Ram walked around in the forest for a while and saw his sister who was all wet.
She held a sling in her hand and was staring carefully at Ram's rear.
"Let's go! Let's go!"
"Are they following?"
"I don't know, it's even scarier if I didn't find them."
Ram followed his sister running in the mountains and forests for half an hour. He was panting and his legs felt like they were filled with lead.
Unlike his sister, who often hunts with his father in the mountains, he is a bit like his mother, tall but frail.
"No way...sister!"
Selu stopped, her chest heaving violently, and she stared carefully behind her in case anyone was chasing her.
It wasn't until she was sure it was safe that she put the sling into her bag, walked to Ram and gently patted her brother who kept coughing.
"Who are they?"
"They said it came from outside..."
"Why are you being arrested?"
"He later let me go, saying it was a misunderstanding and they just wanted to ask for directions."
After Ram finished speaking, he suddenly realized that his sister was not surprised by the word "outside". He raised his head and stared at his sister and asked: "Where is outside? The Hector Cult said that there is only blue sea outside the sky island, but the blue sea Are they all demons?"
Selu sighed, a trace of sadness flashed in her eyes.
"There are many empty islands like ours out there, some big and some small, the big ones are as big as a hundred Hisoka Kingdoms."
Ram couldn't believe it. This was completely contrary to the definition of the world he had been exposed to since childhood.
"How did you know?"
"Weber had a book, a book from a long time ago. It is missing many pages, but the existing parts record the true appearance of the world.
Did you see that ship? I tell you, that ship can fly, it’s written in the book! That's the kind of boat they came here on! "
Ram had enough breathing and followed Selu through the forest. Their destination was a cave where Selu often rested when he went hunting with his father.
Along the way, the two siblings chatted about each other. Ram felt that the sister in front of him suddenly became unfamiliar. It was true that she had a yearning for the vast world, but her understanding of the outside world seemed to be very sufficient. For a moment, Ram thought that his sister was also from outside.
The cave was empty, but the pile of stones from the last time the campfire was lit here was still there, filled with ashes.
Looking at his sister's red eyes and red nose, Ram felt a sense of protectiveness. He found some dead branches and lit a campfire.
"You and Weber...when did it happen?"
"last year."
Selu sat on the stone, took off her wet shoes, and warmed her feet.
"You didn't even tell me..."
"He was afraid that you would tell everyone about it, so he asked me to hide it from you."
Selu said with a smile, the sadness on her face disappearing as she recalled the time she spent with her lover.
"What can I say..."
Ram muttered dissatisfiedly, as if he had lost his sister's trust, with a complaint on his face.
"If you knew he would end up like today, would you watch us become lovers indifferently?"
Ram didn't speak, he was thinking seriously about his sister's problem.
Eventually he came to his own conclusion and said it without any scruples.
"Won't."
Selu raised her head and looked at the smoke-blackened roof of the cave. It was pitch black, like an abyss in the cracks of the blue sea.
"That's what makes us different, you've always been a good kid, Ram.
I can't. I knew that falling in love with him would not get the results I wanted. I knew that falling in love with him would bring disaster to my family, but I still fell in love with him. "
Ram couldn't bear to see the tears in his sister's eyes, and he scratched his head.
"There won't be any disaster. At worst, we will always live in the forest. There is food and drink here. There is nothing to be afraid of."
The only sound in the long silence was the crackling of branches in the campfire.
Selu turned around, facing away from the campfire and Ram, and whispered: "Am I being selfish?"
"I told you there is no such disaster. When parents come, we can just treat this cave as our home...
I can sneak into town to exchange for some daily necessities. I have many friends. "
When a family faces a disaster, children often understand things overnight, and this is the case with Ram now.
He talked endlessly, describing a decent life in the future, and showing the contribution he could bring to the family, as if at this moment, he had become the mainstay of the family.
"If you had the chance, would you leave Hisoka Kingdom?"
Sister's words interrupted Ram's whims. Ram was stunned for a moment and began to think.
He doesn't like that the Hector Cult hangs people at every turn, and he doesn't like that the princess bosses around and bullies the tenants. He even doesn't like King Hisoka 41, because that king condones the church and the nobles.
The church regards the common people as ignorant people who need God to guide them, and the nobles regard the common people as lowly people as low as animals. They stand on the steps of the class and look at the common people with their eyes downward.
The king is even worse.
In his eyes, there are only the church and the nobility, and he enjoys watching the two forces fighting back and forth. When one side is strong, he lifts up the other side, and when the other side is weak, he suppresses the other side.
In short, in the eyes of the king, the people are like deer in the forest. You don't care about them, they will live well. Even if there are hunters hunting in the forest every day, even if wolves attack from time to time, they are still full of vitality. .
Therefore, Ram's answer was yes, and his tone was firm and full of yearning.
Selu turned around, her face already covered with tears.
She smiled, and snot flowed from her nostrils, forming a snot bubble as she continued to laugh.
"The tone of your answer is exactly the same as Weber's..."
Time passed by like ashes accumulating in a campfire.
While waiting, the two siblings changed from talking freely to talking about every sentence, and from talking about the future to asking questions that were neither salty nor mild.
They had the same thing in their hearts.
Gradually, they realize that their parents may never arrive.
The two children, tired from a day's running, fell asleep beside the dwindling campfire until they were awakened by hunger.
Looking at the completely cooled campfire, Selu shed tears again.
She put her bag on her shoulder, patted her brother on the shoulder, and said, "Weber also asked me before if I wanted to leave the Kingdom of Hisoka if I had the chance, and I answered 'yes' at that time.
But now I have changed my mind.
Ram, my dear brother, go to those outsiders and beg them to take you away. The ship is so big that the captain will not care to have an extra crew member.
You must be diligent, studious, and see the outside world for me, Weber, and your parents. "
Ram was shocked. He tried to grab Selu's arm, but Selu punched him directly in the abdomen. He hunched over and fell to the ground like a shrimp.
Looking at his sister's retreating back, Ram shouted in pain: "Where are you going?"
"I want to drag this world along with me."
