King Ember's Journey to Tevat

Chapter 488 The desire to die

"Tsk, why are you crying? Is this Thunderbird so good to you? Is it more worthy of being cherished than your people?" Yi Yan looked at Aru howling and smacked his mouth.

It’s hard for little kids to understand!

"Woo~" While choking, Aru took the time to nod.

This shocked Ember, the Young Master, and the Skirmishers when they saw it. How had this kid Aru been mistreated? His feelings for his tribe were not as strong as those of a proud Thunderbird?

"Isn't it? So cruel?" Yu Yan muttered a few words to the young master and the skirmishers.

"Tsk! If I had seen it, I would definitely have to clean this place up!" The young master also shook his head and sighed, not remembering that he had planned to flood Liyue before.

Maybe it’s not a big deal if you think about it. After all, the water flooded Liyue and made her lonely. He also released Osel, who seemed to be Yi Yan's friend.

Now that I think about it, what did he do in Liyue? It seems like he didn't do anything, he just collected some debts and came back.

"..." The skirmisher raised his head and glanced at Yi Yan and Young Master who were discussing how to pack Heguan and Thunderbird away. His throat seemed to be blocked and he said nothing.

Seeing the skirmishers hesitating, Ember immediately reacted. Fools don’t seem to give in much, right?

After all, Kelai and Garuru are the best examples. So he pushed with his big hand, pushing the young master and the skirmishers far away.

"I'm warning you, don't look at me laughing at you now. If I catch you doing something bad, I guarantee you will be worse off than the people in Heguan!"

Ember pointed at the two of them with one hand and drew a thin line on the ground with the other hand, indicating that he and the Fool were on the same page and were incompatible!

"Do you know why I don't use you as fertilizer now?" Standing on the other side of the thin line, Yu Yan asked the young master and the stragglers who had already drawn a clear line.

"Because we are obedient?" The young master grimaced. It's not okay if we don't obey. If we don't, we will lie on the ground. He still wants to live.

"There is a reason for this, but more importantly, I like to have a right to blame and a credit to the creditor."

"Clean up the mess you left behind by yourself, and resolve the hatred you caused by yourself!"

"Remember, wipe your butt well. If you don't wipe it well and someone seeks revenge on you, I will hand you a knife as soon as possible." Yu Yan pointed at the stragglers and the young master and warned.

"What if I don't wipe it?" Skirmisher asked tentatively, with a hint of caution in his tone for the first time.

"Then I'll do it! But when the time comes, I will be the one seeking revenge!" Yu Yan squeezed his fingers so loudly that the skirmishers and the young master shrank their heads.

"Understand?!"

"Understood!"×2

The skirmishers and the young master nodded quickly like the big-headed soldier, for fear of being misunderstood by him.

Then they saw the embers approaching again. When they lowered their heads, they saw that the thin lines on the ground had long been erased by the embers.

"By the way, why is this kid still crying?" Yu Yan scratched his head. He had only one way to deal with a child crying, and that was to make him cry as much as he wanted!

But now there is no sign of Aru stopping. The fact that Gan howl can be heard for so long shows the depth of his feelings for Thunderbird.

"..."

Ember's change was so fast that Young Master and Skirmisher couldn't react for a while. They looked around but didn't reply to his words.

"Why are you looking at me like this? We are now considered a cooperative relationship. It is normal to discuss with partners, right?"

Seeing the silence of the young master and the skirmisher, Yi Yan grabbed their necks with two arms and pulled them over.

But just when Yi Yan was about to discuss with the two how to get Aru to stop, the looming choking sound in the distance disappeared.

"Are you ready to cry?" Yi Jin saw Aru coming over and let go of his arms.

The crying was gone, replaced by the sound of heavy breathing.

"Well, thank you. Actually, I already had the answer in my mind, but...but..."

"Stop!"

Seeing that Aru was about to cry again, Yi Yan took out the bread from the Fools' Camp and stuffed it directly into Aru's mouth.

"Uh..., ha!" After Aru pulled out the bread from her mouth, she opened and closed her mouth mechanically.

This taste seems to be the "sweetness" in memory, right? Aru didn't know, he hadn't tasted anything since he woke up.

After briefly recalling the long-standing memory, Aru looked troubled, and finally returned the bread to Ember. "I'd better give this back to you. I don't need to eat."

"You have to prepare it, right? Maybe you'll be hungry later?"

Ember pushed the bread back again.

"No, can you take me to the place where Capaccili died? I want to finish singing for it."

Aru was stunned for a while, but finally didn't answer. He just stared blankly into the distance, his young body giving people a feeling of dying.

This suddenly made Ember unable to do anything. He had never seen a little kid who wanted to die.

"Isn't it? You don't have anything worth remembering?" Yi Yan quickly comforted him.

"Other than the fact that I didn't sing the whole song to Capaccili, I have no regrets."

Aru nodded and confirmed. Before the surprised three people could say anything, he murmured to himself as if recalling the past:

"I am the son of a priest, and my father handles the annual blood sacrifice in the tribe."

"When I was very young, my father asked me to watch him hold the ceremony."

"Drawing knives, killing people, and bleeding blood. My father always forced me to watch these things. He wanted me to watch them carefully. He wanted me to learn this..."

As if remembering Ji Ren's eyes full of resentment and malice, Aru covered his cheeks. He squatted on the ground, trembling all over.

"No, I want to watch, I don't want to learn, I don't want to become like my father..."

Fear and avoidance filled Aru's heart. The bloody experience in childhood is still poisoning Aru now, thousands of years later.

"Now you don't have to be like this. You have met us and a new beginning is waving to you."

"No..., I don't want a new beginning, I just want to end the past. The silver boat is waiting for me, and the golden land has made room for me."

Aru's eyes were hazy, and he vaguely saw the legendary silver boat in Heguan. In the legend, the silver boat would carry souls to the golden land, where everything ends.

"Hey! Are you stupid?!" A nauseating dizziness came, and everything in front of Aru's eyes was like a mirage, just an illusion.

Ember put his arm on Aru's shoulders, shaking his head out of the afterimage.

"啕——" Under the full force of the embers shaking, Aru finally came back to his senses. He stroked his forehead and said with relief:

"The land I live in has become like this. All the people I know well have died. Even the friends who listened to my singing have been killed by arrows. Three big brothers, I am a little tired."

"Okay, okay, you're being cruel! It's been thousands of years without a trace, so humans and birds will definitely not be able to survive. But this land may be able to regain its vitality."

Facing Aru's brighter eyes, Yi Yan pointed at the young master and the skirmishers beside him.

"To express?"

The young master heard Yu Yan's words and saw the only light on Aru's ashen face. He coughed, then scratched his head and said:

"Yes, that's right, that's it! We are the development team who came here in Zhi Dong. Your place is so big and there is no one to live in it. It seems a pity, so we came here to develop it."

"That's about it." The skirmisher turned his face away. Although he didn't say much, he still nodded.

"Thank you... thank you!" After hearing this, Aru nodded heavily to the three of them.

"You're not in a hurry to die, are you?" Yi Yan stretched out his hand and asked Aru.

"There's no rush for now." Aru shook his head.

"Okay then, let's go! I'll take you to see the resentment your friend left behind before he left Heguan!"

Ember grabbed Aru's hand and ran towards Mount Sugaaki, the highest mountain in Tsurukan, without looking back.

(End of this chapter)