"Cough, coughcoughcough, coughcoughcoughcoughcough!"
Daigman's eyes brimmed with tears. Grasping the corner of Ye Chen's clothes, he rasped through coughing blood:
"Huff... huff..."
"We are very weak."
"We are very lowly."
"We simply have no way of being any help to you."
"But by the same token, we are not worth you continuing to drown yourself in guilt and self-reproach over and over again."
"At the very least, I... don't want to become a burden on your heart anymore!"
"Hah... so... hah... so..."
"Child... listen carefully."
"Do... not... care... about... us... anymore."
Faced with Daigman's utterly sorrowful and sincere words, Ye Chen bit down hard on his lips and clenched his fists, offering no reply.
"..."
Yet, although Ye Chen said nothing, the Daige Siblings beside him began coughing along with Daigman.
"Coughcoughcoughcough!"
Seeing this, Ye Chen's gaze went blank, and he instinctively called out in concern:
"What's wrong with you two!?"
Clutching his chest, Daigrick groaned with a strained expression:
"It hurts so much... It feels like something inside my body is trying to bore its way out... It suddenly hurts so much..."
Daigrian, meanwhile, collapsed straight to the ground, her little face twitching as she let out a feeble cry.
"Wuu... it hurts so much... Rian feels so awful, big brother... I think I'm sick..."
As the siblings abruptly fell into inexplicable agony, their bodies began to glow as well!
Whoosh!
It was a murky, dim, ominous radiance.
Faced with this sudden and bizarre development, Ye Chen's heart tightened, and he immediately reached out to examine the children's condition.
However, at the same time, an even denser ominous glow erupted behind him.
It was accompanied by a string of piercing crack-crack sounds.
They sounded like bones and flesh being brutally stretched apart.
Ye Chen turned around in astonishment, only