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Chapter 43: Life and Death

In Anakin's memory, Tatoine had no better days than today. Although the warm Gemini sunshine was still exposed to the sky, it could not burn his skin. The breeze blew away, and the dust of the past was gone; he quickly passed through the crowded streets and alleys of Moss Esper.

No longer have to be afraid of those vicious interstellar smugglers.

Only when the fresh air in the morning hits his face can he confirm that all this is free; he is far away from Wotu and its shop, away from the unbearable past.

Only when he passed the layers of simple houses outside the layers of Mos Espaán, he relaxed and looked there sadly; all his friends were there, and they were slaves, and sometimes when some fate that had to be faced, he could only look here sadly.

Just like a long time ago, the little girl named Ami and her mother.

Soon, Anakin speeded up and ran towards her home; Schmi was waiting outside the house, and she tied her hair into the back of her head, with some silver metal ornaments on it. This added some vivid colors to her. Her dress was usually simple, but she looked very good today.

"Anakin, slow down!" she said with a smile, "There is no need to be so anxious about moving."

"But you are here, I will worry about you!" Anakin looked at her seriously, with an indescribable fear in his eyes.

Schmi felt a little awkward. She pressed his head in her arms and whispered, "It's okay, everything is over." Schmi clearly felt his fear. Tatoine's days were not as comfortable as they seemed. Since Anakin became conscious, he had a deep fear.

That was a fate that was afraid of being separated and an attachment to her.

This fear reached its peak when he was seven years old, and they almost lost each other.

"It's okay, Anakin, you have the courage to protect me, don't you?" Schmier pondered his face and said softly, "Go and buy some fruit! I heard that your teacher has come to the guest."

"Well! They are two Jedi warriors, with lightswords hanging around their waists, that's..., the kind you know." Anakin's eyes were full of anticipation and jumped from her arms, "Then I'll go first."

He pulled his feet and ran away, as light as a young deer. Whenever he met a smuggler and a mercenary looking for trouble, he would reveal the handle of the light blade on his waist, so that no one would stop him without eyes.

"I want to protect myself and my mother." Anakin still remembers what he said to Chen Ang a few weeks ago, "My power will protect those who value them and do the right thing."

"You're so good." Chen Ang praised him, and then a terrible beating, "But you need to be really strong, of course, wisdom, otherwise you won't be stupid, say these words now!"

Anakin remembered that he was knocked to the ground without any resistance. Chen Ang held a wooden sword and said to him: "How capable and how much responsibility you are, your sense of responsibility is so great, then you must urgently need strength. Now, get up and practice this sword technique three hundred times!"

These trainings are not useless. At least now Anakin is already fierce enough to scare away those villains who are looking for trouble, and his light blade is also fierce enough.

But Chen Ang said to him: "You lack murderous aura."

Anakin asked him how to have murderous aura. Chen Ang replied to him: "When you have a kind of powerless fear and sadness in your heart, and anger that makes you swing your sword for love, you will naturally have these. It's not that you are not decisive enough, but you are still lacking some experience."

"Some experiences that will make you firmly pick up the sword."

Anakin quickly took the sweet fruit from an old woman, and suddenly heard noises coming from behind, and even the sound of women crying.

"What's going on?" Anakin said strangely, with a hint of uneasiness in his heart, as if a scene from three years ago had reappeared again.

"Slave hunt." The old woman who hurriedly put away the stall told him, "Let's find a place to hide. The damn interstellar pirates are here again. They bring guns and suppressors, and they will catch whoever they want. Many people have been stolen like this, and they have no news from their families again."

Anakin ran away, as fast as a leopard, as fast as his home. Along the way, he saw many scenes of suffering, but he, who was always helpful, did not dare to stop. An indescribable fear tightened his heart.

Just around the corner of the door, he saw something that made him feel excited. It was a small silver hairpin that was still on his mother's head just now.

"No!!!" Anakin shouted, his eyes began to blur. He rushed to the warm little house and looked around in a panic. Everything seemed to be intact, with only a warm shadow, his most precious thing disappeared without a trace.

"Mom..." He couldn't help but shout, angrily lifting the hilt of the light blade, and stood at the door and shouted loudly.

"Run, Anakin, your mother was taken away by Jabba's men. Go and find someone to save her!" his neighbor Titi Crownara stood at the door and shouted at him.

A tall, ferocious creature suddenly grabbed her hair and threw her to the ground with force, "Look! I found the fish that escaped the net. Haha!"

Its face was full of a fierce smile, carrying a hideous alloy knife, and then walked towards Anakin.

Anakin's eyes were cold, and the coldness made it feel a little uneasy. He trembled and raised the hilt of the sword in his hand. The uncontrollable anger, regret, and surging surge in his heart. "When you have a kind of powerless fear and sadness in your heart, and anger that makes you swing your sword for love, you will understand how to do it."

Chen Ang's instructions made him break the last string in his mind, and the hot light blade in his hand swung out sharply, with unprecedented decisiveness and determination. He kept in mind Chen Ang's teachings, and the light blade in his hand hit the weakest part on its alloy knife.

Using shock and energy, it forced it to reveal its flaws, and then it was attacking like a storm. The light blade drew an arc and cut off its limbs with Anakin's roar.

The fiery energy swept across its limbs, and Anakin picked it up and grabbed it in his hand, and an alloy claw stopped in front of his eye sockets, "Where did you bring my mother?"

The pirate wailed without answering, and then it was treated even more terrible, and the severe pain suddenly woke up his mind, "They went to the gate!" it screamed.

Anakin threw down its body, waved the light blade with his right hand, and cut off its head. He looked at Titi Crownaira apologetically, and after seeing her standing up with pain, he hurriedly ran to the city gate.

Along the way, tears burst out from her eyes. She may have disappeared from now on, and may have been injured and killed. She may have been afraid now. These fearful thoughts made Anakin unable to bear them, and he could only grab the light blade in his hand tighter.

Until he saw the shadow, the warm and familiar figure, she was crowded in the crowd, and was pushed roughly by the mercenaries. For a moment, Anakin saw a clear fear on her face, and the shock made him unable to move for a while.

He had never seen his mother fear, and for him she was always a symbol of calmness. For a moment, she revealed all her life's fear to him.

When she saw him, the crazy look immediately disappeared from her eyes, with only a deep worry and heartache, "Go quickly!" She silently made him a lip.

But Anakin didn't listen to her this time. He pulled out the light blade in his hand and was wrapped in by the crowd. He approached the group of pirates. The worries in Schmi's eyes became deeper and deeper. Her anxiety seemed to be about to overflow her eyebrows. She tried her best to look at him, but she looked at him helplessly, approaching the crowd step by step.

Schmi closed his eyes suddenly, rushed towards the pirates resolutely, and attacked them fiercely with his hands.

"No!" Anakin shouted, he couldn't watch her sacrifice.

A big hand pressed his shoulder, and a familiar voice came from his ear, "I have taught you how capable and how much responsibility you are, you don't seem to take it to your heart!"
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