Salvation equals death

Zero, the sound is the same as the spirit, all things that exist but do not exist, nothing but ethereal souls, so it is "zero".

——And the Priestess of Zero is the existence that bears all this.

The Kingdom of Changshi means "the place where the dead die". "Naraku".

Once upon a time, witches were messengers who guarded the gate of the underworld. They led the souls that could not return to the other world, communicated with the gods with Kagura and dance, and led them to the next life. It was a respected and sacred profession.

But one day—

"The road to the other side of the fire is broken. The memory of the dead soul cannot stay on the other side, and the soul will be contaminated with filth that cannot be washed away by the water of the underworld. The Kingdom of Eternal Eternity is unwilling to accept these unclean souls."

Tens of thousands of dead souls linger near the gate of the underworld without being redeemed, and finally live in the present world with their souls scattered, while those who did not dissipate turned into ghosts because of their hatred and obsession, causing disasters everywhere.

"The so-called uncleanness is actually thoughts and feelings. For the kingdom of the eternal world, all thoughts of love and love are filthy, but people cannot escape these thoughts and thoughts in this world."

The dead souls cannot escape, and the priestess guarding the gate of the underworld felt desperate about it, and the Jingu family, who acted on behalf of the human world, also tried countless methods to escape the undead, which was passed down from generation to generation and became today's Kuze Palace.

"The Kingdom of Eternal Eternity does not accept unclean souls, so the Jingu family thought of a way - as long as the thoughts of the dead are extradited to the witches, they can temporarily suppress the resentment of the dead souls and save some of them."

"This is ridiculous." Andwar interrupted Stein's description, frowned and said, "The theory of gods and ghosts is just superstition, and there is no cure for you."

"Superstition?" Stein laughed hoarsely. He turned his head to look at Hong Jiaodong, and said, "You smell like Hiiragi. She used extradition on you. You should be very clear about it, right?"

The boy's figure was half sunken in the darkness, motionless, like a statue that had stiffened into eternity.

Stein didn't care, but continued on his own: "The so-called ritual is the salvation of the dead, using all the soul replacements imagined by the world to extradite the pain and sins to the witch. Every generation of rituals There are differences, but the same thing is that witches will suffer great pain during the ceremony, and those pains will sublimate their souls, allowing their souls to gain power comparable to ghosts and gods when they are dying."

Green Valley felt very cold, he gritted his teeth and asked, but the words he blurted out trembled slightly, "What is the ceremony?"

"There are many kinds of ceremonies." Stein's eyes were empty, and his tone was light and authentic, "The 'rope splitting' ceremony of offering witches as sacrifices to the dead, stabbing eyes and tearing them apart with ropes; letting the twins kill the half of their loved ones with their own hands. "Red Sacrifice"; wearing the face of a lunar eclipse and dancing, and at the cost of losing memory, entrusting the mourning of the dead to the "return to welcome"; melting in the watch of extreme solitude, so as to guard the "big pillar" of Huangquan ghosts; and -"

Stein looked at the expressions of the two teenagers in disbelief and almost collapsed from the pain, and said slowly: "Turn the blood of the living and the dead into tattoos, bear the thoughts of the dead, and suppress the witches in the abyss of Naraku. 'ceremony."

"It is said in ancient times that a girl who misses her lost lover engraves her longing and pain for the dead into tattoos of snakes and hiiragis. Hiiragis are the pain of longing, and snakes are the envoys sent by the gods."

"When the tattoos on a person's body, that is, the pain in his heart can't be more, the heart and soul of this person will be eaten by snakes."

"The priestess with the hiiragi will bear all the thoughts and pains in the world, but the priestess as a container also has a limit. Once the tattoo spreads to both eyes, the disaster 'broken ring' will happen. Because the human eye is like a mirror that can reflect everything, the priestess The unbearable pain will be fed back to the world through the eyes, causing a large number of people to commit suicide in despair, so after the soul stabbing ceremony is over, the witch will be beaten in the abyss and sleep in the thornbush."

"And when the miraculous maiden's burden withers, all the longing and pain in the world will flow to the flowing water of Yazhi with the passing of the maiden, completing a set of samsara salvation."

——"This is the story of Snake and Hiiragi."

Cruel, bloody, poignant and tragic-this is the fate that the Jingu family cannot escape.

Forbearance, gentleness, beauty and fate - this is the zero priestess who bears the responsibility of exterminating spirits.

Inherited from generation to generation, priestesses from term to term, they chose the latter between freedom and fate, and used their lives to help this imperfect world.

