Interlude Falls into the trough
"Why wasn't you the one who died?"
Standing on top of the waterfall, Ekor pondered Doutty's accusations against him, and he found himself unable to answer his "sister's" question, just as he didn't know if he had been abandoned on the cliff by the Siddles. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"You must have thought of replacing him. โ
The man of the house, whom he might call "Father," had not been there from the moment he entered, and the "Mother" had a knack for sneering in a clever and decent way, and Duddy was surprisingly considerate, and she had brought him out to breathe, but seemed to have forgotten to lead him home.
"Damn it!"
Echo smiled silently, and he thought back to Sailer's arrangement, remembering that the steward of the Nexus had instructed him to disguise himself as the eldest son of the Siddle family. But what happened? He was repeatedly debunked like an idiot -- a joke that would have killed him ten times and a hundred times if it had happened to the Quenching Dagger.
Ecco looked at the very smooth stone under his feet with some fascination, and then took a small step forward, and just one step away, the scene in front of him suddenly came to life, and he saw the spring flowing through his feet tumbling and flowing rapidly forward, but he did not feel it at all.
Echo closed his eyes with a flat face, and at this moment, all that remained in his mind was one word that was repeated over and over againโdeath.
"So be it. โ
His body naturally leaned forward, and the whole waterfall that fell straight down immediately hung upside down in front of him, and the picture was extremely shocking, but he still didn't feel anything.
Ekko's heart then plummeted.
On the side of the cliff, a little girl named Doody is joking with her elven companions.
"Duti, didn't you say that you were going to pick up that person at noon. It's been a long time. โ
"Hmph, how about drying him a little longer?" said Dody's mouth.
"Well, actually, I like him a little, he is very good-looking and has a good temper. โ
"But he can't replace my brother!"
"Okay, but the man didn't say he wanted to be your brother...... Look at him!"
The children turned their heads to look at the waterfall in unison, and one of them fell from the top of the waterfall with his head and foot on his head, and then disappeared into the valley and disappeared in front of him.
"I'm not even worth punishing me, would everyone be better off if I hadn't shown up?"
Duti recalls two questions Eko had asked her. And her answer was, "Go away!"
Now it seems that this guy with the same name as his brother took her words exactly literally, which is crazy......
Later in the day, Ekor regained consciousness and found himself back in the Nexus room, and it wasn't long before he noticed that he was stuck in a strange cycle - awakened by a dull pain in his chest, then unconsciously asleep, awakened again, and then fallen into a deep sleep.
It is said that he was the first person to jump down from the waterfall nearly 100 feet high, and when people heard his wail and found him, he had been swept into the river hundreds of meters away, and his collar was hanging from the pier. Interestingly, Ikko didn't know anything about these things, he only knew that he hadn't fallen to the bottom yet, and maybe his eyes would be black in mid-air. Luckily, he was lucky, as if he only had a chest slap on the surface of the water and a few ribs broken by a rock.
Considering that he was an elf, and that he had the help of the Nexus' healers and magic, it wouldn't take long for the wounds to heal. But in fact, Ikko felt a sense of falling that could not reach the bottom of the road, and he couldn't get up, and it hurt to take a deep breath. There was also a very funny thing - the discomfort in his body made his mind feel comfortable and relaxed, so he deliberately took a deep breath to aggravate the discomfort.
At that moment, the voice of someone talking came to Eako's ears.
"He's crazy, this unveiler?"
"Shhhhh โ
He was not alone in the room at such a late hour?, Ika thought.
"I think it's better to let him know that he's in good spirits. So that he understands that we are accompanying him. โ
Hearing this, Ikor couldn't help but laugh. In the suffocating Desstaing, in the guild of assassins whose lives were threatened, where traps and lusts were everywhere, he had always been well-behaved, and no one had ever said that he was abnormal, and now someone said that he was crazy?
The laughter alarmed the two men who were talking in the room, and one walked up to his bedside, looked at him and asked, "Would you like some water?"
Ekor didn't say anything, because he had an unusual difficulty even getting up, but some people took it as a tacit. As a result, he inevitably knocked over the cup that the man had handed him, and the glass fell to the ground and shattered into countless pieces.
Naturally, Ekor reached out to help pick it up, and the act immediately made the people on the side nervous, one of them carefully carrying the glass shards outside the house, while the other remained in the room and watched him firmly. Not long after, the guy who left came with more people, and they tied him up while apologizing. There were enough reasons for him to refute - the glass shards could not be found in their entirety, perhaps he had hidden them, and even if he hadn't, if he had seen them by chance, and had happened to be insane, he might have killed himself while others were not looking.
"We had no choice but to do so. Someone said.
"Someone who has had a suicidal experience is most likely premeditated to harm themselves again. They explained.
At this point, Ekor could only laugh vigorously. Don't those people know what he used to do? To die alone, he knows about a dozen ways to do it without the help of any tools.
Perhaps it was Ekko's idea that infected the people around him, and those people realized that tying up alone was not enough to solve the crisis, so they "persuaded" him to take medicine. But one thing has never changed, day or night, there is at least one person dutifully accompanying him, and he does not have any private time.
Gradually, Egko went from laughing at others for being too nervous and thinking that he was just making a mistake for a moment to deeply agreeing with other people's points of view - he was really sick.
The drugs made him drowsy and his brain went blank. Now, he suddenly forgot what he was supposed to do with the shirt he had changed, but he seemed to be a little uncomfortable with the cold.
"Ekko, just throw your dirty clothes on the floor and wear the one next to your pillow. His caretaker spoke patiently, as if he were educating young children.
Eko nodded, and he grabbed his shirt at the head of the bed and began to put it on himself, but his hands were only raised for a moment, and suddenly there was a dull pain in his heart that he had never felt before. He fell straight off the edge of the bed and fell to the floor.