I live longer than the incomparable

In orphanages, the most common way to punish children who have made mistakes is to lock them in the basement.

The boy named Atsushi Nakajima curled up in the dark and damp little house.

In the entire orphanage, there was no child who was more familiar with the basement than him.

Whether it is the dean or the staff in the orphanage, all the adults said: "Atsushi Nakajima is a bad boy."

Even though Atsushi Nakajima never understood what mistakes he made to become what they call a "bad boy".

He only knows that whenever something happens in the orphanage, such as someone destroys some place, someone messes up some rooms-after such things happen, the adults will immediately feel ——

It was the kid named Atsushi Nakajima who did it.

Even though Atsushi Nakajima cried and defended countless times in front of them: "I didn't do it."

No one will believe his words...

No, probably... there are still some.

When he crouched in the corner with his knees in his arms, buried his head deeply in his knees, trying to keep his body warm, ignoring the surrounding darkness and the invisible malice in the darkness, he seemed He heard someone calling himself.

The basement is not a completely enclosed space. In order not to suffocate people to death, a small window is left on the high part of the wall—it is usually covered with stone slabs, and only a little light can leak in from those gaps.

From outside the small window, came a boy's voice.

The voice called him: "Adun~Adun—"

Atsushi Nakajima raised his face, and in the sight that had stayed in the darkness for a long time, light suddenly appeared.

—someone had removed the slab that covered the small window.

He narrowed his eyes, subconsciously raised his hand to block it, and it took several seconds to get used to the light.

When Atsushi Nakajima put his hands down, a pair of rainbow-like eyes broke into his sight.

A child similar to his age was lying on the ground outside, and put his face close to the small window. He put his hand in through the gap in the iron fence. of spider silk.

He stood up in a daze, scars and bloodstains were still on his bare and young feet, and there were tears of pain on his face. There was no vitality in this boy, as if his own existence had been buried in the basement. The clammy darkness swallowed—until he took the hand.

It was a...a hand that was compassionate and warm like a god or Buddha.

"Tong Mo," the white-haired boy asked the boy with the pity-like eyesight of a god, "Human...why do we have to live in this world?"

He couldn't understand such a question from the bottom of his heart.

The boy who grew up in the orphanage did not know who his biological parents were since he was a child, nor did he know why they gave birth to him.

He has never experienced "love", nor does he know what "happiness" is.

In his life, there were only those eyes with disgust and the beatings that fell on him.

A boy named Atsushi Nakajima, under his ill-fitting and torn clothes, bruised and purple scars gnawed at his flesh and blood like a centipede.

He stared at the boy on the high place with his eyes wide open. The face of the boy he saw from the small window, the sunlight fell on every strand of his hair, making the pure and beautiful white oak hair look like a real one. The radiance of God.

Different from Atsushi Nakajima's silver-white hair, Tong Mo's white hair is more of a warm golden color, which also makes him look more gentle, not as cold and gloomy as Atsushi Nakajima.

People say that Tong Mo is a good boy like a god.

He always listened carefully to everyone's troubles, shed tears of pity for them, and said to them in a compassionate voice: "It's so pitiful..."

"You will definitely go to bliss."

That is where there is neither pain nor sorrow - the land of ultimate bliss.

Tong Mo held the small, immature palm in his hand, and said softly to the child, "It's to bear the pain."

——*——

Tong Mo was born as a different child.

He has warm and pure white oak hair, and a pair of rainbow-like thick and beautiful eyes—from the moment he was born, his parents sincerely believed that such a child must be a gift from the gods.

Even today's medicine has already explained the reason for this kind of eye pupil that is different from ordinary people, it is only an abnormal physical condition.In medicine, they also have their own definition - heterochromia iris.

But the couple were devout believers. They loved him with all their strength, put on the robes for him, put on the crown of five Buddhas, and placed the little child on a high rosette.

Then bow down to him.

This kind of life lasted for six years, until his parents were killed by the other because of their cheating.

Tong Mo, who lost his guardian, was sent to a nearby orphanage, where he met a boy with similar hair color who was enduring suffering in the world.

He felt pity for the other party from the bottom of his heart, stretched out his hand to the boy covered in "sin", and said to him: "Human beings were born in this world to bear the pain of the world."

This world is hell, an extremely miserable, extremely distorted, hopeless, and hopeless hell, full of mourning.

Everyone is crying, everyone is screaming, everyone is saying, "It hurts..."

Tong Mo's ears are full of such voices, telling him the pain of the world, trying to seek comfort and redemption, voices longing for liberation.

Tears of pity poured out of those rainbow-colored eyes, and the little child said to them with a gaze of compassion like that of a god or Buddha: "The Paradise of Ultimate Bliss must exist."

Even, he himself didn't believe it.

——*——

In the entire orphanage, the only one who doesn't stare at Nakajima Atsushi with hatred and disgust is a boy named Tong Mo.

It was a child with a carefree smile on his face, as if he had never experienced any pain, and was always loved by the world.

Atsushi Nakajima yearned for such an existence, yearning for the hope flowing from him, he heard what Tong Mo said.

——Human beings are born in order to encounter suffering and endure torture.

