[Comprehensive] Mirror of Death and Life

I stared at her without speaking.In fact, it was quite embarrassing. It stands to reason that she saved me, so I should thank her.But the one who wanted to kill me was also a member of their Hagoromo clan, and I even lost a member of my clan because of it. For a while, I didn't know what attitude I should take to face Hagoromo Asako. .

She was also very surprised, Luo Luodafang found a place to sit cross-legged on her own, seeing that I was silent, she asked again very kindly: "Does your arm still hurt?"

It was only after she reminded me that my back hurts, and my arms are second. Why is my back still hurting so much?I reached out and touched it, and found that I was sandwiched between two boards like a piece of bacon, and the board was firmly fixed with gauze.

I don't know where the injury was, but just raising my hand and touching my back made me grin my teeth in pain.

"The bones on your back are a little bit misaligned, but don't worry, Yiren has already corrected it for you." Yu Yi Asako helped me stuff a pillow on my lower back, and I felt much better immediately.

Her explanation also made me feel complicated. What kind of bones are on my back? Isn’t the spine the biggest bone? Fortunately, ninjutsu in this world is unscientific... Otherwise, I would be paralyzed at such a young age.

"I'm sorry for the death of your people." After stuffing a pillow, Asako Hagoromo continued, sitting next to me.

I glanced at her and saw that she had a sincere face and eyes full of sincerity.He lowered his head, thought about it, looked up and looked again: "You... shouldn't you hate us?"

"Why do I hate you?"

"Your sister..." Thinking of those two entangled people, I still feel a little blushing, and said very vaguely, "If it wasn't for us, the two of them would not have been discovered."

But I didn't want Yu Yi Chaozi to sneer suddenly: "Who said that. At least I knew it a long time ago. I persuaded her and she didn't listen, and such a big incident happened. I can only ignore the sisterhood."

This is what confuses me the most. They are also sisters after all. Why did Yu Yi Asako not hesitate at all except for saying sorry?

Of course, I did not hesitate to make it up in my own brain, and the actual situation is probably not much different.

She is really a very strange person, but I can't say what is so strange...

Hagoromo Asako seemed to see through what I was thinking, and explained to me after thinking for a while: "Under the circumstances at that time, I judged that killing her was the best decision."

"First of all, she evaded the mission and had an affair with the enemy during the war, which will not only damage the reputation of our family, but may also lead to the failure of this mission.

Secondly, because of her mistakes, the same clan and allies were harmed. If you die in her hands no matter what the reason is, it will deepen your brother's hatred for Yuyi.When our two races join hands in this way, we are increasing unnecessary conflicts.

Finally... I want to be the patriarch. "

The front was okay, I heard that I could barely speak, but the last sentence of Asako Hagoromo left me stunned.

This girl who was only two years older than me was very calm, looking at me with calmness in her blue eyes. She said she wanted to be the patriarch, so she killed her sister.

"Although I am called a genius, my sister is seven years older than me. No matter how hard I try, I can't catch up with the age gap during this period. My father is old, and I may not be able to wait until I become an adult. There are also supporters in the family. My sister is the voice of the young patriarch. If I want to be the patriarch, I must ensure that she cannot compete with me. Unfortunately, my sister not only wants to get her so-called love, but also wants to be the patriarch of the Yuyi clan. So I killed her at that time. It is the best choice, not only to reduce the possibility of allies turning against each other, but also to ensure that no one will compete with me for the position of the next patriarch." Yuyi Asako narrated unhurriedly, like flowing water, not changing for the stones on the way forward direction of its own flow.She has a clear goal, and she is moving towards that goal, and she will mercilessly abandon anyone who stands in her way.

It was precisely because I understood what she meant that I felt how cruel she was.

Whether to kill her relatives, she can abandon her feelings and completely rationally analyze the reasons to judge whether she should do it.When facing the enemy, I think of my elder brother.

I endured it, but finally couldn't hold back and blurted out: "Is that why you begged my elder brother for mercy, and then killed him without hesitation?"

Yu Yi Asako looked at me, unexpectedly surprised: "You are still thinking about this matter."

"..." You killed my brother, shouldn't I worry about it?

Yuyi Asako seemed more helpless than me, as if she was the victim's family member: "Isn't this a normal thing? The first time he wanted to kill me, I had to beg for mercy so that I could survive. The second meeting , we are enemies, of course I will kill him. No matter what method is used."

"...The next time we meet, if we are enemies, you won't complain if I kill you?"

"Of course." Asako Yuyi replied very straightforwardly, so refreshing that I had nothing to say.

