At the beginning of the second year after sending Ahri away, a series of strange events occurred in the boy's village. From time to time, people in the village will disappear for no reason, and it is even rumored that there are monsters in the village with dark eyes glowing with earthy yellow.

The whole village was in a state of endless panic, and the boy became anxious.

One night, the boy woke up from his sleep. He cowered and walked out of his room, only to find that his parents were not there.

Fear crept up in his heart, and he ran out of the house and into the streets of the village with a pair of frightened eyes.

The moonlight was obscured by dark clouds, the thick mist was shrouded, and the cool breeze blew in the shadowy breeze and made the boy shiver.

As he walked, a strange black shadow suddenly appeared in front of him. The black shadow was disembodied, and its head had cloudy eyes glowing with yellow light.

It was the first time the boy had seen a monster when he was so old, and he was so frightened that he fainted.

When he woke up again, he found himself in a cave. His body was chained to the stone wall, unable to move.

In the cave, there were some huge humanoid monsters covered in black, they were biting each other, and the bloody scene of killing each other was shocking to the young man.

The dark shadow appeared in front of the boy again, and he told the boy that these monsters were the villagers of the village, only a pair of cloudy and dark eyes.

The boy was so frightened by the black shadow, he looked at the biting villagers, and almost fainted again.

The shadow laughs demonically and tells the boy that if he wants to live, he must become a monster like them. Moreover, he also said that the boy was the perfect vessel to resurrect him, and that he could give him free will as long as he agreed to be his resurrected body.

Although the boy was afraid, his will was very strong. He shook his head desperately and stated that he didn't want to turn into an ugly monster.

When the shadow heard this, he was furious, and he threatened and enticed again, but the young man was still resolute and refused to be a container for his resurrection.

The dark shadow of the soul body alone could not force the boy to become his container, and he almost killed the boy in anger several times.

But when he thought that he had searched for tens of thousands of years before he found a perfect resurrection container, the black shadow always stopped at the last moment of torturing the boy and did not let the boy die.

And in order to strengthen his will, the boy carved the words "I don't want to become a monster" on the wall.

As time passed, the boy's determination and stubbornness gradually made the dark shadow lose interest in him.

I don't know how long it took in the cave, but the boy never saw the black shadow again. Perhaps the Shadow had given up on his intention of making him a container, leaving him to fend for himself.

Looking at the monster corpses all over the place, the boy had gone from fear at the beginning to numbness at the back. Although he did not become a monster, he could not escape the fate of death.

Hunger and cold crushed his will, and his clothes grew wider and wider. The shadow of death crept into his mind, lingering.

The voice of the black shadow also sounded in his head at the right time, and said that as long as he was willing to agree to the black shadow's conditions, he could live.

Even so, the boy stubbornly rejected the black shadow's "kindness".

The dark shadow didn't expect that the boy was dying and refused to be his container, he mocked the boy that sooner or later he would kneel and beg him, and then left angrily.

With the departure of the black shadow, the boy's consciousness became more and more blurred. But at only fifteen or sixteen years old, he still has a beautiful vision for the future, and although he rejected the dark shadow, he still has a strong desire for life in his heart.

His soul had become extremely fragile due to the torture he had experienced in the dark shadows before. A small fraction of his soul separated from his body as his body gradually died, and drifted out of the cavern as a remnant.

Perhaps it was the longing for home, this remnant soul wandered around in the Falling Moon Fantasy Realm, trying to find a way back.

After wandering here for a hundred years, the remnant soul accidentally possessed a human who had strayed into a moonfall illusion and twisted into a giant monster.

Because his will before his death was extremely resistant to becoming a monster, the already weak remnant soul was stripped out of a small part and wandered in the illusion.

Mixed with a longing for life and home, the faint remnant of the soul crept back to Ionia as the shadow opened the door again.

The remnant wanders aimlessly until he meets an Ionian couple. The couple gave the remnant soul an incomparably intimate feeling, evoking his longing for affection.

He unconsciously blends into the young woman's body until the couple has the crystallization of love, and he also gets a new life.

The memories of his previous life faded away, and the remnant soul turned into an independent life form that was different from the boy.

And the body and soul of that young man died of hunger and cold one day more than two hundred years ago.

……

Ahri hugged the boy's withered corpse tightly, and streams of memories belonging to the boy and the remnant soul flooded into her mind.

Endless sadness and guilt welled up in his heart, and Ahri only hated that he couldn't turn into a human to help the boy through the difficult time.

Why did God make her face such a cruel truth after finding him?

It's like what she sings in the lyrics:

Just because,

In this predestined story,

meet

Elusive......