There are always many people around Tong Mo, not only the children who live in the orphanage, but also the adults—even those in the orphanage who never smile at Atsushi Nakajima The staff always show a gentle smile when they stand in front of Tong Mo.

——Because Tong Mo is a child who can hear the voice of the gods.

So beside him, there are people who want to hear his voice and are suffering.

Atsushi Nakajima had never been able to fit in with them in that moment, loved by no one, welcomed by no one.Only when he was locked in the basement could he hold the hand that came down from the small window.

When he was sentenced to confinement and was not eligible to eat, Tong Mo was the only one who would bring his own food to share with him.

"Why do you want to share it with me?" Atsushi Nakajima suddenly wanted to ask him this way: "Obviously as long as you die, you can go to the Land of Ultimate Bliss."

This is what Tong Mo said most often. He would always tell everyone with a smile on his face that everyone is a very good person, so they will definitely be able to go to Paradise in the future.

To a world where there is no pain, no despair - only good people can go.

Atsushi Nakajima thought, perhaps in the eyes of Tong Mo, everyone—even including the director of the orphanage they were in—probably was a good person.

But in the eyes of Atsushi Nakajima... only Tong Mo was the only one who showed kindness to him.

Atsushi Nakajima has never experienced the feeling of being "loved", nor the feeling of being "needed".

He never got the kindness from those people like Tong Mo did.

Atsushi Nakajima thought, is everyone abnormal, or am I abnormal?

If a person is hated by only one person, then it must be the problem of the person who hates him. If a person is hated by several people, it will make people start to think whether there is something wrong with the person who is hated.

And if everyone hates a certain person, then...

【It was my fault. 】

Atsushi Nakajima had such an idea.

The little child was crying in the dark, and his tears dripped from his round eyes and seeped into his shabby clothes.After those tears left the eyes, they lost their temperature, and the biting cold eroded Nakajima Atsushi's skin.

--so sad.

——so painful.

——It seems that I want to...go to bliss.

He wants to leave this "world" - this miserable, hellish "human world".

"Not yet, Aton." The white oak-haired "God Son" held his head and said to Nakajima Atsushi, "Not yet."

why not?He thought in a daze, what can't be done?

"Because you still have to live," Tong Mo said to him like this: "You have to live."

Atsushi Nakajima didn't understand what he meant, just as if he didn't understand... what the dean said.

A well-dressed young man who looked like moonlight under the moonlight came to the orphanage, and he said to the director, "I am a researcher."

There was a low, almost sad note in his voice.

His eyes are blood-like scarlet—but that long white hair seems to be more pure than the white clothes on his body.

Atsushi Nakajima didn't know the young man's name, nor did he know what the young man wanted to study, all he knew was that it hurt.

He was firmly fixed on the chair, and those strange devices were installed on his body. The "researcher" with long white hair pressed the start button, and the electric current eroded Atsushi Nakajima's body in an instant.

As if the body is being pierced by thousands of thin long needles, the pain penetrates into the flesh and bone marrow from every pore.

This kind of pain is far more severe and unbearable than any previous punishment.

But that young man seemed to want to get something from him, standing in front of him and muttering to himself.

Atsushi Nakajima couldn't hear his words clearly, his consciousness gradually blurred, but some strange changes seemed to have taken place in his body.

Atsushi Nakajima, who always felt that he was not the one who destroyed the equipment in the orphanage and disgusted everyone, broke free from the restraints and turned into a "beast" under the moonlight.

It was a white tiger with black patterns on its body.

It killed the "researcher" and escaped from the basement that had been converted into a "research laboratory" and used to be used for confinement.

Its mind went blank, it didn't know what to think or what to do.

It killed...someone.

Someone whose name it doesn't even know.

It only knows that the man has long white hair and blood-colored eyes.

The white beast under the moon uttered a mournful sound. It pierced through the basement door with its sharp claws and jumped to the ground.

At that moment, it seemed that nothing could restrain him anymore, the cool but gentle moonlight fell on every hair of his, as if stroking his hair.

It heard someone calling someone's name again.

"Adon?"

—Arton?

Is this calling it?The white tiger stopped in the yard in a daze.

It stood on the muddy ground with its animal claws, turned around lightly, and turned its face to the person who made the sound.

who's that person?It thinks with its own mind.

"It's you, Arden."

The boy with iridescent eyes came up to him, put his palm on his head, and said to him, "I see it all."

In his voice... there seemed to be some emotion that Baihu was very familiar with.

The boy's eyes were filled with tears, and he put his head on the white tiger's head lovingly, and said with a godlike voice that could redeem all things: "It's so pitiful..."

How pitiful...

The white tiger disappeared, and a boy named Atsushi Nakajima stood under the moonlight.

The transformation into a white tiger caused such a commotion. Even though it was late at night and everyone had already fallen asleep, this kind of commotion was enough to wake up those people from their sleep and come to check what happened.

Atsushi Nakajima was terrified.

He stared at Tong Mo in front of him helplessly, as if hoping to find something from his mouth.

He heard the child say to him, "Let's run away."

Tong Mo said: "Get out of here, out of this 'hell'."