Chapter 8

Araki later met his parents and told them sternly that he would never leave his friends alone again.

"It doesn't matter where I go. If I'm not with it, I don't want to go anywhere. I know it's wrong, but it's also wrong to hurt a poor innocent bird. Others have done something wrong and haven't been punished. I can't just ignore it and go to school. Besides, you know what I learned in school a long time ago."

Araki looked at his parents and asked, "Didn't you send me to a crash course and to the great scholars of the time, so that I could learn in one year what others would take twenty years to learn, and then come back home? Then, you sent me to school again, saying that it was for my future and that you wanted me to build good relationships with the people in the school so that I could use their help in the future. I was very obedient, wasn't I?"

The king said, "But you are not obedient today. How could you treat us like this? We just want you to study hard, what's wrong with that? "

Araki nodded: "Yes, there is nothing wrong with that, because studying is the right thing to do, but have you asked for my opinion? Do you remember what I said at the time? What am I saying now? I said don't go at the time, and now I say I don't want to go. You said I would regret it, but in fact, I I have no regrets, not then and not now."

He paused and smiled, "In other words, I regret all the time that I listened to you, and I still regret it now. I listened to you and went to school. You promised me that after leaving the first school, I could come back and play as I wanted. I believed it, but it was a lie.

Last time, you promised me that you would take care of me . Okay my friends, but you broke your promise again.

You may say that it was only two times.

Of course, two times is nothing, but between these two times, how many other times did you forget?

How many times did I bring up the matter and you said it didn't exist or you had forgotten it long ago, and even questioned me, why am I so petty and brooding over these past events?

I know I should love you, but I can't do it, and neither can you.

I can't do it because of these piles of things, why can't you do it?

Because I didn't meet your expectations? Because I didn't fulfill your wishes? Because I'm still not obedient enough?

What do you think of me?"

The king said: "We think of you as our son."

Araki shook his head: "I don't think so."

The queen could no longer hold back her face with a handkerchief and cried with her head down on the seat beside her. She looked pitiful and sad, like a real mother. She whispered, "My child, I love you, and your father loves you too. How could there be people in the world who don't love their own children? How could there be parents in the world who don't love their own children? Go out and ask, no one will speak sarcastically."

Araki smiled and said, "Yes, no one will speak sarcastically. They will only say what is in their own interests. They will say whatever is profitable for them. It has always been like this. You are sitting in this seat, high above, don't you know? If that is the case, it is too blunt."

The queen could hardly hold back her tears, "My child! I am your mother, how can you hurt my heart with these words? How can you bear to say such cruel, ridiculous and hateful words? I thought that only the devil could say those words to parents. Are you the reincarnation of the devil? My child, do you think I don't want to love you? It's because you always talk to us like that.

Because you get along with us like this, because although you live with us, you are never on the same page with us, we are sad, and we want to love you a little more, maybe you will change your mind and love us. We do hope to get something from you, but is it wrong for parents to want to see their children love themselves? Is it wrong for parents

to want their children to be well-behaved and obedient? If so, I am a heinous criminal, I don't deny it, but I love you.

What on earth do you have to be sad about? I don't understand.

Aren't we good enough to you? As parents, relatives, and friends?

We give you the most honorable position in the world, the best education, the most money, the most beautiful women, the largest palace, and the best reputation. Isn't that enough? What do you want?"

Araki shook his head: "You never understand me. You are parents because of blood, you are relatives because of social arrangements, and you are friends because of imagination. My friend, let me be clear. There is only one. You cannot replace it. You are not it. You don't even have anything to do with it."

The queen asked in shock: "Who is it? Who took you away from me! Tell me!"

Araki said: "Isn't it right in front of you? My friend, my pet, my little bird. "

The queen's cheeks suddenly turned red, and she seemed to find it ridiculous: "How could it be? It's just a bird, or to put it more seriously, a beast. How can you make friends with a beast? It's just a pet at most. We don't stop you, so that's fine, but how can you go further?"

Araki said, "No, it doesn't matter what you think. From today on, I will be inseparable from it. I just came to inform you of this. I'm sorry to make you sad. I hope you can feel calmer after I leave. My original intention was not to come here to quarrel with you."

He turned around and went back to his residence.

The king stopped him: "Wait! Just this matter? Why don't you explain to us why you suddenly came back from school without obtaining our consent? "

Araki said succinctly: "I sensed my friend's danger, and I couldn't wait to come back. Fortunately, I caught up. If I hadn't, I would have died with it."

The queen's eyes widened and she finally became angry: "You can't talk like that! You can't do that! You can't do this to me! Since you are so rebellious, I want to tell you that I was the one who sent someone to get rid of your beast, and I want it to die. How can it be worthy of being by your side?

You are the child that the whole country is looking forward to being born. You are the hope and future of our country. I will not allow it to defile you.

"Besides its good looks, it is very ordinary in every way, so ordinary that it is ridiculous and disgusting. I cannot bear to see it around you again. If you don't listen to me, I will do everything in my power to kill it. As long as you don't change your mind, I will kill it and hold its body in front of you to tell you something very important:

a son cannot betray his mother, a child cannot betray his parents, a prince cannot betray his country and his people, and you must not go against other people's expectations of you! You are not yourself, you are the hope of millions of people. Do you understand?"

Araki listened to her angrily with an expressionless face, then stood at the door and replied: "Whatever you think, I have made up my mind. If you kill it, it will be like killing me. Even if you are my parents, I will avenge it and then die. You can do whatever you want to me. I will not agree to control it like you controlled my childhood.

You should know that a person who has fallen into the abyss, when seeing another poor existence about to fall into the abyss, will do everything he can to help. I am the kind of person who likes to go all out. If you want to kill me, then just kill it."

The queen burst into tears.

The king stared at Araki, somewhat disappointed and helpless, and asked: "Are you really going to go so far? We are your parents. We have given you life, but you have given us life. If you treat us like this, won't your conscience be in pain? Do you have to grow thorns all over your body to torture us? It is meaningless to torture each other. You should understand. You are a smart child."

He paused, his eyes became firm, his eyes were as sharp as a sword just out of its sheath, and his voice was solemn and steady: "The most correct thing you should do now is to kill your so-called friend in front of us with your own hands, and swear to us clearly that it was just a beast, and this is your duty.

Otherwise, if you insist on Compared to us, I want to announce one thing. From now on, you are no longer my son, no longer the king's heir, no longer the most brilliant prince of Dadacol, and no one's hope will be placed on you. I will choose another heir. "

Araki said: "It is right to choose another heir."

The king was furious: "Okay! Then you wait to be stripped of your uniform and driven out of the country. I will announce to the outside world that you are a traitor and execute the most severe criminal law in public. I will shave your hair to replace your head, dig out one of your eyes to pay for your sins, cut off one of your ears to warn you not to listen to rumors again, and cut off half of your body to compensate for the hard work of my husband and I over the years..."

He was still talking.

Araki didn't want to listen anymore. He walked back to his residence and said to the world of truth in his hand: "If that time really comes, I will only have you, don't abandon me. I don't like them, and you should not like them either. Don't say those humiliating words. Theoretically, I should accept those punishments. As long as I accept them, they will have nothing to do with me anymore.

You don't know how long I have been looking forward to this day.

You are indeed the guidance given to me by God.

Are you an angel's signpost or a lighthouse on the sea? No jewels are as dazzling as you, just like a treasure that has fallen into the mortal world. I shouldn't expect you to love me, but I hope you love me. I can live on my own, but I can't live without you. Abandoning you is abandoning me."