Chapter 170: Good Thing You Stuck It Out
“Woo~”
Gray stared blankly at Su Ran, the black pupils in its green eyes slightly dilating.
After understanding the meaning in Su Ran’s words for a moment, it seemed somewhat at a loss, with a flash of panic and a trace of dimness in its eyes.
Su Ran’s heart skipped a beat!
She felt that the answer to this question was probably the same as her guess, not good news.
But this question was one she had to ask.
She and Gray were going to live together for a lifetime, so she always had to know its past.
“Gray’s dad and mom…”
Gray looked at Su Ran, its expression serious as it spoke: “None woo…”
As it spoke, its gaze turned to the front, landing on the window ahead, as if recalling something:
“Gray…”
It suddenly raised its hand, gesturing a height less than one and a half meters: “Gray this tall, in summer time, big fire in the forest, dad and mom went to the forest to find brother? Didn’t come back woo~ Gray walked a long time, found here, stayed woo~”
Gray looked in the direction of the window, speaking as if recalling the miserable scenes in its memories.
But after its words fell, it suddenly looked at Su Ran again, its gaze firm:
“But Gray not alone, have Ran woo…”
Its words unfinished, Su Ran blocked them with a deep kiss.
Su Ran didn’t know how to describe her current mood.
She didn’t regret asking Gray this question, but after hearing Gray’s answer, her chest felt blocked by something.
In autumn time, when A Huo’s little brother ran over to play, Gray had already understood the meaning of brother.
Now it said brother, meaning besides parents, it had also lost an older sibling.
Gray was only about one and a half meters tall at that time, meaning it hadn’t reached adulthood yet.
And just like that, in one night, it lost its parents and its sibling.
Su Ran couldn’t imagine how such a small Gray survived alone inside the forest, or how it traveled mountains and rivers to find the current settlement.
Although now it seemed Gray’s combat power was ridiculously high, the beasts inside the forest were still very dangerous for underage little beastmen.
And so small, how did it survive winter after winter alone?
Now Su Ran only felt immense relief, luckily, luckily,
“Luckily you held on…”
Su Ran hugged Gray’s lower back, feeling her eye sockets heat up.
Luckily it held on, luckily they met.
No matter what happened before, at least later, they would definitely always be together, depending on each other until old age.
“Ran Ran, no cry woo~”
Gray’s lips pressed against Su Ran’s cheek, licking gently one by one, and Su Ran realized that unknowingly, she was already in tears.
Only then did she suddenly realize that every “Gray and Ran Ran always together” Gray had said to her before perhaps always carried other deeper meanings.
That was Gray’s promise, and also its deepest wish!
Because it had lost before, it cherished what it had now even more.
“Gray, we have to always be together from now on oh~”
Su Ran kissed Gray’s chin, her gaze meeting its light green eyes, her tone firm.
“Woo~”
Gray seemed very surprised that Su Ran would say this.
But it quickly reacted, its tail slapping “pa pa” on the felt mat behind, while hugging Su Ran tightly and rubbing against her: “Mm! Always together woo~”
Su Ran smiled watching Gray, who showed its happy mood without hiding, then remembered something else.
“So, when I first arrived here, Gray wasn’t afraid of fire at all, because of that big fire?”
“Yes woo~”
Gray nodded, frowning slightly in thought, then said to Su Ran:
“Rain, fire out, Gray go find dad and mom, none woo~”
“But inside had roast meat animals, mm… ate a lot.”
Sure enough, that was it.
Su Ran looked at Gray, whose face showed a trace of reminiscence, her arm around its waist pulling closer to its body.
At the very beginning, the first time she lit a fire to roast meat in front of Gray, she had already guessed that Gray had seen fire before, even eaten cooked food.
Otherwise, when all the other beastmen were afraid of fire, it alone not only wasn’t afraid, but showed a drooling, reminiscent expression toward the roast meat.
And the reason it could eat roast meat was probably the corpses of animals burned to death after the forest fire.
Just didn’t expect that for Gray, that fire wasn’t an introduction to cooked food, but the beginning of separation.
Su Ran not too surprised opened a heavy topic.
After the topic ended, the atmosphere inside the room was somewhat silent.
But the one silent was Su Ran, not Gray.
Probably girls were naturally more sentimental, and as a mentally mature human, her emotions fluctuated a bit richer than the beastmen.
While Gray, the protagonist of the topic, although showed some loss when bringing it up, had already returned to normal by the end of the topic.
Su Ran thought it might also relate to Gray being too young at the time.
Over one meter, looking less than one and a half meters tall, for the naturally tall beastmen, that was under ten years old, not yet an age to remember much.
So Gray’s reaction seemed not that sad.
But even not sad, there would still be regrets in the end.
So it cared so much about every time Su Ran acted alone before, got so angry when Su Ran first sneaked off to bathe alone, was afraid of summer Blue Star that Su Ran curiously yearned for.
Because those things all could cause separation between it and Su Ran.
The stove at the kang end burned very hot.
Heat rose inside the room, making people drowsy.
Su Ran hugging Gray’s narrow waist, repeatedly thinking in her heart about what Gray just said, the past events it told, unknowingly fell asleep.
But the sleeping Su Ran didn’t notice that Gray, intimately holding her, after she fell asleep, lightly bit her cheek.
That pair of green eyes usually full of innocence now surprisingly added a trace of shrewdness!
Winter days darkened early, when Su Ran opened her eyes again, inside the room was pitch black.
Gray wasn’t inside the room this time.
Su Ran groped in the dark, found her coat and put it on.
The window board wasn’t down yet, through the thin animal hide window cloth, she could see not far outside the window, firelight flickering in the darkness.
She put on her shoes, groped out of the bedroom, to the house doorway.
Then she saw Gray throwing firewood into the fire pit in front of the long table outside.
And on the barbecue grill opposite the fire pit, several large pieces of roast meat from some animal were grilling.
The instant Su Ran appeared at the house doorway, Gray had already noticed the movement on her side.
It turned its head to look, saw Su Ran, and happily ran over:
“Ran Ran, roast meat today woo~”
