[Hokage] Fluorescent lamp

I don't remember how long I slept.

I only know that it has been a long, long time since I was knocked out by the scorpion and closed my eyes.

I felt like I had a very long dream. I was lying next to the scorpion, and Hui asked me to do the task.I was just about to get up, but the scorpion held down my hand.He told me not to go.

Then i woke up.

No quests, no ashes, and no scorpions.

I lay in bed dazed for a long time before I picked up the memory before I closed my eyes.

The beast scorpion actually tricked me.

I jumped up from the bed and looked around, only to realize that this was not the room I was in before I fell asleep.

This is my home.

For a moment, I really had the illusion that everything before was just a dream.

But when I ran downstairs excitedly, I realized that everything was true.

The mother died, the father died, the ashes died, and the scorpion was gone.

Scorpion sent me back to Sand Hidden Village, but he just left.

I stood blankly in the living room, turned my head and saw Scorpion's home through the window.

The light in Scorpion's room will now never come on again.

Driven by some strange emotion, I still went to Scorpion's house. Of course, I didn't go through the window, but knocked on the door of his house.

"Scorpion..."

"Scorpion?"

"..."

"Scorpion, are you there?"

After a long time, I finally got a response when I was about to give up.

The rustling voice inside the door was getting closer and closer to me.

I am pleasantly surprised.

The door was finally opened.

It was not the scorpion who came to open the door.

After opening the door, what I saw was not a scorpion, but Grandma Chiyo.The old man who has been working hard on Sha Yin's big and small things at this moment seems to have aged dozens of years in an instant.

Grandma Chiyo seemed relieved to see me when she opened the door.

"What... so it's a little lamp."

I know the reason why Grandma Chiyo is missing now.

It was nothing more than the defection of her only grandson, the Scarlet Sand Scorpion, the death of my father, and the disappearance of Kazekage.Successive incidents dealt a huge blow to her and the entire Hidden Sand Village.

I pretended to be ignorant and looked inside the door: "Grandma Chiyo, can I go in?"

Grandma Chiyo finally let me in.

I was worried that grandma Chiyo would see clearly what I was hiding, so I could only sit in the living room stiffly and wait for her to speak.

It was only after she sighed in front of me for the seventh time that she finally spoke to me.

"Little lamp..."

"Well, grandma is here."

"It's not good to tell you this as soon as you come back from the mission, but Xiaodeng, your father... died in the line of duty."

I pretended to be sad and surprised and lowered my head, feeling nothing in my heart.

Grandma Chiyo continued to talk to me, and he probably just worried that I would become the second scorpion who defected because he hadn't returned for a long time.

"The third Kazekage-sama is also missing... We are guessing whether he was kidnapped. Xiaodeng, I know that you and Xiezi grew up together and cannot accept Scorpion's defection. However, it is also time to wake up and let Scorpion go. gone."

Ok, I know.

I answered inwardly.

No one in Hidden Sand Village is more aware of Scorpion's defection than me.

I came here this time only because I just woke up and was at a loss about this matter.

I covered my face from the inexplicably irrepressible smile, lowered my voice and said, "I see, Grandma Chiyo—then, I'll be leaving first."

Grandma Chiyo did not keep me.

She probably thinks that, like her, I am a person who suffers from the same illness as her after the scorpion is gone.

The first day after the scorpion left.

I was alone in Sand Hidden, and I was quite used to it.

After I returned to my room, I fiddled with the puppets for a long time. Of the three puppets Scorpion gave me, two of them were damaged.The crow had been torn apart the day it killed Hui, and now it was just a copy of the original, and the only one that survived.

After thinking about it, I took the crow back into the scroll, and threw the other two damaged ones to the corner.

Scorpion is clearly a liar.

What else did you say to give me a parting gift, and what is a rare work other than Sandai Kazekage.

It seems they all lied to me.

I took a deep breath and tried to forget all these things.

I don't think it's too late, so I plan to take a shower and go out to eat now.

It seems that I haven't eaten any serious food since I planned to kill Fengying with Scorpion. The last meal before Scorpion left was a few blood-enhancing pills that he stuffed into my mouth.

Thinking like this, I walked into the bathroom while undressing.

The bathroom in my house has not been used for a long time, and even the mirror in the bathroom is covered with dust.

I raised my hand to wipe off the layer of floating dust, and stood in front of the mirror and stared at it for a long time.

I don't know what happened to Scorpion after he left Sand Yin.

I don't know if Scorpion will meet me again in the future.

I don't know if Scorpion and I will really stand on opposite sides and fight to the death in the future.

I don't know - hmm?

Something in the mirror caught my attention.

Then I am a little familiar, in the lower center of the mirror, it is so bright that I don't care if I don't pay attention.

I stretched out my fingers and touched the mirror over and over again, and finally confirmed that it was not a sticker stuck on the mirror, but actually growing on my body.

I looked down in disbelief.

In the next second, my screams resounded throughout the room.

Thankfully I live alone now.

This kind of scream like seeing a ghost did not cause any commotion.

I was so frightened that I fell to the floor of the bathroom, groping and confirming my body over and over again with my hands.

Yes, I read that right.

In the mirror just now, I found the most familiar thing I have seen in so many years except the knife.

It was called a spherical joint, and it was supposed to be placed on the puppet.

I looked down in disbelief, the huge ball joints in my waist and abdomen were deeply immersed in my body, and the lower part covered by the pants seemed to be connected by this thing.

There is a nucleus on the left side of the chest, which beats like a heart, with a scorpion mark on it.

So does the left hand, so does the right hand, so does the wrist, so does the arm.

Subtle seams held my body together.

I got up and looked in the mirror in astonishment, and turned my body slightly.

Like those puppets made by scorpions, I was marked with the scorpion's mark.A ferocious and huge black scorpion was entrenched on my lower back, lifelike.

Scorpion didn't lie to me.

What the scorpion said was true.

This is the gift Scorpion gave me, a rare masterpiece in his life.

I trembled and touched my body, and when my skin collided, I made sounds that humans could not make.

No blood holes running through my hands and feet, no sore joints from repeated removal, no age-old scars, and no bruises from scorpions.

nothing left.

But I am still alive here.

I laughed uncontrollably, sobbing while laughing.

The puppet's body will not shed tears, but the eyes that will no longer have tears are in unbearable pain at this moment.

Scorpion didn't lie to me.

What the scorpion said was true.

This is the gift of Scorpion before he left, and this is his rare masterpiece in this life.

The scorpion made me his puppet.

I laughed and cried without tears, all the words I wanted to say blurred into broken syllables in my throat.

"Scorpion, scorpion—"

"Scorpion, the scorpion of red sand..."

"Scorpion, so... you gave me a puppet for self-defense, that is, turning me into an immortal puppet..."

The author has something to say:

Brother Deng has become a puppet oh yeah.

I will try to let Brother Deng get out of Sha Yin in the next chapter and embark on the road to find the scorpion.