Chapter 239 I Want to See Her Again
"Anson Lu, I have to go first." Asuka Uesugi's eyes were filled with anxiety.
"Let's go together."
"Use the item, the Myth Remnant Key."
The game command came down, and the key in her palm gradually disappeared. Gray mist rushed out from the cracked key, like a wild beast swallowing her body in one bite.
Anson Lu also knew that there was no time to lose, so he reached out from his pocket, grasped the key that was glowing red, and recited the same instructions.
After seeing Asuka Uesugi and Anson Lu both use the Mythical Remnant Key to leave, Yuri did not hesitate and directly used the Remnant Key, disappearing in the classroom in the same way.
A brief moment of dead silence enveloped the classroom.
The others were powerless because they were assigned to the subjugation battle of another myth carrier at the beginning, so they did not have the myth remnant key from Surtur's side.
At this time, we can only wait for good news.
Five years ago, in Tokyo, a mahogany corridor in the Uesugi residence.
Kamishiro Ruri let out a long sigh, stretched out her hand that was half covered by the wide sleeves, and gently pushed open the shoji door to the right. What she saw was a room with comics and skirts cluttered up in a mess.
There was no one on the tatami or the bed.
She moved her eyes and soon saw Asuka Uesugi huddled in the corner.
"Miss, you don't look very happy..." Kamishiro Ruri held the hilt of the knife and raised her eyebrows, "Did someone bully you at school?"
"No."
"No, there should be, right?"
"No means no!"
"Please tell me his name." Kamishiro Ruri's voice became colder.
"What are you going to do, hit someone on the head with a wooden sword like you did before?!"
"Um."
"I'll be reported, and they'll say I'm a gangster princess, and then I'll have to transfer to another school!"
"I'm sorry, miss."
"Compared to this..."
"What's wrong?"
"Recently, you seem to be talking more."
"Really? Maybe it's because I'm with the young lady."
"You've become more cheerful."
“I admit this.”
"Well, this is good. It's not good to be cold like before."
"Because the young lady said..." Kamishiro Ruri whispered, "She hopes I can smile more and be more cheerful."
"Oh, so it was all because of my order?"
"No, I am very happy. It is not an order...but a suggestion from the young lady."
"That's good." Asuka breathed a sigh of relief. "I was really worried that you would twist your personality for me. I would be unhappy. You must be yourself."
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Heavy rain poured down at the end of London, and every step the girl took was like walking on thin ice.
"Miss is..."
Kamishiro Ruri's half body, charred and bloody, was exposed in the biting rain.
"she is……"
She slowly raised her eyes, raised her sword, and faced the giant figure covered in flames.
"The first person who didn't treat me as a tool..."
Even a rainstorm as heavy as a waterfall would turn into steam the moment it touched Surtur. Not a single drop of rain could touch this huge body of the god.
"I must go back to her..."
Kamishiro Ruri was talking to herself as if she was praying, her messy hair wet from the rain hanging down in front of her forehead.
"Because I still want..."
Rain was flowing on the half of her mutilated face, but the corners of her cracked and bleeding mouth were raised high, looking confident yet ugly.
"Seeing her again."
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Four years ago, Uesugi Mansion.
Kamishiro Ruri placed the hilt of the knife on the floor of the corridor and gently opened the shoji door. She almost instinctively moved her gaze to look at a corner of the room.
"Miss, you really like to squat in that corner when you are unhappy." She smiled helplessly.
"Xiao Liuli, they all say I'm a monster. No one wants to talk to me. Do I have to transfer to another school?"
Asuka Uesugi hugged a teddy bear pillow and huddled in the shadow in the corner of the room.
"How could that be? These people are really too much." Kamishiro Ruri comforted, "I have been with the young lady the longest, and I know you better than anyone else. You are simply the most gentle person I have ever met."
Uesugi Asuka was silent for a long time, then she said:
"Little Liuli, don't rashly go looking for trouble with them again."
"But……"
"Hey, you're just too straight. It would be better if you could be a little more smooth."
"I just don't want to be told that by the young lady." Kamishiro Ruri sighed, "But I will try my best to listen to your advice."
"You know, when people in my class saw you picking me up from school, they all said you were a psychopath and that you carried a knife handle with you every day!"
"I don't care."
"But I cared, and I had a fight with them."
“I see…” Kamishiro Ruri was stunned. “The reason for being isolated this time is actually because of me?”
