Yuxi City · City Lord's Mansion
Xiuzi, the son of blacksmith Yoshihira Tian's family, never imagined that one day he would be tied up and thrown into the grocery store.
His mouth was gagged, and the room was pitch black. He didn't know how long he hadn't eaten, and he was even a little dizzy from hunger.
In a daze, he seemed to be able to hear a woman whispering something in his ear. After listening to it for a long time, he felt more and more that the voice sounded like Carissa who had been dead for three years. Once this idea arises, he always feels that there is air-conditioning floating around, and there seems to be a pair of red eyes blinking in the darkness.
Every minute and every second is like suffering.
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On the second day after returning to Yuxi City, Lide took Alaya and Liushi to the door of the grocery store.
Lied turned back and said to Alaya:
"Lend me the sword forged by Liushi."
Alaya pulled out the long sword [Crimson Fire] from her waist, and handed it to Lid with both hands.
Li De took the sword, threw it in front of Liu Shi, and said lightly:
"Pick it up. Go in. Kill him."
Liu Shi stared blankly at the sword in front of him, his chest heaving violently.
Lide didn't speak, just looked at him silently. Alaiya stood behind her young master, also silent.
When he was a child, Liu Shi's father was cheated by Lord Huai, and died in battle wearing a broken armor, and his mother committed suicide afterward. Liu Shi did not aspire to kill Lord Huai, but wanted to be a better blacksmith than anyone else. Let the tragedy never happen again. When he was an apprentice, Liu Shi was humiliated by his master, and instead of challenging his master, he quietly left his master and endured the infamy alone. Later, Carissa, the only one who supported him and trusted him, was killed. Liu Shi had no doubts at all, and kept blaming himself.
Even if immersed in forging and entered a state of delirious fanaticism, he would rather harm himself than hurt others.
This can be said to be kind, and it can also be said to be cowardly. In other words, excessive kindness itself is a kind of cowardice.
After the sword jingled a few times on the ground, it returned to calm.
After Liushi gasped for a while, a fierce light flashed in his eyes, and suddenly he rushed to the sword like a hungry wolf, holding it firmly in his hand. He was like a child who had just seen a sword, holding the hilt with one hand, and grabbing the blade hastily with the other, his hand was covered in blood from being cut. Liu Shi didn't care, he had already fallen into the state of being addicted to forging and couldn't extricate himself, he couldn't feel the pain, and he was just concentrating on doing a big thing.
He gripped the sword tightly in bloody hands, and staggered toward the grocery store.
Lied calmly opened the door for him, and then stood aside with Alaya, not looking in, just looking at the distant sky.
A low roar resembling that of a wild animal came from the room.
Liushi held the sword in his backhand, and stabbed Xiuzi's body one after another.
There is no method, and every sword is exhausted with all its strength.
Blood gushed out of Xiuzi's body non-stop. Every time the sword was stabbed, blood splashed on his body and face, and soon the whole room was filled with an unpleasant smell of blood. [Harming others] This matter seemed to have brought great pain to Liu Shi, the expression on his face was neither the excitement of revenge, nor the joy of relief, it was twisted and hideous to the extreme.
But even so, his hand didn't stop.
At the beginning, Xiuzi would twist her body and struggle, her gagged mouth was still whining, and her eyes would show a begging look. But soon, he stopped screaming and struggled. His body was like a sack full of rice, which had been stabbed a lot. The rice slowly flowed out, and the sack shriveled.
Outside, Alaya asked softly:
"Master, what is love?"
Lied put his hands in his sleeves, did not give an answer, but repeated Alayah's words, and fell into deep thought:
"Yeah, what is love?"
Alaya said softly:
"Does Liushi love Carissa?"
Lid thought for a while and said:
"Liu Shi told me that if one day you will be jealous of the person you care about, that is when you realize that you are in love with her. It is easy to go from frugal to extravagant, but the reverse is difficult. Lonely people are used to loneliness. The saddest thing is to receive someone's favor and then lose it suddenly. Liushi knows this very well, so when he was with Carissa, he probably didn't dare to hand over his sincerity, fearing that one day he would fall from the clouds to hell I couldn't bear it myself. But later, when Carissa was with other blacksmiths, Liushi would go mad with jealousy, which means that he is still hopelessly in love with Carissa."
Alaya thought for a while, then nodded.
However, she still said with some doubts:
"But love didn't make him strong. On the contrary, it brought him countless pains. The same goes for Qing Yun and the queen. In my opinion, they are better off not falling in love with each other than being alone."
This time, Lid did not speak for a long time.
After a long time, he laughed, reached out and rubbed Alaya's hair, and said:
"It makes people delirious, dazzled, moths to the flames, and desperate. From a rational point of view, there are indeed more negative effects. But no one can control this kind of emotion, and only personally Only after experiencing it can we understand whether it is worth it or not. We are not qualified to judge anything."
Alaiya thought for a while, and found that whether it was Qingyun and the queen at the time, or Liushi and Carissa now, they had a lot of uneasy feelings, but they never regretted it.
Aliya nodded with a vague understanding.
Inside the house, Xiuzi was no longer alive, and his body was bloody.
Liu Shi wanted to let go of the sword, but found that because the grip was too tight, his hand was out of control, and he couldn't let go no matter what.
Holding the sword, he knelt on the ground, tears pouring out like floods breaking a bank.
The next day, Lide slept until noon, and when he got up to look for food, he heard the sound of tinkling iron.
He made a cup of hot coffee and walked towards the forging room while drinking.
The door of the forging room was not closed, so Lid saw the man who was beating with a hammer at a glance.
Almost didn't recognize it.
Liu Shi's wet and greasy hair like wakame was well-groomed, black hair was combed behind his back, his long bangs that originally covered his eyes were twisted together, and tied into a sky-high bun. Although he still looked a bit nondescript, he was obviously clean Much neater. In addition, after taking a quick bath, he suddenly seemed to be three or four years younger, and returned to the appearance of that skinny handsome guy with fair skin.
There are still more or less dead fish eyes, and the dark bags under the eyes from lack of sleep are still there, which makes Lide feel a little familiar. Otherwise, the sudden change would be too great, and he would have thought that Liushi had been dropped.
Still, that alone was shocking enough.
"morning."
Li De greeted, Liu Shi nodded to him, and said the same:
"morning."
Lid pointed to his hair and said:
"It looks much cleaner, and it's been taken care of?"
Flowstone replied:
"Amo helped make it."
"It's rare for you to agree that taking a shower before feels like a waste of time."
"yes."
Liu Shi said, with a faint smile on his face, and said in a calm tone:
"I don't want to die that much anymore, so I naturally started to pay attention to these things. Even if it's for my daughter, I can't keep mourning like before... Amo suffered for me for three years, and I, a father, must protect me in the future She can."
"That's it."
Lid took a sip of his coffee and nodded.
Liu Shi was silent for a while, then suddenly said:
"Did you say anything to Amo?"
Lid shook his head.
Flowstone said:
"If Amo plans to use some strange ways to repay the kindness, I hope you can stand it... She is just a child."
Lide didn't understand at first, and when he figured it out, he sprayed the coffee on the ground.
He raised his hands in front of his chest, waved them to the sides, and said with a righteous face:
"I've never touched loli, I'm not interested in loli."