There's No Love In the Deathzone (BL) novel Chapter 169

Chapter 169: Chapter 164. The Perfect Human

"So they bonded for convenience," Zein sneered. But why then, the Elder looked as if he was trying to convey some great love through the story?

"I wouldn’t deny that," the Elder smiled. But it was a calm and warm one. "It was never an outcome we ever predicted, and while we get to bring Lady Lucia home, they were quite awkward with each other."

That being said, Roan Ishtera was a responsible man. And he was the Paladin, so by nature, he treated Lucia like a princess.

A shy, sheltered girl who was recluse in nature due to the fact that she was a Carrier and shouldered a great responsibility for it; Lucia was scared of men from the start, and it wasn’t easy for Roan to open her heart. Especially at the start, when they had to be careful and hide from the other faction, Lucia couldn’t even reach out to her housemates, and it stressed her greatly.

It took months until Lucia could talk freely with Roan, and even then, she only talked with Roan. Perhaps being imprinted on each other had a factor, but it was also Roan’s persistent and patient attempt that bring down the shy guide’s wall.

"It was a gradual attempt, and watching them from the sideline was quite frustrating," the Elder let out a chuckle for the first time that day. "But once Lady Lucia opened her heart and started to embrace us as her new family, it was easy to see how lovely she was, and it was easy to see the growing affection between them."

Slowly, but surely, they fell in love. Whether it was due to the imprinting, or natural affection and attachment that grew with time, it was undeniable that they loved each other. Zein couldn’t help but recall the bright expression in that photographs; the sheer happiness, the love.

And Zein felt that it was..preferable, to a fairytale-like story of love at first sight, or attachment devised by fate.

"She started to write to her friends again, but unfortunately, we couldn’t let her travel far because those traitors had found us once."

For that reason also, Roan and Lucia started to move from place to place. Part of it was to delude anyone chasing them, and part of it was because Roan wanted to show Lucia the world. But they couldn’t do that forever, especially, because Lucia became physically unable to do so.

Because she got pregnant.

Bassena had never let go of Zein’s hand since the first time, and now, he could feel the guide’s pulse spiking. The time he spent with Zein told him enough that the guide was tensing, even while the pretty face was without expression. Hearing the story behind the imprinting was one thing, but hearing about the period that would lead to their death was probably much more stressful.

"You okay?" Bassena whispered. Even though he was the one who pushed Zein to not run earlier, he didn’t want to do it at the expense of the guide’s mental health.

To Bassena’s surprise, Zein reacted by shifting his hand so their fingers slipped and intertwined, while he told the Elder to continue.

"They settled in a lakeside cottage and we took turns taking guard. Lady Lucia was...surprisingly the cheeriest, the happiest of everyone. They were happy, we were happy," the Elder said with the warmest smile, which suddenly turned into gloom. "We were so happy that we even forgot about the fact that she was supposed to be the Carrier, our Saintess. She just felt like a family, you know...a part of us,"

And that made them careless. So careless that they didn’t realize one of the household members betrayed them. The person told the other faction about the pregnancy.

At first, that wasn’t a bad thing. The other faction didn’t want the bother to handle a pregnant woman, so they decided to just wait until she gave birth and took the child. Because obviously, once the child was born, the seed fragment would be moved to that child. And stealing a child was way easier than kidnapping a pregnant woman. So the clan could even enjoy a period of calmness where Lucia managed to get ample rest, and they could even go out go town and have a proper examination with doctors.

That was, until they found out the baby would be a boy.

"What’s that supposed to mean?" Bassena tilted his head. "Why did Zein being a boy mattered?"

"Because there was never a boy born from the Carriers," the Elder told them with utmost seriousness. "The Carriers had always been women with healthy wombs, so they could preserve in their mission of carrying the seed through generations, no matter if they awakened as guide or not."

"So it’s logical to think that a baby boy signified something different," Senan added. "Especially...if that boy also awakened as a guide."

Bassena raised his brows, and the Elder answered the wordless confusion. "It had been forgotten now, but back in the day when everything was still in chaos and human just started to build civilization again, there was a specific phrase used for male guides, which was rare, to begin with."

"What phrase?"

The old man stared at Zein, the only male guide in the room, as he uttered it. "The perfect human."

The blue eyes narrowed and twitched, and Bassena could feel his fingers getting gripped tightly.

"Because male guides had a physique where they could give their seed and also receive seed from others, and nurtured it into life," the old man explained further. "They could create life, in any way they preferred. Like a God."

Because they had wombs, Bassena realized. He heard that at the beginning of time, all male guides had wombs, which helped with the population too. But after centuries, not every male guide manifested one, and it became less common as time went by.