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

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"Bronya still remembers that when she was little, the thing she feared most was having a sweet dream."

Bronya knelt in front of the tombstone, staring blankly at the wordless epitaph with lifeless eyes.

"Because nightmares can be relieved as long as you wake up, but good dreams are just the opposite."

Bronya still remembered that she had dreamed countless times of her parents whom she had never met, dreamed of the nights when she slept peacefully surrounded by them, and dreamed of the dim light when her mother read storybooks to her.

"Once she wakes up from a beautiful dream, Bronya will be frightened by the gap between reality and dream."

She also remembered the moment when she woke up from her dream countless times, all she could feel was the cold floor and the cage full of iron bars.

"As long as she ends her life, Bronya will never hurt anyone again, and she will never dream of those who were hurt by Bronya again."

This is the most correct conclusion without any loopholes that she has come to, even though she has an IQ of 180.

It's just... Bronya's subconscious seemed to be playing a huge joke on her.

She suddenly had a vision, a vision that seemed like a dream.

That was the time she spent with Ye Ming, which was the beautiful dream she feared the most.

"I say... you are just a little kid, why do you always act like you have a lot of hatred and resentment?"

"Bronya is already 16 years old!"

“Hey?! Is this true? You look so small...Ah! Don’t bite me!”

The encounter between the two began with that small tooth mark.

"This is Kiana. Even though I can't make you laugh, I'm sure she can."

"Hey! What do you mean? Am I some kind of funny character?"

Kiana looked unconvinced.

"No, no, no, I mean, you are a wonderful character who can bring smiles to everyone's faces."

Hearing Ye Ming's sophistry, Kiana immediately became delighted.

"Really? Hehe~~ I didn't know I'm that awesome."

"Qiana, Ye Ming just changed the way he described the funny character..."

Mei reminded softly from the side.

"What!?"

Kiana, realizing she had been tricked, scratched Ye Ming's chest like a cat.

"I finally found a kid younger than me, can't you give me a positive image?"

"Why can't funny characters be considered positive characters? You are discriminating!"

At that time, Ye Ming and Kiana didn't notice it. Seeing them making noise, Bronya wanted to laugh.

But she was physically unable to do this at that time.

"Bronya, you're staying up late again. You won't grow up."

In the dormitory of St. Freya Academy, Ye Ming pushed open Bronya's lighted door and reminded her.

"Ye Ming, you haven't slept yet."

"I can't sleep. I want to clear the Kunhua Crisis with you~~"

"Weren't you playing with Kiana the whole time?"

"She's too bad... I want to change my teammates, otherwise I won't be able to pass the level."

Hearing this reason, Bronya immediately became interested:

"Let's aim to clear the game with the highest difficulty without taking any damage today!"

——Don’t go on any further…

The two of them were playing games enthusiastically, and Ye Ming even stole two bags of snacks from Kiana's room.

"That's what the adults always say...cheating behind Kiana's back!"

"No, no, no, I think you misunderstood what cheating meant."

- Stop it!

Bronya held her head. She didn't want to experience the feeling of being awakened from a beautiful dream again.

Just as she expected, the beautiful dream before her eyes began to fade away, and the people she cherished began to turn into pieces.

until……

In his sweet dream, Ye Ming stretched out his hand, as if breaking through the dimensional wall, and pressed the broken gap tightly.

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There are three more updates today, one around 10am, one at 12pm, and one at midnight.

78. This life is too short, but the epitaph is too long (Part 3)

On the snowy field, a young man is walking slowly.

Blood was flowing out from the wound on his chest bit by bit.

On this white road, a bright red mark was dyed.

Just a few dozen meters away was the target the boy was looking for.

And between them, countless gloomy tombstones stood, and the epitaphs on them all told the same story:

——Death due to Bronya Zajicek.

"Hehe...hehe..."

Looking at the girl who trapped him, Ye Ming, who was staggering due to pain, could not help but laugh.

"I know what you're thinking."

In this world of consciousness, the closer Ye Ming gets to Bronya, the closer their hearts become.

"You're thinking that you committed a crime and you should be punished."

