Dragon Clan: They're all insane, and you still want me to slay dragons?

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"Is not it?"

"Then you underestimate me."

Gao Kui already knew about the Demon Clan, so Genji no longer had anything to hide: "It's just that you mistreat young girls... I mean Kazama Ruri, and you think I'm a beast."

If I told you I killed her with my own hands once, what words would you use to describe me?

In Chinese, the third-person pronouns "he" and "she" are pronounced the same, but in Japanese they are pronounced differently.

The two were speaking in Japanese. Because Gao Kui always believed that Kazama Ruri was a girl, and Genjiro guessed that Kazama Ruri was probably a girl now, he referred to Kazama Ruri as "she".

Gao Kui raised an eyebrow, realizing there might be other hidden details, but he didn't respond. Instead, he gestured for Yuan Zhisheng to continue.

"I don't know what Kazama Ruri told you. If you have some free time, you might as well listen to what I have to say first. If you still think I'm a beast, then I'll accept that."

Genjiro lit a cigarette and began to recount his past: "From as far back as I can remember, my sister Genjiro and I were fostered by our father in a mountain village in Shikatori Town. Our foster father didn't like us and would always complain, after getting drunk, that the child support money our father gave us wasn't enough."

Every spring and autumn, my father would often come down into the mountains to visit us. Of course, at that time he wasn't our father yet; he was just pretending to be a friend who knew our biological father.

He taught me yoga and a little swordsmanship, told me stories about the outside world, and took me to the highest peak to watch the sunrise. To be honest, he wasn't particularly good to me, but he was better than my adoptive father, so every time he left, I would count the days until he came back.

From a certain day onward, he never came to the mountains again, and our adoptive father's attitude towards my brother and me became worse and worse. It was said that the already meager child support payments were completely cut off, and rumors began to circulate in the town that our biological father was actually a member of the underworld.

Because he completely cut off child support, my adoptive father plans to kick us out after we graduate from junior high school. I don't really care at all; after all, it's just a transaction, and I'm already prepared to start working after graduating from junior high.

However, on the day of my middle school graduation ceremony, my father suddenly reappeared, bringing with him a large group of yakuza members, namely the Snake Clan.

I was taken to Tokyo, where I became the youngest agent in the Executive Bureau, a yakuza tycoon, the head of the Minamoto family, and the young master of the Snake-Headed Eight Families, while my daughter was left behind in the mountains.

I was puzzled and asked my father why he treated my brother and me differently. He just gave a vague answer, saying that my brother and I were different.

At first, I thought it was just that my sister and I had different talents. Later, when I learned that I was an executive officer and had returned to Shikato Town to investigate a series of murders, I realized what was really different between my sister and me.

She is a ghost.

Right after I left, the girl's unstable bloodline finally broke through that critical point, awakening her second personality, Kazama Ruri, and falling into the form of a "demon".

Unable to suppress her murderous urges, Kazama Ruri brutally murdered several girls in the town. When I found her, she was in the basement of the town's middle school, preparing to dispose of one of the victims' bodies.

She was the real murderer in the case I was in charge of.

Naturally, we started fighting. The demon's bloodline is stronger than that of ordinary hybrids, but it doesn't completely lose its mind like Deadpool, so I was no match for her at all.

Just as Kazama Ruri was about to kill me, the girl's personality suddenly appeared. I seized the opportunity, took the chance to kill her, and threw her body into the well.

The case was closed, and I returned to Tokyo, burdened by the guilt and pain of killing my own flesh and blood. I became an enforcement officer and met my second sister, Erii Uesugi.

Until you arrived, Kazama Ruri, who had risen from the dead and joined the Demon Clan, reappeared before me.

"Your storytelling ability is really bad."

Gao Kui said, "I've seen more than one similar story. Have you read a novel called 'Fate/Zero'? The author is Gen Urobuchi. He should be quite famous in Japan. He's known as the Warrior of Love."

There's a character in that novel named Kiritsugu Emiya, who has a similar background to you. He grew up on an island with his father, who researched forbidden techniques, and had a childhood friend named Kareem.

One day, Kiritsugu Emiya's father's research went out of control, infecting all the island's residents and turning them into ghouls. Kiritsugu Emiya, who had always admired justice and wanted to become a champion of it, painfully killed his beloved father to prevent his research from harming others.

Later, Kiritsugu Emiya was adopted by his foster mother and became a professional assassin. During a mission, the plane carrying his foster mother experienced a similar problem to the one on the island. To avoid causing further damage, Kiritsugu had no choice but to reluctantly use a rocket launcher to send the plane full of ghouls and his foster mother into the air.

