Yin Hu's frown shifted targets and turned to the girls. "What did I teach you about being respectful to those around you?""Huh?" Both girls said at the same time.It took a few seconds longer until Jun’s face brightened. "I'll go grab some water!""Don't take too long, Jun."The older girl was already sprinting out of the courtyard. Likely going toward a well, or were ever they got water from. Yin Hu had survived on nothing but tea and rice ever since he had gotten on the isolated island eons ago. Even when he fell to this world, and after dozens of attempts otherwise, he could not eat or drink anything at all without puking the sewage taste that came with their food.Shui stared at Jun running away for a moment before a look of dawning arrive on her face. "I—I will grab… some…?" She stared left and right for anything to save her. "...rice?"Yin Hu already knew what was about to happen. He reached for her before she could attempt her valiant escape, catching her collar as she turned around and was already moving in the exact opposite direction of where the rice would have been. Mostly to follow Jun outside of the courtyard and to the safety of the world and run away from his growing wrath. That all but sealed her fate. What did she do to be so guilty? Shui is never like this…The fabric bunched in his grip. Shui's forward momentum died with a jerk that made her feet leave the ground for half a second. She hung there with her boots dangling an inch above the tiles. He might not be able to cultivate, but his physical prowess were far above what Shui and the rest of his clan could deal with. Not even Zhong Da could fight him fairly with pure strength alone. Shui looked back at him over her shoulder.Her incandescent, nothing-wrong-ever, best-disciple-in-the-universe grin that had been plastered across her face since she walked through the gate had evaporated. What replaced it was (...)