Devouring Monarch: Rebirth of the Profane Phoenix - Chapter 380

Chapter 380: The Sister’s Meet – Not So Different!
The moment she appeared, all sound faded enough to hear a pin drop. Mu Xue’s eyes widened. At first, she opened her lips. However, no words came out as her pupils darted around Mu Yue’s figure as if lost in confusion.

‘How?’

Mu Xue’s mind felt like someone smashed it with a hammer. Her hands were trembling while lost in confusion and shock.

The beautiful woman also seemed frozen. Her eyes were much larger, and her face a little more rounded and cute, but it was obvious the pair shared a relationship. She swallowed her saliva before trying to speak, yet her throat only released a slight croak.

‘Is she really Mu Yue, that cute girl with a chubby face?’

While the two seemed stunned, Asura used his hands to gain the attention of the other women. Asura signalled for them to move to another room. His gaze at the two became complicated. Yet he didn’t wish to ruin what seemed to be an important reunion.

‘Get ready to leave, let them have some privacy.’ He mouthed, which the maids noticed and began to take action, guiding the girls to the secondary exit through the side room.

Xavida and Lucia seemed interested in the drama, but Lorem grabbed them both by the neck and dragged them out.

“Ugh…”

“Damn brute…”

“Shh!”

After that, Helliana looked at the pair before she gazed at Asura with a faint smile. The meaning was a little beyond his understanding—however, the one with a confused look was Verana. “…”

Asura could tell something had happened from the way her eyes closed, her brows furrowed, and she started biting her lips, emitting a worried expression.

Before he could ask her, she grabbed his hand, pulling him into another room while Valerie and Amalia left the room with their eyes shining. It seemed the pair liked drama.

The moment everyone else left the room, the maids shut the doors and gave the two complete privacy after leaving two drinks and small snacks on the table, only sandwiches, but there was enough for both women to nibble on during their discussion.

“Ahem!” Mu Xue noticed the speed at which Asura cleared the room. Her lips curled into a faint smile as she looked in the direction he vanished.

Thanks to that, she felt a little more confident.

‘If this is Mu Yue then I should at least learn what happened, the truth of that night. Maybe she knows more.’

“Mu Yue…? Is that really you?” Mu Xue’s voice became soft. Her eyes flickered with tears as she looked different from the woman her sister might remember.

“Mu Xue? Big sister, is that really you… your hair… and eyes… they are different, and you seem so strange.” Mu Yue’s throat dried up. Her voice cracked, but her heart was pounding like a drum.

The pair could see the other’s eyes become emotional. Their faces were already a little flushed, and Mu Yue’s lip trembled before she covered her mouth, a feeling she never expected.

Sometimes, she thought about hating her sister, a supposed genius yet unable to save their parents. Then, she missed her uncontrollably and would cry and lament her death… Yet here, the beautiful and graceful woman with silky blue hair and azure eyes with the same face as her, a little sharper with a more defined chin and narrower cheeks.

Mu Yue wanted to hate her and blame her for abandoning her, yet seeing Mu Xue alive and well, her chest hurt, and her eyes misty. Unable to focus, her hands were shaking, her legs felt like jelly, and her emotions were surging. “I thought you were dead!”

‘This cute girl, her stern gaze was a lie… She always liked to pretend things didn’t hurt when she fell or got told off by the adults.’ Mu Xue thought.

“You disappeared that night… I tried to save you, but you were gone.” Mu Xue’s voice quivered as the cute girl she remembered became a gorgeous young woman.

That night, Mu Xue tried to fight back the strange masked men with swords and strange bottles with purple mist. Now she knew those bottles were sleeping and paralytic agents, and once she exhausted herself, even Mu Xue collapsed due to them in the middle of the burning flames. After that, a strange elder pulled her from the flames, and the last she remembered, she found herself in the Phoenix Glade.

Mu Xue’s words caused Mu Yue to shudder. She remembered little that night, only a strange purple mist that made her feel sleepy. Then, she woke up in the main mansion to the scary figure of the emperor and his warriors cutting off the heads of her beloved parents, grandparents and all the kind aunts and uncles before they made her accept to become their shadow—otherwise, she would die.

Not to mention, they burned her body to make sure she could never leave or seek a normal life.

Mu Yue’s eyes reddened, remembering her painful past.

“I thought you died, big sister… I tried to escape, but the fire burned everything. An old man saved me. I only found out years later about the true people behind the massacre, and I thought you had died. By the time my wounds healed, almost five years had passed.” Mu Xue’s voice sounded frustrated as she forced the words out, as if reliving those moments, her eyes turning red and hands pale from how tightly she gripped them.

Mu Yue bit her lips, hearing Mu Xue’s account, yet she said little about herself. Mu Xue guessed something horrible must have happened to Mu Yue because she came to the academy with Shang Luo and wore the outfit of the Emerald guards. However, she didn’t have any blame because they both assumed the other had died.