From his youth to adulthood, Kiritsugu Emiya, who aspires to be a champion of justice, has always done similar things, sacrificing the minority for the sake of the majority, and even killing his beloved without hesitation.

Just watching the anime, I could clearly feel Kiritsugu Emiya's twisted will and pain, and the struggle he endured each time he made the decision to kill his loved ones. But after hearing your story, I felt no emotional response, and I couldn't feel your pain or your resolve whatsoever.

"Isn't this a novel? How did it become an anime?"

Yuan Zhisheng was also adept at interrupting, seizing upon Gao Kui's grammatical errors to ask questions.

"It's not reasonable for a novel to become famous and then be adapted into an anime. Besides, I'm saying your story has no emotional impact. Is it really meaningful for you to get hung up on whether it's a novel or an anime?"

Gao Kui glared at Yuan Zhisheng. "I'm the one who always digresses and changes the subject. You're trying to pull this on me, you bastard."

Yuan Zhisheng sighed, a cigarette dangling from his lips, "You said it yourself, he's a very famous writer, so naturally he can write stories vividly. I only went to the Enforcement Bureau for an internship after graduating from junior high school, so my literary foundation is really lacking."

Damn it, Gao Kui finally understood why Yuan Zhisheng could always provoke people's anger with just one precise sentence, making them dislike him.

This kid is uncultured.

In China, this would be equivalent to just completing nine years of compulsory education. While Japan also has nine years of compulsory education, most students complete three more years of high school after junior high.

Although Genjiro also studied in Kassel, Kassel was a place that taught dragon slaying, and even if there were courses on cultural theory, they had little to do with literature.

Furthermore, Yuan Zhisheng received his nine years of compulsory education at a school in a small town, where the teaching quality was probably not very good.

In short, Genjiro's education level was not high, which led to a serious problem: insufficient vocabulary.

Excellent authors generally have a large vocabulary. For example, Yasunari Kawabata's language is simple and beautiful. His writing is full of sadness, and he can arrange simple words in a way that is extremely moving.

Ordinary authors may lack a rich vocabulary and have less-than-stellar writing skills, resulting in dry and unengaging prose. However, they can at least avoid errors in word choice and sentence structure, ensuring that the reader understands their intended message.

Poor authors often lack vocabulary, which leads to problems with expressing themselves clearly and conveying the wrong emotions to the reader.

Genjiro was a terrible author, even worse than Ma Kui.

Gao Kui blatantly ignored Yuan Zhisheng's diploma as a Kassel graduate and kicked the latter hard: "Why didn't you say you were uncultured earlier? What are you doing, a junior high school graduate, pretending to be profound and acting like Tony Leung or Wong Kar-wai all day long?"

If you don't know how to speak, then speak less.

"I am the head of the Yuan family, after all. I can't just tell everyone that I'm uneducated and lack culture, can I?"

Yuan Zhisheng shrank his legs and lowered his eyes meekly: "In short, that's the situation."

You are also a student in Kassel, so you know how the mixed-blood forces treat mixed-bloods with unstable bloodlines. Kazama Ruri's bloodline is more than just unstable; she clearly crossed that line and fell into becoming a demon.

As a law enforcement officer of the Snake-Headed Eight Family, killing her was a last resort. After that, I lived every day tormented by the pain and guilt of killing my own brother…my own sister.”

Putting myself in his shoes, if what Genji said is true, then it is perfectly reasonable for him to have killed Kazama Ruri. He was caught red-handed, so what else is there to say?

Gao Kui fell silent, recalling the tenderness and sorrow in Kazama Ruri's eyes that day. He still couldn't forget Kazama Ruri's gaze at that time.

What is lost on one front is gained on another. Gao Kui, who suffers from schizophrenia, possesses an empathy far beyond that of ordinary people and can easily feel their inner world.

The pain and torment that Kazama Ruri suffered was not a fabrication.

Yuan Zhisheng then asked, "If you were in my shoes, would you have killed her?"

Would you kill her?

Yuan Zhisheng's question struck Gao Kui's mind like a thunderclap, causing him to involuntarily begin to think about it.

Gao Kui was able to fully empathize with Kazama Ruri.

For the mixed-bloods of the Snake-Headed Eight Families, "demon" is a disease, a curse; for Gao Kui, schizophrenia is also a curse and a disease. Furthermore, Kazama Ruri also seems to have mental health issues.

Kao Kui, who has suffered from mental illness for four years, knows all too well how agonizing and painful it is when he has an episode. In the past four years, he has indeed hurt some people when he has an episode, including a school worker in Kassel who was posing as a caregiver, and teachers and students at Shilan High School.

