Chapter 179 He Died on the Rising Sun

Charles' voice was low but steady.

His physical condition seemed to have improved a lot. Not only did he remember Logan, but his originally turbid and misty eyes also had a little more light.

He stared at the sea and said to Logan:

"Those children...their future needs someone to escort them, and the future of mutants also needs someone to guide them. Logan...except for you, there is no one else now."

"I know, but I am not suitable."

"There is nothing inappropriate, Logan. At the beginning, I also thought I was not suitable. When the students of the school were forced to leave, I was still drinking every day, and I was more decadent than you.

"But in the end...you also know that the mutant school has continued to this day..."

Charles recalled the past.

Compared with Logan, his life is no less exciting.

When he was young, he met Mystique and Magneto, formed the original X-Men, and later established the world's first X-Men based on his own manor. A school for mutants.

In the more than 60 years since then, Charles has never given up protecting mutants.

At this point, Charles can't even recall why he did it in the first place.

He just keeps doing it, and he has to keep doing it.

But now, Charles is no longer able to continue, and he originally thought that he would never have to worry about similar things in the future.

After all, mutants are slowly disappearing.

Charles once thought, would this be the best ending for mutants?

Mutants are gone, completely integrated with humans, and there will be no more disputes between humans and mutants in the future.

But the appearance of Laura and those new mutants made Charles understand that mutants will eventually exist again in the world in the future.

As long as there are ambitious people, even if mutants really disappear, they will create new mutants.

And new mutants need a leader who can lead them and lead them on the right path.

Kevin can't do it, Charles knows.

Because he will leave eventually, Charles knows that Kevin will not stay here.

So only Logan, and only Logan, can inherit everything from him.

"I can't do it well."

"No one can do it well at the beginning. I am like this, and you are like this too. Take your time... You will do it well."

Charles said earnestly.

Logan no longer refused this time. He stood beside Charles and watched the sunset with him. After a long time, he said:

"I will try to do it, but I'm not sure if I can do it to the extent you said."

"That's good, that's good..."

Charles laughed, he stretched out his hand to Logan, and shook Logan's hand tightly:

"... In this way, I can also rest assured."

Before this, Charles was also worried that Logan would find a random place to commit suicide after his death.

Charles knew that Logan had always carried the adamantium bullet with him.

This was also something Charles couldn't let go of.

But now that Logan was getting younger and had a new goal, Charles finally put his mind at ease.

He patted Logan's hand and looked at Caliban again.

"Caliban..."

Caliban stood in the shadow, avoiding the sun. He risked being exposed to the sun and showed his face to Charles.

Charles looked at him and said:

"Thank you for taking care of me for more than a year. I know that you will feel bad when I get sick sometimes. I'm really sorry..."

"It's okay. I'm used to it."

"I'm sorry, you and my students, the poor innocent people. I'm sorry for you and them..."

"Charles, stop talking. None of us will care."

"I know, but I care, but I can't do anything now. I can only say sorry to you... sorry..."

Charles had tears in his eyes.

He fought for the peace between mutants and humans all his life, but when he was old, he killed his most proud students and hundreds of innocent passers-by because of his illness.

No matter what others say, Charles knows that this is his fault.

It's his fault.

No matter what others say, they can't cover up this fact.

Charles murmured many sorry words, apologizing to those who had died because of him.

After a while, he turned his gaze to Kevin who had been silent.

"Kevin..."

He said, and stretched out his hand to Kevin:

"... Thank you for what you have done so far, so if you don't mind, can you shake hands with me?"

“…Okay.”

Kevin didn’t refuse. He walked to Charles and held his other hand.

When their palms touched each other, Kevin heard Charles’ voice in his mind:

‘I know, Kevin, you don’t belong to us, let alone this world, but no matter what your purpose is, everything you do is salvation for us, and you helped us, which is a fact that everyone can see.

‘Thank you for everything you have done for us, and thank you for helping Logan and letting him find the motivation to live...Kevin, in the end, just treat it as my parting words as an old man, can you listen to me?

‘Your ability is very strong, Kevin, and it will become stronger and stronger in the future. I can’t see where your future is, but I hope...you will never lose your mind because of the powerful force.

‘You are not a bad boy, I know, and I hope you will never be...I don’t ask you to become an X-Men, or...or any other superhero, I just hope you can stick to your original intention.

‘Never...never...never let yourself become someone you hate. ’

Charles said in Kevin’s mind, and finally let go of Kevin’s hand silently, and said to Kevin seriously:

"Kevin... the world will become better, and I believe that you will become better too."

