A journey of seven souls escaping from the basement

[Are you determined to use this anomaly on yourself? 】

"Determination is not something that must be avoided. If you don't use it when you should use it, it will be meaningless..."

【So......】

'I' who have lived for six years, discovered and started, looked at 5, and said to the somewhat immature child - [Crown for you.]

7% - 14%

98% - 99%

The seven-year-old self represents choices and attempts; the six-year-old self represents discovery and starting point.

So...what is five?

I don’t know whether it’s because it’s been too long and I can’t remember it anymore, or maybe it’s because a hole has been poked in my brain. Yabu feels a little hazy. Everything feels like a dream to him, all blurry. Unclear bubbles, illusory and fragile.

[When they grow up, they no longer see the elephant in the snake’s belly, and they only judge the beauty or ugliness of a house based on its price. 】

[I’m so scared. People change over time. 】

[I'm really afraid that I will become that kind of adult in the future, and then slowly turn into a bad person because of this ability. 】

Ah, that's it, it turns out that five represents this.

"Then...what kind of person do you think you will be when you grow up?"

【I......】

Wu looked at his chest, where there was a glimmer of red. He seemed to be timid and feeling sad about it.

[Perhaps, he will become the most selfish bad person. 】

[What kind of person do I want to be when I grow up? 】

"…good guy."

[Then am I a good person? 】

"I don't know, I don't know if I can be considered a good person, but I... keep trying."

[If you use that ability, your inner goals will be achieved with determination, and even the impossible will become a success as long as you work hard. 】

[I don't dare to use it. I'm afraid that in my heart, I actually regard snakes as hats and measure beauty and ugliness with money. I'm afraid that I will gradually become intoxicated with my determination. I'm afraid that I will gradually change from an adult to this. Become a bad guy. 】

【'I', have I become a particularly selfish and bad person? 】

"I......"

Ah, really, at this point, he couldn't think of what he was going to say.

All language seems to have become less important, and any words have no meaning, because that thing is right there.

"what......"

Yabu laughed with some relief.

Then, like a prayer, he poured out his heart to Wu and himself.

"I'm human, you know that."

"Others will teach me a lot, and I will learn a lot, but no one has ever really shown me, and no one can really show me how to face this kind of thing."

"I don't have any high-sounding words, and I don't need to say those words."

...The surrounding drowsiness began to shatter with the sound.

"If this determination is truly omnipotent and can make your inner goals achievable as long as you work hard..."

"Look at my heart, I have never sold my soul to anyone!"

"Take it away! I know everything you want is there, and it's definitely not something dark and evil."

... Something was bursting out deep inside, and he felt an echo from the depths of his soul.

"It's mine, it's the human soul."

【So......】

【I am 7, now I will make a choice. 】

[I am 6, now I need to identify this anomaly. 】

Seven passed the blessing to Six, and Six passed the blessing to Five, but in fact there were more. Every one, every day, and every stage of the self was reciting that blessing. In the end, it all disappeared, leaving only , the smallest, yet undefined.

【I am 5. 】

【Now, I am me. 】

Finally, he walked up to Yabu, looked at himself who had to look up to see his face, and gave his blessing.

【Crown for you】

14% - 21%

99% - 100%

..........

Da da...

Regarding the dagger stained with Yabu's blood in his hand, Black Snake directly used his own clothes to wipe the blood on the dagger without a trace of disdain. While walking forward, he even slowly smeared some blood on the dagger. In his own hand, he slowly tightened it in his palm, feeling the feeling of Yabu's sticky blood spreading in his palm, and kept exerting force until he didn't know whether it was his own blood or Yabu's blood. The gap in his hand popped out and then slowly stopped.

Da da......

"Tallulah." Frost Star called Tallulah who was walking in front without saying a word and lowering her head. She felt that the air seemed to become a little thicker.

"..."

clatter......

Yes.

Black Snake stopped moving forward, followed Shuangxing's voice, and turned to look back.

Yes Yes......

The air has become a little heavier. The air is getting heavier. This is not talking about the surrounding atmosphere, but for some reason, I and Shuangxing are walking slower and slower. Even my feet feel blocked and it is difficult to lift my legs. Effortless.

It felt like the air around them had solidified, holding them in place.

But to be precise, it is not the air that is solidifying, but the gravity that is changing. It is their gravity that pulls them downwards and fixes them in place.

Ding--

"Ha...right! That's right! That's how it should be."

He had completely ignored Shuangxing's reaction behind him, and didn't care what Shuangxing thought of him at the moment. His burning eyes passed by Shuangxing and looked at his most important, lost and recovered treasure.

"my hero."

Ka-! ! !

Those ice picks that penetrated the cloth, wrapped in blue fluorescence, shattered as if they were crushed by something in an instant, turning into ice crystals and scattering.

But the wounds on Yabu's body still existed, and the hole that penetrated his chest and left eye was left there. Even after losing the support of the ice pick, he began to fall downwards in mid-air.

