Chapter 37. Chaos [FIXED]
*91-93 years after the genocide of the Air Nomads.*
Over these two years, Kyoshi Island has become my second home. Even Unagi, the sea serpent, has grown accustomed to my frequent visits, no longer fearing to surface when I'm on the island.
Shizuka and Suyuki eagerly awaited my arrival more than anyone. For the younger one, I've become something like a father figure—someone who could both spoil and scold her. The elder, Shizuka, no longer saw anyone else as her partner. Only with me did she reveal her softer side, shedding her usual mask of sternness, which had repelled other suitors. My threats likely played a role too. Shizuka is a young and beautiful woman, and despite having a child, many merchants from the Earth Kingdom still seek her hand.
Shizuka's dearest dream was to see the world, but even a week-long absence of the settlement's strongest warrior could be fatal. Knowing her wish, it wasn't hard to plan dates that would stay in her memory forever.
But, as they say, the first pancake always turns out lumpy. Perhaps it wasn't the best idea to choose Chin the Conqueror's Village as our first destination. Who could've known we'd arrive right on "Avatar Day," when the villagers burn straw statues of past Avatars? I had to restrain Shizuka from causing a scene.
"Calm down, calm down. They're just used to this holiday. They can't do anything else, so they vent their anger on the mannequins," I soothed her, trying to calm her down.
"Let me go! I'll show them how to burn a statue of the revered Kyoshi!" Shizuka couldn't calm down. Great date, Yuki! You're always on top of things...
The village was founded by former soldiers of Chin's army, who passed their hatred down to their children, who in turn repeated their fathers' words. Wan Shi Tong told me how it really happened. Avatar Kyoshi and Chin the Conqueror clashed in a battle that no one could have witnessed up close. Many kilometers became the battlefield. I'll say even more: the previous Avatar managed to force Kyoshi into the Avatar State, which ultimately ended the confrontation.
But the cause of death is accurate—they were both exhausted by the intense battle. Toward the end, Kyoshi managed to push Chin away, using her last strength in the Avatar State to separate her island from the continent.
She never wished him death. Why wish death on someone who was doing her job? He united scattered provinces, eradicated corruption, hunted down the Dao Fei. Maybe he did it too brutally, but effectively. And ordinary people began to feel much safer.
After separating her territory from the continent, she had no strength left to save Chin, who had fallen into a chasm due to a landslide. His luck that day was definitely in the negative. It was this moment that his warriors captured.