《Peerless Hegemon [OLD]》4. Twin
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Ye Feng's cries were long, but it soon stopped as he came to accept his current self. He sniffled and calmed down as he found himself rocking side to side with gentleness and care.
His emotions had been all over the place as it had been eons since he last felt something in his heart other than dedication, but now that he regained himself, he was left with deeper emotions that he had not had before.
= "There, there, everything's all right, just a little bit more and you'll be in your mother's embrace." =
Ye Feng failed to understand their words, but the comforting tone behind it managed to pierce his rigid heart. His void soul was filled with a little bit of warmth.
'Is this your doing, Aether?'
He asked but got no answer. But as silence returned to him, he heard the loud cries of a woman giving birth. With great difficulty, he turned to the side and saw an old bed and a beautiful young woman going through labor.
He watched in silence and worry. He got used to the light and quickly regained his vision. He was being held by a middle-aged woman. She was smiling, and her worn-out clothes suggested that she was not of high-birth.
Ye Feng had just been born, yet the process was yet to be over. He was the first child, and the second had yet to be delivered.
His twin was born moments later, the screams ended, and his twin was born.
= "It's a girl…hmmm?" = the woman announced happily with a smile. She celebrated as she wrapped the second child in a blanket.
All the commotion was something Ye Feng failed to comprehend. Despite knowing everyone in the previous Universe, he was now left with a deep sense of loss as he was unable to understand even the words of these people.
He was in the same plane of existence yet a different one at the same time.
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The ragged breathing of a woman was heard, but something felt weird as the second child did not let out a cry.
The midwives found this weird, and so did Ye Feng. From what he knows, it was an innate reaction for a child to cry out when they were born; that was why he didn't mind crying earlier.
'If they do not cry, then their lungs would not expand, and the liquids inside would not come out…'
Pak! Pak! Pak!
= "You should cry, little one." =
He watched as his twin's behind received was spank. His twin cried aloud, and Ye Feng let out a sigh of relief, and as he did, he realized that he managed to show another form of emotion, anxiety and care.
It made him feel weird once more, but rediscovering them was not unpleasant. He was not aware of what form of influence Aether had with his rebirth, but he had no complaint.
= "Ava, are you, all right?" =
When everything calmed down Ye Feng was handed over to a woman as he was finished cleaning.
= "My children…" =
Ye Feng got a good look of his mother. She was youthful and beautiful. She had black hair and eyes. When she got a hold of Ye Feng, and she held onto him with great gentleness.
A man then burst into the room. It was a muscular man wearing ragged clothing. He saw Ava with their child, and his tears fell.
= "Noah, come, see our children." =
Ye Feng did not understand what was happening, but considering how the man reacted, he should be his father. He did not know his name, but this man was smiling from ear to ear.
The man received Ye Feng and was then raised up. He was told off by the Midwives and had to return the child to Ava's embrace.
= "What should we name them?" = Ava asked Noah.
Noah thought long and hard before giving an answer.
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= "The older brother should be named Kiel, and the little sister is Ame… what do you think?" =
= "I think it is wonderful." = Ava smiled as she looked at her children.
Ye Fend did not know what kind of conversation they had, nor did he know that he now had a different name. He was still trying to cope with the unfamiliar emotions resurging inside him.
A foreign kind of warmth that had been missing all throughout Ye Feng's long life had appeared. He, who had nothing but his own thoughts of survival felt something opening in his heart.
Was it the doing of Aether again? It didn't matter for Ye Feng accepted them. He had been enlightened with the ways of the world, and he had seen the peak of everything.
He who couldn't feel anything felt the greatest warmth one could have. This feeling was greater than any kind of enlightenment he underwent, it was better than surviving a Tribulation and much better than seeing the Truth.
Finally, the voice of Aether rang out inside his head, "Experts of all ages focuses on one goal and forgets everything else, yet one way or the other connections must be created. Understanding emotions is not a weakness but a strength. Even a scheming devil must first know how envy feels to trick a Mortal. If one abandons all emotion, then one cannot form a true path to enlightenment — they are no better than a doll."
Ye Feng understood this fact… he was someone who tried filling his soul with something by walking two opposite paths. He did all that he thought was the prerequisite of becoming Righteous and saved everyone.
He then did what is considered evil and killed without batting an eye. He had no morals and only directed himself in achieving what is needed to be done, and in both these paths, he ended up without direction and left them.
What he lacked were passion and drive, and the only semblance of such a thing only came in the form of his incessant pursuit of salvation. The moment he realized that he, Ye Feng was the answer to the Truth he was seeking, it was all too late.
He abandoned everything, and the moment he killed his emotion as the moment, he became the corpse that everyone feared and loved.
He had no tears, but the emotion was welling up within him.
With his emotions opening up and Aether experiencing them, their intents became one and the same — live.
All the while Ye Feng was pre-occupied with letting out his emotions by crying his heart out, Ava seemed to have taken note of his reaction as she disrobed herself.
She had both breasts out as she fed Ye Feng and the newborn Ame.
Ye Feng may have found a sense of emotion, but he never had any form of dignity nor pride thus he didn't feel anything as he fed on Ava's breastmilk.
However, he did find something odd, because as he opened his eyes, he saw the other twin staring at him as if it was assessing him.
He disregarded any thought forming inside his mind, 'Ridiculous, it is impossible.'
However, as he thought of that, he heard something echo inside his mind, = "Is this my new brother? He seemed off." =
It was sent directly inside Ye Feng's mind, and because Aether also didn't know the new words of this place, Ye Feng formed a theory. Concentrating his mind, he tried his best to send out something with his mind, "Child, can you hear me?"
= "Huh?" = Ame looked at Ye Feng and vice versa.
Such reactions were enough proof. Ye Feng looked at Ame as his eyes widened.
Ame's mouth was slightly ajar as she came to the realization of what's happening.
Ye Feng was not the only reincarnated person in that room.
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