"The Age of Exemplars" Tochuzzi

The tunnel is deep and deep, only as wide as a person's shoulders.I tied Henry's waist to mine with a wide rope, and entered the tunnel first.

I didn't expect the tunnel to be so long.

Aritius was very careful and put some food and water in the tunnel. Although it was only enough for one person, it was enough for Henry and me to survive.

In the dark, Henry and I shared a piece of naan, and we laughed at the same time as we ate.

Who would have thought that such notorious two people would fall into such a situation.

When the light appeared at the end of the tunnel, I knew we had reached the destination that Aritius had set for us.

And now it was the morning of the next day.

Henry and I finally ushered in a new student who didn't know where to go.

I went out first and pulled Henry up.

look around.

This is a deserted pit outside the city of Tochuki, used to throw away the corpses of the poor who have no place to bury them.

Henry and I climbed over the corpse.

Halfway up the climb, a corpse caught my attention.

The female corpse was wearing armor, with blood oozing from the gaps, her limbs and head were twisted, and she died in a terrible state.

But her face was so young, like a rose blooming before dawn, cruelly dying in the dark night.

It's Sophia.

There are three long swords stuck in her chest, and the armor on her shoulders has also been cut, exposing thick bones.

The most ironic thing is that the three swords all have Audra's logo, which is exactly the same as the one on her armor.

The former Audra Rose died at the hands of the people who loved her the most.

Henry came up to me and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing." I shook my head, then realized he couldn't see.

Leaving Sophia's body behind, I led Henry and accelerated up.

Out of the barren pit, I took Henry and walked straight to the woods.

Alitius once asked me, if you were defeated in the battle and could only flee with ten subordinates, where would His Highness choose.

I said, woods.

The most difficult places often contain opportunities for survival and counterattack.

Walking through the woods, I saw what Aristius had prepared for me—a horse, two sets of civilian clothes, a bag of gold coins, and a sharp knife.

After sitting on the horse, Henry had a bad expression, as if he was very uncomfortable.

But when I questioned him, he just shook his head and said everything was fine, and that we should be on our way as soon as possible so that Aritius's thoughts would not be wasted.

I got on my horse, held Henry in my arms, and rode in a direction away from the royal city of Tochuki.

From early morning to sunrise, before Henry and I reached the next city, Davilli's pursuers appeared.

There was a sound of horseshoes behind me and Henry, I clamped the horse's belly and turned around.

Henry nestled in my arms, looking calm.

He said suddenly, "It's pretty good."

"Yeah." I looked at Henry's face in the morning sun and agreed with him.

We all know our end.

It's all the same, just be with him.

Only before that, I'm taking him to our Rose Valley.

Aritius's horse was fast, and in a short time took Henry and me to the valley.

The rose season is approaching, most of the rose doors are only half open, and only a few are in full bloom in the sun.

I'm sorry, but Henry enjoyed it immensely.

He couldn't see the magnificent sight of the roses all over the mountain, but he could smell the strong fragrance of all the roses combined.

It dazzled him.

Before the rebels entered the valley, I took Henry, pushed aside the sharp rose thorns, and came to a cave deep in the valley.

This is the deathbed I have chosen for myself and Henry.

There were no cicadas or birds singing in the cave. Henry and I were only surrounded by roses, as peaceful as the beginning of the world.

Not long after, Daveli's people finally found here.

They were fascinated by the sight of roses.

Realizing that Henry and I were in the valley, they couldn't be bothered to play seek and hide, so they set a fire and destroyed the rose cluster I'd been preparing for two years.

The blazing fire ignited, and Henry and I finally came to the end.

Until this moment, I didn't know that I couldn't accept——

I thought dying with Henry would be the best thing for me, but it wasn't.

I can die in any humiliating way, but not Henry.He is the person I have pursued all my life, my belief, and the existence that I want to hold in heaven even if I abandon the whole Tuochuqi.

How could such a person die in the purgatory where the roses were burning, completely unrecognizable and scorched.

I brushed Henry's blond curls back out of order and gazed at his face for the last time.

He was still perfect, more so than Hera.

I kissed him on the lips, then drew the knife, ready to cut a bloody path for Henry.

But Henry stopped me.

He hugged me from behind, like I have hugged him so many times before.

He kissed my neck and the side of my face, as impatiently as a traveler in the desert seeing an oasis.

He threw away the knife in my hand, tore my clothes, and told me that at the end of his life, he would do the happiest thing with me.

I was easily captured by Henry.

In front of him, my beliefs, persistence, stubbornness, pursuit, and the meaning of what I did in the first half of my life all disappeared. I just want to be with him.

The flames of the Rose Valley reddened the sky, like roses blooming like an ocean.

The author has something to say: Daveli: Set fire to the mountain, and sit in prison.

Is this BE or HE?