"Huh, oh!" Xīn said, entering the person's house.
The person before Xīn warmly welcomed him and said "But my mom should be back by now. Let's go to the living room for the time being, and would you like to have some snacks?"
"There is no need…I came here because you said you have something to say about 'Bai shao', so what is it?" Xīn said, the thing that Xīn only agreed to come to that person's house was because he wanted to hear something about Bai Shao.
"Okay, straight to the point. But first let me ask you this question, do you somehow know about, 'Two famous tales of warriors'?"
"I..I think I have heard about it, but I don't remember it. I only remember the title." Xīn said.
"I also somehow don't remember much of it, I thought you would know about this so I asked but I guess I have to find out in the library."
"Yea, you should."
"And about Bai Shao, he isn't just a normal person. When Cloud was transferred as a new student, in a nearby school. He was very clingy and sticking with him. And I don't know why Cloud didn't even mind as if it doesn't matter to him."
"...."
"Wait, I forgot about scraps. Take a look, according to early mid Wu Tāng dynasty there was an evil sect, they called this sect as crucial, heartless and they are also man-eating humans. The leader of this sect was young or you can say he cannot get old. But that sect leader was really interested in 'Han Kim', a powerful cultivator who fought the great wars in that historic event. Or rather he was obsessed with that cultivator even the glimpse of a beautiful maiden couldn't charm him off, he was a totally obsessed person at that time, a total freak."
"Wait you said 'Han kim', does that mean he is from Korea?"
"Ah, yes 'Han kim' is from there, and a lot of things that I don't know about it right now and I am still finding answers for that question." The person swiftly closed the book and looked at him with a little bit of seriousness on his face.
"Oh, by the way what's your name? I somehow don't know about it."
"Huh didn't you know my name…..well my name is 'Seo Hmā'.
Xīn had something in his mind but didn't utter anything.
The evening sky is gone and it's night. He has stayed too long in…Seo house, the road he has never seen before..now he has seen it and came to his uncle's house by walking in it.
Xīn was looking at his uncle's house that looked tremendous at night and his uncle was having a family dinner inside that house. He didn't want to interrupt them and this was the first time that his uncle and aunt had a family dinner together. That's why he didn't want to be a third side, for now as he had already caused them a lot of trouble by studying here.
It has been only a few days since Xīn came here, and somehow Xīn feels like time is really running quickly without turning its back on him.
"Should I find myself a better place till they finish their dinner?" Xīn thought, and he went for a walk even though Xīn hadn't eaten anything yet since his last lunch in the afternoon. He was walking without in his sense that he didn't even realise when he had reached that gloomy bus stand, when he met Cloud there for the first time after a long time. This place can be considered as the reunion place to him and it was something special that also holds within it.
Xīn entered the bus stand and it was the same as before, rusty and gloomy. The leaves are also the same as before covering its hut…but those yellowish beautiful flowers are not there anymore but rather they are fragile to the ground. It's even darker inside and…outside its moon's beauty sparkling tremendously. "That day was really…" as Xīn was saying those words his eyes went off to that clear crystal sparkling light again that was sparkling inside the bus stand sitting area bottom part. But comparing things between the moon lights outside and that crystal thing that is glowing inside. The only thing that would take the place for dominant glow is that crystal thing glowing with its glamorous light.
Stepping forward, he realised something, it was the same thing that he had seen before when he was at the bus stand. "Oh wait, yea I remember this little creature!"
"Xīn Bēi!"
Xīn was startled that his name was being called out by this little creature, he startled and backed off, "Did that thing just…talked and called out my name?"
It was an unspeakable moment for Xīn, as who would know what kind of "little creature" it is that could not be identified when someone is around. But somehow this little creature keeps appealing to him, maybe because of its crystal sparkling? Who knows, but Xīn wasn't able to stand there just like a stricken tree by the lighting, so he reached out to that thing like a gentle feather.
The little creature that is glowing on somehow spoke was just like an illusion to him. And then after that it's also somehow hard as some weird things kept happening nowadays, the first was those corpses and secondly was this thing which might be living.
And then again the sensation of that thing was the same as before, the body texture was squeezy and gave a relaxed mind to Xīn. And the little creature was also somehow attached to him, sticking on Xīn's hand.
The small waiting 'little creature' , which was calm, and when Xīn gently moved that thing on to his arm, it seemed like this thing had no intention of staying up in arm. The thing jumped down from Xīn's arm and headed towards the moonlight.
The little creature's appearance somehow looks growing in size by contact with the light moon little by little, slowly the humanoid shape. By this sight Xīn already knows what will happen next, but enthusiastically he didn't know that he was still there standing and looking at this unusual sight out of an account. And now who knows why moonlight was even more charmingly brighter tonight.
