User blog:KuraiMAO1993/Inherited Lover: Chapter 6

Currently we are headed to great-grandfather’s shine, where Mei-san’s coffin is located. Everything went smoothly in the end though…

“…………Mm….”

“………Hmm…..”

After doing it like mad animals for more than five times until we got back to our senses, the two of us became awkward towards the other. Whenever our eyes meet, both of us would look away out of embarrassment. We better talk about something before this silence makes my ears deaf.

“….U-Um Mei-san, how are you feeling?”

“A-Ah! I’m okay now…It’s just that…I’m not comfortable without my….you know…”

“I-I see…ahahaha……..”

It can’t be helped. Her underwear got drenched from our fluids and was kept in my bag for now and it’s all because of the things that happened earlier. But it seems the effect of the fruit had completely subsided from the both of us, which was good to know. Though I still felt a faint affection for her, which might be the fruit’s side effect.

Oh! It seems were almost there.

“Mei-san---“

“Please, just call me Mei.”

“--Eh!? I-I can’t do that… I mean you’re still my great-grandaunt so I can’t be casual towards you.”

I said this to her politely but…

“…..Even though you’ve done it with me like mad not long ago.”

“---Urk!”

….I can’t talk back to her. It’s her win. I give.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“...F-Fine, I’ll do it……..M-Mei”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“Yup, that’s more like it. Good job, Chun~ “

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“Eh?!”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">She’s calling me in my first name without any horrific!? Well, I guess that’s fine since she’s my great-grandaunt after all.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“You don’t want me to call you that?”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“N-No. It’s fine. Please call me Chun then, Mei.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">Hearing my reply, she smiled gently to me with warm eyes.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“Fufu~<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"SegoeUISymbol",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family: "SegoeUISymbol";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">♡ Same here.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">BA-DUMP!

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">-!

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">What is this feeling?! Is this one of the fruits side effect?! But it feels slightly different than before… Well for now, I’ll just put it aside.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“B-By the way, we’re almost near to great-grandfather’s shrine.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“Chen has a shrine? How come?”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">Oh yeah… I still haven’t clarified this to her. Since there’s no need for more lies, I’ll just tell her everything I know.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“…Well. It goes like this…”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">I fully explained to her everything that I know, which resulted to her shock and silence for a moment….

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“……..I see. So Chen is no longer here.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">Mei had a very sad look on her face, to the point that she might start crying, but it didn’t happened as she regained her composure as if it was within her expectations.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“…I guess that it’s pretty obvious. If you were his great-grandnephew then it’s highly possible that he’s no longer here too…”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“……….”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:.5in">Concluding with that, we’ve finally reached where great-grandfather’s shrine and Mei’s coffin is located.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">Upon entering the hall, we went straight to the shrine first as a formal greeting to great-grandfather.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">…Though, I could not bring myself to look at him anymore. If possible, I wouldn’t even dare to step into this place again. Someone like me who had an affair with Mei had no rights to be here…

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:.5in49.5pt158.25pt">“……………………….”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“…It’s been a while, darling.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">Unlike me, Mei was surprisingly calm. I was expecting for her to react more emotionally, but it seems that she holds it well. Traits of being an adult I guess…

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">In order to give them some privacy, I distanced myself from the shrine and approached Mei’s coffin, in the hopes of finding any clues for her reanimation as a jiangshi.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“Now where is that potion…?”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">Searching for the red potion in her coffin, I noticed some odd facts about this coffin. Spell tags of some kind were present within the sides. Are these some kind of a ward off charm? I’ll save that for later. Right now I need to look for that potion.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“…It’s not here. Did I drop it somewhere?”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">As I tried to search for anything more in the coffin, I found a scroll within it.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“…A scroll? I didn’t noticed it earlier. I wonder what’s in it.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“Chun! Did you find anything?”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">I was about to open the scroll, but Mei interrupted me. She must be done with her private time with great-grandfather.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“Well somehow. I also found this scroll here.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“A scroll? May I look at it?”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“Sure. It’s yours anyway.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">Handing over the scroll to her, she opened and unrolled the scroll and read its contents.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“…………………………………”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">It took her a while as she thoroughly read the scroll without any break, until she finally finished reading the scroll.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“……What’s in the scroll?”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“……Chen’s message to the current me.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“Great-grandfather’s!?”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">So it was a personal letter from him, but what did Mei meant when she said ‘the current her’?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“What do you mean by that?”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“…Here, you can read it.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“O-Okay…”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">She seems more emotional than before, did my great-grandfather said to her something into that letter?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">As I unrolled the scroll, I started reading the message.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt"><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">Mei, my dearest wife

