The villain's way to tame the protagonist

Therefore, if you want to be yourself and want to live more for yourself, you must give up the possibility and opportunity to defeat fate little by little. Perhaps the chance you give up will not be the key, but it will definitely be used by fate.

Anser didn't think this was unfair, he just felt... unwilling and hypocritical.

Ming Fuluo made him give up such a crazy obsession, but she could not change his instincts that had been tempered in six years of suffering and torture.

He could stop being crazy, but...it was impossible and he would never let go.

But even after hearing Anser's agreement, Ming Fuluo still looked at him for a long time, and then said softly:

"We have killed so many fifth-level dragons in such a short time, including many powerful dragon species. There shouldn't be any more high-level dragon species wreaking havoc recently. The Western Country is now full of extraordinary people, and ordinary dragon species can be dealt with... Since the dragon disaster can be resisted like this, it's a good thing. Don't think too much, Anser."

"...Maybe." Anser smiled and gently stroked Ming Fuluo's head. "In that case, let's go back and have a good rest. By the way, let's go see Xier. She has been locked up for so long, she must be impatient."

The young Hydra accepted the scholar's advice. He could not be greedy to possess everything now. Since he had chosen Xitana and Ming Furo, even if he could not give up the fight against fate, he had to... make concessions.

Otherwise, if this continued, Anser was worried that he might have some emotions that he shouldn't have when facing those two girls one day.

Ansir Hydra had lost too much in the past sufferings. He would rather suppress the surging hatred in his heart than lose again.

Anser looked at the sun in the distance and found that he had indeed changed, but not in the way he expected.

Instead of becoming more decisive and powerful, he became more... hypocritical and weak.

Is this the price of compromising with them instead of destroying them and dominating them?

It's really sweet and... bitter.

*

"So after talking to Anser, you're still worried?"

On the hospital bed, Xitana, who was covered in bandages, took a bite of fruit and pouted her lips and said, "It's noisy. There's no need to worry about so much."

"Be serious, Xitana." Ming Fuluo's expression was very serious. "Ansher may be under a burden and pressure that you and I cannot understand. After talking to me, his mood did not get better. It was more like a kind of..."

Miss Scholar rubbed her brows and sighed, "A kind of compromise."

Sitana rolled her eyes as she ate fruit. "Why do you have to keep asking Anser questions? He's so good to you, what else can you do but compromise?"

"He can obviously tell me!"

"He didn't tell me either."

Ming Fuluo was a little annoyed and laughed: "If that's the case, you're not in a hurry at all?"

"What's the point of being anxious? If I could understand what Anser was thinking, so many people wouldn't have to die in Red Frost City."

When it comes to Anser, Xitana, who is always the most anxious, maintains a calmness that Ming Fuluo cannot even dream of. She turned her head to look out the window and said softly, "Don't you think that if we ask him questions, Anser might be even more uncomfortable when he is already under a lot of pressure?"

She thought of her sister and the many, many things Anser had said to her.

Don't praise her talent and luck too much in front of Marina, don't say that you envy Marina, and don't place too much hope and pressure on her... Although Shitana remembered every one of them, she was never used to covering up in front of Marina, and she always said similar things inadvertently. Marina would not get angry, but just smiled and let it go.

Xitana felt that Marina’s personality was really similar to Anser’s.

No, she was not like this before, but after following Ansher, she naturally developed a personality similar to Ansher.

The same gentleness, the same calmness, the same peace, the same...hidden.

Ming Fuluo understood what Xitana meant, but she still whispered: "But if you say nothing, it will only be worse."

"I know. I'm the kind of person who asks directly if there's anything. Don't I know better than you?"

Shitana raised her eyebrows, straightened her waist, changed from a half-leaning position to a sitting position, and stretched slowly.

Ever since being ruthlessly rejected by Marina, her mentality seemed to have changed again. She was no longer so anxious and irritable, and no longer easily furious and confused.

Seeing her appearance, Ming Fuluo calmed down a lot. She sat by the bed and thought for a long time. Finally, she lowered her eyes and said:

"In the final analysis, what I am afraid of is still that question... Xitana, have our ideas and visions become a cage that blocks Anser's progress?"

"Oh really...you've asked me this question so many times, do you expect me to give a different answer?"

Xitana scratched her head and said, "Anser is not a bad guy, why would he not want to be a good person?"

"This has nothing to do with Anser's thoughts, because I suddenly realized something more important."

