Breeze waved out of Kai's mouth as he exhaled and pulled himself away from Lena.

"Why are you taking me with you?" he asked in a sorrowful voice that made the spiderwebs flying across his side fall.

Ehem.

Lena cleared her throat, inhaled sharply through her nose, and exhaled softly through her mouth.

She blinked, then brushed her face with her right arm, leaving the left on the boy's shoulder.

"That's what he would have wanted me to do, if I were to be here." Lena gasped, then stared at the cloth on the boy's shoulder.

She raised the dirty white cloth slowly, scanned the large and long mark on the boy's left shoulder to chest, and curled her mouth inward.

Silence ruled in the room as she kept a steady eye on the scar on the boy, yet her mind and heart weren't calm.

The ground shook slightly when Jinx exhaled and slammed her arm on the wall she stood by.

Lena and Kai turned their gazes to her in shock.

"Why? You will hurt yourself if you let your sorrow swallow you whole." She dragged the boy along as she neared Jinx.

Like a mother consoling two of her kids, Lena placed her right arm on Jinx's shoulder, then pulled both Jinx and Kai, hugging them.

As the room calmed with emotions, Yung Mai stood by the side of the meditation chamber, holding the golden staff.

He lifted his gaze to the night sky, squeezed his eyes as if wanting to zoom into heaven, then sighed.

"Hm."

A small smile tore on his lips the moment a thudding sound erupted from his back. When the thudding sound stopped, he tilted his head to the right side and smiled.

There, he saw only one person exiting from inside the door, Lena.

"Is he willing to take on the new life?" he asked the moment the lady stopped by his side.

Two minutes after Lena nodded, two shadows stretched long behind her, letting her shadow swell like that of a giant.

Kai rushed forward and hugged Yung Mai from the back, tightening his arms around the man's waist.

A sobbing sound erupted from Kai's mouth as Yung Mai's hands tapped on his shoulders.

The four moved slowly toward the base of the bridge, placing their steps like a groom's family escorting the bride.

The silver fish in the water beneath the bridge swung themselves in joy the moment Kai's shadow fell on them.

In a blink, countless fish, big and small, appeared, bubbles filling the water and letting evaporated air gush out of it.

A strange feeling struck Kai in the heart, causing his head to tilt to the left.

He smiled when his gaze fell on all the fish in the water. Before he could move his gaze from the water, a warm hand touched his left shoulder.

"You can take some with you if you want."

Yung Mai's voice echoed in Kai's ears and drilled down his heart the moment he turned and saw a smile on his face.

"It's okay," Kai smiled back. "I will come for them when I need to." He giggled, then doubled his steps.

At the far side of the bridge, Kai stopped and threw himself on Jack, letting the dirty cloth wrapped on his left side shake.

"My boy," Jack's face glistened with joy as he looked at Kai.

His chest heaved, portraying only sadness flashing through him, yet he never let the boy see.

"You need to change," he said, tapping on the boy's nose, teasing him.

"Wait here." Jack lifted a hand at Kai and rushed back to his room. He stopped just an inch in when he entered, tilted his head sideways, while scratching his chin.

"Where did I even place that?" He scraped his fingers on his cheeks as he slid his foot forward slowly.

"Yeah, there." He grabbed the folded black long-sleeve shirt, then rushed out of the room, forgetting to slam the door shut.

Hah. Hah. Hah.

Pants echoed the moment he stopped by Kai's side.

"Remove that." He wrapped the fingers of his left hand on the cloth on the boy's left shoulder while holding the black cloth in his right.

"Wow," Jack smiled, "…your body has formed in a nice structure." Jack tickled the boy on the chest.

"You don't need that." He threw the cloth away, letting it fly and waggle in the air like a feather.

"Let me help you wear it." He stretched the black cloth, shoved it over the boy's head, and dragged it downward.

"Wow, it looks as if you're of the same form as me." He tickled the boy again immediately as the cloth wrapped itself around the boy.

Though there were spaces in it, it made the boy look presentable.

Stones on the ground shook the moment Jack lifted his head above Kai and stared at the three people descending from the bridge.

Tilting his gaze back to the boy in front of him, Jack wiped the single tear that traced down his own left eye, then smiled.

"What is that?" Kai held the black, glass-like object on the left side of the cloth he was in.

"Oh, that." Jack touched it with the index finger of his right hand. "It will do magic when you want it to."

A giggling sound erupted from behind Kai the moment he raised his head and stared at Jack in shock.

"Don't mind him," Yung Mai's voice cut through from behind, followed by low laughter from Jinx.

"What are you wearing?" Jinx rushed forward, wrapped her arms around the boy, and laughed heartily.

When Lena neared the two, she scolded Jinx slightly, then joined in with the laughter.

The large courtyard shimmered with smiles and shallow tears, which got wiped before the softly moving wind even touched them.

Meanwhile, at a far distance from the half-moon arc door of the Shadow Cult's land, hasty wind blew, sending all the rats running.

At the top of the long stairs, fire plopping, screams, and metal-to-metal sounds echoed like thunder.

Bodies lay on the ground, unmoving, unblinking.

In their still eyes, flame men wearing wine-colored dresses and robes charged forward, striking silver staffs and spears at the four men laughing at the front of the blasted door.

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