The villain's way to tame the protagonist

Ming Fuluo whispered, "Perhaps this second dragon disaster is not as simple as Anser speculated. Fate has also pushed something unknown."

Neither she nor Hitana had ever heard Ansor mention the dragon riot. In the original future, this strange thing did not happen.

"We have to tell Anser about this!" Xitana waved her arm, and the shadow of the demon wolf behind her raised its claws and smashed the head of a giant dragon. She showed a rare excitement after fighting a series of fierce battles in the past few days. "Maybe this can solve it... Hiss, no, even if we know this, it seems that it can't solve anything."

The excitement on the girl's face suddenly deflated: "This will make Anser embarrassed. If he knew what was in the Tiantu Mountains, should he go to the Tiantu Mountains or stay to protect the West Country? And if fate releases Ivora at this time...ah!"

Xitana's face was instantly filled with shock and alertness: "Could it be that fate is deliberately messing with Anser?"

"...You saved me a lot of time after you became smarter."

Ming Fuluo, who wanted to continue explaining to Xitana, nodded: "So this matter, at least we have to wait until Ivora's matter is resolved before telling Anser. We can't add any more burden to him."

Hearing these words, Hitana was stunned for a moment, and then was sprayed with a sharp dragon breath by a giant dragon in the distance, and the whole person was almost instantly frozen into an ice sculpture.

Almost in the next second, the entire ice sculpture exploded instantly. The shadow of the demon wolf behind Hitana did not make a move. She just raised her arm and swung her fist. The impact caused by the surging force directly blasted the giant dragon through, and plowed a deep gully in the ground covered with dragon corpses.

"Are you... still thinking about that?" Xitana frowned slightly. She was not against Ming Furo's point of view, but instead of worrying about such things, Xitana was more inclined to focus on the present and focus more on how to solve Anser's problem.

"It's not just a thought, it's a certainty."

Ming Furo turned her head to look at Xitana, and a solemn expression appeared on her indifferent face, which made Xitana take it seriously.

"Do you have a sense of fate, Sitana?" she asked this question first.

"……what?"

Xitana was stunned for a moment, thought for a few seconds, and then shook her head blankly.

"Although I can see it clearly through Anser's memory, if it were me...how could I possibly feel something that I can't see or touch?"

"If it weren't for Anser, I wouldn't have believed that there was such a thing in the world."

——Precisely because fate adheres to rationality, even if we know of His existence, it is extremely difficult to detect which thread He has touched under this rationality... Even if we know of His existence, who in this world, except Ansher, can compete with Him?

"me too."

Ming Fuluo whispered. Compared to Xitana's bewilderment, her tone contained more... unwillingness.

"We don't have the rich experience and awareness of fighting against fate that Anser has, so most of the time, even if we are on guard, it is difficult for us to realize whether we are being used by fate and what impact it has on Anser."

"…The reason why I couldn't come up with an answer to that question before is closely related to this."

Was it just a simple worry or was it the manipulation of fate... Ming Furo couldn't judge and could only hope that Anser would reveal the truth to her, but the answer Anser gave was always that there was no problem.

Even so, Ming Furo still had doubts in her heart - have they become Anser's shackles and cages?

"And when I saw the scene of dragons fighting in the valley... I was sure of it."

The scholar who was studying the path of reform turned into a ruthless killing machine at this moment, as if she was venting the almost unprecedented anger and hatred flashing in her gorgeous purple eyes.

"Just after Anser dealt with those archdukes, the second dragon disaster happened. Just happened to make Ivora reveal her whereabouts at this time. Just happened to make her never show up, which made Anser constantly under pressure. Just happened... there is a secret behind this dragon disaster."

“But…but…there are so many coincidences!”

Her whispers made Hitana's face look even uglier. The demon shadow behind the wolf beast roared to the sky, and the red-black breath of murderous intent surged out like a tide, gnawing and biting all the dragons around it.

"No matter how reasonable it is, deliberate...it is still deliberate." Ming Fuluo stared at Xitana's eyes, as if to pass on the anger in her heart to her, "Xitana, even if we can't feel it, He is a real thing, and He has a strong subjective purpose, and in order to achieve that purpose...he manipulates everything indifferently."

boom--!

Endless iron-gray particles condensed into a huge cannon muzzle in front of Ming Furo. The gray torrent ran through the battlefield for nearly a thousand meters, roaring as if to pour out all her depression and unwillingness.

"We have a weak sense of fate, so it is difficult for us to empathize with Anser at the first time. We will... ignore some things that Anser will never let go of."

That is, hatred of fate.

Even before Ming Furo opened her mouth, veins on Xitana's temples were already bulging. She had already understood what Ming Furo meant, and therefore endless regret and rage surged in her heart. Every time she swung her fists or feet, it was almost like a hurricane sweeping up the ground.

