I'm really not the Saviour! (我唔係救主囖!) [danmei/BL xuanhuan]

19 - Where's the MC gone?

Here we go! I managed to get together the chapter. Sorry for the delay, everyone following along at home!

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"Cheng Si-mui?"

"Oh, Gou Si-hing. How are you?"

Two days before they were due to leave, Gou Dzing stepped into the room where Cheng Baak-hap had been secluding herself, almost immediately stepping on piles of paper that were strewn across the floor. The young woman herself sat in the middle of them, her head resting on one hand. Or perhaps more accurately, her head was clutched in her hand – stray hairs escaped her long plait from where she had been excessively rubbing her head.

"You sound tired, and you look pale. Take a break."

"I wish I could, but there's so much that still needs to be done. I've been trying to read all of the research that exists on demons, but... urgh, who wrote this? It sounds like a small child going on a school trip around the neighbourhood! And there's hardly any information..."

"So if there's hardly anything, you won't find more if you keep staring. Come on, Cheng Si-mui, you look exhausted. You can't start such an important expedition like this."

She put down the document she had been holding and rubbed at the back of her hands anxiously. The skin was pink and raw looking, as if she had been doing the same thing over and over.

"What's wrong?"

"What do you mean, what's wrong?"

"Don't be like that. I think I've known you long enough to tell when something's wrong."

"I-"

"Cheng Baak-hap, what- Oh, Disciple Gou Dzing, how are you?"

"Disciple Gou Dzing greets Lady Maan Dzi King."

"Master, not Lady."

"Apologies, Master."

Maan Dzi King flowed through the room without disturbing a single page on the floor to deposit even more on what could be seen of the table. "I see you have broken though to the Third Daan-tin."

"Huh? Gou Si-hing, when did you...?"

"See?" Even in the gloomy interior of the underground room, gold shimmered in Gou Dzing's eyes.

"Amazing." Cheng Baak-hap grabbed Gou Dzing's face and stared into his eyes with professional curiosity. "Has Gaam Si-hing seen them yet?"

"Actually, I have no idea where he is. I thought you might know."

"Gaam Yuk Ying has been given a task, as you all have," Maan Dzi King said archly. Her finger impatiently tapped the pile of pages she had just brought. "Disciple Gou Dzing, I'm afraid we're a little busy here."

"When was the last time you took a break, Master Maan?"

"There is no need."

"Perhaps not for you, Master, but Cheng Si-mui-"

"Are you telling me how to teach my own disciple, Gou Dzing?"

"Master Maan, you are a dragon with centuries of experience and wisdom. I have been on this earth less than three decades. If there is some great plan that I am failing to grasp due to my inexperience, I beg you to enlighten me, because I do not understand why you will not permit-"

"No, you don't understand. And you probably never will. I know your type."

Gou Dzing stared at her in utter confusion. "Master Maan-"

"You're dismissed."

"Mast-"

"Leave."

Gou Dzing and Cheng Baak-hap exchanged bewildered looks. Maan Dzi King's powerful aura washed over them, making Cheng Baak-hap shiver and back up against a wall. Gou Dzing's Earth nature was holding him in better condition, but he was still only a human who had broken through to his Third Daan-tin.