Episode 4: Dragon Blood Warrior Chapter 12: Bleak Snow

Alice had thought that she didn’t have much deeper feelings for Linley anymore, but when she saw Linley again face to face, and especially when she saw the disbelief in Linley’s eyes, Alice felt a pain in her heart.

“Big brother Linley.”

Alice shouted out.

Linley’s face was pale without a trace of blood, and he stood there stunned for a while.

“Heh,” Bebe the Shadow Mouse let out an angry voice while transforming into a black residual shadow and charging directly towards Alice. Although Bebe’s intelligence was very high, it was still a magical beast, possessing the ferocity of a magical beast.

It could feel the incredulity, the despair in Linley’s heart, so it wanted to retaliate.

Only to see Bebe’s body strangely and violently expand by a number one, nearly blinking before the two of them, Alice and Karan, the cold light of Bebe’s razor-sharp fangs made the two of them’s hearts instantly go cold, and they didn’t even have the time to speak or hide!

“Come back!”

Linley’s voice rang out abruptly.

Bebe’s figure trembled before it grazed Karan’s face and landed on the snowy ground, Bebe dropping his head to look up at Linley, “Squeaking and squealing while narrating something eagerly to Linley in a soul-sound transmission.

Linley slowly but firmly shook his head.

Bebe’s eyes coldly looked at Alice, Karan and the two of them, and then his body once again strangely shrunk by one, turning into a shadow that directly landed on Linley’s shoulders. Looking at Bebe’s adorable appearance alone, it was absolutely impossible to imagine its terror.

“Hoo, hoo.”

It was only at this time that Karan gasped in a low voice, his forehead covered in beads of sweat as he looked fearfully back at the ‘Bebe’ on Linley’s shoulder.

Alice gazed at Linley and took a deep breath. Then she said, “Big brother Linley, I know you’re feeling bad in your heart right now, we can’t talk about it on the streets, let’s go to the hotel next door and have a good talk, okay?”

Linley nodded and didn’t say anything more.

By the side of Dry Stranger Road, inside a luxurious hotel. Linley and Alice were seated on either side of the dining table, and as for Karan, he ran to the corner of the hotel in a very sensible manner, not daring to come over and disturb. He had just escaped from Bebe’s mouth. Karan was still very fearful of Linley.

The black marble dining table had two cups of warm fruit wine on it.

Linley, Alice faced each other. There was a long silence.

After a long moment of silence, Alice sighed slightly and said, ”Big brother Linley. I’m very sorry for this matter, and I’ve been refraining from meeting with you for this period of time because I wanted you to be a bit mentally prepared. At the very least, I don’t want us to become enemies to each other after we break up.”

“Enemies?”

Linley laughed bitterly in his heart, he didn’t make a sound, just looked at Alice. Silently gazing.

Alice continued, “Big brother Linley. I admit that in the beginning I was very fond of you, and had also thought that in the future we would get married and have children. It’s just that as we’ve been together a lot. I realized that we don’t fit in many ways, a lot. A lot.”

Linley finally spoke, “A lot? Alice, I don’t just like your strengths, I also tolerate your weaknesses. I believe that when two people are together, it’s a process of mutual tolerance and understanding. No two people can be perfect together without a single contradiction.”

Alice pursed her lips and took a sip from her wine glass with both hands.

“We were young back then, I was fifteen.”

Alice deliberated for a few moments before saying, “In my mind, you were a hero from heaven. I used to think that you were my heaven, but I now realize that it’s not, not only that, but family history is also very important.”

Linley was stunned.

“Big brother Linley you’re always so passionate, you’re also very kind to me, you usually cultivate very hard, I admit that you’re perfect. But …… that’s not enough, like this time my father had a huge bet with someone and owed hundreds of thousands of gold coins! And big brother Karan he just asked their family for help and easily settled the matter.”

Alice looked at Linley, “Big brother Linley, this is something you can’t do. Even though my father is a gambler and a drunkard, he’s my father after all.”

“Just because of that?”

Linley said softly.

“No.”

