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but--

That enchanting red moon coldly shattered the girl's humble dream.

Frozen Water Town is about to be destroyed.

The kind old mayor who took care of her like his own daughter is also gone.

And Grey will wander alone again.

Do not--

Thinking carefully, why is it that every time I go to a town, the originally peaceful human town is destroyed by disaster, whether it is the red moon, the iron cross, or something else...

Why am I the only one who can survive unscathed every time?

This was something she had never thought about before, or rather, she was unwilling to think about it, and as a little girl, she subconsciously wanted to avoid it.

But at this moment, when her naive longings and fantasies were shattered once again, she had to start thinking about this problem again.

Could it be that the root of all this is——

It's all me?

I killed my parents with my own hands.

Killed the old mayor and all the kind people in Frozen Water who were so kind to me...

"don't want……"

"don't want……"

"No!"

“I obviously don’t want this!”

The girl's screams echoed throughout the town covered by threads of blood mist.

And amidst that shrill wail—

Things around her.

Whether it's the ground, the house, or even the flowing breeze and light.

Everything was distorted and frozen in an instant.

On the town's clock tower, the clock hand pointing to midnight suddenly trembled.

The tea in the cup went from steaming to boiling hot, and then quickly poured back into the pot. The flickering candlelight went from dim to bright, and then from bright to pitch black.

Suddenly, shadowy figures appeared on the empty street, and the people walking there moved stiffly.

It was as if a film reel was being replayed, and all the scenery and everything began to slowly flow backwards at an extremely strange pace.

Even the blood moon in the sky began to flicker.

Sometimes it appears as a bright and flawless moon disk, and sometimes it turns into a twisted and wriggling ball of flesh and blood, constantly alternating between the two states.

However, the next moment.

"Deny everything that's happening right now."

"Deny the disasters you have brought to others, the beauty you have encountered, and everything others have done for you."

"It is also denied..."

"Myself, called 'Gray'."

The clear voice penetrated this distorted time.

It rang clearly in Gray's ears.

"Just like this, I will deceive myself and forget everything, forever sinking into a daydream with only you."

"We are trapped in the illusion of the past, and therefore can no longer reach the future."

"Is this really—"

"Is this the ending you wanted?"

Chapter 68 Are you here to kill me too?

"Is this really the ending you wanted?"

A familiar voice sounded in Gray's ears, causing her to raise her head subconsciously.

Then, she saw a thin figure, crossing the frozen time and appearing clearly in front of her.

Gray saw the other person's face clearly.

Rast...brother?

The girl's mind froze for a moment, and her originally chaotic thoughts slightly broke free from her previous desperate self-denial.

next moment.

Everything around Gray.

The flickering lights, the tangled silk threads, and the blood moon in the sky... everything that had been frozen in the weirdness returned to normal at this moment.

pat.

pat.

On the clock tower, the hands that had been frozen in place and trembling continuously began to move clockwise again.

After realizing that in the spiritual vision, the light and shadow of the thousands of hourglasses disappeared.

The mysterious silver-white luster in Last's eyes also quietly faded away.

The "Eye of Prying Secrets" was lifted, revealing the original dark pupil color again.

Luster stared at the girl in front of him and said softly, "Do you still want to continue deceiving yourself like this?"

"Self-deception?"

Gray raised her head slightly.

She felt her heart was in turmoil, as if countless complicated fragments of memories were surging in her mind, but they were always separated by a thin veil, making it difficult to glimpse the true appearance.

"Ah."

Luster nodded. "You can continue to deceive yourself and force yourself to forget your previous memories."

"And then continue to sink into the illusion of the past, over and over again, year after year, repeating the endless present."

"But that also means you'll never be able to touch the future."

"I can't even truly know the truth hidden in myself."

He said calmly, "Do you want to know the truth?"

"Even if the truth may not be as beautiful as you imagined."

The truth...that lurks within me?

Gray raised her eyes and scanned the town wrapped in silk threads and the broken cocoons around her.

And there was the hideous blood moon in the sky that appeared again and again in her nightmares at midnight.

Then I felt the broken memories in my mind that were constantly surging and stirring, but they were always separated by a layer of fog and difficult to see clearly.

After a long time, her emerald green eyes changed from confusion to determination.

"I think."

She looked at Rast, whose face was calm in front of her, and nodded vigorously.

"I want to know the truth about myself."

"very good."

I don’t know if it’s an illusion.

Gray saw that for the first time, a smile appeared on Rast's handsome face, which had always been calm and emotionless.

The next moment, she saw the young man in front of her, and the mysterious silver-white luster appeared in his eyes again.

Snap——

Gray could clearly hear the sound of something breaking.

In her spiritual world, something like a barrier silently shattered.

Then, a thousandth of a second later.

Countless fragments of memory washed over her brain like a wave.

These were memories that she had personally experienced before, but was unwilling to face and unwilling to face.

Therefore, under the self-protection mechanism of the brain, she was forced to forget these memories that might cause her to collapse.

Or rather, it is not completely forgotten, but buried in a corner of the memory attic, covered by a hazy, invisible fog barrier.

But at this moment, this barrier was penetrated by Rast using the "Eye of Secrets".

Then, Gray remembered the truth of everything.

……

She once had parents and a family who loved her.

In a small inland town, I live a simple but warm life.

However, one day, the Iron Cross Plague broke out in that small town for unknown reasons.

Her parents sacrificed themselves so that Grey could escape alone.

She escaped from the city engulfed by the Iron Cross tide and began an endless wandering.

If that were all, there would be nothing surprising about it. It was just the most simple and unpretentious epitome of the countless refugees in this era of disaster and chaos.

And a little homeless child like Grey is destined to die during the long wandering process due to physical weakness, food shortage and other reasons.

However, even though the gathering places she visited were destroyed one after another, Gray herself was never harmed.

Each time, she was the only survivor of the disaster.

Until Frozen Water Town.

As a homeless child, Gray, who had always suffered from exclusion and cold eyes in other towns, felt the warmth of home for the first time in this remote town.

however--

The red moon came again.

All the beauty she cherished was destroyed into nothingness.

So, Grey collapsed and became completely desperate.

In Gray's eyes, she was the one who brought disaster to the towns she set foot in, and she was the embodiment of disaster.

She wanted to deny all of this like crazy, deny the destruction of Dongshui Town, and deny herself as the embodiment of disaster, who would bring destruction wherever she went.

Thus, in the girl's despair, some great power was aroused.

The time of Frozen Water Town was turned back.

Everything went back to before the blood mist and the silk thread descended... including Gray's own memories.

The time belonging to Dongshui Town was forever frozen on May 11, and was repeated thousands of times in this fog.

Gray has always maintained an ignorant attitude, living a happy life built on a fantasy bubble in Frozen Water Town day after day, year after year.

Until, at midnight, she collapsed after witnessing the blood mist, and then restored everything to its original state and started all over again.

However, in this repetitive cycle of memory, there are some variables.

Shore Guardian——

Gray raised her eyes slightly and looked into Rast's dark eyes.

Then, her body began to tremble uncontrollably.

In past cycles, Gray had seen outsiders wearing shore watchman badges more than once.

They seemed to have come with some kind of mission. The moment they arrived in Dongshui Town, they immediately began to investigate everything in the town.