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"You are angry, and you are also sad."

Facing the blue kitten with its fur standing on end.

Xiu En withdrew his hand from the position where he was about to pet the cat.

"This anger of yours has been burning your soul, keeping you restless. It needs an outlet, a place where you can vent it without reservation."

"Holding it in is bad for your health. It can cause kidney stones."

Hal, listening nearby, twitched at the corner of his eye. "Damn it, kidney stones."

"so."

Xiu En opened his arms to the cat, and the golden light around him became like a warm embrace.

He said in an inviting tone, "Come on, little one. Unleash all your anger, all your sorrow, all your resentment and hatred upon me."

"Let's have a good fight."

Hal felt that he had heard more outrageous things since meeting Shuen than he had in the previous twenty years combined.

Dexter seemed to be provoked.

The last vestiges of confusion vanished from its eyes, which burned with crimson flames, and then, rage erupted!

The golden creature in front of me is the enemy!

"roar--!!!"

Its tiny body charged fiercely toward Xiu En!

"Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!"

During its charge, its little mouth was like a never-ending Gatling gun, constantly spitting out bursts of hot, angry blood!

Faced with this overwhelming barrage of corrosive bullets, Xiu En stood still, letting the blood splatter onto the golden aura on his body.

Dexter's barrage attack was ineffective, but its charge did not stop!

Its claws, empowered by the red light energy, were like four blood-red blades, reaching for Xiu En's chest!

"clang--!!!"

Dex's claws gripped firmly onto Shuen's chest.

However, the sensation transmitted back was like grasping an extremely hard metal!

The recoil sent the cat flying!

"roar!!!"

Dexter, who was thrown into the air, tumbled in mid-air to regain his balance.

The attack had no effect, only fueling its rage!

It opened its mouth, and this time, it absorbed the furious energy from the surrounding blood-red nebula!

Its body swelled up, and the red light around it became even more dazzling!

"A stubborn cat."

Hal could sense that the cat was accumulating an extremely terrifying energy, enough to threaten the stability of this star system!

"Shuen! Stop playing around! Stop it!"

Hal shouted.

Xiu En remained calm.

"It's not time yet; it hasn't emptied its emotional baggage."

Before the words were even finished, Dex had already completed its charge! It opened its mouth, and a beam of destruction dozens of times thicker than its body, mixed with all its anger and sorrow, shot towards Xiu En!

This is the strongest attack it can unleash as a member of the Red Lantern Legion!

Xiu En finally raised his hand.

He spread his five fingers.

Then, just a second before the beam of destruction was about to touch him.

The flow of time, space, and energy.

Everything came to an abrupt end in Xiu En's palm.

The red beam of light, containing endless destructive intent, was less than a centimeter away from his palm, but it could not advance any further and remained frozen in mid-air.

Xiu En stretched out his other hand and flicked the energy beam.

"Thump~"

Then, the energy beam shattered into countless red specks of light that dissipated into the silent universe.

"..."

After unleashing this all-out attack, Dexter seemed to have exhausted all his strength.

Its swollen body quickly shrank, and the red light around it flickered.

It missed.

Its anger, its sorrow, everything about it...

Everything was neutralized by the golden presence before them.

A feeling of exhaustion, accompanied by a deeper sadness, welled up in Dexter's heart.

I can't beat them...

Unable to get revenge...

Why...

Why, even though I'm already so angry, am I still...?

So powerless...

"Meow...woof..."

It could no longer maintain its fierce appearance; its small body curled up into a ball, emitting a sad whimper.

Red tears of blood slid down its cheeks.

Just then, a soft green halo spread out from Xiu En's shoulder.

The sunflower, which had been observing from the sidelines, finally made its move.

"That's enough. If you keep hitting it, you'll drain this poor little guy dry."

A vibrant green vine extends from beneath the sunflower's flower head.

It gently wiped away the blood and tears on Dex's cheeks, as if afraid of disturbing it.

"Stop shedding those dirty, ugly tears. They're making your fur all dirty."

Dex stopped sobbing.

This aura...

So familiar...

The vines coiled around its body and brought it to Xiu En.

"Your love is gone."

"But her love remains in your memory. That is your most precious thing, not this burning flame of anger that is consuming you."

A sunflower leaf unfolded and covered Dex's body.

A green halo emanated from the leaves, nourishing Dex's soul, which was almost scorched by anger.

"Meow……"

Dexter let the leaves envelop him.

Soothed by the life energy, the ring around its neck, which had been flashing a violent red light, dimmed.

It felt as if it had returned to many years ago, to that warm afternoon, lying quietly on the mistress's lap, listening to her humming lullabies to the flowers in the garden.

That anger and hatred were temporarily soothed at that moment.

"Poor child."

"Being bound by hatred for so long must be exhausting."

