Ch. 32 – I SHALL KILL YOU!!

"I told you to leave her be!"

As Xiao Huoyan said that, half of the army that Jin Niao had brought with him, turned into a dense mist of blood.

"You!"

"NO!!"

Jin Niao had killed tian Mei in his rage. This caused Xiao Huoyan an unimaginable amount of heartache. He lost his mother… again.

'It is all my fault... I killed her', he thought to himself.

"Hahahahahah!!"

"You… You dare to laugh at my mother's death… You dare to mock her?!?! I SHALL KILL YOU!!"

Xiao Huoyan's eyes turned pitch-black as he began to fly up in the air. The he released all of his spirit essences at once.

The seemingly enormous army of hundreds of thousand of soldiers from the Jin Clan was inferior to even a single grain of dust, in the eyes of Xiao Huoyan. They did not even get a chance to scream before they died. They all turned to ashes and scattered with the wind.

It took but a brief moment for Xiao Huoyan to get rid of Jin Niao's entire army.

Now the only persons left was Xiao Huoyan and Jin Niao.

"Y-you… W-what are you?!"

"I am but a child you should have thought twice before messing with."

"I-I… I-I ap-polog-gize!! I was wrong! I-I… P-please spare me!", Jin Niao said while shaking from fear.

He whom was a powerful and respected direct descendant of the Jin Clan, was actually begging for his life. He was begging a child. A child whom he had looked down upon since the first time they had met.

"--Too late."

As soon a he finished his sentence, Jin Niao turned into a mist of blood.

Right after, Xiao Huoyan's eyes turned back to normal as he fell from the sky.

Right before he hit the ground, someone caught him.

It was Tian Xin.

She was crying while whispering that she was sorry.

She blamed herself for her mother's death. She saw her own mother die, yet she could not do anything to save her.

She had found the orb quite quick. As soon as she had found it, she came out, but to her surprise, the first thing she saw when she arrived at the spot where Xiao Huoyan and the rest were, was her mother dying right before her eyes.

She could not help but to feel guilty. If only she had not insisted on coming out to help, then maybe her mother would have stayed with her… Maybe her dear mother would not have died.

She carried Xiao Huoyan back into their house and laid him on the bed. She had made the decision to protect him with her life. He, her dear brother, was the one whom had avenged his mother's death by killing Jin Niao and his men.

She knew that her dear brother was in an even worse state than her.

She just lost her mother, but he… He just lost his mother for the second time.

The feeling of losing your own mother... She understood that now, but the feeling of losing your mother twice… She could not even imagine what he was feeling.

She knew that her strength could not have saved her mother, but Xiao Huoyan's strength definitely could have.

If he had just killed them at the beginning, then maybe their mother would have still been alive, but she knew that he would never have killed all of them just like that if Jin Niao had not killed their mother.

He did not like to kill people, but at the beginning he must have done it to provoke Jin Niao. He probably felt that killing Jin Niao off too soon would have been too merciful. He probably wanted to see Jin Niao in despair right before his last moments.

She understood him. She knew that she would have done the same.

Tian Mei had only gone out to save him, but instead she died. Tian Xin swore to forever take care of her dear brother… To protect him with her life.

Her mother died in a failed attempt to save him, so she had take on the responsibility of forever keeping him safe.

She was lost in thoughts for a long time, and before she knew it, she had already fallen asleep.

Now she was just sitting beside her brother's bed while sleeping next to him.

-

While she was sleeping peacefully, Xiao Huoyan was not.

He was lost in a dream... a nightmare.

He was sitting on his bed in the house which he had lived in together with his mother. He heard a scream. It was his mother.

He rushed out of the house, but the first thing he saw when he got out was the mercenaries whom he had thought killed his mother in the past, lay on the ground… dead. He saw himself two years younger.

His younger self held his mother in a tight grip around her neck… then he snapped it!

In the same second Xiao Huoyan saw his younger self kill his mother; he fell to the ground with a single tear running down his left cheek, and then dripping onto the ground.

He felt his heart break… again. He knew that feeling all too well.

He lost a father he could not even remember, a mother whom had cared for him his whole life, a father whom had decided to take him as his son soon after their first meeting and a mother whom had made the decision to take him in as her son and then even protecting him at the expence of her own life despite already having a child of her own.

He did not have anyone left… except for his dear older sister Tian Xin.

Everything before his eyes turned black.

'W-what if she can not forgive me? Will she blame me like I blame myself?', he thought to himself.

He suddenly felt scared. If she refused to forgive him, then he would truly be alone…

The fear of losing the last person that meant something to him was enough to break him...