The way Uma Musume looks at me is so scary!

But in the end, she stood up again.

After leaving the hospital, he used his savings to build a small courtyard outside the Meguro family home that looked exactly like the one he had built years ago. He moved there with Xiuxingmeng, training her relentlessly while taking meticulous care of her.

She cannot break down; she has no right to break down. Xiu Xingmeng entrusted her with hope not to watch herself collapse.

Even for the sake of Xiuxingmeng, Megumi Ardan could not allow herself to fall so easily. She had to train, she had to win the Dream Cup, because only in this way would the hope that Xiuxingmeng had exchanged for her future not seem meaningless.

Because of the curse in the Northern family's bloodline, Xiu Xing Meng collapsed and had no chance of standing up until Zaizen Shuji completed the limiter again. That's why Meguro Ardan absolutely refused to let himself escape by collapsing.

She must shoulder her responsibilities as an older sister and carry on the dream that Xiuxingmeng gave her.

Megumi Ardan didn't want Xiuxingmeng to see that she had traded her future possibilities for a cowardly older sister who could only break down and run away.

She wanted Xiu Xingmeng to see that Mubai Aldan had never let her down.

So even though after the Emperor's autumn viewing ended, Xiuxing Meng remained silent like a soulless doll, and showed subconscious resistance and defiance towards feeding and interaction, even scalding Meguro Aldan multiple times, she showed no resentment towards this almost torturous silence.

She believed that this was the punishment that Megumi Ardan had to bear for depriving Xiuxingmeng of her future, so no matter what Xiuxingmeng did to her, Megumi Ardan would accept it.

Then, with their own victory and the way they run on the field, they can try to exchange it for a chance to bring Xiu Xingmeng's soul back to reality.

"For the sake of my dream... I can do anything now..."

Looking at Xiu Xingmeng's retreating figure, what surrounded her heart at this moment was no longer just simple kinship, but had become an emotion mingled with atonement and responsibility. Megumi Ardan said firmly.

Chapter 232 Awakening

Just as Megumi Ardan left behind Xiuxingmeng to prepare dinner, Xiuxingmeng, who had been brought back to the future of the scenario world by the system, finally regained consciousness.

She blinked blankly for a moment, as if trying to figure out where she was. When that extremely familiar face appeared before her eyes like a portrait, Xiu Xingmeng stared in shock.

She thought she would wake up in her hospital bed just like in the previous scripted world, but she never expected that the first thing she would see when she opened her eyes was a portrait of her mother.

"……Mother?"

Just as Xiu Xingmeng subconsciously wanted to sigh softly, she suddenly felt a tightness in her chest, as if no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't utter a word.

The word "mother" that was about to slip out was frozen in her chest. This strange feeling immediately made Xiu Xingmeng frown. But she suddenly realized that even such a simple action as frowning was extremely difficult to perform, as if she were carrying a thousand-pound chain.

"My body... feels sluggish and delayed?"

Xiu Xingmeng thought to herself, trying to move her fingers, but found that even with all her might, she could only move her fingers an inch before she was powerless to do anything else.

This sense of delay, as if the soul had not yet been placed into the body, made Xiu Xingmeng feel intensely uncomfortable.

However, she did not panic, because in those few short breaths she suddenly remembered that she had experienced something similar before.

In the previous scenario, Xiu Xingmeng, who originally existed as a soul, could only watch Li Song's friends shed tears by his bedside in the hospital room. Just when she thought everything was about to end, she suddenly fell into darkness again.

When she regained consciousness, manipulating her body was just as difficult as it was now. It wasn't until Anzai Rinne was about to take a picture of everyone that Xiu Xingmeng finally regained her strength and secretly made a peace sign behind them.

"I see... It's the same situation as last time..."

"However, time is much faster than in the last scenario world. Is it because the injuries I sustained were less severe?"

Xiu Xingmeng nodded inwardly. It seemed that improving her physical fitness was indeed useful. Even though she had forcibly broken through the restrictions of the curse, she did not fall into a coma like she had in the second scenario world.