"When we thought Anser wanted to get better, we only focused on this matter. We thought we had considered Anser's feelings and believed that Anser did have this idea in his heart, but we forgot that Anser had a deeper obsession in his heart."

"...No, I can't say I forgot, but...I took it too lightly."

Ming Fuluo closed her eyes and murmured softly: "We underestimated the significance of fighting against fate to Anser."

Both Xitana and Ming Furo experienced a rough and miserable life due to the manipulation of fate.

There is no doubt that they hated their fate just like Anser did. But the problem was... they did not always retain this hatred.

Because Anser... never thought of taking advantage of this hatred.

In the end, Anser chose to save and accept them instead of treating them as tools.

So what Xitana and Ming Furo felt more was actually Ansel's love for them. This warmth overwhelmed their hatred for fate playing with their lives, allowing them to move on and let go. This was actually... a good thing.

But in this case, how can Xitana and Ming Furo, who can neither feel the coldness and cruelty of fate as clearly as Ansir, and who are heading towards a new life under Ansir's rescue, maintain their ever-lasting anger against fate?

Before considering fighting against fate, they will consider Ansel and their own lives, a life that can make them both happier.

So both Xitana and Ming Furo hope that Ansel can pick up what he has lost. They are happy that Ansel can move forward as he expected and are willing to make all their efforts for it, because their paths are the same as Ansel's. Is there anything happier than this?

But because they ignored fate, they also subconsciously ignored...Anser's attitude towards fate.

They have no way to have a sufficiently concrete understanding of fate, but what about Ansher?

The child who, under the design of fate, killed his own mother with his own hands, once went so crazy that he tried to force his father to death and eat him alive, annihilated the goodness in his heart, wiped out his past ideals, spent his days in a daze in the torture of fate, suffered every moment, and spent six whole years in the dark and despair of not being able to find a future...

Can he let it all go?

Ming Fuluo didn't wake up until she truly experienced the cold will of fate.

Destiny...is not an illusory and invisible thing. It has a very clear purpose, and it destroys Ansel's life in order to achieve that purpose.

No matter how reasonable it was, it was deliberate after all, and He deliberately destroyed everything Anser had.

Who in this world is worthy of letting Ansher let go of the blood hatred and anger of the past six years? Who is worthy of letting Ansher extinguish the fire that has burned him for six years and was ignited by suffering?

They wanted to give Anser a happy life, but by just picking up what they had lost, would the pain and despair that had been chiseled into their bones, blood, and soul no longer exist and be wiped out?

"I'm right, Sitana."

Ming Fuluo whispered tiredly:

"We have become Anther's prison."

"Anser's current pain does not come from not knowing how to choose between the West Country and Ivora, but from..."

"It's him who doesn't know how to choose between us and fighting against fate."

After a long period of thinking and self-doubt, Ming Fuluo...finally came up with the answer.

"Actually, I... I should have realized this a long time ago. Even without the link of fate, I should have confirmed that Anser was having a hard time."

In fact, she didn't realize it too late. From a very early time, Ming Furo had suspected that her and Xitana's vision had bound Anser. As time went by, this suspicion became deeper and deeper. She and Xitana discussed this issue too many times, but they never got an answer.

"I can't confirm... maybe it's not because I really can't get an answer, but because I... don't want to accept this answer."

She didn't want to accept this reality, didn't want to accept... that she had become a burden and a cage for Anser, so she could only doubt over and over again. If she accepted this without any worries, maybe... she would have discovered Anser's predicament earlier.

Maybe even earlier than Marina.

But in this world...how can anyone calmly accept that they are a shackle and a hindrance to the one they love? Love is always a two-way street. You want the other person to get that warmth, but you also don't want yourself to get hurt.

Ming Furo is still the Ming Furo who can perceive her friend's emotions even through the slightest details, but love makes Ansel weak and also makes her weak.

She could no longer analyze the relationship and situation between herself and Ansher like a cold machine. She did not want to become Ansher's shackles. It was precisely because of this hopelessness, coupled with her indifference to fate, that she... made the wrong judgment.

Even in this situation, Ming Furo was still keenly aware that she and Xitana had a bad influence on Ansher, but she still felt it was not enough, and felt that she was... terrible.

Ming Fuluo couldn't accept the mistake she had made, especially when this mistake happened to the person she cared about the most.

"So this is ah……"

Endless red-black air currents rolled out from the lowered head of Xitana. She had been fighting for such a long time without sleep, and she didn't have much strength and energy to release the killing aura and summon endless wolves. But now the anger and pain surging in her heart made her and the increasingly ferocious red-black demon shadow behind her gradually emit a terrifying aura that even dragons could not bear.

The giant dragon that flapped its wings and tried to break through the defense line fell from the sky with a wail. The land dragon that rushed over fell to its knees with a wail. The roaring beastliness and rage in Hitana's heart actually...overwhelmed the hunting desire that the Dragon King had spread in the souls of the dragon species at this moment!

