Chapter 45
Shi Yu dreamed about the training session again.
Starting from the foggy forest where the air seemed to be frozen, the shaky and fragmented memories gradually emerged, revealing the empty plains, the cold snow-capped mountains, and finally a scene that seemed to be covered with a layer of blood mist and was not clear enough.
Even though it had been a long time, when Shi Yu occasionally recalled what happened that day while awake, she no longer felt the same palpitations as before. But she still subconsciously avoided it... avoided it, huh?
What is she running away from?
Shi Yu took a deep breath and thought in a confused and hazy state—
...Hasn't she always been well protected?
Whether it was a sharp knife or a gun, these weapons, capable of easily slicing through flesh and tearing apart weak limbs, hadn't harmed her in the end. She simply hid trembling in someone's arms, the screaming and fighting around her seemingly having nothing to do with her anymore—ah, it had been so long… Shi Yu couldn't remember much more. The violent, blazing crimson was like a falling flame, leaving not even a vague shadow in her mind.
Shi Yu suddenly wanted to see someone so much that she couldn't help crying.
When she opened her eyes from her sleep, Shi Yu was stunned for a moment, then slowly reached out and touched her dry cheeks, the touch of the dry and condensed tear marks clearly transmitted to her nerves.
She felt a little dizzy, perhaps because she stayed up late last night. Shi Yu squinted her eyes and touched the tablet next to her pillow, fumbling to press the power button.
[Connection successful, call in progress...]
Seeing these words, Shi Yu's dizziness almost turned into a headache.
They had clearly connected last night, and although she was a little surprised that the call hadn't been disconnected, no one was talking yet...
"Wayne." When she spoke, Shi Yu realized that her throat was itchy and painful. She coughed uncomfortably and asked softly, "Still can't you hear...?"
No sound responded to her.
It's been two or three days, why is there still no news...? Shi Yu began to doubt, dizzy, whether Wayne really received the call. Was she being tricked by Ed or something, but she quickly denied it in her mind.
How could that Mr. Ed lie?! Surely it's just the bad signal.
Even though she was thinking of Ed, Shi Yu didn't realize for a moment that she was late for class. She foolishly thought that she was still on vacation - so she dawdled for a while before washing up, then lay back on the bed in a daze and fell asleep hugging the quilt.
Then she began to dream again in a daze.
The double images of the blade and the faces, the strong and dazzling red... The complicated and chaotic dream seemed to make her suffer. Shi Yu's whole body was filled with coldness. She shivered and curled up, her face flushed and she gasped lightly.
The heat on her cheeks almost burned her consciousness. Shi Yu's body couldn't help but sweat, and her body gradually overflowed with damp heat. She felt uncontrollable fear, as if she had a premonition that she would never wake up again.
It was like being trapped in a fiery furnace, unable to break free, unable to utter a single sound. This state drained her energy. When Shiyu struggled to open her eyes again, sobbing, she felt so exhausted that she didn't even have the strength to move a finger. The girl's eyes were hazy, and she weakly fluttered her eyelashes, tears rolling down her cheeks.
The sky outside the window was dark. Shi Yu rested for a long time before he opened the tablet dizzily and with difficulty.
The tablet showed that it was already past nine o'clock in the evening - even though he accidentally slept through the entire day, Shi Yu was still listless and looked like he would nod off and fall asleep again in the next second.
While she was still conscious, Shi Yu bit her lip and decided to say as much as she could while she was dizzy. So she said in a low and weak voice, "Wayne."
But, what should I say next?
Shi Yu paused, his expression a little confused.
The memory broke into pieces in her mind. She vaguely remembered her whereabouts in the tree house, the companionship and separation in the snow-capped mountains. Ah, when she thought about it... she seemed to have caused Wayne a lot of trouble.
"I'm sorry." Then she apologized in a daze, "Xueshan and Xiafeng are very nice people, I..."
Shi Yu paused, she made a "wu" sound, and then rubbed her swollen temples with her fingers in pain. She didn't even know what she was saying, as if she had difficulty organizing a complete sentence.
"Luckily, Xia Feng came to save me. Ah Wayne, Xia Feng was injured... In the end, it was Loren who helped treat him."
"Loren is a very nice person. He may seem a little cold, but he is the same as Akatsuki."
"Noah, Noah." Shi Yu's thoughts drifted away dazedly, but she seemed unable to find the right adjective to describe the boy who looked like the Son of God. Finally, she moved her lips and said, "He seems to be even worse than Xiu..."
"Simon, yes, and Simon..."
Shi Yu's thoughts gradually became a mess. She didn't understand why she suddenly brought up so many things about Simon. She clearly only wanted to talk about things related to him and just wanted to see him alone. The moment she realized it, Shi Yu stopped talking. The girl pursed her drooping lips and tears fell down. Her emotions collapsed so suddenly that she was unable to speak.
"Wayne..." When she called out the name again, Shigure stopped talking about other things. With tiny sobs, she said, "I, I really miss you..."
"I haven't been able to contact you since we separated. I know the general did it to protect me, I know that, but I really... I've always wanted to see you."
"It's been so long since we last met..." Shigure sobbed and wiped away her tears: "Even if it's just your voice, I——"
Shigure couldn't say any more.
She hallucinated to hear a short, slightly hoarse laugh, with an upward tail tone, carrying a bit of the youthful willfulness - Shi Yu was stunned. She had heard Wayne laugh like this many times before. He was never gentle and had no patience. Most of the time when he smiled, it was that kind of arrogant and extremely contemptuous sneer, mocking Shi Yu's cowardice and satirizing her clumsiness.
