Soul Land: The Savage Star

Half an hour later, they all went to the living room and sat down. Feng and Beibei next to each other facing their former caretaker and the confused girl. This place didn't change at all, there were still these neat but old-looking brown sofas facing each other with a low, green table separating them.

The atmosphere was quite awkward between Beibei and the girl but Feng and the nanny were having a normal discussion.

Basically, he was recounting what happened to them this year, omitting any worrying details and the nanny was smilingly listening to it, knowing what he did.

As the person who took care of him for the first six years of his life, she knew him better than anyone else so she could feel the change and most importantly, she didn't remember Feng having a paralyzed face.

Feng didn't know what she thought of spirit hall and didn't think that talking to her would help anyway so he wanted to avoid the subject. Furthermore, a special agent has been tasked with escorting them and even though he wouldn't infringe on their privacy, Feng didn't want to try his luck with spirit hall's honesty.

After a while, they talked about the girl that was silent up until now.

Feng, who still remembered her began " Hum, hello, I'm Leng Feng and this here is my brother Beibei. "

Nodding, she answered curtly " Huo Li. "

Scratching his head, Feng asked what she was doing here. Though, he decided to not talk about the happenings of Ti Cang city yet.

Taking a peek at the nanny, who nodded with a smile, she replied " Because of some events, I had to travel far and I lost myself in a forest. Auntie who was there took me in and we lived together ever since. "

A short answer that was almost the same as not answering at all... Anyway, this was not important so Feng dropped the matter rather easily. Instead, he went back to talking with the nanny.

After a while, the subject of discussion became Feng and Beibei's mother. They had seen her only at the beginning of the year and then nothing. Beibei, who was, for some unknown reason, sulking asked with a hopeful look " Do you… know anything? "

Shaking her head then sighing, the nanny, with a slightly reminiscent look on her face, answered " I don't... Sigh... Your mother… She was originally a fine lady. I remember the day we met. It was quite a hassle. She was quite a messy kid but with endless love for you and liveliness. Even though I never saw your father, I remember how she always looked terrifyingly lovestruck whenever he was mentioned.

With how she always looked at you both with the same expression, I thought that she would become the overprotective kind of mother that never lets even a scratch unattended… At that time, you were three or four weeks old. Then, one day, she just asked me to take care of you for a while then as she came and went, for amounts of time that became longer and longer. I don't know what happened, but the change was very progressive as if it was not an event in particular but a change in habits or work that forced her to see you less and less. Also, she seemed more and more depressed. "

In the end, the nanny had a puzzled expression. The twins' mother never said anything about her life so she didn't know anything. Or does she?

.....

After this reunion, Feng and Huo Li went to the backyard to have a spar. The idea originally came from the nanny who thought that spars and rivalry could help with forming bonds, even more so knowing the personality of Huo Li.

The spar was... weird to say the least. At first, they fought without their spirit rings then with. Not surprisingly, without their spirit rings, Feng overwhelmed Huo Li as he was stronger physically and had more fighting experience, as no matter how short one year of apprenticeship is, it's still more than none, or more exactly, more than being self thaught. But when she had enough of being beaten activated her spirit, their roles reversed.

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To be continued