Chapter 87 Ashes
Minako's terrified voice echoed above the Butterfly House.
After hearing this, many soldiers who had not yet rested looked unhappy. They forced themselves to walk out of the room with their weak bodies and looked around. After finding that there was no commotion, they scratched their heads and walked back to the ward.
"Strange... There was a child screaming... It's a bit worrying."
The wolf, who was still adapting to his enhanced vitality, naturally heard the scream clearly. He paused in his downward swing and stomped his feet, then rushed towards the direction of the sound with a gloomy face.
…It’s Minako’s voice!
In just a few deep breaths, the wolf, which had turned into a shadow, had already crossed the corridor. When the injured who had walked out of the room and had not yet returned saw it, their faces turned pale in an instant.
Could it be... a ghost!
They quickened their pace and hurried back to their rooms, closing the doors heavily.
Walking through the corridor, Wolf came to the room where the sound came from. Worried about Minako, he completely forgot that this was the room of the Butterfly Sisters. Holding Kugamaru in his hand, Wolf broke through the shoji door.
boom!
A wolf with a cold aura and shattered door appeared in the house.
The huge noise startled the Butterfly Sisters who were carefully comforting Minako in the house. They squatted and turned towards the wolf unconsciously. They reached for their waists, but did not touch the knife.
Just when I was about to be startled, I saw a wolf breaking in, and then I felt relieved.
Wolf also saw the Butterfly Sisters who were protecting Minako behind them. Without having time to apologize for breaking the door, Wolf quickly stepped forward and looked at Minako who had thrown herself into Shinobu's arms with a worried look.
He quickly asked Shinobu.
"what happened?"
"Woo..."
Before Shinobu could explain, Minako, who heard the wolf's voice, let out another frightened whimper, curled up in Shinobu's arms, and trembled constantly.
He caressed Minako's trembling back with heartache, then explained to Wolf with some self-blame.
"Minako came to me and my sister just now and we chatted for a while. I don't know what I said... but Minako was so scared..."
After saying this, he hugged Minako tightly in his arms, feeling guilty, and tried his best to warm up her cold body with the warmth of his own body.
Kanae behind her looked at her two sisters, one big and one small, with heartache. How could the warm scene just now turn cold in an instant? She then recounted to Wolf the conversation between the two that she had recorded word for word.
After listening to this, as time passed, Wolf's anxious heart gradually calmed down. Looking at Minako who was hiding in Shinobu's arms and dared not show up, doubts arose in his heart.
...It doesn't look like a physical illness...and there's nothing wrong with what Shinobu said...What's the reason?
Thinking of this, Wolf took light steps and slowly moved in front of Shinobu with his back to Minako, then reached out his hand and slowly touched Minako's head.
"...Minako..."
Snapped!
As if she felt the wolf approaching, Minako did not smile and jump into his arms as she did in the past.
Instead, tears of fear welled up in her eyes, her pupils almost shrank into a point, and she waved her little hands in the air to open the wolf's palm.
"Woo...don't come near me!"
Listening to Minako's trembling sobs, Wolf stared blankly at his slightly red palms, his mind was blank, but now he finally knew why Minako became like this...
…Minako…are you afraid of yourself…
Inside the brain that was no longer able to think, the only thing that kept repeating this sentence to myself was...
Shinobu, who was holding Minako in front of her, covered her mouth and looked at the scene in surprise.
How could this happen… Doesn’t Minako love wolves the most?
Coming to his senses, the wolf approached again without giving up, and clapped his hands together, making a crisp sound.
But Minako looked even more frightened, with tears streaming down from her big eyes.
"Don't come near me... Shura!"
After saying this, Minako struggled and twisted, trying to escape from here. Seeing this, Kanae hurriedly pulled the stunned wolf away, and at the same time calmly instructed Shinobu to take Minako away quickly so that she could have a good rest.
Realizing that it would be better to separate the two at this moment, Shinobu quickly ran away with Minako in his arms. He stopped before leaving the door and looked at the wolf, who was motionless as if struck by lightning, with complicated eyes.
Then he ran away from here towards Minako and Kanao's room.
The two figures disappeared at the door. Kanae bent down and looked at the stunned wolf. She opened and closed her mouth, and finally asked softly.
"Mr. Wolf... do you know why Minako became like this?"
"..."
In response to Kanae's question, the wolf said nothing, but his eyes rolled wildly, as if he was thinking about something.
Seeing Wolf's appearance, Kanae could only sigh, walked out of the room quietly, and went to check on Minako's condition.
In the room, the only person left was the wolf, half-kneeling there powerless and stiff, his heart surging with emotions.
No matter which world it is, the psychological activities of wolves have never been so rich.
Shura...
Minako's frightened voice gradually overlapped with the voice in the dream that Wolf had when he was almost swallowed by the Shura Fire for the first time when the paper man was not yet opened.
But clearly... I have never told anyone about Shura... How could Minako know about Shura...
Thinking of this, the wolf raised his left hand stiffly, and the red flame on the cold artificial hand seemed to be still burning.
In the center of the flame, a round piece of candy continued to melt, and countless white lights flew out. It seemed that something flashed through it, like firewood...
But before the wolf could see clearly, it turned into ashes under the burning of the red flame and fell from the palm of his hand.
After blinking again, the flame and white light on Fang Caiyi's hand seemed to be just an illusion of the wolf and disappeared in an instant.
Shura's fire...candy...white light...ashes.
Everything was so familiar, the truth seemed to be right in front of him, the wolf thought in his mind.
That white light doesn't seem to be karma...
As soon as this thought arose in the wolf's mind, he could never let it go. The scene of ashes falling from his body replayed in his mind, and the things that flashed by in the white light were now clearly visible.
This is...my memory of Minako and I.
It was the same image that came to mind after eating Minako's candy, which meant...
The beautiful memories of Minako and I...were burned as fuel for my Shura fire...
After learning the truth, the light in the wolf's eyes disappeared. He slowly stood up from the ground and walked towards his room upstairs with heavy steps like a zombie.
Sitting on the ground and looking at the dark blue fire on the ghost Buddha, Wolf had forgotten when he returned to the room.
At this moment, countless voices of self-blame were echoing in the wolf's mind.
It's all because of me... I took away Minako's memories... It's all my fault that she's like this now...
Every time the voice sounded in his mind, the wolf's body became more hunched.
At this moment, he was almost crouching in front of the demon Buddha, with no expression in his eyes... He didn't look like a powerful ninja, he looked...
...more like a homeless stray dog...