小的只能躲到天亮
“so I had to hide until daybreak”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Red-Faced Guardian's curse is still going on,”
小的只能躲到天亮
“so I had to hide until daybreak”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Addressing oneself as '小的' shows strict hierarchical deference, placing the speaker in a subordinate role during an official inquiry.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
I; this humble servant (humble first-person pronoun in historical/traditional contexts)
Used in traditional or historical contexts by lower-status persons when speaking to officials or masters.
hide until dawn / daylight
A common temporal verb phrase expressing concealing oneself until the morning light.