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"Tch, that laughter is awful. Is it your own elegy... It's a pity I was a second too late to give you a punch." Hanon's fighting style was quite steady. She immediately used "Illusory Transformation" to jump out of the battle, in case Shishio was desperate and did something crazy like burning herself along with him.

Whether you call it a complaint, a mockery, or a sigh, the point is that Kanon has distanced herself from Shishio.

But there was someone else burning alongside Shishio, and that was none other than Shishio's beloved Komagata Yumi.

"Lord Shishio, shall Yumi accompany you?"

Yumi walked into the flames and hugged Shishio. By the time others saw it, it was already too late.

The flames were extremely hot, and Yumi was immediately engulfed in flames upon entering. Even if Kanon immediately activated "Unbounded Transformation" to save her, she would only be a helpless cripple who was oblivious to her own mortality.

"Ah, this..." In the end, all the emotions could be summed up in one sentence: "Everyone has their own destiny, and it is all their own choice. If there is an afterlife, I hope you can live a peaceful life."

The flames were extremely hot, and Shishio and Yumi quickly vanished into nothingness within them. Everyone stared blankly at the flames. As fellow warriors, swordsmen, and ghosts of the late Edo period, seeing Shishio's end inevitably evoked feelings of sympathy.

But in just a few minutes, only a pile of ashes remained on the ground.

"Lord Shishio? Lord Shishio!!!" Fang Zhi, the last surviving member of Shishio's faction, finally reacted and immediately went into a frenzy: "I don't believe it!!! Lord Shishio clearly won! It can't be!!!"

The guy stumbled and ran out, almost bumping into Hanon on the way. Hanon didn't think much of it at first: "This person has gone mad and is incapable of anything."

But it seemed that wasn't the case. Everyone quickly realized, "Hey, why is the door closed? Oh no, there's a trap!"

Author's Note: Nine hundred chapters have already passed in the blink of an eye. I'm filled with emotion. Once again, thank you to all the readers who have been with us along the way. This book will not reach a thousand chapters. This is the last hundred chapters. In particular, the next chapter is the end of the Kenshin arc and the beginning of the final plot, which is quite memorable.

This is the third update today, and there will be another chapter in a little while. I've actually been brainstorming the ending for a while now, and the plot isn't short. I hope to finish writing this month's worth of chapters and get another month's full attendance bonus before finishing the book... In principle, I will maintain the frequency of three updates per day for the next ten days or so, but sometimes I might choose to update twice. I hope you all understand. If there is an update of two on a certain day, I will let you know in advance in the author's notes for that day.

So let's head towards the ending of the dream (just kidding)~

Section 910, Chapter 901: The Female Bodhisattva

Exhausted from the fierce battle and shocked by Shishio's unexpected spontaneous combustion, Kanon and Hisumura's group ignored the danger around them.

The danger came from the only remaining member of the "Ten Blades," "Hyakushi" Fang Zhi. As a fanatical follower of Shishio Makoto, Fang Zhi went mad after his lord's death. He was also the actual operator of this secret base and knew the various mechanisms and secret passages best. The gate leading to the Abyss Arena had originally been smashed down by Kanon, but Fang Zhi immediately activated an even thicker iron gate to block the way.

He then ran into the control room and began causing widespread destruction.

"Hahahaha, die, all of you die! I want everyone to die here!" Fang Zhi swung the iron hammer wildly, and the power of the Holy Sword of Physics was beyond question. Soon, the entire Mount Hiei base began to collapse.

"As long as everyone is wiped out, there are no winners. And no winners means that Lord Shishio hasn't lost; he's still invincible! Hahahaha..."

If Kanon heard this, she would definitely make a good critique. Even if the others on Himura's side heard it, they would do the same. Sanosuke and Saito are both masters of witty remarks!

However, Fang Zhi is not with them right now, and Hanon and the others are busy escaping.

"Beast! That guy with the triangular eyebrows, there's actually a second door here?" Zuo Zhizhu used his "Double Force" to frantically smash the door, but unfortunately, this door was a backup mechanism, made very sturdy, and he couldn't break it for a while.

"Get out of the way, your half-baked attacks are just a waste of time." Saito Hajime shoved Sanosuke aside and assumed his familiar "tooth-thrust" stance.

At this point, Sanosuke couldn't care less about arguing: "Hey, you're injured too, aren't you..."

"Boom—" Before he could finish speaking, Saito's powerful thrust had already destroyed the door, silencing Sanosuke. Even though he had mastered the "Double Force," there was still a considerable gap in their strength.

Unfortunately, the new gate is more defensively robust than the ordinary gate. Saito made a hole, but the opening was too small for anyone to pass through.

