Chapter 860: Chapter 778: She Shouldn’t Belong to Anyone
Moon Demon Territory Center City, outskirts.
Under Gray’s guidance, Shane followed in his footsteps and arrived in a wilderness.
Roaring sounds echoed here and there, indicating that many demons were active here.
Yet Shane and Gray proceeded as if no one else was there, ignoring the numerous demons, heading directly into the wilderness.
Seeing Gray intending to go further, Shane stopped in his tracks.
“Alright, let’s stop here.”
Shane spoke up.
Gray immediately stopped and fell in front of Shane.
Shane didn’t stand on ceremony, looking at the back of the former prince, directly saying, “What do you want from me?”
Although this was a question, Shane had already guessed the other party’s intention.
Perhaps Gray was also aware in his heart, as he did not turn around but spoke.
“I said, I want to talk to you.”
Gray’s voice was particularly heavy.
“What does the prince want to talk to me about?”
Shane asked indifferently.
“…You know.” Gray was silent for a long moment before saying, “I abandoned everything and came here for one person.”
The implication was that the matters he cared about were only related to this person.
But Shane didn’t cooperate with him.
“What does this have to do with me?”
Shane calmly pointed out.
“Does it have nothing to do with you?” Gray finally turned, staring at Shane, and said, “Stop pretending, Hero Shane, you know I want to talk about Lady Xiafunie.”
As expected, Gray sought out Shane for Xiafunie.
Shane could naturally guess the reason.
“Because I’ve gotten too close to Xiafunie, you couldn’t resist warning me, is that right?”
Shane’s tone was slightly sarcastic.
“That’s not what I mean.” Gray frowned, staring straight at Shane, and said, “I just want to know what’s going on between you and that lady?”
Gray had pondered this question for a whole half a month but couldn’t figure it out.
He truly didn’t understand.
“Why did you suddenly become so close with that lady? Just because you’re her brother-in-law?” Gray shook his head, saying, “I can tell that’s not the main reason.”
“So what?” Shane answered with a question: “Are you trying to learn from me, to know how to get close to Xiafunie?”
“…I said, that’s not what I mean.” Gray’s tone showed unexplainable fluctuations.
Shane knew this prince’s mentality might already be unstable.
But Shane still didn’t care about his feelings.
No choice.
“Then what do you mean?” Shane straightforwardly said: “Suddenly asking me out to talk about Xiafunie, if it’s not about my interactions with her, then what is it about?”
Shane could somewhat see through Gray’s current mood.
“You see the distance between me and Xiafunie getting so close that it unsettles you, so you couldn’t resist coming to see me, right?”
Shane voiced Gray’s feelings.
His feelings were quite simple.
“You’re envious, maybe even jealous, feeling that your efforts of over twenty years can’t match a newcomer who’s only been in the Demon Realm for a month. You’re unwilling to accept it, right?”
Shane directly tore off Gray’s mask.
Gray had nothing to say, only his increasingly clenched fist indicated that his emotions were far from calm.
Shane’s gaze towards Gray gradually filled with sympathy.
“I say, Prince, you should also realize reality by now.”
Shane showed no mercy with his words.
“You and Xiafunie have no possibility.”
Those simple words directly pierced Gray’s heart.
His breathing became heavy, and his magic power gradually surged out, causing a slight humming in the air.
As if unaware, Shane continued speaking.
“In over twenty years, you haven’t even managed to enter her sight, and she has no interest in you or most people in this world. Do you think you can truly win her over?”
The harshest reality was laid bare by Shane.
This was the thing Gray least wanted to face.
He wasn’t a fool, nor an idiot, how could he not see that with the current situation, even if he invested another twenty, thirty, forty years, or his entire life, it would be impossible for him to be looked at by that lady even once?
Xiafunie’s indifference and callousness towards those she has no interest in is known to all.
Countless heroes and legends throughout history are examples.
They gave everything for this woman, but who actually achieved their desire?
Don’t even mention fulfilling their desires, it’s a luxury just to get Xiafunie to glance at them.
Among countless people, he’s just a tiny and insignificant one.
Thus, his so-called infatuation brings him nothing.
Of course, while this is painful, it still hasn’t made Gray feel desperate.
After all, if everyone can’t have it, why not spend his life on this unforgettable love?
