What the father and mother were like, Leia couldn't remember a little.

His last memory of them was when they were ten years old. My father was usually engaged in farming and hunting, and the land near the village where they lived was not fertile, so in addition to farming, he would often take advantage of the slack time to hunt some sambar deer or wild boar to improve their food, and the fur would be peeled and tanned to exchange with the northern merchants for practical or interesting knick-knacks.

He remembered that the 'conch' that his father had given him to play music had been bought from a traveling merchant and was said to be made from the shells of creatures that originated in the depths of the sea. It wasn't until many years later, when he actually came to the beach, that he realized that the conch was not what he remembered it to be.

As for her mother, she was mediocre in appearance, not very good at sewing and hunting, and not very close to the villagers, and seemed to have the only strength of being an excellent relationship with her father. Leia never remembered that the two of them had blushed, and even when his father was angry with someone arguing outside, whenever he came home to see his mother, his anger would disappear and he would change to a kind and gentle look. Young Leia didn't know why, only that there was no falsehood in his father's smile.

This was his childhood routine. There are many more such villages near the borders of the Empire, as if they were unaffected by the prosperity of the Empire, and exist alone and calmly beyond the river of time, until the end of memory.

It was the night shortly after his tenth birthday.

Knowing exactly what happened was many years later. The only memories of the scene are fire, lightning, crying, and flight.

I don't know where it came from, and I don't know who attacked it easily, destroying the village's defenses - in fact, it didn't exist in the first place. The villagers scrambled to flee in the direction of the flames, but they were greeted by an enemy who had been waiting at the exit.

At that time, it was his mother who came forward.

As a young man, he couldn't understand what his mother was saying to the other party, but he remembered that the other party's tone became more and more excited, but his mother was as calm as ever. Then, without warning, they moved their hands.

His father protected him as he retreated into the village. The rest of the villagers did the same, leaving only the mother alone to fight against dozens of times the enemy.

Even so, it seems—at least in Leia's eyes at the time—that the mother was still not left behind. He didn't bother to think about the strangeness of this matter, but prayed that his mother would be able to defeat the enemy and return safely.

Unfortunately, the attackers, who found themselves unable to win quickly, turned their attention to the villagers trapped in the flames. Her mother was powerless to prevent some of the people from bypassing her and slaughtering the villagers, who were barely able to resist - the villagers had rudimentary farm tools and iron tools that were vulnerable to the attackers.

The villagers they knew fell one by one screaming, and Leia curled up in a ball and closed her eyes tightly, thinking she was dead. But after waiting for a long time, the burning heat around me gradually subsided, and the cool air was filled with cool air in the nasal cavity again.

He tried to look up, and then saw a long, glittering knife pointed at his chest. As the night darkened, he continued to look upward, and the knife-wielding man was thin, black-clad and masked, unable to find any features to remember.

In the middle of the two was the ragged, half-kneeling father.

"Get out of the way." The man in black said quietly, unable to hear the slightest anger, "That kid has the blood of a monster, leave him behind, this kind of thing will happen." ”

The father did not look back at him, nor did he express his consent or refusal, but simply sat motionless on his knees. It was only when the man in black tried to bypass him from one side that his father straightened up and stood between him and the man in black again.

"If you want to get there, kill me." The father's voice was hoarse and weak, as if he had exhausted his strength.

"Since you're so insistent." The man in black nodded, "I can only do what you want." ”

Leia instinctively closed her eyelids, not seeing what was going to happen next. He heard his father's deliberately suppressed screams, the sound of falling to the ground, and the footsteps coming towards him. The next moment, I don't know if it was a posthumous hallucination, he heard his mother's voice again.

"Let Him ——!"

He snapped his eyes open and saw the flames sweeping towards him like a beast, but he consciously avoided him and struck straight at the masked man in black. The man in black took a sip, turned around, raised the long knife in his hand, and went straight to meet the rushing Yan Dragon.

Leia doesn't know who the ultimate winner will be. The flames were soon extinguished, but neither the mother nor the masked man came back to him. He didn't know what to do, didn't even dare to take a big breath, just sat motionless on the ground.

It wasn't until his body stiffened and numb, and the sun slowly rose the next day, that he finally saw another living person.

