Chapter 141: Brother... Live!
The plot of the first episode of "Fire Punch" is very simple.
The introduction narrates that the world of this manga is enveloped in ice, snow, hunger, and madness due to a blessed person named the "Ice Witch".
And among them, special humans with special abilities are born, called "blessed".
The male protagonist, Agni, and his sister Luna are one of them. In the ice and snow, they flee for some reason.
But in the end, they were rescued by the elders of a small village and lived there.
However, what Fan Siwei saw was the initial shock.
I saw the siblings at the beginning of the first episode. At that moment, the sister was holding an axe over her brother's arm.
"Luna, chop it down, quick!"
"Don't use too much force! Brother!"
During the conversation, Luna aimed at Agni's arm and chopped it with an axe.
"Ahhh, it hurts!" Agni cried out in pain.
Fan Siwei was stunned. 'Did the protagonist just lose a hand at the beginning?'
'Or did he do it voluntarily?' However, the conversation between Luna and Agni continued, which made him understand.
It turned out that Agni and Luna were people with the blessing of regeneration, meaning they were born with a strong regenerative ability.
Agni's regeneration ability was the strongest, and his sister Luna's was slightly inferior.
So he took the initiative to ask her to cut off his arm, as Luna's regeneration ability took a long time to regenerate an arm.
The next instant, a new, complete arm grew from Agni's severed arm.
Fan Siwei didn't know what to say; it was very unexpected.
The purpose of his broken hand was actually very simple: to save people.
It was very similar to the style of Christ and Buddha.
And it could even be greater.
Agni sacrificed his life to save people, which made him even greater.
But it was still very unexpected...
something ordinary people wouldn't even dare to think about.
'Is it cyberpsychosis?' Even so, some elders insisted on the very essence of humanity.
Agni's kindness was not accepted. As food became scarce, cold and hunger devoured the last vitality of the elders.
Agni and Luna felt very sad.
Only the elders who were still living in the village thought this elder was amazing and made a decision.
"Everyone, we must never give in to death!"
"Even if we have to endure all other pains, we must never lose to death!"
This is truly... the noblest courage of humanity is to dare to face the fear of death!
Fan Siwei couldn't help but be stunned. Facing the fear of death is not something everyone possesses.
It is precisely thanks to this kind of courage that brilliant heroes in human history can be born, and civilization, country, and nation can endure. At the same time, Agni and Luna, siblings, also showed deep affection, as if they were common orthopedic cases.
It's... very simple.
They went hunting together in the forest, outside the village, but at that moment...
the roar of an engine came from the sky.
"Is that... a plane?" Agni asked, horrified, and ran back to the village. "That's the direction of the village."
Armed soldiers with guns, fully equipped, descended from the plane.
The soldiers behaved rudely, but the leader was very polite.
Agni and Luna also quickly returned to the village and answered Agni's question.
The leading sergeant introduced himself: "My name is Dema."
"...We're not here to cause trouble. Our house was burned down by a nearby war. We saw a village nearby, so we wanted to come and borrow some fuel and food."
However, Agni was not impressed at all: "We don't have anything extra here. Go away! And take your hands off!"
But Dema didn't seem angry at all and said: "I'm sorry, we'll go find our own food."
"In exchange, I can allow you to become residents of Besim Druk."
"Besim Druk?!"
"Besim Druk is a free country created by our king and now recruits young people like you."
"As long as you have the ability, anyone can succeed, regardless of age, and even own slaves."
"Once we are ready to fight, we can defeat the Ice Witch and restore the world to its original state!"
...
After hearing these words, Fan Siwei's eyes reflected a look of understanding.
It seems the protagonist will join this powerful force and embark on the fight to defeat the Ice Witch's followers, right?
It's really... a very "kingly" plot.
But... it's still a bit strange that Besim Druk, who claims to be a free country, actually said "you can still own slaves."
The free country that still retains slavery somewhat resembles the style of America back then.