Ahri's whole person completely cried into tears, and the pretty face of the pear blossom with rain made Ye Feng's heart ache. But he couldn't do anything, he couldn't understand the depth of her grief. All he could do was to stay by her side silently and wait for her to finish crying the grievances in her heart.

"If I could change it, I would like to know you before......"

muttering the lyrics of "Serial" in his mouth, the sadness on Ahri's face became even heavier.

Muttering a few more words of nonsense, she sang the song she wrote for the boy and her "Serial".

In this situation, Ahri sang quite emotionally, and the sadness and sorrow, and a little resentment were more touching than the previous concerts.

Smelling Ahri's crying natural song, Ye Feng didn't know why, and his eyes gradually moistened. He didn't have Ahri's experience, but he clearly felt her pain.

Until the end of Ahri's cappella, Ye Feng was still immersed in the sadness that he couldn't extricate himself from, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

"If I had a way to bring this boy back to life, would you be willing to pay the price?"

A demonic voice suddenly sounded in his mind, and Ahri's eyes instantly dilated.

"Who are you?" Responding inwardly, she glanced warily at the cavern, not finding anyone she was talking to.

The voice said leisurely, "It doesn't matter who I am, the important thing is that I can bring this boy back from the dead."

Ahri was moved, but she was still wary of the voice that suddenly appeared in her head. She asked, "Why should I trust you?"

"Since we don't believe it, we don't have much to talk about."

Ahri heard that the voice was going to go away, and suddenly said anxiously in his heart: "Wait, I believe in you, don't go, as long as you can resurrect this young man, even if you sacrifice my life, I am willing!"

Seeing Ahri give in, the voice let out a demonic laugh: "Don't sacrifice your life."

Ahri wondered, "And what do you need?"

"It's not what I need, but what this boy needs to be resurrected, the man next to you, I believe you also know that his soul is a wisp of the incomplete remnant soul of a young man, and the resurrection of the boy is exactly what he needs his soul."

His pupils shrank, and Ahri shuddered. She subconsciously glanced at Ye Feng next to her, and her brows were about to twist together.

Ahri took a deep breath and asked, "What will happen to the boy if he resurrects him?"

"People without souls will naturally die, but correspondingly, the boy you have been waiting for for more than two hundred years will also be resurrected, and the two of you can live happily together."

Living happily together? Ahri's eyes narrowed slightly, revealing a hint of yearning. Isn't the meaning of her transformation into a human being to repay her kindness and be with a teenager?

But at the thought of sacrificing Ye Feng's life to resurrect the boy, Ahri was shocked. She secretly glanced at Ye Feng with a complicated face, and her heart was entangled.

From the boy's point of view, Ye Feng was just a wisp of the incomplete remnant soul of the teenager, and he should make sacrifices for the resurrection of the teenager. If it weren't for the teenager's strong will to be homesick and survive, Ye Feng would not have been reincarnated by mistake.

From Ye Feng's point of view, he has become an independent life form, with his own consciousness and thoughts. Although his personality is exactly the same as that of a teenager, he is a life different from a teenager after all. If Ye Feng's life is buried because of her selfish desire to resurrect the young man, it is unreasonable and unreasonable.

The more she thought about it, the more difficult it became in Ahri's heart, and she didn't know how to respond to the voice in her head for a while.

"Is there a decision?" Ahri's voice in his head suddenly became irritable, and he seemed to be urgent.

Ahri was so entangled in his heart at the moment that he didn't hear the abnormality of the voice. She shook her head bitterly and grinned bitterly.

She looked at Ye Feng in a trance, in a sense, Ye Feng was the continuation of the young man's life. Although it is only a wisp of the remnant soul of a teenager, Ye Feng is a part of the teenager's life after all.

Perhaps the boy's soul was split not only because of the torment of the shadow, but also because he hoped that his young life would not wither.

Perhaps he hopes that his remnant soul can continue to live in place of the intact him, fulfill his unfulfilled wishes, and experience his unfinished youth and life.

Thinking of this, Ahri suddenly brightened. Her moist eyes, full of sadness and apology, gradually glowed with a faint light, and her expression was radiant.

She choked up and said to Ye Feng in a trembling voice: "Ye Feng, do you like your current life?"

Ye Feng looked at Ahri strangely, and didn't know why she asked. But since she asked, in order to make her happy and positive, Ye Feng smiled cheerfully: "Of course I like it, I grew up with my sister since I was a child, and I have Fiona as a playmate, and when I grew up, I traveled from Demacia to Ionia, although the way was a little unhappy, but I was still very happy during the whole journey, I like the current way of life very much!"

"yes......"

Ahri's pretty cheeks flashed with sadness, then were replaced by a reassuring, gentle smile.

"He is alive and well, so why should I resurrect him?"

……

(End of chapter)