Aqua Utopia｜海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
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"The one basking in infinite glory is you; the one fallen from grace is also you. What matters is ‘you’, and not the state of you. No matter what’s happened in the past, I will never leave you." Ты в беспредельном великолепии — это ты. И ты, упавший в грязь — тоже ты. Главное здесь «ты», а не «какой» ты. Не важно, что произойдёт, я никогда тебя не оставлю.
Hua Cheng quietly sighed, extended his arms, and once again folded him into his embrace, “Your Highness, I’ve always watched you.”
This was the second time he said this, but his voice was softer than before. Xie Lian clutched the red robes at his chest, asking, his mind blank, “I know, I know. But… What should I do now?”
Hua Cheng’s long and slender fingers gently combed through Xie Lian’s mussed hair, “Then, Your Highness, do you know why I refuse to leave this world?”
Xie Lian couldn’t understand why Hua Cheng could still be so calm at a time like this, as he was panicking so hard he was trembling. But while feeling lost, he still simple-mindedly asked,
“Why?”
Hua Cheng replied quietly, “Because I have a beloved who is still in this world.”
Hearing this, Xie Lian was slightly stunned. He seemed to have heard this somewhere before.
Hua Cheng continued, “My beloved is a brave, noble and gracious special someone. He’s saved my life, I’ve looked up to him ever since I was young. But, I wanted to catch up to him more, and become an even stronger person for him. Although, he might not remember me well. We never really talked. I want to protect him.”
He gazed at Xie Lian, “If your dream is to save the common people, then, my dream, is only you.”
“…”
Relying on his memory, Xie Lian asked with a trembling voice, “But…. You won’t, be able to rest in peace…. Like this…?”
Hua Cheng answered, “I pray to never rest in peace.”
In that instant, all of Xie Lian’s breathing stopped, frozen in this moment. He could faintly hear two voices, one questioning the other answering.
“If your beloved knew you couldn’t rest in peace because of him, he might feel guilty and troubled.”
“Then I just won’t let him know why I haven’t gone.”
“After having seen so much, it’d be known sooner or later.” Xie Lian said.
“Then I won’t let him find out I’m protecting him either.”
That ball of ghost fire. In that lantern night, that weak little ghost fire he bought with a few pennies. That ghost fire who wanted to pull him up from the burial graves in a frozen winter night. That ghost fire who blocked in front of him before White No-Face and wouldn’t let him go near danger. That ghost fire who had screamed in torment for him during the time when a hundred swords pierced his heart!
Hua Cheng said quietly, “Your Highness, I understand your everything.”
“Your courage, your despair; your kindness, your pain; your resentment, your hate; your intelligence, your foolishness.”
“If I could, I would have you use me as your stepping stone, the bridge you take apart after crossing, the corpse bones you need to trample to climb up, the sinner who deserved the butchering of a million knives. But I know you wouldn’t allow it.”
He said as the maple red of his robes slowly faded away. Xie Lian’s shaking hands tried to grab hold of him, and he never stopped transferring spiritual powers, but even then he couldn’t prevent Hua Cheng’s form from fading slowly.
His eyes were going blurry, his speech staggered, and he stammered, “…Alright don’t say anymore, I get it… but, but don’t be like this, alright? San Lang? I… I’ve borrowed so much spiritual powers from you that I haven’t returned yet. And, I’m actually not done saying all that I wanted to say earlier, there’s still so much. It’s been so long since anyone listened to me talk, won’t you stay? Don’t… actually do this. I won’t be able to take it. Twice, it’s been twice already! I really don’t want there to be a third time!!!”
Hua Cheng had already vanished from this world twice because of him!
However, Hua Cheng only replied, “To die in battle for you is my greatest honour.”
“…”
Those words were like a fatal blow. The tears in Xie Lian’s eyes could no longer be restrained, and they came pouring out.
Like he was hanging on to the last straw of his life, he pleaded, “You said you would never leave me.”
However, Hua Cheng replied, “There is no banquet in this world that doesn’t come to an end.”
Xie Lian bowed his head and buried it deep into his chest, his heart and throat in constricted agony, unable to speak.
Yet soon after, he heard Hua Cheng say above him, “But I will never leave you.”
Hearing this, Xie Lian’s head shot up.
Hua Cheng said to him, “I will come back. Your highness, believe me.”
p.s.: *can't stop crying omg*
They get a phone call.
Andrew shows his phone to Neil—Aaron. Answers it. “What’s up? You’re on speaker. Neil’s here.”
“Good,” Aaron says. “I’m pissed at both of you.”
Andrew looks at Neil, panicking.
“You fucking assholes,” Aaron rails, not waiting for them to answer, sending Andrew into a visible spiral. “My wife doesn’t speak German!” Oh. “Freddie’s speaking half in German and my wife doesn’t understand a fucking word he says, you jackasses, what did you do?”
“Gave you a bilingual baby,” Neil says, grinning. “Like Angela.”
“Both of Angela’s parents are bilingual! Katelyn is not!”
“Teach her,” Andrew suggests, trying to keep himself under control. “Bonding time.”
“We’re both doctors! We don’t want to spend our bonding time with me teaching her German, that’s fucking dumb bullshit. Jesus. Bilingual baby. Hey. You guys have five years.”
“For what?” Neil asks.
“If in five years I don’t have the smartest baby in the neighborhood, I’m fucking coming after you. This had better pay off.”
“I mean, in five years, his competition will just be John,” Neil points out. “There won’t be any other babies in our neighborhood.”
“And John is stupid,” Aaron says thoughtfully.
“Is he?” Neil asks. “I’m honestly curious, I don’t know how smart babies are supposed to be.”
“I’m sure he’s fine,” Aaron says dismissively. “But. Five years, fuckers. Don’t think I’ll forget.”
“I’ll be sure to remember,” Andrew says solemnly.
“I’ll hold you to it. You’ll have to babysit him more often, you’re the only people who have a shot at understanding him right now, he’s pulling the same bullshit as Angela.”
Neil grins at Andrew. Andrew relaxes. He hasn’t ruined his relationship with Aaron. “We can handle it, probably.”
“Fucking better be able to. Okay. I’m leaving. Gotta try to get some sleep before my rude-ass baby wakes me up.”
“Sleep well,” Andrew says, stilted.
It takes Aaron a second too long. “You too.”
Andrew hangs up, before Aaron can consider saying anything else.
“Emotionally constipated,” Neil says, grinning.
psps: "Blame It on My Youth" by youreyestheyglow