Chapter 1644 Responsibility
Ryu didn't know what he expected to hear, but it certainly wasn't that.
"Why do you look so surprised?" Elena giggled. "Wait, stay like that, it's the first time I've seen that expression on your face. It's almost as handsome as that cold, stern look. No, no-go back!"
Elena seemed to be having the time of her life trying to get Ryu to change his facial expressions on her whim, and it was ironically because he was trying to keep in control that they kept changing in the first place.
"Are you finished?"
"Not yet," Elena grinned, poking at Ryu's cheek. Visit no(v)eLb(i)n.com for the best novel reading experience
"Alright, that's enough," Ryu spoke as he slowly pushed himself up.
"Hey, easy. Your body isn't-"
"My body is fine."
"No it isn't!"
Ryu sneered. "That's none of your business."
"Didn't you just say your body was fine? Now you're not denying that it isn't anymore?"
"I do believe you!"
"Leave me alone, woman."
Ryu pulled back his rage, he used the sudden surprise the woman gave him as a chance to try and extricate himself from this situation. He felt that if he didn't rein this under control, next time he might truly end up dying. By then, what would the point of all of this have been? To live a mortal and die a mortal? Absolutely not.
To this day, Ryu still had no idea how Elena managed to convince them to allow that to happen. Though, some of them were probably paying attention from the shadows. It wasn't like he could tell the difference even with his eyes back then.
Finally, though, after his condition stabilized, Elena went away and disappeared for quite a while.
She never really told Ryu why she had vanished back then, but Ryu had a feeling that she had just given up.
Even for someone who had lived for almost a million years like her, at least that was the case back then, there was only so much patience she could have. She had already done more than her fair share and Ryu seemed to have no intention of meeting her halfway.
For someone as prideful as Ryu, just one rejection was enough for him to never bother again. He had no idea how Elena had done it.
Then that fateful day came.
Ryu sat under the moonlight, looking out toward the open double doors that led to his terrace. The Tatsuya Clan was quite hot year 'round, so even in the depths of the night, he didn't feel particularly cold.
His mind flickered to that woman before he shook his head. Why was he thinking about her again?
Women... he had had their fair share throw themselves at him, but he never took any of them seriously. His pride didn't allow it.
Sometimes he thought about finding a mortal woman to marry one day... it wasn't like he wanted to be alone. But he felt that that would be like giving up, like resigning himself to the fact that he would never be able to cultivate in his life.
His head suddenly snapped back as his [Third Perspective] sensed something. But when he saw the scene before him, he was baffled.
Beneath the moonlight, her exposed skin was nothing short of perfection. It glittered like a silvery, polished metal, her pink-diamond hair and eyes twinkling with their own light.
Her curves, the healthy, elastic drop of her breast, the faint sheen of red that seemed to point to an embarrassment he had never seen her wear before...
It was all accentuated by the fact she struck such a valiant pose, her arms akimbo and her legs spread to reveal another patch of sparkling pink.
"You're the first man to see my everything, now you have no choice but to take responsibility. Come, put a child in me!"
Ryu was speechless.