Chapter 51: The Dream of the South
The memory should be mottled old photographs, yellow, moldy, incomplete, and I can't see the black and white blurry figure clearly.
However, there are always a few photos that can resist the invasion of time under strong emotional drive, even after ten or twenty years, nothing will change.
Now, the photos have been turned out. The picture on it is too clear, the colors are too thick, and it is too thick, which makes people's hearts involuntarily tugle and dance without arguing, without much power to remind him of his current state.
Memories of twenty years ago, it shouldn't be like this.
Now he is more like in a 3D theater that is gradually emerging nowadays, so natural, so immersive, the male protagonist in the movie is himself, and the heroine is the two women who slowly sit up from the ground.
The film is divided into two phases, the first half of which takes place in his teenage years. At that time, he had just moved to a small island in the tropics with his father, always wearing dark blue jeans and an orange vest, and running around the island with large swathes of sun-tanned skin, chasing the back of a young girl.
The girl is an ordinary girl on the island, her name is Xia Lei, and she became her father's assistant because of her intelligence.
To be honest, he was quite dissatisfied at first, because his most respected father actually had assistants other than himself. But it didn't take long for his heart to be attracted by the girl's liveliness and gentleness, and began to revolve around her.
When she drove to town to buy something, he would always sit in the passenger seat and accompany her. The backward and xenophobic residents also began to gradually accept him because of the existence of the girl.
"Because Kelly is my brother. ”
The girl always said this to him, which of course touched the boy very much, and he lost his mother since he was a child. There is no memory of my mother. Because he always moved with his father, there was no room for women to stay in his life for more than ten years, until Xia Lei appeared.
Xia Lei respects his father as his own father, and loves him like a younger brother. However, as time passed, a wonderful impulse sprouted in the young man's heart - is she really an older sister?
After this period of time together, he knows her, knows that she is kind, bright and intelligent, and knows her love for him. But not only that, the girl's unintentional every move, such as the side face strolling on the beach with her head down, such as a casual glance back while humming a minor key, made his cheeks feel hot for a while.
Time passed slowly in the youthful relationship between the boy and the girl, and the boy had become no different from the local children, and the only thing that did not change was his pursuit of the girl.
The white dress that never faded was like a big white butterfly, fluttering in front of him, sometimes close, sometimes distant, with the girl's crisp voice.
"Now, Kelly, do you know the origin of the island's name?"
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"I have often been taught by Father Simon that if I work in your house, I will definitely be looked down upon by the devil. ”
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"Kelly, your father is a very remarkable man and I have a lot of respect for him. His knowledge and discoveries are all remarkable, and any one of them is enough to turn the world upside down, and of course it will be frightening, so it must be hidden...... But to be honest, I've always wondered how great it would be if I could use this power to contribute to the world. ”
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"He's given up, but Kelly, I think if it were you, he would be able to do it. ”
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"I'm not an apprentice, I'm just an assistant at best. I do chores and help, but the most important part is that your father didn't teach me anything. But Kelly, you must be the wicked man who inherited everything from your father. Because all the research your father is doing now is for you to inherit what you have done one day. So it's just not the right time. ”
In retrospect, this may be the beginning of the tragedy, if he can be careful, more considerate, can see through the unwillingness and loneliness in the girl's eyes, maybe he can save everything.
Unfortunately, there are no ifs in reality. At that time, he was flustered by the girl's playful smile and sudden attack, and he missed the last chance.
Then, everything changed, and the bright girl disappeared from his eyes forever.
She's dead.
Pale skin.
Blue-black veins emerge from under the skin like cracks all over the cheeks.
The expression of the painful convulsions is the same as that of a dying person.
You can see it at a glance...... This thing is dead.
Although he is dead, he is still active.
He knew very well in his mind that although "this thing" looked like a human, it had already completely become something inhuman.
It was dark outside. Of course, there are no street lights on this island, and even so bright the moonlight shines quietly through the window, clearly illuminating the scene of the tragedy.
This is the chicken coop outside the village. For some unknown reason, the girl did not appear during the day. The boy ran all over the village in search of her, and refused to give up even after dark.
The ground was littered with carcasses of broiler chickens that had been eaten to a bloody pulp. The boy walked deep into the chicken coop and was beside the dead man who was trembling and sobbing.
Kill me—
The thing's face looked exactly like the girl's favorite woman, and it whimpered and pleaded.
The silver dagger was gently tossed at the boy's feet, shining ominously in the moonlight—it was something that Father Simon of the village had given to the girl to defend herself, and now he was going to use it to end the girl's life.
I'm so scared-
I can't do it myself—
So please, it's up to you... Kill me—
It's still too late—
"How could it be ......"
The boy shook his head and stepped back.
How could she possibly do it.
No matter what she becomes, she is who she is. The family she loves the most - no, she is more important than family.
Please—
The girl gasped in agony, and a row of jagged stumbling teeth peeked out of her mouth. He wept madly and breathed like a beast.
I've been- I can't—before I can't hold it back—hurry-
The girl was shaking and struggling as if she had a fever, and she bit her arm with her bare teeth.
Multiply......
The sound of sluping blood irritated his eardrum.
Please—
The boy's own screams drowned out the sound of pleading, and he ran out of the coop.
Deep down he already knew what was going on, but at that time he refused to accept that sad reality.
He doesn't want to believe that the person he loves the most has become a ghoul.
He simply, wishful thinking that she could be saved after becoming a ghoul.
Because of his escape, the peace of the small southern island was shattered.
He told Father Simon in the village about Xia Lei's abnormality and begged for his help. Father Simon reported the anomaly to the Templar Church, the dark side of the Holy See.
It wasn't long before the executors of the Church, the Vicarators, came to the island.
At the same time, the pursuers of another large organization that had been chasing him and his father, forcing them to keep moving, the executor of the Magic Society, also arrived.
Together, they turned the dead island's corpse-infested island into a sea of fire, and they wiped out all life on the island. The many warm smiles I once saw there are all gone.
Only he survived because of the appearance of another heroine.
At that moment, the movie came to the second half.
It was at that moment that he truly reclaimed his name.
The teenager's name was not Kelly at all. He was born in the far east of the country, and his name was rather difficult for the people of this land to pronounce. At first, the maiden called him by the abbreviation of Kelly, and then the title became a fixed name among the islanders. The teenager had also half-renounced the appellation. Rather than being called by the strange pronunciation of "Kelly Dugu", the abbreviation is a little better.
The correct name should be Kiritsugu (Kiritsugu) - the designated magician of the seal, the son of Emiya Kitogen.
PS: If I'm not mistaken, the title seems to be the name of a certain Samsung dress from FGO.
PS2: After thinking about it, in order not to make Kiritsugu's emotional expression too abrupt, I still write about Kiritsugu's juvenile and youthful past, and after the explanation is completed in three chapters, try to be the same as Medea's side, and explain more clearly in my own way, why Kiritsugu became a lone star who drowned with ideals, and why he was able to kill his family with his own hands.
PS3: Those who already know it well can choose to skip it.