When the end of winter first showed signs, news came from Edo that the dust had settled.

The dragon's veins returned to normal, the conspiracy of the conservatives was exposed, Altana's illegal research organization was sanctioned by unknown persons, and only some remnants of the party were still absconding.

The vigorous farce came to an end, like a wildfire that came suddenly, ignited violently at first, and then fell like a mountain, and disappeared like snow before the early spring.

The winter day laying on the wooden floor had a hazy glow, and the white sky was connected with the distant mountains.

There are no guests in the hotel in the off-season, the startled deer in the courtyard freeze into ice, and the snow falls from the corners of the eaves, echoing far away in the silence.

While sleepy, Yae felt someone touching her hair.

Just like a human would stretch out his hand uncontrollably when seeing a cat taking a nap in the sun, that person brushed away the broken hair on her cheek, and paused for a moment behind her ear, as if wanting to pinch it. The fragile and thin cartilage, but in the end, she just picked a strand of hair that fell on her shoulder, and played with it carelessly in her hand.

She slowly opened her eyes, and her vision changed from blurred to clear. Xu sat in front of her with one hand resting on his back, wearing a black kimono that stood out in the boundless spiritual world, like ink dripping on white paper.

"woke up?"

False tone perfunctory.

As Yae stood up, the strand of hair slipped from his palm, he didn't reach out to grab it, but just let it slip from his fingers.

"Did you pull me in?" Yae asked him, "Or did I accidentally run into your spiritual world while I was sleeping?"

She picks on unimportant questions.

Xu looks different from usual, she can't tell where this weird feeling comes from, maybe she feels that Xu is different, this incident itself is the strangest thing.

On the night when the ancient temple was destroyed by fire, Yae once worried that he would find trouble with Katsura because of his vengeful character. He felt uncomfortable being treated as a monster by human beings. It was so disgusting that I didn't even want to sneer.

Say he is a monster, he will cut off your head, say he is not a monster, he will still want to screw your head off.

Yae gestured to the surroundings: "I remember, when I came last time, there was no grass growing here, but at least there was a background board like a mass grave. Why are you so easy today, and you just come up with a curtain without any decorations?"

It is completely different from Songyang's spiritual world. There is nothing in the two people's current location, as if after the world is destroyed, there are large blanks left.

"This farce is over."

Following Xu's voice, a scene suddenly appeared in the surrounding blank space.

It seemed to be someone's vision. Yae saw the central tower and the familiar streets of Edo.

Yae looked at Xu: "Do you still keep those people?"

Before Xu lost the special ability bestowed by the blood of the dragon veins, he had transformed several killers into puppets, and now those people seemed to be his eyeliner. He had always been well aware of the situation in Edo.

"It's useless to keep it now." Xu said casually, and the picture was like water waves with folds and ripples. The head of the new government's Metropolitan Police Department discovered the sight hidden in the crowd. Immediately afterwards, the moving scene seemed to be cut by a knife. Cut in half and suddenly shattered.

When the figure of the letter girl disappeared before her eyes, Yae was still staring at the last remaining image on the screen.

"Want to go back?"

A faint voice sounded from behind.

"Go back to the people you hold dear, go back to the games you love playing human."

The cold tone carried the usual mockery, but it sounded like something was missing.

Yae suddenly realized for a moment that there was no malice in Xu's voice.

That "I'm having a hard time, all of you will go to hell with me", the maliciousness that was obvious under the gentle and refined face, disappeared from Xu's body today.

"……What’s wrong with you?"

Yae almost wanted to touch Xu's face worriedly, to see if there was a new personality in his core - it's not like this kind of thing hasn't happened before, and it's only natural that he would want to check it out.

"Don't show that stupid expression." The virtual tone was cold, "You'd better cherish this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity——I'm telling you to go back."

He raised his hand, and his pale fingers closed around her neck, as easily as catching a bird, and pinched her life in his hand.

"……how about you?"

As if he didn't feel the hand on his throat, Yae asked:

"I'm here also because you want me to go back—so you want to say goodbye to me?"

Her throat tightened, and she seemed to have a little bit of difficulty breathing suddenly, and her voice was slightly choked.

Falsely smiled.

That smile was not so much an expression, but an expression of emotion, it was more like a suddenly crumpled paper, and the changes in facial muscles blurred his true expression.

"You know I could kill you here," he said.

"Why go back to the world of the living? What is there to desire to live like a human being? This species is ignorant, greedy, and stubborn, and it just keeps repeating the mistakes of the past. This farce is the worst. Good proof. Even without me, they'd still be fighting forever."

These similar words have actually been said many times.

Yae looked at him.

"Feel sorry."

The hand pinching her throat moved slightly.

"Are you going?"

She had tried to avoid the subject for so long, but in this empty world of nothing, she had nowhere to hide.

"Have you decided to go?"

Yae wanted to hold Xu's hand, but he suddenly let go of her throat.

The condensed killing intent was briefly like the morning dew, and he withdrew his hand in a sneer.

"You should go back."

He lowered his eyes casually, as if death was not a serious topic, and when he threatened her not very seriously, there was still a habitual smile on his lips:

"If you don't go back, don't even think about leaving."

Xu smiled and said to her: "Decompose with the humans you love."

Yae took a quick step forward, but the next moment it was as if he hit an invisible wall, his footsteps were caught by an invisible force, and he stopped in place.

