Asura: You Don't Have to Forgive Me. Hate Me to Your Heart's Content!

After declaring his resolve to Rex Lapis, the Asura Yaksha in the video immediately sprang into action.

Just as the video had described earlier, he began dealing with incidents caused by the gods' lingering resentment all across Liyue. He also absorbed as much of it as he could from the victims, devouring the Karmic Debt that could drive people mad.

To ensure he alone absorbed as much Karmic Debt as possible, he even made a point of sending the other Yakshas away, keeping his younger brothers and sisters away from the areas shrouded by the gods' remains and involving them as little as possible.

Asura himself absorbed a vast amount of Karmic Debt in the process.

His eyes grew increasingly clouded, and his soul grew ever darker.

By now, he looked almost exactly as he had at the beginning of the video.

Black armor, black tattoos.

Taciturn, almost coldhearted...

That was not his true nature. After absorbing so much of the gods' lingering resentment, the terrible madness rising in his mind was rapidly consuming his reason, plunging him into an abyss of insanity.

An ordinary person, or even an adeptus, would have been driven completely mad by the corrosion of such a vast amount of divine resentment.

Yet he still retained the barest measure of clarity.

No, that was not clarity. It was merely madness disguised as clarity!

"Cough... cough, cough..."

"I've absorbed just about all the scattered Karmic Debt. Next up are these big ones."

Dragging his feet, the Asura Yaksha made his way step by step to the place where the gods' remains were sealed.

An ordinary person would have been driven mad by the divine resentment shrouding the ruins the moment they arrived, their sense of self collapsing.

The Asura Yaksha, too, was struck by an immense impact.

Yet he held on to his reason, refusing to let his consciousness be devoured by the gods' evil.

"I'm sorry, Bosacius, Indarias, Bonanus, Menogias, Xiao..."

"I'm sorry, Ganyu..."

"If I don't become evil through and through, a demon that destroys Liyue, you won't be able to bring yourselves to kill me, will you?"

"Rex Lapis has already endured far too much pain in the Archon War and is nearing the limit of Erosion. I can't beg him to kill me, nor do I want to drag anyone else down with me..."

"In that case, there's only one way: fabricate a false truth and turn my body and soul completely into a world-ending demon that will destroy Liyue."

"That way, even if you kill me, you won't feel any guilt or remorse. You can accept my death and the disappearance of this sinner of Liyue with peace of mind."

"And from today onward, all the gods' lingering resentment will vanish completely with me, and all Karmic Debt will be laid to rest with my death. With just my one life, I can completely wipe the scars of the Archon War from the land of Liyue. That should be well worth it..."

"So don't forgive me, and don't try to understand me! Hate me, loathe me, and see me as the source of all evil!"

"And I will embrace all your ignorance and accept every bit of your hatred."

"Because from beginning to end, I have loved you all dearly..."

As the Asura Yaksha's voice slowly faded, he absorbed every last trace of the gods' lingering resentment into his body.

The fierce evil of the gods stained his soul completely black, and his mind plunged into the abyss, to its very depths, in an instant.

At that moment, he became the very source of evil, bent on destroying Liyue.

His actions were truly intended to destroy the mortal world completely!

And yet, how tenacious the Asura Yaksha's mind was.

Even with his soul completely stained black by the gods' resentment, his consciousness remained as firm as steel.

He never forgot his true mission-

To save Liyue and all its people!

For that, he would turn his body into a torch to illuminate the endless night and bring about a true dawn.

"Asura, die!"

Boom!

As Ganyu and the five Yakshas unleashed their combined attack, the Asura Yaksha's life finally came to an end.

But he felt no pain, nor any despair.

There was only relief in his heart, and a blissful smile curved his lips...

"Goodbye, my brothers and sisters."

"Goodbye, Ganyu..."

In his final moments, he tried to reach out to the people he had once loved so dearly, but death came in an instant, and his consciousness vanished on the spot.

When it was all over.

Liyue completely forgot the Yaksha who had once sacrificed himself to save the world.

Only at the Lantern Rite each year, when the five Yakshas gathered after a long separation, would they still come to his grave and lay a bouquet of flowers before it.

Besides them, a certain ancient Geo Archon would also slowly make his way to the tombstone.

"Is this the ending you wanted, old friend?" Rex Lapis's gaze dimmed, his expression complicated. "If this weren't your wish, I would surely reveal the truth to the world and let Liyue know what you gave and sacrificed..."

His expression was troubled, as though he were considering whether he should go against Asura's wishes and reveal the truth.

Just then, a gentle breeze carried a petal down to Rex Lapis's feet.

"Fallen blossoms are unfeeling things, yet as spring soil, they nourish flowers still..."

"Indeed, perhaps this was what you truly wished for."

Rex Lapis seemed to understand the Asura Yaksha's true thoughts, and in the end, he gave up on revealing the truth.

To express his respect for the hero who had once saved Liyue, yet remained unknown to all, he silently bowed his head before the tombstone, offering his respect as a god.

That heartfelt respect was the deepest gratitude Rex Lapis could express for the Asura Yaksha's actions.

From then on, springs passed and autumns came, and no one knew that a hero lay at rest there.

But perhaps that was what he had truly wished for...

The image froze at that moment.

Familiar subtitles began to appear.

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As the subtitles disappeared.

Every viewer sat stunned before their screen, and for a long while, not a single bullet comment appeared.

It was not that people were unmoved by the Asura Yaksha's story. Rather, the shock and impact had been so great that their minds had all gone blank.

But mere seconds later, an unprecedented discussion erupted online.

The truth about the Asura Yaksha began sweeping across Teyvat, discussed and shared by countless people!

Everyone wanted to do whatever they could to reveal to more people the story of the hero who had once protected Liyue, only to be treated as a sinner in the end!