The words were not speculative, and then I thanked her for saving me, and the two of them had no conversation.Hagoromo Asako didn't talk anymore, she was quiet for a while and let me have a good rest before getting up and leaving.

I remember she opened the curtain when she left, and the golden sunset outside came in, very warm.The ninjas outside were preparing their meals, and the aroma of the food wafted in, which was equally warm.My stomach started growling, the hunger made me feel alive, and that feeling made me want to be thankful, thankful that I was alive.

But the person I want to thank is definitely not Hagoromo Asako. If there is such a person, it will only be Uchiha Shusuke who died with Tsukasa.

The destination of Uchiha's men should be on the battlefield.This is what he told me, he didn't want to stay in the clan land, and in the end he fell from the sky with his whole body on fire like Izanaki, and died on the battlefield.

My injury this time caused quite a stir on the front line. The Uchiha clan was very upset because a member of the clan died inexplicably, and I suffered serious injuries.The Yuyi clan was even more upset: a member of your clan died?Three of us died!It's just that this incident was caused by Yoko Hagoromo after all, and they could only hold back their anger and let the Uchiha clan sneer and sneer, but no one could bear it after too many times.They didn't dare to argue with the clansmen in an upright manner, so they could only put their anger on me, the only one who survived.

A few days later, my injuries were almost healed, and when I went out for a walk, I found that the passing Yuyi people were all staring at me, with unfriendly eyes and whispering.In fact, in the final analysis, it was just because I was the weakest, but I didn't die, but the eldest lady of their patriarch died, which made Yuyi very unconvinced.The clan also discovered this situation, and several people in charge of this battlefield discussed it and decided to send me home so as not to intensify the struggle among the allies.I don't have any objection, I just feel aggrieved. If I can be stronger, or if I can be so strong that these people can't catch up, how dare they mock me in private.

Just like the second brother, he found an excuse to beat up a few ninjas from the Yuyi clan, but they still endured it.

After all, I am too weak.

When I was leaving, my second elder brother came to see me off, he held my shoulder to let me relax, and I went back to practice and improve my strength, no matter how many Yuyi I killed, no one dared to talk too much.I saw the murderous look on his face, and I knew that after this incident, his hatred for the Yuyi clan has deepened. As long as there is war, the hatred will not disappear.The old hatred was not resolved, and the new hatred came up again. In the end, there was no one who did not hate other than his own relatives.

Yu Yi Asako didn't come to see me off, she originally wanted to come, so I directly told her no.Pretending not to see her disappointed eyes, I turned around and left, fearing that I would involve too much with her and that I would be unable to do so when we meet again in the future.I think I should learn her way of thinking, keep the useful ones, and discard the useless ones, so that I can feel better and don't have to be so entangled.

Originally, ninja is such a profession, either you die or I live, I told myself like this, I walked backwards and waved to my second brother, he looked at me, his black hair was blown by the wind, his eyes were calm, just calm He couldn't hide the hostility in his bones.

When I got back to the clan, my father had already understood what had happened through a letter. He regretted that I came back without killing the enemy, and then asked me to improve my strength, saying that the next time this kind of thing happens again, it won’t be like this time. Good luck being rescued.

"If you don't even have the ability to survive, then don't survive. Ninja is such a cruel profession." My father knelt behind the low table and said words that were more cruel than the ninja profession with no expression on his face. "You are my son of Uchiha Tajima, you must not be so weak."

I didn't say a word, I bent down to salute, and put my forehead on the tatami, very respectful.Because I know that when he said this again, he was not my father, but the patriarch of the Uchiha clan.

Afterwards, I went to see my mother. I didn’t see her for a long time, but her belly seemed to be getting bigger. She was sitting in the corridor of the yard, wearing a feather, looking at the pond.During this period of time she was at home, the weeds in the yard were pulled out, the pond was refilled with water, a carp was raised, and the whole yard was restored to the well-organized appearance when I was a child.

It was late autumn, the leaves of the cherry blossom tree in the yard had all fallen, the grass below was withered and yellow, and the wind was blowing, and it was chilling to the bone, but my mother didn't seem to notice the chill, she sat on the floor thinking about something What.

Hearing my footsteps, she turned her head and waved to me.I walked over and sat next to her, and she reached out and touched my bangs: "It grows really fast, but it grows again after going out."

I hummed and felt the warmth of my mother's palm, much like the hands of the nanny who took me when I was a child.

"I'll cut it short for you after dinner. It's not good to cover my eyes." Mother touched my head, then suddenly remembered something and said, "Xiuzi is sick, go and see her."

Xiuzi...is the nanny's name, so I haven't seen her for two years.

