People are in Star Iron, and the game begins with the unsheathing of Heavenly Fire.

Suddenly, Ron instinctively wanted to stop Sakura from continuing!

At least I hope the other person will come back and say these things to me later.

However, Ron clearly underestimated Sakura's determination.

Over tens of thousands of years, her emotions have accumulated time and again, becoming completely uncontrollable.

Now that everything in the world has fallen away and been erased, it is this emotion that has been etched into my memory for a lifetime that is constantly growing stronger and more intense!

Just like the sand that accumulates at the bottom of a bottle, little by little, it becomes a sand dune that can never be leveled!

Finally, Sakura took a deep breath and uttered the words she had kept hidden all her life:

"This is what I truly feel, and it's something I should have told you a long time ago... I can no longer pretend that we're just friends. Doctor, you're much more important to me, someone I can't bear to part with... Doctor, I love you!!"

Chapter 174 Sakura and Ron's Past! The Love-Hate Story of a Doctor and an Assassin!

Sakura's sudden confession immediately made the atmosphere at the scene strange, and the scene fell into a state where you could hear a pin drop.

Raven, Gray Serpent, and Fu Hua stared blankly at the two people in front of them, all looking dumbfounded. They never expected to find such a juicy story here.

Of course, Fu Hua wasn't just a passive bystander in this situation.

While her rationality was that of someone observing the situation, her deeper emotions inexplicably repelled the scene unfolding before her, and she even strongly disliked how it was going to develop.

In the end, Fu Hua's pupils contracted slightly, her expression froze in its original state, and she didn't know how to react for a long time, feeling a mix of emotions.

As all of this happened, Ron himself sighed, feeling that he could never truly separate himself from the existence of yanderes in his life.

Sakura, who used to be so normal and friendly, has become like this when we meet her again. It's easy to imagine what kind of mental state most of the heroes are in.

Incidentally, Ron also instinctively recalled the past, everything that happened between him and Sakura in the previous civilization, and the time when the two first met.

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"..."

"Are you the doctor from the Moth of Flames?"

"Yes."

“But I’ve never seen you before, and they recommended that I see Dr. Su.”

“Su went on a business trip a couple of days ago, and I took his place on duty. But from what I’ve observed, you don’t seem to have any illness.”

"You can actually tell?"

“Because I’m a doctor.”

"That's impressive, no wonder Dr. Möbius was so persistent with you..."

Are you mocking me?

"I'm sorry... but I do have an illness that requires treatment."

"I see. Then let's go to the room inside. I think it will take a while."

During that period, the Fire Moth was short-handed, especially since the medical department had all gone to the front lines to treat patients. Technicians like Ron had to come to fill the gaps in the medical department.

That's why he met Sakura, who came for 'treatment', and he quickly realized that Sakura's illness did not come from physical pain, but from inner pain.

Because Sakura is a member of the Poison Chrysalis, the dark side of the Fire Moth, her mission is not to fight the Honkai on the battlefield, but to deal with political enemies that the higher-ups must eliminate from the rear.

Years of killing had caused her severe psychological trauma, so much so that even Ron could not easily wash away the darkness in her heart, and the treatment lasted a long time.

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"..."

"Doctor, I've finished playing the game called Dark Souls that you recommended to me before, but I don't feel like my mental state has improved."

"Really? Then I recommend you play Getting Over It, Sekiro, and I Wanna One. Come back and report to me after you've finished them."

"This... Doctor, are you sure you're not just giving me the runaround? I spent ages playing Dark Souls with you before, and it took me forever to beat it. Has all that treatment really helped?"

"Your problem is purely due to too much killing, which has caused severe psychological trauma. It's similar to post-war syndrome or post-traumatic stress disorder... This condition cannot be treated with conventional methods. The only way is to use more intense stimulation to soothe your trauma. The games I recommend are all high-intensity and difficult games that can keep your brain in a state of tension for a long time. Once you release that fear and tension that comes from time to time, it will be easier to return to a normal life."

"I see……"

Through gradual contact, Sakura went from initially resisting and doubting Ron to gradually accepting Ron's treatment methods.

Their relationship gradually grew closer during this process, until that day arrived...

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"..."

"The Twelfth Herald has appeared?"

"That's right, and it's very likely that it's Sakura's younger sister, Rin."

The message from Alicia silenced Ron.

After a brief moment of thought, he made a decision almost immediately: he had to save the other person's sister.

