The Truth - Part 1

Bai Xian Ming sat in his office. He was taking care of the tons of paperwork that needed to be done.

From time to time, he would tilt his head. He looked outside through the window. He waited for Heero to come but was always disappointed.

Heero rarely came to the Hero League since he had recruited the apprentice. He wanted to talk to the young man because he had a lot of things on his mind.

He remembered that there were so many students that Heero had to train, including the twenty apprentices. Bai Xian Ming refrained from visiting Heero and continued with his paperwork.

Brrth! Brrth! Brrth!

The old man looked at his wrist and his eyes lit up. It was a message from Heero.

He put down his work and unlocked the smartwatch to read the text.

[There is an urgent situation!]

Bai Xian Ming frowned, blinking his eyes a few times.

"So? What do you want? Can you even send me a complete text?"

"Don't you know that this old man is very busy..."

Even though the old man was complaining and sounded unhappy, he still stood up and took his coat. He planned to go to the Xing district to meet Heero.

He hummed as he left his office.

When he reached the underground garage, his young driver was ready. Xiao Yun wondered where the old man was going this time. They had just returned from Xing District this morning.

"Where are we going, sir?"

"Xing District!" The old man replied as he opened the back seat.

"But we just got back from Xing District this morning?" Xiao Yun asked.

"Really? I don't remember going anywhere this morning. I've got mountains of work to do, there's no way I could have taken the time to visit the Xing District! You must be hallucinating,"

Bai Xian Ming tapped the young man's shoulder while shaking his head. He tapped his shoulder three times and walked over to the back seat.

"Was I really hallucinating?" Poor Xiao Yun began to question himself.

*** ***

Xu Lingxun walked back and forth in front of the hut. Even though he had just met the little girl, he was worried about her.

He tried to put his ears to the door to find out what was going on inside. But there was no voice to be heard. The cabin was too quiet as if no one was inside.

It had been almost half an hour, but Xu Lingxun knew he had to be patient. After all, his master was healing a mutation.

Inside the hut

Moira's body convulsed on the bed. Her face was contorted with pain. It was just unbearable as if her flesh was being torn apart.

There was a wet white piece of cloth in her mouth. She bit down hard on the clothes and twisted the bedding with her small hand.

Sweat soaked her clothes and the bed. But she managed to hold on. As she had told Heero before, she was good at taking pain. However, a mixture of sweat and tears moistened her face.

As for Heero, he was standing next to the bed. He had his left hand on her stomach and his right hand on Moira's chest.

He was doing a purification, purifying the gray energy with his ki. By injecting Ki into her body, the Ki would absorb the gray energy.

Two different energies collided, which was why the little girl was in pain. In addition, the gray energy had fused with her flesh, making the pain much worse than when she had awakened.

Still, the little girl managed to hold on for almost half an hour.

"A little more, it's almost over," Heero encouraged the little girl.

He kept checking her body with his Mystical Eyes. There was a little more grey energy in her hand.

Moira nodded her head in response, despite the excruciating pain she was enduring.

A few minutes passed...

Heero pulled his hand away and let out a sigh of relief. He smiled at the little girl who lay weakly "It's all over, everything's fine... You can rest now," he said.

He rubbed Moira's wet red hair.

She nodded weakly and closed her eyes. Not long after, a light snoring could be heard. As soon as she closed her eyes, she fell asleep.

Heero sighed and went out to meet his worried student.

As soon as the door opened, Xu Lingxun flashed to the door.

"How is she?" His anxious tone and look already told Heero how worried his student was.

"She's fine, get her some new clothes!" Heero took out a card and threw it to Xu Lingxun.

"Don't give her your clothes, buy her the new ones!"

Bam!

After that, Heero closed the door. As for Xu Lingxun, he rushed downstairs. The worry on his face vanished and he was beaming with happiness.

His master said she was fine. It meant that the mutation had been cured. He was happy for her.

*** ***

Half an hour later, at the cottage

Moira slept soundly in her new light pink pajamas. Earlier, Heero had washed her body and changed the bedding. He wanted the girl to sleep comfortably.

Xu Lingxun smiled as he noticed the change in Moira. The little girl's skin was less dark and some of the snake scales were falling off.

"She's fine, but it will take some time for her to return to normal,"

It was his master's diagnosis, which meant that everything went smoothly.

The smile on Xu Lingxun's face widened when he heard that.

Heero was also happy, although he did not know why Xu Lingxun was overly concerned about the little girl.

Brrth! Brrth! Brrth!

Heero's smartwatch vibrated. He checked the smartwatch and saw that it was Musashi Hirata calling him.

"I'm going outside, you watch them!" He did not answer the call as he took a bamboo container from the cupboard.

"If she wakes up later, give her a medicinal bath!"

Heero had prepared everything. The medicinal bath would help soothe Moira's aching body and it would also heal her body faster.

Then he went outside and answered the phone.

"What's going on? Are you having trouble in the dungeon?" His disciples called him, they must have faced a difficult situation.

"Yes, Master! We found people living in the dungeon."

The first answer did not surprise him, but when Hirata said that they had met a living person in the dungeon, he was surprised.

"Then?"

"We have trouble communicating with them. They speak the Dramonia language that you taught me. Can you come over and talk to them? We might get more information from them instead of searching the dungeon blindly."

This time, Heero was not surprised. He smiled as the truth was revealed to him. He remained calm and asked for details.

It took Hirata a few minutes to explain everything.

"Watu City? Woman dressed in purple? Purple Mountain? It's so obvious that those places existed on Dramonia and those two places are actually close to each other," he said.

"So the dungeon is really part of Dramonia? Then what happened to the real Dramonia? I will only know the truth when I meet her,"

Heero muttered under his breath.

"Master? Hello, Master?" Hearing no answer, Musashi Hirata called out.

"Ah, yes? What's up?"

"Well... Can you come and help us?"

"No problem, I will come, but not now. In two days, I will come in two days. I have to go somewhere else first!" Heero gave his answer.

Yes, before he visited the third dungeon, he wanted to visit the first one. There must be something he missed in the first dungeon. He had to check that place again.