However, such pushing the limits can never be without a price. If the power of the curse could be broken so easily, the Northern Family would not have had to exhaust the efforts of several generations to develop the limiter.

As Xiu Xingmeng pondered, she suddenly realized that her gaze was actually lowered. Because she had stood in front of her mother's portrait many times before, she quickly noticed the oddity.

Taking advantage of the fact that her eyes seemed unaffected, Xiu Xingmeng quickly looked down and sure enough, she saw a silvery-white patch under her elbow.

Xiu Xingmeng, who had lived with her grandmother in the north for several months, immediately realized what it was.

"wheelchair?"

"Is my leg...broken?"

Xiu Xingmeng couldn't quite describe the feeling in her heart. She had long anticipated that breaking the curse would come at a price, and she could also guess that she would meet a similar fate as her grandmother.

She never expected that the first thing she saw upon entering this scripted world was her grandmother's condition, which would become her future.

For a moment, Xiu Xingmeng felt a pang of regret, but not for giving the limiter to Megumi Ardan. Instead, she felt that she had let her grandmother down.

Despite being nearly driven mad by the shackles of her past memories, the Northern family's grandmother still remembered to give him the limiter. For that lonely old woman, the limiter was the Northern family's hope for the future, and also her way of atoning for her past sins.

But Xiu Xingmeng, on whom she had placed so much hope, ended up with the same fate as her. How could this put her grandmother at ease?

Therefore, Xiu Xingmeng felt somewhat ashamed when she thought of this. After all, she had abandoned her grandmother's entrustment because of her own selfishness and failed to push the Northern Family to a more glorious height as she had hoped.

This regret was directed only at himself, and had absolutely no intention of venting it on Meguro Ardan.

Xiu Xingmeng had already considered this day when she made the decision. If she could make that fragile glass shine on the field again, she would never regret it.

"But when exactly will it be fully integrated with the body?"

After realizing her own situation, Xiu Xingmeng gazed idly at the portrait before her, pondering to herself.

She can't even speak now, let alone look around to see where she is. Even now, Xiu Xingmeng doesn't know where she is, because when she moves her eyes, she can only see a very small area in front of her.

This situation is even more torturous than the previous future scenarios in the original story. Back then, at least I could walk around a bit, albeit within limited areas, and at least I knew where I was. Now, I'm confined to a wheelchair like this.

Just as Xiu Xingmeng was feeling a bit frustrated, wondering when she would be able to fully merge with the body, she suddenly heard hurried footsteps behind her.

"You're here again..."

"I really don't know how you found this place in the first place. This isn't an obvious place like the Mejiro family's."

The sound of footsteps was followed by a familiar voice, seemingly Megumi Ardan talking to someone, but Xiuxingmeng couldn't make out the voice of the person Ardan was talking to.

However, this news was enough to comfort Xiu Xingmeng. At least she knew that she should be living with Meguro Ardan now, and not at the Meguro house.

What she feared most was that she would be forcibly taken to the Meguro family to be cared for, and given the extent of Meguro Asami's remorse, this possibility was extremely high.

Xiu Xingmeng didn't particularly dislike the Mejiro family. Just as she said and did, she had already severed the grudges between the Mejiro and Hokuho families.

However, it would still feel a bit strange to have her live at the Mejiro house.

Just as Xiu Xingmeng breathed a sigh of relief, Megumi Ardan seemed to have finished negotiating with the guests. As their conversation faded, the footsteps coming from behind grew closer and closer.

When the footsteps finally reached Xiu Xingmeng's back, Xiu Xingmeng was finally able to hear what the person said.

"I am coming."

Although they only interacted a few times, she was an extremely formidable opponent, so Xiu Xingmeng still had a deep impression of her.

That's right, the visitor is Narita Shirahito.

At this moment, she was looking at Xiu Xingmeng, who was sitting in a wheelchair, with a complicated expression.