What am I
Humanity.
What is a human being
you.
who I am
You are Jiang Cheng.
In the dark consciousness, a voice answered.
That's right... I am Jiang Cheng, a human being.
Jiang Cheng, who collapsed on the ground and leaned against the wall, finally regained the consciousness that had just wandered away. His vision slowly recovered, and light poured into Jiang Cheng's lifeless eyes little by little.
After feeling his empty body, Jiang Cheng lowered his head and glanced at the blood on the ground. After curling his lips, his already weak hands supported the floor and the wall as he stood up little by little.
"You can rest soon, wait a little longer...and finally...finally..."
Jiang Cheng held on to the wall, holding on to the wall of the corridor and walking...move in a certain direction little by little.
…
On the spaceship that was heading slowly and non-stop in a certain direction, a man lying on the hospital bed with his eyes tightly closed moved his fingers lightly a few times.
After fluttering his eyelashes a few times, the man opened his eyes.
He slowly raised his barely movable arm, looked at his intact hand, and let out a dry murmur.
"Am I...not already dead?"
"It seems that you were tricked by him in the end."
After hearing Takasugi's voice coming from the side, Hao struggled to sit up and looked sideways. He saw Takasugi in governor's uniform leaning against the window nearby, holding his hands and looking out the window quietly. cosmic space.
At this time, Hao suddenly felt something. After tentatively shaking his hand, his eyes suddenly opened wide. The blood...the blood is gone!
The next moment, Long thought of the medicine Jiang Cheng made him take when they parted ways at the Tiandaozhong headquarters!
Could it be...? !
Takasugi said calmly: "Have you finally discovered it? He is just a selfish guy. Even if it is a sin, he has no intention of sharing it with others. So do you, me too, Gintoki... everyone. He... lost Got everyone off.”
He didn't speak, just looked at his hands quietly.
…
The black dissipated, leaving only the pure white space of consciousness. Xu, who was dressed in black, looked quietly in a certain direction. Next to him was Songyang, who had his hands folded in his sleeves and always had a smile on his face.
Some things are collapsing little by little, and some things are being born little by little. Not far in front of the two of them, a flower field is being born quietly.
"What a beautiful scenery."
Songyang sighed softly.
"Ah, yes. At the moment before the end, I can see such a scenery..."
As he spoke, Xu suddenly noticed something. When he looked down, he realized that it was a butterfly flying from the flower field and landing on the knuckles on the back of his hand. Its wings were still flapping slowly, and he couldn't help but feel a little distracted.
Songyang, who was watching all of this silently but remained calm, asked: "Have you thought about a name? The name of the virtual person who is about to become a human being and is also the last blank."
Xu didn't answer, but shook his head, but his eyes were a little softer than before. He looked at the butterfly in his hand and said: "I... lost, Songyang. Although I am not you, I am your student. You win."
"Kyuu-kun answered the question incorrectly. If he had answered the question in my private school, he would have been punished."
"I…"
"Although I have hidden and tampered with part of the memory, you were watching silently all the time in Matsushita Village School, right? Those little humans..."
Xu didn't answer, but many fragments of Matsushita Village School did flash through his mind, practicing martial arts with those weak little humans who seemed to break into pieces at the touch of a touch. It seemed that the one who had been in front of them was not Songyang, but Songyang. It’s myself…
Looking at the white figure slowly gathering out of countless light spots in the flower field full of eyesight with the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers, Songyang continued: "The one who separates countless virtual beings and kills them all is still Yoshida Shoyo, who had once suppressed countless hollows, had failed. Only my disciple who could accept all hollows succeeded.
And then... the emptiness that is being born, the new emptiness of the emptiness, it is you who should give his name. Just like my disciple, his name seems to have been left to him by his predecessor. There is nothing but name and human identity. "
"That's it..."
"Growth is really an incredible thing. Over the years, I have watched him grow little by little in your body, and he has finally become an outstanding disciple who has far surpassed me. He has also surpassed you, and he has become the fundamental teacher of me. It’s impossible. Do you think this new Hollow will grow up like my disciple?”
"Hehehehe...hahahaha..."
"What's wrong?"
"Songyang, it turns out you are such a talkative person."
"Of course, I finally have this opportunity to talk to you face to face, and the relationship is no longer hostile. Of course, I have a lot to say."
"How about I leave the name to you?" Xu also looked at the figures gradually formed by light and shadow in the flower field.
"No, you have to choose the name."
