The man still endured the wind, sun and rain day after day, and El looked at the eagle circling every day and thought of the only thing he could do...
"Are you sure this will work?"
There was a hint of pain in the man's tone, but El simply gritted his teeth and held the liver, which was almost half the size of his head, in his hands.
He didn't know if it would work, just like he didn't know where he came from, but... a voice in his heart told him that this was the right thing to do.
"It can't see me anyway. They're just two big rocks. It's easy."
He replied like this.
Not long after, the bloodthirsty eagle came again to peck at the delicious internal organs.
Its walnut-sized brain was completely unable to understand why that thing was already exposed before it had even started to cut open the belly.
But a free buffet can never be a bad thing, right?
Its claws hooked firmly on the rock wall, and its sharp beak pecked down fiercely. Then it felt something was wrong with the taste.
The eagle lowered its head and looked, a stream of blood spurted straight into his eyes. What he was pecking at seemed to be a heart, a beating, blood-spurting heart, its own heart.
The eagle felt his body gradually becoming weaker, and finally his feet loosened and he fell into the bottomless cliff.
“That’s about all I can do.”
Having completed a miraculous, impossible exchange, El looked at the man and said.
"Thank you very much."
The man looked at El's gradually translucent body and asked:
"Are you leaving?"
El looked at his arm and nodded doubtfully.
"That may be the case. Anyway, it's nice to meet you."
"Me too."
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