Ch55 - Strong Opponen (2/2)
“Totem?”
Chen Yekai climbed onto the platform, coughing while stooped over, then raised his head.
Zhou Sheng released Yu Hao, who began flying in the air. After a short pause, he flew away with a whoosh. The white shirt he wore remained in the air above Chen Yekai like an afterimage, then the shirt began to shine and transformed into a glowing Ryuusei.
“Ryuusei?” Chen Yekai’s voice trembled.
“Longsheng.” Nakagawa Ryuusei said calmly.
The billowing smoke retreated slightly. A wide platform appeared in front of Chen Yekai, and Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng landed on one side. Yu Hao’s hands glowed, then he pressed them against Zhou Sheng’s shoulder. The pain was unbearable for Zhou Sheng and his other hand gripped Yu Hao’s shoulder tightly.
The blood disappeared and the gunshot wound completely healed. Yu Hao asked nervously, “How is it?”
“It’s still a bit numb.” Zhou Sheng pressed his shoulder and moved his arm around, “Did you fall asleep while using my arm as a pillow? It’s affecting my combat abilities.”
“I didn’t……ba!” Yu Hao said, then turned his head and looked at Lin Xun, who was standing in front of the throne in the middle of the platform. He murmured, “It really is him.”
The Feathered Serpent god spiraled in the air in front of him, “Don’t even think about regaining your reign over your inner world. Everything here was doomed to vanish a long time ago, no matter how much effort……”
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“Guard Kaikai.” Zhou Sheng brandished his jingubang, “Let’s fight ba. Support him until he takes his totem back!”
“Die!” Under the protection of the Feathered Serpent god, Lin Xun raised his hand and roared angrily; a seemingly infinite number of black fire meteors shot forth!
“The one who should die is you!” Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng shouted in unison, then rushed forward at the same time!
At the edge of the platform, Chen Yekai was staring vacantly at the glowing Ryuusei.
Chen Yekai, “Zhongchuan Longsheng.”
“Zhong, chuan, long, sheng.” Nakagawa Ryuusei whispered.
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“Yekai.” Chen Yekai said.
“Yekai.” Ryuusei closed his eyes, as if reminiscing one of their shared memories.
Chen Yekai, “Chen Yekai.”
“Chen, ye, kai.” Ryuusei slowly descended and landed on the platform; his body glowed with a warm, golden light.
Tears welled up in Chen Yekai’s eyes as he watched Ryuusei in a daze. On a certain afternoon six years ago, after Ryuusei finished his classes, he passed by a lectern and noticed the Chinese name on a form written by Chen Yekai.
Ryuusei stared at it blankly for awhile, then looked at Chen Yekai before pointing at his own name. Chen Yekai nodded and said, “Longsheng.”
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“Longsheng.” Nakagawa Ryuusei learnt from Chen Yekai’s pronunciation, so it sounded extremely accurate.
Chen Yekai taught him how to say “Zhongchuan Longsheng”, as well as his own name, then finally, Ryuusei told him in English that he liked Chinese and left.
That was the first conversation Chen Yekai had with Ryuusei.
“kimi ga suki da.” Chen Yekai said, “That’s the one and only Japanese sentence you taught me.”
Ryuusei’s calm expression did not change. Finally, he bowed slightly towards Chen Yekai.
Chen Yekai could no longer restrain his sadness. He took a step forward and choked back a sob as he wanted to hold Ryuusei’s hand, yet Ryuusei smiled and just looked at Chen Yekai’s hand.
Chen Yekai’s entire body had sustained injuries.. Blood was still trickling down the side of his face, and his hands were trembling. He opened up his palm and light particles condensed onto his palm, revealing two very small rings.
They were their wedding rings.
Ryuusei gently nodded. He reached out with a hand that gripped a glowing letter. He placed it on Chen Yekai’s palm and covered those two rings.
Then, everything disappeared. The world seemed to plunge into darkness, and within this darkness, only the glowing Ryuusei and the Chen Yekai he illuminated remained. Ryuusei took his hand, leaned forward, and gently kissed Chen Yekai’s lips.
Chen Yekai’s face was covered with tears as he shouted, “Ryuusei!”
The moment they embraced each other, Ryuusei suddenly transformed, disintegrating into particles of light that covered the sky before swirling around Chen Yekai.
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The totem appeared!
Meanwhile, Lin Xun steadily advanced on the other two as he roared, “You will never be able to seize this dream back!”
The power of the flaming black meteors intensified, and they swarmed to densely cover the small area of the platform where they stood. Zhou Sheng raised his shield to arduously resist against Lin Xun’s attack. His teeth were grit so tightly that he could barely even speak.
