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The next day, I will see you drawing your sword against me. To have a duel, you’d say. I know for sure it can’t be true. Then I will draw my lance, sure, I’d say. But you know I drew it just to keep myself alive.
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I can’t win over you, nor that I want to end your life, Blade.
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This will be the place where the water rises. Rising high just like those old days. When the five of us would cheer for our victory upon defending Luofu. Where could those memories flew to?
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Now, you’d whisper in my ears, telling me that I have a price to pay. Your blade on my neck, millimeters away. But it pierced through my heart instead.
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Can’t you hear? I cried the forbidden sea when I got reincarnated once again.
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Out of five, three must pay the price. You, and I. We are both fated to burn into ashes, then reincarnated a billion times. Endless suffering, endless waltz, endless fate.
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Thus … in the next life, meet me once again under the blue sky. Draw a sword and paint a smile on your lips. Let us dance this ballad once again for the thousandth times. Remind me of who I was. Stab me with the lance you crafted for me.
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Only then can we dance. Just like a flame on rainy days, we will fight for our lives. Oh, to have a fate like this was never our true intention.
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To live happily, sitting under the blooming cherry blossom, sipping alcohol under the yellow moon — will we get there at some point?
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Yingxing, where did your smile go?
Danfeng, why wouldn’t you let me die?
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The betrayal you committed took all my emotions, can’t you tell? I’m too tired of all these living things inside myself.
That was never a form of betrayal.
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Because I want to hold onto you so dear, my friend. Death can never come at us now, so take my hand, let’s reciprocate the good old days for one last time.
We can never turn back the time.
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After this life, will you still hate me, Blade?
After this life, will you still remember me, Danheng?
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Till death sets us apart, let us burn in this flame named samsara for eternity.
