Colonial Suit

"You really do carry it with you." Rainbow said, not without envy.

Of course, she knew what it was. It was Niya's tear, and also Heck's most cherished treasure. In this world, Heck could let people take his wealth, take his planets, take everything he had. But this tear alone was something no one could desecrate. Even if they only glanced at it, Heck would fight them to the death.

No one dared to fight Heck to the death, so this tear became a taboo for most people. And as Heck's woman, Rainbow really wanted to be the owner of the tearful eye.

To be cherished for life by the one you love, even if transformed into a tear, would be worthwhile.

Rainbow silently watched the Eternal Crystal in Heck's hand, her eyes becoming increasingly lost.

Svena, who was beside her, stepped forward and said.

"Heck, are you going to act now?"

"No." Heck lowered his head, reluctantly gazing at the ice crystal for a while before saying, "We still have to wait."

"Wait? Wait for what?"

"Wait..." Heck's eyes became even more dazed, staring foolishly at the ice crystal in his palm. After a long time, he said, "Waiting for her... to respond to my call."

"Are you crazy?" Svena immediately flew into a rage. It was just a tear now, what call was he talking about? If Heck hadn't been so imposing, she would have protested long ago.

"She's already..."

"You should learn to shut up." Heck suddenly interrupted Svena, his voice as cold as ice. "Don't say any more, or I can't guarantee I'll suppress the killing intent in my heart."

"Uh." Svena's face also changed. After a while, she took a deep breath and said with some difficulty, "Heck, I'm sorry."

"Mm." Heck nodded, his gaze still fixed on the ice crystal. "Actually, I also know that she doesn't need your apology. But you need to know that this, for me, is everything."

"Do you know?" He slowly pinched the ice crystal in his hand, holding it up to the light for Svena to see. "This is the first time she shed a tear, and the only time."

"I still remember, at that time I was just a beggar, a little beggar struggling to survive in the alley behind Fifth Queen Avenue on Gilles Planet. There were many children like me. We crawled on the ground every day, rolling in the mud, just to get a little something to eat. We were all very hungry then. A piece of bread could cause a life-or-death struggle, a piece of cheese could cause someone to die."

"I was the weakest of them. More than once, I thought I would die there. But..." Heck raised his head and gave a bitter smile.

"I didn't die. Not only that, but I also met her..."

"Even now, I still find it hard to forget. It was a dim dawn, and the artificial sun of Gilles Planet began to work. The sunlight shone down Fifth Queen Avenue, so beautiful. I could only hide in the cracks of the alley, stealing that little bit of light. It was very extravagant; only less than seven children could have that luck each day. I traded three days' worth of food for it."

"That sunlight was very bright, very warm. Although... it was man-made."

"But on that day, in that warm sunlight, she came..."

"Brighter than the sunlight, warmer than the sunlight. I swear, I will never encounter a scene more touching than that moment in my life. I saw her... She was wearing a simple dress, without gorgeous decorations, without aloof indifference. She was so ordinary, as ordinary as a girl next door."

"I don't know why, but I suddenly, impulsively reached out and let my finger touch a stone in front of her feet. Then I pushed it away."

Heck's gaze became even more dazed, as if he was seeing that scene again. "Unsurprisingly, she stepped on my finger."

"That must have hurt a lot," Svena said, her tone faintly jealous. She even wished she had been the one to step on that finger at the time.

"Yes, it hurt a lot," Heck replied, a satisfied smile blooming on his face. "It hurt so much that it penetrated into my bones. But... no matter how much it hurt, it couldn't compare to her smile at that time."

"She was still smiling?" Svena was puzzled. What was so worthy of Heck's lifelong pursuit in a girl who stepped on someone's finger and still smiled?

"Yes, she was smiling," Heck replied. As if he saw that sunny moment again, that girl walking towards him against the sunlight. "She said that she had seen my little action long ago and knew what I was thinking. So she wanted to guess it. She wanted to step on me until it hurt. Because, in this world, only those who know what they have paid are qualified to taste the fruits of victory."

"Then she squatted down and asked me if I was willing to be her slave."

"You agreed?" Svena's heart twitched, feeling extremely jealous.

"No!" Heck shook his head, looking smug. "I refused."

"I told her that my hand hurt a lot, the price was too high. So I wanted to raise the price. I didn't want to be a slave, I wanted to be her servant!"

When he said the last sentence, Heck's expression was as smug as if he had won the lottery, making Svena feel depressed. Whether it was a slave or a servant, it was clearly a losing proposition, but Heck said it with such pride. Was there anything to be proud of?

Svena couldn't understand Heck's thinking.

She couldn't understand that woman's thinking even more.

"Ha." Heck suddenly laughed. He looked at Svena. "I know, you must be wondering why I said that. In fact, I was also very strange, but that's what I said at the time, and I said it with such confidence, as if she owed me a lot of money."

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"Then what happened?"

"Then?" Heck smiled slightly. "Then she took me away. From then on, I became her appendage. She taught me how to fight, how to survive in this cruel universe, and also taught me how to understand perseverance."

"That was a beautiful time, she and I."

"It seems there was also your brother."

"Of course. We are all family." Heck said unceremoniously, but at the end, his voice lowered. "But, I can never forget that on the day I first met her, there was a teardrop in the corner of her eye."

"I don't know who made her cry. But I saved that teardrop. With my insignificant ability at the time."

"I see." Svena sighed. "So, this teardrop wasn't shed for you?"

"No." Heck shook his head, and when he raised his head again, his gaze became extremely cold. "A man shouldn't make the woman he loves cry. I keep it to remind myself of this, and also... to make that person pay the price."

"No matter... who he is..."

Heck said in a deep voice, his tone so firm that Svena's heart trembled. She was about to continue asking, but saw Heck suddenly wave his hand, stopping her from saying anything more.

Then Heck raised his head and looked at the blood clouds in the sky.

"It's time... Now, it's time to enter the second stage, right?"

"What are you talking about?" Svena was stunned. Before she could ask again, she suddenly felt a tremor under her feet, and the entire cave shook. The shaking was so sudden and so violent that even she almost lost her balance. Her face changed drastically, and Svena looked around, only to see that at some point, the blood clouds in the entire sky had begun to condense, like a pillar of blood, connecting the sky and the earth.

The base of the blood pillar was right on that huge and magnificent modulation nest...

(To be continued)q