Another World: My life is on the hook!

Sir Irwin's words and the images that remained with him at the end were like steel knives, constantly cutting into his heart.

Yes.

She eventually found this place.

But that wall also became the final destination of her journey, preventing her from moving forward. Yet, she still used that halberd to build the last barrier in front of him.

She stayed there with him.

I finished whispering those last words to him.

"You mustn't let everyone... look down on you again..."

hum-

He rushed into the city of darkness, but the devastated ruins and ashes left him standing there for a moment, frozen in place, unable to move an inch.

The wind howled through the void, sweeping across the desolate city.

Those towering towers that once reached the clouds, those magnificent temples that once represented the entire city of Night, those buildings reduced to ruins, those districts reduced to ashes.

He moved forward step by step.

Walking on the ruins.

Like the last remaining spirit of this city, it follows closely, gazing at the place that holds its heart's anchor.

Empty.

The gale-force winds swept through the shattered buildings, echoing like cries.

The silence was like death.

He finally quickened his pace, his steps becoming faster and faster, rushing towards the direction of the royal court until he suddenly stopped.

As far as the eye can see, the former royal court is long gone; all that remains before you is a vast, gaping abyss.

The entire city of darkness.

It has become a dead city.

He lowered his head and knelt helplessly at the edge of the dark abyss. The wind blowing from the void tousled his disheveled hair. He strained to open his dry eyes, his gaze trembling, but it was as if all his tears had been shed, leaving only boundless emptiness.

But suddenly...

He thought he heard footsteps.

He turned his head sharply, and in his already desperate gaze, he trembled as he saw a familiar figure at the end of the ashes.

That is……

As if he had grasped the last hope in life, he rushed over almost instantly and caught the wounded girl just as she was about to fall.

"You are...Xiaoxiao...Xiaoxiao, is that you?!"

Lynn's voice trembled, almost losing its tone.

Just like when I first saw her, she had silky blonde hair. She was killed in that great fall when she was very young. She and her parents fell into hell together, which left her mind forever stuck at the moment before her death.

But at this moment, she had become very small, no longer with the enormous head she had during the hellish period. The curse on her body seemed to have been lifted, but Lynn soon discovered that it was not because the curse had been lifted, but because the laws within her body were on the verge of collapse.

"Doctor—I'm so happy—I actually saw you—Where are Mom and Dad—and everyone...? I can't find them—I've been looking for so long—but I still can't find everyone..."

"Where has everyone gone to hide...?"

She seemed to be talking in her sleep.

It was like a wandering soul.

"Don't speak, your brother is back!! Your brother will heal you right away! Your brother will..."

He trembled as he tried to check on her condition.

Almost instantly, his heart sank to the bottom, plummeting all the way to the pitch-black icy pool.

Within her body, within her soul, a chaotic disorder had almost completely taken over her. She seemed to have once been protected, with a lingering trace of chaos that had shielded her from the invasion of darkness, but now that trace had long since faded, completely mingling with the chaotic disorder.

"I think I remember now—Sister Avril—Sister Avril seems to be injured—she seems to be trying to save everyone…but…there are too many—there are too many bad guys—"

She was talking in her sleep.

"Sister Avril hid Little One away..."

"But I'm so scared—Doctor, I'm so scared—Sister Avril seems... seems like she won't be coming back either..."

Her small hand grasped Lynn's wrist, but it was ice-cold to the touch.

Lynn picked her up, trembling.

He searched and summoned relentlessly, seeking the trident that carried the power of the Firstborn to heal her.

But no.

The origin of the main universe, which should have responded to him with a single thought, seemed to have vanished completely at this moment, and he could no longer even sense the divine realm.

"Don't be afraid! Don't be afraid!! I'm a doctor! I can save your life!! Brother..."

He trembled as he quickly put her down.

He thrust out his hand.

He wanted to summon the white embers, to mobilize the power of the Trinity, to protect him from the chaotic invasion.

But in a moment.

What burned in his hands was the raging black fire that symbolized destruction...

He had long since severed the power of the Firstborn within him, and his flames, consumed by the burning firewood, could never return to their former state. He had become a symbol of that burning, and the flames would only burn everything to ashes.

"It hurts so much—brother—it's so cold—"

Her voice grew softer and softer, and the turbulent chaos within her body gradually dissipated to the surface, leaving behind grotesque streaks on her skin.

Lynn could only hold her tightly, pulling her close in his arms.

"It's okay, it's okay, Xiaoxiao, everything will be alright. Your brother is back, and he doesn't need firewood anymore."

The little body finally stopped trembling.

A hint of relaxation and happiness seemed to have appeared on her face.

"Mmm... Brother... Little knew it..."

"Brother will definitely come back!"

She reached out her small hand, as if wanting to touch his cheek.

Seemingly wanting to do what she used to do, she raised her head, nuzzled him affectionately, and left a small kiss on his chin.

A gust of wind whistled by.

Her outstretched little hand vanished little by little in the wind, like ink dissolving in water, turning into disordered dust in the mottled traces.

She was like a wisp of smoke she never possessed, vanishing into thin air in the happiness of finally finding him.

silence.

The entire city of Night seemed to have returned to its previous silence, a silence that was suffocating.

“Xiaoxiao!!!”

His long roar resounded throughout the entire sky at that moment.

But in the end, nothing was left behind.

……

Time is like falling ashes; that brief fifteen minutes felt like an eternity.

As one after another, the dark and icy Nightmare Demons descended upon Night City, they saw the figure slumped on the broken street. He had his head down, still in that tightly embracing position, his head full of withered gray hair like decaying leaves and dust.

"He's out!"

The pupils of the Nightmare Demons contracted one after another. Accompanied by the surging sound of the air being torn apart, the Nightmare Demons that had been clearing out all parts of the main universe appeared one after another in the shattered sky, blocking all his directions.