‘How do I comfort her… When I don’t know how to comfort myself without his help…’ Mu Xue felt like a horrible failure of a sister. She wanted to reach out but felt the guilt of a decade of not even knowing the truth.

“I was scared, big sister… They burned the manor, killed everyone, and scarred me. I didn’t know what happened to you. I couldn’t return home, so I lived like a rat, as those beasts slave… I killed so many people. Our families swordsmanship used to kill innocent men, women and…”

“—It’s okay, you don’t need to say more!”

Mu Xue found her body wrapped around the shivering Mu Yue, her hands pale blue. It seemed out of sheer desire to protect her sister to stop this topic. She entered her half-devil state, the cold arms and her blue skin causing Mu Yue’s mood to shift from self-hatred to confusion once again.

“Big sister… did you complete the clan’s special art!?”

Mu Yue couldn’t believe it. The clan’s special art was a profound technique that required a mix of human blood and devils.

The resulting transformation depends on the user’s element, but only two women in the past could achieve this level of completion in their families five thousand years of existence.

This caused Mu Yue to be surprised because the Mu family had two special arts, one related to swordsmanship that she inherited and the other which she knew nothing about, the devil transformation, which caused the Shang family to slay their family.

“No, this is not thanks to my efforts, but Asura… He saved me, gave me a reason to keep living and then helped me surpass my weak self, and this is the result.”

Mu Xue’s arms held Mu Yue. Her words caused a strange surge of emotion. She felt Asura’s hand in her recovery, which made her happy and a little jealous, but she was happy her sister had someone to support her.

The strange feeling she felt when he hugged her and the healing of her breasts when she remembered that blazing fire. Mu Yue realised that her sister likely suffered the same wounds as she did, maybe worse because she was old enough to join the defenders to fight.

“Isn’t he a monster? The documents I saw say he has lots of women and…” Before Mu Yue could continue, Mu Xue interrupted her with a stern gaze, her lips pouting as she placed a finger on her little sister’s lips.

“He is a man who can love us all, though he still hasn’t mastered everything. We can all see and feel his attempts to love us despite being imperfect. Never will he leave us alone or let us suffer, like now… because he worried about me, he cleared the room for us.”

Mu Xue’s words made Mu Yue feel confused.

The documents painted him as something far different… A monster, violent and addicted to women. She believed it because of the kiss, but seeing her sister so close up and the dark passage she stood in when it happened made her realise it was an honest mistake.

However, Mu Yue still felt a little awkward and jealous, which caused her cheeks to heat up and her lips to pout, her eyes glaring at Mu Xue.

“So you like him?” Her memories of that enchanting kiss made her feel a sense of hostility, but she couldn’t hate her sister even if her emotions told her to; the cold logic and her mind reminded her of the chaos of that night.

“I love him.” Mu Xue didn’t pause. Her words were filled with conviction and pride. Mu Yue felt her lips quiver and cheeks burn. “You seem to like him too, right?”

Mu Xue’s words caused Mu Yue’s eyes to shake. Her sister’s calm stare and the faint blush reminded her of the kiss, which caused her heart to skip a beat.

“I can see his magic is still floating around you; these eyes are a little unfair. They tell me who Asura has kissed, touched or made love to, and it makes me so jealous, but to think you’ve already kissed and for a long time… At least fifteen minutes, right?”

Mu Xue’s teasing made Mu Yue’s ears burn. Her face turned a deep red as her lips pursed. She glared at her older sister, yet her voice couldn’t come out.

“Sorry…”

“Don’t be sorry. That man probably thought you were me, but when he realised, he didn’t stop, right?” Mu Xue’s words made Mu Yue recall his lips, the pleasant taste of his tongue and the eyes which saw her clearly and his tongue assault.
Her emotions were mixed because it was her first kiss, and better than any kiss she could ever imagine, but now, her heart felt a little complicated.

Mu Yue gave a nod, her cheeks turning bright red. “He did, but I also…”

Mu Xue smiled faintly. She stroked her sister’s cheek and used her hand to lift Mu Yue’s head. Their eyes met, and Mu Xue’s fingers caressed her little sister’s soft, chubby cheeks. “What am I going to do with you? There’s no going back if you’ve felt that pleasure…”

Mu Yue felt her sister’s touch, which caused her cheeks to flush. Her sister’s teasing made her feel naughty like she was only a nine-year-old girl making trouble in their garden again… “Wuu…”

Mu Yue bit her lips, her eyes watering. “Big sister… I missed you…”

“I missed you too, Yue’Er. But don’t change the subject, you naughty little thieving cat!”

Mu Xue’s words caused Mu Yue’s heart to jump as her lips parted. She thought her sister was truly mad until looking up and watching her sister’s face break into complete laughter.

“Hahahaha… oh my… your face, it’s so cute.”