I don't want to be a heroic spirit

Chapter 65 The changes brought about by you

I thought my future would remain unchanged, just like the snowflakes flying in the sky here.

Heavy snow, heavy snow, heavy snow, heavy snow...

The sun and the moon will rest, the clouds and stars will rest, spring, summer, autumn and winter will rest, but the wind and snow here will not rest.

What fills my eyes is the unchanging whiteness of snow, which is beautiful but also monotonous.

But it doesn’t matter, because this piece of white is everything to me. There is no color other than white in the “colors” that make up me, so I will not get bored of this piece of white.

In my distant memory, I also had a good childhood.

Happy family, happy life.

There may be some minor troubles occasionally, but overall I am very happy.

So, when this land that brought me happiness was affected by war, I stood up.

I succeeded, I completely drove the war out of my hometown.

However, when she lowered her sword-wielding arm, she found that the people around her looked at her with only fear.

No matter if they were her enemies, strangers, or even people from her hometown, everyone looked at her with fear in their eyes.

This is normal. After all, she is a killing god who slaughtered an army of 300,000 by herself.

She became famous in one battle. The world feared her overwhelming power and was wary of her supernatural swordsmanship.

This fear is exactly what she needs, because because of its existence, her hometown is no longer disturbed by war.

She succeeded, she won.

But the price was that she could not return to her hometown.

Today, she has become the world's strongest swordsman and the world's most vicious criminal.

But everyone in my hometown is just an ordinary person, and if you get too close, it will cause trouble for them.

Moreover, I guess no one would want to live with the "world's worst criminal."

So she left her hometown where she had always lived, settled down on the world's highest peak, Edberg, and began to live alone...

I thought my future would remain unchanged, just like the snow flying all over the sky.

It is meaningless to record time, because the unchanging snow scene and the unchanging life make me unable to feel the passage of time and make it impossible for me to have any expectations for the future.

I have lived in this pure white world for too long, so long that my memories are almost all of this unchanging snow-white.

My hometown, my "roots", are right within my reach, but there is a wall blocking me, preventing me from going back, making me lose sight of the direction, and making me unable to find "myself".

Gradually, my body, my spirit, and my soul were all dyed the same color as the white snow.

I no longer reminisce about the past, and I no longer look forward to the future.

Because I think a future that will remain unchanged like snow is not worth looking forward to, because reminiscing about the past will only make me tired of a future that will remain unchanged like snow.

Even if I am in deep darkness, as long as I have never seen the light, I can endure this loneliness and silence.

Even if I am surrounded by the unchanging whiteness of snow, as long as I have never seen any color, I can endure the loneliness and cold.

So... why do you appear like that?

Suddenly broke into my world and dyed the snow-white with other colors.

I thought my future would remain unchanged, just like the snow and wind flying all over the sky.

It wasn't until you showed up that I felt my heart beating again.

A second color besides snow-white appeared in my eyes, and my soul was dyed with a second color besides snow-white.

Really... Do you know how much effort and how much time I spent in order not to get tired of this white snow?

As a result, you just walked into my world like this, foolishly and nonchalantly, making all my efforts for so long go to waste.

Why is there such a strange person like you? When he first saw me, he didn't show fear like them. His amber eyes seemed to see through my forced disguise from the beginning and saw the "true self" that I had long lost.

I thought my future would remain unchanged, just like the snowflakes dancing in the sky.

But your appearance changed all that. You made the time that seemed to have stopped for me start flowing again, and made the layer of ice and snow covering my soul gradually melt.

Looking at you, I seem to see the spring under the warm sunshine and the sunny day with floating clouds.

The snow melts and spring flowers bloom.

People are always keen on the romance of love at first sight, but I fall in love with you every time I see you.

I want you to be by my side, I want to gaze into your eyes that are as bright as gems, I want to hold your face like a delicate flower, I want to eat the desserts that you say you hate but that are always filled with your hard work and emotions.

After all, it is because of your sudden appearance that I can no longer go back to the past and can no longer bear the loneliness of living alone.

So, you have to take responsibility.

My cutest, dearest and most important sister.

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"Remember to take off your shoes when you enter."

Edelweiss led the way in, with Okita Souji following behind her obediently.

"...You live in such a small place?"

"How can you talk like that? Can it be smaller than your dorm?"

Edwards appeared beside Okita Souji like a flash, and gently pinched Okita Souji's little face with his slender white fingers.

Edwards didn't pinch very hard, and the evidence is that Okita Souji can still speak normally.

"Sister Xiao Ai, you are the best swordsman in the world. Even if it's Wolf Fort, you shouldn't have any problem living there with your status, right? This small apartment is really unworthy of your status, isn't it?"

What Edwards brought Okita Souji to was Edwards's residence in this city, or rather his temporary residence.

"The store manager rented this to me because I'm a good worker. It has a private bathroom and two bedrooms, and there's even a small shop downstairs. The most important thing is, I'm the only one living in this apartment. I'm the one who made a killing, okay?"

Edwards crossed his arms over his chest and showed a very proud expression in front of Souji Okita, which made Souji Okita feel ashamed.

Edwards came out this time to look for Okita Souji, however, she was not just looking for someone.

As the saying goes, money is not everything, but without money, nothing can be done.

While searching for people, Edwards occasionally worked as a temporary worker to pay for his travel expenses and living expenses.

