I'll Protect You Until I Die

Jack followed his gaze to the canteen at his waist and curled his lip. "Fine, I'll give you some water." Compared to medicine, water was fairly ordinary for a Nen user like him. He picked up a small canister, poured him a cup of water, and handed it over. "Here, kid."

Luo Ye bowed to him. "Thank you, mister!" Then he dashed off with the canister in his hands. Jack watched the direction he had left in for a while before turning and leaving.

Inside the shipping container, Luo Ye fed Feitan some water. His cracked lips immediately moistened. "Cough, cough... Where did you find this water?" It was completely different from any water he had drunk before. There was none of that murkiness or earthy stench. Where had Ye found this water source?

"Thank goodness, you're finally awake! I thought you were going to kick the bucket!" Only when Feitan woke up did Luo Ye finally breathe a sigh of relief. "I begged someone else for that water. There was only this tiny canister, and I fed it all to you." Luckily, Feitan was tough enough to endure it. Otherwise, if all his efforts over the past few days had gone down the drain, he really would have been furious!

"You begged someone else for water?" Feitan struggled into a sitting position. "Who did you ask?" Wasn't Ye, like him, someone with no one to protect him? Otherwise, he would not have partnered up with him. So how could he have asked anyone else?

"Someone from the Elder Council. I spotted his medicine case and wanted to steal some medicine for you, but after sizing up the gap in our strength, I knew I couldn't beat him," Luo Ye explained succinctly. "Since I couldn't steal the medicine, I asked him for some water instead."

Of course, he had also benefited from still being a child. Meteor City was rather tolerant toward children. Otherwise, that Nen user would not have spoken to him when he first saw him—he would have slaughtered him on the spot and scattered his ashes. That was right. Meteor City was just that cruel a place.

"You went to steal medicine?" A trace of surprise flashed through Feitan's eyes. "Weren't you afraid he'd kill you?" Medicine was a rare resource in Meteor City. Feitan had not expected him to be so recklessly bold.

"Of course I was afraid! How could I not be?" Luo Ye scrunched up his little face. "My heart is still pounding! I risked my life for you, so you'd better grow up strong and become a powerful backer who'll protect me!" Otherwise, all he had done today would have been for nothing!

"I know. I'll protect you." Feitan accepted the promise, and only then did Luo Ye nod in satisfaction. Still, he did not forget to add, "Good. Just don't turn into some ungrateful bastard! I'll look down on you if you do!"

When he had first met Feitan, he had considered finding himself a different powerful backer. After all, Feitan's temper was truly not good. Uvogin and Nobunaga were much easier to fool than him. But Meteor City was so vast that he could not find anyone else, so he had no choice but to pick Feitan.

At the beginning, Feitan had not been as easy to talk to as he was now. No, it would be more accurate to say that he basically did not talk at all. He simply struck to kill, clean and decisive enough to make Luo Ye's heart tremble. It was only because they had grown a little more familiar that Feitan was now willing to answer him.

"I won't." Feitan's narrow eyes held not a trace of emotion, his tone calm. "I'll protect you until I die." This was probably the weightiest promise in Meteor City.

"You said it, and I'll remember it. No taking it back!" Luo Ye held out his little finger to hook it with his. "Pinky swear, hang yourself, a hundred years without changing. If you change, you're a puppy!"

Feitan: "..." Childish!