Book 13: Chapter 61
Tiangou was stuck in an involuntary cycle of sleeping for a bit and then waking for a bit after Zero departed. Eventually, a fever ailed him. He vaguely rembered responding to soone who checked on him every once in a while. He also vaguely rembered a number of people dropping in, but it was all too vague to rember. By the ti his mind was clear, he had lost track of ti.
In Fiends’ Genesis, results were the primary asure of one’s value. Emotions were considered unnecessary for the most part, so Tiangou wasn’t surprised nobody was looking after him. If it was another mber on the bed right now, they’d be all alone, too.
With all the ti in the world in his hand and a tranquil silence, Tiangou began revisiting his match against Kuanggu Sheng. There was a slightly solemn, ceremonial vibe to it if accounting for the fact that it was Kuanggu Sheng’s final battle, not that it made any difference at this point. Tiangou now had the luxury of ti to reflect on the style he had been trying to achieve for ages. However, his attention was more drawn to Kuanggu Sheng and his demise.
Tiangou didn’t hate Kuanggu Sheng even though they were polar opposites in every way, and they were each other’s opposition at the last mont. Perhaps their scars were the most similar thing between them, and perhaps that was the reason they couldn’t get along as friends. They completed nurous missions together in the past without exchanging many words, but they complented each other well. Tiangou would’ve preferred to not kill Kuanggu Sheng unless there was no alternative.
Tiangou didn’t want any part of the Fiends’ Genesis that Shang Bieshi left behind to break. As such, he was in a tug of war between whether he should’ve killed or spared Kuanggu Sheng. Now that Kuanggu Sheng was gone, he wasn’t sure if he should’ve been relieved or angry that soone else killed him. Well, mayhap he should’ve been afraid considering how the grey silhouette appeared out of nowhere and then vanished without a trace.
The large influx of thoughts and mories made it hard to form a clear train of thought, but one question gradually surfaced and beca an unsettling thought: why did Kuanggu Sheng attack him? It was understandable for them to be at odds given their motivations for the sa task would be different enough for there to be friction. That was not to ntion that Fiends’ Genesis was being threatened. That was exactly what didn’t see right with Tiangou: there was a reasonable explanation for everything.
Tiangou wasn’t the type to avoid thinking about his clashes with other mbers of Fiends’ Genesis. For instance, he didn’t agree with Nine-Lives Cat Fiend’s light sentence when she implicated Shang Bieshi due to her personal problems. Thus, there was a motive for them to oppose each other. In contrast, though, his issues with Kuanggu Sheng were in their minds, not sothing they acted on. How co Kuanggu Sheng approached him out of the blue?
When Shang Bieshi was still around, Kuanggu Sheng and Tiangou were tasked with assassinating Solo Swordsman, Luo Hongzi, Mount Lu Sword Sanctuary’s 28th master of Solo Branch. They were far inferior to their current levels at the ti, so Kuanggu Sheng paved the way for Tiangou decapitate Luo Hongzi using a variety of subterfuge and concealed weapons to hurt Luo Hongzi. Given Kuanggu Sheng’s cleverness twenty years ago, how co he only had one hidden weapon that he was reluctant to use until he had one foot in his tomb? For what reason would he underestimate the risk that he was about to undertake to approach Tiangou with only one hidden weapon? This question was just a snowflake-sized thought Tiangou had, but it now beca a huge snowball-sized thought.
He knows well enough to know that I’d never betray Fiends’ Genesis, so why did he suddenly ask ? Hang on… He ntioned raising his worth, didn’t he? He stated he stayed at this base to raise his standing, which ans that the road upwards is here in the compound. But that doesn’t explain why he’d try convincing to join him. He should’ve known that I wouldn’t join him. It’s almost like… he was provoking into a fight. But he died instead of … Sothing isn’t right.
Not only did he only have one needlerain, but he also held onto it as an insurance policy. Whether it was equipnt or strategy, he barely prepared to assassinate . I can say with confidence that he only used the needlerain because he was forced to based on his reaction at the ti. What is it that I’m missing?
When we fought, he started off only evading… Before he started fighting back, he said sothing along the lines of, “Fine. You want to fight to the death?” It’s almost like he wasn’t expecting to have to fight . It doesn’t make sense… We’re pieces on sobody’s board. No, it’s not just us. All of Fiends’ Genesis must be pieces on this person’s board.
“Sir Tiangou, it is ti for your dicine,” soone outside knocked and notified prior to entering.
As he was still musing, Tiangou just drank from the bowl held up to his mouth. Thanks to the subtle sweetness of the dicine, it wasn’t disgustingly bitter, not that it was sothing he was concerned about in the mont. Sothing stuck to him, however.
The person who fed him his dication seed used it. He very well could’ve forgotten sobody was feeding him dicine and taking care of him whilst he was going in and out of sleep. Thing was, the person communicated when they knocked, and clearly the ssage was intended for him. How would they have known he was awake when they hadn’t entered, and why would they speak to soone not awake? When they entered, they went straight to his bed, set the tray down and fed him without any clumsiness.
Tiangou knitted his brows together. What if he wasn’t sleeping but just in a state of mind where he had very minimal self-awareness to rember, so they were used to waiting on him? He didn’t think his external injury would resemble being poisoned so much.
Rembering his important realisation a mont ago, Tiangou called, “Um, go call…” Try as he may, Tiangou couldn’t fight the weight of his eyelids.
“Hmm? Could you please repeat that?”
Seeing as Tiangou had gone back to sleep, they tidied up and left the room.
Once again, the darkness devoured the glimr of light that Tiangou found.
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