webnovel Chapter 575 - 369: It Was Supposed to Be Me First (Part 2)
Chapter 575 - 369: It Was Supposed to Be Me First (Part 2)
And Fafnir didn’t believe it, but after Old Undead conjured a Holy Light as a flashlight, she immediately believed most of it.
"According to this world’s saying, young lady, you should call me Grandmaster!" Old Undead continued teasing Fafnir, "Call me Grandmaster, or Ancestor if you like."
"No way!"
"Alright, alright, Grandpa, you should say less too." Alola covered her forehead, somewhat unable to stand her grandfather.
"Actually, you don’t need to have such hostility towards me." She looked at Fafnir and said seriously, "Do you think Xue Dili is the type who can’t read others’ minds, a very slow boy?"
"Isn’t he?" Fafnir responded.
She had hinted several times, but the teacher never responded. She always thought it was because her hints were too subtle, or the teacher was too dull.
Just like those male protagonists in stories.
"No, you’re wrong, Xue Dili knows everything; he’s just simply rejecting you." Alola bluntly said.
"What are you saying!" Fafnir’s fur stood up, and she quickly entered a round-headed, hunched-back, airplane-ear state.
"There’s no need to be angry, because I’m just like you, someone who’s been clearly rejected." Alola laughed with a maternal face, reaching out to pat Fafnir’s head.
Originally, Fafnir was prepared to attack, but suddenly a sour feeling hit her nose, and she did nothing more.
"Actually, I don’t mind at all how many lovers Xue Dili has or how many women he is involved with; even whether he has me in his heart doesn’t matter. My attitude is simple: I’m just here to repay him." Alola patted her head, unconcernedly revealing her purpose.
"Hmm?"
"Indeed, I actually hope Xue Dili has more lovers or still holds beautiful fantasies about girls, which at least shows he still retains humanity."
"But now you see, Xue Dili doesn’t have any surplus interest, he seems to be always running, never stopping, as if he would die if he stopped, forced to run nonstop, like a tightly wound spring, without any moment of relaxation..."
"When I see him like this, I suddenly feel sorry for this kid, he’s like he was before, always unchanged, and I really hope a girl can enter his heart to make him stop running and rest for a bit, not stay so tense."
Alola quietly spoke her mind.
But Fafnir stayed silent. She wanted to stubbornly claim she was the one who entered the teacher’s heart, but at the moment of opening her mouth, she dared not speak, no longer wanting to stubbornly deceive herself.
But, did she really achieve that?
The teacher knew her feelings, but he seemed totally indifferent...
The teacher only felt familial affection toward her, like a mindset directed at a deceased friend’s daughter, without any overstepping thoughts.
"So you really don’t need to have hostility toward me, I even hope you can open up Xue Dili’s heart, teach him what love is, but obviously, you are not qualified."
"Nonsense! No way!" Fafnir continued to refute.
"Because you still haven’t understood that Xue Dili doesn’t need an admirer, a vase, but a true companion who can share his worries and fight side by side with him." Alola spoke frankly.
Fafnir was like a deflated balloon, seemingly paralyzed on the spot, losing all her strength.
"Keep trying, young lady, actually, you still haven’t realized who your enemy is. All the kids who like Xue Dili are your teammates, and the sole enemy for all of you is Xue Dili himself."
"He has already, due to being tense for so long, lost ’love,’ becoming a ’machine’ who wants to protect everything."
"If you can’t figure this out, then you’ll only remain a niece for your whole life, never escaping this identity; just let it be."
The Female Pope waved her hand and left Xue Family Bridge Village without looking back, heading back to the house they rented near the inn.
And Fafnir stared blankly at the brightly-lit streets outside the village, watching her supposed enemy walk farther away. She didn’t know why, but a feeling of powerlessness and frustration quickly climbed over her entire body.
Actually, she had realized a long time ago, the teacher is so smart, he surely knew her feelings long ago. Previously, she was just self-deceptively holding onto the excuse that the teacher might be a bit dull to deceive herself.
The teacher knew everything, but he had actually long since rejected her; it was just her shamelessly sticking to him.
In an instant, Fafnir felt discouraged; if it were any rival in love, she’d have confidence to defeat them, but if the enemy is the teacher himself, she only feels like an ordinary person facing a Giant Dragon.
There’s simply no way to win...
...
After leaving Xue Family Bridge Village, Old Barak was actually very restless.
"Grandpa, if you want to ask something, just ask." Alola said.
"Ah, Xue boy, how did he become like this... I even suspect, the Technique I used to reverse him from Undead to human failed, he’s still Undead... Ah..." Old Deng looked at the moon, deeply sighing.
"Yes, I originally thought seeing the person I’ve missed for months would make my heart quite excited, but now there’s just a little bit of heartache."
She gazed at the sky silently: "What kind of turbulent experiences must have caused his heart to become so torn apart, he used to be a slightly hot-blooded, naive kid."
"Ah..." Old Barak also sighed deeply.
He actually wanted to make Xue Dili smile through his antics, through playing the fool, to help him relax a bit, but now what they saw wasn’t a vibrant kid, more like an old man already on his last legs.
Exceeding age maturity, a very seasoned way of handling affairs, and an impeccable mindset, this maturity far beyond his age is the most worrying thing.
He was supposed to be a hot-blooded naive teenager, forever young, full of vitality, always moved to tears.
But reality is quite the opposite.
"So, precisely because of this, I want to save this child, it might be motherly love, or maybe just simply wanting to repay him, I feel he shouldn’t be like this."
The two stopped walking, gazing at the bustling metropolis, not knowing why, they suddenly felt an unreal sensation.
"Alola, I feel we’re both the same, losing something beautiful, joy, happiness, future... These intrinsic beautiful qualities seem to be fading away..." Old Undead looked at the sky, suddenly also feeling lost.
"Perhaps." She silently looked at this beautiful world, quietly closing her eyes, "I will help him, no matter what the cost, maybe what I need to do is not add trouble to him, mere companionship is enough."
"Let him know that no matter how difficult the times, there’s always someone to rely on to confide in."
"Hmm." The Old Undead responded.
The two continued walking farther, disappearing into the bustling metropolis.
...
Returning home, Fafnir found Xue Dili already gone from the living room. She silently came to Xue’s room; her room was separated from his by the second floor’s living room.
Twisting the doorknob, Fafnir found Xue Dili had locked the door, and there was no light within.
But at that moment, it seemed she made some sort of decision, taking a key from her pocket, one she had secretly copied, and silently unlocking Xue Dili’s door, tiptoeing inside...