I'll kill you after I finish this game!

"But... what Cagliostro did seems to make Lian angry and distressed."

Mary looked at Rezhe, whose expression was serious and tinged with reminiscence, and said with a troubled look.

Mary didn't like the word "destruction," but what Reiji and Cagliostro did couldn't be called wrong, at least not for someone who had been sacrificed to them.

"Nothing a person does can be liked or understood by everyone. Apart from you, whom he cares about, what he most wants to destroy is the endless repetition of the familiar—"

Reizhe put down his teacup, a helpless smile on his face, and spoke softly to Mary.

Perhaps what he and the Mercury Serpent did was so outrageous that they might even be hated by their successors, or even by Mary.

"Whatever we see, hear, do, or feel, even tracing back to Manas and Alaya—Cagliostro and I are tired of it, but we must continue in order to succeed."

Lei Zhe doesn't like being the kind of person who manipulates other people's lives behind the scenes, and his little You and Xiao Sheng wouldn't like him doing that either.

However, Rai Zhe and Mercury were already prepared for their goal.

Whether you hate and reject them or not, it may ultimately hurt the people you care about.

I don't ask for forgiveness, I just ask for...understanding.

Seeing Mary's increasingly complicated expression, Rezer sighed inwardly and muttered to himself:

"Just like every word I'm saying to you here now, it was all said in the distant past..."

"Is that a bad thing? I don't quite understand, but I'm happy talking to Zhe."

Mary, with her most genuine smile on her face, looked at Rei Zhe in front of her and said from the bottom of her heart, "If I could keep meeting Zhe, I would be very happy. Zhe, don't you think so?"

"Ah, you are one of the few people I deeply love and know."

As he spoke these words, the lifeless indifference in Lei Zhe's eyes vanished, replaced by a profound plea, as he said:

"But unfortunately, I am not a greedy being who can be satisfied with just savoring an infinite number of fleeting moments. I want to grasp the past, present, and future."

He would be very willing to meet his lover countless times, but turning the unknown future into a known one that he accepts is also his wish and desire.

He will not let go, he will not give up, as long as Xiaoyou and the others can keep smiling, he will not stop until the very end.

"Moreover, Cagliostro's heart was also very worldly, and he was never able to reach the state of seeing what is known as right and joyful."

Furthermore, the Mercury Serpent should not attempt to comprehend such a thing.

Without Reiji, Mercury Serpent would live like a decaying, withered old man or a walking corpse, with no real sense of being alive.

As a fellow traveler who accompanied Mercury Serpent on the path to Nayuta, Raiji and she had come to understand each other.

Their friendship was on an infinitely higher level than the self-destructing factor of mercury, the Golden Beast, and even Mary, who was close to them, could not understand it.

Both of them had the goal of mutual understanding, and the Mercury Serpent transformed all the unknowns in the infinite parallel multiverse into the known.

Only Razer has an unknown that will never be repeated, so besides Mary, meeting Razer is also a familiar experience that Mercury Serpent can never tire of.

"That's why he and I need people like you and them."

Rezé looked at Mary with sincere eyes and said, "Please make sure you become the guest of honor in my opera with him."

"What are you going to do with Titi... and Ren?"

Faced with the sincere invitation from her closest friend, Mary made no attempt to refuse, and she sincerely wished and hoped that Zhe and Cagliostro would get what they wanted.

The two of them... gave her so much and showed her so much affection; she owed them something she could never repay, not even until her death.

"Do what you're good at, and send all the supporting characters in this opera to Valhalla."

With a gaze as calm and still as stagnant as still water, Reiji spoke words tinged with cruelty as he looked at Mary and said:

"With your curse, and their hearts, with the decapitation blade that cuts through everything it touches, propel the apocalyptic catastrophe, and on the day of the wrath that destroys the prison of laws, let me continue to witness all of this."

"Is that so? Then..."

Reiz smiled, raised his hand and gently stroked Mary's beautiful smiling face, saying:

"Ah, continue singing here, sing the song of longing that is both bitter and sweet, and compose all of this into a story that will make you happy."

"Um--"

After Mary smiled and agreed, the guillotine blade on the guillotine beside them crashed down.

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As usual, the beheadings were being carried out. Even though the person being executed could not be seen, the sounds of flesh being torn apart and splattering could be heard.

The perspectives of countless viewers were split into two, one reflecting the figure of Fujii Ren sleeping soundly in bed, and the other reflecting Skadi sitting cross-legged in her room, meditating with her eyes closed.

The only common point between the two images is that the decapitation marks on their necks, identical to Mary's, are now radiating a crimson glow.

Skadi's expression remained calm and peaceful, while Fujii Ren frowned and gritted his teeth slightly, his face turning somewhat unpleasant.

After all, she hadn't fully adapted to her relationship with Mary compared to Biskadi.