Gray no longer dared to hope for Chafne’s favor, just wished to be close enough to see her figure and hear her voice, and that would be enough.
Anything else, he really didn’t dare to wish for too much.
Originally, he was prepared to live like this for the rest of his life.
However, Shane’s arrival broke this peace.
Watching this junior Hero getting closer to that lady in less than a month and the atmosphere becoming more ambiguous, Gray’s mentality directly lost balance.
If no one can have it, then he could naturally accept his own rejection calmly.
But if someone successfully touches his wish, he naturally cannot maintain peace.
No one wants to see the woman they love held in another man’s arms.
Especially when this woman is the most beautiful in the world, known as the first beauty of the Three Realms, the Alluring Demoness that countless heroes and villains bow to. Such a person, if achieved by someone else, even an irrelevant man would feel envy and jealousy, let alone the admirers who were already captivated.
Gray was like this, increasingly unable to calmly watch all of this, seeing Shane and Chafne getting closer, finally couldn’t suppress the anxiety in his heart, and came to Shane.
What he wanted to do was actually very simple.
“…I know, someone like me would not be noticed by that lady.” Gray said in a low voice, “But you already have Anxi’s daughter, Dragon Demon Lord, and I even heard you have other intimate female friends. Isn’t that enough?”
Yes, Gray just wanted to tell Shane that he should be satisfied and not touch those he shouldn’t.
However…
“This is indeed a warning to me, right?” Shane said increasingly sarcastically, “But don’t you think you’re meddling too much, Prince Lord?”
Honestly, it was at this moment that Shane truly started to look down on Gray.
Originally, Gray was someone who for a woman he couldn’t attain, actively abandoned his hometown, abandoned his loved ones, and even abandoned his country to come to the unfamiliar Demon Realm, willingly staying for more than twenty years just to catch a glimpse of her.
If put nicely, it’s called passionate, brutally, it’s just a pathetic sycophant.
If he could win the beauty, it would be another case, but Gray just to see her more often, discarded the country and people who had high hopes for him—these actions are the epitome of pathetic.
But if one chooses to grovel, Shane wouldn’t say anything since it doesn’t concern him, he at least gave Gray enough face, treating him as an elder.
But the moment he, while sycophanting, tried to meddle in Shane’s affairs, Shane truly didn’t feel the need to be polite.
“Only because you are an elder of the Luoqi family did I give you some face, but ultimately, you’ve abandoned your country and loved ones, so I may not owe you this face, understand?”
Shane was very straightforward.
“What do you mean?”
Gray’s expression turned extremely unsightly.
“I mean it simply.” Shane said bluntly, “We originally had no intersection; I won’t meddle in your affairs and hope you won’t meddle in mine.”
After speaking, Shane turned around to leave.
“Wait!”
Gray suddenly flashed behind Shane and grabbed his left shoulder.
“Let go!”
Shane’s left shoulder shook violently, shaking off Gray’s hand.
But Gray didn’t retreat; instead, he exerted more strength, grabbing Shane’s right shoulder.
And with this grab, coldness surged in Gray’s heart.
Because…
“I’ll say it again, let go.”
Shane did not shake him off again, just said this one sentence.
His tone was calm but made one’s heart palpitate.
Gray involuntarily felt the urge to let go.
But he held back.
Since it had been said to this point, Gray naturally wouldn’t easily let go.
“I’ll say it once more.” Gray said in a low voice, “That lady shouldn’t belong to anyone; she should forever sit atop the clouds, admired but untouchable, never dragged from those clouds.”
“Is that so?” Shane said calmly, “It disappoints you that she should be pulled down from the pedestal?”
“No.” Gray’s tone gradually calmed down too, immediately saying, “It’s just that if she is brought down, then people like us who originally couldn’t touch her would have the chance to.”
Seated on the pedestal, none could touch, all is well.
But when the Goddess descends, falls from the pedestal, anyone can reach out and touch.
Under such circumstances, what would happen is evident.
That is, everyone would go mad to snatch, to seize.
Gray didn’t want to seize.
He just wanted to put the Goddess back on the pedestal, let her remain atop the clouds, forever unattainable.
Back to the point.
“She shouldn’t belong to anyone.” Gray said word by word, “Including you.”
Upon hearing this, Shane laughed.
Laughed extremely mockingly.
“A self-righteous sycophant.”
Terrifying magic power surged from Shane.
“Get out!”