Chapter 368 The Ruptured Father and Son (Two in One, Please Subscribe!!!)

Facing Tachibana Masamune's plea, Minamoto stood silently in the darkness, saying nothing, like a cold iron tower.

Complete redemption...for whom? Paint pear clothes? The girl who played the role of sister in his life?

Yuan Zhisheng seriously fantasized about that scene in his mind, and then realized that he couldn't achieve any kind of complete redemption...even if the girl really became a "ghost" one day.

He had done something similar many years ago, raising his demon-slaying sword to understand the life of an important person... But that couldn't be called a complete redemption at all. It was just pure killing, no matter what. Whether the other party is a "human" or a "ghost", if you kill him, you will kill him, and the pain you bear will not be alleviated in the slightest.

There is not a day that goes by that Yuan Zhisheng does not regret the decision he made that day. If he could go back in time and do it over again, he would never wield that fatal blade and kill the most important person in his life... That feeling It's like cutting off a large piece of your heart, leaving nothing but a blank space.

To this day, he still occasionally wakes up from horrifying nightmares, and the image in his mind is lingering... The boy who fell into the deep well stared at his face with clear eyes, and the moonlight fell on that handsome face like a woman. The face is so clean and white...like a child running away from you, but also like a lonely ghost rushing towards you.

That day he lost his dearest brother, missing a big piece of his life, and Eri who appeared later as his sister finally made up for this gap... Minamoto Chisheng will never give up easily again, whether it is Ritsu Neither law nor morality can take away his sister.

Therefore, Yuan Zhisheng deeply questioned Tachibana Masamune's words in his heart, complete redemption and so on... Is this really what a man as a father should say? Feeling that he is about to die, he still wants to stand upright for his life and sacrifice his only "daughter" as a condition to shake his will to punish him?

In Yuan Zhisheng's heart, a little kindness toward Tachibana Masamune's return finally dissipated again. Just like this man's kind thoughts, they were simply a cloud of smoke that could not be blown by the wind... Yuan Zhisheng felt a bitter smile in his heart. Unexpectedly, I still harbor such childish stupidity in my heart now. Even though Lu Mingfei had revealed this man's true identity to me, I still naively thought that this lunatic man might still be able to return from his lost ways.

Yuan Zhisheng took a deep breath and put his hand on the handle of Ziziqi's knife at his waist. His fingers slowly closed and he held the black knife handle tightly.

"Let's do it... Zhisheng." Tachibana Masamune saw Minamoto Zhisheng's movements from behind. His prostrate body was kneeling upright, and his sleeves were exposed along with his hands and chest.

As soon as Tachibana Masamune finished speaking, there was a sudden clang in the air, and a pale arc tore through the air, magnifying infinitely in Tachibana Masamune's pupils.

"I have no demands or complaints. I am living in dreams, life and death are matters, and my lonely soul swims eastward towards the underworld."

Tachibana Masamune read out a sad sentence in a quiet tone, and then slowly closed his eyes.

He raised his head and showed his neck, generously welcoming the sword light that symbolized death.

The sword light jumped twice in succession in the air, and two streaks of blood splashed out like crimson flowers, flying in strings in front of Yuan Zhisheng's eyes.

Tachibana Masamune screamed, and his body fell to the ground.

Tachibana Masamune's body was curled up on the ground, trembling and twisting uncontrollably, and gasping for breath. He stretched out his hands tremblingly and touched his temples on both sides... However, he couldn't touch anything. , there was only thick and moist blood, and the area where the ears used to be was empty.

Yuan Zhisheng glanced at Tachibana Masamune, his blood boiled, and then cut the spider into the scabbard at his waist.

"As you said, I cannot fight against the entire Fierce Ghosts and the generals with my own strength. The Snake Qiba family still needs you. You are the qualified leader. I am not a suitable person to be a leader." Yuan Zhisheng said expressionlessly.

"So you didn't kill me... but let me suffer the punishment of cutting off my ears instead?" Tachibana Masamune said with a trembling voice. His voice trembled because of the severe pain. The ear nerves involved the nerve center, and the severe pain even caused Let him think that he didn't hear Qingyuan Zhisheng's words.

Tachibana Masamune wanted to show a wry smile, but he couldn't pull it away. The pain of being deprived of one of his five senses was definitely unbearable for ordinary people.

