Signing-In: The Lazy Moon Goddess-Chapter 761: Inheritance of the Death God
Waking up in a modern designed room, Ru Yunlan who seems to have forgotten what he is supposed to be undergoing look around the area in dazed to only receive a smack on the back of his head. He looked up and saw his mother Ru Lanyu. Unlike her usual young version, she seems to be a beautiful middle aged lady today.
Ru Yunlan’s thoughts had suddenly gone awry.
’Hm? Why did I say that my mom is unlike her usual self? Why do I think her current figure is different from what I feel? Something seems weird.’
"Sweetie, are you alright?" His mother Ru Lanyu saw that he was acting weird and checked on his forehead.
Ru Yunlan, as if something is blocking his memories , forgot to think about something in his mind again and responded to his mother in front of him.
The Ru Lanyu before him flicked his forehead and said, "Brat, you don’t have a fever. You can’t be doing this because you don’t want to go to class." The blanket on him was pulled and he fell off the bed.
"You can’t skip school for no reason," said Ru Yunlan. "Get up and go to school!"
Ru Yunlan had no other choice but to follow. He headed to the bathroom, took a bath and changed his clothes into a uniform. After eating breakfast with his mother, he left the house where he met his childhood sweetheart Han Haerin.
"Gege~, you took too long. We are going to be late!" Han Haerin said as she grabbed his hand and dragged him away.
Everything that happened next is something ordinary. Going to school, having class, lunch break, class again and finally going home with Han Haerin. This happened a few more times until one day, feeling some distortion in his life, Ru Yunlan went home alone without waiting for Han Haerin. The girl thought he was angry at her and chased after her.
"Gege!! Why didn’t you wait for me? Did I do something? Are you angry? Please tell me. Don’t leave me behind like this. Sniff~"
Seeing Han Haerin made Ru Yunlan uncomfortable. They were at the street and people were looking at them with judging looks at Ru Yunlan for making the young lady cry. The tears of Han Haerin made Ru Yunlan uncomfortable yet at the same time made him feel even more distant towards her. Just as he was about to comfort her. She suddenly pushed him away and a truck directly hit Han Haerin making her fly like a broken kite.
There is a crowd screaming as they witnessed the scene yet the eyes and overall reaction of Ru Yunlan is unexpectedly calm without any hint of acceptance or rejection as if this death was something normal in his eyes. Ignoring the crowd around him he calmly walks towards the dead body of Han Haerin before him. He can even hear the cries of his mother, aunt and uncle. Even so his heart as it was frozen wasn’t moving at all.
Seeing Han Haerin on the ground with an arm and leg twisted in a wrong way under her was a pool of blood and a realistic death expression on her face even her lifeless eyes wide open from the impact. For some reason Ru Yunlan couldn’t feel anything seeing his lover’s dead body. He crouches down and looks at Han Haerin’s face without reaction. All of the sudden, countless memories he had forgotten had returned to him. His eyes full of confusion and dissonance from before had turned clear at this moment. With a serious expression he stretched a hand and helped close the eyes of the dead before him.
Ru Yunlan murmured, "Even if you used her face, it would be impossible for me to be emotionless at her death. Everything in this world is fake."
Once he closed his eyes, everything around him had slowly turned into a black smoke and once again pulled into an endless cycle of life and death. Sometimes it would be him who would die, his beloved, his family, his friend, a stranger, even a pet companion and all. After experiencing all kinds of death, Ru Yunlan’s heart felt serene. After getting used to it, no death would be able to surprise him. If it’s a death he didn’t want to see he only needed to stop it. The authority he gains is all about controlling death as for what life comes after that, it no longer has anything to do with him.
Once even the death of his beloved Han Haerin, his mother Ru Lanyu and his godmother Yue Xuexia didn’t move Ru Yunlan, it was at that moment something had gone wrong with him. He started questioning himself, had he become that devoid of emotions that he couldn’t feel anything for the deaths of his loved ones. The first death when he felt something in him was shaken was his Uncle Xiao’s death. His death was gruesome and lonely. When Ru Yunlan first witnessed it, he felt something in him was moved. It was subtle but it was definitely there. The death of his godmother made him uncomfortable. He felt that it was something impossible with how powerful the Moon Goddess is. Then his mother’s death made him frown.
Finally at the death of Han Haerin, as if heart was pricked. At first it was just only until he felt it was some kind of stabbing pain. Until he can no longer bear it and destroy the scene before him.
"If I have to sacrifice my feelings towards my loved ones for this inheritance then I don’t need it!"
The sudden declaration from Ru Yunlan made the energy of death suppressed him by restraining it with everything. It wanted to erase his feelings so he would be able to easily accept the death of his beloved, his family and friends. Even though this is the very treasure in his life he wanted to keep in his heart. He denied the overbearing power of death just so he can keep himself. Ru Yunlan didn’t want to lose everything just for the sake of power. After all, he wanted power to protect this treasure. To sacrifice it to gain something,something Ru Yunlan isn’t willing to do.
The struggle of Ru Yunlan to fight against the Death Qi that wanted to destroy him made the death god who was watching frowned. The test of inheritance is the same as his. At that time, he didn’t have any loved one and only enemies who he was willing to sacrifice for the sake of power. He thought he had gotten the control over death after he ascended as a Primordial God only to notice that his power was incomplete. It was only death and nothing more. Even though there are all kinds of death, all he knows is instant death. That was an overwhelming power; however, it was finished in an instant.
There is no slow death, a peaceful one, a painful one for his enemies. As the God of Death he should be able to control all kinds of death. Unfortunately, all he can do is to kill in an instant. Moreover, this death is not the kind that kills the soul like how the legends say about him. Just simply having absolute power over death, an instant death. To kill the soul of his target he needs to kill him until he perishes. That’s how he realized that this true death under control is not the complete one, but just a part of it.
On the other hand, his heir is completely different from him. He had his parents, elders who treated him as family as well as a person he loves with all his heart. He knew what kind of final trial the death would give and he wanted to know what his successor would choose. As expected, he chose to defy death and unexpectedly, as he defied it to stop it from destroying him, he tried to control this power.
The God of Death’s thoughts: {Can he do it?}
The Moon Goddess who was watching the scene suddenly narrowed her eyes and started using her skill of divination. As soon as she did, all the stars around them moved , creating an aura filled with it. It flash passes before where Yue Xuexia as she reads the future of her godson. Her movements were felt by the God of Death and the artifact spirit, Death Scythe floating beside him.
{Master, is the Moon Goddess using divination to see the future of the Little Master? What should we do if he fails? Would the Goddess kill both you and I?}
The God of Death looked at him coldly as if he was looking at a fool who doesn’t know how to control his words.
The death scythe spirit as if used to his master’s murderous gaze spoke once again, {Didn’t Master say before that the only power who can kill you is the power of the Primordial God of Shura and Deva? The Moon Goddess had both of those powers. We are screwed!}
{Don’t talk if you can’t speak properly!} The Death God retorted.
