Dusk again——

Blood flowed out, and Kui Zi's eyes gradually lost focus.

The cicada sound was still there, but I could only go back to the room where I was originally and hide.

Once again, he killed the giant snake Konguri who only had a body, and again he killed Aoiko. No one could save him, and no one could save him. Time and time again, he tried his best, and then returned in vain.

I originally thought that as long as I didn't wear the charm, Kongli could survive, but I ran away because of fear first. I thought that as long as I could endure it, Aoiko wouldn't continue talking, but she got even worse. I cowered on the floor,

The familiar scenery that I have seen countless times has finally become blurry.

What am I doing... In order to change all this, I should be willing to give up myself. Why do I think about leaving here? For me, this is my final destination... endless reincarnation, endless pain and

You can always see those people.

There was a slight sound falling on the floor.

I haven't looked back.

"...Go back?" A Xi's voice sounded a little blurry.

"..."

"That's it, but I want to tell you one thing. Because my power is limited, the power that Shiqu can exert is also limited. What's more, this reincarnation was a long, long time ago, and its state is unstable. If

You feel that my existence has become blurred, maybe you will become a part of this place forever, and you will not be able to escape from reincarnation like the City of the Sun."

"..."

"...You have to think clearly."

I sat up and turned to look at him: "In this case, shouldn't you be very happy? After all, you prevented me from resurrecting Aye."

"..."

"But you look unhappy, Axi." I stood up, walked to the low table and touched a rabbit ornament, "Why?"

"I hope you are happy." A Xi replied.

But I couldn't help laughing, it was really funny: "Me?"

A Xi looked at me with a neutral expression: "Yeah."

"Am I worthy of being like this?"

The rabbit ornament slid gently on my hand - in order not to get lost in this reincarnation, I chose this only object, in order to remind me of what happened in the past.

"Why don't you deserve it?" Axi asked me.

The dusk outside the window became thinner and thinner.

"Kongli was willing to be killed by you. You didn't mean to kill her, but she used her last strength to ask you to end her life. Minamoto Chimi never asked Kongli if she was willing.

Living like that - even if Minamoto Chimi is willing to love her like that, Konguri is not willing."

"...What do you want to say? Kongli has never liked me - I took her life and everything from her -"

"...There is no parent who doesn't love their children. If she doesn't like you, she won't let you come into this world. I asked Yamama Yuan about what happened back then. Kuri is very clear about her future, but she

Or choose to bring you into this world."

"Then why, why do you want me to kill her again...why?"

My vision was blurry, but I felt a shadow approaching.

"Because the mother's instinct is still there... She wants to see her child, and she knows that you will be able to escape from the giant snake that is no longer her - no matter what method it is." A Xi's voice was very close, "Then

It's her love for you - no, maybe it's already the bond called 'love', which has allowed you to find her who should have died long ago. She has never seen you, but she is so eager to see herself.

The child side.”

"...I don't understand..." I backed away and hit the wall, but my tone suddenly became sharp, "I don't understand...this is just your rhetoric! What about Aoiko! She's just an annoying innocent.

Human beings, but for that reason——"

"... Then why can't she avoid death no matter what you do?"

"..."

"You don't know, that's because you just happened to be next to her and became the existence that killed her. You can't find the reason, and then blame the result on yourself. Do you really think this can save..."

"That's enough!" I interrupted him with all my strength, "Don't come again... I don't want to hear this anymore. I obviously hate you so much, why do you still refuse to leave?

"

"Because... you haven't told me your answer yet." A Xi lowered her eyes and said.

"I am willing to stay here and suffer like this forever. This is my answer." I grabbed my sleeve and said, "That's enough...leave here, Axi. You have done enough for us.

You are already free."

The quiet sunset finally set, obliterating the last trace of tenderness. Then I felt someone holding my hand. It was not warm, but it was not cold either. I wanted to break away, but was held tightly by him.

Already.

His fingers touched the texture of the clothes, and his hands pressed tightly——

It's my heartbeat part.

"Without freedom, I'm trapped here." A Xi said, "You once asked me why I am so persistent. I can't answer you because I don't know whether it is A Ye's will or my idea.

.But as long as I can't get in touch with you, the anxiety, sadness and pain in my heart actually come from you. If leaving you can prevent me from being so painful, I will leave too. But, I can't do it."

I opened my eyes slightly and could still see his black hair hanging on his shoulders.

