socalfunplaces Chapter 1183 No Regrets, Only Acceptance of Defeat
Chapter 1183 No Regrets, Only Acceptance of Defeat
Chaska's heart-wrenching wail suddenly stopped.
She turned around slowly, and her tear-stained face lost all trace of fragility, leaving only a cold and dead silence. Only in her red eyes flashed a ferocious light that made one's heart tremble.
It was a fire of rage ignited by hatred and pain, a determination to kill at all costs.
Her eyes were fixed on Alpa, who was lying on the ground with his limbs shot by Shao Yun.
"Alpa!"
When Alpa heard Chaska's cold voice, her body trembled involuntarily. She raised her head and met those bloodshot and tearful eyes, and an ominous premonition surged in her heart.
"Chaska, are you really going to this extent for a pterosaur? Is it worth it?"
In her opinion, the Velvet Pterosaur is just an animal after all. It is unreasonable for it to turn against its own kind and even kill them for an animal.
Chaska walked up to Alpa, stopped, looked down at her, suppressed his anger to the extreme, and roared:
"Have you forgotten? I was adopted by a group of velvet pterosaurs when I was little, and Keya has been with me since I was little. She's not just any dragon, she's my sister! How dare you call her 'that serious'?"
Alpa showed no remorse at all. Instead, he raised his voice and roared with a bit of paranoia and self-righteousness:
"We now have the technology to artificially refine gaseous phlogiston! With this technology, I can free the Flower Feather Society from its dependence on the Velvet Pterosaur and allow them to soar freely in the sky!"
"I just sacrificed a few insignificant pterosaurs, and you're going to turn against me and kill me?"
"It doesn't matter?" When Chaska heard these four words, he suddenly raised his foot and stepped hard on Alpa's hand.
The sound of bones breaking and Alpa's screams echoed. Chaska's face showed a ferocious expression and he roared:
"Irrelevant? That's my sister! You actually said she's irrelevant!"
Alpa was twitching in pain, but he still gritted his teeth and squeezed out six words from between his teeth, trying to awaken Chaska's so-called "reason".
"You are a human, not a dragon!"
"I'll say it again!" Chaska stepped on Alpa's stomach again and crushed it hard with his foot. Every time he crushed it, Alpa groaned in pain.
"That's my sister!!! Didn't you hear me?"
Alpa was already weak from the gunshot wound, and this kick caused internal injuries.
She suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood, but suddenly revealed a crazy smile, her eyes full of paranoid fanaticism.
"My son sacrificed his life so that humans could fly freely in the sky. What does your dragon sister count for?"
"My son is willing to sacrifice himself for this noble cause. What does an insignificant velvet pterosaur mean to me?"
Chaska looked at Alpa lying on the ground, talking nonsense about "lofty goals", and found it ridiculous.
"That's different! I know you're sad that your son died, but that's no reason to sacrifice your Velvet Winged Dragon!"
"When Shibarak defeated the dragons, it was to protect the balance of Nata, not to allow us to enslave the dragons! In Nata, humans and dragons have always been equal and symbiotic partners!"
But when Alpa heard the words "humans and dragons are equal", he felt like he had heard a huge joke. He suddenly burst into crazy laughter and laughed so hard that he couldn't stop coughing. The blood from the corners of his mouth dyed his chin red.
She gasped and pointedly pointed out, "Humans and dragons are equal? Haha, that sounds nice. I think some dragons are more equal than others!"
"If I had captured an ordinary Velvet Winged Dragon instead of your dragon sister, Keya, would you be so angry? Would you turn against me for a strange dragon?"
Chaska was suddenly stunned, her body stiffened in place, and a barely perceptible hesitation arose in her heart.
Is Alpa right? If it wasn't Keya who was captured and sacrificed, would she still have resisted so desperately?
In the silence of a few seconds, countless images flashed through Chaska's mind...
She shook her head, forcing the hesitation off her face. Her voice remained firm as she deliberately roared, "Shut up! Stop confusing right and wrong here! Neither Keya nor any of the other pterosaurs deserve to be treated like this!"
