Chapter 14: "The Grievances of Childhood"
"Ding...... Congratulations to the Brave for harvesting the 'Fragments of Surrey's Memories', and please keep up the good work. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Sure enough, it was Sarri's memories.
Zhong Lan returned to reality and re-examined the punishment room, the notebook on the table was opened by himself, and suddenly it was automatically rolled up without wind, quickly showing the text inside, due to the fast speed, Zhong Lan's dynamic vision could only capture part of the paragraph.
"Today I angered my father and took my sister out of the castle...... When I came back, my father was very angry, and for the first time he called me a ''......"
"I seem to understand a lot of things, why I have to live in a dark secret room since I was a child, why I have met only the servants who deliver meals and the rare father and stepmother. The sudden appearance of my sister was a ray of light in my life, but ...... Can't warm up. ”
"My sister is very clingy to me, which makes my father and mother angry...... They punished me. Pain, pain, pain. ”
"I sneaked out and saw my sister smiling in my parents' arms, they were like a real family of three, I was just an outsider, even a who insulted the family."
"I want to have a sister, why can't beautiful things belong to me? My sister loves me so much, she must be willing to give everything to me. She belongs to me. ”
"I want to ......"
The next words were more vague, a diary was quickly flipped over, and Zhong Lan blinked his sour eyes. A puff of smoke suddenly rose from the diary in front of him, and he gradually took on a human form.
It was a pale boy, because he was too thin, so a pair of blue eyes were extraordinarily large, with a blue and black eye circle around the eyes, his mouth pulled down, and he stared at Zhong Lan gloomily.
Zhong Lan took a step back and quietly took out the iron sword from the package.
The boy opened his mouth wide like a snake and made a strange "hissing" sound from his mouth. The nails suddenly became longer, showing the color of blue and black and purple, and they rushed towards Zhong Lan.
Zhong Lan dodged, dodged a direct blow, turned around and swung his sword at the boy.
The boy was also extremely fast, scurrying around with the help of his thin body, making it difficult for Zhong Lan to accurately capture his position, and several swings of the sword failed, and his attack did not succeed, and the two stalemate.
"What is this?" Zhong Lan asked the system.
"Ding...... The Wraith of Surrey. Congratulations to the Brave Guangdu for triggering the follow-up plot 'Childhood Grudge', please swing your sword and kill it! ”
Zhong Lan was silent, he didn't expect that after receiving the "memory fragment", he would have to fight with Sarri's childhood, and he didn't expect that Sarri's childhood would not be easy to deal with - of course, it may be because of resentment.
The boy shrunk and lay dormant, glaring at Zhong Lan with his strangely large eyes, like a beast guarding his territory.
Zhong Lan clenched the iron sword in his hand, slowly moved his footsteps, so that his back was against the wall, and then stared at the boy's every movement. But the boy knows how to forbear, and he knows that if he doesn't win now, he is just in a stalemate with Zhong Lan.
That's not the way to go.
"Surrey, your father and mother only love your sister, do you know why?"
The little boy was stunned for a moment, and his expression went blank for a moment.
"Because you're a natural obnoxious! Knowing that his filthy blood has insulted the glory of this family's nobles, why should he live with a dead face? Shouldn't such a non-existent person die? ”
"That's not it—" The boy suddenly interrupted Zhong Lan's words, he glared at her and roared, "It's not like that!! It's not—"
"-- This is the real world."
Zhong Lan smiled indifferently.
"You have to accept it, it's the real world. You live real and painful, humiliated and hard. For what? Do you hate? You hate it, don't you? ”
The boy was stunned, his pale face distorted a little, but Zhong Lan forcibly interrupted him before he could scream.
"You love your sister. And you hate her. ”
"That's not the case...... "The boy shook his head in confusion, his nails clutching at his face. Freya is mine, I love Freya, Freya loves me......"
"You're deceiving yourself...... Zhong Lan said slowly, "You're jealous that Friya has a love that you don't have, you're jealous that Friya has a light that you don't have, you longed for the love of this sister who has everything, but in the end you find that none of this can satisfy you...... You're more hollow and broken...... You can't stand that this ignorant sister is still trying to covet your love...... You hate her, why, can't you be her? ”
When these words came out, the boy was completely paralyzed to the ground, his face was full of nail scratches, his expression was empty, and his eyes gradually dimmed, as if the cold sapphire had been buried in the mire and lost its original color.
Zhong Lan was already very close to him, but he didn't seem to notice it, until she raised her sword to slash him, and the ghost's body gradually disappeared, and he still maintained that empty expression—as if his heart had been hollowed out, leaving only a shell—to face this real, cruel world.
Zhong Lan didn't hesitate at all-
"Ding...... Congratulations to the Brave for getting through the 'Childhood Grudge' story, you've completed most of the story, so keep up the good work. ”
"Childhood resentments"...... It's finally over.
Zhong Lan withdrew the iron sword, and his face sank. According to the current plot, she can already roughly guess the secret of the castle owner. In fact, at the beginning of the quest, a hint was made:
"Do you believe that there really is such a bleak and pale love in this world? The elder brother went crazy looking for something that would save his sister. In the end he found it, and that was - blood, life, love. ”
"He will take the place of his sister and collect these three things, and when the ceremony is successful, he can completely occupy only his sister."
"Because I live, I will dedicate 'blood, life, and love' to my sister."
My brother loves my sister and loves my sister distortedly, and because I can't get it, I want to get this light even more.
After surviving a difficult and painful childhood, he finally killed his parents, got his sister, and imprisoned her - along with his own painful childhood, sealed in a secret room. No one is allowed to peep but himself, and no one is allowed to touch it except himself.
He loved deeply, but also hated, and could only be imprisoned in the dark. Maybe there is still the idea of extinguishing this light, anyway, thinking that my sister also loves her, so that they will never be separated. That's why the "brother said" and "we are inseparable" that are constantly narrated in Freya's revenant soul appeared.
But...... My sister died.
So...... My brother is crazy.
Paranoid looking for a way to resurrect his sister, it is the "blood, life, love" mentioned at the beginning. Blood and life are easy to understand, and the act of killing slaves in this way is also explained...... But what exactly does the last love mean?
And the death of my sister.