Alice continued, “Not only this, because I found out that big brother Karan is also very kind to me, he grew up with me and I’m very familiar with him, whereas with you, I’ve always felt that you seem to be shrouded in a layer of mist, I can’t see you.”

“You’re a genius magician from the continent’s number one magic academy, and you were able to get the Proulx Guild Hall to set up an independent exhibition room for you at only fifteen years old. Everything sounds like you’re so perfect, but it’s because you’re so perfect that I can’t see you instead.”

Alice sighed in a low voice, “On top of that, the two of us were always in two places, which was fine at first, but after a while, I got tired of it. I’m used to someone being able to be by my side more often, like big brother Karan being able to be by my side more often.”

Alice finished speaking in one breath and fell silent.

Linley was also silent.

After a long time, when the warm fruit wine had all gone cold, Linley’s voice rang out, “Alice, do you remember some of the things we said back then? I once said that I could just live with you. But you said that it wasn’t necessary, that you didn’t want to disturb my asceticism.”

“And now, you’re saying that I’m not by your side?”

Linley was smiling bitterly at the moment.

Alice wanted to say something, but she had nothing to say.

She had just said so much, why wasn’t that an excuse?

Linley looked at Alice, “Alice, do you remember when we first stayed at the inn, you once said to me that you wished for me to tell you explicitly and not hide it from you when we were emotionally absent. You would leave in silence.”

Linley forced down his agitated emotions and tried to keep himself calm, “At that time, I also said that if you didn’t have feelings for me anymore, I also hoped that you’d tell me clearly and not hide it from me, and that I’d also leave silently.”

Alice ground her eyes moist.

“It doesn’t matter if you’re with Karan, it’s just that I don’t want you to cheat on me, you’re behind my back right now, you’re with Karan, but you don’t explicitly tell me about it, letting me have a glimmer of hope in my heart, letting me wait over and over again, do you know what it’s like to wait?”

Linley’s body also trembled a little, “September 29th, that day you missed your appointment for the first time, I waited from evening until late at night. Every minute and every second was so hard. When I returned to the academy, I wondered if it was because you were angry last time. So I wanted to make you happy, and like a fool I used my memory crystal ball to record all kinds of scenes from all kinds of academy lands, hoping that you would look at it once in a while when you’re not with me and miss me.”

“Carrying two memory crystal balls on my back, I went to look for you in mid-October with high hopes, but this time you weren’t there again.”

“I started to feel a little apprehensive in my mind, but I held on because I remembered the promise we made to each other back then. I believed that if you were going to leave I would tell me straight away. So I held on. I went at the end of October and the middle of November. But the result ……”

Linley stood up, a bitter smile on his face as he looked at Alice, “Today I’m here again. But fortunately, you didn’t continue to deceive after all.”

Tears were welling up in Alice’s eyes.

“Big brother Linley-”

Linley opened the package on his back and took out the two memory crystal balls in it, Linley’s mind couldn’t help but recall the scene where he had filmed himself in one place amongst the academy, which was really silly now that he thought about it.

“These two crystal balls. I carried them on my back from the Ernst Academy to Finlay City. Carried them four whole times, and now …… they are. Also useless.”

Linley held a memory crystal ball in one of his hands and let the two crystal balls collide – “Peng!”

Several cracks appeared in both crystal balls, and Linley let go of his hand. The two crystal balls hit the ground with a “Pom!”

The balls cracked into a dozen or so pieces and rolled down onto the marble floor of the hotel, making a crisp sound that caused everyone in the entire hotel to turn their heads towards them.

Alice couldn’t hold back her tears any longer and they flowed down.

“Big brother Linley, in the future, are we still friends?”

Alice tearfully looked up at Linley.

Standing, Linley looked at Alice but didn’t answer before squeezing out a smile, “Alice, if I remember correctly, we fell in love on November 29th last year, and today is also November 29th, a whole year ago. Thank you for at least giving me a fondly remembered memory.”

Linley turned around violently and walked directly towards the hotel’s main door.

The entire hotel was silent, and Karan, who had originally been in the corner of the hotel, quickly ran over, bumping into a few shards of the memory crystal ball as he did so, and the shards rolled on the hotel floor, the crisp sound echoing inside the hotel.