"Why...? Why? Why can't it be done? Since I am the cause of your pain, then you should stay as far away from me as possible -"

"..." A Xi gently let go of my hand and took a few steps back, "I'm sorry. Obviously A Ye didn't teach me what liking is, but I realized belatedly that I already liked it.

You. What's more, when you have no way of knowing what liking and love are, I am equally guilty of telling you this. No matter what, I am equally guilty. If you insist that this reincarnation should be your happiness, I

I will leave. But is this really what you want?"

……like?

Speaking of which, I really don’t understand this kind of thing. How does it count as liking? How does it count as love? But then again, how can a selfish and greedy being like me understand that?

A Xi left. There was a commotion outside the door. I knew that it was my father who had brought my brother and I back. Even though I had destroyed everything about my father with my own hands, he was still willing to give me his tenderness.

My father carried my brother on his back, held me in his arms, hunched over and placed us separately before leaving.

I knew that my father would come back again in the middle of the night. At that time, I had no idea what kind of decision he had made.

He stood in the darkness -

Many times he stood in front of the young me like this, and then walked out of the darkness. The dagger under the moonlight was giving off a chill, and I saw him raise his hand, trying to stab me with the dagger into me who had completely turned into a monster.

I saw him crying and making difficult choices. It would be great if I was already dead at that time.

The dagger didn't stab me in the end, so I'm still alive now. My father knelt down beside me, his head lowered, and the dagger was thrown aside.

Embarrassed, haggard, painful...

This is the father I saw that day.

I do not understand……

I left my room and came to the place where I buried Tiantian. But I didn't expect that there was someone there already.

"Do you have the answer now?" Takiyashahime turned around and asked, "As long as you pass tonight, you will never come out again."

"So you guys take turns trying to persuade me, right?... An existence like me should have been here forever."

"...This is a reincarnation different from the City of the Sun." Takiyashahime looked at me, "In other words, this place is just an empty shell without your family."

"I know." I handed her the rabbit ornament I brought from the room, "I'll give this back to you."

"……Have you decided yet?"

"Um……"

"...There is something I still want you to know. If you choose not to leave here, then the person who created the reincarnation needs to continue to provide power for this reincarnation. Even so, are you willing?"

"Who is the person who created reincarnation?"

"..." Takiyashahime tilted her head and reached out to take the rabbit ornament in my hand, "You have lost the preciousness of life before you realize it. You clearly desire it so much, why are you unwilling to accept it...?"

My eyes were a little blurry, and Takiyashahime's appearance was a little unclear. I reached out and reached for Tiantian's tombstone, no longer looking at the blurry figure.

"I am... an extremely selfish existence... In order to survive, I ate empty chestnuts; in order to have my father and brother, I killed Kui Zi; in order to no longer suffer, I chose this escape. If I were allowed to do this

The existence of the past continues, and I don’t know what I will do.” I lowered my head and stroked the unreal tombstone, “Instead of that... why don’t I just stay here. Sorry, I still didn’t understand you in the end.

If so - what is one period and one moment? What does it mean to be born toward death? I don’t understand it at all..."

"Since you don't understand, then you have to understand it - why are you doing this -"

"It's too late... you should leave here quickly. I will not regret this choice, and I will never regret it - it's just that I can't have the same unparalleled determination as you. To be honest, I really envy you..."

"……you--"

"Look, it's another beautiful day."

-

"Maybe this is life and death. It was her choice. I didn't stop it, and I couldn't stop it. What made her choose this situation?"

Takiyashahime didn't know, she knew that she shouldn't stay on this matter anymore. Sunset City needed her, and Sunset City, which had become a ghost town, still needed her. So, she left there.

Yuan Zhizi's incident was just a small episode in her hundreds of years. She would feel it was a pity, but it would eventually disappear in time.

But she couldn't forget the satisfied smile on her face, the girl standing in the illusion, facing the unreal day. She couldn't forget, too, the young man named "A Xi" who asked her to do something for her.

On the basis of having no soul, reincarnation cannot exert the power of the time song, so there is no way to reincarnate. The young man named Axi gave everything for the girl, just so that the girl could live in such an illusory reincarnation.

Takiyashahime returned to the Moon Tomb, where there were eight hundred nuns from Onmyoji waiting for her at the city gate.

Eight hundred bhikkhunis saw her, with a look of disappointment on their faces, and then said lightly: "It seems their story ends here."

"...Yeah." Takiyakshaji lowered her eyes and said, "I will take good care of her."

Takiyashahime saw the eight hundred bhikshuni nodded, and then finally left the moon mound.
Chapter completed!