Night World Players

Chapter 254 Amys's Vow
Amys dreamed of that day again.

Her soul withered in a long slumber, and even her memories were gradually eroded and devoured by the will of the Judgment Star Cup. To this day, Amys has forgotten many things from her childhood.

However, this is the one memory she will never forget... Even if she hides in a dark crevice in a sorry state, even if she survives by ugly and unscrupulous means, she must preserve it and will never share it with anyone else. It is a memory that even the highest principles of heaven cannot take away from her.

Looking back now, I think it was from that day that I truly began to like Last.

……

The torrential rain poured down, gathering outside the cave into a seemingly endless torrent of rain.

The frail little girl huddled in the dark and cold cave, sobbing as she watched the water level outside rise gradually with the heavy rain.

Amise's parents died in an accident not long ago while they were on their way to exchange goods on behalf of the town of Canaan... leaving only six-year-old Amise alone.

In this isolated border town, it is a regrettable yet helpless situation.

Although the adults in town promised at the funeral that they would take care of Amy, who was an orphan, such comfort had no effect on Amy at that time.

In the mind of a six-year-old child, her parents are the entire world. Now that both her parents have passed away, she feels as if she has been abandoned by the whole world.

So, after her parents' funeral, Amy could no longer suppress her grief... and ran to a cave on the top of the mountain behind her to cry.

Unexpectedly, a sudden downpour occurred during this period, triggering a flash flood that completely blocked the cave and the road down the mountain.

Now, Amys is unable to leave the cave and can only silently wait for the flood to spread.

Am I... going to die?

The thought crossed Amys's mind the moment she saw the mountain floodwaters finally overflow the cave and pour into it.

For some reason, she didn't feel much fear of death.

This may be because, for Amys, who lost her parents, there was nothing left in this world that she could cherish.

But just then, she heard the sound of hurried footsteps wading through the puddles.

"Phew, the adults searched the whole mountain but couldn't find you... I knew you were in the cave."

The next moment, Amys saw a black-haired boy who looked about her age, soaking wet, appear at the entrance of the cave.

The boy's face lit up with surprise the moment he spotted her.

"But you're so careless! You didn't even notice it was raining so hard outside."

"It's raining so hard now, and there's been a flash flood... We can't leave here, and the adults can't get up either—"

"It seems we can only try to wait until the flash flood recedes."

As he spoke, the boy quickly walked to Amys's side, took her hand, and led her into the cave.

"Hurry up, the entrance is too low-lying and will soon be flooded by a flash flood."

"We need to move to higher ground deeper in the cave before the water gets too deep, otherwise we won't be able to find a place to stay later."

The boy held Amys's hand and led her through the cave.

Soon, the two found a high-lying rock platform deep inside the cave.

"If it's this high, it should be a little safer. From here on, we can only gamble on luck... gamble that the flash flood won't rise this high."

The boy seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, but quickly rallied again.

"But with the rain so heavy outside, the flash flood might not recede for a whole day before the adults can come up and rescue us."

"We must be prepared to spend the night here. It gets very cold in the cave at night, and the most important thing is to keep warm."

He took off his soaking wet coat, wrung it out, and spread it out on the rock face.

Then he glanced at the little girl's thin shirt—Amys had run up the mountain to vent her anger after the funeral and hadn't thought about keeping warm at all.

After seemingly hesitating for a moment, the little boy took off his dry sweater and handed it to Amy.

"Put these on. We can't start a fire in this condition... It would be a problem if you got hypothermia."

Amise just stared blankly at the sweater that was handed to her.

She recognized the boy in front of her... He was also a resident of Canaan Town. His father died before he was born, and his mother died in childbirth. He had been an orphan since birth and survived only thanks to the help of the townspeople.

The two were about the same age, so Amys and he would occasionally play and frolic with other children their age in town.

However, their interactions were limited to this; they were merely playmates of the same age.

They are merely passersby in a certain period of life... Playmates who used to frolic side by side will, as time goes by, inevitably go down completely different paths in life due to differences in background, family, education, and so on, and will never be able to cross paths again.

Unexpectedly, he found himself in a cave in the back mountain.

Looking at the mud-covered yet spirited black-haired boy in front of her, Amys suddenly felt a strange sense of irritation.

That was the subconscious rejection and disgust that arose from the fact that she herself had also lost her parents and was now an orphan like the boy in front of her.

Why did you come to save me?!

