[Day and Black] True dragons are not afraid of flames

He held his brother's smooth ankle and carefully wrapped the red ribbon round and round.

The elder brother let him move, did not move his feet, and did not reply. Yuan Yi knew that his elder brother was still angry with him, but he had already calmed down. At this time, everything was done.Even the humblest attendant in the Red Castle knew that Ji Guo Yan Sheng never made unnecessary anger.

He tied the silk ribbon in a knot, adjusted it, picked up the silver shackles from the ground, and fastened them around his brother's ankles.

"I asked someone to measure it, and the length is enough for my brother to walk freely in the room." He lowered his head and moved the shackles twice to make sure that his ankle would not be worn out before standing up. "Just can't go out the door."

Yan Sheng sat on the bed and looked at him indifferently, still not speaking.

"I tried to dissuade you, but the lords and nobles are afraid of you... After all, brother is the second best warrior in the world, and no matter how strong the Kingsguard is, he is no match for you."

Yan Sheng's expression finally changed. He found that his brother was writhing with nausea.Yuanyi's field of vision is different from that of ordinary people. He can see the bones and organs in the human body since he was a child, and various emotions can also be reflected in the internal organs of the human body. When he was about [-] years old, he was able to use the complex and delicate emotions of flesh and blood. Response combinations to guess the general mood of the organ owner.

However, for Yuan Yi, Ji Guo Yan Sheng's emotions are the most complicated even among all of them, and he rarely sees his brother showing a single emotional reaction.Yuanyi knows that his elder brother likes others to praise him, but every time Yuanyi imitates those compliments, Yan Sheng's faint joy will be overshadowed by more negative and sad emotions.He can understand emotions, but he can't see through people's hearts after all.

"...Yes, the number one warrior in the world." Yan Sheng said.

Yuan Yi didn't understand why his elder brother was angry again, and it was obviously not because he tricked his elder brother to let Long Fei return to King's Landing.He could only comfort his elder brother submissively and gently as usual, and Yuan Yi sat by the bed, side by side with Yan Sheng.

"I will find a way, brother, this is only a temporary measure." He promised, "As long as the imperial meeting discusses the punishment plan, I will untie the chain and let you walk out of this tower."

Yan Sheng's eyes turned around the tower, and he was silent for a moment, "You and your mother lived in this tower back then, and my father didn't let you go out of here..."

"...Do you want to mock me so much?"

"I don't mean that, brother." He said, "It's just that living here is more comfortable than other places of detention. It's cold, and there is a fireplace to keep warm."

He took the courage to comfort his brother's back like in childhood, but Yan Sheng avoided him and sat on the other side of the bed.

"I swear, as long as I convince the imperial council and the lords in the banquet hall who have lost their loved ones... you will be allowed to walk freely."

"...If I were them, I would not let Jiguo Yansheng go." The elder brother no longer looked at him, but just stared at the scenery outside the window of the tower.

"I have a solution." Yuan Yi rubbed a little closer, "Brother, please wait patiently for a few days, those people only care about more fiefdoms, titles and golden dragons, they don't care about the life and death of their relatives at all."

"Except for the family members of the guards... I will also compensate them instead of my brother."

He didn't want to talk about the banquet hall anymore. The terrifying scene of the green flame burning everything was still in his mind. The triumphant guards who were less than 13 years old beside him evaporated almost instantly. His father was better, or the most tragic.He screamed, his body crackled, he was the last one in the hall whose flesh and blood exploded, and he suffered a whole moment longer than the others.The blood of Jiguo is indeed more tolerant of flames than ordinary people.

And he looked at all this blankly, the tongue of flame rolled over his body and burned his clothes, but there was no warmth, like the clouds flowing through the sky high in the mountains.

What does it really feel like to be burned to death by wildfire?How painful is death?

Ji Guoyuan didn't understand.

The first person who discovered that Yuanyi was not normal was the mother.

He was seven years old at that time, and his elder brother gave him a precious puppy, which was said to have been given to the heir to the Iron Throne by the lord of the River Bend.

"I can't play with you all the time, and it won't be so boring with you." The elder brother said with a smile.

However, the father soon discovered this gift, and he came to the tower angrily, and threw the soft-fur puppy directly from the window of the tower.The mother cried and begged the father to stop, at least not to scare Yuanyi.And he watched the puppy fall down the tower, fell to the ground of the Red Castle, and was bloody and bloody, the dark red liquid flowed into the grass, without saying a word.

After his father left, his mother hugged him to comfort him, and told him that the puppy had just gone to the stars, but would still be with him forever, and told him not to be sad.

"...Why are you sad?" He raised his head and looked at his mother with dull eyes.

Mother froze.

"Yuanyi, tell me, the moment you saw the puppy fall... what were you thinking?"

"...my brother will be angry if the puppy is gone," he replied.

When he saw his mother's beautiful face, he was even more sad. He lowered his head, and his silver hair fell like a waterfall, muttering some prophecy to himself.He didn't understand why his mother was sad, so he stood on tiptoe and touched his mother's cheek.