Alpa looked at her irritated expression and laughed even more wildly, saying sarcastically, "Haha, it seems I was right! Are you feeling guilty yourself?"
"The idea that humans and dragons are equal is all just an excuse! You're only so angry because the dragon you cared about was sacrificed!"
"You're talking nonsense!" Chaska retorted harshly, but Alpa's words only made her more irritated.
When Alpa sneered again and was about to continue mocking, Chaska was completely pushed to the brink of collapse by this endless ridicule, and his reason broke like a taut string.
She stared at Alpa intently, with only the madness of revenge in her eyes, and roared hoarsely:
"Alpa! You've gone crazy! You don't understand what Nata's heritage is, let alone what a companion is! People like you don't deserve to live in Nata! Go to hell!"
Then, Chaska grabbed the other person's collar and tried to drag her to the hot air balloon platform at the edge of the aerial workshop.
There was no protection at all, and below was the sky thousands of feet high, shrouded in clouds and mist, with no bottom in sight.
The rough wooden boards rubbed against Alpa's injured body, leaving streaks of blood. She struggled to resist, but because of her broken hands and feet, she was unable to break free and could only let Chaska drag her to the edge of the platform.
The next second, Chaska pushed hard and then quickly pulled back.
Half of Alpa's body was suspended in the air in an instant. If Chaska had not grabbed her collar tightly and she had not used up her last bit of strength to hook her toes on the edge of the platform, she would have fallen from the height and been smashed to pieces.
"Look! I was right!" Alpa was hanging in the air, but there was no fear on his face. Instead, he showed a sarcastic smile.
"I'm right. You're not fighting for 'equality between humans and dragons' at all. You're just seeking revenge for yourself! I only touched a dragon I shouldn't have touched, your dragon sister, Keya!"
"If I had touched an ordinary Velvet Pterosaur that had nothing to do with you, you wouldn't be like this now, wanting to kill me immediately!"
The shame and anger of having his true feelings spoken out, combined with the pain of losing his sister, completely overwhelmed Chaska's last remaining sanity.
She roared like a wild animal out of control: "You deserve to die! You killed Keya and betrayed the Huayu Society. You should have died long ago!"
Alpa looked at the undisguised murderous intent in Chaska's eyes and her expression of determination to kill him. The sarcasm on his face gradually faded away, replaced by a relieved smile.
She finally understood that no matter how much she argued and ridiculed, it would not change the inevitable death.
Since ancient times, Nata has had the rule that "the strong obey the weak". Now that she is in Chaska's hands, she is not as skilled as others, and she can't blame others.
She accepted this ending.
Suddenly, Alpa's vision gradually blurred, but a scene from many years ago suddenly flashed through his mind.
That was the first time she saw Chaska. The little girl was hiding under the wings of the Velvet Pterosaur, looking at her warily.
Who could have imagined that, years later, he would die at the hands of this girl who had been raised by a velvet pterosaur? The fickleness of fate was truly a cause for regret.
"After all these years, I thought you had truly integrated into the human race and become a member of the Huayu Society... I didn't expect that you would turn yourself into a velvet pterosaur."
"In your world, dragons are ultimately more important than humans."
Chaska's hand, clutching her collar, trembled with anger. When she heard Alpa say, "You've turned yourself into a pterosaur," she immediately retorted fiercely:
"Whether I'm a human or a velvet pterosaur doesn't matter to me! All I know now is that you killed my sister Keya, and you must pay for her life!"
At this moment, she no longer cares about the excuse of "humans and dragons are equal"
Only Alpa's life can slightly soothe the pain deep in her bones caused by the death of her sister.
She raised her arms slightly, as if she was about to let go in the next second, letting Alpa fall into the abyss.
But at this critical moment, she suddenly stopped, looked at Alpa with complicated eyes, and asked coldly.
"Before you fall, I have one last question for you."
"Do you regret what you've done now? Do you regret colluding with the Fatui, killing so many Velvet Winged Dragons, and even killing my sister?"
These words contained an expectation that she herself was not aware of. Perhaps she was expecting Alpa to repent a little, or perhaps she wanted to find more "legitimate" reasons for her revenge.
