[01: Gloomy Girl]

A girl dressed in black, from top to bottom. Black shirt that was delicately embroidered. Black skirt that blossomed in flower and a white silk that resembled a rose was tied in her neck. She had a short, thin hair with some bangs that hid her emerald eyes, she was as pale as a snow, even her lips resembled a corpse but with one touch of her fingers, one would know that she was actually a living being, she was actually wearing black lipstick on her lips.

She was a petite, fifteen years old. She wore a fancy hat that would only be used in a funeral. On her right hand, she held a black umbrella, it look very fancy but it also look gloomy and filled with eeriness but even so, no matter what color she dressed or what type of dresses she put on; it still couldn't mask the loneliness that lingers on her body that didn't suit her tiny body.

Loneliness that she had that it made others ache for her.

In her left hand, she held a box of expensive fruit of life that even top-tier experts rarely eaten as it is too expensive for daily usage. Each fruit in her hands amassed the fortune that many people covet, not only is it a rare and effective medicine but it also prolong life! It had many uses and this is just one of its usage. But even so, there is at least three fruit of life there!

She sense many gazes on herself but she chose to ignore. One of their gazes were envious, amazement, lamentation, pity, greedy gazes but she ignored it like it was nothing.

She was used to it anyways...

As she walked down the streets, she found a narrow corner, she knew that someone was following her but she did not mind. It's not that she was confident on her skills, in fact, she was very weak, her punches were weak even compared to a mortal strength. Due to her weak yet strange constitution, she was very pale and sickly. Once she was drenched in sweat or water, she would catch a cold regardless if she took medication or not.

She walk very lightly as her 2 inch high heels that boost her height clack at every step. Every time she walk a footstep; she would waver, she felt dizzy but even so, she persisted.

As she inch closer towards the narrow corner, she found an alley with trash bins were slightly open revealing a disgusting stench that made her eyebrow furrow in distress. She gripped her hand on the box as she heard rustling noises and growls that were threatening her not to come closer. However, she squatted and open the box as refreshing fragrance reached her nose but her lifeless eyes did not change.

Grrr....

Grrr....

She did not flinch when hearing these aggressive noise but rather, she smiled. Her face was very beautiful, a piece of art, flowers would wilt and die as her emerald eyes didn't change, it is as deep as abyss that appears to be lifeless.

"Eat." She smiled softly.

The shadow hesitated as the growling, threatening noises stopped. Apparently, it was tempted. After all, no one could resist a Fruit of Life delivered into their doorstep. It is a rare fruit that has many usages, it can prolong lifespan, a medicine, a precious ingredient for wine brewery, cuisine and is one of the rarest fruit to be found, it also had a life attribute that suited everyone regardless of their talent!

How could anyone resist it?

Therefore, her lips curled up to a non-existent smirk. She was waiting calmly as the latter appeared in front of her, she was rather surprised that it was not one but two instead!

It was then revealed an Astral Beast called Shadow Cat, one was small and the other was big, apparently a mother and child. They look exactly like cat, except every muscle on its body excluded elegance and fur that is even darker than a shadow. It walk out of the shadow as it eyed her warily.

This mother Shadow Cat had a faint scar near its eyes, maybe a vicious human wanted to dug out its eyes because they wanted to vent their anger or because of entertainment, who knows?

A flash of pity past through her eyes, though, lifeless as she seemed to be, but she look at the two shadow cats with affection.

She found out that this mother Shadow Cat was pitiful, not only it had to live on the street as a stray cat but it also had its eyes almost dug out. She wonder who is such a cruel person to do this to a pitiful Shadow Cat.

Maybe that's why the Mother Shadow Cat look at her with hostility. It hated humans, therefore, the culprit is also a human and thus, hated her because she's also a human...probably.

"Don't eat too much....." She said with great difficulty, she was not a talkative type and didn't talk much. She neither had friends or neighbours to practice her linguistic abilities and thus her words were very few. Others had difficulty talking to her were probably because of this.

She was worried; thinking that the Shadow Cat didn't understand her meaning, and thus, she added. "You'll explode."

Grrr....!

The Shadow Cat looks like it had been electrocuted as its fur that is even darker than the shadow stood up as claws were revealing, one more word from her and it will explode with terrifying might that even she could not fend off.

Things went worse as she took out a knife that made the Shadow Cat's temper become extremely volatile as if it could explode at any moment. The Shadow Kitten took a step back after being warned by its mother. It look at her with fear in its small, bright eyes.

A fight was about to erupt yet the gloomy girl stayed calm while although the mother cat was extremely irritated now but it still had a little rationality left inside its tiny head.

It even made hissing noises. The hostility became a killing intent upon seeing the knife in her hand. Facing off the killing intent from the latter, the gloomy girl just smiled unnaturally.