"You... you are talking nonsense!" Huo Yuhao's voice was trembling, becoming hoarse and deformed due to extreme anger and fear, "I will never forgive them! Never!"
"Really?" Dai Tu smiled, his smile cold and cruel, "Then prove it to me."
He raised his hand and pointed at the two faces in the cave that were twisted with fear.
"Kill them. Kill them in the most cruel way. Let them die in pain and despair, and let them pay the price for what happened back then."
"Then, prove to me, your mother, and everyone who has been hurt by the White Tiger Duke Mansion--"
"You, Huo Yuhao, did not betray who you were back then. Your hatred is true. Your revenge must be avenged."
"Otherwise..."
Dai Tu paused, a cold murderous intention flashed in his eyes.
"Otherwise, you should put down the knife now, go back to the Shrek Academy, continue to be your good student, continue to love each other with your 'friends', continue to slowly smooth your edges and erase your hatred in those hypocritical principles, and finally... turn into a pathetic puppet that even you can't recognize."
Huo Yuhao's body was shaking violently due to extreme anger and humiliation.
He stared hard at Dai Tu, staring at those scarlet eyes full of ridicule and scrutiny. In his mind, those deliberately suppressed memories, those bloody pasts, and those mother's instructions before she died, came like a tide, drowning him in an instant.
The unwilling eyes of my mother when she was forced to die.
I am in the White Tiger Duke Mansion, living like a dog, being beaten and scolded at will, having food deprived of food, and being called a "bastard" every day.
Dai Huabin said "bitch mother" just now.
And... the black-haired boy in front of him, those scarlet eyes, and those heart-piercing questions that seemed to be able to see through the essence of his soul.
No, he didn't betray.
His hatred never disappeared.
His revenge must be avenged.
If in the future, he will really choose to forgive, compromise, and betray his past self as Dai Tu said...
Then he would rather die now.
"I didn't..." Huo Yuhao roared in a low voice, his eyes bloodshot, like a cub that was forced into a desperate situation and on the verge of madness.
Then, he suddenly turned his head and looked at the two faces full of fear and despair in the cave. The last trace of hesitation in his eyes completely disappeared, leaving only pure, cold murderous intent that could freeze the soul.
"I have not betrayed... nor will I betray..."
He clenched the knife in his hand and walked towards Dai Huabin step by step again.
This time, there was no hesitation in his steps.
"Huo Yuhao! No! Don't! I'm your brother! My biological brother!" Dai Huabin was so frightened that he burst into tears and begged desperately for mercy.
"Brother! I was wrong! I was really wrong! Please let me go! I will be your ox and horse! I..."
"Shut up." Huo Yuhao walked up to him, lowered his head, and looked at him. There was no emotion in his eyes, only a bottomless, cold blood red.
"You don't deserve to call me brother."
As soon as he finished speaking, the knife in his hand stabbed down hard.
"Pfft!"
The sound of the tip of the knife piercing the flesh was particularly clear in the silent cave dwelling.
Dai Huabin's cry for mercy stopped abruptly.
He stared wide-eyed, looking at the knife stuck in his chest, and then at Huo Yuhao's cold, blood-red eyes. They were filled with unbelievable fear, and a deep... despair that seemed to understand something.
Then, he tilted his head and stopped moving.
Blood gurgled out along the blade, dyeing the vines tied to his body red and Huo Yuhao's hand holding the knife red.
Huo Yuhao looked at Dai Huabin's face that was completely frozen due to death, and looked at those golden eyes that had lost their sparkle. There was no pleasure in his heart, only a deep... emptiness, as if part of his soul had been hollowed out.
And, a kind of... strange peace.
It seemed as if the boulder that had been weighing on my heart had finally been lifted a little bit.
It seemed that the poisonous fire that had been burning in the blood finally vented its Sisi.
He pulled out the knife, turned around, and looked at Dai Yueheng.
Dai Yueheng Originally, after he was deposed, his ambition to be strong disappeared and he always felt that he was just a useless person.
At this moment, I was so scared that I completely collapsed. In the face of life and death... I am not as brave as many people think.
He looked at the knife still dripping blood in Huo Yuhao's hand, at Huo Yuhao's cold, blood-red eyes, and then at Dai Huabin's body next to him that was rapidly losing its temperature. His crotch was wet, and he was incontinent.
"No... don't kill me...Yuhao...Yuhao brother... I was wrong... I was really wrong..." Dai Yueheng's voice was trembling, full of tears,
"It's my mother... it's Zhu Yue who forced me! It's her who wants to kill you! It's her who wants to silence you! It has nothing to do with me! I'm your brother! My brother! You can't kill me... you can't..."
"Brother?" Huo Yuhao twitched the corner of his mouth, revealing a cold, smileless arc.
"Just now Dai Huabin called me a bastard and my mother a slut, but you didn't treat me as your brother. Now, you're going to die, have you remembered that I am your brother?"
He shook his head and his voice became colder. "It's too late."
After saying that, he raised the knife again.
Aimed at Dai Yueheng's throat.
But at this moment.
"Amaterasu."
Dai Tu A cold voice suddenly sounded.
Then, without any warning, a black flame ignited on Dai Yueheng's body.
The flame burned silently, with no temperature or light, only pure, all-devouring black. It started from Dai Yueheng's chest, spread throughout his body in an instant, and enveloped his entire body.
"Ah!!!"
Dai Yueheng let out a scream that was too shrill to sound like a human voice, and struggled desperately, but the black flames were like gangrene attached to the bones, clinging to his body, devouring his flesh and blood crazily, and burning his soul.
Within a few breaths, his screams suddenly stopped, and his entire body was reduced to a handful of ashes in the black flames, floating in the air.
There was dead silence.
Only the wind blowing through the cracks in the cave made a whining sound, like a ghost crying.
Huo Yuhao held up the knife and stood there, staring blankly at the place where Dai Yueheng disappeared, and then at the body of Dai Huabin on the ground. His face was stained with splattered blood, and the blood-red light in his eyes gradually faded and turned back to pale gold.
But in that light golden color, there is a hint of deep... darkness that seems to never be washed away.
"Why... why?" Huo Yuhao turned his head and looked at Dai Tu, his voice a little dry, "Didn't you say... let me kill you with my own hands?"
"Leave the last blow to me." Dai Tu retracted his hand, and the scarlet Mangekyo pattern in his eyes slowly disappeared, turning back into his clear, large, round eyes.
He walked up to Huo Yuhao, looked at the blood on his face and hands, and looked at the deep darkness in his eyes. He twitched the corner of his mouth, revealing a cold arc that seemed to... have a touch of warmth.
"Because I also want revenge."
"Because, the fifty-three people in Konoha Village, including my sister Arin, also have my share."
"Because..."
Dai Tu paused, looked at Huo Yuhao's eyes that were somewhat similar to his, and said seriously:
"From today on, you are no longer alone."
"Your hatred is my hatred. Your hatred is my hatred. Your road... I will walk with you."
Huo Yuhao stared blankly at Dai Tu, the unpretentious sincerity and coldness in his eyes, and the blood on his face and body that was the same as his own. The strange resonance in his heart became stronger and stronger.
He finally understood where that sense of resonance came from.
It's blood.
It's the same... hate.
"You..." Huo Yuhao's voice was trembling, "Who are you?"
Dai Tu looked at him and slowly spit out two words:
"Dai Tu."
After a pause, he added:
"Your brother. Half-brother!"