myself! But I don't know how, that's the problem," Lia huffed and sat on the ground.
Right now, they were next to a cemetery. Now that Yano knew of Lia's power and Lia could only improve by testing it on corpses, they couldn't train at the base any more.
Lia bit her lips before saying, "Can't you use your power or something like that?"
"Are you giving me permission to enter your body?" Yano smirked.
"Y-" Lia stopped herself quickly once she realised his implication.
"Be quiet! I'm talking about your power!"
"My power is part of me, so what you saying is-"
Lia shot up and held her hands over his mouth with a threatening glint. She lowered her voice, "You damn know what I'm talking about."
Lia never swore in front of anybody but Yano was the first to achieve that.
"Ok, ok" Yano muffled and held his hands up. Lia removed her hands and witnessed how Yano traced his lips, "Swe-"
"I warn you!'' once again Lia almost suffocated Yano. Yano nodded implying he understood.
"Good."
"I wish it was that easy," Yano properly addressed the issue, "You can draw out your lifeforce but not your ability. It seems like from what I've heard your soul has your ability, so wouldn't it be more logical to merge the power with your lifeforce and the ring's power, whatever that is."
Lia thought the reason why she couldn't use her lifeforce to an extent was because of Min's lifeforce but that was equalised now since the ring's power could grant her to use her lifeforce.
In the first place, how did Lia get that power? The ability to control corpses? Was it like Yano said, inside her soul? Then how should she merge her power with her lifeforce without implicating her soul?
"I want you to purge a lifeforce for me," Lia spoke up after a while.
"Are you insane? You'll die."
"Not mine, someone else's inside my body," Lia couldn't think of anything else. Even if the ring suppressed Min's lifeforce, it was best to completely get rid of the source.
"Who's life force is in you?" Yano narrowed his eyes as he sized Lia up.
"Does it matter?"
"It does."
"Just purge it."
"If you don't tell me, I won't," Yano crossed his arms and turned his head away, Lia was exasperated, why was he acting like this?
"Are you a child?"
"I guess, I am," Yano pursed his lips.
"Please, Yano," Lia took on a pleasing tone.
"This is the first time, you said my name. Say it again," Yano approached Lia and stopped with only a short gap between them.
"Say it again," he repeated his eyes on Lia's lips.
"Please, Yano," Lia meekly said, whenever he was this close to her, whenever she stared into his eyes she felt weak.
"Again."
"Yano…"
"Alright," Yano pulled off his gaze. He had to restrain himself.
"Sit in front of me."
Lia did as he said and he drew a circle on her back, "I've never done this before, so bear with me."
"Are you imagining purging the strange lifeforce?"
"Something like this," Lia felt Yano's fingers gliding across her back. He seemed to be focused, "I'm trying to trace it."
Once again, Lia felt a bit hopeless. Yano's power was really too unfair, even though it had some restrictions, they were definitely not enough to weaken his powerful ability.
It really was as if he was heaven's blessed child. Lia closed her eyes and concentrated on the life forces inside of her. She tried to separate hers from Min's so it'd be easier for Yano to extract them.
Suddenly, she felt something leaving her body. Yano pulled out a green veil-like rope and once it left Lia's body, he quickly let go of it so it could fly away, "It's a nasty life force."
Just touching it made Yano feel uncomfortable. Just whose was it and why was it inside Lia's body? But if she wasn't willing to reveal it, he couldn't force her.
With Lia by his side, his boring days, his search for something, someone that could entice him was finally over. He finally found her and he would never let her go again. Seeing her small frail back, imagining all that she's been through, Yano felt the tremendous urge to embrace her but he had to wait after that disgusting life force swirling inside of her disappeared.
His face turned sour until he came across a blue light one inside of her body. It was his. Yano's mood improved quickly and he hummed.
Lia closed her eyes to enjoy the sensation of Yano's fingers moving across her back. It was similar to a massage. It was comfortable and relaxing and each time she felt Min's life force leaving her body, Lia felt lighter and more refreshing.
Maybe Min's life force was really wearing her down. For a brief while, this went on until Yano's fingers disappeared. A bit disappointed, Lia wanted to stand up when Yano's arms slung around her from behind. His head in the crook of her neck, he cheekily gave her shoulder a light kiss, "You did well."
His whisper tugged on Lia's heart as his touch pulled down the strings. The next second, Yano pulled her up to her feet pretending nothing's happened. Lia silently sighed, she would let it go this time. After all, he helped her.
"You want to try again?"
Lia nodded. Forcing her lifeforce out was much easier now. It also felt purer to prior. The lifeforce that came out was still as fine as before. She needed to try it out on a corpse.
Yet when she did, there was no progress.
"Have you merged your power yet? Try separating it from your soul."
It was easier than said but Lia still complied.
Then an idea popped up, she could use the ring's power to locate the power inside her soul and merge it together.
But it was a painful and hard process, separating anything that has been part of the soul for a long time was bound to be nerve-wracking.
But hard work didn't come without merits, "I… I did it!" Lia excitingly shouted and looked for Yano.
He sat next to her and smiled, "Good job," then rubbed her head. Lia hummed in agreement.
"Try again."
Without waiting for Yano to finish talking, the ring poured out her life force.
The ring's power is a tool to draw out the power inside her soul and while it was in the process of merging, Lia extracted it from her soul and let it continue to spread out in her lifeforce. But instead of merging, it surrounded her lifeforce.
What Lia did then was to pour out the lifeforce surrounded bythe layer of the power through the ring. The amazing discovery was that just like her lifeforce, the power replenished itself to wrap around her lifeforce.
But the important question was did it work with the corpses now? Lia anticipatingly stared at the grave and gave a command, "Come out now."
For a while, nothing's happened but then the grave slowly shook and a hand came shooting out of the pile of dirt. Lia fixated her attention on it as the corpse climbed out of the grave.
The joy of having her power back was indescribable. She was so happy.
"This is the first time, I've seen it. I want to copy it but I guess it goes against the law of the universe," Yano circled the corpse and inspected it while the corpse's eyes curiously followed Yano's movement.
"Walk to me," Lia jumped back and gave a simple order. The corpse stumbled out and slowly walked to Lia. It was by far not as strong as the previous corpses but she could work on that.
For now, this achievement was enough. Lia felt a bit bad, disturbing the corpse and pulling it out of its grave. She has used many dead bodies before but actively destroying someone's burial and disturbing their peace was disrespectful.
Lia let the corpse rest in peace. She already got what she needed.
"Good progress," Yano praised.
"Thank you," Lia sincerely smiled at Yano and he was taken aback. He wanted to take a picture of that smile and hang it in his bedroom.
He sneakily pulled out his phone when it started to ring. Lia eyed it curiously, "What's that?"
"A phone, the mortals use it to communicate," Yano briefly answered before accepting.
Who dared to interrupt his precious moment?
But then Holn's panicked voice appeared, "Yano, come back now!"
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