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Chapter 393 Chapter 390 "Because of your sword, your will, your fetters, and your homeland."

The dark sky and the snow-covered earth gradually became one as if they melted into each other.

Su Lin stretched out his hand.

The stagnant light sprinkled evenly on his face, like a blue sky road.

His movements were slow but firm. When he drew the blueprint of the airship, his hand holding the pen was so steady.

Under Mikael's trembling eyes, he put his palm on Mikael's forehead.

Michael felt that the teacher shouldn't end up like this.

In the warm spring breeze, on the land where the stars shine... the teacher should die in the admiration of everyone, he should have the right to like whom, and the right to continue living on this land he saved.Not here, in the cold winter, in this remote and uninhabited alley, in the ignorance of people, dying silently.

... He just came down from Yunshang City alone.

...He should be welcomed by the residents, and should hold a grand celebration banquet, instead of choosing to die so suddenly, alone, in front of only one person.

He is clearly a hero.

A choked sound could not help overflowing from Mikael's throat.

"I can no longer bear the malice of this sea monster soul." Su Rin's hand stopped on Mikael's forehead: "—don't say this anymore, kill me, if I don't die, I will only be killed by this sea monster." malicious transformation into a terrible ruler."

"..."

"I'm sorry, Michael, I will erase you today and make you a container of 'eternal life'." Su Lin said: "I will instill my earliest memories in you, and you will become the first, the last When I was young...do you understand what you are going to do?"

"Yes, teacher, I am voluntary... When I can't afford this malice, I will find the next person, let him kill me, and inherit everything from me."

Su Lin smiled.

His smile was a little tired, and the blood in his eyes was bloodshot. He turned his head and took another look at his familiar homeland.

In the wind and snow, the sky cannot be seen clearly, the houses cannot be seen clearly, the royal city and distant mountains cannot be seen clearly.

But he can still remember that looking out from here, the direction on the left is the commercial area of ​​Kell Street, which has the best straw sugar in the entire East District.On the right, there is a familiar barbecue restaurant where he once had dinner with astronomy and engineering students.

The direction on the back was the slightly higher royal city. Behind the city wall lived the young princess who had bid farewell to him. There were loyal knights of the royal city who often patrolled that area.

The direction directly opposite is a horizontal canal, across which is the bluestone brick road in the southern area.A few days ago, there was a huge airship parked here, an airship on the cloud that carried the hopes of countless people and divided the boundary between life and death.

The bluestone brick road once gathered residents who were sending off.

Among the residents, there was once a fair-looking girl with thick black braids.

Among the lively seeing-off crowd, her beautiful eyes, like hooks, hooked his memories to her, and they could never be removed.

And that piece of flowing, endless river,
Once there was a bottle of old rice wine that was full of daisies and sunk to the bottom.

……

His vision is extremely distant and clear.

The wind and snow in front of him blocked his vision, but he saw the place far away from him as if he had crossed the unreachable boundary.

After boarding the airship, he inquired.

East District, Thirteenth Street, a hardworking girl.

In the early morning, she would wash clothes by the slowly flowing river, and at noon when the sun was at its strongest, she would dry all kinds of clothes at the door.

Salted fish and all kinds of seafood are drying in front of her house. She will step on wooden shoes to dip through the small puddle at the door, and go to the street next door to buy glutinous rice and salt.

In the evening, she stood at the door, waiting for the return of her parents who had gone out to sea. The blood-red sunset sprinkled on her shoulders, and she looked very beautiful.

Maybe later, she will meet someone she loves and who also loves her.He may be a hardworking fisherman, or a heroic soul hunter.

Her love will be blessed by the people around her, and she will be full of children and grandchildren, with a pair of hardworking hands, for her happy life.

Her stable and happy life will be the epitome of thousands of residents in Praia.

Whether young or old, poor or poor, or rich and prosperous.

She can be every industrious and peace-loving resident living on this land.

Disasters will let them go, sea monsters will avoid them, and with the saved resources, people's lives will be stable and prosperous.

On this vast land, suffering and scars will be unnecessary.

