Chapter 32: My Ideals
Leo Lu made his way slowly towards Kazuki, each step as if he had made a lot of determination, the flesh pads rattling on the ground and his movements looking sluggish. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Info But no matter how much his voice tried to mature, even if he stood any further, Leolu still seemed too small and immature on this roof that was so empty that only destroyed launchers and blazing fire remained.
Leo Road stopped about ten meters away from Ikki. It was a distance that he could reach in a short split second, if he wanted to. But he didn't take even another half step. The invisible aura released around his body made Ikki can't help but be timid, as if he was looking at a strange elf who had never been masked.
"For your injuries...... All I can say is sorry. This is probably the second time I've hurt you so directly......" His eyes swept over Kazuki's bandaged arm. The blackened bloodstains told Leolu that it wasn't a minor injury, but there was nothing he could do.
"It's okay, it's not Leolu's fault!" Ikki tried to cover the wound while preventing him from apologizing, but an indescribable feeling welled up in his heart, making him unwilling to accept Leolu now, and at the same time worrying about what he was going to tell himself.
"Ikki, do you know?" Leolu smiled self-deprecatingly as he looked up at the gray sky filled with clouds, "I just had a dream. “
"Dream?" Ikki hurriedly asked, "...... What kind of dreams?"
"It's not interesting, and it's not the ...... I'm trying to tell you," he shook his head, his scarlet eyes even more faint than before.
"What's that?" Ikki stepped back again, a simple conversation that felt as nervous as having him perform at the convention again. Ikki instinctively feared.
"Do you remember I've asked you a few times before about ideals?" Leoru snapped the joints of his claws, looking like he was just moving his body as usual, "Do you know why I care so much about ideals?"
Kazuki didn't expect him to throw such a question, and now he didn't understand the reason for Leolu's warm-up. He just waited quietly for the following.
Seeing that he didn't reply, Leolu had to continue, but his immature voice seemed to have suddenly changed a lot.
"Because I don't have ideals. “
Kazuki was taken aback, he could not have imagined that Leolu would say such a thing. Leolu waved his paw to make him not surprised, though.
"I don't have ideals...... Or rather, it is the loss of ideals. “
"If you want to survive, you have to have a purpose that can be sustained for a long time," Leolu continued, "but I lost that purpose a long time ago. I'm not going to tell you about my past, Kazuki. Now is not the time, and you are unlikely to understand...... No, I guess I can't understand it. “
"I had a dream when I was being controlled, it reminded me a lot of the past, and I suddenly felt very powerless, you must not understand my feelings, right?"
Ikki didn't know what was going on, and listening to Leolu's words, he didn't even have a little complicated feelings. Because he knew he didn't know the blue elf in front of him - or that he was still a mystery.
"Then why did you ...... before?"
"Why did I want to travel with you, right?" Leolu picked up the topic without thinking, he knew that Ikki would definitely ask that, and looked at him with a wry smile, "Because I have always been here with the support of your ideals. “
"Is my ambition to be the strongest trainer possible? you've always traveled with this goal?" Ikki found it hard to believe that Leo Lu had come all the way like this, and he took a few steps back. Ikki no longer knew Leo Lu in front of him.
Of course, Leo Lu knew that Ikki had retreated a lot, and now the distance between the two of them should have exceeded fifteen meters, but he didn't catch up, but looked at the sky again and sighed: "Yes." You become the strongest trainer, I become the strongest elf, it's that simple. But he shook his head again, "But I can't go on like this now, I can't live on your ideals anymore." That makes no sense!"
"I understand...... I've always understood that......" Tears suddenly welled up in the corners of his eyes.
When he first came to this world, he wanted to give up, but he still tried to hypnotize himself and convince himself to survive in a different world with another identity. But not anymore, now he can't bear the weight of memories. If he hadn't met Ikki, maybe this matter would have passed, but the facts were in front of him, and he couldn't escape it.
He also understands that it is not Ikki's fault, the problem lies with Leolu himself.
"Leolu, what do you want to do?" Ikki also seemed to have made up his mind, and put his hand on the Poké Ball hanging from his waist.
"It's simple," Leolu quickly wiped away tears before Ikki found out, "All I want now is a reason to prove my existence, or a new ideal." “
"But the second option doesn't exist from the moment I start talking to you," he shrugged and began to slowly change his body posture, "so I just need a reason." “
Kazuki suddenly shouted, "What am I going to do?" If it's Leolu, I'll do whatever I can to help. “
Leolu shook his head, and motioned for Kazuki to calm down again, "I do need your help, in other words—only you can do it." “
"Only I can do that?" Ikki was stunned, "What's that?"
"Defeat me!" Leolu's move was already in place, it was his starting move to prepare for battle, but there seemed to be a subtle sense of disobedience.
"Beat me, Kazuki. I need a defeat led by you!
"Me? wait...... Why me?" Ikki panicked, his mind blank, if it weren't for Leo Lu standing opposite, maybe he wouldn't even be able to speak.
"Don't ask so much. To fight, or not to fight, don't hesitate any longer!" Leo Lu suddenly became excited, and the aura around his body increased again, just looking at it made people feel weak.
This is the power that Leolu will do whatever it takes. It's just that you can't use it for a long time. So it can only be solved quickly.
After a brief hesitation, Ikki nodded firmly: "Okay, since there is no one else but me, then I can't shirk it." “
"The rule is one-on-one, as long as you can defeat my current state, you win, otherwise, if you are defeated by me, it is my victory, understand?"
Ikki returned to the position ten meters away from him, took a deep breath, and took out the red and white Poké Ball.
"Understood, but Leolu, if I defeat you, I'm going to take you in, is that okay?"
“…… No problem, that's what I've been saying for a long time, right? You don't have to remind me. “
"Then ......" Kazuki smiled and threw the Poké Ball into the air, "I'll use it to fight you!"
Looking at the Poké Ball slowly opening in the air, Leolu didn't care which one Ikki had in his hand. He just felt unpleasant and fell into deep self-reproach.
'I'm sorry, Ikki. I'll be sure to tell you why...... If you can really beat me......