But when Alpa heard this question, he opened his arms vigorously. There was no fear on his face, only a calmness of accepting defeat.
"Just because I lost doesn't mean I think I did anything wrong!"
"With only a few velvet pterosaurs dying, our Natan phlogiston technology has taken a huge step forward, allowing the Natan people to finally break free from their dependence on dragons and soar freely in the sky."
"This deal is worth it in my opinion!"
She paused, stared sharply at Chaska, and asked the question that hit home again.
"And, as I said before, you and I both know that if I hadn't captured your dragon sister, Keya, and instead captured some other insignificant velvet pterosaur, you would never have been so determined to kill me as you are now. Do you believe it?"
Chaska was stunned again. She was so confused that she couldn't answer this question that hit her heart.
After hesitating for a full two seconds, Chaska suddenly came to his senses, avoided Alpa's gaze, and with a subtle lack of confidence in his tone, he defended himself.
"Don't talk nonsense! You've colluded with foreign countries, colluded with the Fatui, and killed so many innocent Velvet Winged Dragons. Even if I let you go, the Flower Feather Society won't let you go!"
"Chief Mutota will not tolerate a traitor like you. How long do you think you can live?"
She deliberately emphasized Alpa's crime of "treason" and packaged her revenge as "eliminating harm to the tribe" to cover up her inner turmoil.
But Alpa had already seen through her thoughts. There was no trace of remorse on his face, only a calmness that seemed to see through everything.
"You don't need to make these excuses. I have never feared the punishment of the Huayu Society, nor the accountability of the Mutota leader."
"I just lost because I caught the wrong dragon, and I lost because I shouldn't have touched the person you care about the most."
"If I had to do it all over again, I would still choose to cooperate with the Fatui, but... I would avoid Keya and everything you care about."
Looking at Alpa's eyes that were ready for death, Chaska's hand that was grabbing his collar suddenly stopped, and the grievances and confusion accumulated in his heart burst out instantly.
She remembered how Alpa had taken care of her when she was first accepted into the Huayu Society many years ago.
Those warm images, overlapping with the cold-blooded traitor in front of her, made her heart ache.
"Reconciliation achieved through force will collapse in a few days... because ties are the cornerstone of civilization!" Chaska's voice was filled with tears as he shouted these words word by word, and he finally couldn't hold back his tears.
"This is what you taught me back then! You said that Nata's strength doesn't come from conquest, but from the bonds between humans and dragons, and between humans and each other!"
"Why did you become like this! Why!!!"
She didn't understand why the elder who once emphasized "bonds" would sever his ties with the Velvet Pterosaur with his own hands for the so-called "technological progress", and even collude with outsiders and harm his companions.
Alpa looked at Chaska's tearful face. Perhaps because she was about to die, her words were kind. She spoke frankly:
"The moment my child died, the old me died with him."
"From that day on, I am no longer myself. Now I am just a shell fulfilling my child's wishes."
Her child's lifelong dream is to soar into the sky on his own.
This obsession has long been her only support for survival. In order to achieve it, she can do anything, including betraying her previous beliefs and sacrificing innocent lives.
After saying this, Alpa gently closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, there was only complete relief in his eyes.
"Let go, Chaska. I owe you and Keya everything I owe them."
Chaska looked at her calm expression, and his fingers gripping her collar gradually lost strength.
She sniffed, tears blurring her vision, and she glanced at Alpa one last time before giving him a gentle push.
Alpa's body leaned back and fell towards the endless clouds below.
She didn't scream, she didn't struggle, and no memories even came to her.
Perhaps, as she said, the real Alpa had disappeared in the experimental accident along with the death of the child.
At this moment, she is just a shell that can finally be freed after fulfilling her obsession.
When Alpa's body hit the ground, a sad and dazzling blood flower bloomed on the ground.
She lay there, her eyes dull and her pupils dilated as she stared at the sky. The sunlight above her head was still dazzling, and everything was normal as usual.
This tragedy caused by obsession finally came to an end in the most tragic way.
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