The next day, I walked to the west of the village with snacks. Aunt Xiuzi lived alone in a house.Originally, there were two other families around her house, but I remember that the men in these two families were almost dead, and the weeds at the door were left unattended, withered and yellow in late autumn, and there was a woman sitting at the door Peeling edamame and basking in the sun, she carried a little baby on her back, and the baby was babbling and waving to play with herself.

The tired woman saw me and smiled in surprise: "Ah, isn't this Master Jing? Come to see Xiuzi, she must be very happy." She beckoned me to go over, stuffed me with the peeled beans , "I heard that you just came back from the battlefield and were injured, is it okay?"

The autumn sun is still warm, and it happened that the temperature dropped last night, which made it even more precious and warm.Holding the handful of beans, I nodded, "It's ready."

The woman smiled beautifully, and her black eyes were as gentle as water: "That's good, she was worried about you when I saw your mother a few days ago. Hui went on a mission yesterday, and happened to be staggered with you. I heard that you were injured on the front line. He also asked the patriarch for instructions to go there for a mission."

I just remembered that Hui's house is not far in front of Aunt Xiuzi, and I heard Aunt Xiuzi mention it a few words before.

He went on a mission?No wonder I didn't see him when I came back this time, and Yazhi was not there.I was a little disappointed that there were no peers I knew.

I was let go after being cared for by the enthusiastic clansmen.Holding the handful of beans in one hand and the snack in the other, I knocked on the door of Auntie Xiuzi's house.After waiting for a long time, someone came to open the door.

Accompanied by the creaking sound of the wooden door being pushed open, a face so old that I could hardly bear it appeared behind the sliding door, as if the nanny who had aged ten years in the past two years was looking at me, and after a few seconds Recognize me: "Ah! Master Mirror!"

She tried very hard to put on an expression of surprise, but the illness had taken most of her energy, her wrinkled face was dull, and her eyes were drooping, so the smile she squeezed out looked stiff.

"Auntie Xiuzi, I heard that you are sick, so I'll come and see you." Looking at this strange yet familiar face, I said softly.

The house is very old, just like its owner.Before that, I had only heard that women who lost their husbands and sons would have a hard time, but I didn't expect it to be so pitiful.Originally, the house wasn't too big. If it was a family of three, it would be very warm, but when there was only one person, it felt too empty.

In addition, Auntie Xiuzi has been in poor health for the past few years and has no intention of taking care of it. The house has no maintenance, and the aging rate has doubled. The corners are full of dust, and there are spider webs on the ceiling.

Auntie Xiuzi was very happy that I came to see her and told me many things.Most of them are things from my childhood. In fact, I remember them very clearly. I have never forgotten even the things in my previous life. Of course, these things are vivid in my memory.

But in order to cooperate with her, I still pretended to be a person who had never heard of it, or laughed or embarrassed, I thought I had acted well enough, no, both of us acted well enough, but the atmosphere was still slow Condensed down.

The initial surprise was over, and it was only then that she realized that she had nothing to say. She gave me all the knowledge she knew, and she was not interested in my experience in the past few years. She only asked me one question repeatedly——Do you have any? Met someone from the Senshou family.

She looked disappointed after I shook her head in disapproval.The two portraits are placed on the wooden cabinet behind her. They are Auntie Xiuzi's husband and children. In the black and white photos, neither of them is smiling, they are very serious, with quiet eyes.Auntie Xiuzi noticed my gaze and began to tell me how they died, one was pierced through the heart by a wooden tunnel, and the other...

My thoughts drifted away, I didn't hear these words repeated countless times in my ears, even if I didn't listen, I still remember them clearly.Her hatred, her despair.

I stared at Auntie Xiuzi's face. This old and dull face was only revived when the topic of revenge was brought up.She said that if she could open her eyes and become a ninja, she would absolutely smash every thousand-armed member into ten thousand pieces, and roast every inch of muscle with fire.The way she said these words reminded me of Yoko Hagoromo for no reason. She stepped on my face and pressed my wound with such a face.

Old, young, lifeless, vigorous, ugly, beautiful, they are obviously two completely different faces, why do they overlap in my eyes?

I still held the handful of smooth beans in my palm and handed them to my woman. Her husband also died in the hands of ninjas from other families. I don't know if it was the Senshou family or the Yuyi family.But none of that matters anymore...

I squeezed the handful of beans, stuffed them into my mouth one by one, and chewed slowly, listening to Aunt Xiuzi's devilish face as I described the Thousand Hands Clan, my heart was extremely peaceful.

...No matter who it is, just kill it.