The mountain wind evokes clouds and rain, the moonlight pulls the tide, and everything in Praia will continue.

And that young girl... She will grow up safely, she will marry and have children, she will grow old with her lover, and spend the rest of her life happily with her.

She can or rejoice at every important moment in her life.Or worry about really getting through.

Her youth does not have to be forced to freeze at the youngest period, her youth can gradually fade away in the passage of time, and she can fully enjoy the marks left by the years on her body.

Of course someone would kiss her, and would be willing to take her hand, and engrave their love for each other piously.

Of course there will be someone who loves her body and soul, and of course she will enjoy the rest of her splendid and stable life.

...and that's what he wanted to see.

No one is born a victim.

...but he was willing to make this acquired sacrifice.

In the heavy snowstorm,

His palm finally lit up with azure blue light.

The brilliant blue sea monster soul emerged from his body, through his arms, palms, and fingers, like a blue stream, slowly flowing into Michael's forehead.

The snowflakes no longer flow, and the tree shadows stagnate without wind.

Amidst the brilliant light and shadow, the color in his eyes was surging, gradually revealing the tranquility of the same color as Snow White.

His face became old, his hair gradually turned gray, and the skin on his body began to crack and rot.

His body and bones gradually became thinner and shriveled, deformed by the washing of the light.

On his body, the vitality faded away like ice and snow melting.

From the beginning to the end, Su Rin's gaze never moved, but quietly, with an almost serene, gentle expression, gazing at the land in the eastern district.

The wind and snow fell on his eyelashes, and his eyelashes trembled slightly.

Hot tears slid down from the corners of the eyes, and disappeared in the fiercely burning blue fire.

In the splendid and grand flame, no one saw this tear.

"well done."

He said.

The blood faded from his face, revealing a pair of empty eyes.

All the time is frozen in it, and no one or anything he loves can jump in it.

Michael, who was infused with the soul of the sea monster, was already in tears.

The vitality in his body is getting stronger and stronger.His blond hair was slowly dyed into a pitch black color, his facial features gradually began to twist and change, and the momentum on his body rose little by little, like a raging fire.

After Su Rin's gray hair and complete corruption of his body, Michael has completely changed into Su Rin's youngest appearance.

...he became Su Rin.

Su Rin of the second generation.

The blue, beautiful sea monster, like a sea monster shaped by a god, merged into his body, and Mikael opened his dark golden eyes.

In front of him, the original young man had turned into a puddle of flesh and blood.

……

["Su Rin. In order to ensure the peace of Praia, important figures such as the leader of the soul hunt, the royal nobles, the head of the Royal Knights, the captain of the Praia Guard, including your brother and father... they cannot follow you Ship, have you said goodbye to them yet?"]

【"I said goodbye."】

【"In what name?"】

【"Travel."】

【"...You are still full of hope."】

【…】

[The young, high-spirited captain smiled in front of the princess. 】

【"Princess." He said with a light smile:】

……

【"I don't think death is my end until I reach the end of my journey."】

……

Michael, who turned into Su Rin, wiped away the tears on his face.

His eyes have become extremely clear, like the youthful young captain who was on a boat sailing far away.

He put Su Lin's flesh and blood on the ground into a small mahogany box, and completed this extremely simple, lonely, unnoticed funeral, and then turned around in the wind and snow, and walked away slowly.

The bigger the wind and snow.

The house is covered with pure white clothes, and the city wall is like a sleeping dragon, lying in the white snow.

The cold wind blew a burst of noise from the city, mixed with people's laughter.In the distance, amidst the wind and snow, the water surface of the harbor shone like neon lights, and the white sails of fishing boats appeared and disappeared from time to time.

The young man wearing a white mask, holding the extremely light mahogany box in his arms, slowly walked out of this deserted alley step by step.

Dead stillness spread in the air, and the wind and snow pressed against his somewhat bent back.

His slightly bent figure merged with the silent darkness in the gradually thickening twilight.

He left in the grand ceremony and died in a lonely alley.

The white light in front of him gradually faded and disappeared.

The scene is over.

……

After decades passed, Michael couldn't bear the malice in his soul.

