Reborn Through Fire (Kisa and Gilbert)
Chapter 518

Chapter 518 Look at the Ring

Kisa somehow had climbed onto a large boulder, still holding the half stalk of green foxtail which she had bent into a ring.

"Gilbert, look at the ring."

She waved the ring made from the green foxtail at him, smiling with her eyes looking like a crescent moon, just as she had when he first saw her.

He liked her smile best when she was young; those clean eyes looked wonderful as a crescent moon. But it had been a long time since he last saw her smile like that. Under the dim streetlight, that clean smile seemed to overlap with the one in his memory, causing his heart to pound involuntarily.

"This is the ring I made. Is it beautiful?" Kisa put the straw ring on her ring finger, and then spread her fingers to show him.

Gilbert pursed his lips and only spoke after a long while. "It is beautiful."

"Yeah, it is beautiful." Kisa seemed happy. She rubbed the straw ring on her finger and said, as if to herself, "I made one for you at that time, but you threw it away."

Gilbert frowned and shook his head subconsciously. "I didn't."

"You threw it away." Kisa looked at him with sudden anger. "I saw it all."

Seeing the confident look on her face, Gilbert frowned and tried to recall his memory of the grass ring. On one fine day, he saw a small ring made of grass on his desk, and he did not know what it was. But there was a tiny note underneath the circle, read, [A ring for you, keep it.] with Kisa's signature on it. Just then, Jensen came in and saw the grass ring and said with surprise, "Isn't that a ring made of green foxtail? Kisa and I both have one." Because of this comment, he thought the grass ring was nothing special and had no meaning, that since he could give it to him, she could also have given it to Jensen, and that he was no more special to her than Jensen was. Perhaps he was too young and unable to control his emotion, he resisted the feelings inside him. He did not even care for anything that woman gave him, because he thought Jensen also had what she had given to him. So he disdainfully threw the grass ring into the trash can and muttered coldly, "That is ugly." Now that she looked so angry and sure, she was probably hiding outside the door of the room back then.

He cut the thought from his mind and looked at Kisa; she still looked angry.

"You threw it away, didn't you?"

Gilbert pursed his lips and then said in a deep voice, "Because you gave the same ring to Jensen, too. So I didn't like it."

"I didn't. I didn't give it to Jensen. It was Jensen who taught me how to make the ring. I gave you the first ring I made." With that, she got sad again. "Unfortunately, you didn't like it.

Gilbert frowned and stared at her with a serious face, as if trying to determine from her drunken look if he could trust what she said. 'If she cared for him the most, why did she always get so close to Jensen when she was young? It is a lie. It is all a lie!' He shook his head quietly and tried to fight back the feelings that were welling up inside him. 'She has hurt me twice. Enough is enough! She doesn't love me, and I shouldn't continue to fantasize about her.' He had sworn before that he would never again grow feelings for Kisa.

He looked at her sad face and said in a bitter voice, "Yes, I don't like it. Everything you give, I don't like it."

"I know, because you hate me. So you don't like it." Kisa smiled, but that smile was filled with a sense of brokenness. She walked toward the edge of the boulder as she spoke.

When he saw she was about to fall off, his heart skipped a beat, and he subconsciously yelled, "Watch out!"