Chapter Thirty-Six: Leisure

  "......You've been following me for so long, shouldn't you come out already?" I walked into the depths of the forest and stopped. I furrowed my brow, wondering why Akane Tsukino had been secretly following me since I got back. No, that's not right...I should call her Beni Sakura. We hadn't even met before, so why was she following me?

  "Hehe... it's been so many years, and you haven't grown taller at all? But you have grown up~ I can feel your presence now, Sakura." A silvery laughter echoed through the trees, and from behind a large tree behind me, a lively-looking girl emerged. Her silver long hair was adorned with an extra beauty, her left hair tied in a knot, and her smiling purple-blue eyes revealed the underlying sorrow that she couldn't hide.

  Her words made my body instinctively stiffen, the long-unheard nickname 'Sakura' was only used by one person in this world. Although her tone had changed to a more cheerful and playful one, I couldn't forget the similarly lonely figure. It's been ten years since she disappeared for an entire decade. At that time, when the organization was about to take me away, I wanted to search for her, to find the person who had always been by my side since I opened my eyes, but she wasn't there, as if she vanished into thin air. Back then, I thought she didn't want me anymore. It turned out she just returned to her own world, and that was Tsubaki Sakura.

  "Xian!" She threw herself into his arms, and shed the first tears since coming to this world. "Xian, I miss you so much." He held her tightly, afraid that the next moment he would wake up from a dream and find it was all just an illusion.

  "You're still so childish, always crying, it's been like that since before. Gently patting the person in her arms on the back to comfort them. "What happened over the years? Why are you in this world?"

  I told her everything that happened after I left the village, but I didn't mention God's old man because no one would believe it anyway. Moreover, that old man also cast a curse on our ancestors, and people of the blood clan don't like him either.

  "Boom——" The surrounding trees were destroyed in a large area under Yatsume's furious anger. I shrank my neck and stole a glance at Yatsume's face, her expression was even more terrifying than when Onii-sama was angry. It's no wonder she's known as the "Mad Blooming Princess", a pure-blood princess who makes me tremble with fear when she gets angry.

  "So, because I was swept away by the time-space turbulence again and returned to my original world... You were captured by an assassin organization and trained, then you met a human woman. That human woman betrayed you for a man, and that woman was someone you considered a friend. And that human man liked you, but because that woman was jealous, she pointed a gun at you, and then you jumped off the cliff and came to this world. What's even more ridiculous is that you're Onii-sama's biological younger sister, but he protected another girl for ten years, thinking she was you." Yatsume narrowed her dangerous eyes, with a hint of crimson flashing in them.

  "Yes, yes." I couldn't help but tremble with anger, who's going to save me? Clever me quickly changed the subject. "Where's Lian?"

  “……” The originally intimidating face suddenly turned sorrowful and desolate. I sat beside her, quietly waiting for her answer. “I fell in love with a human who was once a LEVELD. I truly loved him. However, he died because of me, at the hands of hunters who were after LEVELDs. That man shouldn’t have been on the list to be hunted; he hadn’t yet become a LEVELD. They killed the one I loved most, leaving behind only a pile of dust as proof that he existed.”

  "For the first time having freedom, for the first time having hope, and also for the first time understanding despair and endless madness."

  "When I was going to take revenge, I met them. The first time I met those twins, the ones who killed that man, the Shimogamo twins."

  "The twin sons of the hunter, all born with a fate of deep sin. I see one, a boy with the same loneliness and desolation. Both are bound by suffering and have lost the meaning to live on, that boy named Kyousetsu Ichimaru."

  "He is the second human being close to me, Sakura, you know, the first one was you."

  She casually talked about her return to the original world, and what she had experienced. There was happiness, even if it was just a brief moment. There was pain, long-lasting pain that lasted until the end of life, which made her lose direction on the road of life. There was gratitude, gratitude for finding support when she was about to collapse. There was resentment, resentment towards fate for taking away her hard-won happiness so quickly...

