Death... and me

Without being able to control their bodies, the men and women walked outside of the house. Surprisingly, they weren't the only ones. Soon, they noticed that everyone who was part of the 'Big Boss Gaius' group was there as well. Even the leader of the entire group, a woman at the Peak Stage of the Nascent Soul Realm, was obediently standing in the middle of the road.

Falangia then asked her daughter to wait a bit in the room, planning to go out to see what was happening. However, before she could do that, someone knocked on her door. When she opened it, Rean was there with a smile on his face. "Hi, Falangia. Have you seen my fairy somewhere? She wandered out on her own, and I can't find her at all."

Falangia wanted to laugh after hearing that. Who was Rean trying to trick there? It was obvious that there was no such thing as a fairy. He was basically controlling his Light Element to make it take the shape of a fairy. It would be something extremely hard for Falangia to do, but definitely not in Rean's case.

Of course, she knew way too well why he did that. "Oh, so Rana's your fairy? Why don't you come in, then?"

Rean nodded in response and headed inside the house. As for the rest of the people, they were all confused. One moment ago, those people from Big Boss Gaius were extorting them, taking the little money they had. Now, they were all gathered in the middle of the room, doing basically nothing. Because of that, no one really noticed when Rean went to pay a visit to Falangia, as Gaius' group had all their attention. Little did they know that this group wanted nothing more than to run away as fast as possible, but their bodies simply couldn't move at all.

In Falangia's house, she brought Rean where Rafatia was talking to Rana. "Rana! Why did you leave on your own?"

The 'fake' Rana looked at Rean and showed a 'shocked' expression, responding, "Rean! Sorry... it's just that I found a very cute girl in this house. Look, can't you see how cute Rafatia is?"

Rafatia was a little afraid of Rean, as she wasn't used to cultivators treating her well other than her mother. She was especially afraid of men on top of that for obvious reasons.

Rean then showed a shocked expression as well. "Holy shit! She's really cute! How did you find such a cute girl here?"

Rana then put her hand on her waist, replying, "Isn't that obvious? Bad guys always try to do bad things to cute girls. I only had to follow them to find Rafatia."

"I see... that makes a lot of sense." Rean then extended his hand to Rafatia and said, "Hello, Rafatia, my name is Rean. I'm a friend of your mother."

Rafatia looked suspiciously at Rean before looking at Falangia. However, Falangia just smiled at her and said, "It's fine, baby. Rean... so that's your name... anyway, he's a very good friend of mommy." Indeed, she didn't know Rean's name until a few seconds ago.

With that, Rafatia accepted Rean's handshake, albeit with some doubts.

'Rana' then patted Rafatia's shoulder and told her, "There's no need to worry. Rean is my big brother. He is different from the bad guys outside. He would never do anything bad to such a cute girl like you."

Rean nodded in response, saying, "She's right. Here, I have something for you." Rean then accessed the Soul Gem Dimensional Realm and took some candies from inside. While he did that, Sister Orb couldn't help but complain. [I want to talk to her as well!]

'Shut up! No one knows you even exist. How will I explain the sudden appearance of a black and white orb to them, huh?' Rean said in response.

[What's the problem? People here are too low-leveled to be able to guess anything. They'll probably think I'm some kind of puppet or whatever.]

'Maybe some other time. It's too much for this girl to take at once. Let her calm down a bit. Remember, she was just about to be raped once again.'

[Fine...] Sister Orb couldn't go against that argument.

Rean and Roan never really forgot about the desserts their mother made for them back in Sunkan Planet, so they always kept similar things in the Dimensional Realm. They could even make those desserts and candies themselves.

With that, Rafatia took one and saw that her mother had allowed it. When she finally put it in her mouth, her eyes glistened like stars, showing that it was the first time she had tried something like that. Rean also put some in his mouth and threw a few to Falangia, telling her, "Take some as well. They're very good. My mother liked to make them back in my home."

Falangia could only do as Rean said and try it out. Sweets, desserts, and things like that wasn't exactly a priority in her life, so she hadn't tried them before either. "This is really good..."

"Why, of course! My mother's sweets were the best," Rean said as he laughed.

It was then that Rafatia asked an unexpected question. "Mommy, are you going to serve him? Should I go back to my room?"

Rean almost vomited blood after that. "Cough, cough, cough, cough..." He looked with a crying expression at Rafatia after that, telling her, "Ahem... don't worry, little girl. Your mother and I don't have this kind of relationship. We really are just friends. Friends don't need to... serve... each other to ask for help."

Falangia wouldn't get embarrassed if she had to have sex with others for some random reason. However, the fact that Rean wasn't someone who would ask for this kind of thing made her face go as red as a tomato after Rafatia's question. "Er... I hope you understand our life here isn't exactly... nice..."

Rean bitterly smiled and nodded in response. Soon after, he pressed his finger against Rafatia's belly. Well, that only made the little girl feel like peeing for some reason. However, it only lasted a second before a small ball of light came from down there and stopped in front of Rean's hands.

Falangia knew that Rean wasn't some pervert or anything like that, so she was puzzled at that action, asking, "What's that?"

Rean looked at Falangia, turning his back to Rafatia so that she wouldn't see his grim expression. "The thing that I need to find the dead guy who forced his way into your daughter."