"The ceremony 200 years ago was the rope split. At that time, the maiden of the rope Himuro Kirie failed to complete the ceremony because her lover was killed, which caused a 'disaster'."

Stein looked at All Might.

"If you go to check, you should be able to find information. The present world named that disaster 'the disaster of the sky', with over [-] casualties. In the end, the Kushi family abolished the rope-splitting ceremony and forcibly activated the soul stabbing, so that the disaster could be destroyed." Er stop."

"I did hear about it, but..." All Might said hesitantly.

What happened more than 200 years ago has long been like a wind, and it is difficult to trace its authenticity. Because of the culture, the people of Nihong country are in awe of the gods and ghosts, so they can't jump to conclusions for a while.

But ah, to gather so much suffering in the world on one person, what kind of despair should a person who bears everything be?

"Over the past 200 years, the gap in Huangquan has become wider and wider, but there are fewer and fewer witches who can be recognized by Huangquan. In order to find a pure spirit, the Kuze family adopted a girl 11 years ago."

When Stein said this, his words paused slightly: "That is... a child who has no desire, because she has no desire to live, so she is willing to help those who have the desire to live."

"She was recognized by Huang Quan, and she has lived to this day with a burden on her back. Ten years ago, I personally opened the cage of that child, because she is the hero I recognize."

"I don't care if this so-called underworld is true or not, but how dare you do this?!" Hong Jiaodong, who had already been extremely angry, slammed on the iron railing. If Stein was in front of him, this punch would definitely hit him. to his face.

"She has the freedom to choose whether to sacrifice or not, and the right to choose whether to live, but you have deprived her of all this from the very beginning, and said that because she has no sex, she is willing to sacrifice no matter what?"

"Frozen!" Andewa took a step forward and grabbed the shoulder of the young man who was faintly out of control, and said in a deep voice, "Calm down, it's hard to judge whether the matter is true, don't let emotions blind your eyes!"

Andewa said, but when he lowered his head, he met the boy's eyes. Those eyes were cold and dead, like a devastated barren land, which held Andewa in place for a while.

"So that's it." The young man curled his lips as if in extreme pain. After understanding the truth, everything that was once blurred and hazy was revealed in the cruelest way in front of him.

Hong Jiaodong suddenly understood why the girl had such a strong obsession with him?Why repeat "You are my hero" over and over again?That was not pity and comfort for him, but a real——

——Ten years ago, an ignorant boy stretched out his hand to a girl who was trapped in the mud.

Just like the spider silk hanging down from hell mentioned in Akutagawa Ryunosuke's book, it seems to him to be just a trivial matter, but to her, it retains her last ray of thoughts about the world.

He didn't know anything about it, and even worried about her gains and losses because of her slowness, but he didn't know that for her, just responding to his feelings was already a lifetime of courage.

"The reason why I say she is a hero is not because she has no desire to live." Stein looked at Hong Jiaodong, as if he understood something, and said word by word, "Let's make a bet."

"Do you believe it or not, even if she wants to live, she will go to the end of fate without hesitation for you?"

——Like a moth falling in love with a raging fire, burning its wings desperately, just to keep even a moment of light.

……

"800 million Wansang, you said you wanted to tell us about Qiandai, did you find anything from Qishi?"

Since the camping in the forest, the students of the Heroes and Heroes Department have completely suspended classes, but last night, 800 million sent a message to everyone in the name of the deputy monitor, saying that they had found a confidential document that opened the world, but they didn't know what to do. How to deal with it.It's about Chiyo, these students who were strictly guarded by the fearful parents gathered together for the first time except for the day when they visited Green Valley, sitting in the hall of 800 million families.

The situation of 800 million did not look very good. It seemed that she had cried hard, her eyes were red and swollen, and her eyebrows were tightly knitted. After everyone arrived, she took a deep breath and then bowed deeply.

"Everyone." As soon as 800 million one hundred opened his mouth, the hoarse voice could not help but let out a hint of crying, "I don't know what to do, so I gathered everyone together, I hope everyone can help me find a way."

"Baibai..." Wa Chuimeiyu, who was sitting at the front, glanced at 800 million worriedly, and said softly, "Is there something wrong with Xiao Chiyo?"

"I don't know how to explain it." 800 Wanbai wiped his eyes in a panic, and tried to calm down under the caring gaze of his friends. "In short, there is a document that I hope everyone can read."

As 800 million said, he turned off the lights in the hall. In a dark room, a huge light screen was projected on the white screen, and rows of neat words and images appeared like flowing water.

