My Boss, the White-haired Nun

A moment later, when the last two bunches of fireworks bloomed in an arc in midair, the square finally returned to silence.

When the hustle and bustle finally fades away, it's time to make a decision.

Yae Sakura turned her head and looked at the silent face of the man beside her.

"Actually...you've already been prepared..." She looked around at the surroundings that had quieted down for some time, and at the empty square without a single figure.He asked Gong Ming.

On the huge square, only the two of them are left in it now, all the bustling crowds have disappeared, only the lanterns on the road, and empty shops are left. The bleakness after the prosperity has come to an end.

"I don't know what your choice is." Gong Ming said softly, "But I must be responsible for these people. Even if I can't protect them, it is my most basic thing not to involve them in disasters that have nothing to do with them. Responsibility."

"Responsibility..." Yae Sakura repeated these two words, as if she wanted to chew on the meaning of these two words, and then asked Gong Ming, with a hint of sarcasm in her tone.

"Is it like I guarded those villagers back then?"

"..." Gong Ming was a little silent, and shook his head after a while.

"It's different."

"Why is it different?" Yae Sakura questioned: "Is it because I was not clear enough to protect those villagers? Or has your identity as Nicholas's pseudo-Hersencher changed in the course of 500 years? "

"..." Gong Ming was speechless.

"It's the same," Yae Sakura said standing in front of Gong Ming. Standing in the night wind, she spoke softly, as if she was stating the true meaning of the world.

"It's the same," she repeated.

"No matter what you do, no matter what you think, it won't change the ending, Nicholas. It's not a matter of choice, it's something that's in our blood, decided from the beginning of this story things. This is original sin, it is fate.”

"You know." Gong Ming shook his head.

"Did I tell you that back then? I don't believe in fate or gods. I am the judge, the executioner, and the sword bearer..."

"It's the giant of the Holy See," Yae Sakura interrupted him with a mocking face. "The Black Angel of the Inquisition, the Shadow Pope, the Master of Violence, the Infallible, the Father of the Valkyrie, the One-third God, Nicholas."

"..."

"But after getting rid of these false identities, what are you?"

"I……"

"You are a Pseudo-Riser, Gong Ming."

"..."

"This academy...is beautiful." Suddenly, Yae Sakura looked around.

"For this academy, you have poured a lot of effort into it, right?"

Gong Ming didn't know why Yae Sakura suddenly mentioned this, but nodded subconsciously.

"If..." Yae Sakura looked at him and smiled.

"The people in this school know your identity as a pseudo-hersher, do you think..."

"What choices will they make?"

"..."

This time, Gong Ming was completely silent.

He knows exactly what kind of hatred the students in this school have towards Honkai. He found these students in the disasters of Honkai, and then sent them to this academy.

At the beginning, Ao Tuo, who wanted to let Teresa quit in spite of difficulties, would not give any help at all. The children Gong Ming rescued from all over the world were the real source of the college's initial students. When the rudiment of St. Freya's academy was finally established, Otto opened the channel of destiny to import new students.

It was precisely because he had rescued those girls from such hell and despair with his own hands that he understood how deeply their hatred for Honkai was.

If possible, they will never let go of anything related to the collapse.

Even if he...

I guess it will be like this...

"Wake up, Gong Ming." Yae Sakura held out her hand to him.

"Get out of your absurd responsibilities and meaningless burdens, Gong Ming. You have never been accepted by the people you want to protect. It has always been like this from the beginning to the end."

Gong Ming lowered his eyebrows, fell silent for a moment, and stepped back.

step.

two steps.

Three steps.

Yae Sakura slightly raised her eyebrows.

"Actually..." Gong Ming lowered his head and said slowly and seriously.

"What do they think, what would they do if they knew everything, I didn't mind at first."

Yae Sakura was stunned.

"If you think about it seriously, maybe a long, long time ago, I was in a state similar to yours now, but that should be a story from a long, long time ago, and I have already forgotten all that."

There was a look of nostalgia on the man's face.

"I don't know what happened back then, and I don't know what I experienced in the past. I only know that there must be someone in that story who saved me from despair like you and gave me love. The kind of... light I crave."