[Hokage] Terukawa

We have clearly reached this relatively safe place, but at this moment, I feel that the fatigue spreading from my body and mind is almost dragging me down.

It started to snow again, which made me feel like I was falling into an ice cave. Even if I moved, a biting chill would burst from the joints and bones, and then freeze my whole body with every inch.

I thought about it a lot, but I still can't do anything, even going out from here is extremely difficult.One of the executors of this damned escape plan is sitting not far from me at the moment. He looks as if his soul has been sucked out, sitting there powerless and sad, looking like a bird that has been killed. Abandoned rag doll - God knows how a few hours ago, he said how he could squeeze out that relaxed and indifferent expression, raised his eyebrows and said "you think too much" to me.

If I didn't realize something in that split second, was he going to keep it from me until the dust settled?I might unknowingly lose two of the most important people in my life—didn't it occur to him that I would spend the rest of my life hating him?

Oh come on, what qualifications do you have to say your brother?Said like you could actually do something - other than put your head in it too.You clearly know why your family did this, but you just can’t understand, accept, and dare not take the weight of the lives of the other two—ah, how ridiculous!Should I say you're a coward?But if you go back and forth, you don't seem to be a great big shot, so why do you have to bear the weight of the lives of the other two?Isn't life more meaningful if you live it yourself?Isn't its meaning something that only one can experience after surviving? ?

I have a splitting headache, different voices in my head are saying different things - the only thing I can really do now seems to be that one extremely negative word - boil.

Boil it, boil it.

No... Actually there are other meaningful things to do.

For example... Find out who Yiren and Zhizi are facing.

Who would spare no effort and exhaustion to track down this remote place?The reason, what is the reason?

I think of Yiren’s travels in the past days, he and Zhizi occasionally deliberately avoided the conversation with Dongming and me, and some subtle attitudes when pointing at the map... and his chakra attributes, his ninjutsu .

I think of the country whose logo I once laughed at was Zhongyu. The righteous man always seems to talk about the customs of that country more smoothly and more entangled. It seems that he knows it well but has complicated senses. Has a wonderful connection to this country...the Land of Water is his homeland if I remember correctly.

He is someone who can make a ninja village in a country think that it must be cleaned up—this at least shows that a righteous person once held a high position, and he knows what he should know and what he should not know.And there are often only two situations that will trigger a country's killing intent. The first is called blood feud, and the second is called betrayal.

"The country of water?" I asked abruptly.

"...Well." This time he didn't say anything more about Zhaohe, you are indeed a genius and other nonsense, but nodded lightly after a short silence, and then he added after a while as if he just remembered : "They didn't tell me these detailed things. The Kingdom of Water was originally only my own speculation...Of course, this kind of doubt came when I saw the iron sheet, which is what you said that the pattern looks like the iron sheet of Zhongyu. Then I knew I was right."

"Iron sheets?"

"Yes, the iron sheet. Under a certain floor in the study, it is... the third floor from the right of the table leg with the mark on it. I accidentally fell and pushed it away once."

The speculation about the country of water was not wrong, but my mood didn't get better at all, and even got worse.Although Dongming didn't point it out (I even have reason to suspect that he is deliberately covering it up), I seem to have a talent that is different from ordinary people in picking out words-I can extract a message from his words, that is, he is aware of this. There's a [-]% chance that it happened before I did—it was simply part of the plan—and it made me terribly uncomfortable, because it confirmed once again that it was really just me who was left out.

Calm down, Yasaka Terukawa, you can't break out now... After everything is over, you can blow him up again.

I began to continue my speculation.

And the righteous, the works of the righteous.If my previous deduction is correct—that is, the righteous are indeed born in the Land of Water, then it seems obvious which side sent...the killer.

The righteous have undoubtedly fought in wars, and the terms signed at the end of wars have not always been able to appease all the anger of the people.At this time, the protection from the ninja's home country will undoubtedly become their strongest backing-this should be a natural refuge.And the place where righteous people live... at best, it is called quiet environment, at worst, it is desolate. People who used to be in high positions will come to this kind of place to make their home, which in itself shows the problem.Theoretically speaking, the two possibilities of seclusion and hiding can be established at the same time, but as I said, when the location chosen by the righteous is not within the territory of the country of water, all lucky possibilities will be shattered.

Not to mention the heavy rain iron... all kinds of fluke ideas are meaningless at all.

I whimpered inwardly, and buried my face deeply in my palms.

Well, treason is treason.Although this word sounds terrible, but since that person is my father, it’s no big deal—adults always have their own reasons for doing things, and righteous people are the best among them. Reasons to believe that the country of water definitely has a reason for him to leave... Well, well, there may be subjective factors in it-he is my father, and I am partial to him-what can't be admitted?From the perspective of physiological structure, the human heart is inherently biased.

What's more, judging from the current situation, the kingdom of water may be our enemy for the rest of our lives.

