457 Ushiwakamaru and Onimaru_2

The air was thick with the smell of burning and the heavy scent of blood.

The fireworks on the battlefield combined with the red twilight on the horizon, turning the whole world a deep crimson.

A young boy, no more than thirteen or fourteen years old, clad in armor, stumbled among the mountains of corpses and seas of blood, searching for something.

Not until he found the body of a high-ranking general, pierced by countless arrows, did the boy collapse into the blood-soaked ground, his shoulders uncontrollably shaking.

"Father…"

Tears mixed with the blood stains on his face, the boy murmured in a trembling voice and lay there unmoving, like a clay sculpture.

Time passed, unknown how long.

Far off on the battlefield, a banner embroidered with the "Genji" character snapped and fell, accompanied by a clamor of voices:

"The rebellious Genji have been eradicated, the traitor Minamoto no Yoritomo is dead!"