Volume 9, Chapter 10 – The Future That Once Was

“For you, what kind of future do you want?”

The already collapsing world. The chains of laws that formed the world manifested and began to dismantle themselves on their own.

And in my eyes, the girl saying those words smiled like a blooming flower.

Even though she was already so weak it felt like she could die at any moment, there was still a look of satisfaction on her face.

After a long silence, I finally spoke slowly.

“The future I want is nothing more than for you to be able to live on… You won’t die. Even if the world is destroyed, I won’t let you die.”

“It’s alright.”

My words did not seem to move the beautiful elf-like girl before me at all. Instead, the dying girl smiled and gently shook her head.

“There’s no need. Those killed by her can never live again. Even the entire world can’t continue to exist. How could I possibly be saved by you?”

“There is a way. I can give you my life for…”

“No need.”

The girl weakly shook her head.

“That kind of thing might be possible. But first of all, a complete stranger giving their life to me for no reason would already trouble me a lot. And besides, that method of exchanging lives…”

“If I’m not mistaken, you need to kiss, right? So I’m sorry, kindhearted person. Other than her, I don’t want to kiss anyone else~”

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“…But you’re about to die… Don’t you want to live?”

“I do… Of course I want to live. I want to stay by her side. She’s already been forced to destroy so many worlds. Compared to me, the one who personally killed me, what she bears must be suffering and pain beyond what even I can imagine…”

“If I could live, I want to stay with her. She’s too lonely. Even if she once had friends, to her those were nothing more than fleeting moments. And the closer she became to them, the more painful it was for her when she had to kill them with her own hands.”

“In her heart, she actually loves every world she’s experienced. But she has no choice but to destroy every world she comes to like. So in order to better carry out her mission and make herself feel less pain, she no longer dared to communicate with others.”

“But that only made her even lonelier.”

“She’s not a machine. She’s not a tool. She has her own consciousness, and she has her own soul. But experiences that were far too painful forced her to lie to herself, to convince herself she had abandoned emotions, to convince herself she had become a machine that only thinks rationally…”

“But all of that is just her deceiving herself. She’s still enduring endless pain, yet there’s no one who can give her salvation.”

As she spoke, tears suddenly flowed from the eyes of the girl who had been smiling so brightly just moments ago.

“She’s more conflicted than any of us. She’s more miserable than any of us… She can deceive herself, but she can’t deceive me. In my eyes, her consciousness has already collapsed countless times.”

“But even if she collapses, she won’t die, because her mission doesn’t allow her to die. So every time she collapses, she comes back to life again, then suffers, then collapses again, then suffers, then collapses again…”

As she reached this point, the crying girl’s body began to dissolve, just like the collapsing world around her.

And as her body dissolved, her voice grew softer and softer.

“If it were possible…”

“I really, really want to stay with her, and just keep staying with her, so that every time she’s on the verge of collapse, I can hold her and comfort her.”

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“And then gently pat her back and tell her that I’m still here…”

A collapsing world. A collapsing order.

Everything returned to silence. Everything returned to pure white.

The girl had completely disappeared, but her voice still lingered in my heart, softly echoing.

A dull pain spread through my chest. I lifted my head, only to meet a pair of cold eyes that seemed to be wavering, yet showed no visible emotion.

“So how does it feel, killing the person who cared about you the most with your own hands?”

……

After destroying the hub, Tianyin returned to the place where she had descended into this world. And when she returned to the laboratory, within a radius of a hundred miles centered on it, the mountainous terrain had almost been completely flattened.

Of course, this kind of scene was something the silver-haired girls under Tianyin could accomplish with ease. But Tianyin did not believe they were the ones who did it.

Because her orders were to guard the nodes, not to go out and annihilate everything.

As for what exactly flattened the mountains within a hundred-mile radius, Tianyin only analyzed it briefly before reaching a conclusion.

“Nuclear weapons. They detected my intrusion and immediately mobilized nuclear weapons for saturation bombardment. But at most, the power of nuclear weapons is only at the level of forbidden spells. They pose absolutely no threat to the Throne-tier.”

This was by no means something Tianyin said casually. The main reason was that none of the silver-haired girls she brought with her had suffered any injuries at all.

So weapons that humans regarded as capable of ‘destroying the world’ were utterly worthless in Tianyin’s eyes.

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They were not even as good as the forbidden spells cast by mages.

“The Light Orb has already been fully dismantled. But in order to stabilize the World Will of this world within ten days as quickly as possible, there are still some things that need to be done next.”

Coldly observing this world that was completely different from the Virtual Game world, Tianyin was already calculating in her mind what needed to be done next.

“The power of the Abyss needs to be recovered. The Fortress Faction of the Underground World must be dealt with in advance.”

According to Tianyin’s calculations, whether or not the Abyssal power was recovered would affect the success rate of her world destruction.

The probability of influence was about one in a hundred million. Even though the chance of failure was nearly zero, Tianyin would not allow even such a probability to exist.

By the same logic, aside from the Abyss, what remained was the Sanctuary that had lost its Heavenly Father.

The combat power of the Heavenly Father was on par with the Abyssal Lord. After the Heavenly Father’s death, the Sanctuary should logically no longer have any Throne-tier.

But in reality, the Sanctuary’s Holy Archangel Michael was also Throne-tier, just slightly weaker compared to the Heavenly Father.

And in Tianyin’s calculations, Michael of the Sanctuary would also affect her world destruction operation ten days later. Although the probability of causing failure was likewise only one in a hundred million, Tianyin would absolutely not allow such a possibility to exist.

Eliminate all possibilities and suppress the world with absolute advantage. That was the result Tianyin wanted.

“Then… the Light Orb of this world has already been dismantled. Next, it’s time to clear away the obstacles.”

This time, when Tianyin returned to the Virtual Game world, she was destined to stir up a storm of blood and slaughter.

And this time, it was destined to become the final story belonging to this world…

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Translator Note

OH MY GOD AUTHOR FOR F*CK SAKE!

ELF?!

SO THE GIRL YUNCHOU WANT TO SAVE ALL THIS TIME IS ACTUALLY XINGYU MUXI?!

What the hell! My head is so hurt after all of these plot twists!

And in previous chapters he said this present timeline follows the timeline of his first life, so… that means Xingyu Muxi was also very close with Tianyin… But Tianyin… she… she…

HWAAAAAAA!!!

WHY THE PLOT SEEMS LIKE GOING TO THE PATH OF SAD ENDING?!

WHERE THE HELL IS THE COMEDY NOVEL I LOOKING FOR?!?!?!

HWAAAAAAA!!!