manynovel Chapter 68 Uncle, you don't need to worry about me. Only Kanao is allowed to care about you.
Chapter 68 Uncle, you don't need to worry about me. Only Kanao is allowed to care about you.
Chapter 68 Uncle, you don't need to worry about me. Only Kanao is allowed to worry about you. (5/5)
"Cough cough cough————"
Looking at his father, who seemed to be asleep, Tanjiro coughed incessantly. Whether it was sake that had gotten into his eyes or he was truly heartbroken, tears streamed down his face, followed by low sobs, and finally, painful wails.
The small cave echoed with the boy's sorrow.
Su Mu also silently watched the crying boy.
Seeing her uncle looking at Tanjiro, Kanao also looked at Tanjiro, noticing the tears streaming down his face and his sorrowful expression. She tilted her head, looking at Su Mu with a puzzled expression, and said, "Uncle, look, he's crying so sadly!"
There was no empathy whatsoever, only curiosity and doubt.
Tanjiro wiped his eyes with his hand. Being asked such a question by a girl made him feel instinctively embarrassed and unmanly, but looking at his father, tears flowed uncontrollably again.
"Please accept my condolences; everyone must die eventually."
Su Mu looked at Tanjiro and sighed.
"Father, he's just asleep."
Tanjiro shouted loudly.
"Don't yell at my uncle so loudly."
Kanao frowned, her beautiful brows furrowing.
Tanjiro pursed his lips. He knew he shouldn't vent his emotions like that, nor should he be so rude to others, but he couldn't help himself when the other person told him that his father had died.
"Everyone will eventually die."
Looking at the dead Kamado Tanjuro, Su Mu patted Kanao's head and said, "No matter how sad you are, it won't change anything."
Tanjiro, tears streaming down his face, collapsed to the ground.
Su Mu poured another glass of wine and handed it to Tanjiro: "Drink more wine, it might make you feel better."
Looking at the wine cup handed to him, Tanjiro hesitated for a moment before drinking it down in one gulp.
The fiery liquor stung his throat, causing Tanjiro to cough again, and then he started crying.
Kanao tilted her head, looking at the boy who had his head buried in her lap, then looked up at her uncle: "Is it really necessary to be so sad about the death of your father?"
"Why can't I feel it?"
Tanjiro, who was crying, couldn't help but raise his head and look at Kanao.
The girl tilted her head, looking at him with a puzzled expression as he wept.
Tanjiro couldn't help but wipe away the tears on his face, not wanting others to see his vulnerable side, especially since he was a girl.
Wiping away her tears, she said angrily, "If Father were to die, how could you not be heartbroken? How could you not be heartbroken? How could you not be heartbroken?"
""
"Uncle, is it really necessary to be sad?"
Kanao tilted her head, looking at Su Mu with a puzzled expression.
Su Mu gently patted Kanao's head, his tone mild: "It might be sad for others, but it's different for Kanao."
"Why are they different?"
Children always have a lot of questions.
"Because, for others, their father is very important in their lives, but for Kanao, her father is not important."
Unconsciously, he thought of that so-called "Kanao's father." How could such a person be worthy of Kanao's sadness and grief?
Tanjiro looked up at Su Mu in disbelief: "How could you say such a thing?"
Su Mu looked quietly at the boy: "Why can't I say such a thing?"
Tanjiro opened his mouth, about to say something, but Su Mu waved his hand to stop him. He had no intention of arguing with Tanjiro about these things. Different people, different experiences, how could one understand if one had never experienced them?
People will only stand on their own side.
If he hadn't witnessed Kanao's ordeal firsthand, how could he have imagined that such heartless parents existed in this world?
Seeing this, Tanjiro could only sit back down. However, looking at his father lying there, he silently shed tears, but he did not make a sound.
The campfire burned, its flickering light illuminating the faces of different people and ghosts.
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After a long while, Su Mu finally looked up at the heavy snow outside the cave: "Do you need me to help your father carry you home? You must have been out for a long time. If you don't go back soon, your family will probably worry."
""
Tanjiro seemed to come to his senses, looking at his father who had closed his eyes and was still lying by the campfire. The boy silently approached Kamado Tanjuro.
My father's body was already cold, and I could not feel any breath from him.
Tanjiro pursed his lips, turned his head to look at Su Mu who was looking at him: "My father is just asleep, just asleep."
"Okay, he's just asleep."
Su Mu shrugged.
"I can carry it back myself, I don't need your help."
Tanjiro gritted his teeth, perhaps thinking that as long as he didn't acknowledge the man, his father was still alive.
Although Tanjiro told him not to help, Su Mu still helped Tanjiro put his father's body on his back so that he could carry it.
"My father is just asleep."
Carrying his father out of the cave, Tanjiro turned back and repeated the same sentence to Su Mu.
"Yes, she's just asleep."
Su Mu replied.
"You'll wake up tomorrow, you'll feel better tomorrow."
After saying that, the boy carried his father's body on his back and stumbled through the snow, his steps uneven.
The wind whistled through the trees, and faintly, the sound of a boy's sobbing could be heard.
Su Mu watched the boy stagger away and patted Kanao's head, who was standing next to him: "Don't stay outside. It's snowing so heavily, don't let yourself get cold."
"It's not cold, Uncle."
The girl smiled sweetly.
"Even if it's not cold, you have to go in."
Su Mu tapped the girl on the head.
"I'll listen to my uncle."
The girl clung to the man's arm: "I want to go inside with you, Uncle, so you won't get cold."
Su Mu looked down at the girl, then shook his head helplessly and led Kanao into the cave.
"uncle----"
"Um."
"My uncle just said that everyone dies eventually."
"Um.
""
"What will happen to my uncle if I die one day?"
Su Mu stopped abruptly.
"My uncle said that a father is a very important person to others, and only when the father dies will others be sad. I hope that Kanao will not be a very important person to my uncle, so that even if Kanao dies in the future, my uncle will not have to care."
"What are you saying?"
Su Mu slapped Kanao hard on the head.
This time, he hit her a little too hard, and he immediately realized something was wrong, so he quickly patted the girl's head: "Did I hurt you?"
"It doesn't hurt."
Kanao blinked her pinkish-purple eyes, those bright eyes shimmering with the image of a demon: "How was it when Uncle hit me? It didn't hurt at all."
Su Mu sighed, wanting to say something, but ultimately sighed again, turned his head away, not wanting to look at the girl, and simply pulled her into the cave.
"Uncle, you're not allowed to care about me anymore."
Kanao followed along, whispering, "Only Kanao is allowed to care about Uncle."
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