Volume 1, Chapter 134 – Spring in Winter

Volume 1, Chapter 134 - Spring in Winter

Translator: Snoring Dragon

It was late at night.

But nobody knew if dawn would arrive tomorrow.

In a black kimono decorated with gorgeous and colourful flowers, Lily walked in the corridor of the Saionji Household.

Gazing at such a night sky brought with it a sense of sorrow.

It also made the boys and girls of this era realize their calling earlier in life, making them more eager to understand each other and accomplish something, because they didn’t know whether there would be tomorrow after tonight.

“Sister Rinne, why haven’t I got any clues about you so far? Is Lily really incompetent?”

Lily passed through the quiet and elegant courtyard. The courtyard path was secluded and windy. The bluestone lamp faintly visible in the night garden was covered with a layer of moss. In the corner, a bamboo water wheel was still slowly storing water. When it became full, it fell down and poured water in the stone basin.

The zigzag corridor led to a simple wooden house under two big pine trees.

The door of the wooden house seemed to be half-closed and some light was coming from it.

In the Saionji household, Lily didn’t have to worry about the danger so she pushed the door open and entered.

In the wooden house, under the dim candlelight, a girl wearing pink flowery clothes and white rabbit mask was sitting on her knees. Behind the girl, there was a large trapezoid wooden box. Finndd the newest novels on n/o/velbin(.)com

The girl had short but beautiful hair, dangling on her shoulders. Although she was sitting in an elegant posture, she was trembling a little.

“Nanako? You are...” Lily asked in confusion.

“Who, who is Nanako, you recognize the wrong person! I... I am invited by the Saionji family. I am a wandering samurai. Someone entrusted me to help you practice... Ukiyo-e tonight.” The girl in the mask said in a slightly nervous and soft voice.

“Ah? Nanako, what are you doing?”

“I have already said that I’m not Nanako. I’m just a samurai warrior hired by the Saionji family with money. You should thank the Saionji family. I am just doing this for money, that’s all!”

“Huh?” Lily tilted her head and wondered what to say.

“Also, what are you doing? Spring night is short, isn’t it? Do you want to start soon?”

“Start?”

The blindfolded girl almost went insane at this time. There was only darkness in front of her eyes. She couldn’t even move her hands and feet but her body was seen by the sister under the lamp...

“What the hell am I doing, is it really fine for me to do this?”

However, it was too late to ask this question. Since the hands and feet were tied to the four corners of the box, the girl knew that it was no longer possible to stop.

The girl in the eyes of Lily no longer had a beautiful back and white buttocks but a canvas. What she wanted to paint and how lifelike it was, she already knew in her heart.

Lily raised her brush...

“Swish—”

Under Lily’s brush was not a white cloth, but a living, shy and coquettish girl. And the painting drawn by Lily’s brush was not a simple painting but a combination of her own mind as a painter and the painting!

At this moment, Lily felt that the girl belonged to her. And she wanted to leave her mark on her. With the brush, colours, lines, and shapes, she would give form to her feelings!

The gratitude, the feelings, and what she wanted to say to Nanako, at this time, was conveyed completely by relying on the brush without saying a word!

The Drawing Concept! It seemed that Lily suddenly had an epiphany!

It was to convey one’s feelings to each other through painting!

Regardless of whichever entity, be it an ordinary girl who willingly offered herself to be painted or a Cursed Katana that was used to split the waves.

The medium —paint and ashes respectively— for Drawing Concept and Sword Runes might be different, but the method to transmit one’s obsession was the same.

Although Lily knew that she was Nanako, she did not intend to say it and she would not bother to reveal it in the future.

At this time, it wasn’t only the brush and colour of Lily but also the slight tremor on girl’s delicate back and the flushing of her body had become a part of the charm and artistic conception of the painting.

At this moment of the spring night, Lily felt like painting on this girl’s body forever!

Lily herself was also extremely focused until the last stroke of the painting was completed and she lifted her brush. She was sweating all over. The kimono was soaked with sweat from top to bottom and inside to outside!

There was an eye-catching painting on the girl’s back. Perhaps the technique was not top-notch, but the artistic conception and emotion contained in it were the finest in the entirety of the Heian Empire!

Because this painting wasn’t accomplished by Lily alone, it also encompassed the girl’s tolerance, her dedication, as well as the beauty of purity!

It was a plum blossom blooming in the cold winter. There was a golden, green, and blue coloured Canary on the branch.