I'm not Yingjie

"You've changed. If it were you from before, you'd probably be sad now and no one would want to see you."

"…Because, Captain Lin?"

"..."

Himiko put down her wine glass and straightened her expression: "Listen carefully, Soul, I have seen many people fall in front of me..."

"I know."

"..."

Soul smiled softly and said to the surprised Himiko: "Team Leader Lin said that sacrifices are more than just 'meaning'. If you indulge in the meaning of sacrifice, you will lose its own characteristics."

"Sometimes I think, it would be nice if people were like pigs. When I chop them with a knife, they won't feel sad about the loss of their lives."

"In Honkai's eyes, are we just livestock to be slaughtered? That's why it killed us so easily..."

……

"You know what? Humans are very interesting creatures when it comes to lying."

A man in a black suit and neatly tied tie sat in his seat. He looked at the documents in his hand and flipped through them hastily.

"Sometimes people lie not to benefit themselves, but to gain recognition from others."

The Speaker smiled into the communicator behind him and said, "It may be strange to say this, but humans do have a sense of satisfaction that is different from other animals. They seek recognition through deception, not for survival or profit, but simply for 'recognition'."

"But I do this kind of thing occasionally."

"...Will that killer stop interfering with her?"

"Why should we interfere? She is fighting for all mankind now. Isn't this consistent with my original idea? As for who orders her, it is not that important." The Speaker took out Sakura's information, picked up a lighter, lit it, then threw it in the corner and watched it burn to ashes.

"Then why did you ask me to fight her before?"

"As for why... if I watched someone being killed by my men, wouldn't that be bad? Besides, you actually want to kill Miss Sakura, right? I'm just giving you a chance to vent. If a person keeps hiding his gloomy emotions, he will eventually become bad."

"..."

The call was hung up. The Speaker slowly put away his smile, looked at the bright light above his head, closed his mouth and thought.

……

"In the end, I didn't see that person... By the way, are there more people in the nursing home? Were there so many people there before?"

As Padre walked along the path, she thought about the people and children she had just seen in the nursing home.

It must be an illusion... I didn't go there often before.

Soon, she walked to the front of the house, then jumped into the courtyard wall with ease, and only reacted when she reached the door.

"How did I accidentally come here again..." Paduo turned around regretfully and wanted to leave, but she suddenly remembered that the man who seemed to suffer from delusional disorder had stayed in this room for a whole day. She couldn't help feeling distressed and turned back to look at the door.

Although it's none of her business, but...

Her kind nature made her still worried about Lin, so she thought of paying him one last visit, and then she opened the door and walked in.

"Gah-"

However, the scene before her startled her.

I saw the man lying on the floor of the hall with his wheelchair lying on the side. He was struggling with a dazed look in his eyes, but he could neither stand up nor touch anything. He could only wave his hands and feet around meaninglessly.

"No, are you okay?" Padu swallowed, walked forward, grabbed his shoulders and lifted him up.

Huh?

The man's muscles felt surprisingly strong and well-proportioned. He didn't look like a disabled person with atrophied limbs and mental disorders in a wheelchair at all.

But Paduo didn't think much about it. She moved Lin back to the wheelchair. Only after sitting back in the wheelchair did Lin stop his struggle that was almost like drowning.

After sitting down, Lin looked around with his distracted and empty eyes for a few times, then looked at Padu and nodded to her: "Thank you, Anna."

"I'm not Anna! I'm Padophyllis, Padophyllis. You can call me Padophyllis or Phyllis... Remember that." Padophyllis corrected her dissatisfiedly, then sighed, "Why should I argue with you? You can't buy my things..."

Padu didn't know why this person appeared here, why he covered his face, and why he became mentally ill, and she didn't care much.

If we talk about her curiosity, the only thing she wanted to know was whether the man who had given her the key was watching the place. If he was really watching, then he hadn't come to her yet. Does that mean...she hadn't done anything wrong?

After thinking about it, Padus was still optimistic and thought that maybe the key just had to be in this room, or this man was not the boy in the photo.

"Can I have some of this?"

Lin picked up the fruit knife on the table and put it to his mouth.

Paduo was frightened and broke out in a cold sweat. She dodged the fruit knife and turned around to put it where Lin couldn't reach.

"It really makes me worry..."

Paduo looked at Lin who was still talking to himself with confusion.

This person is alone in the house, it's so dangerous...

Chapter 18: Defilement

"Speaking of which, Lin, where did you go when you disappeared before?"

In response to the question asked by Alicia, Lin just glanced at her calmly and saw the bright smile on her face.

"Twilight Street."

"Oh~ No wonder they brought Paddo back."

"…Don't ask about things you already know. There's no point."

"How could that be? I don't know anything about it."

"..."

Lin had long been accustomed to Alicia's appearance. No one would be unaccustomed to it. Everyone would resist her at first, but in the end they would be forced to accept it.

"So that's when you met Qianjie and Aponya?"

"Ah..." Lin nodded without hesitation, "I don't know what happened, but it has always been Padu who has been taking care of me."

"During that time, that happened with the Fire Moth."

……

Mei was struggling to resist an attack that was completely different from the last one, the heat coming at her as if to melt her, each blow was able to carve deep grooves in the ground, the huge amount of energy tore through her defenses, forcing her to dodge.

