If I tell him that the reason, he's stuck here is basically himself. He'll probably lose it. But this is a heart demon, and if he doesn't acknowledge it and solve it, he'll stay here forever, included…
"Why are you stalling?" asked the old man.
'Bro, I'm trying to think of an answer that won't get killed!'
"It's not that I'm stalling… it's just strange, it doesn't really explain how this happened…"
"You're still stalling… and now I'm even more curious, tell , stop hiding information from … I dislike that…"
'Shit, shit, shit…'
I can't tell him the truth, but I can't lie to him either he'll instantly figure out… But I can mix truths and lies.
"Do you rember how we ended up here?" I asked.
"Of course, it was the work of the Darkest Sun, he banished us due to his fear of us overtaking his seat. Although we never even thought of doing such, he's a paranoid person with incredible jealousy and fear for his seat…"
'Reminds of soone… huh, a power-hungry warmonger exists everywhere, I guess.'
"Then what," I asked.
"The attack ca too sudden; it was when our teacher was outside the clan. The whole territory was extracted and banished to this void. Not many survived the banishnt, and the few who did, passed away within those hundred years. I'm surprised to see you among the living, especially since I'm sure I saw you dying due to the transfer…"
The old man's brows rose up, and he began frowning.
'Well, I guess he's rembering more than he should.'
"How co you lived? Hold on a minute…" the old man seed to be on the brink of losing his sanity again since what he rembers and what he's seeing started colliding.
"You didn't see dead; you saw dying, I had issues recovering my cultivation base because of that you see… that's why I'm like this, I've lost a lot of my mories in that accident also…"
"Oh…" the old man sighed and said, "It must be true then, right, right. It indeed was a cataclysmic event."
'One thing's for sure, the old man subconsciously knows I'm not the sa person from however million years ago. But he's actively stopping himself from seeing the truth, he is denying it, and accepting whatever lies I tell him. Why? Simple, because he's been alone for so long. And if he were to find out I'm not his 'junior brother,' he'll lose his mind again. His own subconscious is actively trying to fix itself. So no matter what I tell him, as long as it falls within reason, he should believe it, no, he must believe it. If not, his mind will fall.'
"So, the Darkest Sun seed to have used a thod to force a heart demon to manifest into the form of those shadows…"
"A heart demon? Who's?" he asked.
"The strongest person here," I replied as I pointed at him, "You,"
"So… you're saying that those are heart demons? And it's because of that they ca to exist? And I've been fighting myself this whole ti? Absurd! I can't believe that!"
The old man's hand gripped his head, as pain was obviously creeping up his expressions.
"Yes and no…" I said before he began losing his sanity. Damn this is rough.
"How so," he said as he let go of his head and ekly looked at .
"It must be because the Darkest Sun made it so that you cannot figure it out. He trapped you within an illusion… I was only able to wake up recently and saw it, otherwise you would still be trapped in this illusion that you're fighting an unknow foe forever, while it was nothing but a heart demon…"
"If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have realized this…" the old man said as he looked outside.
"So many, only for them to be a part of my own mind… but how do I clear this, Heart Demon?"
'Bro, why are you asking the junior… aren't you like a million and sothing year old, you should know how to do that…'
"Hmm, so far we identified the cause, figuring out how to solve it shouldn't be that hard. We need to know the reason it beca your heart demon. My first guess is that it was ford due to 'our' inability to protect the clan…"
"I would also assu such… but even then, I'm not foolish enough to succumb to a heart demon due to the action of soone far more powerful than I am… if the Darkest Sun decided to attack out clan, then I'll have to fight tooth and nail to protect the clan. And if I were to lose, I would have no regrets or reasons to make a heart demon. A heart demon is only made when one goes against their own nature…so it cannot be an external factor, although an external factor can be a contributor to the creation of a heart demon…"
"Hmm, so we can assu that the Darkest Sun wasn't the reason for this thing coming to existence…" I said as I kept scrolling through the seemingly infinitely long logs of the formation.
"The only thing that could answer this riddle… is the heart demon itself," I said.
"Huh? How so?"
"Oh, you probably don't know, the main one, has an ego, it was created and established due to the passage of ti. And if we catch it, we probably can figure out the reason why it ca to exist in the first place… the problem is…"
"It's not going to tell us," he said.
"Yeah, that's not going to be easy, because the mont we know why it ca to be, It's basically halfway through answering how to get rid of it…"
"It's okay, I know how to make it talk if we catch it," he said.
"How so?" I asked.
"With violence…" he replied as if it was the most obvious answer in the world.
"And what if violence doesn't work?" I asked.
"Then we just use more," he said grinning.
I'm not gonna lie… I like this old guy…
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