The man was dressed in a cyan robe, his face was gentle, and his whole body carried an inexplicable awe-inspiring bearing. He must be a big man, a very powerful kind, Leia thought to herself.

The 'big man' walked up to him and leaned down slightly to look at him, his eyes soothed but not pity, "The danger is over, child." Can you stand up? ”

Leia nodded vigorously and reached out to the 'big man' to stand up with the help of the other man.

"The Village...... Are you alright? He lowered his head and asked in a low voice, without mentioning his parents, "the others...... How's it going? ”

"Some are dead, others are still alive." The old man in Tsing Yi looked at him gently, and stretched out his hand to caress the top of his head, "I will arrange for them to relocate to villages within the empire, which will allow them to live a peaceful life." As for you, child...... How are you going to do it? ”

At that moment, Leia's mind was unusually clear. Maybe it's only a few seconds, but it's enough for him to figure out a lot of things.

Father and mother are dead. And his identity is also an unstable factor for the current village. What's more, the villagers, who had just escaped and needed to rebuild their homes, did not have the spare energy to take care of him, a child who was only 10 years old.

"I can...... With you? He looked up at the old man and whispered, "Let me do whatever I want." ”

The old man in Tsing Yi smiled, as if he had expected it.

"Come with me. In addition to you, there is another child who is a few years older than you, and from now on, you will all be part of "Pale Hands". The old man took his hand and walked slowly outside, "Of course, if you don't work hard enough, it's possible to be expelled, understand?" ”

He didn't answer verbally, just nodded vigorously.

That's how he became a "companion" with Sora and Yu Feng.

……

In the decades that followed, naturally many things happened. Yu Feng became the leader of the "Earth Department", and he said goodbye to "Pale Hand" and became a wandering ranger. He didn't think anyone was doing the right thing, because it was just two different options.

He later returned to his homeland several times, where there were still traces of the village burned, but it was long since uninhabited. He also visited several times the villagers who had settled in the new land and who had been in the same village as his parents. Decades later, the villagers had forgotten what had happened at that time, and the older ones still remembered him and Wei Feng, but they had no hostility towards him. They also asked him to bring a message to Wei Feng, hoping that the other party would be free to go back to the village to have a look.

It's a pity that since I don't know when, Wei Feng rarely met with him - of course, he can more or less guess the reason. When he approached Wei Feng again and relayed these words to the other party, the "Tube" leader refused without hesitation.

"The revenge of my parents has not been avenged, and I have no shame to return to my hometown." The momentum of the man who was nearly middle-aged did not diminish at all, and only the sharp blade condensed into a thick mountain, "You go, we are already strangers, so we don't have to meet again." ”

"Just because you're off course, Wei Feng." Leia replied-for-tat, "One day, I'm going to get you back on the right path." ”

"That's just your delusion." Wei Feng said coldly, "Only by using strong force to subdue all the monsters who dare to provoke trouble, can we avoid the incident in the village from happening again in other places." ”

Every time the conversation came to an end, it broke up unhappily. After two or three attempts, Leia temporarily gave up on his thoughts and began to wander the continent alone.

……

In the blink of an eye, it was more than ten years.

As time passed, the conflicts between humans and youkai that he had seen were incalculable. Some are due to differences in concepts, some are due to customs and cultural barriers, and some are ...... Perhaps it is simply prejudice and hostility towards "other races".

He even began to wonder if he had chosen an impossible path. Not long ago, the girl in white, who called herself the 'Demon King', once again let the seeds in his heart begin to sprout.

He remembered that the original source that led him and Wei Feng to take different paths was his parents.

One of them is a human and the other is a monster, but they truly love and take care of each other, and they have not changed until death.

That's why he decided to walk with Yuffie and his party to help them meet that 'unrealistic' expectation, and to make sure they were walking the talk.

Now, the girls had found their way forward and given him satisfactory answers. Then it's his turn to complete his own mission.

Leia was sure that whether it was to avenge his parents or to reduce the gap between humans and youkai, that person ...... No, the inheritors of that person are the ones he must solve with his own hands.

"Wait, in an instant, I'm coming for you." Leia stroked the smooth blade of the spear in her hand and whispered to herself, "You will receive your due fate...... In the name of my parents. ”