Viewing beheadings as commonplace, as part of one's daily "normal" routine, requires a period of adjustment.

Seeing this scene, even the most oblivious viewer, even if they don't understand the true identity of the man who has a good relationship with Mary, should realize that most of the things that happen in Suwahara City are driven by him.

And this grand ceremony was held to achieve some unknown purpose.

Margaret, Skadi, and Ren Fujii were the main characters in this drama, and that's how they spoke so frankly.

The ultimate goal is related to Mary, but also to themselves.

Furthermore, the apocalyptic catastrophe mentioned by the man, the day of wrath that destroys the prison—any connection would lead to the conclusion of world destruction.

After all... everyone in the audience knows very well what prison means.

"Is it time to rebel against the god on the throne?"

The Geo Archon, who was listening to music in Liyue, remained silent, but his keen intuition caught a small part of the man's intentions.

After all, the gods of that world were ridiculously more powerful than the Teyvat Seven or any other demon god.

The God on the throne is equal to the whole world itself; everything is me, and I am everything.

To destroy the world, wouldn't that mean going to war with God?

Barbatos, who was drinking in Mondstadt, thought something similar. Even Fujii Ren, who had just entered the [Forming] rank in the video, could practically wipe out their Teyvat continent.

Above that, the demons of the [Creation] rank are all more terrifying than the last; even the laws of nature cannot rival them.

"The new god rebels against the seated god, and the old world will be destroyed along with the old god. From then on, the new seated god will create a new world... It's a story that can't even be described as an epic."

He downed the dandelion wine in one gulp, and Wendy, the former Barbatos and now a bard, had an incredibly clear gaze.

The gods in the video are beyond the comparison and imagination of their own gods.

Even the war between demons and gods couldn't compare to the horror unfolding in Suwahara City right now, let alone the battle for the thrones that they had only heard about from Skadi but had never actually witnessed.

Later in the video, the god on the throne will definitely reveal his true form.

In any case, whether it's Venti or the other beings that Teyvat is watching, people from countless dimensions are all extremely curious.

But... Wendy was equally curious about the identity of the man in the video who had a very good relationship with Mary and was dressed in a mysterious white robe.

After all, Mary's identity is that of a born seeker of the Way, and this white-robed man is one of the two mysterious beings with whom Mary had come into contact when she was still human.

According to what the other party said, the conflict between Skadi and Fujii Ren, and even Suwahara, is related to the other party and is also under the other party's instigation.

What is the identity of this man?

"...Could he also be a god? The God of Seeking the Way or the God of Domination...I almost forgot that only one God of Domination can remain in the same era."

Wendy's delicate face was flushed as she stroked her chin, pondering the identity of the man in the video.

But no matter how you think about it, given the extremely grand scale of the worldview, you just can't come up with a solution without sufficient information.

............

Returning to the video, the perspective shifts once again to the unconscious Fujii Ren, whose consciousness is still passively receiving Mary's synchronization information.

As she slept, Fujii Ren's consciousness seemed to sink into a gentle embrace, with a pair of hands constantly stroking her head.

Soothing her weary soul, in this unprecedented relaxation, she tried to reflect on her experiences and the definition of tragedy.

Simply put, it probably refers to the concept of severe loss.

When someone loses something important, a hole of that shape appears in their soul.

A rift in the heart, a rift in the spirit… Isn't the event that led to this situation what is generally called a tragedy?

However, although they are all important things, people's values ​​are also diverse.

Generally speaking, family, friends, and lovers are the easiest groups to reach, but Fujii Ren knows very well that some people will not feel anything even if they lose these.

So, what is the tragedy that all ten thousand people share?

There's a book that says what matters isn't what you lost, but how you lost it.

Compared to falling and losing, being taken away and destroyed is a more intense tragedy.

If so, is that really the case? There are easily understandable tragedies involving victims, and there is anger as a way out.

By hating the plunderers, one can forget sorrow and even achieve the life goal of revenge.

Among the people at the Black Round Table, Fujii Ren could sense that most of the people she encountered were of this kind.

The plundered become plunderers, and then plunder others, creating an eternal cycle of tragedy.

However, compared to them, what Fujii Ren cared about more were Mary and Skadi.

They are very kind to themselves, possessing an incomprehensible source of goodwill and closeness.

She and Mary shared the same views and understood each other.

After Mary, who was once human, was executed, the flower of humanity fell.

But Saint-Malo's jewels were not diminished by this.

A girl who was born with nothing... therefore, it is impossible for her to be deprived of life or given death.

From then on, she was all alone.

It still sings in the eternal twilight.

Too sweet, too sad, angelic voice, cursed chorus.

Ren Fujii was furious about this.

Mary... at that time she didn't know sadness or how to cry. Lian strongly felt that if she didn't get angry, she would be beyond saving.