"Again! Ugh..." Saito was about to make another move, but his legs went weak. He had been injured by Shishio's slash, and the force of his "tooth strike" had aggravated the injury, making it difficult for him to make a second move.

Sanosuke's attacks were ineffective against Daimon, Saito could no longer fight, and Hisumura and Aoshi were also injured, and they were never power-type warriors to begin with...

"Sigh, it seems it has to be me again." Hana sighed softly, "Get out of the way, let me do it!"

After taking a few deep breaths, Kanon adjusted her posture and state of mind, and with a focused and sincere heart, unleashed a "Twelvefold Force," far surpassing the destructive power of Zuo Zhisuke's version. The gate shattered with a crash, and Kanon earned the title of "Iron Gate Destroyer" once again.

"I think this adventure can be named 'A-Xia and Those Useless Men'~" Hanon joked. Just as Sanosuke was about to reply, he felt a tremor under his feet. Fang Zhi's destruction was obviously complete, and the place was collapsing at an accelerated pace.

"Don't say anything, run!" Everyone was injured and couldn't talk. They could only push forward together. Huge rocks fell from the mountain. The huge rocks looked really dangerous. If one of them hit them, even Huayin probably wouldn't be able to catch it and would die on the spot.

"Bang—crash!" Suddenly, a huge rock fell and collapsed a long bridge. Everyone was running onto the bridge when the rock split them apart, separating Saito Hajime from the others.

“Saito!” Sanosuke exclaimed.

“Hehe…” Saito remained calm, leisurely lit a cigarette, and even turned around and walked back the way he came: “Don’t make a fuss, I have experienced far more life-and-death situations than you have.”

But the way we came was a dead end, wasn't it? Is there any way out?

"Sai-fuji"

"Hmph, fool." Saito was a little touched by the camaraderie between these passionate men, but with one path blocked, another still offered hope. He had no time for sentimentality... Hmm?

Saito suddenly felt a lightness in his body as he was lifted off the ground. He quickly turned around and saw that it was the little girl "Eagle Wind and Clouds" who had taken a few quick steps to accelerate and leaped over before the gap in the long bridge widened. Then, she grabbed Saito by the collar and threw him toward Sanosuke: "Hey! Catch!"

"Oops?" Sanosuke reached out and caught Saito, the two bumping into each other and looking quite disheveled... but Saito had at least made it to the safe zone.

This time, it was Kanon who ended up in danger.

The base continued to collapse, boulders continued to fall, and the gap widened to a point where it was impossible to jump across. Before Sanosuke and the others could react, rubble and dust had completely obscured their vision.

"Ah-Xia-Girl-!"

“You really are an idiot.” Kanon rolled her eyes and walked down the path that Saito had originally intended to take: “You know nothing, Sagara Sanosuke.”

...Mount Hiei collapsed.

"Damn it, damn it!" Sanosuke, who had escaped, pounded on the trees. They all believed that Kanon had perished in the collapsed Mount Hiei, but the dead are gone, and they could only return to their lives with regret for their comrade and joy at survival.

On the other side of Mount Hiei, on a high slope, "Hyakushi" Fang Zhi suddenly awoke.

"Ugh... Ah! Where am I?" He sat up, but instead of the expected hellish scene, he saw a burly figure standing beside him: "Anci? Did you save me?"

"Ugh, why did you save me? Why didn't you let me die with Lord Shishio!"

"Lord Shishio and Miss Yumi...did they really die together?" Someone else spoke up, and Fang Zhi turned his head to look: "Soujiro?"

Seta Sojiro looked solemn, clearly mourning for Shishio, whom he had followed for the past ten years. After the silence, he walked away, saying, "Well then, I'll be going now. Goodbye."

"Where are you planning to go?" The question wasn't asked by Fang Zhi or An Ci; there was a third person present.

"Who else?" Fang Zhi turned around and saw a figure he never expected, the one who would become the source of every nightmare he would have in the future—Hua Yin.

"Aaaaaah! What are you doing here!" Fang Zhi screamed, excitedly trying to hit Hana, but he had no weapon with him and couldn't even clench his fist properly, so how could he possibly hit Hana?

"Of course I escaped. You've already caused quite a commotion by making such a big fuss, so just behave yourself." Hua Yin gently pressed down on Fang Zhi, who temporarily lost consciousness and collapsed to the ground.

Then she looked at Sojiro again, who scratched his head: "I don't know where to go, but Miss Aya, you're right. I need to personally verify which path is the right one." He looked at the sky: "It's summer, getting hotter and hotter. Let's go to Hokkaido first."

Sojiro left.

Then Hanon turned to Anci: "And what about you?"