In the underworld, finger amputation is already a particularly harsh punishment. When ordinary underworld members make serious mistakes, the gang leaders will cut off the offending member's fingers starting from the tail finger. The pain of amputating the fingers is definitely enough to deter them. sex, and generally after two fingers are amputated, a person is no longer able to hold the handle of a knife.

The punishment of cutting off ears is much worse than the punishment of cutting off fingers. Even for serious crimes, the underworld will rarely designate a person's face as the part of punishment, because the face represents a person's dignity. Moreover, every function of the five senses is more important than holding a knife. Whether a person is blind or has a broken ear, it is a very shameful thing, which can shake a man's majesty and deportment, especially for Tachibana Masamune. The man who holds the highest position in the Yakuza family... This punishment is to some extent even more severe than depriving Tachibana Masamune of his life.

That's why Nanami Sakurai was so angry when Lu Mingfei beheaded Tachibana Masamune's eyes, and even Inuyama Ga was extremely shocked, because Lu Mingfei's behavior was completely against the personal dignity of the Snakekihachi family and Tachibana Masamune. A naked provocation.

"Your life is indeed not enough to explain to those dead tribesmen, but I have to take something equivalent to your life as punishment. Otherwise, as the head of the family, I will not be able to explain to them that your eyes have been beheaded. , I can't blind your other eye so that you can't see." Yuan Zhisheng said without changing his face, "There is no point in killing you now, those innocent people who died will not come back to life. No one will feel better...then spend the rest of your life repenting for those dead clansmen."

"In view of your fault, it is better to spend the next period of time healing and repenting." Yuan Zhisheng's voice was filled with unreasonable coldness, "As for the battle against the fierce ghosts, from command to participation in the battle, I will I will take over the overall responsibility, and I will personally coordinate the combat power of the entire eight families...including the combat power of your Tachibana family, and the combat power you took over from the head of the Inuyama family."

Minamoto's voice was cold and his meaning was very straightforward. Mr. Masamune, who was once at the top of the Japanese underworld, had lost his great power. Perhaps Tachibana Masamune's reputation was still there, but he could no longer summon anyone from the Jakikihachi family. The soldiers died... In other words, Tachibana Masamune lost all his real power. Apart from his status as the head of the Tachibana family, he is now no different from the old people in the Strategy Department who drink tea and live in retirement.

Tachibana Masamune was completely stunned. For a moment, he even wondered if his ears had been chopped off and his hearing was blurred. If the cruel ear-cutting punishment was still within the range he could accept, then Minamoto Chisheng's These words were beyond his expectation and even unreasonable.

It can be said that Yuan Zhisheng lived under his guidance and education in his past life. If Tachibana Masamune is a stern teacher, then Minamoto Zhisheng is the best and most obedient disciple under him. If Tachibana Masamune is He is a fearless warrior, and Na Yuan is the sharpest and most useful famous sword in his hand... If the disciple has mastered all the teacher's skills, it is okay to do some immoral things that steal the master's skills, but a sword How could he have his own ideas and betray his master?

Just because of his past deceptions and mistakes that led to the family's current losses, this man who always respected him as his father has completely lost trust in him? That's all?

Tachibana Masamune was puzzled.

Tachibana Masamune thinks he is the person who best understands Yuan Zhisheng's nature in the world. According to his estimation, appearing in front of Yuan Zhisheng in such a seriously injured posture today should be able to offset his anger slightly. Yuan Zhisheng's anger should be It was more about turning it on Lu Mingfei. He had already lowered his stance quite low, and he had just given Yuan Zhisheng a very sincere and reasonable explanation. The punishment he would receive would be the amputation of his fingers at most. It might not even lead to a severed finger, but there is a greater chance of being severely reprimanded by Yuan Zhisheng.

But for a brief moment when the spider's blade dilated in Tachibana Masamune's pupils, Tachibana Masamune's mind flashed for a few moments with the illusion that the angry lion-like man in front of him seemed to really want to kill him with one knife.

There are too many incredible things and physical injuries that happened today, more than the bizarre events that happened in the past twenty years combined. In all these years, Tachibana Masamune has never been as tired as he is today, and he has never been as tired as he is today. I have never been as frustrated as I am today.

