Volume 1, Chapter 72 – What Is a Beautiful Color

Undead.

As everyone knows, the undead refers to beings that have already died.

Their life no longer exists, yet they still linger in the world in some strange form.

Most undead possess only bodies without consciousness, wandering aimlessly like walking corpses.

Clearly, they are already dead, yet continue to roam the world in an unnatural way, like lost spirits. To the living, the undead are not only a desecration of the dead but also a source of fear and dread.

What kind of world do the undead see?

The answer is simple and pure, black and white, light and darkness.

In the eyes of the undead, the world consists only of these two colors. No matter how beautiful the scenery, to them it is dull and monotonous.

Black and white mountains, black and white rivers, black and white skies, black and white earth, black and white… world.

Besides that, undead whose souls remain within their shells do not feel hunger, nor do they possess the sense of taste.

No… to put it simply, aside from seeing and hearing, the undead have no other senses.

Their dry fingers cannot feel touch, they cannot smell flowers, nor taste the flavor of food.

That is the world as seen by the undead.

And before Tianyin’s eyes, Xiaobingxue was crouched on the ground, using her slender, pale fingers to slowly write something on the dirt. A question that, to others, was almost childishly simple.

“What kind of thing is called a beautiful color?”

A very simple question.

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But to Bingxue, an undead, she had no idea what it meant.

“Xiaobingxue… why are you suddenly asking that?”

Seeing those words, Tianyin couldn’t help but tilt her head in confusion. After all, in all the information the system had given her, there had been no detailed explanation of how the undead saw the world.

No, more precisely, there wasn’t any description at all.

So to Tianyin, the question felt strange and difficult to understand.

“Suu…”

Bingxue lowered her gaze. If one looked closely, they could see her long eyelashes trembling slightly.

“Because… I just heard some people passing by talking about beautiful colors…”

The girl slowly wrote on the ground.

“So I wanted to know, what is a beautiful color?”

“A beautiful color, huh?”

Tianyin tilted her head.

“Hmm… if it’s me, I think I like white the most.”

“Suu?”

Bingxue blinked, slightly surprised.

“Yeah, white. It’s such a simple color, right? Just like how I see you, Xiaobingxue, so pure that even when you try to hide your sadness, you can’t help but let it show.”

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Those words came straight from Tianyin’s heart. Ever since she first met the undead girl, she had felt this way.

That is… The little girl before her was incredibly simple and pure.

“White… huh?”

Bingxue traced the word in the dirt.

“But what is white like?”

That was right. To the undead who only saw a black-and-white world, even the concepts of black and white themselves were impossible to truly distinguish.

Though the world they saw was made up of white and black, they couldn’t comprehend what those colors truly were.

That was the nature of the undead, beings that looked sinister yet were filled with endless flaws.

“Eh…”

That question stumped Tianyin for a moment. Explaining what white was seemed simple enough… but the simpler the question, the more Tianyin felt that the answer wasn’t so simple at all.

It was complicated.

That was her instinctive thought. And with that in mind, Tianyin fell silent.

“Xiaoyin… you can’t understand what white is either?”

As an undead born not long ago, with no memory of her past life, Bingxue was like a blank page. She subconsciously assumed that the world in Tianyin’s eyes was also only black and white.

And thinking that way, she began to feel that asking such a question was perhaps too much.

To her, this kind of answer was something she could hardly even imagine.

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“Wuu… Xiaobingxue, were you feeling sad just now because of this question?”

“Mm…”

The girl nodded, continuing to write.

“I don’t know why, but when I heard them say the words ‘beautiful color,’ my chest started to hurt…”

“Eh? Is that so?”

After a short moment of thought, Tianyin guessed that perhaps those words had triggered something related to Bingxue’s past life, stirring a sadness she couldn’t remember.

If that was the case, then she had to be more considerate of Bingxue’s feelings from now on.

After all, Bingxue had completely forgotten her past life.

“Xiaobingxue… I understand now. It must be because what they said reminded you of something from before you died. That’s why you felt sad without knowing why. But I think, the person you were before and the person you are now aren’t the same anymore. So you don’t have to be sad anymore, okay?”

As she said that, Tianyin reached out and gently patted the girl’s blue hair.

“Suu…”

Hearing that, Bingxue nodded faintly, her empty gaze fixed on Tianyin’s hand patting her head.

She didn’t understand why she was being patted, but instinctively, the heaviness in her chest eased a little.

“Uu… Master, why are you suddenly patting Xiaobingxue’s head? I wanna be patted too~”

From the side, Mengyao, who had been resting and spacing out, puffed up her cheeks and stomped over when she saw Tianyin patting Bingxue’s head.

“Master, I wanna pat too!”

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“Alright, alright, I get it. Really, you’re such a handful.”

At that moment, Tianyin finally felt that she actually seemed like a master in front of her loli disciple.

While she was thinking that, she prepared to place her free hand on Mengyao’s head.

However…

With a sharp smack, her reaching hand was slapped away.

“Master, you’ve got it all wrong. I mean I wanna pat your head!”

Mengyao said with a straight face, then placed her hand on Tianyin’s head.

And began gently stroking it.

“Ehehe, Master’s head feels so soft, like a kitty’s~”

“Wait—W-Who said you could pat my head! Let go right now!”

“Uu, just a little! Just once! Master, don’t be so stingy!”

“Y-You… ugh…”

“See? You’re saying no, but your body’s being really honest, you know~”

“Wuu… I-I don’t think… being patted… feels… n-nice or anything… wuu…”