Shi Yu shed more tears. Even if it was an illusion, he refused to treat her gently and even laughed at her!
"Why are you like this?" Shi Yu sniffed sadly and complained with a nasal tone.
"You have a bad temper. I'm always worried around you. Can't you change for the better..." Taking advantage of the fact that the other person couldn't hear her, Shi Yu complained to him, feeling aggrieved and righteous: "You're also very rude to people. You don't care about other people's feelings at all!"
The girl's soft and accusing voice echoed intermittently in the dark room. The young lion with red hair leaned lazily against the wall, his bare and strong arms folded across his chest, his green eyes narrowed sinisterly, as if wondering whether his actions were really as authoritarian as she said.
Mixed with the noise of electric current, Shi Yu became more and more excited as he spoke, and his angry voice came through intermittently.
"He never properly communicates with me about anything. He always makes decisions on his own." She seemed to be sobbing, wiping away tears. "He's always been unwilling to pay attention to me, ever since the training camp started."
Then the girl's voice dropped: "So, you are still like this now..." She muttered to herself, asking and answering herself. The more Shi Yu thought about it, the more it seemed possible. Wasn't Wayne that kind of person?
So she endured the dizziness and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes. Then she said softly and firmly, "Then I will also..."
Wayne couldn't help but raise his brows.
He lowered his arms, and his five fingers, which were covered with half black gloves, moved slightly, as if trying to grab something. Wayne finally closed his eyes, and his Adam's apple moved slightly.
The boy's voice was slightly hoarse and low as he said, "Shigure."
Then he frowned and fell silent with a bit of depression. The signal from the military academy was very weak. Even if a sound was made, not a single word would have reached the other party the day before.
"I don't want to talk to you anymore..."
After Shi Yu finished saying this with sobs, the tears that were about to stop couldn't help but fall again.
She heard it, of course she heard it clearly and completely, her own name, Wayne's voice -
The sudden strange feeling in his body, the torment of waiting in the past few days, all the anxiety and grievances merged into a river and poured out from his eyes in an instant. Shi Yu even felt a burning sensation of dehydration.
"...Why are you talking to me now?"
Shi Yu hugged the tablet tightly in his arms and burst into tears.
…
Shi Yu was unable to attend class the next day.
She lay in bed in a daze all day, her consciousness was always blurred and her body had an abnormally high temperature.
Is it a fever...? Ah, maybe it's what the doctors are talking about, Shigure thought. But she was very tired, a sense of exhaustion filling her whole body. She didn't even have the energy to get out of bed and look for medicine or an injection.
There was a polite knock on the door. Shi Yu raised her eyes confusedly and thought about it. She felt that it should be Teacher Ed, but she had no way to open the door for Ed, so she could only say sorry in her heart.
However, cracking a simple door code was not a difficult task for Ed.
The moment the door opened, Ed's emerald pupils shrank slightly, and his back stiffened instantly. The sweet and sour smell of strawberries surged towards him. The boy's shoulders were tense, and he barely maintained his composure. His dark emerald eyes met the black-haired girl on the bed who exuded the warm and turbulent scent of passion.
"You..." Ed's gaze fixed on her, but immediately moved away. He asked slowly and dryly, "Why don't you use inhibitors?"
The boy's thin and flexible chest rose and fell slightly. He took a deep breath, and the smell filling his chest made him feel dizzy and almost suffocated.
Shi Yu looked at him blankly. Because she had no strength, she moved her lips pitifully. The first two words became a whisper, but the last two syllables made a sound.
She called him softly: "...Teacher."
Ed's face was pale, and he stood there trembling slightly as if he was enduring something. He observed Shi Yu steadily for a while, then took a step forward. Shi Yu squinted his eyes, grabbed the corner of the quilt, and watched the silver-haired boy approaching him with a gasp.
Ed half bent down, stretched out his slender white wrist bones in front of her, and then slowly and coldly wiped away the tears hanging from Shi Yu's eyelashes.
"You don't want to use the suppressant?" He asked the estrus Omega in front of him in a low voice as if to confirm. "You don't want to use it either, do you?"
Shi Yu shook her head, then nodded. She looked at him with innocent and confused eyes, not knowing what she wanted to express.
But it doesn't matter, Ed closed his eyes and thought calmly - it doesn't matter if she can't express herself, there is still a long time to come, he will slowly teach her these basics and everything that is beneficial to her.
Hugging is actually very common between Omegas.
They are naturally sensitive and delicate, and during their mating season, their emotions are easily unstable, and they desperately crave security and affection. However, since the separation, most Omegas in the Federation have lived in nursing homes - and same-sex Omegas who can spend time with them day and night and have physical contact with them have become their best targets for emotional support.
Omegas will hug, kiss and comfort each other. This is their vulnerable way of confirming whether they have received love from each other.
…Just a hug.
Ed lowered his eyes and thought that just as she had helped him before, he should repay her.
However, at that moment, Shi Yu avoided his breath slightly. The girl's tears fell on his fingertips. Shi Yu turned his face away, and his earlobes and cheeks were bright red.
Shi Yu was about to lose consciousness. She had no ability to escape from the shadow of the leaning boy. Her skin felt hot and numb when they touched, and her body seemed to emit sounds of joy from the deepest part of its body.
Despite this, she still shook her head and said, "...No."
The author has something to say:
I'm meeting Wayne soon~
Hehehe, Ed is still running with me, let’s go to the officers in the next chapter~
I'm taking the N2 test on Friday, so there won't be any updates this week!
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