Godfire: The Split Soul

"Good," Yung Mai's face shimmered with a smile as he stumbled a step backward.

He swiped the sweat that had beaded on his face and exhaled. The air came in cold at first, then warmed when the morning sun's rays shone on his face.

He walked to the building behind him, stood there for a while, then entered.

Meanwhile, as Kai's pants calmed, he stabbed the sword into the ground and bent down on his knees.

He clenched his right fist, opened it, clenched it again in a manner that seemed almost as if he was letting more blood pump into his palms.

Footsteps echoed from the side of the building, jolting his attention.

At his front, Kai saw a tip of a white robe flap in the air, and as he traced it to the top, Kai saw Yung Mai wearing a long white robe.

"Master," Kai's eyes widened with shock as he straightened himself.

Yung Mai closed in on the boy, placed his left arm on the boy's shoulder, and sighed.

"Kai, you've mastered what others couldn't. The skill that takes ten years to master, you mastered it within a few days."

He tapped on the boy's skin, then raised his arm from the boy's shoulder.

"I'm done giving you all you need." Yung Mai moved two steps past Kai.

"Right now, it's up to you to master them by your own will and preference."

A strong wind blew between them, tampering with Yung Mai's hair and letting it flare like flames.

…

"Is he not back yet?" Lena sighed, then tilted her gaze upward.

"Jinx," her voice echoed loudly, drawing the attention of the lady standing outside the open door of the room they were asked to rest in.

Hasty footsteps echoed, followed by a gust of wind when Jinx rushed inside.

"Madam Lena," she said, her voice echoing with joy as she stared at Lena.

Laughter cracked in from Lena's side. "Don't call me madam, call me Lena."

Lena rose from the bamboo bed she was sitting on, closed in on Jinx, then smiled.

"What did the man say when you went to him, to him?" Lena moved past Jinx and stood by the door, then tilted her gaze to the large courtyard at her front.

The foot of Jinx's boot screeched on the ground as she turned and stood by the right side of Lena.

"He didn't say anything. All I remember him saying is, they will come when they're done with their training."

"…Who will come, the man or Kai and their master?"

"I actually don't know, but I think he was talking about Kai and the master."

"…If it's Kai, then it's good. Let's just wait for them."

"Okay. But," Jinx wrapped her arm around her stomach as a growling sound erupted from it.

A silent smile crept onto Lena's face as she shook her head.

"We will eat when Kai comes." She whispered, then placed her right foot on the ground, exiting from the side of the door.

Stillness fell on Jinx as she stood there with an emotionless expression, staring at Lena.

The air had a melted-iron taste when a speeding wind flew across Lena, pulling her brown hair upward.

With careful steps, she walked by the fence closer to the building they were in and stopped when she spotted water on the right side of the fence.

"Is that?" Her face glowed with shock as she spotted the fish that had been termed as a fish, swimming in the water.

"No, this can't be." She whirled her head sideways, brushed her palms across her face, and stared at the water again. Yet the reality didn't change.

The ground shook as footsteps echoed from behind her, followed by a shadow that made her try to look back but stop.

'That might be Jinx,' she shook her head and tilted her gaze back to the fish. But as the shadow doubled, realization struck her like lightning.

A chill ran down Lena's spine, causing her bones to shiver.

She turned back sharply when a throat-clearing sound erupted, "Hhhuh!" She tried speaking, but only air gushed out of her mouth.

…

"How come I feel kinda distressed all of a sudden?" Jinx's face crumpled as she followed the path Lena took.

Her arms swung by her side, paddling the air as she moved past the first two buildings.

Her legs stopped and began to tremble when she saw two figures at a distance from where she was headed.

"Is that, Kai?" Her crumpled face tensed when she tilted her gaze from the white-haired to the blue-and-black-haired figure.

"No, no, that can't be him." Her voice tensed as she forced her legs to move.

"Kai would be around a twenty-year-old. This person looks like a fifteen-year-old boy." Jinx kept on shaking her head until there were seven feet between her and the two figures.

She paused and gazed at the white hair of the man who had the looks of a giant, or maybe a demigod.

'Let me mention his name and see,' thoughts reeled in her mind as she tilted her gaze back at the boy standing beside the man.

"K.. Kai,"

A few minutes after the name exited her mouth, her eyes widened when the person standing beside the man tilted his head slightly and stared at her.

Cool air flew between her and the boy, parading the strand of hair on the boy's face and letting the dimmed blue and red eyes flicker underneath the raised hair.

Jinx blinked once, twice, then shot forward and wrapped her arms around the boy.

…

Staring at the lady who had wrapped her body around Kai's, a smile tore at Yung Mai's lips.

He tilted his gaze from Kai and the lady and walked toward the fence, where the brown-haired lady stood.

"Hi," he said and waved at the lady, drawing her from her stillness.

When he saw the lady shake her head and close her mouth, a smirk appeared on Yung Mai's face.