Chapter 218: Sixty-four Yong Xin and Ian
I rembered.
All of it… I rembered.
Gerard’s mories that he had chased for ten years all returned to his mind at that mont.
“Why…” he said softly, “has it co to this?”
“It seems you’ve finally recalled, Father,” Yong Xin said, pointing to his mangled face and smiling. “As for your question of why… Do you truly not know? This is… the price.”
Gerard’s pupils narrowed slightly: “The price?”
“You possess that eye; you should be very clear about what ‘the price’ ans, right?” Yong Xin said softly. “Outsiders can indeed use the power of Visas, but it’s not without a reason. What you want to obtain, you must first pay for it. You asked not to die, so I certainly won’t die, but when you said you’d co back to save , your obsession, your mories…”
He paused.
“They could only be taken as a price, and then be forever trapped in that place you always wanted to return to.”
Hearing Yong Xin say this, Gerard’s clenched fist grew tighter, and the veins on the back of his hand bulged.
He was angry.
But the source of his anger was himself.
How could he have forgotten?
How could he have forgotten?!
How could he have forgotten his mission, how could he have forgotten his son was still waiting for him!
Naturally, Bai Wei also felt Gerard’s imnse emotional turmoil.
To be honest, Bai Wei hadn’t expected the truth to be like this either.
The Domination on Yong Xin’s body was given by Gerard, and Gerard lost a part of his mory because of the price of Domination… more precisely, it wasn’t the mory, but the soul. It’s just that those mories were stored on the soul.
The spirit that suddenly approached Gerard earlier was, of course, witnessed by Bai Wei as well.
Gerard’s fragnt of soul had always lingered in the Polluted Land, never able to leave, just as Gerard had always been unable to find the truth of those days.
But now, that lost part of the soul had returned.
If Bai Wei was not mistaken, it had to do with the “Summoning” he perford the day before yesterday, which made the entire Abyss co a lot closer to Lyra—perhaps that was when the influence occurred.
Gerard’s mories and obsession finally caught up with him.
Although Bai Wei wasn’t sure whether this was a good thing or a bad one.
Because he noticed that Gerard’s sword-wielding hand was trembling. Just a mont ago, when he had swung his sword at Yong Xin, there had been no hesitation.
But Bai Wei didn’t say anything and just watched.
After several deep breaths, Gerard gradually cald his emotions. He looked up at Yong Xin and asked with as calm a tone as he could manage: “So what happened afterward?”
“Afterwards, I survived,” Yong Xin was still smiling, “Father, do you realize how powerful Domination is?”
He casually picked up a piece of his own flesh from the ground and showed it to Gerard.
“You should know what kind of end accompanies a prolonged stay in the Polluted Land,” Yong Xin said. “My flesh, bones, even my brain are rotting. I should have been like those Pioneers who eternally rest in the Polluted Land, my body completely disintegrated, rotted, and then beca part of the Polluted Land. But you enforced that I must not die, or rather Domination enforced it. So it kept forcibly urging every part of my body to recover to normal and then… resu normal functioning.”
He released his hand, and the flesh imdiately flew back to his mangled cheek, once again making the face seem whole.
“This is Domination,” Yong Xin said gently, “It doesn’t let die, and in this world, there’s nothing that can make die, not even the Polluted Land, so I survived, and… finally returned to Lyra.”
Gerard looked into Yong Xin’s eyes: “Then why didn’t you co to find ?”
Yong Xin smiled again: “Father, have you forgotten? In the Polluted Land, it’s not only the body that rots. Isn’t it the spirit that begins to decay for everyone lost in the Polluted Land?”
Gerard’s heart shivered.
“My body couldn’t die, but my mind…” Yong Xin touched his temple with a finger, “was constantly under attack, tornted. Back then, I almost went insane, I even wished I could kill myself, but…”
Yong Xin paused, then looked at Gerard again.
“Just like I said earlier, you didn’t let die, so I couldn’t even do that to myself.”
The mont Yong Xin’s words ended, he suddenly acted ruthlessly, thrusting his finger right into his temple with a “plop” sound.
Pure white “blood” spilled out, but Yong Xin still kept smiling.
“Just like now.”
The scene was a bit eerie, a bit grueso.
But in Gerard’s eyes, there was only… heartache.
Because he knew all too well the feeling Yong Xin described.
But he didn’t lose his sanity because of it; he still watched Yong Xin coldly: “What does this have to do with you not coming to find ?”
Yong Xin sighed softly: “Don’t you understand yet? Father, in the day-to-day tornt, I finally realized what I wanted.”
“What do you want?” Gerard asked subconsciously.
Yong Xin didn’t answer imdiately. Instead, he slowly stood up, opened his arms towards Gerard, and said word by word: “Rebirth.”
“Rebirth?”
“Yes, I no longer want to live like this. Living like this only brings endless pain,” Yong Xin said indifferently, “So, I yearn for rebirth. I want to discard this body that should have decayed long ago. I want to be reborn anew. And all of these, Lyra couldn’t help with—only the New Chaser Association could. That’s why I changed my na to… Yong Xin. I just want to live again, to end the current pain.”
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