  I quietly listened to her experiences, which had left deep scars in her heart that could not be erased. I only hoped that time would alleviate the pain she had endured. What she told me was actually nothing new to me, and I knew that her life was nearing its end. But I wished my presence could change the course of time, altering the fate that had long been sealed for her. "Why don't you take a look around? There is someone who has always deeply loved you, pretending not to understand his feelings and maintaining a subtle distance. The future of the pure-blooded one he holds dear seems destined only for destruction. In the end, he will still be unable to attain the happiness you had hoped for him, and the more he pushes away, the crueler it is to him."

  This is my advice to her, because if she continues down this path, it will truly become that way. In the end, In was killed by Kyōka, his heart already shattered into pieces, leaving behind only a painful lingering spirit. And that lingering spirit, for In's revenge, died at the hands of Kuranosuke Matsumoto, using its last breath to come to Rei's side and have him drink its own blood, devouring his final life force, making him become the strongest hunter. These are all things I don't want to see; I want In to stay by my side like she was ten years ago, because she is my only friend.

  "……I knew all that." She lowered her eyelids, and the thick eyelashes covered up her emotions. "But I don't want him to become my servant. That's not what I'm looking for."

  Human, once a human's blood is sucked by a pure-blood vampire, their body senses his presence, this is the bond of blood. However, they cannot harm him because he is the master and the one being sucked is the servant, causing love to become fragmented. In fact, if you don't want him to become a vampire, you can use 'Eternal Youth Alice'. But vampires can only quench their thirst by sucking the blood of the person they love, and since he is a pure-blood, this method cannot be used.

  "I have a way." I racked my brains and finally thought of the most effective method. "That is, after you suck out a strand of his blood, then let him drink the blood mixed with mine, it'll be fine."

  "Because my blood contains the two extremes of darkness and light, these two extreme powers collided and produced a new power. This power can make him a vampire, but he doesn't have the thirst for blood that vampires should have, just like how I'm with you now. However, it's not that he can't drink blood, it's just that he doesn't have the desire to." Delicately explaining my theory to her.

  "It's great~~ I can finally be with Yī Lǔ together, I'm so happy." My mouth twitched, you, when did you become Hong Malia again? Next time you transform, tell me in advance, so I can mentally prepare.

  "Hey, Sakura, want to give it a try?" I looked at Xian strangely, what's there to try?

  "Look, is Yuuki really a good kid or what?" Yuzuru said with a lazy smile, as if it had nothing to do with her.

  "Alright... but I'm definitely going to choose the one I brought for you." The decision was made without any hesitation.

  "Oh——why does Sakura think so?" The idle curiosity blinked at me with sparkling eyes.

  "Because every time she looks at me, her eyes flash with a hint of malice, jealousy and disgust. It's really strange, I didn't snatch anything from her, why does she look at me with that kind of gaze? Moreover, the color of her soul is very dirty." I said with a face full of disdain while talking about my impression of Yuuki.

  "What color is the soul? Can Sakura see it? What color is my soul?" Yozora raised a strange smile, hehe ~~ It seems that Sakura still doesn't know their feelings for her. I wonder what you'll do next, Kuranosuke, I'm looking forward to it.

  I gazed at Xian's smiling face for a long time, and then he opened his smile. "What a beautiful color, like the petals of cherry blossoms, pale pink, and also as deep and mysterious as the purple spirit flower."

  "What's the color of that cherry blossom?"

  "I don't know, I can see others', but not my own. It's like fate, knowing their fate, but not knowing what mine will be."

  The answer is revealed, the person Akira met in another time and space was actually Hiraku. It's believed that with Akira's appearance, Hiraku's fate will change, and of course, Hiraku's CP (computer partner) is a thread.

  Regarding the plan to write up to "The Prince of Tennis", everyone has a hoped-for conquest target, please send me a book review. Also, there should be one person who will become a cannon fodder and does not participate in the conquest target, please choose.

  Iceberg Handball

  Kansai Wolf

  Sachiko Himegami

  Sanada Emperor

  Remember to be a cannon fodder, and don't counterattack. (I will torture him to death.)