As I thought about it, I started walking. I didn't know why I was heading out, but I did it anyway.
However, the man standing on the roof of the two-story building across from me once again pretended to open his mouth. The next second, a shrill voice echoed
through my mind.
"Ah!"
In an instant, darkness appeared before my eyes again. There was nothing...
I didn't know how much time passed. Time... What was it?
When I opened my eyes, I saw a woman... I thought her name was Ning Jing?
"Yuxuan! Yuxuan, are you all right? Are you hurt!?"
"I..."
I seemed fine, and yet I also seemed not fine. I wanted to kill someone. I wanted to kill that person.
I felt like... I couldn't control my desire to kill anymore.
Ning Jing? She stood in front of me, talking nonstop, but I couldn't understand most of what she was saying. What was talking, anyway?
I wanted to kill someone... But I didn't want to kill this person in front of me. Then I could go kill someone else.
Right. Where were they?
I lowered my head and looked at Ning Jing, her face full of worry. I asked her,
"Where... are they?"
"Who...? Do you mean Minister Song and that person? They ran toward the building where we had our meeting. I'm sorry, I didn't... Where are you going?"
The building where we'd had our meeting. I seemed to remember where it was. It was... that way?
I stepped forward. Hmm, I wasn't sure how to walk. Then I'd just fly... Fly? Could I fly?
I turned around in a daze and looked at the pair of wings extending from my back. I tried flapping them twice. Beneath my feet, I really did feel myself leaving