The core of the Judgment of Skyfire is the Key of Destruction made from the core of the Herrscher of Flame, which has the strongest destructive power. In order to suppress its power, the core had to be separated into two guns. Only after the two guns are combined will its true form be revealed.

This Key of God is Kevin's weapon. His fusion warrior ability allows him to use the Holy Judgment of Heavenly Fire at will, which will devour himself. If others use it, they will burn themselves.

But "Lin" is now using the Holy Judgment of Heavenly Fire without any obstacles. Even though this power is not the real key of destruction, it is not much different.

Recalling the last battle with Lin, Mei realized that she could not just defend herself. She drove the power of the Herrscher and began to attack "Lin".

The mark of Mobius in Mei's body began to exert its power, allowing her to suppress the Holy Judgment of Heavenly Fire for a while.

Very good, Lin is not the best user...

The blades collided, lightning engulfed the flames. "Lin" was not as strong as Mei, he took a few steps back, the Holy Fire Judgment in his hand disappeared, and the armor on his body instantly turned green.

As expected, this set of armor is——

"boom!"

A violent hurricane appeared at the same place, and Mei stood in Kurikara's sorrow, looking down at the "forest" that appeared in the hurricane.

He looked up, the shadow of the weapon flickering in his hand.

……

"Oh? At this point, are you planning to stop me?"

Mebius stood in front of the anchor point, clapping his hands slowly, and slowly opened his closed eyes. His bright snake pupils flashed a cold-blooded light.

Lin stood behind her and said nothing.

"From the three questions you asked her, you were intentionally guiding her to find me, so can I assume that you were giving me this gift?" Mobius said with a smile, "Mr. Lin, who has a 'good relationship' with me."

"…If you want to think that way, I won't deny it."

"Hey~ You would never do such a thing as manipulating others behind the scenes before. Have you really been with Aponya for too long?" She turned her neck, her snake pupils in a thin line, staring at the man in the helmet. "After all, she admitted that the guilt of tarnishing the "Flawless" is very addictive."

"But she hasn't done anything like that."

"That's hard to say."

Tit for tat... No, it was just Mebius's one-sided sharp words, but Lin did not show much willingness to refute.

"Isn't that woman a prime example of saying one thing and doing another? For her as a nun, her inner desire is a sin, but at the same time she also believes that there is pleasure in sin. If you think about it carefully, this is what happens in many works. Clergy commit sins for self-satisfaction, which is just right for our deified era."

"...Do you think so too?" Lin asked Mebius who was smiling evilly.

"Me? Lin, are you kidding me? There is no such thing as 'defilement' or 'blasphemy' for me. As long as I can overcome the obstacles I want to overcome..."

They both fell silent.

Lin and Mebius both knew what they had done, what everyone in the paradise of the past had done, and many of them had made mistakes.

Some go against human nature, and some go against oneself.

Neither Lin nor Mebius made it to the end on this path of insisting on being themselves.

Whatever the reason, they have truly "betrayed".

"However, I am surprised that the reasons for your actions were not from yourself." Mobius talked about the past with Lin at this time when Mei was still fighting fiercely. "At that time, I thought that when the reality that was most contrary to your own beliefs was placed in front of you, you acted so dismissive, but in the subsequent 'betrayal'..."

She sneered and said, "As expected, you, until your death, only live for others."

"...Then what was your mentality when you stopped the super transformation surgery at that time?" Lin looked at her as her body shrank, as if she had returned to the time when she could still stand shoulder to shoulder with him.

"Hmph... you're not suitable. Is this an acceptable reason?"

"..."

"If not, I have other reasons, such as the poor air quality, I was not feeling well, and you like spicy food. You can pick whichever you like."

……

Xuan-Yuan Sword.

Mei clashed with "Lin" with a sword in hand, and a dazzling array of sword strikes came out from the two swords held by "Lin". The two keys of control in his hands were like two poisonous fangs, insidious and deadly.

"Lin" has now used the second, sixth, seventh and tenth divine keys, and he can control each weapon with ease.

These are not the God's Keys simulated by the First God's Key, but projections of the real God's Keys, just like the Yu Duchen in Hua's hand.

"imaginary enemy."

The words that Lin once said came to Mei's mind again, and she now seemed to gradually understand what Lin meant.

"But... why is it not like last time..."

Mei still remembers that Lin's fighting style is not a massive force attack, and he will not do anything that wastes energy.

Could it be...

"The mark of [Infinity]?" The mark in the body is emitting power.

"Lin" is a super computer, so he can identify who comes here. This time, he reacted to the [Infinity] mark in Mei's body. Because Mobius gave all the marks to her, she was identified as Mobius.

So does "Lin" think that to fight Mebius, he has to use all his strength at once to kill her?

Well, that's easy!

A gleam of light flashed in Mei's eyes, and another mark in her body began to work.

Chapter 19 A Flash of Inspiration

"This is the price of this thing?"

"As for the price, that's easy to talk about."

The girl squinted her eyes and smiled. This was something she learned from other people doing business. Squinting the eyes to hide the emotions in the eyes can show that she is a shrewd person.

The two men in front of her were taller and much stronger than her. In fact, she would have been more careful in the past and rarely did business with such men.

80% of the problems in human society can be solved through dialogue. Unfortunately, Dusk Street gathers the remaining 20%.

"The price of this bracelet is so expensive that it hurts." The blond man picked up the bracelet and carefully examined its exquisitely crafted and delicately carved surface.