Another World: My life is on the hook!

He would definitely laugh wildly in front of her without restraint, then tap her on the head while taunting her with those nasty words, such as: "Although it was not easy to find Zuo Zuo, I have perfectly eliminated all the enemies! Alas, it's such a pity that Zuo Zuo couldn't see her master's heroic figure at that time, it's such a shame!"

What to do? Well, the only solution is to have Zuo Zuo watch the video over and over again, a hundred or eighty times, ╮(╯▽╰)╭, and then let her indulge in her admiration for me! Hahahaha

Yes.

He'll definitely do that.

That useless egomaniac, if he really did what he said, he would definitely be strutting around like a pea in the sky in front of her.

"Where's everyone?"

Zuo Zuo asked, stunned.

Although she couldn't see his expression, and although he seemed to be trying desperately to hide it, Zuo Zuo could still feel that his arms were holding her tighter.

All I could see was darkness.

She suddenly felt lost and panicked. She suddenly felt short of breath. She suddenly remembered the words that had echoed in her ears in that frozen moment in time. In that instant, it was like a huge, dark omen, rumbling in from all directions, so cold that she couldn't help but shiver.

"Where is everyone? Gather your heads!"

Zuo Zuo pushed him away forcefully, grabbed his shoulder, and stared at him intently, her voice trembling.

"Say something!! Did you find me and bring me back?! Is everyone still here?! So you came specifically to find me, so is everyone still waiting for us in Night City?? Speak up!!"

But all she received was silence.

Those eyes seemed to be trying hard to maintain composure, but the suppressed, intense emotional turmoil made it impossible for him to utter a single lie.

That should have been his forte.

She slumped down in a daze, his head full of white hair as if it had already told her the whole answer.

……

……

That seemed to be the loneliest period of my life.

She never imagined that their reunion would end like this.

He finally spoke to her.

He held her in his arms, looked up at her, and began to tell her about the distant past, about the years after she left, about the apocalypse, about the founding of the empire, about the fervor of the people, and about how he gradually became the Black King of the End in such an era.

It turns out that she had already left more than a hundred years ago, and that he had once found her, but was unwilling to bring her back to that chaotic era.

He had thought that everything would be better in the future.

He had thought that he might be able to use his death to complete this final ceremony and leave behind that beautiful era for everyone after him.

But in the very end...

He became the only person in that entire era to survive to the end.

A Lord of Cinder who has donned the crown of sin.

How ironic that a savior became the only survivor.

When he finished speaking, his eyes were filled with only silent numbness, as if when sorrow turns into despair, and when annihilation becomes eternity, nothing can remain in his heart anymore.

"This isn't real, is it?"

Zuo Zuo covered her eyes tightly, sobbing uncontrollably.

"Cou Tou Nao is definitely lying again. Cou Tou Nao loves to lie, and he always... always likes to tease Zuo Zuo. This must be another lie of yours, right? Smile! Quickly tell Zuo Zuo that this is just a prank on you, and you should smile!"

She gripped his collar tightly, tears streaming down her face, and shook him violently.

"Go ahead and laugh! Tell Zuo Zuo that this is just another trick on you, and that you should laugh like you used to!!"

She kept hitting it.

She even cried and almost begged.

But the figure seemed to have lost its soul, numb and empty as she swayed, without any further change.

Zuo Zuo finally slumped weakly against his chest, and lifeless tears dripped down her cheeks.

Just like this time.

He finally...stopped lying.

……

For a period of time after that, Zuo Zuo followed him, wandering in this bottomless void.

They finally returned to Night City, to the home they had once considered their whole life. He held Zuo Zuo's hand, and Zuo Zuo hesitated, weeping. They strolled through the deserted streets and walked across the eerily silent square. They returned to their little home in Night City, but the morning hustle and bustle seemed to have vanished from the outside world.

Zuo Zuo followed him.

As the last two people to survive this era.

Facing the graves of this era.

Finally, in that square, they erected monuments for each of their departed family members, each bearing their name, and they have all become memories etched in their hearts.

A belated memorial, a belated remembrance.

Zuo Zuo burst into tears and said many things to them, because she had lost a hundred years of life and could not see them one last time.

For a long time, the boy behind her had only numbness and emptiness in his eyes.

Because if everything is gone.

All that remained for him was to explore new frontiers.

"Brain, what do we do next...?"

Lynn raised his head and gazed into the endless abyss.

"Wait."

When that time comes to an end, when his flames burn throughout the dream, when he takes that final step toward that end.

And that day will be the day of their final battle!

……

And from that day onwards.

Lynn once again immersed himself in his dream, in that grand dream of order filled with fantastical scenes, where he calmly watched the flame of the end slowly burn.

Because he has already crossed both of those thresholds.

Or rather, it was the same thing all along.

You must completely free yourself from the constraints of logic in your madness, because only in this way can you have endless fuel in your dreams, and an infinitely burning fire.

But after embracing the chaos, he finally understood the true nature of it all.

As his older brother Aiwen once said, the firewood in this world is not enough... Even if the whole world were burned down, it would only be enough to allow him to barely elevate that spark of the end. In fact, even if you could use that spark to burn away the chaos of the entire dream world, you still wouldn't be able to reach the height of that calamity.

You must expand further.

And this may be the final leg of the journey you are about to take.

Use your boundless dream as fuel, so that you can completely break free from the limitations of logic and turn that spark of the end into a raging fire that ignites the entire dream!

But if you want to elevate yourself further.

Then you must repeat this process once again to completely break free from the constraints of this cage. Only when you truly become the essence of this endless burning can you see through it and become an existence of the same rank as the Lord of the End.

He closed his eyes, waiting for the raging fire to spread.

"Left left."

"I'm here."

"Let it become part of my brain. Maybe I'll have to go through another destruction in the future, but I don't want to... I really don't want to lose you again before I take that step."

Because you are the very last and final bond I have in this life.

Even if we are heading towards destruction.