HPDBC Chapter 428 Awaken - A Confession Accepted
Chapter 428 Awaken - A Confession Accepted
The world felt fragmented and distorted—various colours spread around like a failed painter's broken canvas and easel. Asura lay in silence, his eyes closed.
However, his dreams were filled with endless memories and images of his past. A meeting with a strange woman from a foreign nation and lost his parents as the world ended. His life as a demon, various memories and shards felt as though they were being gently placed back together by countless delicate hands.
He could feel them, all the women he cared for and adored doing everything they could. They cheered him on, called his name, sang for him and tried to fix his broken soul with their clumsy yet dedicated movements.
'I have to wake up.' Asura thought, his grip tightening in urgency. A surge of desire and energy filled his hazy form in this bizarre mirage of dreams.
'They are waiting for me, all of them... Including Ignis.'
He needed to protect them, to be with them. Asura felt that his time in this world allowed him to awaken, mature and finally realise his worth after too many years of struggling and fighting.
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'Please, just wake up.'
"Haaaa!"
A long sigh left the lips of the handsome man sleeping in a dark tent, flickers of a gentle torch beside his bed. The male's eyelashes were long and thick like a pristine work of art, flowing raven locks wrapped around his shoulders and back with beautiful silvery white cowlicks swaying from the gentle breeze.
His fingers trembled before a slight movement from his eyelids. The beautiful maiden kneeling beside him with her hands on his arm, praying to whoever would listen.
'Please, allow my master, the man I adore, to awaken and his hidden wounds to heal.'
A beautiful maiden, with silvery white hair and red feathers making her look like an exotic beast princess, knelt in rapture, her lips almost pale from biting and pressing them together for hours. The battle against the Arachne traitors was handled by the queen Shizuka and other women protecting the heart of the sleeping prince.
"Why do you hide your feelings so deep, like a holy sword thrown to the bottom of a cursed lake, Master?"
The woman whispered with a frown, her heart trembling as she looked at the handsome male lying in front of her with a complex gaze.
A former Valkyrie had worked tirelessly, without sleep or food, trying her best to comfort and heal his body since the moment he felt unconscious seven days ago. Despite waking up for a moment, he soon fell into a deep sleep. The priests and mages claimed it was related to damage to his magic core, and the priest claimed his soul was also horrified.
The people who tried to take care of him could only sit in silence and watch. They were helpless and felt unable to aid him.
"He has so many wounds... Too many." The woman muttered, her eyes glistening with tears and her body trembling, but she refused to cry and instead pushed more of her bizarre energy into his body, neither man nor the divine energy anima into his body, all to heal his wounds, both physical and spiritual.
Her face was pale, and her body was filled with small wounds and signs of overwork, yet she refused to let the others help, instead demanding that they let her heal him because it was her fault.
'It is my sin, as a mere warrior and doll, to have fallen in love with her master and caused him such pain and suffering.'
However, the lovely lady didn't notice his flickering eyes, a warm gaze peeking from his opened eyes. Asura's deep crimson eyes seemed different; before, they might have been cold and ruthless, sometimes flickering like gemstones. Now, they were beautiful, like sparkling rubies in the moonlight, reflecting their glow as he watched the maiden in silence.
"I think you are the best man in the world."
"If I weren't, I would do my best to become the best for you."
He smiled, his gentle kiss placed on the forehead of his new girlfriend. The lovely Ignis flushed as her lovely feathers fluttered and turned a deeper red. They seemed to change colour intensity with her mood: pale pink for worry, an orange tint for anger and blood red for embarrassment or affection.
'For the sake of all these people who have helped me, and most importantly, for Ignis and the many others waiting for me, I will return the favour you have all given me, no matter which life tenfold back.'
"Besides, look at these silky feathers that cover your cheeks—aren't they the cutest? You remind me of when I first saw Xavida's scales. So precious and lovely."
"Eh?! They are cute?! Wait, you, Master, you mean to say you like them?"
"Of course. Why wouldn't I?"
"B-But..."
"Ignis, I thought you knew that I like cute things?"
"Me.... c-cute!?"
"Ah, but you can't be cute for others~ I get very jealous; even now, I don't want to let you go outside and be seen by other men. What if they all fall for you?"
"So, you do not mind that I am a hybrid? And you are not worried about me? I can still fight and lead the armies! I am strong. I have done my best to train and serve you, master!"
"Fool, you don't have to fight or do anything. I just want you to stay beside me, Ignis."
His words were so deep, his voice like a seductive spell. He was a temptation she couldn't resist and an addiction she didn't want to get rid of.
"Thank you, thank you, Asura, my first love."
She cried, her face burying into his bare chest, her feathers turning blood red, and her entire body trembling with delight. However, Asura's face also turned red, and he couldn't help but find her adorable.
'First love... it sounds so precious coming from a Valkyrie's lips... born as tools of war, yet look how beautiful she is.'
"Shall we step outside and see what's going on? If I've been sleeping for a week, then what happened afterwards? Did we manage to get to Arachneas?"
"Fufu, master, you should see—I will guide you~ follow me!" Ignis pulled his hand, almost dragging him out of bed, when she realised something, her face almost completely red as she saw his naked figure standing before her. "Ah.... Amazing...."
"What is?" Asura asked, noticing her look clinging to his body as she sneakily took peeks at him from head to toe.
"Everything..." Her voice was higher pitch, and she sounded like a mosquito before escaping like a rabbit chased by a wolf.