Ming Fuluo raised her head and stared into Xitana's eyes seriously:

"'I hope you get better'... this expectation itself, in a way, may be a burden and a curse for Anser."

Xitana was confused and didn't understand what Ming Fuluo meant at all.

What do you mean that having nothing to do with Anser's thoughts and simply wanting to get better... is a burden?

Ming Fuluo patiently explained: "What I mean is, it's not that Anser doesn't want to get better, but our thoughts make it difficult for him. Even if he wants to get rid of the past, for many reasons, even if he wants to do so, he can't do it."

"..." Xitana was silent for a moment, then said thoughtfully, "You mean, destiny?"

"Fate is the main reason, and maybe there are other reasons, but anyway...Anser may be in a difficult situation now because of our thoughts."

"Although these are just my guesses, Anser has never shown any difficulty, but..."

Ming Fuluo sighed: "But what if this is the case? If this is the truth, how can we help him?"

Shitana slowly clenched her fists and unclenched them. Her seemingly slender arms bulged with streamlined muscles as she exerted force, stretching the bandages little by little.

"I can't understand these messed up things you said."

The girl said very calmly: "I only know that I will never let Anser become the same as before."

She turned to look at Ming Fuluo and said word by word: "Do you want to see him become the same as before? As long as he can achieve his goal, he will not hesitate to let innocent people die in droves, even if it means trampling on their trust and lives. He obviously didn't want to do this, but he committed an unforgivable crime in order to defeat fate... I won't let Anser make such a mistake again, and I won't let him fall into the abyss because he has no choice."

"I said, if fate doesn't give him a choice, I will."

"..."

Ming Furo and Xitana looked at each other for a long time, and finally couldn't help but smile and shook their heads.

"I thought you had changed a lot, but it turns out you still speak with your fists."

"Don't make it sound like I have a fist in my head." Xitana muttered in dissatisfaction, "I'm very smart, Anser said so!"

This conversation with Xitana still did not lead to any useful conclusions. They had actually carried out this kind of communication around Anser many times. It was just that Xitana had a slight self-doubt caused by Ming Fuluo at the beginning, and now she was firm and sharp, while Ming Fuluo fell more and more into the distress of self-entanglement.

The only thing they had in common was probably to do their best to help Anser.

"Hey, there's one more thing." Xitana sneaked up to Ming Fuluo and said, "Can you help me put in a few good words with Anser? Just tell him that I will never go looking for a fifth-level dragon again. I will be very honest! And with me around, the efficiency of resisting the dragon disaster will be much higher, right?"

Ming Fuluo curled her lips and said, "You can tell Anser about this yourself and see if he believes it."

"Besides, there shouldn't be many fifth-order dragons appearing now. Anser and I have already killed—"

Ming Fuluo's expression froze instantly.

"…What? What happened?"

As soon as Xitana saw Ming Fuluo's expression, she knew that something terrible must have happened. Her face, which had been calm just now, gradually became anxious: "The extraordinary people failed to stop the dragons and let them enter the city to slaughter? The extraordinary people fought because of the uneven distribution of the spoils? It can't be that something happened to Anser! Hey, Ming Fuluo, stop being dazed! Speak!"

Ming Fuluo took a deep breath, then put her hand on Xitana's shoulder, her voice more serious than ever before: "Don't run around, don't look for Anser, this is Anser's order, you must not come!"

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Xitana's tone suddenly rose, "What on earth is Anser--"

Before she could utter an angry question, Ming Fuluo's figure had turned into particles and disappeared without a trace.

The next moment, in the sky somewhere unknown, the figure of the scholar lady gathered beside Anser.

"Ansel, what you just said is true—"

She followed Anser's gaze and lost the ability to speak.

Because she saw dark clouds covering the sky.

No, those are not dark clouds, they are... a group of dragons!

Rising from the other end of the Tiantu Mountains, the dragon group completely covered the entire sky. Even the borders were pitch black. No one knew how huge the scale of the dragon group was!

And this was just one of the reasons why she lost her speech.

Ming Fuluo, feeling the breath coming from behind her, which was as hot as heavenly fire and as cold as the abyss, turned around stiffly.

At the other end opposite to the dragon group, a huge blood-red crack was slowly wriggling.

It didn't open, but the cracks at both ends were slowly wriggling and about to open, and no one knew what was behind the cracks.