She has encountered this situation before, when Xu slaughtered her other personalities, as the master of this spiritual world, he can restrain and control everything that happens in this space.

"... False?"

Yae knew he should keep his mouth shut.

She will let him go.

When it really came to the moment of parting, she would watch him leave, she had already decided so, and she would definitely respect the other party's choice when the time came, just like what she was forced to do now.

Death in the spiritual world is very simple, there is no splash of blood, no broken limbs, no traces will be left after the person leaves, it is simply like an impromptu journey.

Xu left her where she was, and walked in the opposite direction.

That figure walked towards a blank space that seemed to extend endlessly.

She has seen his back many times, in the shady forest, at the desk where the candles are burning all night, by the window of the ship, under the starry sky, in front of the burning sea of ​​fire, and when the dragon's veins are about to erupt. out of the doomsday.

"..." Something rushed to her throat, it was hot and hot, and she couldn't make a sound.

"False."

She saw herself in the memory, and she saw that she might have to shout many times persistently, but in the end she would always turn slightly to look at her figure.

In a world where there should be no space and depth, that figure gradually walked away, leaving her in the same place as usual, and leaving in a direction that she would not follow.

She suddenly saw the cherry blossom branches she saw at the bedside when she woke up one day, the red maples covering the courtyard and the snow-covered mountains, the battlefield full of corpses, and the lingering crows.

The black crow feathers were scattered one after another, the figure walked further and further away, time continued to flow backwards, the scab-like scars fell off, the black kimono was stained with blood, and was scorched by the fire, that figure finally turned into a thin boy, dressed in tatters With rotten and abandoned clothes, she quietly walked towards the place where she could rest forever.

When she regained her senses, Yae found that she had moved.

The invisible barrier suddenly disappeared, and those silent, deafening things turned into scorching power, broke free from all shackles at that moment, and burst out suddenly.

"...!"

She doesn't even remember what she yelled, but she just knows she can't.

It's like a part of the soul is about to be cut off, like a child who is afraid of being abandoned.

— don't go.

--do not go.

The companionship of 500 years has already taken root in my life, just like an inseparable part of myself, not to mention life and death, my heart will twitch like pain if I pull it a little.

Even if what the other party symbolizes is only the dark side of this existence, the embodiment of hatred and fear, even if his crime is heinous, it has long been tolerated by the world.

The person in front turned around, Yae threw himself into his arms, opened his arms and hugged him tightly, tears fell instantly.

"I can not do it."

She hugged the ragged child, the young man whose eyes had been gouged out and stayed in the darkness for decades, and the culprit who almost destroyed the world.

"Can you not leave?" Yae's tears welled up in big ones, soaking the black kimono.

"If you can't do it today, wait until tomorrow, and if you can't do it tomorrow, wait until the day after tomorrow. I don't want you to live forever, but can you not die today? Can you stay with me again?"

Long-lived creatures are lonely in this world.

Xu stayed where he was, motionless.

Large tracts of blank space spread around the two of them.

"Do you know what you're talking about?"

Xu's voice was cold and gentle, without revealing a gap of emotional fluctuations.

"I'm not a good person." Yae raised his head, tears fell down his cheeks into his ear sockets, and wet the hair on his sideburns, "How can someone who loves you be a good person."

Laughing without warning.

His expression seemed to be full of sarcasm, but the hand that touched her cheek was like treating precious porcelain, he just gently pressed the end of her reddish eyes, and wiped away the tears that were about to fall with his fingertips.

"I won." Xu said softly.

The surrounding world cracked, like the paint on a whole wall suddenly peeled off, a huge curtain was ripped off by an unknown force, and the original spiritual world collapsed to the ground, revealing the true appearance behind it.

"You lost, Songyang."

Yae wanted to turn her head subconsciously, and pressed her into his arms to prevent her from looking.

"Yes, you won." Songyang's voice was very calm. He stood on the split plain with a gentle but firm expression. "My struggle with you will continue."

Yae finally realized belatedly that he had been tricked, and immediately went to break Xu's arm.

She was so angry that she wanted to hit him, she almost wanted to bite him, her teeth touched his shoulder, and after a long stalemate, she took it back.

She wrestled with nothingness, and finally couldn't help raising her head to attack him:

"let me go."

Songyang: "Okay, it's time for you to let her go."

Xu Xu narrowed his red eyes, and said in a cold tone, "With your weak manner, nothing can be protected."

"I will protect my important things in my own way." Songyang replied without humility.

The scene of two people who look exactly the same facing each other is very strange, it's almost like looking at yourself in the mirror.

The tense atmosphere seemed to turn into substance in the air, but Song Yang and Xu had reached an agreement, Xu stared at Song Yang coldly for a long time, and slowly withdrew his killing intent.

"You'd better pray that you don't fall again, Songyang."

After Xu finished speaking meaningfully, he loosened the restraint on her.Yae froze for a moment, then turned to look at him.

The barren sky was covered with mottled paint marks, Xu Xu met her gaze, and time paused briefly.

Before disappearing, he seemed to sneer slightly.

"Only a few decades."

Just squeeze out a little more time in the millennia of torture.

If you can't do it today, then wait until tomorrow, and if you can't do it tomorrow, you can wait until the day after tomorrow, until she will no longer shed tears, until she can let go peacefully, until this short life is over.

The back of her hand warmed slightly, and Songyang took her hand.Yae came back to her senses, saw him stretch his brows and eyes, smiled and said to her:

"Let's go back."

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