Back to the Future 1999: Raining at the Same Time

At Arcana's instruction, Forget-Me-Not did anything to stop Chen Xi from leaving. Correspondingly, Chen Xi did not stop them from using masks to transform ordinary people in the bar.

"Go, get out of here!"

Chen Xi shouted this sentence the moment he met up with Sonnet and the others.

"But...Mr. Chen Xi..."

Sonnet, who was being pulled by Verdin and Chenxi on the left and right, was still hampered by the ordinary people behind him who kept wailing for help.

"They're beyond saving, Sonnet! You can't risk your life on them."

Chen Xi pulled her hand and exerted force, pulling Sonnet in front of him and holding her horizontally.

"Let's think about how to escape first. There are no doors or windows here. We might have to blast our way out of this underground maze."

"Oh~! Exit, Sofubi knows the way out, everyone follow me!"

The lady still maintained her innocent enthusiasm and vitality, especially after she called out all her bodyguards with a shout, she had nothing to worry about.

However, she had underestimated the investment Reshape had put into this stronghold. The underground passage they had escaped through was actually "alive"! Faced with this moving maze, she didn't know what to do for a moment.

At this moment, a shy voice came from Chen Xi's arms.

"Mr. Chen...Mr. Chen Xi, you can let me down now..."

"I drew a map of this place when I came here. As long as we know the general direction, we can find a way out."

Knowing it wasn't the right time, Chen Xi put the sonnet down and didn't tease her. She simply coughed twice to regain her composure, then ran and talked as she led everyone to the pothole they had created.

"Ahaha, it's 'Freedom Island'! Miss Sonnet is really amazing."

"But it seems that the strength of just a few of us is not enough to push this stuck car out."

The apple was floating in the air, its tie trembling, looking very anxious.

"Found them, they're here, don't let them get away!"

The sound of pursuers could be heard from behind, and they knew that now was not the time to delay.

"Everyone, stand back. I'm going to use mystical magic to see if I can blast this car out!"

After saying that, Chen Xi began to gather strength in his hands, continuously compressing the air between his hands. But at this moment, the stone wall behind him suddenly collapsed.

"Can you please not run away?"

A cold female voice with a hint of struggle sounded from behind them, and at the same time, thick branches and vines that emerged from the ground rushed towards them.

Chen Xi, who was keeping an eye on everyone, immediately spread out a circle of wind blades with himself as the center, smashing all incoming attacks into pieces.

At the same time, he also fired the compressed air cannon that he had been charging, but due to the disruption of the mistletoe, Chen Xi failed to control the force at the last moment, and not only blasted the car out, but also shattered some of the load-bearing materials supporting the outer wall.

The entire space they were standing in began to crumble.

"I'll hold on here, you guys hurry up and get out!"

"Thank you, brother. Take the lady away first!"

The bodyguards were the first to react, and before Su Fubi realized it, they escorted her away.

"Can……"

Among Sonnet and Vertin who were at the rear, Sonnet obviously wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Chen Xi and pushed out.

"Don't bother dragging your feet here. Find a chance to rescue us after you get out."

At the moment Sonnet fell out of the hole, the mysterious magic waves that erupted again behind Chen Xi and Vertin completely destroyed the structure here and blocked the only way out.

"I didn't expect you to be with me in the end."

Vertin nervously reached back and touched the rubble that had just fallen and blocked the passage.

"Are you scared?"

"Uh-huh……"

Shaking his head, Verdin continued:

"With Chen Xi here, no matter what happens, I won't be afraid."

However, just as he finished his words, mistletoe vines emerged from the ground and tied the two of them tightly.

……

"Oh, it seems Miss Mistletoe will really bring us good news."

Forget-me-not's snake-like eyes pierced Chen Xi. Next to him, bound by vines, stood the free-standing Verdin.

Being stared at by Arcana, although Verdin wanted to save Chen Xi, he didn't dare to move.

"Veldin, as someone who walks outside of time, you see the mystics. How are they doing?"

"I want you to join the Hand of Reinvention."

"Answer me three questions, or I will feast on your pain."

……

It was almost the same thing that Arcana said when he tried to win over Chen Xi.

But the difference was that this time, when Verdin finished answering the three questions, Arcana put his hand on Chen Xi's back.

"What do you think of this knife?"

A flash of cold light pierced Chen Xi's chest, and blood dripped onto the ground along the tip of the knife.

"Chen Xi!"

Just as Verdin was about to take a step forward, Forget-Me-Not grabbed his shoulders and held him in place.

"open!"

Before she could break free, Arcana had already pulled the knife out of Chenxi's body and handed it to Veldin.

"Take it and kill him."

"Why?! Didn't I already agree to join the Hand of Reshaping?"

"Humph~"

Arcana put a finger to his face and looked up at the ceiling, as if thinking about something.

"This is your first mission, the one you need to complete after joining Reshape."

"I reject!"

Almost shouting these words, Veldin shook off Forget-Me-Not's arm, rushed over and took Chen Xi's shaky body into his arms.

"Chenxi, Chenxi!"

I never thought that my brother's death would come so quickly and so suddenly.

Ever since the rainstorm when we first met, Chen Xi and I have been spending less and less time together.

Heavy rain fell again and again, taking away her companions in the box.

There were photos on the wall one after another, but only the portrait of Chen Xi that I drew based on my impression was placed in the center, reminding me that there would be someone who would hold my hand in this rainstorm and walk with me forever.

But now, the warm blood in this person's chest is seeping through the thick clothes bit by bit, gnawing at his heartbeat.

Verdin pressed Chen Xi's chest, which was gushing blood, like a madman, but the blood still flowed through her fingers, and the dried blood stains accumulated on her palms.

"Since you want to save her so much, try this bottle of medicine."

"Medicine? How could you be so kind..."

Verdin's words gradually became unclear, and he reached out to grab the "medicine" in Arcana's hand.

She murmured, raising the knife above her head with blurry eyes.

With a "swish", the resistance of the dagger scraping against the bone made her stop, but soon Virtin raised the knife again and stabbed it into the body in front of him that had one foot in the gate of hell.

Mistletoe, who was standing by, couldn't bear to watch any longer, so she closed her eyes and wanted to turn around and leave.

"Where are you going, Miss Mistletoe? This scene hasn't reached its climax yet."

Amid the noise of cutting bones and flesh, the triumphant voice of the Forget-Me-Not villain rang out.

But Mistletoe was unwilling to open its eyes, and sighed and said:

"I feel a little uncomfortable. Is this really the right thing to do?"

"So what do you think we should do with this body?"

Mistletoe then looked down at Veldin, who was kneeling on the ground with lifeless eyes, and at the corpse in front of her, whose entire back was eroded and a dagger was stuck in the left half.

"Ha... Let's send it back to where it came from and let them know Verdin's choice."

While kneeling on the ground, Veldin's mind was constantly flashing back to the scene he had just experienced.

She only remembered that she took the medicine bottle and fed the medicine inside one by one to Chen Xi, whose breath was getting weaker and weaker.

It was not until the last one that the environment in front of her eyes shattered, and what came into her sight was the stab that she could no longer stop, the moment when the knife completely ended Chen Xi's life.

The blood no longer flowed from that chest, and he had personally ended the life of the person closest to him.

……

"So cruel to me? I almost start to suspect you're taking personal revenge."