"He's coming."

Anser's whisper came into Ming Furo's ears.

"Anser, what on earth is this——"

"...A Luo."

Before Ming Furo had time to ask Anser what had happened, she heard Anser say.

“I seem to have made a lot of wrong decisions.”

Her heart suddenly stopped beating.

Ming Fuluo turned her head to look at her only friend and beloved in her life, but she did not see on his face the high-spirited and calm look that always showed him in the past no matter what difficulties he faced.

She could only read... such a strong unwillingness in those ocean-blue eyes.

“Did I make a lot of bad decisions?”

Hydra, who was retreating again and again towards fate, was asking this question not only to herself but also to himself.

Chapter 8: Letting Go and Moving Forward (K)

Anser knew better than anyone what the most terrifying part of fate was.

The possibilities that arise every minute and every second as the world runs are enough to be called infinite. Destiny follows the reasonable development of all things, but it can split another reasonable possibility from a reasonable possibility that should have happened.

When countless destinies need to be reasonably stacked together, He can make everything run reasonably and according to His will.

In the process of fighting against fate, it is impossible for Ansher to do the same as fate and grasp all the rationality of all things. The only thing he can do, which is also the most effective, is to converge the rationality of the things involved as much as possible to a line that is absolutely beneficial to him and cannot be shaken.

If you want to successfully tame Xitana, you must eliminate other possibilities that may cause Xitana to waver - exclude Marina, exclude her family and friends, exclude everything she depends on, so that only herself is left in her life.

If you want to successfully tame Ming Fuluo, then you have to let her ideals collapse, let her self-destruct, let her strip away the few things that are left in her twisted life, and let her live for her "father" from now on.

The method of taming them is essentially the same, which is to narrow down the countless possibilities that may have an impact to those that can be controlled by Anser.

So, if Ansel doesn't want to be controlled by fate, he must confine his own rationality to a range that is completely under his control.

They will not be affected by unnecessary things, will not be subject to any unnecessary constraints, and can ignore all the rules that constitute this society, whether they are explicitly stipulated or tacitly agreed upon.

In other words, they become the purest evil party that is not bound by laws and morals.

Only in this way can fate not use other things to interfere with Ansel, because in Ansel's mind, there is nothing he "has to" do except defeating fate.

Fear of death, remorse for sins, compassion for suffering... deprive him of all of these, so that the disappearance of any existence, any begging from the outside world, and any responsibility that he should bear will not affect him.

It was only by learning step by step how to become such an extreme evil that Ansher was able to take back his freedom from the hands of fate bit by bit.

But now, he can't do it.

The expectations of Xitana and Ming Furo made him retreat again and again, from the beginning he could no longer sacrifice everything like a madman to defeat fate, later he did not care even if they did some small things that affected the plan, and then he still acquiesced even if it was not entirely out of his heart, and until now... he actively chose to give up the best solution to fight against fate.

Ansir Hydra will truly care about others, will want to save them from the bottom of his heart, will feel remorse for the sins he has committed, and because of this remorse he will feel that he is hypocritical if he still wants to fight against fate...

Just as his mother, his father, those who loved him and those he loved expected, he picked up again the many things he had abandoned in order to overcome fate, from the bloodless and tearless devil and monster he once was.

But fate would not applaud his change. It would only indifferently tear the most fatal crack in this rationality that Ansor could no longer control.

"Anser..." Ming Fuluo, who sensed Anser's emotions, had a bad feeling in her heart, "Why do you think so? How could you do something wrong..."

"I should have thought of it a long time ago."

Hydra whispered expressionlessly, "The Dragon King's hunting has always been equal. It is evident that he does not bother to wreak havoc on the continent himself, but lets his own kind vent this hunger."

"Equality means not thinking of crushing the weak, but also means...when facing the strong, use the strength that matches them."

…with a power to match.

At this moment, Ming Furo instantly understood what Ansher meant.

"That is to say..."

The usually calm scholar couldn't control her emotions at this moment and subconsciously held Ansel's hand.

"Because of the large number of transcendents who were hunting dragons, and because we killed several fifth-level dragons in a short period of time, we have attracted... a bigger dragon disaster?"

Anser did not answer, but the silence said it all.

Adventurers from all over the empire are invited to participate in the hunt, and they always do it themselves. Once a powerful dragon species that may cause a huge disaster appears, they will immediately control the mechanical deus ex machina to kill it.