RIN

Chapter 131

Rin's eyelids became too heavy to open before she slowly felt her body ease.

The first thing she felt upon waking up was a piercing pain in her head. Next, her thick eyelashes trembled as she struggled to open her eyes.

A hazy image of a woman with golden hair and emerald eyes appeared in front of her. The woman's eyes were soft and warm as she hovered over her and placed a warm, wet cloth over her head.

Rin's eyes couldn't help but tremble. She stared at the figure in a daze.

"Mother?"

"Hah? Who are you calling this old monk your mother?"

Suddenly hearing a gruff, elderly voice come out of the lovely young woman, Rin blinked her eyes a couple of times.

Sure enough, after her vision cleared, the person leaning over her wasn't her gorgeous mother, but rather a short and scrawny old man wearing white robes.

"Seems like that fever not only made you faint but stupid as well." The white-haired man grumbled. "If that's the case, putting you out of your misery seems like the best solution."

Rin's expression was dull.

Was he speaking about euthanizing her right in front of her?

Before she had to speak, a childlike voice spoke from around the corner.

"Put her out of her misery? I thought you said she was okay?!"

With her head propped on a pillow, Rin shifted her eyes to the childlike voice. Standing between the doorway, was a boy dressed in brown and green robes, his auburn hair spiked up.

He marched over to the old monk and was about to yell words of concern, when he was suddenly knocked hard on the head.

"Noisy brat, I was only joking. She's fine."

The boy clutched his head before blinking his round eyes and breathing a sigh of relief. At that moment, the young boy perceived a pair of eyes on him and shifted his head to the figure on the bed.

Realizing the girl was looking back at him silently, Aiguo's cheeks couldn't help but heat up, his eyes darting away from her face. Not even two seconds later, he peeked back up and was in awe.

A girl possibly no older than fifteen, blinked her quiet eyes at him. She looked so white, soft, and thin. Unhealthily thin. Her eyes were hollow, but her pupils rare color of emerald naturally lit them up. Her cheekbones were too prominent, possibly a result of not eating enough food.

The boy couldn't help but think she was probably very pretty when she was rested and had some meat on her bones.

He would make sure to hunt for meat and make her eat lots!

Lost in his glorifying thoughts, he hadn't noted the old monk looking at him with twitched brows.

Whack--!

"Ouch!" Aiguo's originally warm expression immediately turned into the stormiest one he could summon. "What the hell, old man?!"

The white-haired monk knocks him on the head again. Before Aiguo could snap obscenities at him, the old monk indifferently turned away to walk toward Rin.

"I don't welcome perverts, nor profanity. Take your blasphemy and impure thoughts with the rest of the vile swine."

"I-Impure?" Aiguo blinked innocently.

He froze for a moment before gritting his teeth and roaring, "Old man!"

The white-haired monk ignores the boy and calmly grasped Rin's hand to feel her pulse. The room was silent for a moment before his thin lips curled into a satisfied, smug grin.