This is probably the limit.

Enduring the outcome that is impossible to change, again and again——

fail--

fail--

fail--

I watched Kongli twisting her body in pain because of the talisman. I looked up and watched the giant snake fall at my feet. I couldn't even help her take off the talisman.

Hot despair is entangled in my heart, making me want to escape from here. But another extremely strong emotion prevents me from taking steps to escape.

This is the first time in many days that I have seen Kongli at such a close distance.

I don't think she had such ugly, rough scales before, and her eyes would be mistaken for foreign monsters... Because of the spell, her bulky body on the ground was twitching in pain.

The desire in my heart——

Eager to embrace her——

This is impossible to do——

"Mother……"

To me, it was too strange...but something flowed out of my eyes.

Kongli raised his head, as if he could hear my voice.

"Mom..." I stretched out my hand to touch her, but just like before, her body passed through my palm like water.

I looked at her anxious look, anxious about losing her life because of the spell, and because of my call, which made her crazy and anxious. However, this would only speed up her death and make her even more uncomfortable.

I can not do anything--

There is nothing you can do——

Obviously I don't really want to accept it, but because of my initial dependence, I want to do something for her - but this is contradictory. I can't do anything. I can only sit down on my knees and try my best to look into her eyes.

"Mother--"

His voice was trembling, and so was his body.

"I...I'm here..."

Why is this happening... She can clearly hear my voice even though she can't see me. This was an accidental discovery, but it was finally confirmed today.

Such a cry is not enough to make her stop. She has lost her soul and is like a beast - why on earth can she still detect my existence?

"Mom..." I continued to call her.

That was the first dependence, and the first cry of the little beast. She finally calmed down slowly, but it was not because of my call - because her life was approaching the limit. The huge snake head fell to the ground, and she lowered her eyelids. , the snake's head pointed in my direction.

I stopped calling and watched her slowly raise her eyes.

The purest hope touched the top of my head. It was not heavy, even very light, but I couldn't help but arch my back and put my face into the palm of my hand.

I didn't dare to look directly at her anymore - she was so eager to survive, but I took everything away from her.

"...A...Zi..."

I heard her weak cry - I kept asking myself, why...she who has lost her soul, still remembers my name?

"Mother……"

Warm tears fell from the right eye first, and even the voice calling her had a crying tone.

"Mom...I'm sorry..."

Repeated over and over again...

It makes no sense at all...

Because I have not gone back to the past, nor have I done anything to change it.

It's completely meaningless...

No matter how you avoid contact with Konguri or try your best to tolerate Aoiko, it is meaningless...

Those people are already dead——

He died long ago in a time that I never knew.

I raised my head——

The huge eyes, as beautiful as emeralds, were attached to the world and eventually lost their luster.

I have never heard a call like that again - ethereal and fragile, full of emotions that moved me.

So what is it?

"Mother……?"

The eyes finally closed.

Her fingers touched a gust of summer breeze, and then her body was blown away.

I sat there blankly, unable to even recall why I knelt down and why I stretched out my hands as if I wanted to hug something.

I am at a loss... what should I do to prevent this from happening? Why no matter what I do, no matter how I change, no matter how I endure... it doesn't work.

I have been pursuing this question, and I watched Kong Li slowly die in the woods for several days. But except for a weak cry at that time when I tried my best to make her realize what I was talking about, there was nothing else.

.

Watching Kongli disappear again, I still returned without success. I walked home in a daze, sat beside the edge and watched my father leave in a hurry.

"Are you tired of it here?"

A Xi sat next to me at some point. It seemed that for a while, I didn’t know what I was doing.

The brilliance of the setting sun shone on his body so softly that it made me want to cry again.

"How do you know this?" I looked at him.

"I don't know. This is the reincarnation you built. I just provided you with strength."

"... She actually still called me by my name in that situation..." I couldn't continue. How to explain Kong Li's behavior? Why did she remember my name when I was clearly not there?

?

"..." Axi turned her head and looked at me, with some dark blue eyes, "So, what did you see in her eyes?"

What did you see...?

"It's reluctance. She is still attached to this world...Mom, she...doesn't want to leave this world. But, is this issue important?"

"Is that all?"

Isn't it more than that?

"Maybe there are others, but I don't understand." I lowered my head, "If it weren't for me, my father and mother would have continued to be happy."

A Xi didn't reply. In the quiet courtyard in summer, there was only the chirping of cicadas. Not far away was the sunset flower planted by her father, which was blooming at the right time.

Just when I thought he was gone——

"No." Axi said, "No matter how powerful Genjimi is, he is only a human being. He will eventually leave Konguri as a monster, and he will eventually leave you. Even if there was no fire at that time, there would be no Genji

The pursuit will also leave Kongli."

"Mom, she must not be able to accept it." I immediately retorted to him.

A Xi was stunned for a moment, closed her eyes and asked, "Why do you feel so?"

"Because it's impossible for her to like me and my brother...she likes my father so much...abandoning the dignity of a monster to be with my father..."

As if helpless and involuntarily, A Xi chuckled: "Even A Ye didn't teach me this kind of thing, how can I make you understand?"

"...?"

"is love."

"……What?"

"It's nothing." Axi stood up, "It's time for me to leave."

I watched A Xi turn around and stand up: "Don't you have anything to say to me?"

Ah Xi tilted her head: "What a pity, no."

"..."

"However, you have to make a choice as soon as possible." A Xi turned around and looked up at the clouds on the horizon that were dyed red by the sunset, "Stay here, or leave here."

"..."

"If you don't know, just go and see Kongli again."

Are you going to see your mother again...?

Deep in despair and lonely every week, even if I go to see it, will there be any other meaning?

"Wait a minute, what's going on with that talisman? If my father wants to live with my mother forever, there must be a barrier arranged by my father around my mother, so why--"
To be continued...