"Sis, did you hit him too hard? Did you kill him?" the girl with purple pupils quietly asked her sister.
"How would I know? He was screaming so loudly, it was really annoying," the sister replied, pouting in frustration.
"How do we wake him up?"
"Well, why do we need to wake him up? If anyone finds out about what happened between you two, he'll still be dead!"
"Just don't say anything, it's fine," the girl with purple pupils said nonchalantly.
"If you're willing, then I'll agree. I won't lose anything anyway." The younger sister didn't care about her own reputation, so what was there for her to worry about?
"Okay!"
The cold water glided across my cheeks, stimulating my skin cells.
"Ugh..." I just opened my eyes and I was met with those same purple eyes. If we made eye contact, we would surely fall back into the hallucination from earlier, so I instinctively closed my eyes.
"Sorry..." The girl gently averted her eyes, her expression filled with sadness. I felt like I had done something wrong.
"Aren't you leaving this place?" I was curious why they were here. It's rare for adults to come to this place, so why were there two girls here?
"We don't want to!" The girl with purple pupils seemed to not want to say more. Simple words were enough to express her meaning.
"I'm sorry for earlier... ummm... I feel guilty about your gaze!"
"It's not your fault!"
"But..."
"My sister has innate illusion eyes. Anyone who makes eye contact with her will unconsciously fall into an illusion. However, the type of illusion depends on the person's inner self. So, the illusions that person sees will be different from others'!"
Does the bloody scene I saw reflect my true nature?
"You were so agitated earlier, I guess you saw something dreadful!" The sister's cute face leaned towards me, her gaze fixed on me intently. Both of these sisters were really beautiful. The situation was chaotic earlier, so I didn't have a chance to properly see them.
"You're not a bad person, are you?" The girl's suspicious gaze clearly showed her doubt towards me.
"Do I look like a bad person?"
"Umm... not really!" The girl looked at me and said.
"Shadow!" The girl with purple pupils suddenly said quietly.
"Huh? What did she say?" These two words almost killed me.
"My sister said you're psychologically shadowed! How rare, a pervert!"
"You're the one who's a pervert, I'm perfectly normal!" What should I do, I felt a little guilty??
"You're very guilty!" Stop looking at me like that, I won't admit that I'm a pervert, absolutely not.
The girl with purple pupils tugged at her sister's clothes. "Clothes, uncomfortable!" Her clothes were soaked, completely wet. The light purple fabric was already see-through!
"Do you know fire magic? Can you ignite things?"
"I can ignite a stick!" The sister proudly said, "Don't you know magic?"
"I... don't know!" I said and ran towards the bushes, picking up scattered dry branches on the ground. But when I woke up, I already felt that my connection with the elements had become extremely weak, almost nonexistent. Originally, my mother was going to take me for an attribute test in a few days to prepare for elementary school, but now...
I propped up the branches and had the girl light them on fire. Then I took off my clothes and found two branches to hang them up to dry.
"You should take yours off too! They will dry faster that way!" I said to the shivering girl, who was probably feeling cold. If she didn't dry off properly, she would definitely get sick.
"Hey hey, how can my sister just strip like that!" The older sister grumbled, blocking me.
"Does it matter? My mother said it doesn't matter for children!" It wasn't a big deal, so why was she making such a fuss?
"Swoosh swoosh~" The girl with purple pupils quickly took off her clothes. I glanced at her from the corner of my eye. With her clothes covering her chest, her pink arms were exposed, unexpectedly making my heart beat faster. It made me feel like a pervert~~~ Ugh, who would say that they're a pervert themselves, really!
"You stripped so easily, little sis!!" The older sister also took off her beige shirt and looked pretty while doing it. She covered her sister with the shirt.
"Cold, hungry..." The girl with purple pupils had been staring elsewhere the whole time, never looking at us. Her eyes looked formidable, but the girl seemed very lonely.
"I'll go find something to eat!" I stood up and was about to search for something edible when I passed by the girl with purple pupils. Suddenly, she grabbed my hand."Thank you for saving me!" the girl said softly, her gaze still fixed on somewhere else.
"It's nothing, just a small matter!" he smiled at the girl and walked away.
"Then I'll go pick mushrooms!" the girl's sister said happily.
Damn, mushrooms? Do you even know which ones are edible?
"You'd better not go, just stay with your sister!" This girl doesn't seem reliable at all. My father taught me some survival skills, he said they would come in handy in the future, but I didn't believe him. Now I can only regret not learning more, or else I wouldn't have to worry so much.
"No, I want to go pick mushrooms!" The girl turned around and ran off in a huff.
"What kind of sister is she? How could she just abandon her own sister like that?" He turned to look at the girl sitting by the fire, wrapped in a coat, warming her hands by the flames. Her disheveled hair gave her a fresh and innocent look, making her appear very adorable.
"She's always like this," she replied.
"Alright then, I'll go fishing next to the river. Don't wander off, there could be all sorts of wild animals and monsters!" My mother used to tell me stories before bed about encountering monsters in the jungle, it was quite scary.
"Okay!" This girl is really cold, and doesn't say much.
So, he found some worms by the river to use as bait, and used his belt as a fishing line. He started fishing by the river like this.
My father used to love fishing. Whenever he took me along, it would take up the whole day. But my father has always been busy, often away from home. It's already a happy thing to have a whole day to go fishing, but I don't think I'll have that kind of time again.
"By the way, how did you end up in this jungle?" Fishing alone is boring, so he could only chat with this cold girl.
"Escaped from marriage!"
"Escaped from marriage? Aren't you too young to get married?"
"It's my sister!"
"She escaped from marriage, that's possible! Is she very unhappy about it? We caught a fish!" Chatting while fishing is really nice.
"She hasn't even met the other person yet!"
"Not meeting doesn't mean it's not good. It's like there's this thing called an engagement, my mother talked about marriage, I don't understand at all! Is it any different from playing house?"
"I don't know!"
"Then why did you run away too? You don't seem like someone who would do something brainless like that!" It's hard to imagine this quiet girl leaving home for someone else's reason.
"I hate it!"
"Huh?"
"People, never take me seriously!" The girl huddled by the fire, her eyes filled with loneliness.
"But there are people who take you seriously...uh, sorry!" Unable to make eye contact with others, perhaps it's because of her naturally purple eyes. Anyone who makes eye contact with her will fall under her illusion, who dares to look?
"A lot of people at home said..." The girl suddenly choked up.
"What happened? Are you being mistreated by your family?"
"The queen mother died because of my eyes!" The girl silently shed tears.
Queen mother? Is she a member of the royal family?
"After that, no one wanted to look at me anymore!"
"Come here!"
"Huh?" The girl shook her head, seeming reluctant.
"It's okay, come here, sit next to me!" He ran over and forcefully pulled the girl over. The girl sat down next to him, wiping away her tears.
"Look! In the water!"
The girl opened her eyes and looked at her reflection in the water.
"You see, haven't we already made eye contact now?"
In the reflection in the water, our gazes met without planning.
The refracted reflection didn't trap me in an illusion. At first, I was afraid that even the reflection would create an illusion, but it seems that it's not the case.
"Thank you!" The girl looked at her reflection, though it couldn't compare to a real eye contact, it fulfilled a dream for her.
For the first time, a smile appeared on the girl's icy face.