"I..." Xu just wanted to say something, but suddenly he found that the butterfly staying on the back of his hand took away a small spot of light from the back of his hand. At the same time, for some reason, his black clothes began to fade little by little. Turning into white, the black clothes turned into white clothes little by little, and Xu began to be stunned again.
"It should be okay now, right?" Song Yang still had a smile on his face.
After being stunned for a long time, Xu finally came back to his senses and gently raised the corners of his mouth and responded at the same time.
"Um."
At the same time, the flower field began to extend toward the two of them. Because of the extension of the flower field, the feet of the two began to collapse a little bit, but neither of them showed any emotion.
"Then, just tell him. As long as he has a name, he won't feel panic when he wakes up."
"The name is... Yoshida Shoyo."
Hearing the sound, Songyang was stunned for a moment and opened his eyes suddenly, but before he could say anything else, he was pushed by Xu from behind.
Songyang, who was pushed into the flower field unprepared, turned around and looked in shock at Xu's back, which was slowly leaving in the midst of destruction.
“Our disciples have grown very well.
Songyang, in the end, apart from him, I still seem to hate human beings.
So do what you want to do first, and as the loser, become a disgusting human being.
Although I lost once, I won in the end.
We... are tied. "
Songyang, who was instantly surrounded by all the light spots in the flower field, looked at Xu who was disappearing little by little with the gentle collapse, and softly called out: "Xu..."
"Your name is..." Finally, Xu, who had mostly disappeared, stopped and turned around to look at Songyang with soft eyes.
"…Yoshida Shoyo."
…
Among the Chunyu headquarters motherships.
In a certain laboratory, Jiang Cheng held on and used the remaining energy of his body, which had no trace of Altana left, to eliminate all the remaining blood here.
After an unknown amount of time, Jiang Cheng, who was stumbling step by step, came to the corridor holding on to the wall. Everything was over.
In the end, I just want to reach the end of my life as a human being.
The direction... doesn't matter anymore, just move forward, just keep walking. In the end, Jiang Cheng hopes that he will die as a human being, and the most important characteristic of human beings is-never stop.
His eyes had already lost focus, and his five senses began to blur a little bit. Scenes of scenes flashed before his eyes since he was born.
Barren Planet, Jianghua, Shenhuang, Earth, Umbrella, Question, Songyang, Gintoki...
At a certain moment, Jiang Cheng's step failed to support his body, and his body slowly fell forward.
What a satisfying life...
While thinking about it, Jiang Cheng smiled and slowly closed his eyes.
but…
"It's not over yet, idiot."
Jiang Cheng, who fell into the arms of a certain governor, once again forcibly opened his eyelids, which seemed to weigh ten thousand pounds.
"Gao... Gao Zai... I'm sorry..."
"Ah, I do need to apologize. If you weren't like you are now, I would definitely beat you up."
"Haha...Sorry, I can't even feel the pain anymore."
When asked, Gao Shan couldn't help biting his lower lip, tears welling up in his eyes.
"Jiang Cheng, in the end, we are the two people who are most similar."
"Yes... yes, I am much taller..."
"There is no talk of height."
"I have to confess something to you. In fact, the rumor that "you will grow taller if you drink Yakult" spread from me because there is a lot of Yakult that is about to expire in the village entrance store. The lady boss said that if she sells it, she will give it to her. I pay dividends and stuff..."
"That's enough, you'd better die as soon as possible."
"When I was nine years old, we went to play in the mountains. After we separated, the voice that claimed to be the "God of Chuuni" was actually me hiding in the tree pretending to be the "God of Chuuni". "Remember the God of Chuuni." With the teachings of God, you can defeat all the natural curls of silver hair.” I was actually talking nonsense. Feel sorry… "
"How about I give you another knife to kill you quickly?"
"There is also a rumor that if you sleep with your [beep-] exposed for a month, you will grow taller..."
"Farewell, Jiang Cheng." Gao Shan, with veins twitching on his forehead, reached out and pulled out the knife on his waist.
"Ah... I made a mistake, this isn't it."
Takasugi's expression softened a bit and he put the sword back again.
"What I spread is the rumor that you will sleep with your [beep-] exposed for a month [beep-]. I'm sorry, Gao Zai, for causing you to expose your [beep-] for an extra month."
"Wash inside!"
"Then, finally... I'm sorry, I didn't choose to save Songyang."
"You have completed the best redemption for Songyang. Compared to you, we have done everything in a mess. It seems... you are the only graduate of Matsushita Village School."
(End of chapter)