God's Slave: Reincarnated Into an Academy of Heavenly Descendants

"I simply melted away your coldness," Nolan said to her with a simple shrug, but he underestimated how curious Luna really was.

"I know that. What I'm at lost is how you managed to melt away the coldness?" she asked.

Nolan turned to her before grinning wildly.

"A simple hug?" he said, and Luna raised an eyebrow at the answer.

Nolan laughed out loud.

"You can't be serious," she said, watching him laugh.

There was no way her coldness was melted away by something as simple as a hug.

"Have you been hugged before? After your cold started?" Nolan asked this time, seriously.

Luna furrowed her brow before slowly shaking her head.

She hadn't even another person not had a person touched her since her illness had begun.

She had been kept isolated here ever since.

"Then how do you know a simple hug wouldn't help with your cold?" Nolan asked her smugly, and Luna shook her head.

"You're lying. An ordinary hug couldn't have done that," she said, this time with more seriousness.

Nolan's attention piqued, and he remembered what Norgomodev had once said to him.

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"Don't lie to us; we can easily sense it…"

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It seemed the Hexglaves had a way to sense if someone was lying, so Nolan stopped with the lie and decided to be sincere.

"You're right. A simple hug really can't take away your coldness. If anything, it would affect the hugger with a dose of cold too."

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"But my hug is an exception. I can take away your pain, if it gets too unbearable for you…" he said, and Luna's eyes widened in shock.

She could tell that what Nolan said wasn't a lie. He meant every single word.

A faint pink blush appeared on her face as she turned her head to the side.

"You have a sweet tongue for someone your age," she said as she looked back at him, her blush having faded.

"And you can really cook well, too," he complimented, causing her to roll her eyes.

"A boy with a sweet tongue and a girl who can cook well. Quite the combination, don't you think?" Luna teased, and Nolan's smile dropped as he felt a chill crawl down his spine.

"What?" he asked, and Luna burst out laughing.

"I'm just messing with you. Don't even dare dream of it!" she said, and Nolan let out a sigh of relief as the chill in his spine began to fade.

For a second, he had been scared of what that might have resulted in.

[I didn't know you were loyal too. Strange for someone with such trust issues like yours.]

[Can't cheat on your little fish girlfriend, huh? What was her name again, Lorelei?]

The system teased Nolan, who rolled his eyes.

'I just don't have time for that right now, just as King Sammodra said...' Nolan replied to the system in his head.

"Thank you for what you did back then," Luna suddenly said, staring into his eyes. Nolan shrugged it off.

"It's fine. You already paid me back," he said, and she nodded before slowly stepping away from the glass panes and heading to her bed.

Nolan remained by the window for a few more hours before eventually checking the time on his runic card.

He found out it was already 11:00 p.m.

"Now I can finally go to sleep," he muttered.

Walking to his bed, he stopped when he felt the intense, misty aura that covered Luna's bed.

She was starting to ooze with cold again, and while it wasn't as intense as before, it was still chilling enough that Nolan felt his skin prickling from the cold.

How Luna had even managed to survive this long was nothing short of amazing.

[Her days are near...] the system suddenly said to Nolan, who was about to sleep but instantly paused, sitting down on the bed.

'What did you just say?' Nolan asked in shock.

[I'm saying she's closing in on her death.]

[When you hugged her before, I infiltrated her system and now understand the cause of her illness.]

[It's a curse of sorts that turns all of her Divine Essence into chilling cold energy and magnifies it.]

[All her cells are being frozen one by one, and some of her organs are already frozen and beginning to fail.]

[She's only alive right now due to her powerful cultivation base. But how long can that sustain her?]

[What's noteworthy is the monumental pain she endures, Nolan. To be serious, It's like thorns digging into every muscle every single minute, gnawing relentlessly through it]

[Like a meat covered covered Larvas that repeatedly chews through it. Can you imagine the pain?]

[While the relentless assault has caused her mental toughness and resistance to pain to increase, the pain is still there and it only keeps worsening and will only keep worsening. Never the other way around]

[One day, her pain threshold will break, and she'll die from the intense agony.]

[Or, she'll become an ice statue once her organs freeze completely, leading to her death.]

[Still it is as cleat as day that her days are numbered, Nolan.]

[There's no surviving for her at all. She's just delaying the inevitable.]

The system's words were grim, and Nolan turned to look at Luna, who remained in the same position.

Dhe seemed at peace, but the intensely cold air told a different story.

She was going through unspeakable pain, enduring it every day and every night.

He wondered if she ever slept in peace at all.

Nolan had barely known her for two days, and while she had given him nothing but cold shoulders, he still felt pity for her.

Seeing her reminded him of the previous Nolan, whose body he had inherited.

He, too, had been bullied daily, dying slowly and abandoned by the world, with no one to save him.

In the end, he had died, left in a pit to rot.

The same fate seemed is happening to Luna.