"..."

Kevin stopped talking, he looked down at the hand he held with Charles, and remained silent for a long time.

Charles didn't say anything more to him, and after saying this to Kevin, he finally set his eyes on the youngest child among all the people.

He stared at Laura Kinney, as if he was staring at the most beautiful treasure in the world.

He reached out to Laura, and Laura held his hand obediently.

Charles held Laura's little hand tightly, stroking the place where the metal bone popped out, and made a sound with trembling lips:

"Laura..."

"Yeah."

"That's great, you really exist... New mutants also really exist...

"Laura, Logan... actually needs someone to accompany him. He needs someone like him to accompany him. I know that you may not really treat him as a father yet, but in your long life, you can accompany Logan. Yes, only you...

"Laura, watch him for me, watch him... let him work well, live well, live well... live in this imperfect but beautiful world."

"Charles..."

Laura seemed to sense something, and she called Charles's name with a trembling voice.

But Charles seemed to be unable to hear that, and just looked at the sea in the distance and murmured to himself:

"...Yes, this world...has never been as beautiful as imagined, but it is still the world we live in. Mutants...human beings...should never fight each other, old friends, old friends...if only you could understand me. good……

"How wonderful it would be..."

In the last moments of his life, Charles thought of Eric and the old friend with whom he had known each other but who had been hostile to each other all his life.

He didn't know where his old friend was, or whether he was still alive.

But in these last moments, Charles seemed to see the figure of his old friend.

Not only Eric, but also Mystique Raven, Beast Hank, his own student Jean Grey, Cyclops Scott, Storm Ororo, and more... more and more people gathered here. Beside him, a hand was stretched out to him.

At this moment, they no longer need to be hostile to each other, but can smile and hold hands to go to that unknown place that no one knows.

Maybe it's heaven, maybe it's hell.

But no matter what, Charles Xavier's life ended here.

"Logan..."

Charles finally called Logan's name.

Logan immediately came to Charles and held his hand.

"Logan..." Charles chanted again, looking at the sun that was about to fall into the sea, "...The sunset on the Rising Sun is so beautiful."

As the words fell, along with the dissipation of the afterglow of the sunset on the sea level, the light in Charles' eyes also completely disappeared.

There was silence on the boat. Feeling Charles's hand that had completely lost its strength, Logan let out a long breath.

He tried to calm himself down and try to calm his breathing, but the more he did so, the more rapid his breathing became.

In the end, he couldn't stand up at all and half-knelt on the ground, with his forehead against the back of Charles' hand, making a very light but extremely sad whimper.

Charles died.

It was a real death, not Kevin's self-directed and self-acted fake death.

This legendary figure who had been busy all his life and cultivated countless X-Men for the world died on an ordinary yacht.

He was not surrounded by his most proud students, nor his best friends.

All he had was a wolf he had picked up, Caliban who had never joined the X-Men, a person from another world he had known for less than a month, and a... young new mutant.

No wife, no son, no grandchildren.

Just like that, his lonely life ended.

Logan grabbed Charles' hand and sobbed like a wounded wolf.

His sobs were slight at first, but then they got louder and louder, and finally he couldn't stop crying loudly.

Laura was the same, she even cried louder than Logan.

Although she was still very young, she already understood what death was.

Even Caliban was the same.

He curled up in the shadows, looked down at the deck, and silently shed tears.

The only person who didn't cry was Kevin.

Because Kevin and Charles didn't have such a deep relationship.

But even so, Kevin's eyes were red, and the inexplicable sad atmosphere came, causing Kevin's eyes to secrete liquid.

Perhaps to prevent himself from crying shamefully, Kevin turned his head and looked at the sea, and he whispered softly:

"At least... we are on the Rising Sun..."

Yes, compared with Charles in the movie who died silently without even a word in the end, and didn't move to the ship, at least Charles here was very happy in the last moments of his life.

He had his own ship, accompanied by Logan who was like a son, and Laura who was like a granddaughter.

Even his ideals had successors, and Charles could leave the world with a relieved smile and without a trace of regret.

This is the most perfect ending, isn't it?

What else can Kevin ask for?

Then again, humans naturally die of old age, what can Kevin do now?

This ending was enough for Logan's people.

It was really enough.

"...We are still on the Rising Sun."

Kevin repeated again.

But this time he could no longer maintain his calm expression. Liquid slid down his face, dripped into the sea water, and merged with the sea water.

At least.

They were on the Rising Sun.