Till the End of the Moon- Novel Ending Part IV

While everyone is searching high and low, a certain little miss got up from the ground “Spit, spit.”

She doesn’t know how to fly on swords so she escaped on the enlarged seal (that’s the square thingy Tantai Jin had) but plopped right on the ground none too gracefully on landing. 

After trying to figure out how to escape from the demon realm for a thousand years, she finally got the chance today.

Holding her head high and her hands proudly on her waist, Ah Mi climbed the hill with her short legs.

She also wants to go find her father too. In this world, mother is not the only one who hasn’t given up on father. Ah Mi has not given up either. 

She walked on the streets of the mortal realm and asked everyone she encountered, “Do you know my father? His name is Tantai Jin. He is very very powerful.” 

Everyone shook their head, all were amazed by the little girl’s exquisitely beautiful appearance. 

During her inquiry, she also met a few people who had dubious smiles. Exchanging a glance with one another, they said with a smile that they had seen her father and will certainly take Ah Mi to go find him. 

Ah Mi happily followed them but ended up getting a sack put over her head. 

“This girl is sure pretty. She will fetch a sky-high price no matter where we sell her.” 

Furious when she heard their words, Ah Mi promptly beat those people up. 

Without any time to react, the baddies were beaten up thoroughly by a little girl who could fly (not fly high in the air for long distance) and ended up getting planted in the ground, exposing only a head as they cried bitterly. 

Bad people! They dare to lie to her when they don’t know her father! 

“You guys can come out when a flower blooms on your heads!” 

Ah Mi had no choice but to go on a search herself. She walked until she was very sleepy. 

By the time it was dusk, she could no longer stay awake and fell asleep on the trunk of a tree at the entrance of a small town. 

Ah Mi was awakened by the sounds of barking dogs.

She looked down and saw several large yellow dogs surrounding the tree, all barking menacingly. 

She peered curiously at the big yellow dogs. They looked a bit like the demon dogs but not quite either. 

Ah Mi looked about and saw a man in gray clothes passing under the tree carrying some prey on his back. 

She nibbled on her soft fingertips and inclined her head as she looked curiously at the man. 

He was very tall. Tall and slender, like a majestic emerald bamboo. The gray clothes didn’t detract from his aura. This is a man who would be noticed immediately even in a crowd. 

Ah Mi had never seen such a person. She felt he is different from Siying, Jingmie, and everyone else she had seen in the demon realm. 

The demonic weapon (the cube thingy) made the dogs uneasy and a whole town of dogs barked in unison. 

The man stopped in his tracks, seemingly sensing something, he raised his eyes to look back at the “trouble source”. 

On the big old tree at the entrance of the town, an exquisitely adorable little girl blinked her watery big round eyes. 

“Do you know my father?” (The father here is reserved for emperors and rulers so it showed Ah Mi’s royal lineage as soon as she spoke.) 

The man looked at her for a moment, from her beautiful and delicate little clothes to the little bell on her ankle, and said expressionlessly “I don’t.” 

After replying, he turned to leave. After taking several steps, the man frowned and turned back. He put down the prey on his back, picked up some rocks on the ground, and chased away the vicious dogs that surrounded the tree.

The dogs barked furiously for a bit but eventually left with tails tug between their legs.

Ah Mi didn’t take her eyes off him. He was very good looking. For mortals, his beauty is almost ethereal. 

He had a tall, thin, well-proportioned figure, with somewhat sickly pale skin. The corners of his eyes are tilted upward, with almost bright red lips. The combination did not give him a feminine feel but on the contrary, gave him a sense of indifference and contempt for the world. 

The man stretched out his hand to her “Come down.”

Although he did not smile, Ah Mi sensed kindness from him. 

In the stories Jingmie used to tell her, mortal children are not allowed to go out at night, and that it would be very dangerous to do so. Naturally, there wouldn’t be any children spending the night in the trees either. 

This person is showing concern for her. 

She stretched her short arms and fell into his arms. 

The man holding her paused, the plump cherub was soft and sweet-smelling. 

His expression became a little odd and puts her down on the ground. 

The little girl is very short, using all her effort to tilt up her head to look at him, looking very cute and a bit comical. 

“It’s almost dark, where are your parents?”

Ah Mi thought for a moment, “Mother went to a far far away place, father…father died.”

The mortals probably would’ve used death to describe souls dissipating.

(As you can tell from these stories, a person’s (be they mortals or immortals) death is not exactly the end since their souls would still exist. Mortal souls would go on to their next lives while immortals will sometimes have a chance to go into the mortal world or regain a body some other way. When they use the phrase “the soul dissipated” then that means even the soul itself is gone. Of course like reading a comic, all those are just a general rule, a character’s death is always as final as the author wants it to be.) 

The man was silent for a moment, “The town is not peaceful after dark. Even if your parents are both away, there are still servants at home, go find them.”

It’s obvious from the kid’s appearance that she came from wealth. The rings and bead strings on her body are all worth a lot of money. 

Ah Mi shook her head, “I am far, far away from home. I came out this time to find my father to bring him back with me.”

He picked up the prey on the ground and coldly responded, “As you wish.” 

Ah Mi looked at the prey on his shoulder curiously. It was a rather thin deer, the blood on the deer’s mouth has not yet dried. The dripping blood stained the ground but the deer fur skin was intact. 

She has always been bold since she was young and did not feel afraid at the sight of blood at all. She looked at the deer with interest until the man left with it. 

Ah Mi was left to wander around the town by herself. 

It was getting dark and every house was lit up with candlelight. 

Ah Mi muttered, “Jingmie said mortals can not fly and can’t cast spells either so I can’t fly in front of them, it would scare them.”

She wandered aimlessly for a long time, but strangely enough, there was a prick of something in her heart that caused her to not want to leave this place. 

As she walked, Ah Mi wiggled her fingers and counted the rules, “And can’t barge into other people’s houses either.”

A few drunken men came staggering through the streets of the town, and when Ah Mi spotted them, they also saw her. 

The drunken men blinked in surprise and were about to come over with a taunting smile when a black shadow in the moonlight enveloped Ah Mi’s body from behind. 

The men looked at each other, sobering up in an instant, “It’s him, let’s go, quickly.”

Ah Mi looked down at her small body being enveloped, turned around, and saw the young man she had met previously by the tree. 

He stared at her with a frown.

Ah Mi blinked her innocent big eyes. 

After a long moment, he picked her up, “Don’t wander around in the street, I will take you to the town office tomorrow.” 

Ah Mi nodded obediently. 

Ah Mi is half demon and demons are naturally born unruly but subservient to power. 

She doesn’t have the words to clearly describe the feeling. Even Jingmie could not necessarily make her listen and obey but she feel inexplicably close to this person in front of her. 

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