His legs were pressed under the rocks, and his deft hands, which were good at building fences for the slums, showed white joints. If he could open his eyes, they would be as sharp as a wolf's.
…
[“Let’s go, take Alice away from these scary places. She is the protagonist, and so are you. The protagonist shouldn’t give up the best ending for some supporting characters who can’t leave.” Pat laughed and pushed Su Ming’an away.]
…
At this moment, Su Mingan met Alice's gaze again.
She stood beside the kerosene lamp, her shadow stretched long by the silent light. She seemed a thousand miles away from him, yet just one step away. She closed Pat's eyes, holding the sunny doll in her blood-stained palm.
Her lips opened and closed, and Su Mingan also read her words -
[“I became a goddess because I wanted to protect Pat and the others. If I could protect a town like Fort City, the children wouldn’t starve to death.”]
[“But I thought, if you become a true Old God, you can protect them as well. Instead of struggling with the fate of being the ‘protagonist’ like me, but constantly losing and never getting what I want.”]
[“So, use me to revive the Alien King.”]
[“Detective. I accept this fate.”]
…
The look on her face made him think she was about to cry.
【Girl: mi, re, mi, re... (humming)】
The sound of singing could be heard faintly in the breeze.
In the noisy and silent rain, that was the tune of "To Alice". The girl sat among the bright red "lycoris radiata" and slowly took off the crystal crown that had been heavy for a long time. She picked up the knife - "click".
In an instant, his black hair fell down his shoulders.
It was as if countless causal threads that were bound by fate had been cut off.
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