I am the savior, but I am being asked by Alicia and the others to pay me back.

"Visitors, no need to worry."

Su's words seemed to be spoken to Mei, but also to all the people who witnessed this story.

"The past is gone, the dead no longer exist. If they don't exist, why bother? Alicia and Eden would have the same view."

"..."

Mei took a deep breath, and her heavy voice contained a hint of sadness that she had been forced to expel.

"Let's get started." Mei has made up her mind.

Sue begins to guide:

"Use your own memories to pave the way to her."

"Even if the data has been erased, the memory will still leave an indelible trace."

"Take it."

Su gave Mei a blue crystal flower and told her that the remaining two would be passed on by Eden.

"The four keys seal a shared past, a page that you should have opened. Now... let it bloom again in your memory."

[Is it finally coming? The final riddle]

[Alisa's ending, the night that was mentioned countless times]

Afterwards, the perspective returns to Sakura, who is confronting the Herrscher of Corrosion on the battlefield.

"So, the only reason you came here is to be corrupted by me?"

Faced with the seemingly mocking question, Sakura did not deny it.

"Even you have to devote a considerable amount of energy to eroding a powerful enough memory."

"It may even be temporarily impossible to maintain that near-omnipotent state."

"So...Su's request to me is to face death."

Ying had already regarded herself as a chess piece that had to be sacrificed, but she and Su still won the bet.

"But, Sakura, do you know what you're doing? You could have escaped, but you're coming back here again, just to sacrifice yourself?"

"It doesn't matter. I've had this experience once before."

Seeing this, Ling and countless other players felt a tightness in their hearts.

"It seems that after witnessing the death of Alicia, my ending has not changed at all."

Before the final battle of her life, Sakura recalled the conversation she had with Alicia that night.

"But...she did say, 'It's because you never change that I like you so much.'"

"Come on, Herrscher of Corrosion, use your hands and my death to prove to me... we are still the way Alicia likes us."

She no longer considered the possibility of survival. There was no doubt that this would be Sakura's death.

"But before that, I have one more request."

"Oh... go ahead."

"If possible, please let me die in pain."

"???"

676. Kiana: Do you think I can let it go?

"If possible, please let me die in pain."

“???” The Herrscher of Corrosion was confused, and the players were also confused.

If it were an ordinary day, I might even make a joke and quote a line from a comedy movie: I have never seen such a request in my life.

But at this moment, Sakura's low and sad voice made everyone feel "bad" and even their breathing became cautious.

"Do whatever you can to make me feel hopeless, regretful, and isolated..."

"This way, I can realize how incompetent I was in the past."

"Only then can you know how I finally...kept my pride as a sister."

At this moment, Sakura is the hero who decides to die, and also the sister who cannot let go of the past.

"It's not like that... I..."

Ling, whose eyes had been trembling since a while ago, was completely defeated. With tears streaming down her face, she was eager to deny something.

But when the words came to my lips, I didn't know how to say them.

What she wanted to deny was Sakura's actions, Sakura's pain, and Sakura's guilt.

But if I deny it here, I will also be denying Sakura's determination, her feelings for me, and her pride as a sister.

"Why... must it become like this..."

The painful memories of the past are becoming increasingly clear in Ling's mind, and she now knows from the present how desperate, regretful, and helpless her sister once was.

The pain of having everything robbed by fate filled Ling's heart, as if countless hands were tearing her apart and dragging her emotions into the quagmire.

"That was the world that used to be."

In reality, Sakura wiped away Ling's tears and said:

"It cannot be changed, it cannot be resisted, even after ten thousand years, that memory will be trampled upon."

After a moment, Sakura's expression became gentle again:

"But that's not the reality, is it?"

"Reality……"

Ling suddenly realized that she was still alive in reality and her sister was fine.

Sitting on the soft sofa, watching the live broadcast of the game, with the same juice as Sakura in hand.

These ordinary daily lives suddenly became as blissful as heaven.

"Yeah, we're all fine."

"After all, someone took on everything for us and changed everything."

