Chapter 3 - Smell

On his way out of the Red Mountain Academy's gates. Tang Wulin mind starts to wonder about today and how the kids around him are starting to reject him. His cold personality and him constantly ignoring their existence.

On the way to his house, he felt his stomach rumbling as if telling him to hurry home to eat. He couldn't help but sigh on how much he needs to eat now and wonder if his martial soul increased his appetite.

It was next he noticed a commotion with a group of kids but he disregards them in favor of one person.

A little girl was squatted down near the roadside. She was slightly shorter than him with a head of short silver hair. She was wearing beggar type clothing and seem to be cowering has the group of kids surrounded her.

Ordinarily, Tang Wulin wouldn't care about these types of commotion since he has seen situations like these too many times for him to even count.

He would usually merely walk and overlook it but his nose twitches as if it was trying telling him something.

"I… smell a dragon."

"Little" before the delinquent could, him a 6-year-old walk right past them squat down in of talk. The boy then grasps the girl's cheek and raise it up so he can see her face.

They notice how the boy and girl were staring at each other as if they were the only one there. The boy's eyes were narrowed as he stared at the girl.

" I don't who but " before he could finish his sentence he was backhand away. This stuns the rest of the delinquent as they were too shocked to understand how a 6-year-old could send one of them flying backward.

The youth started to regain his bearing, noticing his nose his bleed felt rage and turn his angry gaze to the boy before yelling.

"Cripple this brat!"

The other boys blink before they started to move to the boy but they found the boy was standing up and turned his gaze towards them. They all felt an unimaginable pressure hit them as if they were drowning under sea.

The youth who had the bleeding nose look around noticing his comrades aren't moving. He turns to the boy and for a split second freak out as he swore he saw a silhouette.

It had blue marking, red pupilless eyes, sharp teeth and horns with a grin on its face in place of the boy. Tang Wulin turned to look at the boys and then smirked as he ran towards the boy.

Tang Wulin easily sidesteps the sloppy punch then threw a jab to the boy's face causing him to stagger and then buried his fist inside his stomach.

The boy starts coughing up blood with Tang Wulin noting he may have broken the boy's ribs.

Turning towards the other stun delinquents he sighed gently while muttering the word weaklings. Then rocketed towards the other boys.

The young girl watches in shock as the small boy begins beating the other boys senseless with a look of boredom as if that whole situation was troublesome.

She couldn't help but quiver, as it became more of a one, sided beating, the longer time went on.

Tang Wulin look down on the boys on the ground before scoffing and turning to the girl. He watches her flinch away, not caring at all as he went to grab her hand and force her to walk with him, ignoring all her protest.

Surprisingly there was none he notices, thinking she was still recovering from watching that beatdown or had the self-awareness to know she couldn't escape his grip.

One boy and girl were walking down the streets as the sun was setting. Covered in dirt with his hand firmly on the girl's wrist a sight very unusual indeed.

Tang Wulin saw his house and step through the door while dragging the girl inside easily then closing the door.

"Tang Tang! My baby boy is back." Screamed his affectionate mother as she ran straight into him, naturally making both of them and the astonished girl whose hand he was still grasping.

Long Yue felt something was wrong when she tackles her beloved son, blinking she got up and instantly saw the dirt on his shirt and shorts.

"Wulin, what happened to your shirt, it so dirty." cried fiercely Lang Yue while constantly searching his body for any more dirt spots and ignoring the girl next to him.

"Please, stop conveniently ignoring everything but me." Wulin sigh as he typically knew how his mom naturally tends to only focus on him when she sees or feels something bad happened to him.

Lang Yue blink and look around wondering what her Tang Tang was motioning to until she saw an adorable girl laying down next to him.

"Ohhhhh! You're so cute! " exclaimed his mother as she went to grab the little girl into a hug. Tang Wulin watch silent, knowing she won't stop anytime soon. He waited for her to settle down, even ignoring girls as from hug.

After a while, his mom asks if she was one of his friend from school.

"No. I just saw her being surrounded by some weaklings and then went to go beat them up."Said Tang Wulin bluntly, seeing no reason to lie.

Lang Yue knew those "weaklings" were the neighborhood delinquents that hang around the area causing trouble. She really hopes those boys were ok, and nothing was broken.

While it may be odd that Lang Yue is worried about the boys and not her son. It must know her son for the past years has been sending some of these delinquent to the hospital.

Sighing at her son action and then smiling when she realizes this is the first time her son went out of his way for someone other than his parents.

She has never heard or seen her son help out anyone even when their situation was horrible or if he could help out.

She then turns her head to the girl in her arm and asks her where her parent is. The girl shook her and looks at her as if she didn't understand what she meant.

Before his mom could say anything, she was interrupted by the girl and her son's stomach rumbling.

Laughing out loud, she invites the girl to dinner, while suggesting that after dinner she will help the girl look for her family.

She was thinking of meeting the family. She can set up some play dates, with the girl and her son. With the hopes that this girl may be the one to help her son "socialize" with other people his age.

Her son didn't give the girl a choice to answer before he drags her to the table.

"Oh, you two go wash up first and I didn't ask for your name," Said His mother as she looks at Tang Wulin taking Na'er up to the bathroom.

"N... Na… Na Er."