However, the plot took a sudden turn.
Because... Besim Druk's soldiers found the severed arm Agni had given the elders in the village houses!
"---!" the soldier shouted.
Suddenly, Dema seemed to misunderstand: "Let's retreat, there's nothing left in the village!"
"These villagers are no longer human!"
Although Agni tried to explain, Dema did not change his mind.
"What do you want to do?"
Agni saw Dema extend his hand towards Agni and the villagers in the plane, and he couldn't help but be terrified.
"My flame will not disappear until it burns everything."
In an instant, the terrifying flame swept through the entire village.
Turning it into a sea of fire and purgatory! Everyone would be burned to death by Dema's flame.
However... Agni and Luna were the worst, because they were blessed with regeneration.
The flames burned their flesh, and when they were reduced to ashes, their bodies began to regenerate.
Repeating it like this was simply the cruelest punishment in the world.
This reminded Fan Siwei that, in mythology, there are eighteen levels of hell in the underworld, one of which is called the Volcano Hell.
Those who enter the Volcano Hell are thrown into the volcano and burned alive, but not killed. They constantly suffer the flames and feel the pain of their flesh burning.
Aren't Agni and Luna... as if they are in a similar hell now? However, at that moment, Agni kept asking the gods: "Please, bless Luna from the flames, please, bless Luna to survive safely!"
In the extreme pain of the flames burning his body and his constant regeneration, Agni finally discovered it.
"When the brain refuses to regenerate the arm, it turns into ashes and does not regenerate."
"I found a way to get rid of this pain."
"If you die, you can be free...".
However, just as Agni was about to calmly embrace death and give way to liberation...
Luna, who was almost burned on one side, suddenly struggled to crawl towards him.
"Brother... Brother!"
Luna was about to be reduced to ashes because her regeneration ability was less than Agni's.
"How cruel! But this way the family can be reunited."
Agni imagined those beautiful reunion scenes.
But at that moment, Luna's body, almost burned by the flames and without the beautiful appearance of a young girl, crawled towards Agni with difficulty.
She touched Agni's fist with her hand and said in a hoarse voice:
"Live!"
Then, Agni saw Luna completely reduced to ashes, and finally dissipated in the ice and snow! Even seeing this scene, Fan Siwei felt a sharp pain in his heart.
The three words "live" resonated even more in his ears! For the first time, he felt that the word "live" was so heavy!
However... Fan Siwei also hoped that the protagonist, Agni, would live at that moment, and then... go and take revenge on the damned Dema and the damned Besim Druk!
But... Luna's words, "live", made Agni completely lose the idea of dying and abandon it.
His body began to be covered with the flames of revenge and gradually adapted to Dema's flames.
Agni spent eight years completely mastering the use of the regeneration ability, and then pushed the flames away from his face and concentrated them on his body.
At the same time, Agni decided to find Dema, burn him, and kill him in the cruelest way.
"Use this fist to turn him into ashes!"
With this idea, Agni continued to advance through the ice and snow.
Then he found Besim Druk's soldiers.
These soldiers captured many innocents, apparently as slaves, and humiliated them in every possible way, and even cruelly murdered them in the end.
At that moment, Fan Siwei was practically sure that Besim Druk was no good at all. It was definitely
similar to America: everyone was outwardly righteous, but in reality, they burned, killed, plundered, and committed all kinds of evil.
Among these innocent people, the little "girl" Sang faced the weapons in the soldiers' hands and prayed to the gods.
At that moment...
Agni appeared!
He burned in flames and knocked down those hateful Besim Druk soldiers with a punch. "The end of this story."
Fan Siwei didn't stop, as it was a single volume, so he could continue reading the next chapter, one after another.
Agni and Luna's past before they escaped, the story after they saved innocents like San, the new attack by Besim Druk's soldiers, and Agni's veneration as a god by San and others afterward...
These stories deeply attracted Fan Siwei and made him want to keep reading.
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