Another World: My life is on the hook!

"But I cannot tolerate it, I cannot allow it, that after all the effort I put into bringing you back, you are now going to your death so calmly."

She was heartbroken, almost choking up, with tears welling up in her red eyes.

Lynn hung his head, the shackles that had grown from the deepest recesses of his will piercing his heart like a thousand arrows.

“I knew it…you’ve been apologizing to me…Reincarnation warned me…to be careful of you, so I’ve never dared to trust you…”

"So, all along, this has been what you've been doing."

The painter watched his retreating figure from afar, her gaze filled with desolation, yet she had made up her mind.

"I'm sorry."

"And I can't repay it, but I don't care anymore. Even if I become a demon, even if everyone hates me, I just want the person I love to come back. I've waited too long... and I don't want to wait any longer..."

That was the shackle that pierced his fate.

She has kept that ring ever since.

His rebirth was created by her, in the endless years after the war of the old gods, in order to create a perfect vessel so that he could one day soar to the heavens and complete the right path.

She devoted countless efforts to it.

What she planted in him was the thread of fate from that ring, the thread that could alter destiny. Reincarnation had woven violets with fate as its thread, and she had given it to that raven in the same way.

"Master."

The figure looked at her, his eyes filled with sorrow and bloodshot veins. This was the first time he had used that title since the end of time.

"I have let you down, and I may never be able to repay you in this lifetime."

He reached out his hand to her.

My entire atrium felt as if it were being torn apart.

His eyes were bloodshot as he said:

"But I am already deeply trapped in it and cannot extricate myself. Even if I don't burn myself, I can no longer separate myself from that calamity. The end will devour me sooner or later. It's all a foregone conclusion."

The girl suddenly stepped back, her eyes blazing with an immense, almost frantic obsession that threatened to consume her.

"No!"

"There's another way!"

"As long as you replace him, as long as you, my disciple, replace him! You are his true form. As long as you can devour him, as long as you obtain all his experiences and memories, you can also control those fires. If you can be revived from the end, then you will still be you! And Nanako will continue to wait!"

"Even if it's the end of time, Nanako will wait for the day you return. If you don't like me now, I'll erase all my memories. We'll go back to Winterspring Valley, and we'll go back to how we were before..."

Her eyes were red and her cheeks were wet with tears.

"Disciple..."

"Please, Nanako... Nanako has been waiting for you to come back her whole life!!"

She cried out in a heart-wrenching scream, almost to the point of despair.

But the eyes she saw were filled with pain. He clenched his fists, but there was no wavering, because he knew there would be no such outcome.

"Master, I don't want you to become like this."

“I know, I know you did everything for me, but it’s all useless now… My essence has changed. The man in black you saw was actually my future self. It’s just that in this new history, the last trace of order within me hasn’t been completely swallowed up.”

"I don't want to... watch you... continue down the wrong path..."

He reached out his hand, lowered his head, and slowly erased the overlapping phantoms that enveloped him.

that moment.

It was like a nightmare.

When she saw his true appearance, her entire pupils seemed to plunge into an endless night.

Countless black lines, like puppets of the end, stretched endlessly from his body and back, linking with the calamity that blotted out the sky. His essence, everything about him, had already made him, in effect, the calamity itself when he merged into that slumber.

He spoke to her with a complicated expression, but his voice came rumbling from the boundless darkness, blotting out the sky, like countless overlapping noises.

"I am beyond saving."

"The end is intertwined with my fate. This last moment of clarity is hard-won. Let go, Nanako, my master, my lover. Just consider me dead..."

"From the moment he merged into this calamity, he could never come back."

It was as if thunder was eternal in its stillness.

The girl trembled as she backed away, shaking her head and staring blankly at his face, tears streaming down her cheeks.

"Do not……"

That was the face she longed for day and night.

From the beginning of the new world, she never felt happiness again.

One thousand years, two thousand years, the endless flow of time.

"Hey, Master, I've already told you, you can't eat those cold things anymore, and if they're too sweet, you'll get cavities sooner or later!"

"Hehe, dear Master Nanako, my name is Lynn. I especially love magic, and among all these mages, you are my favorite. So please be sure to take me under your wing. You can do whatever you want with me, really! I would never lie!"

"My disciple, that flower looks like it's about to wither! Did you plant it?"

"Yes, her name is Moon Orchid, isn't it beautiful? This is my favorite flower in this life, and in many previous lives, so I won't let her wither, I will definitely make her bloom!"

"Hey—my disciple, do you have many lifetimes?"

"Of course! My disciple has many lifetimes to live!"

"Liar!"

"You're lying..."

She retreated step by step, her mind blank, gazing at the figure she longed for day and night.

Those past memories kept surfacing, and she kept shaking her head.

Tears kept falling.

"You're such a liar... You've been lying to me all along. You didn't tell me you were Lord Violet, you didn't tell me about what you went through. You've always been like this. You just didn't want this raven to die because of you, but I don't care... I don't care!"

hum-

When the shackles of fate suddenly tightened, Lynn's entire will withered within those shackles.