"It's not just..." Asuka shook her head, "They found the rumor about me at my old school, that I revealed my dragon tail during swimming class, and then it became like before again."
"But it's not Miss's fault."
"I say..." Asuka said softly, "Little Liuli, I've always wanted to ask, why don't you go to school?"
"I am the lady's attendant. How can I have time to go to school? My biggest task is to take care of your personal safety."
"If I leave, can you go to school?"
"What?"
"I secretly heard my dad talking to those people at home. He said if I left Japan, you can no longer follow me. My dad agreed."
Kamishiro Ruri was surprised and speechless.
"I'm going to high school next year because I'm skipping a grade," Asuka added.
"…Congratulations, Miss."
"Then, I plan to go to the United States to attend high school, alone. When I leave Japan, you will be free, little Liuli, and you don't need to stay by my side every day."
"In fact, for me, true freedom is being by your side."
"No, that's because you've only been around me, so you feel that way." Asuka said, "Little Liuli, you will definitely find something you like."
"Ms. Asuka... you are really strong. You have never relied on me. Even when you are isolated and excluded, and in pain, you will force yourself to smile." Kamishiro Ruri lowered her eyes and said softly:
"Although it seems that I am the one protecting the young lady, in fact, it was Miss Asuka who saved me. If it weren't for you, I might have already regarded myself as a puppet of the family and lived a life of obedience and being a tool."
"Come on, I'm not as powerful as you say, okay?" Asuka Uesugi slowly stood up, took a deep breath, and patted her cheeks, "...I've made up my mind!"
"What?"
"Even if you say that, I will definitely go to America." Asuka threw the bear pillow on the bed and said fiercely: "When I enter high school, I will go to America to study. Then you can also study hard in high school here in Japan."
"Miss, can you do this alone?"
"I can do it on my own!" Asuka put her hands on her hips and snorted, "I've decided that I won't rely on anyone! The same goes for dad and you, little Liuli."
"Hehe..." Kamishiro Ruri held the hilt of the sword and smiled lightly.
"What are you laughing at? I'm serious!" Asuka was annoyed.
"I was just sighing, it's really Miss's style."
"Really?" Asuka lay down on the bed with her arms and legs spread out.
"Also, I will work hard to be the person you want me to be." Kamishiro Ruri said, "At least smile more. People who are always lifeless can't get along with you, young lady. Also, young lady, you are too straightforward. Maybe you need someone more tactful to accompany you and help you deal with a series of things."
"Ah? That's not necessary. I was just mentioning it casually."
"No matter what, I support whatever decision you make, Miss, but I will be here for you whenever you need me."
"That's too corny!" Asuka blushed. "Rather than this, why don't you let me be by your side instead?"
"Really?" Kamishiro Ruri smiled at her.
"I will come. After all, I have been taken care of by you, Xiao Liuli, for so long. When I become the head of the family, I will take you around the world and help you get rid of the shackles of the family completely."
"Okay, I'll wait for you."
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It was raining heavily and the world was gray. But because of this, the huge red shadow standing in the center of London was so dazzling, like a god judging the world.
The flaming sword that was powerful enough to split the world slashed down, and Kamishiro Ruri's right foot created a spider-web-like pit on the ground. The whole person burst to the side, brushing past the tip of the flaming sword.
"I can't die here..."
Kamishiro Ruri's voice was hoarse and turbid, her throat was so dry that she couldn't make any sound, as if it was clogged with coke.
"I haven't fulfilled my promise yet..."
Kamishiro Ruri dragged her wounded body and stumbled forward.
"The young lady needs me..."
Her sword was filled with thousands of cherry blossoms, the petals swaying violently in the heavy rain.
[Sequence skill of "Peerless Sakura Blade" - Falling Sakura Myriad Slash (The body and blade are transformed into cherry blossoms, merged into one, and thrust forward once) (The lower the user's health, the higher the damage value of this move)]
"I really want to see her again..."
She screamed in the rain, no longer able to tell the difference between her tears and the rain.
"Say I missed her so much."
Kamishiro Ruri raised the katana with her only remaining right arm and pointed the tip of the blade at Surtur.
"Said I didn't want to leave her."
Every inch of her flesh and blood, every inch of the cold iron of the sword turned into falling cherry blossoms at the same time. The two gathered in the air to form a sea of cherry blossoms, rushing towards Surtur like moths to a flame.
Two months ago, Kabukicho, Shinjuku district, Tokyo, Japan.
