Chapter 394: For the Birth of the King, Offer a Salute
Although it's a song about love, the sense of destiny is maxed out, so I used it.
Hearing Kazan's words.
Rami lowered his head, staring quietly at the treasured sword like gold and jade in his hand.
[When feeling lost, keep your dream in mind; it will guide your way forward.]
"Teacher."
Rami's voice drifted to Will's ears along with the breeze on the grassland.
He opened his slightly squinted eyes.
"You won't say anything silly, right? Rami."
Will's voice was diffused by Aura;
Being choked by the neck didn't suppress his voice.
Just like no matter what he did, Kazan wouldn't stop his steps.
"No."
Rami pursed his lips, raising his head,
"Teacher, can I ask you to die for my dream?"
Clear tears flowed down his face; a stiff smile hung on his face.
Hearing this.
The ferocious smile on Kazan's face froze directly.
"Hey!! Rami, you don't think I really dare not kill Teacher, do you?!"
The strength in Kazan's hand tightened; Will immediately showed a painful expression.
Are you kidding?
He couldn't bear to kill Teacher; how dare Rami, this trash?!
He doesn't believe it.
It must be Rami playing some insidious trick again!
"Mm."
Will grinned, then looked at Kazan, "Kazan, remember the Thirty-Six Stratagems taught to you when you were young?"
His eyes were full of complexity.
Will could feel that there was no killing intent towards him in Kazan's heart.
Seemed to be still guilty and self-blaming for making him feel pain.
This child never thought of killing him.
He just wanted to use this method to force Rami to die.
Because Kazan felt that Rami's saintly personality definitely couldn't bear to let others die for himself, let alone the most important Teacher.
But he thought wrong.
Just as Rami couldn't guess Kazan would absolutely not kill Will.
Kazan also couldn't guess Rami would really choose to let Will sacrifice.
Now the situation reversed instantly.
Will changed from "Rami's flaw" to "Kazan's flaw."
Kazan will absolutely not let Rami kill Will.
Even Will himself didn't expect.
The kind and benevolent Rami who relied on him most in the past, chose to let him die.
And the cruel and inhumane Kazan, who would do anything for victory, never thought of killing him from beginning to end.
Humans.
Really a complex creature.
Will lived for more than a hundred years, practiced Aura Power for more than a hundred years.
Until now, he can't calculate a person's heart clearly.
Rami went against his heart to kill Teacher.
Kazan went against his behavior to protect Teacher.
Really strange...
"Teacher, at this point, still planning to give me a lesson? You have become a prisoner..."
"Thirty-Six Stratagems, the eleventh stratagem, what is it?"
"...substitute one thing for another, sacrifice the rook to save the king?"
Kazan's face froze; he swallowed, gaze shifting fiercely to Will's face.
The next moment.
A relieved smile appeared on the black-blue small figure's face.
Energy accumulated again.
Will can go back.
His body began to emit bits of iridescent light, and with the flow of these star points, Will's figure was actually becoming translucent little by little.
"Teacher?!"
Kazan loosened his hand.
But Will didn't fall just like this.
He was still suspended in mid-air; the star points on his body had connected into patches.
Rami watched this scene, heart extremely painful, tears flowing constantly from his eyes.
He knew.
Teacher doesn't intend to become a flaw for any disciple.
He absolutely won't allow himself to drag down the steps of any disciple, becoming a weakness for any of them.
Kazan can't use him to threaten Rami.
Rami can't use him to restrict Kazan either.
So.
Teacher decided to let himself disappear completely.
"Teacher... where are you going..."
Kazan reached out to grab in front, but couldn't catch anything, then he glared angrily at Rami,
"Beast, what did you do?!"
"I did nothing; don't you understand even now? This is Teacher's own choice; he doesn't want to be our burden."
Rami wiped the tears from his face.
What Teacher wants to do, he can't stop, nor will he stop.
He has only one thing to do now.
Prepare well.
Brothers killing each other.
Rami doesn't want Teacher to see them two brothers killing each other before disappearing completely.
So he is waiting.
Waiting for the moment Teacher disappears.
"You two join hands; that future will definitely come."
Will's last voice reached the hearts of the two.
That didn't seem to be speaking to them.
But like dreaming, seeing a scene that happened in the past, murmuring subconsciously.
"Wait..."
Rami gritted his teeth; tears and snot blurred his face again.
He got off the horse, inserting the long sword into the ground beside him.
Thump!
"Thanks for the deep love, grateful endlessly."
Rami knelt on the ground, forehead chiseling into the grass, tears wetting the wild grass.
"Teacher?"
Kazan looked at the hand grasping nothing, then shifted his gaze to the connected starlight in front, gaze gradually becoming dull.
The current Will...
Can see nothing.
Can hear nothing.
His consciousness gradually immersed, as if reincarnated again.
A light lit up in the gray and black void world in front.
