Chapter 5: Chapter 5- As The Water Began To Fall An Embrace Was Met

“Yes…master…” Said the masked woman who I forgot to ask for her name.

I needed to find some kind of way to ask what her name was so I wouldn’t have to keep calling her by masked woman. Come on Lixin, there’s got to be some kind of way to ask her name…hmmmmm?

“Master, is there anything else Miss Ai can provide you with? Shall I carry the carriage?” Said Ai pointing to the carriage handles I was holding.

Miss Ai…well at least I know her name.

Looking at the path we were taking I could see that all there was left for us was a long road and the night sky to keep us all company. Not only that, but the mountain plains and long grassed fields made the entire walking experience feel both large and small. At least the area was lit by lanterns. 

“Master?” Said ai as she waited for my answer.

“That won’t be necessary, you’re excused from that,” I said turning my direction towards old man Zhao.

“So old man, where will we be going? Not many places that we can go where I won’t be killed.” I asked jumping over a rock on the stone road.

“Well, there is only one place where we won’t be persecuted for you being there. But, there is no one there anymore.” Said the old man rubbing his eyes.

“And why would that be?”

“Because Zhiyuan killed everyone there…even the children.” The old man said taking in one deep breath before looking back at me.

Every time I learned what this man did my stomach always sinks. That son of a bitch is in my body and is doing heavens knows what to my family and I can’t do anything than try to fix the messed up world he left behind.

Lovely.

“Yeah it was pretty great, I couldn’t go to see you do it but you destroying that academy I heard was the bloodiest of massacre you have ever committed. I wanted to be there so bad but alas I was training…um…master…why do I feel like you’re angry at me.” Said Ai as I did nothing but stare her down through my mask.

“Listen here…Ai…” I said dropping the carriage handles with one large smack onto the ground.

“You will listen to me and you will listen well. There will be no more massacres, there will be no more invasions and there will be no more killing. From now on, we only hurt our opposers, we do not kill them…” I said taking off my mask.

“…understood,” I said looking at her as my teeth gritted and my eyes watered.

All she did was stand there in shock, she didn’t say a single word. None of us did anything except stand there in that moment. 

“You aren’t master now are you?” Said Ai as she tilted her head to the left.

“No…I’m not…your master is long gone, not dead, but not in this body. I could only assume in his last moments he switched bodies with me.” I said putting my head down as she looked at me.

“Then I am truly the last of the demon tribe…I am truly now…all alone” said Ai taking off her mask revealing herself to me.

As she looked up I could see that she looked quite rugged, her white-skinned face contained many freckles and her brown hair was cut boyishly small. Her face was covered in so much grime and dirt that she looked like she had survived the massacre before.

I thought she would protest, or even try to kill me begging me to bring her master back. 

But she did not.

All she did was cry.

Her tears rang out through her face as for someone who had lost everything. For she did, the massacre couldn’t have led anyone in her tribe alive. If she said she was alone meant that every member of the tribe had left for this takeover and failed. The people in the village were the last of her tribe and each and everyone one was dead. And her master…well her master was a completely different person.

She was truly alone.

As she cried all I could think to do was hug her. It wouldn’t solve anything for her but it was better than just standing there letting someone who looked like they had been through hell feel alone.

She accepted the hug and gripped me tightly as she cried onto my robes. She even got to the point where she started to fall down as she wailed and cried over and over. She breathed heavily as I lowered myself down with her.

A stranger’s soul in her leader’s body holding her as she cried I could only imagine was a surreal experience for her. After all, what other thing could she do than to accept that everything was gone? But, why didn’t she try to kill me? Maybe she couldn’t bring herself to injure the body of someone she looked up to possibly? I wouldn’t know…not now anyway.

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For a moment she cried one single good cry and in the next, she passed out.

“Ai? AI!?! SHIT! She better not be dead…ok…her pulse says she’s alive…she must be tired. Let me get her on the carriage.” I said picking Ai’s body off the ground and into my arm.

She must have been at least five foot five but I lifted her up like it was nothing. Placing her on the carriage next to the princess I hadn’t even noticed the princess’s clothes had been changed into pink robes. She looked as if she was sleeping as did Ai.

With one quick sweep of the handles after a quick placement of my mask, I began walking forward.

“So old man…we heading to some kind of school? How far would this trip be? A couple of days? A month?” I said using twice the manpower carrying the carriage.

“A year.”

“What?”

“It’ll take a year for us to get there.”

“Your kidding? I have to wait a year to be trained?” I said with an annoyed tone.

“No, I will train you on you the journey. It is quite a long one all things considered. Besides, you might have your hands full with many things when those two wake up.” Said the old man as he snapped his finger softly.

At least I would be trained on the way there. But how long would we last with my face being the most recognized and hated?

I just had to wait and see.

“So, this Zhiyuan…he was a disciple of yours. And this school you are taking me to is what remains of his previous endeavors?”

“Correct Lixin, He was the best disciple I had before…he ended all the other disciples years later. He was a troubled young man when he was abandoned there by his uncle and aunt when he was seven. But I trained him anyway. And now, I shall train you.” 

“Besides protecting myself, why else shall you train me? Is it as you said before…to end the reign of the terror tribes?” I asked as I took a minute to breathe in and out of my nose.

“Indeed, for you see, Zhiyuan wasn’t the only terror tribe to destroy entire cities and slaughter so many. There are others, too many to count. But Zhiyuan had the biggest out of all of them…and the deadliest, meaning…well…”

“Well, what?” 

“There will be a power struggle. Many other groups will try to take your place and many more calamities shall happen unless there stopped. That is why I will train you. And if you wish not to kill…so be it. It is good you wish to fight without killing, but know that the path to ending these tribes will be much harder.” Said the old man rubbing his chin as he spoke.

“Then it is the path I will take.”

“May I ask why?”

“Why what?

“Why not kill? The others will kill at any opportunity they get once they see you. So why not bring it to them as they would bring it to you?” Said the old man looking back at me.

For a moment there was a pause and nothing more. 

And then there was an answer.

“I have no reason to not kill. I just don’t do it. It is the same as putting a handful of salt in my mouth, I could do it…but I won’t.”

“You may be even wiser than me Lixin.”

“I doubt it old man.”

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