Chapter 174 Epilogue: The Protagonist (Part 2) (Inverted V) Imperfect Child...
"Hello, Master, would you like to have something to eat with me?"
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"Squeak."
He Yuezhe did not answer Liu Hui, but the door beside him was blown open by the wind.
"Come in."
"Liu Hui," He Yuezhe said as he walked into the house. "Long time no see."
"haven't seen you for a long time."
Liu Hui's cheeks bulged as she picked up a ball of rice and stuffed it into her mouth.
"How is life here? Is it better?" He Yuezhe pulled out a chair and sat opposite her.
"It's great," Liu Hui always looked at the other person when she spoke. "Life here is great."
Her bright eyes were completely different from when He Yuezhe first met her. Instead, they looked a bit like the one in the photo.
"You deserve a good life." He Yuezhe looked at her. "You deserve it."
"What do I deserve?" Liu Hui murmured, repeating He Yuezhe's words.
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"The pain is what I deserve."
"Liu Hui?"
"Master, do you understand what it feels like to have countless people talking in your head at the same time? Do you understand what it feels like to have all the evil that has ever happened in this world re-lived in one person?"
"You hate them."
"Of course I hate them!!!"
"But you love them too."
"I don't love them!! How could I possibly love them?!! Why should I love them?!!"
"Stop talking about this!!"
There were actually two people talking at the same time inside Liu Hui's body.
One is Liu Hui, and the other is the [protagonist].
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I'm sorry, Liu Hui, although this method will hurt you, it is the only way to make the [protagonist] appear as soon as possible.
He Yuezhe took a deep breath and asked, "Liu Hui, I have something I want to talk to her about. Could you please take a break first?"
"The Soul-Saving Master is a complete lunatic. You must be careful with her!" Liu Hui's face was filled with worry. "Call me if anything happens!"
"good."
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"What do you want to tell me?"
Although the [protagonist] and Liu Hui share the same body, their completely opposite personalities can be clearly seen from their expressions.
Liu Hui is kind, generous and optimistic, while the protagonist is dark, crazy and pessimistic.
"【Protagonist】, do you still remember what I said to you when we first met?" He Yuezhe crossed his hands and supported his chin.
"..." [Protagonist] said expressionlessly, "You said I'm not the protagonist."
"Yeah, that's right."
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"What the hell do you want to say?!" The [protagonist] stood up suddenly and bumped into the dining table. The plates and bowls on the table collided, making a series of crisp sounds.
She seems to have a bad temper, so perhaps I shouldn't irritate her too much to avoid any trouble.
He Yuezhe knocked on the table. "Calm down, [Protagonist], I just want to ask you, what kind of person do you think is considered a protagonist?"
"……Perfect."
"What?" He Yuezhe couldn't believe what he heard.
"I say, only a perfect person can be the [protagonist]!"
"Who told you that?"
"No one told me!" The [Protagonist] angrily slammed the table. "No one told me! Do you also think my idea is wrong?!"
"[Protagonist], I'm not here to argue with you. There's no need to treat me as your enemy!"
"You are my enemy!! A perfect person doesn't need friends!!!"
“Chi——!!!”
The wooden chopsticks pierced the [protagonist's] palm.
"What are you doing?!!!!"
"You said I was your enemy, didn't you? Of course enemies fight like this."
“You can’t kill me!!” Seeing He Yuezhe approaching with a knife in hand, the [protagonist] shouted in panic, “If you kill me, the world will collapse!!!”
"Shut up! No world will collapse because of the death of one person, not even if you are the protagonist!"
He Yuezhe grabbed the [protagonist]'s hand and suddenly held her in his arms.
"'Good-looking', 'handsome', 'perfect body'," He Yuezhe tore off the label on the back of the [protagonist], "'hard-working', 'rich', 'optimistic'..."
“No, no!!!”
"Don't move." He Yuezhe stroked her head affectionately, "Let me hug you."
"No……!!"
"[Protagonist], do you think Liu Hui is the protagonist?"
"yes……"
"What about Ban Wei Le?"
"yes……"
"What about me?"
"Too……"
"Are we perfect then?"
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"[Protagonist]," He Yuezhe held her face and gently wiped away her tears with his fingertips. "I know that the obsession with perfection and the endless torture transmitted to you by the source of the world make you suffer, but that will never fill your life."
"You are a living person. Even if you are in pain, you will have moments of joy and happiness. You also have the right to be loved and to love."
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"An imperfect child can also be loved and be a protagonist, as long as she loves herself and believes in herself, as long as she is willing to embrace the inferiority complex deep in her heart."
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"Just be the protagonist of your own life. Why do you have to be the protagonist of the whole world?"
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"Okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's just a matter of starting over. You have Liu Hui with you, so you don't have to worry."
"I……"
"Let me hold you for a moment longer."
"Well, okay..."
He Yuezhe buried his head in the girl's shoulder, his nose felt sore, and tears were already welling up in his eyes, about to burst out.
She once pursued perfection, suffered from inferiority complex, and experienced pain, but she just escaped until now.
He Yuezhe, do I have to find excuses to comfort myself? She asked herself.
In fact, you have understood these principles a long time ago, so why are you crying now?
He Yuezhe's heart is very cold. She doesn't care much about the life and death of people other than her friends, but she only cares about the life and death of her friends, except herself.
"Why do you want to enlighten me?" asked the protagonist.
"Because I'm leaving, this is the last gift I could think of for Liu Hui and you."
"Leave? Where to?"