"Nanako!!!"

The figure reached out a hand with red-rimmed eyes.

She saw the sorrow in his eyes, a look that was a mixture of disappointment and pain. But for those who truly love you, perhaps just one glance is enough for you to understand.

He didn't lie.

he already……

There's no way to come back.

The pale blue girl stood there blankly, as if she had lost all her resolve and soul in an instant. The wind in the void blew her long hair, like a white flower swaying in a sea of ​​flowers, finally withering away completely at that moment.

The figure looked at her tremblingly, eyes red-rimmed, and reached out his hand to her, walking towards her step by step.

"Nanako, Master, perhaps after the end, everything can return, but not now... Let go, Master! Let go!"

Nanako retreated, her mind blank.

"Do not……"

"This is not the outcome I wanted..."

"I just want you to come back, even if it's just like in the very beginning of the new world, that you can spend some time with me... Take me back to Winterspring, where Nanako has always... always been waiting for you..."

puff-

"Master!!!"

At that moment, the whole world seemed to fall silent.

When Lynn watched the girl take her own life without hesitation, his pupils trembled violently. The overwhelming sense of destiny and the boundless howl of the wind rushed in, as if to blow him away.

He saw the violet figure rushing forward with all her might, her frantic roar and howl echoing throughout the vast universe.

It's as if all suffering has come to an end.

The long years.

Endless waiting.

Because of that lingering obsession, she has lived until now, even as a demon, even burdened with countless karmic debts. But when hope fades, she will have no reason to live any longer.

The girl's body fell heavily to the ground.

Her eyes were half-open as she fell, the last time she saw her lover.

The boundless azure color gradually faded from her body, and she seemed to remain the same as before, like a woman lying on her side in Winter Spring Valley on a certain afternoon, enjoying the warm sunlight, waiting for her disciple to call her home.

The wind stopped.

The shackles on Lynn's body also shattered and fell away.

In that vast ruin, only the mournful cry of that soul gazing up to the sky remained.

……

……

It felt like an eternity.

Amidst the desolation, the figure, cradling the girl's body, slumped low in the ruins.

The wind whistled past his back.

It was as if, at that moment, his heart, along with the girl's death, was forever frozen on that day.

"Your Majesty..."

Lynn trembled, her eyes bloodshot, as she staggered and stared at his retreating figure.

A desolate landscape stretches before me, my hair has turned white.

for a long time.

He finally stood up, staggering, holding the girl in his arms. He looked up as if he had lost his soul, staring blankly at the ruins and the night sky.

"Go...not everything will have a resolution..."

"This is all I can do to help you..."

He held the girl in his arms, slowly tilting his head back amidst the flames, letting the raging fire engulf them.

And he swallowed his last breath of turbid air amidst the murky atmosphere.

Countless points of light blew by.

It was like a martyrdom.

He hugged the girl tightly, lowered his head, and gradually transformed into countless flying embers in the flames.

Did you see that single tear in the corner of her eye?

Did you see the flower she held up for you...?

Lynn followed closely behind, dragging his battered body, his eyes red and swollen, looking as if he were about to die.

All he heard was delusion, but he dared not retreat.

He cannot back down.

Countless people in this world are trapped by their obsessions, and he is no exception.

He didn't hate that girl, he didn't hate anyone. Under the sway of fate, everyone is desperately pursuing, just for the desired outcome.

His eyes were bloodshot, reflecting the overwhelming calamity.

"I will make everything alright..."

"I will create a new world..."

"I don't want people to suffer anymore, I don't want people to be trapped by this cause and effect..."

He gradually forgot, he gradually became blurred.

He gradually forgot his own name, and gradually forgot his own life.

But he didn't forget what he had to do.

He climbed step by step to the highest point of the royal court, stood up from the shattered ruins, and stood on the highest peak, facing the endless heavens with his mortal body.

I declare war on you!

……

……

Perhaps this will be the end of eternity.

Perhaps this will be the beginning of the true end.

But how long is that future?

How far is forever?

When that calamity spread to the ends of the earth, no one knew what the outcome of this war would be.

In those ancient ruins, there was a lonely girl with her arms crossed, waiting for what might be her eternal home.

She never saw him again.

When she climbed to this point, everything seemed to have come to an end, leaving only the pitch-black, churning sky.

She called his name, but no one answered.

she does not know……

He has left us forever.

Or perhaps I've forgotten.

Perhaps the burned past has made it impossible for him to remember her, or perhaps he has already begun an eternal struggle against the Lord of the End.

She still didn't get to see him one last time.

"It's okay, head..."

She wiped away her tears and tried hard to force a smile.

"I'll wait for you."

"When you return from the End, Zuo Zuo will tell you who you are. Even if you don't come back, Zuo Zuo... Zuo Zuo will definitely wait."

Because we made a promise.

That girl will definitely be with you until the end.

(End of the book)

(No, there's one more chapter.)