"I might have to go home."
The boy lowered his head and said quietly, "That's great, you can go home now."
Phinks slumped down, staring blankly at the night sky:
“But my family has all passed away.”
"Even if I could go back, I wouldn't know where to go or what I could do."
The boy stopped talking.
After a moment of silence, Phinks suddenly asked, "Is someone in your hometown waiting for you to go back?"
"some."
“My mother and sister are still alive, they weren’t taken away…” As he spoke, the boy wiped away his tears again.
Perhaps it had been too long since she had spoken like this, and she couldn't help but pour out the sadness that had been building up in her heart.
"...It wasn't like this at first. They're liars; they gained the trust of our Kurota tribe..."
The boy recounted his past while sobbing uncontrollably.
"Chief Crusoe is a complete fraud; he colluded with those people and betrayed us..."
At this moment, Finks's expression darkened, and he suddenly interrupted, "Alright, now that you're full, go back quickly."
The boy then came to his senses and looked at Finks with fear, afraid that he had angered him with his words.
However, Phinks was already lying on the rock, half of his face illuminated by the moonlight:
"Living is more important than anything else. Let's go back after we've eaten."
The boy timidly responded and slowly got up to go back, but in a fleeting glance, he saw light appear in the dark sea.
At first, she thought she was seeing things and quickly rubbed her eyes.
But the beam of light was still there, though it was blurry, as if it were coming from beneath the surface of the sea.
The boy's skin crawled, and he recoiled in fear, exclaiming:
"There's a monster in the ocean!!"
Phinks didn't even look up; he just stared blankly at the night sky, completely ignoring it.
“Mr. Finks! There really is a monster in the sea!” The boy was terrified and stumbled to Finks’ side.
Only then did she notice that Phinks' eyes seemed to be red.
Finks remained unconcerned; he knew the child was on the verge of collapse, so he simply said casually:
"So what if it exists? What's the big deal?"
The boy, clutching his heaving chest, stared fearfully at the edge of the cliff and said in a trembling voice, "I'm going back, Mr. Finks."
"You'd better...you'd better not stay here. There really are glowing monsters in the ocean."
"Understood," Finks replied casually.
The boy then left, turning back every few steps.
Shortly after the boy left, Finks sighed and got up from the rock.
As he raised his gaze to the location of his hometown ahead, Phinks suddenly felt his jaw tremble.
Then, his knees buckled and he collapsed to the ground.
How should we face our hometown?
He had been away from home for more than two years, and the only time he cried was when he left.
But this time, when facing the hometown they were about to arrive at.
Phinks could no longer suppress her inner turmoil and broke down in tears...
——
Below the cliff.
That dim, hazy light gradually disappeared into the pitch-black seabed, as if it had never existed.
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