Her words put Dexter at ease.

It curled up in the warm leaves.

"You did a great job."

Ivy continued softly.

"You avenged her, you kept your promise. You really are a good cat."

Upon hearing "good cat," Dexter's body trembled slightly, and a tear of blood slid down from the corner of its tightly closed eye once again.

"But...it's all over...I...have no home anymore..."

"Who said you don't have a home?"

In the void beside Xiu En, in front of the sunflower, a portal woven from emerald vines and blooming exotic flowers opened.

On the other side of the door lies a vibrant new world.

Towering trees reaching into the clouds, streams flowing with light, and all sorts of wondrous creatures never seen before in the forest.

Xi Mu Jie.

"There, there will be many, many little creatures who love you and need your protection. There will be an endless supply of dried fish in all flavors."

The sunflower extended an invitation to it.

"Most importantly, there is a very, very big garden there. And you can become the guardian of that garden."

Would you like to come over?

Before the cat's eyes were two completely different worlds.

On one side was the blood-red starry sea behind it, a place it knew all too well, composed of death and sorrow.

That place is its battlefield for revenge, the source of its unceasing rage.

That was its past.

On the other side was the green vortex gate in front of them.

On the other side of the door, the sunlight is warm, the grass and trees are fragrant, and it is filled with the tranquility and beauty of home that it can only see in its dreams.

That was a future it had never had.

The cat's eyes were filled with confusion.

Its small brain is unable to process such complex emotions and choices.

It subconsciously glanced back at the crimson universe.

There lies its hatred, its reason for existence, and its inability to let go of its past.

Hal watched quietly from the side, unsure of what to say.

He didn't know whether he should remain silent about a cat's life decision.

Just then, the blue kitten made a move.

It turned its head and looked at Hal Jordan, who looked completely innocent and was trying to make himself as inconspicuous as possible.

Then, to Hal's horror, Dex suddenly opened his mouth.

"puff--!"

A mouthful of angry blood, filled with the meaning of farewell, was sprayed onto Hal's green light uniform, which symbolized glory and will!

Cats don't like this energy.

This blood plasma wasn't particularly aggressive.

"Why me? I didn't do anything to you!!"

Hal looked at the souvenir on his chest and let out a wail.

He felt like he was a moving target, specifically responsible for receiving all kinds of unidentified flying objects and unidentified liquids!

After spitting out that farewell blood, Dexter seemed to have unloaded his last heavy burden.

It no longer looks back at the sea of ​​blood behind it, nor does it yearn for the flames of revenge.

That means its final connection to this inferno has been left here forever, along with that mouthful of blood.

Having done all this, Dex turned its curious gaze toward Shuen, toward the tricolor ring on Shuen's middle finger that contained three complex powers.

It could feel a warm, inviting golden light emanating from the ring.

It cautiously stretched out its pink paw pads.

Then, with a hint of probing, he gently touched the face of the tricolor ring.

The ring flashed with light.

Dex felt as if his soul had been electrocuted.

It saw that inside that tiny ring, it was as if a miniature universe was at work.

A golden sun burns in the center, surrounded by green nebulae, while yellow lightning, like a cosmic storm, relentlessly traverses it.

It cannot understand.

But it finally understood just how vast the gap was between itself and the golden being before it.

This also allowed it to completely let go of its last remaining obsession.

It retracted its little paws, and its eyes became clearer than ever before.

It nodded to Xiu En and the sunflower in gratitude.

Then, it no longer hesitated.

Its tiny body leaped into the air!

It jumped into the green portal leading to the Ximu Realm!

The moment it passed through the door, the red lantern ring around its neck, a symbol of anger and hatred, suddenly dimmed.

Meanwhile, in the Ximu Realm on the other side of the gate, it seemed to sense the arrival of the new member. The sunlight became even warmer, and countless glowing butterflies flew out of the forest, swirling around the green vortex, as if holding a grand welcoming ceremony.

Meanwhile, in the Ximu Realm on the other side of the gate, it seemed to sense the arrival of the new member. The sunlight became even warmer, and countless glowing butterflies flew out of the forest, swirling around the green vortex, as if holding a grand welcoming ceremony.

The vines carried it, slowly drifting towards the warm meadow.

The portal then quietly closed, as if it had never existed.

"Okay, the kitten is home."

Xiu En clapped his hands, a relieved smile on his face.

He turned to Hal and asked, "So, that little black dot is the restaurant that's the main attraction in this market? It looks so far away."

He was referring to Ismot, a distant planet emanating an ominous aura.

"That's not a restaurant!"

Hal instinctively retorted, then looked down at the burn marks on his chest and sighed.

"Yes, that's Ismot, the Red Lantern Corps' stronghold. I think our journey ahead will probably be a little more difficult than dealing with a cat that vomits blood."