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">If you’re able to read this message, then it must have mean that you have been reanimated either as a ‘jiangshi’ or another type of undead. I know you are confused and have many things to ask of me but it is unfortunate that I won’t be able to answer all of it. The only thing that I can provide to you is the reason why are you here now.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">It all started during the day I lost you. I was desperate of finding any means of resurrecting or reanimating your body from the dead. I even personally went to the town where she, the maker of the potion that can extend one’s life, was. Unfortunately, she had already left the town for her expedition. That’s why I’ve sent more of my trusted informants and aides around the continent to search for the creator. I also kept this selfish idea of mine from your sister, my current wife, and to the rest of the family. Though don’t get the wrong idea. I never neglected my duties as the family head, as a loving husband, and as a responsible father. As I’ve promise, I am living my life to the fullest. But it’s unfair if it’s only me. That’s the reason why I’ve decided that no matter how long, I’ll make sure to bring you back to life and at least enjoy these experiences for yourself.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">After so many years of searching for information and tracing her trail, I’ve finally found the place where she secretly lives temporarily. I was astonished when I found out that she was a lich. I made an appeal with her in exchange for the demonic potion that can reanimate you. The price was quite almost a fortune but manageable so no worries. In the end, I finally had it with me and believe me, I wanted to reanimate you. But it made me also think if this was the right decision and the right time to do so. I’m currently 89 years old as I wrote this letter to you so it’s a matter of time before I meet my death.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">Ever since your death up until now, I’ve made sure that your body would last for almost an eternity with a special coffin that I’ve personally made and designed. I’ve also made some necessary adjustments just in case something were to go wrong. I’m sure that it would be most probably one of my inheriting descendants that will reanimate you so please get to know them well.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">       Sigh, how I wish I could still talk to you like we used to, but we live on different timelines now. I’m sure that as you read this, I’m no longer here in this world. But please don’t be sad for this.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">      I had my fill, and now it’s your turn. Just like the promise we’ve made, to live on a happy life even if we’re apart forever. ….So please cherish this chance to fall in love once again, not for the sake of others but for your own sake for this is your own life as the current Mei and not the past. Farewell my love and enjoy your new life.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">                                                                                                                                    - Chen

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“………………………………..”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">Great-grandfather… You really love her ‘till the very bottom of your heart... To think that you would go this far just to bring her back to this world.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">Though I’ve admired him more for his unwavering will to attain his goal, it was also painful to me due to the fact that he kept it a secret from the rest of the family. What would’ve great-grandmother and the rest of us would think if this secrecy were to be found out? Does grandpa even know about this?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">I have a lot more questions I wanted to ask if great-grandfather was still alive. But then again, it’s all in the past anyway and I don’t see it would be a problem having Mei reanimated.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“Well, I guess that explains your situation then.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“…….Yes.”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">….Is it just me or is she somehow feeling down. But I think I know why.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“…To think that he still cared for me in his whole life….doing everything just to bring me back in this world….That idiot…(sniff)”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">Tears stared to drip from Mei’s eyes.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“………………..”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">I fell silent as I see Mei covered her face as she burst into tears. But for some reason, I just can’t endure it to see her cry without someone comforting her so made up my mind and embraced her.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">HUG!!

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“---!!? Ch-Chun?!!”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">She was surprised and quite confused with my sudden actions.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">BA-DUMP! BA-DUMP! BA-DUMP!

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">Though I’m being calm and was comforting her on the outside, my heart on the other hand was beating non-stop just embracing her like this… But I’ve got to play this cool or I’ll just embarrass myself.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">I calmed myself for a while before speaking.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“….It’s ok. I’ll just be here with you. So don’t hold back…”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; tab-stops:158.25pt">“….Chun….Khh!...Uuuuugh!….”

<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:PMingLiU;mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Without holding back, she cried silently within my arms, which might last for quite a while.