Chapter 243 You Can Still Be Saved
Siddha Kayn, like most heroes in Runeterra, is an orphan.
He was born in Noxus and was conscripted into the army at a young age and became a child soldier.
The officer said that it was the Empire that gave him a second life. Without the Empire, an orphan like him would have starved to death in the slums long ago.
Kayn felt that what his commander said made sense.
After all, he had never seen his parents since he could remember. No one had ever raised him, and he earned every bite of food by begging, stealing, and "treasure hunting" in the garbage dumps of wealthy families.
Only after he entered the military camp did he have his first full meal in his life. From childhood to adulthood, the only country that had raised him like this was the Empire.
Therefore, there is only one meaning for his life now: to fight for Noxus as a weapon of the empire.
"For Noxus!"
Snap——
Riven slapped the broken sickle out of the boy's hand and lifted him up at the same time.
"..." Kayn was stunned for a moment, and when he came to his senses, his pair of short legs, which had not had time to develop, were already hanging off the ground, kicking the air weakly.
The gap between a battle-hardened soldier and a child who was used as cannon fodder was simply too huge.
"You guys go." Riven held the restless kid in one hand and turned back to tell the civilians, "Run away, the farther the better."
The civilians came to their senses and quickly fled in all directions.
"No, you can't go!" Kayn roared angrily and struggled frantically.
But no matter how hard he struggled, he couldn't break free from Riven's hand.
"Behave yourself." Riven was trying to comfort him.
Unexpectedly, the kid turned around, took out a dagger from his arms without any warning, and stabbed it straight into her heart.
"You?!" Riven's hair stood on end.
She instinctively used her other hand to intercept Kayn's dagger, broke his wrist with her backhand, and stabbed the dagger back into the attacker's throat.
It all happened in a flash.
Years of life and death experiences have long become an instinct in Riven's muscle memory.
When faced with a deadly attack from the enemy, she would instinctively retaliate with an even more deadly move.
Then in just a short moment, the dagger turned around and stabbed Kayn's throat.
The young man's life was about to end.
"Ah, don't kill him!" Until Fia's instinctive scream sounded beside her.
Riven suddenly woke up and narrowly restrained her fierce attack.
But the dagger still barely grazed Kayn's neck, leaving a shocking bloody mark on his neck. Blood gushed out, hideous and terrifying.
Most people should have recognized the difference in strength by now, and either run away or give in.
However, Kayn did not stop. He covered the bleeding wound on his neck with one hand, picked up the broken sickle with the other hand, and walked tenaciously in the pain of continuous blood loss.
"Why do you have to go to this extent? You can't beat him." Riven sighed.
"For Noxus!" This was the only thing Kayn seemed to be able to answer.
Riven was silent for a while, and then she said, "But Noxus is just using you as cannon fodder."
"Nonsense!" The boy's eyes were red and he couldn't hear a word.
As he spoke, he waved the broken sickle wildly and rushed forward without paying any attention to the pain.
This kid is a natural fighter.
If he was in the Noxian army, Riven would definitely admire his stubbornness and madness.
But now, there was only complex and indescribable pity and sympathy in her eyes.
“Don’t stand up this time.” Riven sighed, and had to face Kayn who was rushing towards her desperately. She dodged and swung her sword horizontally, lightly hitting his knee with the sword.
Although it was just a "light tap", the boy still covered his knee in pain and fell to the ground without any ability to fight back.
Riven came over with a sword in hand, and Fia also walked over slowly. The two stood beside the boy who had fallen to the ground, looking down at him.
"Don't work for Noxus anymore." Riven said in a complicated tone: "Don't you realize that you have been abandoned by your superiors?"
“Shut up!” Kayn’s eyes were red, and he glared back unyieldingly: “Kill me if you can! I will never betray the Empire!”
Riven looked at Fia inquiringly.
Feiya didn't say anything, but slowly squatted down and reached into the package she was carrying, as if she wanted to take something.
Weapons? Ropes? Are they going to kidnap me?
After all, Kayn is not a real machine, he can still think.
Finally, Feiya's hand came closer and closer.
The pointed cat ears on her head seemed to have become the ears of a wolf, a symbol of death.
Kayn was not afraid of death, but he still instinctively closed his eyes, waiting for a glorious end.
The commander said that the death of an imperial soldier is glorious.
Kindred could not take his life, and the underworld was not his destination. After his death, he would only enter the Hall of Heroes in the Immortal Bastion, where he would be with thousands of his comrades and enjoy the worship and admiration of countless Noxians in the future.
“Come on, then…” Kayn closed his eyes and welcomed death.
But Feiya just stretched out her hand and used her not-so-great magic to cast a healing spell that was somewhat effective.
The life energy stimulated by Ionian magic flowed slowly into .
The bleeding finally stopped.
His face, which was as pale as paper, finally showed some color.
Then Fia took out the bandages and bandaged him carefully .
“You…what are you doing?!” Kayn’s eyes widened: “Ionians, why did you save me?!”
"If you continue like this, you will bleed to death." Fia did not answer the question, but just said this.
Kayn was silent.
Then he started to curse: "Get lost! I don't want any help from the Ionians!"
"Ah..." Riven sighed helplessly.
She knew that once this kind of young soldier was successfully trained, it would be difficult for him to return to normal.
Even death may not make them wake up.
So, Riven looked at Fia inquiringly again.
Fia is an Ionian. She should be more qualified than a Noxian to decide how to deal with this stubborn Noxian soldier.
"But you can still be saved." Fia only said this to Kayn.
Then she continued with the treatment.
Riven was also moved.
She looked at Kayn's still young and tender face, and thought of the "new recruit trial" he had just experienced, and it seemed as if she recalled some more distant memories.
"Are you willing to leave Noxus? We can take you in, give you food, and keep you away from the war." Riven suddenly asked.
“Impossible!” Kayn cursed with red eyes like a beast trapped in a cage: “Even if I starve to death or you chop off my head here, I will never betray the Empire and eat a bite of your food!”
"Okay." Riven suddenly asked, "Can you read?"
“…I know him!” Kayn answered subconsciously.
"You actually know him?" Riven was a little surprised.
"I want to be an officer when I grow up. I learned all these things in the barracks!"
"Have you ever read history?"
“Of course. How can a general not learn military history?” Kai’en said stubbornly.
He didn't seem to have considered how difficult it was to go from a young soldier to a general. This road was probably a hundred times more difficult than the one Riven had taken.
In short, he has always fantasized about this and persisted in working towards it.
He was a good fighter and could read and study. Even in such a tough environment as the Youth Corps, he had trained himself.
"That's great." Riven also squatted down and quietly stuffed a booklet into Kayn's arms.
This booklet had changed her and saved her. Unfortunately, it came too late. She had already lost and owed too much.
Kaiyin didn't understand, he just widened his eyes in anger: "What are you doing? What did you put in me?"
"Books. Books of our leaders," Raven said.
"Why are you giving me this?".
“Because what Fia said is right.” Somehow, Riven’s gaze towards Kayn became complicated and indescribable: “You are still young, you still have time to turn back—”
"You can still be saved."
