In the blacksmith shop,
Goth is smithing a hot iron into a blade.
A picture of Aomi is hung above the workshop’s entrance door.
they all think he is dead since he didn’t returned for a week.
The atmosphere is a bit down but, they are doing their work.
Goth had been hitting the iron harder than usual and a sudden familiar creak of the door stops everyone as the entrance bell jiggles.
Aomi has arrived panting his clothes are tattered and the sun is setting.
He is sweating because he ran the whole day to get her in middle of the one week he slept a road was being reconstructed and he took the only route he knew that was to circle around the sunnaland and get to the other opposite entrance.
“H-hi—” his photo falls off on his head as most of them are stunned and Goth are staring at him like a ghost.
Some are retreating to the dorm door and some are to the corners taking newly forged weapons.
He rubs his head as he looks at everyone and talks awkwardly, ” uh…s-sorry guys.
I got lost.”
everyone now stops as they slowly turn to him then, sigh but then Goth and some yells at him for worrying them.
“Idiot! You worried us for a week!”
“We held a funeral. Almost!”
“You fool don’t play such pranks at us!”
Aomi steps a little back as he waves his hands, ” N-no I was lost!
it’s not a prank guys!
Chill out!”
Goff smacks him and asks him and chilling tone, ” where were you?”
Aomi looks at him as Goff is scary right now, he rethinks his 500 years of living every beast he saw and nervously answers, ” I was lost I swear.”
well that’s a half truth but, seeing his battered clothes he lets him off the hook.
Goff returns to smithing, ” go and take a bath.”
Aomi nods and goes in the dorms.
…
after a long time everything goes back in place and Aomi researches about his new stark spirit inured bear.
and one day he sees a eastern design armour in Goff’s shop and is utterly stunned, he sees it up and down moving closely. This chapter is updated first at g.com.
Goff sees him and thinks he is amazed, ” beautiful right I got a design from the eastern world and made it.”
“huh?” Aomi is just more confused as he stares at him, which Goff interprets as curiosity.
“Oh you don’t know right. The eastern world is another region like past the continental borders you see and these sometimes start to weaken and people trade things they don’t have.” He grins while Aomi is utterly in disbelief because he used the super resources of mount Sora hitai to get past the border to make his second body,his hideout and great plan to fake his death but, he could had just wait for some time instead.
He goes limp staring at the armour which, Goff thinks that he is amazed too much and pats his back then goes.
Aomi sinks deeper into the chair as he scolds him .
I could had just wait and use those super resources for something else you idiot…next time research well.
He facepalm a himself not due to regret but due to his lack of research which led to the waste of his precious super resources.
Then, his big sister Seo voice speaks internally again, ” stupid boy~”
Aomi sinks deeper remembering his big sister line from his childhood which fits him now.
He sighs leaves him arms as he looks up at the ceiling.
Walter bursts in, ” hey guys!” His eyes go to Aomi looking like an old age man on the chair and sees Goff, ” what happened to him?”
Goff replies with a grin pointing to the new armour, ” He loves the new armour design!” Walter sees the armour and is mesmerized and nods, ” Of course.”
Aomi side eyes then motionless like he was when he got surrounded by 13 sects of jung Yang but this time it’s due to his lack of intelligence to just know that the borders get weak sometimes.
…
meanwhile in the eastern world,
Gaju’s face is stuffed with meat and Hong is speaking to another 13 sect members at dinner.
A celebration is going on for the defeated of the Snow demon.
Aomi sneezes while smithing a weapon.
” For jung Yang!” Hong raised his cup of wine to make a toast.
“for jung Yang!”
everyone raises their glasses of alcohol.
Aomi again sneezes harder, ” what the hell?”
in the eastern world a festival is going on for Snow demon’s defeat anniversary.
An act is being played similar to what happened when the 13 sects surrounded Aomi.
Aomi sneezes so hard he trips off his seat, ” Dammit.
did I catch a cold?” he looks around.
…
In the nation of Azadia, A guy is sitting performing a religious death anniversary alone.
it’s Ishiki, brother of Aomi and head of Kurogama. This chapter was taken from novelping.com without permission.
He just blankly lights up a candle Infront of Aomi’s photo then join his hands, ” rest in peace little brother Ao.”
Aomi meanwhile, is choking on his spit as he hits his head, ” Geez today’s a bad day.”
In Azadia, most of the remaining survivors of kurayama have settled in.
Kuroyama had been rampaged by a calamity 400 years ago.
the leader of kurogama sect is Ishiki and he just sits there by the window looking at the festival reminiscing his past.
“Damn you.” He suddenly gets engaged and hits the wall.
he takes a deep breath, “don’t be mad Ishiki it’s that mosnter’s fault.”
His eyes drift to Aomi’s picture.
He gets up and walks out stoicly and thinks, He is lucky he is dead or else I would kill him myself.
He looks at two pictures hanging.
it’s the uncle and aunt who raised him and Aomi.
His eyes stares them mourning, ” How could he kill his own family.”
He turns to another picture of Seo.
” You raised him, idiot.”
…
to the western world in sunnaland,
Aomi goes to rest as he handles the counter today having a bad feeling of today.
But, he falls into a sleep.
“Aomi? Aomi?” A soft voice calls out to him as he wakes up in a garden and sees Seo and blinks rapidly.
” What happened?” She sits giggling at him, ” You look like you saw a some ghost”
Aomi stares at her utterly shocked, she flicks his forehead, ” wake up you gotta go to train ,silly~”
He wakes up falling off his chair as Goff scolds him, ” Don’t sleep in the counter!”
He stares at Goff then his own hands,then back at him, ” uh ok.”
He gets handed a cloth, ” wipe the counter.” Goff gives him work and goes away.
Aomi nods and starts wiping the counter out for boredom but starts rehapsing his old times,
He is on top of a mountain as he remembers the view clear as day when he saw the view of the whole eastern world but, he was focused on the flowers near by the snow roses that bloom in high peaks only and that day is when he became the snow demon after completing his refinement with the snow rose as he stands above the clouds.