"Are you comforting me, Yuanyi?" the mother said with tears.

He didn't know if he was "comforting", so he nodded and shook his head again.

The mother hugged him again, letting Yuanyi sit on her lap, against her chest, feeling the warmth of her body.Mother's body temperature is very low, just like her brother's, only more fragile.Yuanyi watched her beating heart weaken day by day, and a formed fetus in her womb brutally sucked her few vitality.

"Will mother go to the stars, too?" he asked, "Your heart is almost broken."

Mother was silent for a long time.

"Yuanyi, you are different." She put Yuanyi on the ground with a solemn expression, "What happened today...you can see it, but you can't feel it. Never tell anyone, especially yours. Father."

"What about brother?"

"...Neither." His mother answered him as if she had made up her mind.

As he grew up, he gradually understood what his mother meant. "Ji Guo Yuan Yi" is a creature that is covered with a human body, but does not know what is burning in its soul. Human emotions flow on the surface of that shell, but cannot enter the inside.He will also feel joy or warmth, tenderness or anger, but it is like a thin and impenetrable membrane.The only emotion that can be felt most is confusion.

"Yuanyi, I will find a way to heal you, and so will your brother." The mother gently stroked his top hair, "We still have a lot of time, as long as we slowly accept love and tenderness...you will be gentle too. Treat the world."

There is no such thing as "a lot of time", and his mother is like a candle in the wind. He knows that when his sister is born, his mother's life will be taken away.

"Yuanyi, you have to remember." Mother said, "Even though you can't feel the sadness of death, the pain of being tortured...you must never hurt others."

He nodded.But the mother understood that he half understood, and continued, "Yuanyi, you have great power, but if you use it like your father, it will only hurt others. And you can't even empathize."

He understood the sentence of not being able to empathize, so he had to nod harder.

"Remember the wound on your face when your brother came to see you? It was your father who beat him... He was in pain and sad when he was beaten, but he didn't tell you." Mother grabbed his shoulder, "Don't be like Your father hurt the innocent just as he hurt his brother."

"Yuanyi, you don't need to empathize...just understand this."

"As long as you persist in this life, no one will notice your abnormality, and you will be an ordinary, kind-hearted person... just as great as your brother."

Yuanyi doesn't expect himself to be as great as his elder brother, he just wants himself to appear ordinary.

However, it was not successful. The mother did not see the day when he became "normal", and her life came to an end in the pain of her father's beating and dystocia.He stood blankly outside the delivery room, watching the maids and bachelors rushing in and out, but his younger sister's young body was brought out.My father was furious, and my elder brother, who had rushed back from the northern battlefield, asked anxiously to go in and have a look.Everything was so noisy and chaotic, only he stood in a daze as if standing in a different place that didn't belong here.

At the last moment, my mother called my brother in, and I didn't know what to say.He saw tears flowing out of his brother's clear red eyes, which were so smooth and natural that anyone who saw it would feel pity for that appearance. His brother seemed born to cry with tears in his eyes.Yuanyi tried to follow suit, but couldn't shed tears, he couldn't even feel sad, only dazed enveloped himself.

At that moment, Yuanyi remembered the prophecy, the two sides of the coin, the elder brother is the normal and great person in the prophecy.

He tried his best to pretend and protect the normality.

"Brother, let's come here today." Yuan Yi said, "I will leave a royal guard outside the door to protect you, and someone will taste the food delivered to the door every day, so there will be no mistakes."

"...Instead of counting on this, you might as well give me back the sword."

"That's not enough, brother. Although you are powerful, you may be deceived by people with malicious intentions."

Yan Sheng seemed to have been struck by lightning, and wanted to argue something, but immediately remembered the reason why he was in prison, so he stared at the most malicious liar in front of him.

"Please rest well, I will come to see you at night." He smiled at his brother and closed the door.My brother's stomach was twitching again, but his heart was beating fast, as it always did when he laughed.

The Kingsguard of House Purgatory awaited him outside.

"Yuanyi, is it okay?" Purgatory is his friend, and Yuanyi has always allowed him to call him by his first name.

"Brother is not a brave person, he should know that it is impossible to escape from here." Yuan Yi looked down at his palm, the key to his brother's shackles was lying there quietly.

"Next, just go to persuade the imperial council... When the ceremony is ready, brother will be safe."

"Are you sure he will agree?" Purgatory lowered his voice, "According to His Excellency Yan Sheng's personality, he will probably choose to deprive himself of his identity and go to the Great Wall."

Yuan Yi was silent for a while.

"No." He said sadly, "Ever since my brother decided to believe the nonsense of Onimai Tsuji, he has no other choice."

"Purgatory, it will be more dangerous these days, brother's safety is up to you."

Purgatory realized that this was an order, so he gave a military salute and replied in his ancestral loud voice:

"Yes, Your Majesty, it is the duty of the Kingsguard to protect the queen's safety!"

The next moment, there was the sound of a vessel suddenly falling to the ground from inside the tower gate.