At this time, I couldn't help but secretly look at Dong Ming's appearance... It's really strange to say that after sorting everything out, I calmed down miraculously—I don't know if I resigned to my fate or something ——In short, after I calmed down, I couldn't help thinking about the way Dongming talked to me just now.

He didn't look into my eyes at that time, just lowered his eyes.I can't see his thoughts, and I don't know if he has thought about his words and phrases in his heart. I only know that his voice sounds hoarse and ugly, and his tone is also flat. Now that I think about it carefully, I still feel a little bit wronged And carefully, the few questions and answers with me were like interrogators and prisoners who gave up resistance.

I just don't know if there is a fire burning the soul in his heart like mine.

But that has nothing to do with me.

I wanted to sneer, but I couldn't. I seemed to have lost the ability to lift my facial muscles, even if I slightly raised the corners of my lips.

Also, at this time, who can be counted on to comfort whom?It's no longer a matter of who eats whose matcha cake.

In fact, we all know that the events of this day may never end.This will be a nail.I know it's not his fault - he's objectively the first victim, and I should even be grateful to him, it's just that I can't - I don't think I'm wrong, people can be called Isn't it just because you have a heart to be a human being?

In the past, I always felt that time passed quickly, but now I feel that time is so long.

The thoughts in my head were chaotic.For a while, I was lucky to think that maybe the Yiren and Zhizi's abilities are so great that it is not impossible to achieve the achievement of destroying the enemy. After a while, I felt sad and felt that it was us who were more likely to be wiped out-and this After thinking about this kind of situation that I didn't even want to think about, I miraculously feel that there is nothing wrong with it-at least we can still be called "family", can't we ?

Humans are so weird.I think.Obviously everyone is such a life-saving guy, how come they don't care about their own lives at this juncture?

I suddenly realized that this kind of thinking was wrong, and I quickly shook my head as if I woke up -- but it would be great if it was useful.As soon as this kind of thought appeared, it immediately grew wildly in my heart and brain like weeds that had been nourished, no matter how hard I pinched it, I couldn't pinch it off.

Even if Dong Ming yelled at me because of this, he didn't want to strangle me - I was even irritated by him.

"What's the point of living like this?"

I spread my hands to him, with contempt intentionally added in my words - I know I'm wrong, but so what?I know what kind of answer he wants, and I can give him the answer he wants-but I just don't want to do it, yes, it's that simple, that's all.

Looks like sick.

This is the first real quarrel between Dongming and me in so many years.In anger, his unconsciously propped up body did cause me a great sense of oppression - it made me think he was going to slap me - but he didn't after all, so I even had time to see him Raised eyebrows and flushed face.He stared his eyes wide, but his pupils shrunk very small. The light refracted by his gray-blue irises in the dim light contained inconceivable, rage and deep sorrow and despair.

I was surprised by what I found, but not to the point of being surprised.At best, it was nothing more than "Hey, what do you have to vent to me" and "Oh, we should be like this".

This discovery made everything he showed pale, and as long as I continued to watch his silent movements, he could deflate by himself.

It turns out that none of us know each other better than each other.I knew him better than himself, as he knew me better than myself—as if now, I'm afraid he himself hadn't imagined that he would lose his desire to keep getting angry so soon.

I watched him coldly, from the flattening of his brows, to the faintly sharp facial features gradually softening, and finally he sat back on the spot again, looking at me with helpless and sad eyes—the dragon spouting anger was captured He was left out in the cold, so he turned back into that abandoned doll sitting slumped in the corner.

"I'm sorry, Zhaohe, I know we are wrong about this matter." His voice was very low and sounded a little choked up, "but you really can't think that way, let alone do that... If you think with that kind of logic If you don’t know what to do, most lives will lose their meaning. If you must have a reason—then I will try to find one for you.”

For a moment, I wanted to grab his collar and ask him what the reason was - why can't I even think about it?But in a blink of an eye, I dismissed this idea, not only because I knew that it would not make any sense to discuss this issue, but also because this issue was too stupid and too exaggerated.

Hey, stop, Yasaka Terukawa, you should stop.I tapped myself on the forehead, what you need is a calm and useful brain, not a child-like willful fool.

I watched him for a long time, and finally I no longer had any desire to talk.I moved myself into a corner, and childishly turned my back on him—even though I knew it was useless, and if I had the guts, I should show it to my enemies.

His eyes fell on the back of my head.

And after a long time, tiredness had already entangled my spirit, and suddenly something seemed to touch my hair, and he whispered something again.

It's a pity that the wind between the cliffs is too noisy.

I never dreamed that when I woke up again, I would be alone.

I looked around in bewilderment and in vain trying to find my brother.After nervously checking all the accessible spaces of this cave over and over again, I finally cast my gaze outside the cave as if I just remembered it—there was a faintly bright light there, with a forbearing and soft look, as if It is the faint morning light.

The evening is past, the moon is about to set, and the dew is about to leave.

What day is tomorrow?

Tomorrow is today.

For the first time in a long time, I heard the sound of my teeth chattering.