"Lin Xiu is a star, and I am the moon. The sun seems so far, far away from us. That is why we yearn for it so, I suppose."
Stars are lonely and brilliant; moonlight is desolate and gentle.
Lin Xiu had always carried a sun in his heart.
Though he did not know when it had slowly risen.
Though he did not know why it existed or for what purpose.
"Perhaps tomorrow will be the very last day of my blindness. I have made up my mind. Even if I am blind for the rest of my life, I will fight the Demon Cleaner with every ounce of my being. Dying in battle is better than being driven to death by the Pupil Curse."
A glimmer of light seemed to return to the boy's lusterless purple pupils.
Though everything before his eyes was pitch black, his heart was much brighter.
The center of his heart had been occupied by the resolve to resist and by a Witch named Li Wei.
Eleven days of adaptation.
Lin Xiu's talent was terrifying; he had gone from being completely unable to judge directions accurately to training the most basic magical magnetic induction of the Mirror Lotus bracelet to absolute perfection.
Discounting the days spent in despair, it took less than a week of strict self-discipline and training.
Even with the Pupil Master's only natural Magic Crest failing, he had still managed to master the Ran Family Demon Eye's first technique, "Blind Pupil," to a miraculous degree.
Take walking down the stairs, for instance: whenever his condition was good, he could indeed do it without Li Wei's ass…
Chapter 97