Dotore from Genshin Impact is my teacher

(I haven't been feeling well lately; I've had dizziness, appendicitis pain, and some mental confusion. I went to the school clinic yesterday, and they said it's because of long-term sleep deprivation from staying up late writing. Prolonged sleep deprivation can severely impair memory and may even affect intelligence.)

(I'm in so much pain right now that I've asked my homeroom teacher for leave. The teacher said I can go back once I'm better.)

(Yesterday my mother told me: You must not...)

(Never mind, I can't write that kind of classical Chinese. Yesterday, my mother told me to stop writing novels for now, as staying up late is causing health problems. She said I can write them during the holidays.)

(I don't know what to do. I don't want to give up writing novels, but I also don't want my body to continue like this.)

(Headache……)

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Ignorance will ultimately lead to destruction.

The Story of Aru and the Thunderbird

Crane View Island has always been shrouded in a powerful mist caused by the Thunder Bird. The people there have long worshipped the Thunder Bird, believing that the mist it gives is to protect their safety. They always offer items in an attempt to please the Thunder Bird, but the Thunder Bird doesn't care about what the people of Crane View do.

One day, the singing of a little boy named Aru attracted the thunderbird, who loved to sing. The thunderbird also communicated with Aru because of his unique spirit of not being afraid of thunderstorms. During their conversation, Aru gave the thunderbird a name and promised to hear Aru's singing again during the next thunderstorm.

However, the people of Heguan were unwilling to let go of the only boy who could communicate with the Thunder Bird. Believing that the Thunder Bird loved Aru, they killed Aru on the day the Thunder Bird was to keep their appointment, in the name of offering sacrifices to the Thunder Bird to win its favor. But the Thunder Bird, seeing only the high altar and the golden cup filled with blood, was enraged and unleashed a thunderstorm, destroying the village where the sacrifice was performed and leaving a curse: that Heguan would forever be shrouded in mist and thunderstorms, and that time in Heguan would forever remain on the days when the tragedy occurred, an eternal cycle...

This matter also alarmed General Raiden. In order to prevent the Thunder Bird from running rampant on Qinglai Island, General Raiden fought a great battle with the Thunder Bird many years later and finally killed it with a single, unthinkable strike. However, even after its death, the Thunder Bird still used its powerful strength to bring down thunderstorms over Qinglai Island. The powerful residual force of its death enveloped most of the island, and the remaining hatred also manifested as thunderous power. Therefore, Asase Shrine was built to seal the thunderstorms.

However, due to the curse and the ley lines that forever recorded the images of these tragic days, the images kept playing back on Tsurukan Island. Aru was essentially subjected to countless death sacrifices, cut into pieces and stored in jars around the sacrificial site.

A thousand years later, a traveler came to Tsurukan and, unable to bear seeing Aru suffer again, changed history through numerous difficulties, allowing Aru to survive this rebirth.

At the end of the story, Aru sings again on Qinglai Island, as if rushing to fulfill his thousand-year promise with the Thunder Bird. His voice seems to be sensed by the Thunder Bird, so the Thunder Bird drops a tattered feather from the sky, which eventually lands in Aru's hand. Aru and the Thunder Bird must have realized their feelings for each other at this moment.

The curse cast by the Thunderbird caused the words of the promise to be repeated in Aru's ears for a thousand years. Although before that, he was always met with a cold altar, now, a thousand years later, he has been given life and still chooses to keep the promise, singing the song sealed in his heart. He has no regrets, and neither does the Thunderbird.

Due to limitations, Aryu once believed that sacrificing himself to the Thunder Bird would make the Thunder Bird like him and protect the safety of the Crane Village. However, after being reborn, he found that things had not improved, so he believed that the sacrifice had failed. Therefore, he was willing to suffer for a thousand years in exchange for the Thunder Bird and the Crane Village.

But what the Thunderbird wanted was not a pool of blood, which could not make it feel the faith that the Crane Viewers had in it; it wanted the living, breathing Aru!

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Original World Mission

Paimon received a commission to search for a wooden reed flute on an island called Crane View. As the legendary master, he naturally couldn't refuse, so he set off for the mysterious Crane View Island shrouded in mist.

On the island, the traveler encounters a boy named Aru, who tells them that a festival is about to begin and asks for their help in finding feathers to offer to the perch. During the process of offering the perch, the traveler and Paimon meet Aru several times and gradually become friends with him.

However, what the traveler didn't know was that the little boy named "Aru" was not actually a real person. He said he was thousands of years old, and he wasn't lying because he was a person who lived "thousands of years ago".

Let's go back thousands of years.

Heguan has always been an island shrouded in fog. The people inside could not get out, or rather, they were afraid of the outside world and dared not try to go out. Thus, Heguan became a civilization isolated from the world.

A giant thunderbird often appears in the thick fog of Heguan. The people of Heguan believe that this thunderbird is their guardian deity. They believe that as long as they offer sacrifices to the thunderbird and hold a ceremony, the thunderbird will bestow blessings upon them. Therefore, the people of Heguan offer a "living sacrifice" to the thunderbird every year.

However, what the people of Heguan didn't know was that the Thunderbird never cared about any human sacrifices and had no interest in the existence of humans, until one day, a little boy's singing caught its attention.

The little boy's clear singing voice touched the Thunder Bird, who took a liking to the child. When the He Guan tribe learned of this, the ignorant He Guan people offered the boy as a human sacrifice to the Thunder Bird.

When the Thunderbird returned to Crane's Nest to hear the boy's song, it found only his blood. Enraged, the Thunderbird destroyed Crane's Nest Island and slaughtered all the Crane's Nest people.

The child who was offered as a human sacrifice to the Thunderbird was "Aru," whom the Traveler and Paimon first encountered at the entrance to Tsurugan Island.

The thunderbird that destroyed the Crane Temple was thus considered a threat. It was eventually killed by the Thunder God, and its resentment after death manifested as the power of thunder, which could not be dispelled for a long time.

After reading the whole story, accompanied by the uniquely melancholic background music of He Guan Island, I felt quite depressed. But I must say, this kind of story is quite in line with some characteristics of ancient civilizations and tribes: ignorant humans blindly believe in unknown forces, and after all sorts of reckless actions, they ultimately bring about their own destruction.

The people of He Guan are not innocent; the only pitiful one is that adorable little boy, Aru. He had pure and beautiful aspirations, and he could have become a bridge between humans and the Thunderbirds. Humans could have developed civilization and gained blessings with the help of the Thunderbirds, and the Thunderbirds could have become friends of humans, just like the relationship between Guoba and the people of Liyue.

But the ignorant and greedy people of Heguan severed this bond with their own hands.

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

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