Villain Path

Chapter 37. Another Muan

The sun painted the western walls of the house with bloody shades, saying goodbye to the world and finally yielding to the evening twilight. Just at this most suitable for spirits time Shen entered Muan's room and right from the doorway demanded:

"Let's fly on!"

Muan, who was meditating before that, opened eyes and glanced at him:

"But you wanted to stay for the wedding."

"I've changed my mind. We're moving out immediately."

"What's the rush?"

"I just..." Shen grimaced slightly, trying to find a good explanation. "I just hate being here anymore. The curse is removed, I'm sure of it."

Muan silently studied his slightly disheveled appearance. Besides, Shen looked a bit paler than usual. Hm, his face is pretty easy to read if he's not feeling well. How convenient. Muan thought that he had learned to differentiate his states. Just now, something has definitely happened too, but Shen definitely won't tell if he asks directly. Well, at least he's clearly alive and pretty confident on his feet. And yet Muan couldn't resist saying:

"Running away?"

«How incredibly insightful!» Shen mentally annoyed with admiration. That is exactly what he intended to do. At first he decided to go talk with the blind man to understand from his reaction, whether he was surprised by Shen's recovery or not. But then he realized that he didn't want to know. Even afraid to know. Afraid to hear something like: "Oh! You didn't die from my «antidote»?". No, no, no, he doesn't want to hear that! And the only way to ensure he'll avoid it - go for a new mission right now. Nothing's keeping them here anyway - 4/6 of the quest "Missions of the Meeting of the Lords" is completed!

"We'll be moving out in five minutes," notified Shen and left the room.

"At night?!"

Shen already slammed the door behind him.

Within five minutes Muan found everyone in the yard in full readiness for departure.

"Look... It's a long way to the next task."

"The village we need is not too far from here, only about two hours of fly."

"Yes, which means we'll be there at night. And the villagers usually go to bed at sunset. So... I thought..."

"Get to the point."

"We could stay at my place. This is right on the way, just a small hook into the mountains."

"At «your place»?" Shen reasked in surprise.

"More like my sister's. She runs a small school of martial arts, continues the work of our parents. We used to live there together as kids."

"Wow, brethren Gai! You have a sister!!"

"What are you so excited about?" he tensed.

"But it's so cool."

"What's the big deal?"

"It's cool to have a sister or a brother!"

Shen, as the only child in the family, always enjoyed listening to stories like: «My sister is on my computer again, I'm sick of it!» or «My brother is a complete idiot, he's no use around the house!». There was something sweetly family-like about all this grumbling, unfortunately not available to him himself.

Muan's brows furrowed in confusion

"But, Shen, you actually have a brother, and..." he cut the sentence short before he could finish.