“This guy is too strong!” Yu Hao was barely able to hold on against the rampaging bombardment of Lin Xun’s magic, “Didn’t Kaikai say that he wasn’t afraid of him anymore?!”
“I’ve already dissed him about it!” Zhou Sheng used the shield to protect Yu Hao. The two of them were helpless once Lin Xun had summoned the Feathered Serpent god back. The body of the Feathered Serpent god was impenetrable; every time Zhou Sheng smashed down upon it with his jingubang, a loud blare would resonate, and the recoil from the impact nearly crippled his arm.
Yu Hao’s two daggers were even more useless against the Feathered Serpent god. As soon as they separated, Lin Xun’s black fire meteor missiles would track them, but Zhou Sheng would always rescue Yu Hao in the nick of time whenever he was in danger.
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“He won!” Yu Hao turned around to look in the midst of the chaos, “He’s seizing his totem back!”
“Withdraw!” Zhou Sheng was utterly exhausted, “I really don’t want to fight anymore!”
Chen Yekai stood at the edge of the platform. The light particles of his totem whirled and eddied around him, embracing him like a warm and gentle breeze; within the glistening particles of light, countless memories from the past constantly flashed past: Ryuusei’s smile under the sunlight, Chen Yekai’s rebukes, Ryuusei and Chen Yekai looking up at the huge Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil in the New York Museum of Natural History, their house in Manhattan, the template models Ryuusei had put together for him……
The first time they held hands, their first kiss, the first time they entangled with one another under the scorching sunlight in the inn until they couldn’t bear to part.
“Nicky, what use is there to pine for another until you die? A joyous meeting during one’s life, will always be better than a vast expanse of gold.” Ryuusei’s voice whispered, “I’ve never regretted falling in love with you. You already know what I want to say to you, let’s meet in our next life ba. Continue living on bravely.”
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Chen Yekai raised his head, and within an instant, all the light particles surged into his body; Chen Yekai’s whole body instantly began to shine!
“We succeeded!” Yu Hao shouted.
Lin Xun’s movements immediately stilled. Zhou Sheng pulled Yu Hao back and into his embrace, then turned around to dodge. Chen Yekai’s body emitted a strong light, and a gun revolved between his fingers.
“Get executed in reality!” Chen Yekai shone resplendently as he roared angrily, “You scum!”
Chen Yekai pulled the trigger.
Yu Hao almost shouted “handsome!”, but fortunately, he reined himself in the nick of time and didn’t do something that would so obviously court death in front of Zhou Sheng. In the next moment, a golden bullet shot out from the muzzle of Chen Yekai’s gun; it whistled through the air, a column of light spiralling behind it; it penetrated through the revolving body of the Feathered Serpent god, then pierced through Lin Xun’s chest!
Lin Xun uttered a howl ofanguish and flew away from the platform with the Feathered Serpent god before falling into the sea of fire beneath the platform.
Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng breathed a sigh of relief in unison. Zhou Sheng placed the shield on his back and said, “We’re done. Let’s find a place to watch the sunrise ba.”
Yu Hao looked at Chen Yekai; Chen Yekai was standing quietly at the edge of the platform as he looked up at the horizon.
Dark clouds still raced through the sky. Chen Yekai looked down at the gun in his hand, then gently released his grip, and that gun dissolved into golden light particles before evanescing.
As he steadily approached the throne, thunderous claps resounded from the horizon.
Chen Yekai turned around and whispered, “Thank you.”
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Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng walked towards Chen Yekai. However, right at the next moment, Yu Hao felt that something was amiss — he immediately turned around and shouted, “Zhou Sheng——!” Yu Hao could no longer be concerned with Chen Yekai; he turned around and rushed towards Zhou Sheng. Zhou Sheng’s smile instantly froze on his face.
A sharp snake tail suddenly flew up from below the platform and shot towards the back of Zhou Sheng’s head with the force of a lightning bolt. Yu Hao leapt up, unfolding his wings, and darted swiftly towards Zhou Sheng, hugging his waist with both hands before spinning obliquely to dodge the snake tail. Their bodies spun around in the air; Zhou Sheng had a faster reaction time as he wielded his shield at the same time to protect them both. But that snake tail changed direction, and slid through the gap exposed by the shield.
At that moment, the sharp snake tail was like an iron divination lot that penetrated Yu Hao below his ribs from the side and exited through the front of his chest; it opened up its inverted scales within Yu Hao’s body before it was wrenched out with a whoosh!
Chen Yekai, “Yu Hao!”
“Yu Hao——!” Zhou Sheng immediately roared madly.
Yu Hao hadn’t even felt pain when the snake tail pierced through him but the fatal moment was when it pulled out — Yu Hao immediately vomited a mouthful of blood, which spat onto Zhou Sheng’s body.