But suddenly, he saw it. He didn't know if Frost Star could also see it, but he did see it. Countless chains were coming from all directions, entangled and pouring into Yabu's body, exuding While the blue flames were filling the holes, they were constantly pulling at something.

They are... pulling at Yabu's soul.

The broken and scattered soul fragments in the chest were gradually pulled together by the chains, and at those joints, there were some red things acting as glue. It looked like a piece of broken glass that had been reused. The glue held it together.

He should have met his own death.

*but it refused. (But it refused.)

Once you have helped others, you will inevitably have connections, and those countless connections with people in this world have turned into chains, pulling this trustworthy integrity back here, and stitching it together with self-determination. Together.

——100% integrity

——Integrity

——Determination 21%

——Determination

The blue heart is covered with red lines, just like the blood vessels and nerves densely covered with the broken and ferocious heart.

It looked barely usable and could break at any moment.

[New game rules added, the miracle of resurrection from the dead, time - 3 minutes. 】

enough.

【3:00】

I am 21.

Now, I'm going to start and keep my resolve.

I will run towards my goal and work hard until...

"Long live me. (Long live me)"

drop--

【2:59】

As the beep of an electronic watch suddenly sounded in his head, the blue soul on Yabu's chest began to emerge with a faint blue light, wrapping his body, making his body that could fall to the ground at any time suspended in mid-air. .

He slowly raised his head that had been hanging down. His eyes, which were filled with chains and were constantly bursting out with blue flames, stared at the black snake in the distance. At the same time, the index and middle fingers of his right hand pointed at Tallulah's body together.

The range that had been locked was temporarily broken by forcible modifications driven by determination, but no cyan bones appeared around Tallulah, but her body was wrapped in a blue light that was deeper than cyan.

At the same time as the blue light appeared, Yabu was like a conductor at a concert, directing the musical instrument called "Gravity" in the concert. He pointed his fingers together and pointed at himself. With a wave, Tallulah was instantly pulled in front of Yabu by gravity.

"Ya Bu, my fellow race..."

"I am not of your race." Yabu denied Black Snake's words in a hoarse voice. He stretched out his free fingers to pull the dagger that belonged to him in his hand back to his own hand using gravity.

——Link

"It doesn't matter, what I want to have is you! Come on, kill me!"

Whether he is from the same race or not is no longer important. What is important is that he is Yabu.

I will always watch him. This is a treasure that I discovered and must be forged by myself.

——Mark

"Don't think this is the end, you have...been targeted by the snake (me)."

Ignoring Black Snake's last words, Yabu waved the dagger in his hand and slashed at the connection between Tallulah and Black Snake.

As the link broke, the gloomy eyes of the body in front of him suddenly became confused, and then quickly regained consciousness.

Tallulah looked at the person in front of her, or in other words, it could no longer be considered a person. It was difficult to think of the existence of life in this tattered body.

She didn't know what to say to the person in front of her, because the current appearance had a lot to do with her request for help. It was her cowardice that created an opportunity for Black Snake.

"Don't worry about my problem." Yaobu ​​noticed Tallulah's thoughts and comforted her with a hoarse voice. At the same time, he slowly placed her on the ground and removed the blue light from her body.

"...!"

But that's all. He knew that he didn't have much time to say anything more, and he had to take advantage of this last bit of time to do everything he could to contribute to this place. Pave the way.

The transmitters emerged around him and condensed together, floating in the mid-air behind Yabu. After a moment, something began to appear around those transmitters.

They were bones, not cyan or orange, but pure white bones, as if a huge skull left behind by some kind of dragon's death emerged from behind Yabu, shrouding Yabu in the shadow of its huge size.

And this thing is not just superficial. After it is completely solidified, the transmitter in the mouth of the huge keel gradually begins to beat like a boiling liquid.

The skull opened its huge mouth to the sky. As the transmitter continued to accumulate energy, the keel's mouth gradually began to emit a dazzling blue light. Until the light was so bright that everything around it became as bright as daytime, Yabu took out the The dagger swung forward slightly.

boom--! ! !

The time now is three o'clock in the morning. This time is generally called Yin Shi, which is the transition point between night and day.

Of course, it also has a more widely spread name - dawn.

A huge beam of light burst out from the mouth of the keel like an artificial dawn, bombarding the dark clouds hanging over Chernobog. The dark clouds that were about to bring natural disasters were instantly pierced by this beam of light, and were like cotton being instantly ignited. As the surrounding dark clouds began to collapse toward the beam of light, until the natural disaster was completely eliminated, the artificial dawn dissipated under the control of Yabu, leaving the sky restored to purity to welcome its real dawn.

【1:50】

"Goodbye Tallulah, please don't worry, I will help you."

The keel cannon disappeared in the air just as it appeared, and Yabu also took the time to control the gravity on his body, as if he was preparing to go somewhere.