The Realm of Black Feathers began to collapse.
—
From the rift in space came a heart-wrenching, soul-tearing scream—
Not from A-Tuo, not from Ye-Ling, but from the one who had always been calm, cold, and the master of all feathered judgments—the Featherfolk King.
—
Ye-Ling took a step back, clutching A-Tuo’s hand, her voice trembling:
“He… he’s crying…?”
A-Tuo’s eyes widened.
That wasn’t tears—it was Black Feather Blood.
Drop by drop, it fell from the Featherfolk King’s eyes, transforming upon contact with the ground into countless twisted feathered illusions.
—
“You… you humans…”
For the first time, the Featherfolk King’s voice quivered.
“You thought this judgment was meant to torment you… but actually—”
“This was how I punished myself… for a thousand years.”
The air froze. The Gate of Memory opened once more.
—
[The Truth from a Thousand Years Ago]
—
In a forgotten era, the first Featherfolk King was once an ordinary person—a boy named Ling-Shu.
He was the youngest historian in the empire, but he hid the true reason behind a war launched by the king, and recorded a falsified version of history.
“I didn’t lie for glory… I did it to protect my sister.”
The king told him: if he refused to write it, his sister would die.
So Ling-Shu wrote it. His sister lived.
But one hundred thousand died on the battlefield.
“I buried the truth with my own hands… and buried myself with it.”
After his death, the first feather burst forth from his heart.
—
And thus, the Featherfolk Sentence was born.
He became the first Featherfolk—and chose to remain, to judge all who, like him, told lies in the name of love.
“I am no king… I’m the first prisoner, locked in this cage.”
—
The space shattered. A-Tuo and the others fell into a deeper fracture of the feathered void.
When they awoke, they were surrounded by hundreds of Featherfolk—each one a spirit once judged.
Chu-Yao stepped forward, her gaze no longer lost.
“You were afraid I’d remember, weren’t you?”
The Featherfolk King slowly raised his head and looked at her:
“You… are the last one who has yet to be judged.”
—
[The Deepest Featherfolk Judgment: Origin of the Black Feather]
was about to begin—
And Chu-Yao… had once been Ling-Shu’s sister.
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