Chapter 3: Determination (12)

The scent of osmanthus wafted into the room through the open windows of the White Light Castle, and Sara Kari leaned back against his table, staring down at the strip of cloth in his hand.

The length of three palms, the width of one palm, the color scarlet, embroidered with one eye. That's part of the Burning Legion battle flag. The full banner bears the image of the Thousand-Eyed Firebird, the mount of Mars, the god of war. Only one eye of the beast remained, as well as the blood of his father, brother, and countless soldiers who died in the night of the bloody eye.

It was cut from the battle flag that wrapped the corpses of his father and brother before the cart fell. Looking at the writhing bloodthirsty forest, the oath she secretly made when she clenched the blood-stained battle flag in her hand burned in her mind like a flame, and it has never been extinguished in the past two years!

Someday, I'm going to rebuild the Burning Legion! Lead the army over the Mountain of Sighs, kill him no matter what barbarians or beasts he is! Let them have nothing left! Not even the memories left!

"Hunt, are you there?" Poria Shrine Maiden pushed the door open and walked in.

Sha Luojiao, who was immersed in his memories, was suddenly startled, and hurriedly hid the strip of cloth in his hand behind him.

"Mom?!"

"I saw the lights on and came in. What are you doing? Poria approached her daughter, behind her hands, and she noticed that her daughter was also behind her hands.

"What am I doing? I'm here...... Hmm," Sarakan hid the strip of cloth into the pile of books on the table behind her hands, and in a panic she knocked down the double knives on the table, and she hurriedly bent down to pick them up, "I'm wiping knives, Mom, you know I wipe knives every day." I'm leaving tomorrow, so I'm going to wipe it off tonight! ”

Seeing her daughter's hurried appearance and incoherent words, Poria shook her head secretly in her heart.

This kid is still the same, and if he answers a question with a question, he must be lying. She thought.

"Are these the books you're going to bring to the Golden Crow?" The mother pointed to the pile of books on the table and asked her daughter.

"The books I bring?" Akari stared at his mother with wide eyes and an incredulous expression, but immediately came back to his senses, "Yes! It's the book I'm going to bring. I'm sorting them out. But I'm not going to bring all of it, I'm going to bring some of it, eh...... A small part, I mean, pick the important ones to bring. Because, Kinwuin has the largest library in the five islands, and you can read any book you want! ”

"Will you go to the library?" Poria raised an eyebrow.

"Will I go to the library?" Agari's eyes widened again, "Of course I will, I will." Because Xiao Jiao must be in the library all day long, we are always together, and it is not good if I don't go once. I mean, I'm definitely going to go a few times! ”

The daughter looked at her mother nervously, and Poria wanted to laugh a little.

She's the cutest when she looks at you with wide-eyed eyes and a slight frown!

Looking at Ah Hunt, she thought to herself: My daughter has grown up really fast, and now she is taller than me! The hair has grown so long too!

Thinking that after Long Ran and Ah Attack died, Ah Hunt never cut his hair again, and Poria couldn't help but feel a little gloomy.

Don't stay too long!

She reminded herself.

"Akari, will you leave early tomorrow morning? Riding the treading waves in the harbor?

"Yes, Mom, some of my luggage has already been loaded to the hold in advance."

"Be sure to stay safe on the road! When you get to the Golden Crowin Temple, you want to ...... Study hard. Think twice before you act! If you can't decide on your own, you can discuss it with Cheng Jiao. Okay? ”

"Okay Mom!" Sha Luo Hunt nodded repeatedly.

"I have something for you." Poria put the things in her hand on A's table, "Have a good rest tonight, don't miss the boat." Tomorrow I have something to discuss with your uncle, so I won't send you again, is that okay? ”

"That's great!" Akari blurted out, "I mean, no problem, Mom. Rest assured! You should also be sure to rest a lot and not get too tired. ”

Poria smiled, reached out and gently stroked her daughter's cheek, nodded at her slightly, and turned to leave.

After walking out of her daughter's room, Poria closed the door behind her and walked forward quickly. She was afraid that she would not be able to resist returning and say something to her daughter that she should not have said.

A month ago, she picked up her daughter's crumpled and discarded draft on the floor of Agari's room, and she saw her speech and she knew what she was going to do.

She couldn't stop her daughter.

Akari has exactly the same personality as his father, and if he wants to do something, he will stand up and rush forward, and no one can stop him. Moreover, the daughter may be able to do what her mother can't.

But she couldn't encourage her!

Akari and her father are looking more and more alike. With red hair like a burning flame, and when the two thick red eyebrows were wrinkled, Poria seemed to see Long Ran when she was young. If she loses her daughter, the last traces of her husband in this world will also disappear, and she will never be able to live alone again.

It's up to Agari to decide!

After her mother left, Sarakari let out a sigh of relief, and her tense body and spirit relaxed. She rehearsed the conversation with her mother before leaving, but she didn't expect her mother to ask a word, it was all unexpected questions, and she was caught off guard by the questions.

"Xiao Jiao definitely won't be like this." She pouted, "Her brain is so fast!" ”

She went to her desk to look at what her mother had left behind.

A book. The cover is a dark blue velvet with a few slanting silver threads and a few small sparkling beads, and there are several small figures on the ground, praying with their hands raised or kneeling. It seems to be my brother's book, and there is a story about the curse of the moon goddess in the book, and Akari doesn't like it very much. She remembers when she was seven years old, she decided to run away from home in protest that her father took her brother to study on the Isle of War but did not agree to take her. At that time, Cheng Jiao was spending the summer vacation in the White Light Castle, and the two of them hid together in the nearby forest for a day. At that time, she brought this book with her because she wanted to tell the story of the curse of the moon goddess in the dark forest to scare the Jiao. However, after Cheng Jiao saw the book, he first told her the story about "The Night of Starfall" on the cover, which was a very beautiful story, and Ah Hunt liked it very much. But it didn't make her like it enough to want to take the book to the Golden Crow.

Under the book is a dagger with a cowhide scabbard and a ruby on the hilt. This is my brother's dagger! Hey! This is a good dagger, she has wanted it for a long time, but she has never dared to speak, it must be that her mother saw her mind and gave it to her.

That's great! Sara thought to himself. Gotta sharpen this knife tonight!

In the early morning of Yakujin Island, the morning mist as light as a thin veil gradually dissipated from the sky above the castle, and as the sun rose, the cool as water gradually receded, which was the beginning of a sunny day.

The Lord of the Alder Palace, Hikari Poria Shrine Maiden, stood in front of the wide floor-to-ceiling windows on the high point of the White Light Castle, staring at the sandstone road below.

She stood here and waited before dawn, and she kept praying, praying for her daughter, that she would make the right decision, that she would have a smooth road ahead, and that she would never stumble and fall.

At this moment, she heard the faint sound of horses' hooves, getting closer and louder. Immediately after, the red-clothed and red-haired girl leaned over the black steed and rushed out of the gate of the White Light Castle like an arrow! With two knives on her shoulders and a small cloth bag around her waist, she ran into the osmanthus forest at the end of the sandstone road in a blink of an eye, without a trace of hesitation or looking back.

The sound of the horse's hooves also disappeared, leaving only the afterimage of her daughter's fiery red hair under Poria's eyes. She was suddenly annoyed by all the sad thoughts in her heart before!

She turned around, strode out of the room, and shouted, "Inform the commander of Bai Yang to come and see me." Let the alder set sail and prepare to set sail. We're going to be in the hot spring port in three days! ”