The shining Shoko Toyokawa

But the lights... were made perfectly, as if they knew in advance what would happen...

And this is what makes Su Shi most unwilling,

There is no doubt that as the 'mother', the performance is now stronger than the small lamp.

"correct,"

Deng stood on the last step of the stairs to the stage, looking back at his friends.

"Everyone, I have a secret to tell you,"

In the dim back-Taichung, the expression on Deng's face was unprecedentedly serious.

The others looked at each other and became nervous due to the atmosphere.

"What secret?"

Su Shi felt vaguely uneasy and quickly said, "Let's talk after the performance, okay, Xiao Deng?"

"no!"

Deng imitated Su Shi and made a cross with two fingers.

"I'm going to tell you now!"

"Everyone, I love you!"

Her 'confession' came so suddenly that everyone was stunned.

"I…I love you too, Xiao Deng."

The first one to react was Li Xi, who was blushing and shy.

"Why would you say that at a time like this?"

Xiangzi's question was not answered.

Because the lead singer of CRYCHIC has taken the last step toward the stairs ahead.

"Let's go, everyone. The show...is starting again..."

Others thought it was a little strange, but why would a girl band stand still when they were standing in front of a prepared stage?!

In this way, another performance of CRYCHIC began.

First up is their first song, "Spring Shadow," in which the watermelon worm meets the sun, announcing the long winter and loneliness, a song that is already a thing of the past.

Then, there are two new songs that do not exist in "another world".

A song about losing, again losing, something important,

A song about searching, again and again, repeated countless times, and still searching for something.

After the song, the audience burst into applause.

Unlike everyone else who was so excited that they shed tears,

The lamp still smiles,

As if... I have long been accustomed to this scene,

But isn't today their first time at the martial arts hall?

"Look out! Little Light!"

That...it really happened in just a moment.

A huge steel beam at the top of the newly built venue, which was no more than 5 years old and was said to be able to withstand an 8 magnitude earthquake... fell without any warning!

And standing below is the smiling lamp,

The girl with azure hair tried her best to run towards the gray-haired lead singer who was standing in the front and about to be hit.

And she... was smiling at everyone,

Chapter 98: The Last Signpost Remains (Saki's World)

Why can she still laugh when the situation is so urgent?

Because, if you knew that the most important person in your life would die immediately,

And repeated it a thousand times,

Ten thousand times!

Besides laughing,

you…

What other expressions can he show?

A smile should be something that comes naturally when something good happens to a person, and it is as precious as a flower.

But no matter how beautiful a flower is, it will eventually wither.

In this universe of increasing entropy, everything is ultimately sliding towards an unpleasant future.

In life, eight or nine out of ten things are not satisfactory.

People also have corresponding expressions of frustration, sadness, pain, despair, etc.

And they...are definitely not suitable to be shown at the last moment of a loved one's 'life'.

When saying goodbye,

Shouldn't you smile?

The steel beam that was originally hitting the lamp, when it fell most of the way, tightened the steel cable tied to it.

Like a swing, the landing point changed. Under the pull of gravity potential energy, the steel cable that was stretched to the limit suddenly exploded, and the falling steel beam was no longer restrained.

And now, under its landing point is the water blue-haired girl who is trying her best to save Xiao Deng.

And 'Little Light' just watched the steel beam fall quietly.

The smile was so perfect, as if it had been rehearsed thousands of times...

Until the steel beams 'swallowed' saki, the stage trembled,

Red like blood...

No! Along with the smell of rust, the red color spreading across this world is blood!

It's Saki's blood!

It was not until this moment that the gray-haired lead singer's face was projected onto the giant screen on the stage that his smile suddenly disappeared.

This is a matter of course.

Who...

How could anyone remain indifferent when the person they deeply love dies in front of them?!

The reason she was still able to smile just a moment ago was simply because she hoped that Saki would, at the last moment of her life,

What I saw...

It's your own smile.

This is not a difficult thing,

As long as you keep repeating,

Witnessing the death of 'that person' over and over again,

As you gradually become numb, you will eventually... be able to get such a smile.

"Are you...still unwilling?"

The scene on the stage is gradually changing.

Or it would be more accurate to say 'weathering',

The huge stadium dome turned into red flying sand and was blown away by the wind.

The tall buildings and the bustling traffic in the distance seemed to have gone through billions of years in an instant, drifting in the wind like a grand sand painting.

A doll in a red dress suddenly appeared on the half-desert stage.

"Still unwilling?"

The lamp looked down at its own hands, which were a pair of gray wings.

It is called a wing, but because it is too short and does not have any flight feathers, it is impossible for it to support flying in the atmosphere.

The wind gradually grew stronger, and in the red dust, a black cliff that was infinitely high upwards, infinitely deep downwards, and infinitely far to the left and right gradually revealed the tip of the iceberg.

The red ocean that once submerged the entire planet has long since dried up, and even the moon in the sky has turned into a broken star ring.

The power of 'time magic' is clearly revealed in 'this world'.

"Xiao Deng, you are very tired. You should go back and have a good rest."

The sound of 'soyo' is gentle,

"Yes, Xiao Deng, you've done a great job," Li Xi quickly agreed, "It's time to go home."

"..."

Mu calmly raised his hands and watched them dissipate into sand in the wind...

God is not a resident of this world.

She came from another world and stayed in this world.

Looking for...

Looking for important people,

In other words, looking for her happy ending.

But in this evil 'world', happy endings don't exist...

"Still unwilling to give up? Oh, right, you may have forgotten what happened."

The puppet clapped its hands, as if it had suddenly understood something.

"Let me start from the beginning, then,"

The puppet cleared his throat, his tone like he was telling a fairy tale to a child.

"A long time ago,"

"When a demon god created this world,"

"A traveler wandering in another world descends from the sky to stop the 'Demon' from self-destructing."

"But the demon is omnipotent in this world she created. In the end, the cross of judgment that judged her was finally brought down..."

"The traveler is filled with sorrow. In this world without gods, he repeatedly imagines the world where the 'Demon God' once lived, a beautiful scene that does not exist... until now."

"So this time, lost traveler, are you still unwilling to give up?"

"No matter how vivid your fantasy is, or how rich your 'story' is, fantasy is just fantasy."

“The things you hope to change have already taken place while the sea is still dry and the moon in the sky is still bright, and they can never be changed.”

At the moment when 'Xiao Deng' built a wormhole, crossed the distance of '145 billion light years' and came to 'Xiao Xiang',

But found...

She is no longer here.

Standing on the planet is a black inverted cross so huge that the naked eye cannot discern its boundaries.

It just exists there, like the background of the universe,

The reverse cross of judgment has already descended...

"Xiao Deng, do you still want to continue? Continue this meaningless eternal reincarnation?"

Soyo at this moment... or rather the tall red 'sand man' that is about to melt like a snowman can more accurately describe her appearance.

"No matter how many times I repeat it, saki her, she won't come back."

Another sandman, who not long ago could be called 'Lixi', carefully explained the pros and cons.

"If you keep going like this, you'll break the light..."