Otherwise, if it falls into the hands of the Fire Moth, who is currently too focused on the Honkai war, it will be difficult for the Fire Moth to take good care of it.

Based on this idea, Ron almost immediately used his status as the top scientist to forcibly summon Sakura's sister, who had been identified as the Twelfth Herrscher.

He used the pretext of a Herrscher experiment to temporarily imprison the other party, but in reality, it was to protect the other party completely.

Of course, because he did all this without explaining it to anyone, he was immediately misunderstood by Sakura, which led to an assassination attempt that was arguably the biggest crisis of his life.

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"..."

"Where's the bell?! Hand over the bell!"

"cherry……"

"Doctor, I trusted you so much. I always considered you the most important person in my life besides my sister. But why... why you?!"

"..."

"Why?! Don't you want to explain yourself?!"

“Your illness… your emotions are starting to become impulsive again, Sakura. Don’t let your emotions control you; it will only blind you…”

"You...you bastard doctor!"

While working, Ron was suddenly attacked by Sakura, who had concealed her identity, and kidnapped to a dark corner.

Faced with the blade in the girl's hand and the anger in her eyes, Ron did not immediately panic, nor did he immediately explain the situation or ask for forgiveness.

He simply faced her calmly, looking into the girl's almost yandere-like red eyes, and used a gentle tone to calm her down.

Ultimately, it seems that it was the tacit understanding cultivated through long-term psychotherapy, or perhaps Sakura never intended to hurt him from the very beginning.

Therefore, Sakura finally calmed down. She slowly released the blade in her hand, but still stared intently at the man in front of her, waiting for an answer.

"Your sister...she became a Herrscher."

A simple sentence struck Sakura's heart directly, bringing her to the brink of mental collapse.

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After that, Ron took Sakura to his laboratory to meet Rin.

Sakura's expression wavered as she faced her sister, who had become a Herrscher.

She also felt very guilty about almost hurting Ron and her benefactor.

This guilt, combined with her past feelings for Ron, made her willing to do almost anything for a man.

As a result, Sakura became Ron's important right-hand woman, even doing many things behind the backs of the Fire Moth and the Thirteen Heroes.

During this process, Ron also did his best to help Sakura's sister, gradually extracting the Herrscher core from her body without endangering her safety.

That was the first time he had undergone surgery of this magnitude; it was a once-in-a-lifetime gamble.

Fortunately, he won his gamble. Sakura's younger sister, Rin, successfully transformed back into a human from a Herrscher, allowing the two sisters to be reunited once again.

After that, Ron stopped paying much attention to Sakura's situation and rarely met with her.

Because he had realized that the end was imminent, he began his final preparations to find a way to completely destroy the Herrscher of the End!

In the end, he succeeded in achieving everything and disappeared from this world.

Ron thought that this was the end of it all, and that his relationship with Sakura should stop at the point they were, as close friends.

Unexpectedly, when he returned and revealed his identity to Sakura, she no longer regarded him as an ordinary friend...

This is really too outrageous.

After all, in Ron's heart, he had always regarded her only as a close friend. During the days when he was providing her with psychological therapy, he quite liked this free-spirited and meticulous girl.

But this liking was just simple admiration; he didn't fall completely in love with Sakura, and it was impossible for him to simply develop feelings of love for someone.

His inherently cold personality prevents him from accepting any external favors...

Just as Ron was about to refuse, or at least deal with the chaos here as soon as possible, the intense energy that suddenly erupted from the distant Collapse Battlefield instantly attracted the attention of everyone present.

"..."

Sakura gave Ron a deep look, and when she saw that he didn't respond to her confession, she had already guessed the outcome.

But she wasn't disappointed, because she had been disappointed once before.

She was already overjoyed to see him return alive and well.

As for whether Ron would like her, she believed she had a good chance. She had already waited for such a long time, so spending another long time to make him like her was something Sakura could definitely do.

She is such a straightforward person.

"Sorry, I have to deal with that Herrscher first, Doctor. See you later."

Sakura gave Ron a charming smile, and her personality combined with that expression made people instinctively feel an irresistible attraction to her.

Even Ron's heart skipped a beat for a moment, almost thinking that the other party had used some kind of 'charm' skill.

Seeing Sakura disappear from the spot and head towards the battlefield, he did not stop there. Instead, after remaining silent, he told Fu Hua to stay behind and turned to leave.

"What are you going to do?"