Seiji did not die.
For a moment, he thought he was really going to die, and then he realized why the life-saving skills were not triggered.
Because the gap between the falling giant claws was staggered, it happened to avoid him!
"Kotaro..."
Seiji didn't think it was a mistake.
There can be no such mistakes.
Then there is only one answer—
"Why don't you kill me?" he asked the charcoal seller.
Kotaro still had a disgusted expression, his face was distorted and murderous, but bloody tears flowed from his eyes.
Then he hugged his head and growled again... no, burst into tears! Behind the ghost dance wildly.
Seiji could only watch silently.
All the giant claws turned into mist and dissipated.
The surrounding fog became thicker and thicker, and gradually the hall of worship became invisible... No, even the hall of worship gradually turned into fog!
The world is collapsing.
Except for the people and ghosts here, there seems to be nothing else.
Seiji noticed that Junhu, who was supposed to be in the palace, had also disappeared.
Did it dissipate, or...
Anyway, it's over.
He walked towards the charcoal seller who was crying in agony.
"Kutaro..." Shouting the other person's name, he approached him, spread his hands, and hugged him slowly.
"Yurano...why..." Kotaro didn't resist, but cried and questioned, "Why...is this like this..."
Why did the mother and brother die
Why did my sister turn into a ghost
Why... must kill
He doesn't understand.
Although he felt that the man hadn't lied to him, he still didn't understand.
Wilderness... doesn't look like a ghost at all! !
If such a wilderness is a demon, then what am I
What is a ghost? What is a person? Why do people become ghosts? Why do ghosts look so human
not understand…
Kotaro wants to protect and save his sister, but...
Can't do anything to kill people! ! !
"I'm sorry..." Seiji could only reply in this way, "I'm really... very sorry..."
"Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa'
Right now he looks like a ghost, but Seiji thinks that there is nothing more human than him.
Sorry, there is no way to save you.
If there was a way, I would definitely do it, but no...
So, only sorry.
sorry…
sorry…
"I'm very sorry..." Seiji also shed tears and murmured.
Not everyone can be saved.
Not everyone can be saved.
This is the truth that has long been understood.
But every time you face the bitterness, it will not reduce a little bit.
Even if you have the ability to read files, there will always be things you can't do.
Even if there is a stronger power than reading files, there will definitely be more helpless things.
And the least he can do is—
"I will remember you."
"Kotaro... I will remember this name for the rest of my life."
"Remember you are a good charcoal seller."
"Never forget you...until I die."
That's all.
It's really just... that's all.
"The wilderness..."
Kotaro was not comforted.
Impossible to be comforted.
But... perhaps only a little bit, I felt a little bit of warmth.
I don't want to die, but I also want to save my sister. I don't want to die like this at all. I feel very, very painful about this helpless ending!
But... that's the only way to go.
It's the only way to leave this world.
Being able to have someone who always remembers me can be regarded as... proof that I have lived.
"I... don't want to die—" Kotaro also hugged each other, crying loudly.
"Yeah." Seiji replied.
"I don't want my sister to die either... I want her to turn back into a human... Live well..."
"Um."
"Mom... brother... they didn't do anything wrong... they shouldn't die..."
"Um."
"That person said he was going to kill you...but I really can't kill anyone..."
"Um."
You are a very kind person.
Even if you become a ghost, you are still a human.
Kotaro... was born as a human, and died as a human.
Seiji embraced the other party, listening to the other party's last words, remembering every bit.
Finally, the charcoal seller's voice faded away.
…
Jun Hu slowly opened his eyes.
He felt something was wrong with him.
No, not something, something is very wrong.
The body feels completely different from before!
I don't know how to describe it, but if I insist... If the previous body is compared to snow, then the current body is like water.
It is more concentrated, more substantive, and has a different power.
The only flaw is the left hand.
No feeling in the left hand... This body has no left hand.
Then he understood what had happened to him.
To be precise, it was what was done to me.
"Master...why?" He asked the gorgeous woman in front of him.
The woman with long black hair looked at his face with a gentle smile on her face.
"You keep calling me master."
"But I don't have you as a servant...never."
"You are what I created, as my continuation, that is, my... son."
"At the moment of life and death, it is only natural for a mother to let her son live."
Jun Hu was shocked.
He didn't expect that the master would treat him like this.
He thought he was just a servant, a tool to kill ghosts instead of his master.
This is enough, nothing else is needed... He never expected anything else.
Whatever she needs him to do, he will do, even if it means dying.
It was his destiny to live for her and die for her.
Jun Hu has never rejected such a fate, and thinks it is a kind of happiness. Compared with other people who don't know anything and are just alive, he is extremely lucky to have such a destiny and mission.
However the master...
"No... I don't need to live, the master wants to..."
"I've already lived." said the beautiful woman in gorgeous clothes.
"Now that this small world is collapsing, I remember it."
"I've been a human being... a real human being, my whole life in the real world."
"Although that world is many, many times larger than this place, it is the same as here, and there are helpless things."
"A family background that cannot be changed, things that must be done, a cage that cannot be escaped, a fate that must be obeyed after all..."
"I have lived, experienced, and died in pain, anger, sadness, hatred, and helplessness."
"I don't need to experience it again."
"Compared to the so-called real world, the days spent in this false little world are more peaceful and happy."
"So that's enough."
"I will die here again, and you...you who have never really lived, go to see that world instead of me."
"Maybe it's gotten better, maybe it's gotten worse."
"When you die in the future and come to see me, just tell me."
"Master..." Jun Hu widened his eyes, because he saw that the other party was turning into mist little by little!
"Goodbye, my child." The woman said goodbye with a smile, "Live well in the real world... Although it may be difficult, let's live as happily and happily as possible."
"No... no! Master, I don't want it!! Please take this body away quickly!!!" Jun Hu grabbed the woman, but the latter was still disappearing in the mist, and the speed was even faster.
"Finally, to tell you the truth, I don't like this body. First, he's a man. Second, he's missing a hand. Third, he's probably..." The woman paused, "Forget it, it's not necessary. Tell you this."
"Stay strong, Junhu."
"No—Master ahh—"
The samurai let out a cry of pain that had never been heard from an unfamiliar body.
(end of this chapter)