"I used the highest authority ring that Chiyo-san once left me to obtain all the information of the members of the Moth Squad, but I didn't find the files belonging to Chiyo-san, but I found this."

The image presented on the screen is a girl with black hair and black eyes, but she is only five years old, her eyebrows are half or six like Chiyo's, her eyes are quiet, well-behaved, and she has a pure ethereal spirit like a fairy tale.

Just looking at such a girl makes people feel soft-hearted, but her eyes are filled with a sense of emptiness and world-weariness, which makes the person looking at those eyes feel sour, and almost tears for some reason.

Everyone concentrated their attention, and then calmed down and carefully studied the file. It is not so much a file as it is a diary.

[In September, the village was destroyed, she was taken away by Kuze Palace, her file was erased, her name was changed from 'Yukeyo Reika' to 'Kuseo Reika', and she was appointed as the next 'Tattoo Priestess'.Everything is going according to plan. 】

[In March, a student of Xiongying helped her escape. She said that she wanted to see all the good things in this world and find the "meaning of sacrifice". . 】

[In March, she was almost in a car accident and was rescued by a boy with a different color hair... The boy disappeared, she cried for a long time, and she said that she had found a reason to fight for it. 】

[In April, I was studying in Zhesi Kindergarten. Before she went to the end of fate, what's the harm in letting her feel a little bit of happiness?She is very concerned about a child named "Green Valley", why?Because she saw her past self? 】

[In February, she said that she had no wish, so she decided to give the chance to make a wish to Green Valley. The boy said that "even if he has no personality, he can become a hero", and she decided to make this wish her own. 】

【October, Qishi was established, "Jiuse Linghua" died, and "Vera Kirupa" was born.She signed a voluntary letter, using herself as a test case for exoskeleton armor, can she succeed? 】

……

[In January, there is no new year, she has been soaking in the laboratory. The core of Qishi is to enable disabled and personalityless people to gain the power to be on an equal footing with ordinary people. The first set of armor was successfully developed and named "Izuku". 】

[In July, an error occurred in the exoskeleton armor experiment, and the energy core rioted. Once the energy core explodes, the power will never be lower than that of an atomic bomb. Emergency measures must be taken. 】

[In August, the energy core was transplanted into her body. The core state was stable, but the traces of mana erosion were serious. If she failed to use the Holy Key White Rose Cross, she might never be able to stand up. 】

[In September, the operation is over, the energy core is transplanted, and a composite personality is born. Just in case, I will implant a biochip in her brain. Once someone tries to read her memory, the chip will start a self-destruct program. 】

[In October, the 17th remodeling operation was performed, and she was in a coma for three days, with weak vital signs. The San Diego sub was born, and the second generation "Izuku" was constructed. The pattern of the world is about to change, and a new era is coming. 】

[In December, five sets of the first-generation armor of the super energy series were formed, and the 283rd test was recorded. The exclusive reaction has almost disappeared, and the arm twitched under the overload situation, but...how amazing, she actually created a miracle! 】

[The super armor adapted to the individual society has been fully born and officially joined the production line. 】

【She said that she wanted to study in Xiongying, and wanted to know what a person worthy of love should look like. 】

【Um?Did I forget to mention that she already looks like a hero?After all, she completed the super armor and lit up the world like a lamp moth. Those who were redeemed called her the Son of Light, but she didn't know it. 】

……

[Using recruitment as an excuse, "Turbo Hero" Ingnim was recruited into Lumoth, and it took nearly a month to set up a special armor with the personality of "Engine". Just found out, it's annoying. 】

[After developing eye drops to alleviate dry eye syndrome, they clamored to make a "baiwei ball" that can absorb sugar better and taste better. They said that they would give it to Sato and 800 million as gifts, which was even more annoying. 】

【She is becoming more and more lively, I can hardly remember her once depressed appearance, but I don't really understand, no matter how much she puts in, if she doesn't get known, isn't it useless?What else is she happy about? 】

【She said that she likes Xiongying very much. She met the most beautiful life here. She said that she is very happy. It was the luck that the broken four-leaf clover gave her. 】

[Class A held a welcome party for her, and she has been chattering endlessly since she came back. I can't understand why even a cream that others put on her face is cute in her eyes. 】

[I feel a little pity for her. In the eyes of all-knowing people, her end is already doomed. Because she is not strong enough, she can only become a sacrifice to the world. 】

[Try to live every day as the last, Vera, my dear child. 】

[Love bravely, protect with all your strength, and then usher in a grand and glorious exit, this is the ending I have written for you. 】

[At least before the ending comes, can you still smile happily in the sun?Vera. 】