"I did a lot of ridiculous things... that I thought were good for Anser."

Xitana and Ming Fuluo, are they wrong?

They hope that the people they love can have a happier life and are willing to risk their lives to achieve this goal. In the process, they have been trying to understand and take care of Anser's emotions. Anser is unwilling to give up and fight against fate, and they also take care of all this without hesitation and have never made any demands on Anser.

In every way, they have fulfilled their duties, whether it is their duties as the head of the contract or their duties as lovers.

Because if we force it further, it would be absurd.

This is what Marina calls... love that gives everything.

Only by focusing on Anser to the point of devoting everything to him, even giving up himself, can one always consider himself from Anser's perspective and realize Anser's inexplicable hatred of fate even when he has little feeling about fate anymore; only by not caring about one's own feelings at all in this love can one calmly accept the fact that he has most likely become Anser's cage, and then make corrections as soon as possible.

But neither Shitana nor Ming Furo is someone who loves Ansel so much that they would give up themselves. Being able to risk one's life to become Ansel's power and giving up oneself... are two completely different things. Although the choices seem to be the same, they come from completely different awarenesses.

But only in this matter...only in this love, the person who does not love himself at all can recognize Ansel's pain and predicament for the first time.

"There's still time, Sitana."

Ming Fuluo put her hand on the shoulder of Xitana, who was almost going crazy and losing her mind.

"After this incident is over, let's have a good talk with Anser and tell him... no matter what, we will not be a burden to him."

During the few seconds of silence, the only sound was Xitana's heavy breathing.

"...Okay." After a moment of silence, Xitana responded in a low voice, "Don't put Anser in a dilemma anymore."

Although they said this, they also realized that this dilemma... seemed to be inevitable.

How can Anser have a happy life and fight against the fate that uses all means to harm him?

"Even though I was wrong about so many things, there was one thing... I was still right after all."

Sitana suddenly said this, raised her hand expressionlessly and clenched it in the air.

Endless red and black aura transformed into a pack of wolves, which actually soared directly into the sky and rushed wildly towards the sky, tearing the giant dragon that was frightened by her aura and fell down into a pool of flesh, blood and bones.

"strength."

She turned to look at Ming Fuluo and said word by word, "If I were strong enough, if I could directly break this shitty choice that fate gave Anser, Anser... wouldn't be in so much pain."

Ming Fuluo rarely did not refute Xitana's extreme point of view, because she found that... Xitana was right in a sense.

[If fate doesn't give Anser a choice, then I will give it to him]

Yes... If Anser is to live happily and fulfill his revenge and long-cherished wish, he must be given the choice to transcend fate.

Strength... Strength is necessary, but it is not everything.

There was a light in Ming Furo's eyes that was different from Xitana's, but it was for the same purpose.

Something more is needed, something I cannot grasp now, but enough to transcend the possibilities of fate.

If Xitana can contribute strength to Anther, then I must create this possibility for Anther!

"I'll be that strong."

Sitana slowly exhaled a fiery breath that was like steam: "I will definitely-ah!"

Her legs went soft, and her tall body fell directly on Ming Furo, almost crushing her.

"..." Ming Fuluo, who had shaped a similarly tall figure, held Xitana and sighed, "Rest well first, we'll talk about strength later."

This wave of impact seems to have begun to weaken, and Shitana can take a rest for a while. If Ming Furo works hard to create more floating cannon No. 9, it can also make up for it a little.

"A few hours will be enough..." Sitana muttered, "Now is not the time to rest. Anser still needs me to lead those dragons away."

"...Do you really want to die like this?"

"Humph, didn't you also run to the Tiantu Mountains?"

Xitana, who was supported by Ming Fuluo, snorted, and then said worriedly: "Anser said he wanted to go back to make preparations, and he didn't let you go with him. It feels a bit strange... He said he has a way, but how can we protect the West Kingdom while preventing fate from suddenly releasing Ivora?"

Ming Fuluo also had a bad feeling in her heart, but at this time...all she could do was to believe Ansher.

"Maybe we can talk to Anser now, so we can know what Anser is planning to do--"

Hitana, who was trying to think of a solution, suddenly stopped talking.

She and Ming Furo turned their heads almost at the same time to look at the other end of the sky, the blood-red crack that was still clearly visible even at such a distance.

The crack that had been wriggling all these days slowly...slowly opened up. No, it was torn apart, torn open from the inside out!

However, the scene that most people expected, the flames of feasting fire pouring down, did not appear.

The first thing that appeared and tore the crack was a pair of deformed and twisted... pitch-black claws?

At the same time, the extraordinary people on the Dragon Disaster Resistance Front shouted and roared with extreme fear.

Not long after the previous attack was repelled, the group of dragons that covered the sky and the sun attacked again. Moreover, the high-level dragon species that had been severely injured by Anser before and had not recovered much until now and could not continue to participate in the battle... unexpectedly reappeared one after another!