The "little creature" soon completed his humanoid transformation. His body was well defined, built with muscles and his thick slightly light blue long hair coming to till his neck and covering without any information and his body top to bottom was…...Though Xīn didn't see this "little creature" face, somehow it seems like he can imagine that "little creature" humanoid form face.
Xīn was overexcited to see this "little creature" face. The "little creature" stood there in silence and from behind Xīn came in front of him.
The face of this "little creature" was very enthusiastic, the hair was long in front also which looked furry, the eyes were pure black without any mistakes, the eye brows were sharp and the nose were accurately built by this "little creature" without any mistakes. It was an enigma.
Xīn also stood silent there for a moment and with a slow tide-like wave voice he said, "Hey…"
Without a second the 'little creature or person now,' gave him a warm smile, it seemed like he wanted to utter something but was a bit hesitant, which can be seen on that face clearly after he gave a smile. Now that Xīn can think of it, he seemed to realize that the person in front of him was a guy and didn't have clothes on him.
"...waaaaa" Xīn said, he was flustered by this scene but he couldn't even ignore it somehow, apparently his house is not so far away from this bus stand. Holding his head with his two hands over his hairs shrugging in it, he was thinking how to move to not leave this person alone.
As he was thinking about all of the mess around him a pair of hands touched on his shoulder and he didn't even notice it because he was way too busy at thinking something but when he looked over that person's face again his mind cools down. Once he thinked back again, and how he grabbed his hand running towards his house.
With a dashing beam of running they both reached the house. But the problem is how they will enter the house, because Xīn doesn't want to disturb his aunt and uncle's peaceful night. Feeling down he looked behind the person who was standing there.
That person was standing there without any moments, looking at the Xīn without keeping his eyes away. But before Xīn could think anything, that person held his hand raising towards the upward way, then his next arm towards his waist pulling him close.
"Wa, what are you doing?" Xīn said, this closeness was when he had a dance practice with Cloud and with that Xīn said, "But it's not a dance practice at all and–"
Xīn was about to continue his remaining talk but before he could finish, the bubbles flew from all over the surroundings and the mist along with it. For a moment Xīn stopped and it felt like a dream and imaginary world with a peace of essence in this world that can't be seen usually.
Xīn was lost in this gorgeous scene where in the moon light mist with bubbles were flowing, Xīn was lost in that scene when he noticed he and that person started moving upward together. The lights were illuminating over those bubbles making it sparkle, and the person's face was still unfragile.
"Oh windows, it should be open right?" Xīn continued, "Ah, yes."
It was pretty dark in the room but the glow from outside had made it possible to go through a search in the room and turn on the lights.
"Come in." Xīn said, but he suddenly turned his head away from him. How can he face the person again despite the fact that the person didn't even have clothes on him.
Flustered, Xīn gave the person some clothes and waited for him outside the room. "Clack"
"Oh you are done," Xīn said.
"....." The person nodded
"Let's go and —grrrrrrrr" Xīn's stomach grumbled like hell, and he hasn't had dinner yet. "Well let's eat dinner first, you just stay in my room. I will bring some snacks because there won't be much food left I guess." Xīn said.
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Clack
"Hey I am back, I was—" Xīn was continuing his words and turning on the lights of the room then he realised the person before him was wearing the clothes in a wrong way. He couldn't help but chuckle a bit about his wearing.
"....." The person was confused and didn't say anything. Xīn went to him and helped him to wear his clothes. Then started making ramen that he brought from his uncle's kitchen.
"Here, have some," the person wasn't quite hesitant, but rather took the ramen from his hands without any thoughts about it. Is that person always like this?
All of these thoughts were coming to his mind, that always got stuck somehow. The person who he invited out of nowhere like an abandoned cat.
But somehow that person seemed familiar to Xīn, but in what way Xīn doesn't have an answer for that, but somehow he knows it was a familiar feeling that was coming from the person.
'I should throw this away tomorrow, and ....he slept in my bed that I didn't even realise,' Xīn continued 'For now good night new pal.'
The night was peaceful, but there was something that Xīn was thinking all along and that there was not much time left for his dance with Cloud, and that he used to have nightmares, but what's about the nightmare? The thing was that the nightmare of his scares him through his heart's core. But today that dream didn't appear somehow, so was that dream just a delusional nightmare of his. Maybe, and that dream started appearing when Cloud left him in his childhood. The nightmare was something like a future dance between him and Cloud, when appeared on the stage for the dance, people started making unwanted words that would hit like an arrow and deep into the sink of his heart, everything was somehow unimaginable. But somehow the dance part was becoming true for him. It was a coincidence for Xīn, so to the rest also in a positive way he took it just a normal nightmare that won't cause anything to him.