"Boom."

As soon as I entered the underground cave, the gravitational pull made me instinctively adjust my position to protect Gu Yuena in my arms, and I fell to the ground with my back.

"Poof!"

Gu Yuena let go and bit my lip tightly.

"Hehe, Xiaohan, I'm so happy now." Gu Yuena said to me with a smirk.

I looked at her deep purple eyes full of excitement and joy.

"Since I was born, hatred has always been all I have. Now, I have experienced an emotion called 'joy' that I never dared to imagine before. Gu Yuena buried her head in my chest and rubbed it, and said in an urn.

"The moment I say 'I like it' to you, I feel an incomparable fear that I have never felt before, and I am afraid that your tenderness for me, which brings me a sense of reassurance, will end here."

"Uhhhhhh

"When I hugged you, I felt more nervous than ever, afraid that you would leave me."

"Uhhhhhh

"It's all emotions that I haven't experienced before."

"But ah, it's okay, woo... I'm glad you appeared in front of my eyes, woo... It's good that you didn't leave me, it's okay... You hugged me... I'm glad you didn't abandon me, woo... It's okay, it's good that I like you. Gu Yuena whispered.

Warm tears dripped down my clothes and wet my chest.

I sat up slowly, resting Gu Yuena's delicate body on my lap, my left hand around her thin waist, and my right hand caressed her little head.

Straightened her up, and looked at her deep purple eyes at this time were soaked in mist, and her eyes were very red.

"Vent all the grievances accumulated in your heart, and I will accompany you in the future." I smiled softly and said to her softly.

"Woo... Wow, ah, ah... Woo-ah-ah!! ”

Gu Yuena rested her head on my shoulder and began to cry bitterly.

The cry is heartbreaking.

"Ahh

Gu Yuena bit me on the shoulder.

{ to close—pain is ineffective—.} }

I let Gu Yuena bite my shoulder and still choked, her body trembling terribly.

I hugged her tighter to melt her into my body.

I closed my eyes.

I felt the pain from Gu Yuena biting my shoulder, as if that was the pain she had been suffering; Feel her trembling, feel her loneliness; Feel her grief.

I stroked Gu Yuena's long silver hair.

Gu Yuena has been suffering all alone.

The way she wept reminded me of the death of someone I approved of in the past.

This twisted world is cruel, cruel and sad.

Soul beasts are doomed to perdition, and no salvation will fall from the sky and save them from the hands of those hypocritical gods, not Gu Yuena.

Gu Yuena is such an existence, like a blind man who longs for the light and does not know that the night is endless.

But now I'm here with the lamp.

"I'm with you, I'm with you."

I said to Gu Yuena.

"Uh-huh!"

Gu Yuena slowly let go of my shoulder.

"Love you! Like! Like! Like you! ”

Gu Yuena nodded her head, crying and smiling a little.

"I like you the most! Woo whoa, a!!a ”

Gu Yuena threw me to the ground, hugged me around my neck and continued to cry bitterly.

"I'll protect you."

I slowly stroked Gu Yuena's long hair and wrapped her in my arms, which reassured her.

The empty underground cave sky was still echoing Gu Yuena's heart-rending cry.

{-God of Oath-(Horkos)-to take effect.} }

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I figured out a large bed and put Gu Yuena on the bed to cover her with a quilt.

I crouched on the edge of the bed, looking at her pale and beautiful face from exhaustion from crying, and raised my hand to wipe away the tears that remained in her eyes.

Fortunately, the pressure that had accumulated over a long period of time had not completely destroyed her [Truth], and this release seemed to have severed the thread she was taut.

But this is a good direction.

I propped my head on one hand, leaned on the side of the bed and looked at Gu Yuena quietly, lowering my eyes slightly.

These creatures are like garbage to us, and they are worse than grit to us. ’

{master......}

'Don't worry, Miss Athena, I'm just grumbling slightly. ’

"Whew..."

I exhaled, my body shaking slightly.

"But there are always some people who are worthy of admiration and respect, just like looking for the glittering gold in the garbage heap, although it is rare, but the probability is not zero."

I teased Gu Yuena's fine bangs.

"This is also the meaning of [we] giving these little guys the concept of [human], even if they are in a distorted and dark world, even if they are in that garbage-like world, even if they are covered with dust, they still can't hide the essence of their own gold, even if they don't deliberately dig and find it, but they are still struggling."

I touched Gu Yuena's pale face.

"I can always be attracted and admired by the quality of these people."

"So I walked with you, and I experienced your splendor together, your bitterness, your brilliance, and finally, your decay."

I closed my eyes and reminisced.

"So, I like you, Gu Yuena, no, Cortana, it's not just my liking as a god, but also my liking as a human."

I lowered my head to the sleeping Gu Yuena and kissed her sparkling lips.

"Like you."