22 Ni Ya’s confession (1/2)
This Ni Ya… Ever since she was saved for the second time, she had suddenly become even more abusive towards him.
For the sake of diverting Ni Ya’s attention from the flesh at his waist that was about to be torn apart, Fatty racked his brain before finally holding onto Ni Ya’s hands, as no good idea came to mind. With an expression of lewdness as he touched her hands, he asked, “I think it’s time for you to tell us how you got captured over there.”
Ni Ya’s hands were grabbed by the fatty. Seeing the lecherous way he touched them, her face started to blush. Rolling her eyes, she did pull her hands away; instead, she let him have his way with it. “Mei Duo and I were initially on a transport ship that was about to fly back to New Rome. I’m sure you know of this. Before the transport ship would be able to reach New Rome, it would have to go through enemy territory. At the moment when we started to enter the atmospheric layer, the enemy’s fighter aircrafts caught onto us. Our escort fighter aircrafts were heavily outnumbered and were soon destroyed. Still, they helped us delay the enemy, allowing two of the transport ships that went with us to escape. However, because the reverse-gravity system on our ship was destroyed, we couldn’t exit the atmospheric layer and had to descend instead. Ever since then, we’ve become prisoners-of-war of the enemy’s ground forces and have been imprisoned in that concentration camp.”
Fatty had not thought that Ni Ya would actually let him have his way with her without any thoughts of resistance. For a moment, he was dazed as his hands felt like boiling sweet potatoes — he did not know whether to throw it or not.
As Ni Ya continued recounting her experiences, the agonizing emotions from her experience in the concentration camp bursted out, causing her to quieten down. Only after a while did she finally continue softly, “Everyday, they would grab some of us to aid in their experiments. These experiments were conducted right in front of all of us. If we died, they would just throw us to the side. Nobody truly knew who would be next and when it would be their turn. Initially, everyone still discussed about how we should escape, yet we did not succeed in the least. Instead, more people had been killed. Finally, the enemy started increasing their guard, and at that point of time, we have all given up. That’s how we passed through day by day, wondering if we can see the sun again tomorrow.”
This agonizing recollection finally broke Ni Ya down. Tears started gushing out from her eyes as they fell onto the metal surface of the carriage, producing sounds of “pa da”.
“Whenever I had my meals, I would try to savor every last bit in my mouth, thinking that it is going to be my very last meal. When I had nothing to do, I’ll use my hands to touch the soil, the metal fence, my clothes, my hair, my body…” The moment she mentioned her body, Ni Ya’s face turned red. She bit her lips and tried to turn away her face secretly so that Fatty could not see it.
“I like this feeling. The feelings I get from my touch lets me realize that I’m still alive. I want to remember each and every single feeling before I die because when I die, I’ll never ever be able to see, never be able to hear, never be able to touch.” “Wuu wuu” Ni Ya’s soundless tears finally became a loud cry along with Mei Duo, who was sobbing quietly by her side. The two sobbing women buried their face within Fatty’s embrace.
“I do not want to die. I’m afraid of becoming an ugly corpse that is piled together with the others, allowing for those insects to fly over my body. I am truly scared… and thinking about this… I truly feel like turning myself into smoke and ashes. At least if I disappear from the world in this manner, nobody would be able to see my ugly state.”
Fatty felt his emotions collapse. Facing this woman that was as beautiful as life itself, he truly could not understand her thinking. Maybe, the cuteness from women originated from this aspect of unreasonable prejudice.
Seeing how Ni Ya was crying as if raindrops on a pear blossom, Fatty could not help but feel heartache. He held onto her and comforted her, “Alright alright, if you cry even more, then you won’t become beautiful anymore. Aren’t you safe right now?”
Ni Ya wiped her tears in his embrace before saying, “At that time, I started thinking... thinking about the happy experiences I had in the past few years. The more I thought, the more I felt that we should have just stayed hidden deep in the mountains when we escaped that time and pass our days there. That is so much better. My mind just continued thinking and thinking, and my heart was telling me…”
Fatty did not discover that Ni Ya’s eyes had turned so red that it started to become warm. He just blurted out, “What did your heart tell you?”
Ni Ya’s tone became very shy. She lightly nibbled on her lips before saying, “My heart tells me that if you were to come and save me, I should wed myself to you. Even if I die, I’ll still wed myself to you.”
Fatty became petrified. Mei Duo, who was in his embrace, started trembling as well as she lightly said by his ears, “Me too!”
The atmosphere became awkward and ambiguous. Fatty painfully thought to himself, “Dear lord, the next time you want to grant me luck with the ladies, please do it separately, alright? Don’t just throw everything at me in one go.”
As he was letting his imagination run wild, he heard from Ni Ya again, “I like the feeling of pinching you. That feeling on my fingers makes me feel really safe since I know that you are by my side. I think it’s worth it even if I die, as long as I can pinch you once every day.” Fatty was so shocked that he jumped out and shouted, “No way! What kind of nonsense craving is this? I absolutely reject!”
Ni Ya ignored the fatty’s forceful rejection. She simply continued talking to herself, “That’s why I must marry myself to you. Who asked you to come and save me? You must promise me that every time when I wake up in bed, I can lightly pinch you just once. If you don’t promise me, then I’ll always stay by your side and keep pinching you until you promise me.”