“Alice, are you alright.”

Karan immediately hugged Alice and comforted her.

And by this time, Alice had already cried into tears, in Karan’s arms, she still turned her head to look in the direction Linley had left, her mind at this time also recalled a scene from the past with Linley, however Alice knew – from now on, Linley would never treat her that way again, and I’m afraid that she wouldn’t be seeing her again in the future either.

Champs Avenue was covered in snow, and snowflakes still drifted in the sky.

Linley walked on Champs Avenue, his figure looking so depressed. Lin Lei tilted his head back to look at the sky, letting the snowflakes fall on his face a cold, at this time Lin Lei’s heart trembled, he couldn’t help but use his left hand to fiercely grasp his chest.

Heartache, very painful.

The heartache!

Linley’s mind skimmed over a moving picture.

That purple dress, as beautiful as an elf under the moonlight.

The warmth of hiding under the balcony, whispering to himself.

In the snowflakes, hiding in his arms shy.

In the hotel, lying in his arms and his own embrace with the delicate. ……

Lin Lei once thought that he and Alice will be together for life, and then just now, the dream, broken. And Linley’s once steadfast heart was also broken.

“Ah Linley in the center of Champs Avenue, could not help but let out a painfully low roar, that low roar was just like a lone wolf that had strayed from the pack, the despairing hissing sound of bleak pain. The surrounding pedestrians also looked at Linley in amazement, unable to help themselves these people all dodged far away.

These pedestrians looked at Linley with the gaze of a fool.

Two lines of tears flowed silently down Linley’s face.

Fool, one was a fool.

The fool who believed in promises!

“Bang!”

Linley suddenly knelt down on one knee in pain, covering his heart with all his might.

The heart ached, painfully as if it was being stabbed by needles.

Pain so intense that his palms ached, pain so intense that his ten fingers were devoid of intuition, and Linley could only ruthlessly grip his heart with his hand, as if this would ease the pain. “Haha!”

Linley shed tears, but suddenly stood up and laughed to the sky, laughing at his own foolishness, laughing at his own naivety.

At this moment – that intense pain in his heart caused Linley to cough, coughing as if his chest was stabbed with knives, but Linley still coughed violently, coughing as if he were a shrimp curled up and half-kneeling on the ground.

“Cough, pfft!”

A mouthful of violent coughing, a mouthful of bleak, colorful red blood sprayed onto the snow.

As Linley looked at this puddle of blood on the snowy ground, he suddenly felt that this puddle of blood resembled a rose, a blood-colored rose. Linley’s mind couldn’t help but conjure up the scene from last year’s today, when Alice was holding the rose.

“The moon in the water, the flower in the mirror, the person in that dream, ah, it’s ultimately an empty one. Haha ……”

Linley laughed like no one else on Champs Avenue, but his laughter was so desolate.

Still a moon white robe of Derinkelwalt quietly stood beside Linley, Derinkelwalt did not make a sound, just looked at Linley with pity, just sighed in his heart: “Alas, Linley, in fact, is still just a child ah.”

This year, Linley was only sixteen years old.

“Lao San!”

Suddenly an urgent shout rang out, and Yale, Reynolds, and George ran over from not far from Champs Avenue, which was very close to Aqua Paradise, and the three of them also discovered Linley in the center of the street. Especially when they saw the puddle of blood in front of Linley it was a huge change in color.

“Old Three, are you alright.”

“Linley.”

Yale, Reynolds, and George rushed to help Linley.

Linley looked at the three brothers beside him and shook his head slightly, “It’s fine, you guys don’t need to worry.”

Linley tilted his head back to look at the sky, “Originally, I liked the snow, but now I feel that it’s bleak and icy.”

“You guys stay here, I’ll go back to the academy first.”

Linley said and walked directly alone towards the end of Champs Avenue.

Yale, Reynolds, and George looked at each other with worry and anxiety in their eyes, and then the three of them immediately chased after Linley towards ……

And while the snow was still falling between heaven and earth, that heart-stopping puddle of blood-colored roses was slowly, covered in snow, never to be seen again.