Venerable Demon King & The Doting Immortal (QT) novel Chapter 26

Chapter 26: Crazy person

"And the twins father... why did you kill him?" asked Han Xin struggling to hide the confusion in his eyes.

Xiang Yu's laughter turned bitter. "Why," he said. "If I didn't they would have died. That bastard killed their mother and almost killed them so yes... I ripped his heart out and made him watch as I crushed it." The whip remained silent gently snaking around Xiang Yu's arms.

Han Xin's footsteps crunched on the forest floor as he approached the young man. The air thickened with tension as his guilt gnawed at him. He had seen the darkness in this half-demon and the sinister aura that clung to him like a shadow but the young man hadn't harmed the innocent.

Han Xin's duty was to protect the innocent and punish demons, yet this young man was a paradox. "Why do you hunt demons?" Han Xin's voice cut through the silence, but Xiang Yu's glare remained unyielding.

He clenched his fists, veins throbbing, sweat dripping down his forehead onto the ground. He didn't want to say it. Why should he answer to him? His lips remained sealed, defiance etched into every line of his face.

Han Xin retracted the whip and its golden links released the young man, leaving seared marks. Before Xiang Yu could get up he focused his energy, freezing him in place. Xiang Yu's eyes widened when he realised he was trapped. He tried to move his hands and feet but his muscles wouldn't obey him.

"You... what are you going to do?" he asked slightly panicked. The forest seemed to hold its breath as Han Xin knelt beside the young man. He helped him sit up, guiding him to lean against a weathered tree trunk.

"Why do you hunt your own kind?" he asked again but Xiang Yu was too busy imagining all sorts of revenge scenarios in his head to answer.

Han Xin didn't force him to speak. His hands glowed with healing energy. The half-demon's wounds both physical and emotional were etched across his skin. Just from a mere touch, he could feel the hurt and pain in him. It was a miracle that his heart hadn't completely blackened and gone on a killing spree against the innocent.

"I apologise," he murmured, his voice carrying the weight of regret. "I misjudged you before. I thought you were the demon we were hunting down."

Xiang Yu's crimson eyes flickered open, surprise mingling with the sensation coursing through his body. One word that he could use to describe this weirdo would be 'crazy'.

He beat him up for no reason and now he was apologising to him. Soon all the curses in his mind were pressed at the back of his head as he was overwhelmed by the healing energy seeping into his body. The sensation was so intense it bordered on divine. He had absorbed demon cores countless times and tasted their power, but this... this was different. It was as if the forest itself whispered secrets into his veins, knitting his bone and sealing wounds.