“To be honest, I don’t know,” Anci sighed. “Maybe I’ll turn myself in to the police, or maybe I’ll go on a long trip. I haven’t decided yet.”

"I see..." Hanon took a few steps closer: "Then I'll give you a goal."

"What is it?"

"Remember how I kept saying I didn't have much time left?" A feeling had been growing stronger in Hana's heart since earlier, a feeling that had been recurring during her recent transmigrations: "Now my time has come, I think I'm about to..."

Before she could finish speaking, Huayin felt her body become light and limp, and she fell backward: "Holy crap, how come it was so fast this time!"

Anci rushed over and caught Hanon's body, and in doing so, she heard Hanon's last words: "Please protect me..."

At this moment, the image of the little girl Ying Fengxia overlapped with that of the pitiful orphans in Anci Temple many years ago, giving him a tremendous shock.

When Anci came to her senses, Ying Fengxia in her arms had already slowly woken up, her eyes filled with fear and unease: "Who...who are you? Why...why am I here? Where is this?"

She bombarded her with questions, rubbing her head: "Ugh, my head hurts so much. Something seems to have happened these past few days. I have vague memories, but I can't quite remember them, like I had a dream... You... I saw you in my dream... Where are you taking me?"

"This situation..." Anci was shocked. How could Ah Xia suddenly turn into an ordinary little girl? Could it be...?

It must be a female bodhisattva descending to earth to save the world!

Why does Ying Fengxia, a young girl, possess such terrifying martial arts talent and such powerful martial arts skills? Why does she despise Zhizhixiong's dog-eat-dog philosophy and want to get rid of him as soon as possible? Why does a girl who is only a teenager understand so many profound principles? Why does she know that there is a wise sage who understands the truth in Germany, far away in Europe...?

As a former monk, Anci naturally had some superstitious ideas, and by attributing everything to the possession of a bodhisattva, it seemed that all the past events could be explained!

Well, that makes sense. Actually, the only thing Anci was wrong about was that the one possessing Ying Fengxia was not a god, but Hana, who had traveled from a hundred years in the future.

“Miss Xia, let’s go to Germany together and visit a wise man.” Anci made his decision this time, and his tone was firm: “Don’t worry, with me here, no one can hurt you.”

Author's Note: It seems this ending is a bit long, and the new chapter will begin immediately in the next chapter.

Section 911, Chapter 902: Dream, Ending (Part 1) - The Lone Star of Fate

Takafuka traveled to Germany with the monk Anji, catching the wave of the Second Industrial Revolution. Anji learned the true way to save the world from the philosopher, and might have become a pioneer of thought in Japan and even the East. Takafuka, on the other hand, mastered new ideas and technologies that were ahead of the world at the time, advancing the rise of the Takafuka family by several decades. Later, the industrial empire she built was far more powerful than the Motorbike that Kanon knew about...

All of the above were guesses by Hanon, lol.

Oh dear, this time travel was really rushed, and there was no time to properly arrange "afterlife". Now that I think about it, maybe it was because Kanon was fighting in the last days of the Bakumatsu period that the adrenaline surge masked the special feeling before the time travel, which is why she didn't have time to prepare!

But it doesn't matter anymore. At least Kanon is safe and sound, Takakaze is safe and sound, and the timeline is probably safe and sound too. Kanon has experienced a lot, not only in the late Edo period in Japan, but also in China at the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, and even further back in time, in the early Song Dynasty at Gaoliang River, in the Three Kingdoms period under Cao Cao, in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties at the Burning Deer Terrace... she has even experienced the ancient primitive era. Although all these past events are like water without leaving a trace, they are engraved in Kanon's memory and will never be forgotten.

What's past cannot be undone, but the future can still be shaped. Whether the next time she travels to a new era or returns to the modern world, Kanon is confident in facing it...

"Hmm..." Hanon opened her eyes.

Was it a dream? Those battles, those eras, those relatives, friends, lovers, enemies...

If it's a dream, it's a wonderful dream! It's a pity the dream is too blurry; it would be better if it were more vivid.

Huayin blinked. Her eyes were empty and lifeless, revealing no emotion whatsoever. They were indeed clear and pure, like two clear springs that cleansed the soul.

A glance from Huayin made the person beside the bed shudder: "Miss Ye, you're awake!"

"?" Hanon didn't speak, but a question mark seemed to appear in her eyes.

The person by the bed quickly helped her sit up—it turned out that Huayin was lying on a hospital bed with many tubes inserted into her body. The tubes were connected to Huayin's arm, which was white and thin, almost bloodless, and practically skin and bones!

Such a body is naturally weak and powerless; if it weren't for the person by the bedside supporting her, it would be really difficult for Hana to sit up.