Chapter 159: Let me in!

"Let me in! Stop blocking the door!" A woman's voice screamed from outside Haru's door. Haru opened his eyes after hearing it and stood up from his sitting position on the bed and then looked around the bare room. He still wasn't used to waking up in unfamiliar places.

"What are you doing you crazy woman!? It sounds like you were dumped and I doubt he wants to see you. Why are you so desperate to get past!?" called out the man who had helped Haru move the mattress into his room the night before.

"What are you talking about!? He's my fucking cousin! Now get out of the way!" The woman shouted again but this time Haru recognized her voice to be Yun's he quickly changed his clothes before making his way to the door and opening it.

As the door opened the man who had helped Haru fell backwards through the door frame and landed on his bottom.

"Haha, It serves you right for trying to get involved in my problems." Yun laughed as he hit the floor with a thud and the rolled onto his knees to clench his backside.

"Ugh…" Haru said, confused as to what was happening. He looked down at the man who seemed to also have a confused expression as he raised an eyebrow to say he didn't have a clue what was happening.

"Ugh? Don't you ugh me! Do you know how long I stayed up last night waiting for you to text me? I even called you like a million times! Did you just purposely stand me up to piss me off?" Yun said while poking Haru in the chest with her index finger.

"What?" Haru asked. The whole going shopping with Yun idea he had planned had completely slipped his mind after all that had happened. After all, there were more important things to worry about.

"Did you seriously forget that you told me to wait for you to text? You said you needed help with shopping and that I had to help you. I waited for so long but you never even told me that you changed your mind." She sighed and then looked down at the floor in defeat.

"Forget it. I don't care anymore. Just make sure you go to class." Yun said before turning around to leave.

"Oh shit. Wait." Haru remembered that he had told her to wait for him and then grabbed her arm to stop her from leaving.

"It doesn't matter. If you don't want to then it's fine." Yun once again felt defeat as she felt like she wasn't important enough for him to care about the promises he made to her.

"Come on. Don't be like that. I'm sorry. Something came up and I had to switch off my phone. When I got back it was already pretty late and I figured you would be sleeping. I haven't even turned my phone back on yet so I didn't know." Haru tried to explain himself but Yun didn't believe him one bit.

"What could possibly happen that made you turn your phone off?" She asked.

"Well, I decided to take a walk in the woods last night when…" Haru began to say but AJ was sat in the living room and turned up the tv to a level where it drowned out Haru's voice.

"Breaking news. More than forty people believed to be dead have been found alive in the woods." The news channel came on to report the events of last night. With so many emergency responders gathered around to help out it was only a matter of time before a news channel would have reported on it.

"Reports say that a Student from the local Hudan university found a body in the woods and called the police which later led to the recovery of the bodies of ever sixty people believed to have gone missing in the last two years and over forty survivors who recall being kept in inhumane conditions for months on end.

We reached out for an interview with the student but the police said that he would like to remain anonymous as not to affect his studies." The tv blurted out, right as Haru had said that he had taken a walk in the same woods the night before.

"T-those woods?" Yun asked Haru. Her eyes now widening with shock as she looked up at him with sympathy.

"Yeah… I was just…" He couldn't say a thing before Yun had put her arms around his shoulders and pulled him into a hug.

"I'm so sorry. I thought you didn't want to spend time with me or something. I'm really really sorry you had to go through something like that." She said while hugging him as tight as she could.

He accepted the hug from her but he stood there thinking about how it had coincidentally worked out in his favour. 'I guess the police don't want people sticking their nose into this case since it was the work of evil cultivators. It would make the association look bad if people knew that not all cultivators where good. So Lian probably has something to do with this too doesn't she?' Haru thought for a second as both of his roommates stared at him.

"I'm sorry man. That must have been tough." AJ said while scratching his head. He didn't know how to respond to something like that since he was generally a laid back person. He smiled awkwardly before covering his mouth after realising it probably looked like he was smiling about a bunch of dead bodies being recovered.

The man who helped Haru move the mattress got up from the floor and walked over to AJ.

"Ow. What are you doing? Let go of me?" AJ called out as the man grabbed him by the ear and dragged him into his room.

"You idiot. You don't know when to shut up do you?" He said before closing the door behind them. Haru almost laughed but it seemed like the wrong moment if he wanted Yun to believe what he had told her.

"You know you can let go of me now. I'm fine." Haru said quietly. But Yun didn't care, She kept her arms around him for a little longer before letting go.

"Do you want me to let your teacher know that you are not coming to class?" She asked. She assumed that since he had found a body in the woods he would be too traumatized to go to class. But if she knew the truth she would be the one too traumatized to go to class.

Haru thought about what he was going to do. 'Would it make me look heartless if I acted like I didn't care and went to class? No surely not. People usually deal with traumatizing things by making themselves busy don't they?' He thought then answered.

"It's okay. I had better go to class. It will help take my mind off things." He reassured her and then made sure to grab a pen and a notebook from his bag. He didn't want to have a repeat of yesterday morning.

"Are you sure? I think they will understand if you say you want to take the day off." Yun said in protest.

"I promise you I am fine," Haru said once again before she finally accepted it as the truth. They then both walked to class together before saying goodbye to each other outside of Yun's class. Haru then walked up the stairs and into his classroom and sat down in the seat the professor had assigned to him the day before.

The class started without the professor saying so much of a word to him. But It was not like he needed too. Haru quickly zoned out as he thought all about what had happened. What was happening in the soul tempering grounds?

He didn't even get time to process the death of the temple master after finding his body lay on the ground and then that demon who chased him… He had so much power yet he chose not to kill Haru right away for the sole purpose of wanting to slaughter more humans.

'I wonder what's happening in the upper realms right now?' He thought. Surely if the demon clan had made a move to take over the soul tempering grounds. The human clan and the elven clan wouldn't sit idly by and watch it happen.

There was probably a large scale war going on up there and no one knew about it. As he thought more about it he imagined that hundreds if not thousands of people were probably being killed by the hands of the demon clan.

'Would it not be easier to destroy the ancestral chain? If a war is really going on then it is bound to save the lives of thousands of innocent people…' He thought about it but that wasn't really his call to make.

Both sides had their reason for fighting yet Haru had none. He didn't have anything to do with the fighting so it wasn't his place to step in and kill fifty billion demons on a whim. He had met a few demons who wanted to kill him but he also didn't want to believe they were all bad.

Like the demon woman, he had seen in the meeting with the temple master. She seemed to understand the cause of the anger amongst the younger generations and wanted to fix it. She seemed sympathetic but no one wanted to entertain the idea's that she had.

"I should probably ask Li Jun what he thinks is going on." He muttered to himself forgetting that he was still in class.

"Excuse me?" Professor Hua said after hearing Haru mutter something.

He looked up to see the rest of the class were now staring at him. 'Did I do something?' He thought before the professor walked over to take a look at Haru's notebook.

"You haven't even written anything. What is the point in turning up to class if you aren't going to do anything?" He began to ridicule Haru for not taking notes.

But feeling the stress from knowing things were happening beyond the world that he lived in he felt slightly angry that he was being talked down to for something so petty. To save himself from unnecessary hassle he picked up his notebook and walked out of the classroom.