Signal Wave (Part 2)

"I have many little secrets, little secrets!

"I have many little secrets, little secrets!

"I won't tell you, hehe, I won't tell you..."

The ancient children's song swayed through the clouds, wildly off-key and utterly uninhibited, with the rough, strained hoarseness of a boy going through puberty. Yet after traveling far into the distance, its echoes turned into muffled thunder, layering over one another in a humming roar. The empty Cloud Top World somehow gained the reverberating acoustics of a karaoke room.

Ronan, singing the children's song at the top of his lungs, was still leaping through the clouds, turning somersaults, looking ready to wreak Havoc in Heaven. Only after exhausting himself did he spread his limbs and drift freely in the depths of the clouds.

At that moment, the sun overhead cast down its restless pressure in the form of light and heat.

Ronan half-closed his eyes and felt the faint warmth on his face. Once his thoughts settled a little, he found his own behavior absurd, then amusing. He truly burst out laughing, laughing until he was out of breath, before ending with a howling "Aah, aah, aah!"

Only after roaring out the last trace of air in his lungs—until his body curled up, his face flushed red, and tears ran from the corners of his eyes—did he finally stop. He returned to his sprawled position and gulped down great breaths of air.

Ronan no longer needed to be wary of anything. The person who could stop him was thoroughly dead, and the Cloud Top World had finally returned to his control...

This place should have been his from the start, because it was the wondrous world his Mother and Father had discovered!

Ronan clung to that logic. That was why, when Gong Qi had still been around,