Two innocent and determined teenagers appeared in front of him,
"I will let Teacher see, Unova continent peaceful and serene."
"I will let Teacher see, no more wars in Unova continent."
If Will could make an expression at this moment.
His face must be full of bitterness.
Why.
Did it end up like this in the end.
Sorry, Dresa...
Kazan might be in trouble.
But.
I promised you, would try my best to make Rami a qualified King.
Thinking about it, should have achieved it.
Able to abandon everything for his dream, tentatively considered barely qualified...
Then.
For the birth of the King, offer a salute.
At the moment Will disappeared completely.
"Everyone look over here!!!"
Rami gripped the hilt and propped up his body; his roar spread throughout the battlefield,
"Soldiers of my Kingdom of the Vale gathered here, brave and skillful in battle, marching forward courageously!"
"Let us fight for ancestors, for descendants, for those who sacrificed, avenge the dead!"
"My name is Rami, swearing by the name of the King of the Vale, a beautiful era once existed, and I will make it come again!"
"Give me all your strength!"
"Charge with me!!!"
The young King of the Vale got on the horse, holding the Blade of the Vale full of hope.
He led countless People of the Vale accumulating anger in their hearts, surging towards the Kingdom of Plenty army like a flood.
They killed the State Preceptor.
Then let them die.
Let them remember with their lives.
In the Hometown of the Vale, don't provoke the People of the Vale.
"Charge!"
The Great General of Plenty standing behind Kazan couldn't sit and wait for death.
He glanced at Kazan standing stunned on the spot, raised the long sword in his hand with a tingling scalp, leading the mixed army of Plenty and Blessed Isles to meet them.
Clang!
Weapons clashed; sounds of iron collision rang in Kazan's ears.
He seemed to come back to his senses slightly.
Kazan raised his head.
Looking at this noisy and chaotic battlefield, eyes full of dullness.
This war.
Is there any meaning to continue?
This doubt filled Kazan's heart.
His body subconsciously gripped the Blade of the Ruined King in his hand, easily slaughtering a Pokémon approaching.
Occasionally a few Vale soldiers approaching were also easily finished off by him.
Even if shot by a few arrows on his body.
Kazan himself didn't seem to realize the current situation.
He looked around blankly.
Teacher is gone.
What am I still doing here?
Revenge?
No.
Revenge was never his true purpose.
He wanted to kill Rami, from beginning to end just for one point—to prove to Teacher, you chose wrong.
But now.
Father King and Teacher are both gone.
Even if he kills Rami, who can he prove to?
The two people he respected and loved most in his life, who else can see?
Who.
Can still stroke his head with a smile like in the past, telling him: You did well, you make me proud.
"Kazan."
Rami's voice came, bringing Kazan back to his senses slightly.
He turned to look at the direction the voice came from.
Rami stood five meters away from him sometime, holding a golden long sword looking at him quietly.
Kazan didn't respond.
He quietly held the Blade of the Ruined King and rushed towards Rami.
Only took five minutes.
Kazan stepped Rami under his feet; the huge Blade of the Ruined King was inserted beside Rami's head.
"Why not do it?"
Rami lay on the ground, looking at Kazan with a calm face.
What a weird picture.
In the past.
The one holding back was always Rami.
Now it became Kazan instead.
"Beating you down, is to let you understand, you don't have the strength to finish me off."
"Leaving you, is because of Teacher; he wants to help you realize your dream."
"Rami, from childhood to adulthood, you never won against me, not once."
"Count you win this time."
"But remember, you can win, not because you have that strength."
"Just because Teacher chose you..."
Stab.
The Blade of the Vale pierced the Ruined King's heart.
But the person holding the Blade of the Vale was not the King of the Vale, but the Ruined King himself.
Kazan stepped on Rami, looking at this completely strange brother, couldn't help showing a look of mockery.
Everyone says he, the Ruined King, brings disaster to the common people, is a born monster.
Then what is this ungrateful beast in front of him?
Monster.
Who exactly is it.
He raised his head to look at the scorching sun in the sky.
The pupil light in his eyes gradually dimmed.
The scarlet in the blood-colored eyes receded like a tide; clear black pupils shone in the sunlight again.
At this moment.
He is no longer the Ruined King.
He is Kazan, the little apprentice of the State Preceptor of the Kingdom of the Vale.
'This world, really has no meaning at all.'
'If I die now, should be able to catch up with Teacher, right?'
'The childish ghost who can't leave Teacher, is it Rami, or me?'
'Right, what was my dream back then?'
'Forget it.'
'Ask Teacher again in the next life...'
Kazan's posture gradually froze.
Before death.
He didn't take another look at the brother under his feet.
Nor did he take another look at Eindoak Town close at hand.
What he looked at was not the scorching sun either.
Just the direction where Teacher disappeared.
It is the destination of his soul.
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