Crossover Anime: How a Shameless Person Lives

"Could you please stop drinking?"

After only an hour in the hotel, Yukino Yukinoshita was already starting to feel uncomfortable.

The ground was covered with beer bottles and cloyingly sweet junk food.

Jason, who was lying on the ground, was used as a cushion. Even though all four of his limbs had been restored, he remained motionless.

"That girl named Hoshino Ai is your sister, right? You're just going to let her see you like this?"

She put herself in her sister's shoes; if her sister were like that, she would definitely force her to change.

"Haha, live for the moment, my friend."

Mercury pulled out a new jar and gave her a toast.

"By the way, in the basement of this hotel, besides alcohol, there's this too."

As he spoke, he pulled out a box of small balloons from somewhere and opened it in front of Yukino Yukinoshita.

They took one out and displayed it.

"Look, it's super thin! If Tomie were here, we could play here for a week! Hahaha!"

"I shouldn't have had any expectations of you."

Yukino Yukinoshita took a deep breath, trying to suppress the anger rising within her.

I finally decided to stop arguing with this person.

"What are your plans to do about the Kisaragi Station incident?"

"What do you think should be done?"

"Completely shut down."

Yukino Yukinoshita leaned against the window, arms crossed, her tone calm.

"Letting it continue to wander will only lead to more people getting trapped inside, and the stations it passes through are not safe... at least not for ordinary people."

She glanced at Jason, who was serving as a human cushion, and added a comment.

"I think it's quite fun; it's perfect as a tourist train."

Yukino Yukinoshita frowned, not agreeing with the suggestion in her heart, but not objecting verbally.

Ultimately, how to handle the situation depends on his decision.

Mercury stood up and kicked Jason in half, sending a shower of fine salt flying and covering the entire room.

With that, the immortal Jason is gone.

He walked up to Yukino Yukinoshita and stood beside her.

They all looked out the door at the three people who were so bored that they were looking at the scenery.

Aside from the initial panic, the three quickly adapted.

What puzzled Mercury was that the girl had been crying on the train.

It's like she's become a completely different person.

"Something's wrong with her." Yukino Yukinoshita followed his gaze and finally looked at the girl as well.

"Just now, she didn't know Jason Kim in the first sentence, but in the next sentence she called him by name and knew his abilities very well."

Upon hearing this, Mercury simply nodded, not paying any attention.

He's just some nobody on the Kisaragi Train.

Just as he was about to go back to drinking, Hoshino Ai ran over and stopped him.

"Brother! Let's go, it's too boring here!"

"Alright, alright, let's go~" Mercury was grabbed by the arm by Hoshino Ai, and before he could even grab his drink, he was pulled toward the train.

Yukino Yukinoshita breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this.

He called to Yui Yuigahama to leave together.

As the group passed by the girl, Mercury patted her on the shoulder with his hands covered in fine salt.

"You've worked hard; it must have been tough performing all the way through with all those tears."

The girl's body stiffened slightly, but she quickly returned to normal.

He silently followed the group to the train's location.

……

With the return of Mercury and his companions, the train started moving again.

The atmosphere on the train was far less cheerful than it had been at the hotel, because the train was now filled with corpses and the stench of blood permeated the carriages.

Slashes, bites, and impacts—it was as if countless monsters were rampaging across the vehicle.

As the train started moving, the bodies were gradually removed.

Just as the ocean always throws its trash onto the shore, trains always throw their trash onto the back of the train.

"It wasn't like this before. The train would close its doors and leave before the monster arrived." The girl, her eyes red-rimmed, glanced at Mercury and explained, "But this time, the train started but failed to move, so..."

After he finished speaking, everyone's eyes turned to Mercury.

Yukino Yukinoshita also remembers that he used salt to lock the train.

But he was there when he did it, and he didn't stop him, did he?

Locking up the train was a decision made jointly by the two of them.

Blaming all these deaths on one person doesn't align with her principles.

"Why are you looking at me? Whether they live or die is none of my business."

Mercury said he would not take the blame.

A powerful person's casual action will always have an impact on the weak.

This is unavoidable.

"I know, and I can't blame you for anything." Yukino Yukinoshita covered Yui Yuigahama's eyes.

Seeing the corpse still covered in blood, defying the laws of physics, it rolled into the next carriage.

She took a look around after the carriage was completely clean.

The girl with red eyes remained silent. Hoshino Ai, on the other hand, seemed to show little emotion despite witnessing this horrific scene.

Seeing this, she said seriously to Mercury, "You have to think about this child's future. Do you want her to live her life in a daze like you?"

"The future?" Mercury smiled, put his arm around Hoshino Ai, and patted her shoulder reassuringly.

"Listen, little kitten, you can't bind her with what you think is a perfect future."

What's wrong with living a muddled life? Just live in the moment, and treat each day as if it were your last.

"What if she encounters danger in the future?" Yukino Yukinoshita countered, "Can you protect her for the rest of your life?"

"At least until death, happiness will occupy most of one's life."

He looked down at Hoshino Ai: "Right, Ai?"

Hoshino Ai thought for a moment and nodded.

She happily buried her head in his shoulder.

It differs somewhat from the old dean's teaching, but the overall meaning is the same.

Responsibility, the group, and the self are not interconnected!

"Distorted logic and heresy."

Yukino Yukinoshita was somewhat annoyed, but she knew she couldn't change Mercury's mindset.

It's always like this, someone who is so powerful that they inspire despair.

But inside, he felt like a lump of mud.

However, things haven't completely changed; at least he's still willing to protect his sister.

Come to think of it, wasn't the reason she boarded this ghost story train so that Hoshino Ai could get rid of the curse?

How did I end up following him and treating this like a vacation?

……

The train traveled through the tunnel, and the darkness outside the window seemed to have come to an end.

Ahead, a faint glimmer of light could be seen.

Next stop, almost there.