"Go ahead on the road. Looking for someone."
"What will happen to this world if I stop recycling those branch worlds?"
"Return to the main story."
"You want to return to the main storyline?!"
"No?"
"Well, it's okay, but there are too many side worlds here. It might be difficult to find the main storyline."
"oh."
“I try my best, I try my best!”
"Ban Weile," He Yuezhe lay on the sofa at home, eyes closed, holding a cup of honey water that she hadn't drunk in a long time, "I'm leaving."
"Why are you in such a hurry? Why don't you stay home a little longer?" Ban Weile was busy at the bar.
"He's in such a hurry to die."
"Captain, please let me go. I was just angry. You are so powerful, of course you can wipe out everything and save us from this disaster!"
"Ban Weile, look."
"This is……"
He Yuezhe always carried the jar with her, and although she had forgotten what it was when she handed it to Ban Weile, she intuitively felt that these seemed to be very important things.
"These, these people, aren't, aren't Yuan Yang, Chen Shu and Tang Xiqin?!" Ban Weile widened his eyes in surprise.
"Yes, you will become like this when I leave here."
“How terrifying…”
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"Do you need help?"
"No, I can do it myself!"
"Don't be so stubborn."
"Well, can you help me?"
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"Hey, captain, don't worry. I've already thrown my system into some other world. No one will see us!"
"It's not that I don't trust you, I'm just afraid that you'll feel useless."
He Yuezhe walked to the bar and took the ball of yarn from Ban Weile's hand. The ball was shining white on the outside but had colorful light on the inside.
"...Captain, isn't what you said a little too pretentious?" Ban Weile asked.
"Haven't you always thought this way?"
He Yuezhe gathered her energy in her right eye, and she could feel a bloodshot sensation in it.
"Plop." A drop of blood fell on the ball of yarn.
The world inside the ball of yarn suddenly appeared in front of He Yuezhe with incredible clarity.
Countless light balls as small as sesame seeds, wrapped around the wool, kept growing in front of her eyes, and tiny humans were living at several times the speed inside the light balls.
"What does the main line look like?" He Yuezhe's eyes felt a little painful.
"Just, brighter, bigger?" Ban Weile's answer was vague.
"..." He Yuezhe looked at the worlds one by one, and the ball of yarn was untied by her. "Answer properly."
"I've been away from the main world for a long time."
"I don't remember."
"Um……"
He Yuezhe has roughly looked at all the side worlds, but still hasn't found the main line.
Fortunately, without the influence of the [protagonist], the people in these existing side worlds are living pretty well.
At least, they will no longer be overly sad because of Liu Hui's death.
Wait, “no longer be overly sad because of Liu Hui’s death”?
Realizing this, He Yuezhe picked up the wool scattered on the ground and looked back at them one by one.
"No……"
"What's missing?"
“No, no…!”
"team leader?"
"There is no Liu Hui in these worlds!"
"No, how could that be? There must be a world where Liu Hui escaped from Werewolf alive!"
"No, I must have missed something." He Yuezhe closed her eyes and began to recall what had happened from the time she came into this world until now.
From receiving the mission to help Liu Hui avenge herself, to killing those people one by one, to returning to reality, and finally watching them die again... again and again?
The culprit who died was the [protagonist], but why did the [protagonist] do that? This is just an ordinary side world.
Well, there is only one answer.
"Ban Weile, I know where the main plot is."
He Yuezhe opened his eyes: "So, I'm leaving. Goodbye."
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In summer, the wind at night is much cooler than at noon.
He Yuezhe passed through the crack and returned to the world where she and 1197 started. She saw Liu Hui sitting on the edge of the cliff, humming softly.
"Hehe...you're here." Liu Hui stopped humming and didn't look back.
"Liu Hui." He Yuezhe called her name, walked to her side and sat down.
"Do we have to return to the main storyline?" The moonlight shone on Liu Hui's cheeks and nose, casting a group of dark shadows.
"This is the world that belongs to you." He Yuezhe said, "Liu Hui, there is no place for you in other worlds."
That's cruel.
"...Yes, this is my world." Liu Hui lowered her head.
“But here, they’re unhappy,” she added immediately, “and I don’t want them to be unhappy.”
"So you're going to make them forget you, even if it means death, and then use everything you have, everything you possess, to reshape the world?"
"……Um."
He Yuezhe couldn't imagine why Liu Hui was willing to do this for those people.
"You are great." He Yuezhe also lowered his head.
Vehicles shuttled back and forth among the lights of thousands of homes, and there were small shops on some streets selling delicious midnight snacks.
"Are you here to stop me?" Liu Hui turned around and asked.
"..." He Yuezhe looked at Liu Hui's tired face, and the grass under his hand tickled her palm, feeling itchy, like a girl's curled hair, soft and intimate.
"I won't stop you, Liu Hui. As long as you're happy, you can do whatever you want."
"Thank you, Master," Liu Hui choked up, "really, thank you."
"Liu Hui, you still have one step left to rebuild this place, right?"
"Master, no!"
"I wish you success."
"Master of the Resurrection!"
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"Liu Hui."
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"In the future, you must live happily. In your own world, please always love yourself, forever..."
"forever……"
"Bang--!!!"
The body fell to the ground, high on the cliff. The girl called out anxiously, but He Yuezhe could no longer hear anything.
Liu Hui, your past was too painful, so you can do whatever you want as long as you are happy.
Even though, I would die for it.
——The Fourth World Ends——
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The author has something to say: Yeah, this world is over too. [猫头][猫头]
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