Ying smiled with relief, she already knew who had overturned her fate.

At the same time, she knew that if it was him, this hard-earned happiness would last forever.

·············

"Ying..." In the game, the Herrscher of Corrosion asked with confusion and contempt, "You haven't let it go yet."

The answer I got was just a short one: "Never and never."

[How can I let go of this kind of thing?]

[Ask Qibao if he can let go of killing Ye Ming]

"If I could let go, I wouldn't have PTSD now."

Kiana sighed helplessly:

"No matter how fulfilling the days ahead are, no matter whether or not there is a happy ending, the scar in my heart can never be filled."

"When I'm with everyone, I wish Ye Ming was there too. When I'm alone, I also wish he was there with me."

"Thoughts like this can never be changed. Even time...can't heal them."

Ye Ming once warned others in Inazuma that true pain cannot be healed by time.

It will only ferment and dilute some momentary sorrow under the aging of the world, and then release more lasting depression.

"I can totally understand how Sakura feels at the moment."

Kiana frowned and showed unprecedented compassion, but the object of her lament was not only Sakura, but also her former self.

[I was wrong. I shouldn’t have made unwarranted associations.]

[Now it’s all right. Sakura hasn’t even pulled out her sword yet, and here comes another one.]

[Next time, whoever mentions Qibao will be kicked out]

"Even so... you still have to stand in front of me..."

The Herrscher of Corrosion in the game still doesn't understand what Sakura is doing. As a virus, survival is its most core instinct.

"Instead of listening to your heart and continuing to live?"

Faced with such persuasion, Sakura's answer was the same as always:

"Never... and never."

The outcome of the battle was no surprise. Soon, Ying's portrait appeared in the center of Ying Jie's archive room, and then... shattered into pieces.

After that, the perspective came to Aponia's side.

She was tracing back her memories, spying on the earlier deal between Evil-Minded Velvet and the Herrscher of Corrosion.

Qianjie paid the price of his life to allow Aponia to touch the Ruler of Corrosion, but now it seems that Aponia can only explore the memory but cannot establish conscious communication.

The reason is very simple. Even if the Ruler of Corrosion absorbs more human emotions, her essence is still a virus. Do you chat with a virus?

"The energy required to delay the erosion is far beyond my imagination. There is... no time left."

Whatever Aponya had wanted to do, she never had the chance to complete it.

Perfection is no longer an option. Now, Abonya must make a choice and put everything on the possibility of choosing between two options.

Should he allow the erosion to deepen, penetrate into the opponent's consciousness and reshape it, or continue to read the Herrscher's memory and try to find the weakness.

Aponia, who could peek into the future through prophecy, felt the dilemma of being unable to make up her mind for the first time.

"Is this... the feeling of having to make a choice without knowing what the future will be like?"

"Because I haven't seen this kind of situation in a long time, I am... more vulnerable than ordinary people at this moment."

Aponia lacks experience in things that are commonplace for ordinary people.

Finally, Aponia made up her mind. She opened her arms and declared in a hugging gesture:

"Come, Herr of Corrosion, please...come into my arms."

The scene changed, and Aponia came to the memory space of the Ruler of Corrosion.

She saw Qianjie there, and in addition to being amazed, she began to wonder whether the other party would confine something he considered valuable there.

"Hey~~ You're finally here, Aponya, are you here to rescue me?"

"Ok?"

Qianjie's voice and tone were very strange, and Abonya and all the audience who heard the voice had question marks on their faces.

"Why, I thought you would be very happy after seeing me."

"Is this... the way Alicia speaks?"

[Can’t hold it anymore, Alicia with a thousand-faced face]

[This voice is too feminine. I'm shaking all over.]

[Check the dubbing status of Qianjie]

[No need to check, I got goosebumps all over my body]

Not to mention when he was dubbing, even now, seeing the pretentious self in the video, Qianjie almost felt twisted into a knot.

677. Qianjie: Act according to my mood

"That's enough, Herrscher of Corrosion. Qianjie is my friend. I will not allow you to humiliate him like this."