Mr. Melancholy Wants To Live A Peaceful Life

CHAPTER 44

Feeling You Zhengping's movements, Yu Hua froze. No one in the world understood better than Yu Hua the reason You Zhengping was behaving like this. It was his fault.

When Yu Hua had carefully avoided everyone's gazes, slowly changed into the black cloak, and flown to the roof, the first thing he had seen had been Xiao You, seriously injured, and he had heard Destroyer 192 mention that Xiao You had become a human bomb.

His fury had instantly gone to his head. Yu Hua had forgotten that he had to be a normal person, forgotten that he had to seal his power. He had released a portion of the System's energy, his unsealed power rising from 3% right to 20%. The frightening abnormal energy that the Protectors had felt had been released when Yu Hua had undone the seal. Even undoing the seal was that terrifying.

He had viciously tortured Destroyer 192, then as quickly as possible had picked up Xiao You and healed him and gotten rid of the transmitted vibrations. At the same time, he had been unable to resist giving him a tender kiss. If Xiao You hadn't quickly gotten away, Yu Hua wouldn't even have realized what he had done.

Power made a person lose himself. Yu Hua had understood this when he had passed his five hundredth level. In that world, he had done something he regretted, and from then on he had resolved that he wouldn't become a slave to violence.

But when his power had been unsealed to 20%, Yu Hua had once again felt that wild arrogance. At the time, he had only wanted to trap Xiao You forever under his wing, not let him go to work, forbid him from taking part again in the battle between the Protectors and the Destroyers.

Only when Xiao You had rolled out of his embrace had Yu Hua realized that what for him was a tender gesture was an injury to Xiao You, who dearly loved his partner. Then Yu Hua had quickly used Destroyer 192's System to get a healing item, absorbed his System, and once again suppressed his power.

Unfortunately, Destroyer 192 was truly too weak. A mere 192 levels of energy was just enough for Yu Hua to seal 5% of his power. He still had 15% remaining. Yu Hua had had to distribute even more of that power to healing abilities, then quickly flee before the Protectors' main force arrived.

Suppressing the arrogant thoughts brought on by the sharp rise in power had exhausted Yu Hua's mental energy. He had been temporarily unable to think about how he had kissed Xiao You. He had deliberately avoided it.

But starting to worry about how he should treat Xiao You when his identity had been revealed, as well as the suitcase on top of the wardrobe, had involuntarily revealed Yu Hua's thoughts. He hoped that Xiao You wouldn't feel sad because a stranger had stolen a kiss from him, hoped that Xiao You would know that the one who'd kissed him had been Yu Hua. That was why he had chosen to trust fate.

Seeing Xiao You rubbing his lips against his pajamas as though he had a grievance, Yu Hua couldn't even say the words "What's wrong?" This time, he couldn't pretend to be clueless. Fortunately, You Zhengping wasn't planning on talking about it. He was a strong person and had decided to bear it himself.

He kissed the second button of Yu Hua's pajama top and quietly said, "I haven't seen you in two days. I missed you."

Yu Hua sighed and put his arms around You Zhengping. Also quiet, he said, "I missed you, too."

The strong-willed Protector You Zhengping, who yesterday on the roof had risked his life to protect children, who had understood a new use for his spatial ability at the moment of crisis, who had forced himself to meet Destroyer 192 head-on even when covered in wounds, had returned home today and only wanted to curl up in Yu Hua's arms, seeking consolation.

You Zhengping kicked off his shoes and climbed under the covers, guiltily saying, "I didn't change my shoes when I came in. I got the floor all dirty."