First, under the protection of the two family heads, he was blinded in one eye by the Kassel Commissioner named Lu Mingfei. Then he almost fell into a group of dead waiters and was cut into pieces by ten thousand ghosts. Just now, he was punished and had his ears cut off. ...Everything that happened today and the "son" Yuan Zhisheng made Tachibana Masamune feel that things were slightly beyond his control.

Tachibana Masamune didn't like this feeling very much. If he couldn't hold such a small thing in his hands, how could he hold something bigger?

Gen Zhisheng, who had already taken the knife, shook his windbreaker jacket. He turned his back to Tachibana Masamune, stepped forward, and walked slowly towards the door.

Yuan Zhisheng walked to the position where he was about to step out of the door, when a deep shout suddenly came from behind him.

"Chisheng!" Tachibana Masamune, who was kneeling on the spot, suddenly called out to Minamoto Chisheng.

Yuan Zhisheng's footsteps paused. He stopped in place and said without looking back: "People from the Metropolitan Police Department will come in a few hours. The family is now in a mess. They need to sort out the remains of the dead servants and arrange for the dead." The family members are very short of manpower, and I must rush to the scene to coordinate and direct... If there is anything else, please explain it quickly."

"Really... Zhisheng, I thought about it for a moment. It seems that you have never called me daddy since you entered this room." Tachibana Masamune's voice with a wry smile came from behind Minamoto Zhisheng, "Yeah. Yes, you probably don’t want to recognize someone like me who has committed heinous crimes as your father. What’s more, so many things happened today, and I caused so many people in the family to die. This is no different from recognizing a thief as your father.”

Yuan Zhisheng said slightly silently: "It's not like you said...it's just that there are too many facts that happened today...anyone would be at a loss to be fed such huge and impactful information in half an hour. ...I'm just a little confused now and can't sort out my thoughts. Give me some time...Old...Dad."

The atmosphere in the air was slightly silent and awkward. There had never been such a lively atmosphere between Tachibana Masamune and Minamoto Chisheng in the past.

After a long silence, Tachibana Masamune spoke: "Zhisheng, this is the last time I speak to you in such a teaching tone... You have taken over the position of the head of the family from me. I am sincerely gratified that you are better than I am more responsible and capable, and I am a more suitable candidate to be the head of the family. Only under your leadership can the family thrive safely in this troubled world. I am also very glad that you did not inherit all my bad qualities, regardless of I will tell you how you saw me after you learned the truth..."

"Zhisheng, you are my proudest and proudest 'son'. In my heart, you are as important as Eri Yi." Tachibana Masamune stood up tremblingly, and bowed deeply towards Minamoto's Zhisheng's back, "In the future, you will be as important as Eri Yi." Please be sure to cheer up the family!"

Yuan Zhisheng took a deep breath and finally replied calmly: "I will."

Then he left from the door without looking back, and a black trench coat disappeared into the dark corridor, as if it had been swallowed by the bottomless black mouth of a giant beast.

So Yuan Zhisheng didn't see it. The moment before his figure completely disappeared into the darkness, Tachibana Masamune, who had been maintaining a bowing posture in the deepest part of the dark room, slowly raised his head, and the flickering candlelight illuminated the old man's kind and kind face. His face... also illuminated his eyes.

Different from his father-like expression, the old man kept staring at Yuan Zhisheng's back as he disappeared from sight... There seemed to be some man-eating beast hidden in those gloomy gray eyes, almost leaping out of his eyes. Come out and eat Yuan Zhi alive in one bite.

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"Eriyi...Uesugi Eriyi...my daughter...Uesugi...Eriyi..."

Uesugi Yue was stunned on the spot, looking at the direction in which Eri's back was retreating, lost in thought. He remained in a sluggish state for an unknown length of time, using the words "Eri", "Uesugi" and "daughter" in his mouth. Repeating this word over and over again is like suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

"Master Yue? Master Yue?" Lu Mingfei waved his palm in front of Uesugi Yue's eyes and whispered, "Isn't it because I gave him too much stimulation in one day and scared him silly? I just thought I shouldn't have told him about Eri Yi. What if he suffers from Alzheimer's disease? I don't have time to take care of such a lonely old man..."

"Alzheimer's sister! You are Alzheimer's! Your whole family is Alzheimer's!" Uesugi came back to his senses and glared at Lu Mingfei fiercely, with an expression that made him want to eat him.