Chapter 273: I love you.

But as he stood in the sky floating over the city, he heard a cough come from the inside of his house. He looked down to see nothing had changed. There was no one in sight.

But he felt like he had to check a little closer. So he moved forward to see if he could figure out where the sound had come from, but the closer Haru got to his house, the louder the coughing became until he was close enough to hear someone breathing heavily.

He used his spiritual sense once again to now feel the lifeforce of a woman. Yet, it was fragile. So weak, in fact, that he failed to recognise it at first. But he knew who it was by the amount of Qi that lingered on her body.

He had spent time with Suyin before the battle started, so his Qi had rubbed off of her. So as he sensed the weak life force, he felt her presence nearby.

"Suyin! Where are you?" Haru asked as he dropped down from the hole in the ceiling. He looked around on the ground to see that the rubble had broken through the upper floor of the house and was lining the living room with bricks and sharp wooden beams were splayed out on the floor.

"Where are you?" Haru asked as he searched desperately for Suyin, who was nowhere to be seen.

"Haru?" A weak and feeble voice called out from beneath a large pile of bricks, followed by a cough as a few of them rolled down to the bottom of the pile and put more weight on her.

"It's okay; I'm here!" He shouted as he located where her voice was coming from.

He channelled Qi into his hands before racing over to the pile of bricks and then began to pick them up one by one while throwing them over his shoulder.

"I feel numb," Suyin called out from underneath the pile of bricks once again.

"It's going to be okay now, I promise. I am getting you out of here." Haru yelled as he sped up and pulled the brick off the pile one by one until there was only a few left.

Suyin, who was previously wearing a white dress, was now covered in red. Blood had leaked down from her head and onto the clothes.

"I feel so cold," Suyin complained as she looked up at the silhouette of Haru, who was looking down upon her.

"No, Don't you dare say that. Come on. It's going to be okay." Haru replied and then called out Kun's strength to use his flames to warm her body directly.

Kun's flame was gentle and not too hot, so it soothed the pain as it wrapped around her body, but the light from the fire illuminated her skin and gave Haru a better Idea of what was going on.

The skin on her fingers and elbows was purple and bruised from where she had been trying to crawl out from the rubble, and there was a cut in the back of her head which had dyed her clothes red.

But the most worrying thing was the metal pipe that had punctured her stomach. It looked to be stopping her from bleeding out, so he avoided touching it as he looked down at her with tears in his eyes.

Suyin, on the other hand, gasped as she felt the warmth smother her body. She then looked up to see the tears that were streaming from Haru's eyes. Everything else around her had faded into a soft white colour as she focused entirely on Haru, who was shaking her.

"I can't hear you," Suyin said with a muffled voice as she watched Haru's mouth move without a single sound reaching her ears. It was as if someone had hit the mute button on tv as there wasn't even the sound of her own voice as she spoke.

"Suyin! We're going to pull through this together, okay!? You're going to be just fine. I will take you to the hospital right away!" Haru shouted once again as he looked down at her skin that looked frostbitten and damaged by the cold.

"You know. This is like the dream that I had. I told you about it, didn't I? It was where I was watching you cry in front of me. It was like the world was tearing you away from me. But the only difference was the fact that you left me. You won't leave me here, will you?" Suyin asked as she referred to the dream she had told him about when they met again.

"That's fine, my love. Just keep talking. No matter what happens, keep talking!" Haru's tears now dropped down from his cheek and landed upon hers.

"Please don't cry. However, I can't hear you right now. I can see you perfectly fine. It's going to be okay. I'm not going anywhere either. I will always be with you." Suyin raised her hand up to Haru's cheek and wiped the tears away from his eyes. But as soon as she did, it was replaced by another stream of water that slid down his face.

"Please! Just don't go! Please, you can't do this. Not now! Not ever. Please stay still. I will take you to a hospital." Haru said and began to move his body to make it easier to carry her. But instead, Suyin grabbed his arm.

"Haru, I'm a little bit scared." She said while staring at him.

Haru lowered his head and placed it against hers, and closed his eyes.

"You have nothing to be scared of. I swear I will heal you. Just stay still." Haru smiled with a look of panic on his face. He then lowered his hands over her body and searched deep within his soul to find his strength.

[Essence healing!] Haru shouted out instinctively as he was watching her life fade before his eyes. It was so long ago that he had felt so defenceless that he forgot where he was for a moment a thought he was living in the past.

But as soon as he shouted the name of the spell he once used. A golden light emerged from his hand and enveloped Suyin's body.

She gasped once again as Haru's spell began to work and heal her, but she knew that her time was up. She let out a silent cry and looked at him with nothing but admiration as Haru's tears became more intense.

"I love you so much-" Suyin said while intertwining her fingers with his as her words began to trail off as she looked up into Haru's eyes.

"No! Keep talking to me! Keep talking to me right now!" Haru cried out as he watched the colour fade from her cheeks before drawing her last breath.

"Suyin!?" Haru asked.

"Suyin?!" He asked again with his voice shaking.

[Essence Healing!]

[Essence Healing!]

[Essence Healing!]

[Essence Healing!]

Haru chanted over and over as golden light radiated within his hands, but there was no response.

"Why! WHY HAVE YOU DONE THIS TO ME!? I SWEAR I WILL KILL EVERYONE! I WILL DESTROY YOU ALL!" Haru screamed out with all his might. His voice carried so far that it shook the nearby ocean and created small tidal waves.

He then looked down to his storage ring before taking out the ancestral chain that Li Jun had given to him.

"If they had never come here, then this wouldn't have happened! Why did she have to die like this!?" Haru questioned himself out loud before taking the chain in his hand and beginning to squeeze.

But as soon as he did, he felt something brush against his shoulder as he considered killing billions of demons to take revenge for Suyin's death.

"I love you, Haru." Suyin's voice called out to him as he considered destroying the ancestral chains.

He couldn't do it. No matter how much he wanted to destroy the chains, he couldn't do anything but weep as tears poured from his eyes, and he curled up into a ball next to her and closed his eyes.