Mysterious Figures

After sorting his thought and stop worrying about his past life, Mo Zhen's eyes trailed into his finger in which a golden ring got stuck there. Bringing his finger closer, Mo Zhen began inspecting it thoroughly.

In the middle of observing, Mo Zhen could vaguely decipher there is a sentence moulded over the ring. Luckily, he already retains most of Mo Zhen's memories. Hence, reading those words isn't too difficult.

"You have to experience darkness before being able to know with the darkness."

"Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself."

"Every moment of light and dark is a miracle."

-Albert x Clarissa-

-3rd /@~!@~!/

After saying those three sentences, Mo Zhen feels like his consciousness being sucked by mysterious existence.

In a blink of an eye, Mo Zhen found himself standing on the same path in his previous dream. Instead of a void, Mo Zhen is now standing on the path between light and dark. On his right side, completely boundless darkness which more profound than before exist. On his left side, a blinding light sun-like existed majestically.

Before Mo Zhen able to react, two figures appeared from the two different sides. Wearing a full black coat, a man in his middle 20s appeared while holding a long dark-blood long blade. His face was pale as a sheet, and no matter how Mo Zhen's observing, he completely looks like a dead person. His eyes were hollow ink-pitch black with tiny red-blood on the corner. His posture is tall and straight, as if even a storm wouldn't budge him.

Then from the corner of his eyes, Mo Zhen saw an angelic-figure of a woman. Her blonde hair fluttered as she emerged from the blinding light. Her eyes were painted in sapphire-blue colour. Even Mo Zhen was struck dumb and can only look at her mesmerizingly. As the two figures arrived on the same path as him, their gazes suddenly locked in each other like the opposite direction of a magnet.

From the first time after the emergence of the mysterious man, Mo Zhen finally saw ripples on those pair of hollow eyes. Like a dried flower getting watered, the blank-eyes now filled with liveliness. As his gaze changed, the mysterious man finally opened his mouth, "Clarissa..."

His voice was surprisingly sounds loving and had a tone of doting.

The angelic woman trembled upon hearing the man's voice. Although her body seems to have a huge reaction toward the man's call, unlike the man's voice, her voice was almost had no emotion on it, "Albert."

"I'm sorry, Lisa...I'm sorry.." The man kept apologizing as the tears continued raining his cheeks.

With a sleeve of her robe, the woman appeared instantly in front of the man. With her slender-white hands, she gently wiped the tears that constantly came out from the man's eyes. Even so, her voice remained emotionless, "Don't cry, Albert."

Like surrending himself, the man leaned his head onto the woman's shoulder. The woman only patted the man trembling back with her hands.

Mo Zhen was watching the entire drama that unfolded before his eyes. He couldn't believe there were actually two people hiding in this mysterious dimension. But what surprised him more was two people that seems belonged to different worlds were acting intimately right now.

'Could this be another couple of forbidden love?' This thought crossed Mo Zhen's mind, but he brushed that thought off immediately upon watching the mysterious man slowly getting the hang of himself due to the comfort the woman gave.

After waiting for a while, the man released the woman from his embrace and gradually lifted his head and directly gazed at Mo Zhen's eyes.

Like a trapped animal, Mo Zhen lost control over his body while he kept getting the feeling that his body was getting scanned by the man's hawk-like eyes.

After what seems an eternity, the shackle that caged his body is finally gone. As he let out a sigh of relief, the mysterious man's voice entered his ears, "What mentor or master do you serve?"

'Ah? Master? Mentor'

Before Mo Zhen responds, the man mumbled under his breath, but Mo Zhen could still vividly hearing it, "Strange...Really strange. I didn't discover any traces of spirit within that boy's body. Could something already went wrong with my eyesight?"

Spirit?

Despite having no idea what it is, Mo Zhen could vaguely understand that spirit was like probably a Qi here. Hence, he decides to clear the man doubt, "I haven't reached 30 days foundation realm, mister."

"Wha-?" The mysterious man gaped at Mo Zhen's answer. Even the woman also seems surprised that she even tilted her head as she gazed at Mo Zhen with her pretty blue-eyes.

"Yeah, I'm a pretty normal person with no realm." Mo Zhen said while scratching his back head embarrassedly like a child getting caught by the parents for doing something wrong.

"T-Then, how did you manage to find the ring?" The man said after being silent for a moment.

"Ring? Oh! If you were talking about this ring." Saying that, Mo Zhen began to show his ring finger in which a golden ring was slipped there as he continued his explanation, "I found this ring covered in the mud outside the sewer."

The man and the woman exchanged glances before the man spoke with a serious tone, "Did anyone see you when you discover that ring?"

Mo Zhen recalled his memories before shook his head, "As far as I remember, there is none."

The man seems sighed in relief before asking another question, "Then, where exactly are you right now? I mean, in which city are you currently in?"

"Eastern Continent, Wuxin Province, Lilin City."

"Eastern Continent..." The man muttered before heaved a sigh, "That's good to hear. At least those bastards wouldn't find us at the moment."

"Pardon?" Mo Zhen asked, in which the man answered by a shook of his head, "Nothing."

The man quickly changed the topic as he demanded, "Tell me more about your place."

Before Mo Zhen starts explaining, the woman who was beside the mysterious suddenly opened her mouth, "Wait."

After uttering the sentence, she lifted her right hand, while at the same time, a yellowish light like fireflies began gathered and swarming over her hands.

"Go," She ordered as the yellowish-light stars moving toward the ground, forming illusory things such as chairs, cushions, and a fireplace.

"Now we can talk more comfortably," The woman said with her usual emotionless voice.

"My wife is so considerate," The mysterious man smiled dotingly while rubbing his palm over the girl's head.

'Is this couple planned to serve me with plenty of dog food?' Luke complained inwardly as he walked to one of the chairs and began sat on it.