Chapter 4 - {Ju Liang's surprise visitor}

Ju Liang instantly sat up, looking down at himself, that cloak looked oddly familiar. Ah, right!– his mind almost immediately went right to when old man Minghao had shown him that drawing on a scroll.

Wait, then– is this that demon kings cloak? Why would it be here? Acting as a blanket no less, maybe it was a coincidence or an accident. Ju Liang's thoughts ran so fast he's sure he's given himself a headache at this point.

Despite this, the cloak felt quite warm on him. Ju Liang was almost tempted to just stay on his bamboo mat. it felt warm as if recently warm, but he hardly wears cloaks, whenever he does its mostly because its cold.

Ju Liang rubbed his forehead before looking around, everything was fairly the same as he left it before he went to sleep. no abnormalities so far. at least he hopes so, Ju Lian got off his mat, wrapping the cloak around his shoulders as he walked to the children's corner, pulling the curtain back his eyes widened like saucers, where did they go? non of them are in their little beds!

Ju Liang's head snapped over as he heard sounds coming from behind him, he saw the wooden table, now larger than before, the ten little ones all were sat at the table, all with spoons in their hand as they slurped up the soup,

Confused, Ju Liang spoke. "you're all up already? how? and who made you all soup, i do not remember buying any from the village..", a little girl just finishing her soup looked up over the bowl as she sat it down, licking her lips , " the nice man made it for us!" Ju Liang was spooked by this, had there been an intruder? if so, why would they not have taken anything and just cook for the ten children?

"and where did he go?" Ju Liang said, his voice a little shaky with concern. the same little girl pointed out the doorway, "he's out there, he told us he wanted to chop wood to fix the roof!" the roof? what, but the roof is perfectly fine, Ju Liang looked up, never mind. he forgot there was three holes of varying sizes in the thatched roof.

Ju Liang looked back at the little girl and nodded, "right then, come with me and you can point this 'nice man' out to me, okay?" he said, the little girl nodded, her twin buns bobbing a little as she rushed to the door. Ju Liang followed, the cloak still draped over his shoulders.

The little girl had rushed ahead and was already standing on the grass pointing at something. Ju Liang stopped beside her and followed were she was pointing too standing at a tree stump near Ju Liangs bamboo hut was a tall man in black robes, black shin high flat boots holding an axe as he swung it at the wood on the stump.

"..." Ju Liang was silent, staring and confused hey wasn't that the guy from the scroll The old man had shown him- Ju Liangs thoughts were cut off as the little girl tugged the skirt of his robe, Ju Liang looked down with a raised eyebrow. "and that's his cloak too!" SO IT WAS HIS CLOAK!!

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