"You've really changed a lot, Xiao Liuli."
"You too, miss." Kamishiro Ruri put away her fan and looked at Asuka with her beautiful eyes.
Uesugi Asuka hugged her shoulders and stared at her intently: "In that copy in Disney, the one who stabbed me as soon as we met, I even doubted whether it was you who I saw."
"I'm so sorry. That knife was just to give you the quickest death possible."
"Oh, then I should thank you. It really wasn't that painful at the time." Asuka said helplessly, "So why do you stay in the law enforcement team?"
"I received an order from my family to go deep into the law enforcement team to consolidate my power. In the Disney copy, I just had to cooperate with them and talk."
After a pause, Kamishiro Ruri smiled slightly and said, "Well, I can't always stand on their side and keep speaking for the young lady. This goes against the 'smoothness' that the young lady wants me to learn."
"I really just casually said 'I hope you can be more diplomatic', but I didn't expect you to actually do it."
"After all, people change."
"But this has become too much!" Asuka Uesugi raised her eyes and looked at Kamishiro Ruri with dissatisfaction.
"But I have confirmed one thing. Miss is still the same as before. When she is unhappy, she likes to hide in a corner like a kitten."
Kamishiro Ruri smiled. What she was referring to was naturally the Disney copy. At that time, Asuka retreated to the corner of the corridor after losing a battle. At that time, it was basically up to Anson Lu alone to restore morale.
"You bastard!" Asuka held her forehead and sighed, "Really? I'm so angry that I want to break up with you."
"I'm so sorry, miss."
As Kamishiro Ruri spoke, she suddenly smiled and handed the hilt of the knife to Asuka.
They had agreed before that no matter when they quarreled, as long as one of them extended his hand, they would reconcile immediately after shaking hands. If it was too awkward to extend their hand, they would use the handle of the knife instead.
Asuka Uesugi raised the corner of her mouth, grasped the hilt of Kamishiro Ruri's sword with her hand, and shook it hard.
"We reconciled?"
"Yes, we've reconciled." Asuka Uesugi said softly.
"The reason why I say you've changed, young lady, is because you, the young lady who said you absolutely didn't want to rely on anyone, left Japan and went to the United States alone, now has someone you rely on."
"ha?"
"Anson Lu, he is the first person that the young lady can rely on so much, right?"
"No way!" Asuka blushed, "That guy is so stupid! He acts like he has a split personality, sometimes hot and sometimes cold. Who would be so stupid as to rely on him!"
"So, does our original agreement still count?"
"Hmm? Isn't this for you, little Liuli?"
"I think you don't need me anymore, young lady, since you have Anson Deer by your side."
"What does this have to do with him!" Asuka said unhappily, "Listen to me, when I become the head of the Uesugi family, I will come to find you and we will travel together."
Kamishiro Ruri was stunned for a long time and smiled gently at her.
"Okay, it's a deal."
The Big Ben in London could no longer make a mournful cry. Its remains were crushed by Surtur, and not even a trace of it remained under the extremely high temperature.
At this moment, right in front of Surtur, thousands of petals were trembling in the rainstorm. They rushed towards Surtur like a cherry-colored sea and passed through Surtur's body.
"roar--!!!"
The health bar above Surtur's head dropped sharply, but it still maintained more than 70 percent of its health.
The sea of sakura disappeared, and the figure of Kamishiro Ruri appeared behind Surtur. She half-knelt on the ground weakly, with scorching flames burning all over her body.
Every inch of skin cracked in the flames, bursting with blood.
"Ms. Asuka, I'm going to break my promise..." Kamishiro Ruri stabbed the sword into the ground, trying hard not to fall down completely.
The next moment, Surtur slowly moved past the unshakable body, raised the flaming sword that was powerful enough to evaporate the rain and clouds, and vibrated it out furiously.
"It would be nice if people had an afterlife."
She fell to her knees, and the sword she was using to support her body shattered at this moment, piercing deeply into her spine.
"No matter where you go, I will never leave you."
Before she was engulfed by the raging fire, in her cloudy eyes, she seemed to still be standing on that elevated corridor. The girl gently pulled up the corner of her mouth with her hand and whispered to her:
"Smile, Kamishiro Ruri."
The flames spread across her body, covering every corner of her body. Kamishiro Ruri's charred face was so hideous and unbearable to look at, yet she had a faint smile on her face.
"I'm laughing, miss."
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