...Can you believe it? The world's strongest swordsman, the world's most evil criminal, actually has to work part-time to earn money for travel?

And she worked as a chef in a dessert shop.

Because her dessert-making skills were so good and her desserts were so delicious, every time she wanted to leave after earning enough money for the trip, the store manager would hug her thighs and beg her not to leave.

Chapter 66 I'll Go Talk to the Chairman

"I've already told your classmates."

Completely different from the invincible Valkyrie that people imagine, always wearing flawless snow-white light armor and holding twin swords that sparkle, Edwards was now wearing ordinary yet comfortable home clothes, half lying on the sofa in a lazy and relaxed posture.

Although he was dressed like an ordinary person, his extraordinary temperament could not be concealed.

"You will live with me from today on."

"...Do I have the right to object?"

Okita Souji asked weakly, and then he saw Edwards on the sofa turned his head and gave him a very gentle smile.

"This is a notification, not a discussion. It's a younger sister's duty to listen to her."

Okita Souji spread his hands helplessly.

"What did they say?"

"They asked me to have a good talk with you, and they said a lot of nice things about you to me." Edelweiss said as she shifted her sitting position, slightly straightening her sexy, voluptuous legs under her short skirt. "Also... after they heard I was your sister, they said you mentioned me to them, Souji."

Souji Okita's face froze for a moment, and then he saw Edwards's eyes curved with a smile.

"Xiao Ai, I really want to know what my sister says about me in front of her good friends... Can you tell me?"

what did I say?

A little girl who is afraid of being alone?

I’m afraid that this day next year will be the anniversary of my death!

"Uh...but Sister Xiao Ai, whether or not I live in the dormitory is not something that I or my friends can decide."

Wiping the non-existent sweat from his forehead, Okita Souji mustered up the courage to say, "This kind of thing has to be decided by the academy's chairman. We don't have that power."

“…That makes sense.”

Edwards slowly sat up, stroking his smooth chin with an expression of serious thought.

"I'm going out."

“…Where are you going?”

Looking at the sky outside which was about to get completely dark, and then looking at Edwards who was about to go out, Souji Okita had an inexplicable ominous premonition.

"Go talk to the chairman of your academy and ask her to agree to let you live outside."

Three seconds of silence for the Chairman...

"Don't be too harsh."

"What are you thinking about?" Edelweiss, who already had her hand on the doorknob, turned around and glared at Okita Souji with a sly look. "It was just a simple friendly exchange. Do you think your sister is a violent freak who only solves problems with a sword?"

With your communication skills, I suspect any insurance salesman on the street could fool you and make you buy a bunch of useless and boring insurance.

"Oh, right."

The door opened again just as it closed, and Edwards poked his head in from outside, his long hair as pure white as snow hanging down naturally in compliance with gravity.

"I haven't tasted my sister's cooking for a long time. I hope that when I come back, I can see that my lovely sister has prepared a table full of desserts filled with love waiting for me. Souji, your cooking skills should still be there, right?"

"That's perfect. You can use this time to seriously think about your impression of me. When I come back, I want to enjoy the dessert my sister has carefully prepared while listening to how she talks about me with her classmates."

The door was closed, but Okita Souji felt a chill in his heart.

After counting silently for one hundred and eighty seconds, Okita Souji muttered something in a voice not much louder than the flapping of a mosquito's wings.

"It's so late and you're still eating dessert, Sister Xiao Ai, are you really not worried about gaining weight again?"

As Okita Souji knew, Edwards loved desserts very much.

In order to eat delicious desserts, she even trained her dessert-making skills to a world-class level.

But while he likes desserts, Edwards is also very concerned about his figure and is afraid of getting fat.

One thing that is hard to believe is that Edwards started practicing swordplay because he heard that swordplay can help him lose weight.

Then Edwards mastered his swordsmanship to the level of the best in the world.

If those who have practiced swordsmanship for countless years and have only achieved a little success knew this fact, they would probably be envious to the point of fuming, right?

But this is the fact. The world's strongest swordsman, Edelweiss, doesn't like swordsmanship at all. Her purpose of practicing swordsmanship in the beginning was just to be able to eat desserts without gaining weight.

This is the gap in talent. Such unfairness is rampant in any world, but it is particularly prominent in this world.

Some people are born with immense magical powers, while others don't even have any special powers.

Some people can become the strongest in the world with just a little effort, while others find it difficult to go any further even if they burn their lives.

During the time that Okita Souji and Edwards lived together, such an incident happened.

At that time, Souji Okita had just finished today's sword training. When he came back, he saw Edwards lying face down on the sofa, looking like he had lost all hope in life.

Having lived together for a while and knowing Edelweiss well, Okita Souji immediately guessed what was going on and said, "Ai-sister, have you gained weight again?"

Then... Edwards' sword skills had a breakthrough.

I don't know if it was because he was ashamed of being discovered for gaining weight, or because he wanted to kill people to silence them, but in any case, with such a hasty reason, Edwards's sword skills, which were already the strongest in the world, were broken through again.

That day, the sky presented two views.

The upper part was still snowing heavily, and it was all white and impossible to see clearly.

The lower part was strangely without a single snowflake, nor was there a cold wind as cold as a knife blade.

A "line" divides the sky into two parts, upper and lower. No matter how violent or cold the blizzard in the upper part is, it cannot cross the "line" and affect the clarity of the sky in the lower part.