All of this caused Sanzu Amado immense pain.
His daughter was everything to him, his only paradise. Without her, his life would have no meaning.
"Father, I'm thirsty. Let me have some water."
Sanzu Amado carefully helped his daughter sit up.
She was as frail as a reed, almost weightless.
Her entire body was like a dying candle in the wind, liable to go out at any moment.
Sanzu Amado looked at Akeibi, not knowing what he was thinking. Seeing his daughter suffering like this, he wondered every night whether he should let her be free of it all.
But in the end, he did not even dare entertain such thoughts, because if Akeibi were gone, he would lose his mind too.
After Akeibi finished drinking, Amado slowly helped her lie back down on the bed.
Then, Amado clearly heard movement outside the door. Footsteps—many of them, chaotic and disorderly. There were a lot of people!
"Damn it, how did they find this place?!"
Akeibi panicked as well. "Father, what's wrong? Have they come again?!"
Sanzu Amado immediately reassured Akeibi. "It's all right. I'll go take a look. Stay here and rest."
No matter how hard Sanzu Amado thought about it, he could not figure out how he had offended anyone.
They had wandered all the way from the Land of Earth to the Rain Country, yet people were still pursuing them.
Why?
Sanzu Amado and Akeibi had originally lived in a small village near the Land of Earth. Because his daughter was ill, he could only stay home to care for her, leaving him no time for anything else.
Fortunately, the savings he had accumulated in his youth were enough to cover his daughter's medical expenses.
But the medical standards in the countryside were far too poor, and the