At that time, he had been completely assimilated into Su Rin, and the memory that belonged to Mikael had been blurred.

Before he died, he wrote his last words in the basement of Wangcheng.

……

[I lied to the Pope and Princess Tulip, saying that I was going to sea to find a way to break the barrier. 】

[However, I just want to die alone. 】

【That person... that kid who called himself Soulhunter, when he slashed at me, I didn't resist. 】

【He seriously injured me and tore off half of the map in my hand. 】

【...But he probably didn't think that I just wanted him to kill me. 】

【I don't want to take on such a heavy responsibility again...it's almost crushing me.I have gradually been unable to tell whether I am the former Michael or the current 'Su Lin'. 】

……

【Let the kid who killed me, who called himself Kaiya, become the next 'Su Lin'. 】

……

Gard's later husband, Kaiya, became the third generation of Su Lin.

He snatched away half of the map of the dying Michael. After Michael's death, his mind was flooded with a lot of Su Rin's memories.

He couldn't control the huge memory and swinging emotions. He went to sea according to the original plan and boarded a ship to the Art Empire.

Belonging to Kaia, his timidity made him dare not return to Praia, dare not face the deceived princess and the Pope - he chose to settle in the Yate Empire and lived there for decades.

In the process of Kaia being assimilated, Su Rin's memory gradually gained the upper hand. He bewitched the Duke of the Art Empire and obtained the false identity of Viscount, but limited by Kaia's cowardice, he lived incognito and returned to Puerto Rico. Raya struggled repeatedly.

...Finally, one day, he completely turned into Su Rin.

The part that belonged to Kaia disappeared.

He planned a plan to seize the ship, transformed the S-class soul hunters and a group of nobles, boarded the indestructible pearl of the empire, and with the help of the siren soul, he took away the empire's most important Ater stone, so that it can be preserved safely.

And those who went with him,

...It is the dignified and beautiful lady who is like a tulip.

[Saya. 】

And in Praia, the girl from the east side who was supposed to live a happy life, failed to wait for her husband, and failed to spend the rest of her life with her lover.

After Su Rin blessed her, his first-generation successor Michael let Kaiya take over the burden in an extremely dramatic way and ruined her happiness with his own hands.

She guards her daughter who is sick in bed, and her son who is going to the front line, waiting for her husband all his life,
...until the teeth shaken and the hair turns gray.

……

And no matter what, no matter what method is used, what is sacrificed.

In this land that has experienced many vicissitudes, peace has continued.

"Su Lin" lived in people's praises, was erected a monument, became famous, and successfully became a glorious hero in the legend.

A symbol that has been passed down, a name that is chanted, and a mark engraved on the stone tablet, he regards himself as a brick of this land.

He once stepped into the golden dusk amidst the noisy sea breeze full of laughter, turned his back on his partners and colleagues who had been with him day and night, walked towards the airship, and never looked back.

The sound of the waves is like a drum, and the sound of a flute is like thunder.

The setting sun sprinkled on his body, and his shoulders were as red as flames.

He carried out the ideals of generations, guarded the peace of the land, and died amidst the brilliant lights of thousands of families.

as a promise,
for order,
for love.

He is a microcosm of the thousands of victims on this land.

or just,
or mercy,
or outrage.

……

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[The story about me is very long, very long... I also regret many things. 】

【—What is the way to protect the people I love?Sacrifice, balance, or hatred? 】

[What is the motivation to maintain the survival of a group?And those who lost their faith and lived in illusory dreams, are they still the people I love? 】

[At this moment before I die, I can't figure it out. 】

[My dear heir, I am sorry to entrust this task to you. 】

[Inevitably, please be me, and then...]

【——With your life, your flesh and blood, your bones, your burning soul, everything you have, fearlessly, bravely, and resolutely—love this land. 】

【Fight for the crying people, live for the laughing people. 】

【Because of your sword, your will, your fetters——】

[...to protect this hot land of thousands of suffering people. 】

……

……

[Just like me,]

【... Just like thousands of "we". 】

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[Perfect clearance progress: 95%]

(End of this chapter)