"I've already lost my parents and been abandoned by this world... I just came here to vent my frustrations."

She crouched down, turned her back to Rust, covered her face, and her heart was once again swallowed up by the immense grief of losing her parents.

"I don't care if a flash flood drowns me, I'm an orphan anyway, no one will care if I die!"

Why did you come to save me?

"Originally, it would have been fine if only I had died, and none of this would have had to do with you... but you just had to come and interfere for no reason!"

"You're just a child, why do you have to act like an adult and show off!" The little girl cried, and the tears that had been held back now rolled down her cheeks uncontrollably, turning into crystal teardrops.

In her view, the boy's act of coming to the cave to rescue her was clearly meaningless and a pointless act of taking matters into his own hands.

However, listening to Amys's questioning.

The black-haired boy's face, covered in mud, now revealed a hint of pride, his dark eyes filled with smugness and arrogance.

"Why did I come to save you? Of course, it's because I'm a champion of justice."

"As a partner of justice, how could I possibly stand by and watch someone in danger die?"

……

Hearing the boy's answer, Amys was stunned again, and even her sobs subsided slightly.

"What is this, a partner of justice... It sounds like such a childish statement."

"I think you've just listened to too many knight stories in those fairy tales. Those things are obviously lies, made up by adults to fool children."

"Silly, blank."

Despite the boy's naive thoughts, he uttered such words to himself.

But for some reason, after hearing the other party's rather childish remarks, Amys felt that the sadness in her heart was indeed diluted a bit.

Then, she saw the boy in front of her take a deep breath and his expression suddenly become serious.

"Ok."

"Since Xiao Ai, you're thinking of giving up on yourself and committing suicide because your parents have passed away..."

He spoke each word carefully and deliberately, as if he had made some profound decision:
"Then from now on, let me be your father."

“I will be your father, and I will be responsible for raising you, taking care of you, cooking you three meals a day, and waking you up every day.”

“As long as I can truly fulfill the responsibilities of a father… then, Xiao Ai, you will no longer give up on yourself and want to commit suicide, and you will no longer run to such a dangerous place alone to give up your life.”

Listening to the serious and earnest words of the little boy in front of me.

Although she had been crying just moments before, Amy couldn't help but burst out laughing at this moment.

She wiped away her tears: "But a father has to be much older than his child to be a father... You're about my age, so you can't be my father at all."

"What you said is not wrong."

Not far away, the little boy looked quite distressed.

"I finally came up with a way to stop you from committing suicide and save your life, but I never expected that we would get stuck here."

"I even put a lot of thought into it and made up my mind to take on the responsibilities of a father."

……

Beside her, Amys reached out and wiped away the tears on her face.

She looked at the little boy in front of her, who had a troubled expression, and smiled silently.

At some point, the grief and pain of losing her parents, as well as the irritability and rejection, all vanished from Amy's heart.

She stole a glance at the black-haired boy beside her, feeling a strange, warm emotion slowly flowing through her heart.

Although what the other party possesses is nothing more than a foolish, naive, and stupid ideal.

but.

Amys gently moved a few steps closer to the boy, then stole another glance at him—

His profile was shrouded in the dim moonlight, his features distinct and deep.

"It really is... dazzling."

Emmys murmured silently to the moonlight streaming down from the end of the cave.

That's right, from the very beginning, Amys knew perfectly well—

The burning and glorious ideal that belonged to Rust did not actually originate entirely from his sister Grey.

Long before the real Canaan, before there were superhumans, before the night world, before the library of fools... before all of this had happened.

At just six years old, Rust, an ordinary child in a small town, already dreams of becoming a "partner of justice" and is willing to risk his life to cross a mountain torrent and rescue a little girl he has only met a few times from a cave.

And Amys was the first person to witness firsthand the brilliance of Rust's ideals.

As for what happened later, inheriting the "Library of Fools" and becoming the guardian of the shore... it was just a natural development that the little boy inevitably experienced in the process of carrying out his dreams and beliefs.

For Amys, beliefs such as "partner of justice" and "guardian of the shore" were not very convincing.

However, she felt that the figure who was willing to take action for such a naive ideal when he was a child and persisted in it throughout his life was glorious and dazzling.

So, on that very day, she made a vow in her heart that no one knew about.

If a country girl named Amys also has a dream she wants to realize...

So, what is her dream?

It means being able to protect that boy forever, to safeguard his path of pursuing his dreams until the very end...

Until death will separate them.

(End of this chapter)