QT: Against My Will (Volume 2)

5.102 - Her Jurisdiction 5 - The Sleepless Elite's Wife

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Edited by Psycho S.

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Flickering hues of blue suddenly lit up his eyes, ocean-strong, swimming with harsh sun-lit currents.

He would have to use their 'past' like a veil for his mind to live through the present — in the moment that was called the 'gift of life'. Their past would be a protective screen that would hide the damage caused by the reality of the situation.

No matter what, a life without her was a reality worse than any nightmares.

He could either choose pain or more pain.

Deciding on rejecting the truth and the present time, his choice couldn't be more obvious.

When the ground and air ambulance arrived, the morbid scene before them was how they found the distraught couple. The man and woman sat in a pool of cold blood, both of them unmoving. When the paramedics tried to save the still living Silika Lin, her supposed husband kept staring at his bloodied hands in a state of shock. It looked like he was uncaring, but really, his brain shut down, forcing his emotions into a small box deep inside. Silika Lin would have been declared dead in seconds if not for some otherworldly miracle.

A body without a soul didn't drain his energy, as much as he would want to. Sadly. Xuan Mu couldn't recall a thing they said to him; it was as if they were speaking to him from the top of a well, their voices distorted. He didn't even realize how he ended up behind prison bars and how he got out. He just kept staring at his hand like a deranged psychopath. Except for him, nobody could see the levitating snake above everyone that was protecting the dim sphere hovering over his palms...

The sphere was his wife's shattered soul.

This was her real form, without a body, but he loved her all the same. Like a melting snowflake, she felt so fragile but she was so very grand all at once. He could have watched her all day and be captivated in that frozen moment that would have taken longer to break than generations to form.

[Host's soul is in lots of pain.]

Xuan Mu immediately let Kuro keep the vanishing soul within its void. Kuro wasn't upgraded to keep a rare soul but to preserve a dead one. To be more precise, a soul that was unable to reincarnate: a soul that was far beyond repair. Even if he fed her with the energy of a whole universe, she would barely stay up for a year. The HQ tried to help, by giving her a mission in an attempt to strengthen her soul.

Helping others to make her soul evolve didn't seem to be the solution. Bing Shi changed her plans and went against Mo Luwei head on right off the bat, and decided to go against Xuan Mu and Quin Yu, at the same time. Her soul showed signs of strengthening, but everyone knew that evolving her soul that had just evolved not a long time ago was simply... impossible.

Just like how one had to damage one's muscles to build new and stronger muscles, the evolvement of the soul had to go through a similar constant damaging and rebuilding process. The damage Bing Shi received from Guan Fei, who was a more powerful soul, was too much for Bing Shi to absorb. She got strong enough to evolve her soul while trying to recover from Guan Fei's blow, but for how long could she keep this up? The closer she got to the top of the hill, the more unstable were her steps and the chances of her falling increased with each passing day...

Aoi Hong and Quin Yu were Gods from a higher realm, while his wife was only a human. She was quite a monstrous human, might he add. The risk he and Bing Shi took with his ex-soulmate cost them more than they could afford; her soul.