"I thought that after I die, I will never hurt anyone again."

Coming to Bronya, looking at her leaning against the tombstone, Ye Ming said with a wry smile:

"Did you dream about me?"

"Why……"

Bronya watched Ye Ming come to her side, but couldn't understand how he did it.

"You're not going to disappear?"

"So you think that all the good things will disappear?"

"Because that's how Bronya's life is."

As she spoke, Bronya reached out her hand and touched the sharp knife stuck in Ye Ming's chest, then revealed an expression of heartache and self-blame.

"Anyone who gets close to Bronya will get hurt, disappear, or die because of her..."

"If life is all about hurting the people you hold dear, it's better to end it."

"..."

After hearing Bronya's theory without any logical loopholes, Ye Ming silently pulled out the dagger from his chest.

After losing the blockage, a large amount of blood gushed out, spilling on the white snow and on the tombstone behind Bronya.

"Look, I'm not hurt because of you."

The pain doubled instantly and made Ye Ming's vocal cords tremble uncontrollably. The feeling of weakness caused by blood loss made his legs go limp and he fell to sit down.

"You're lying! This wound... is obviously caused by Bronya..."

"Haha, whether it's a lie or not should be decided by me, the person involved, right?"

Ye Ming's trembling laughter sounded as if he would cry at any time.

"Look, you don't know what we think. Maybe we don't even think we've been hurt by you."

"..."

Bronya remained silent, her face still filled with sadness.

Ye Ming originally thought that by clearing away the pain in Bronya's heart, he could awaken her desire to survive.

But now he understood that dispelling the darkness was only the first step. Ye Ming also needed to let the light shine into Bronya's heart.

Until that ray of light became the power to wake her up, and became the courage and belief for her to keep going.

"Ha... Huh..."

He took a deep breath in the cold wind and then told the true story.

"When I was young, I often went to the hospital to get medicine and injections because of my weak body."

"At that time, I would always cry out in pain."

"Later, my family told me that men should not be afraid of pain, and they should not cry."

"I kept this sentence in my heart until..."

"In a dark corridor, I saw a father who stood tall and proud, crying in agony."

Heavy snow was falling on the ice field, and a layer of white crystals fell on Ye Ming's shoulders.

"Others told me that her daughter couldn't find her way home, and then I understood..."

"The 10-year-old girl suffered from severe leukemia and eventually died in the intensive care unit."

More and more past events came to mind, and Ye Ming's tone began to tremble:

"You know what? I've seen a lot of weird things in the hospital."

"I've seen people who could only watch their loved ones give up treatment and curse themselves for being useless because they couldn't scrape together the last 10 yuan."

"I saw a teenager holding his father, who was already covered with a white sheet, kneeling on the ground and begging the doctor to try again."

"I saw a mother who kept asking the doctor whether it would be painful when a person was in a car accident, because her child was most afraid of pain."

"The doctor kept using words like dopamine and adrenaline to explain that it wouldn't hurt until the mother came to terms with the fact that she had lost her child."

Those real experiences made the crying tone in Ye Ming's voice more and more obvious:

"I have seen too many people who, when they passed away, did not even have a life that could be written on their epitaph."

"On the wall across from the operating room, I heard the most devout prayer in the world."

"Life is never pretty, and I know that as well as you do."

"But even so, there are still people who desperately want to survive, and people who desperately want others to survive."

Ye Ming rested his forehead against Bronya's. He wanted to take a deep breath, but he began to sob because of the pain in his body.

"Think about it carefully..."

"When you were born, there must have been someone around you who wanted you to live."

"She must have risked everything so that you could have your own life."

"!!"

At that moment, Bronya's eyes widened, and she suddenly remembered the figure she had only seen in photos.

Even... the vague memory that should have been sealed in the subconscious became clear at this moment:

"Bronya, my daughter, it was wonderful to watch you being born."

Just as Ye Ming said, Bronya remembered her smile, and also remembered the image of her mother crying right after that smile.

"I'm sorry... Mommy can't grow up with you."

And that tear-stained face was slowly overlapping with Ye Ming in front of him.

"You are the one who denies the past that you don't want to face."