The biggest difference between him and Kazama Ruri seems to be that he had Guderian as his devoted guardian, and was always cared for and treated by Cassel, which is why he didn't make any big mistakes that resulted in death.

He understood Kazama Ruri's pain and madness.

On the other hand, Gao Kui is also able to empathize with Yuan Zhisheng.

As the family's enforcer, Genjiro bears the responsibility of judging "demons," for the sake of the family and even the world. Coincidentally, as the reborn Holy Son, Kagura also bears the responsibility of judging the world.

Having thoroughly studied the Bible, Gao Kui clearly knew what the duties of the Second Coming Son were, but he had previously been misled by Emmanuel and hadn't instinctively thought about it in that direction.

Genjiro must choose between the responsibilities entrusted to him by his family, his sense of justice, and his beloved younger sister.

He needed to choose between Emmanuel prophecy, God's duty, and his human emotions.

Should we kill Kazama Ruri to fulfill our mission?

Should we abandon everything as Gao Kui for the sake of our mission?

Should I betray my sense of justice and my family's mission for Kazama Ruri?

Should we abandon our responsibilities as gods in order to uphold everything about Gao Kui?

And is all of this really worth it?

When the moment of having to make a choice comes, just like when Genji was driven to the brink by Kazama Ruri, can he really make a choice with enough decisiveness? If so, what will his choice be?

Gao Kui repeatedly questioned himself deep within his heart, his expression growing increasingly uncertain. It wasn't that there were no answers, but rather that each self-questioning yielded one, yet each answer failed to satisfy Gao Kui.

No matter what you do, it's wrong; no matter what you do, you'll regret it.

Unbeknownst to him, his golden eyes, a deep crimson hue, ignited, their golden light captivating. The increasingly rapid breathing beside him sounded like the low murmur of an ancient god, each breath striking Yuan Zhisheng's sensitive nerves.

Yuan Zhisheng wanted to cry but had no tears.

Hey boss, don't mess with me! Just now at Genji Heavy Industries, you seemed perfectly normal, with your clear thinking and sharp words. How come you suddenly relapsed after just a few words?

Chapter 176 The Black Sea Boils

A violent storm raged across the sky, the black sea swayed, and a helicopter drifted through the thunderstorm, while inside the cabin, a raging ancient dragon or god gradually awoke.

"Are you OK?"

With worry in his eyes, Yuan Zhisheng gripped the Spider Cutter tightly in his hand to ensure that he could swing the sword to protect himself immediately if Gao Kui went berserk.

Do you have any plums for me to eat?

Gao Kui's question was inexplicable, which made Yuan Zhisheng quite suspicious of Gao Kui's mental state. At the same time, it also relieved Yuan Zhisheng. Being able to answer the question proved that Gao Kui could still communicate, but his thinking logic was rather chaotic.

His golden, molten lava eyes shone brightly, his chest heaved rapidly, and his brain throbbed with pain. Gao Kui gritted his teeth, trying his best to fight against the mental illness that tormented him.

He fell ill again.

Gao Kui's mental illness is a pathological mental illness, which, in short, is a mental disorder caused by brain dysfunction. When the illness occurs, the secretion of neurohormones such as dopamine, norepinephrine, and endorphins will be severely imbalanced. The specific symptoms are highly similar to those of new drug addicts when they experience drug withdrawal.

What would happen if the human body completely stopped secreting endorphins and endocannabinoids? The answer is that it would cause excruciating pain all over the body, as if countless ants were crawling and biting inside one's flesh.

Every moment, countless capillaries and cells in the human body are broken and repaired. The reason why people do not feel the pain or itching when they are damaged is simply because the endorphins and endocannabinoids secreted by the human body regulate nerve signal transmission and inhibit pain.

Besides these two hormones, the human body secretes more than 80 other hormones, each with its own function, working together to maintain this complex and fragile system.

At this moment, Gao Kui's neurohormonal secretion system was completely out of balance. This kind of pain and torment could not be overcome by willpower alone.

"Didn't you take your medicine before you left?" Yuan Zhisheng roared.

"I've eaten, but my illness can't be completely cured just by taking medicine!" Gao Kui roared back.

If we compare the human body to the tongue, then medicine is like salt. A person's sense of taste changes slightly every day depending on their physical condition. Food with the same amount of salt may taste just right sometimes, and a little too salty at other times.

Unfortunately, the medication wasn't as effective today, probably because I encountered too many things and my mental and physical exertion levels were different from usual.

Yuan Zhisheng was overjoyed because Gao Kui answered his question in normal language.