I was raised in the simulator, and I’m really not a bad woman in Ark!

In the eyes of Goletia's mother, it was all worth it.

Agor must evolve completely to get rid of the threat from Kaiji.

Therefore, Agor must either succeed or be completely destroyed...

……

On the other side, Skadi looked at the message uploaded on the terminal and felt her mind go blank.

The already accelerated speed accelerated further. She was unable to think about anything else now. She just wanted to find out where Ekaros was as quickly as possible and try her best to stop Ekaros from doing anything stupid.

Skadi indeed regards revenge on Hai Si as a major goal in her life.

But for Skadi, Ikaros is the only person left in this world who can be called a family member.

She would never allow anything unexpected to happen to Ekaros.

Otherwise she would never be able to forgive herself in her life.

The gentle and silent moonlight is the only salvation that the whale lost in the darkness finds in its elegy.

No matter how small it was, it gave her warmth and brightness.

and so……

"...Please don't get into trouble, Sister Ekaros."

Like a galloping sword, leaving huge waves and tearing through the lightless and cold sea water, Skadi, dressed in hunter clothes and carrying a special giant sword, rushed into the water city.

After throwing out his deep-sea hunter credentials, he didn't bother to explain anything and rushed to the direction of the coordinates sent by Gloria.

Chapter 103: Drowning from the Sky Curtain, Knocked Down by a Killer Whale

The outlines of the skyscrapers are like delicate paper-cuts, outlining the city’s boundaries in an exceptionally beautiful way.

Ikaros sat on the edge of a high-rise building. The cold wind blew her long blue hair, making it ripple gently in the sea water. It shone with a warm and peaceful light under the sunlight. Her skin, as pale as paper, was smooth and translucent, but it had lost its healthy whiteness and rosy complexion. While people were captured by the girl's beauty, they would also find her fragile like bubbles that would shatter at the slightest touch.

She calmly looked at the desolate and lonely water city in her eyes. In the silence that was like death, she was like a bird with broken wings, calmly preparing to face her own death.

However, the girl's excessive calmness still aroused the dissatisfaction of the second existence in this "world".

"Are you really not going to pay attention to me?"

I didn't know when I was lying on Ikaros's white and plump thighs. Ikaros stared at Ikaros who was looking into the distance, wondering what he was thinking, with his sea-blue eyes that were leaning towards blood red.

An emotion called dissatisfaction arose in her heart, and words with a hint of anger came out softly like a sad song of lament.

When Ikaros heard this, he just looked at her, reached out and touched her head, and continued to look at the scenery in the distance.

Although Ikaros didn't know why his dark side was so dramatic.

But I think it is because I have always longed for attention and love from others. I am very aware of my own flaws and the emptiness in my heart. No matter what my other self does, Ikaros can always find a suitable reason.

Of course, the main reason why Ikaros did not doubt the identity of his other self was because of the sense of closeness and attraction he felt from the other person, as they shared the same roots as himself.

Ikaros realized that his body was longing to "fuse" with the other.

These are the most irrefutable evidences, and also the reason why Ikaros would allow 'Ikaros' to do whatever he wants to him.

After all, what harm could you suffer if you hit yourself?

Besides, this beautiful body might turn into a pool of minced meat after a while.

So Ekalos didn't mind letting his other self take advantage of him a little.

On the contrary, doing this would help Ekalos relieve his nervousness and make it easier for the girl to prepare herself psychologically for ending her life.

As for... why not follow your instinctive desire and merge with 'Ekaros'.

Ikaros felt that it was unnecessary and meaningless.

At the end of her life, Ikaros no longer wanted to think about so many things that an ordinary, sickly older sister like her shouldn't have to think about.

She just wanted someone to be by her side.

Even if this 'person' is another self, even if this 'person' is not a person at all, it doesn't matter.

After all, Ikaros was afraid of loneliness, even during the period before he decided to end his life.

If possible, she doesn't want to be alone.

The reason why the other 'Ikaros' said and acted so much today must be because of this reason, right?

Ikaros was thinking about this and that in his mind.

Then the girl couldn't help but think of the flowers in her flower shop. She wondered if those flowers would be adopted by kind people after she left. And her flower shop would be sealed for a while after she died. Maybe Skadi could inherit it. She didn't know if she would leave a room for Gloria and Laurentina. And Skadi, she didn't know if she would be sad when she returned home after she left. And Gloria, Laurentina...

I don’t know if they will still remember me as their sister after I die.

——Maybe I will remember it, right? But after the sadness, time will eventually erase all the scars.

Calculating the time, it’s time for me to leave.

Death and the like... it's really scary.

"Um...can you get up now? I'm ready."

But since he had chosen death, Ikaros didn't plan to take care of his voice.

Therefore, the girl opened her red lips slightly, which was rare, and spoke softly to 'Ekaros' who was leaning against her belly with her legs.

Perhaps it was because Ikaros paid great attention to the maintenance of his voice, so when his fragile vocal cords vibrated, they caused the girl swelling, pain and a tearing sensation.

But the voice that came out was like the sound of nature, gentle and pleasant, like a trickle of water that is fascinating. Compared with the voice of another 'Ekaros', although the timbre is similar, it is more natural. In simple terms, it gives people a sense of temptation of a pure succubus. (cv: Hayami Saori)

In short, it is a sound that can definitely make people scream that their ears are pregnant.

"…But your heart is still filled with fear, my blood relative."

Ikaros tilted his head and looked at the blue-haired girl in confusion. She was still in fear. He obviously didn't understand why she lied to him.

But Ikaros just smiled and said nothing. He gently lifted Ikaros off his legs, then slowly stood up on the edge of the roof. He looked at the city that had turned into ruins in the sea and took a deep breath.

Yes, she was still afraid and terrified. Her body instinctively rejected death, so even if she made up her mind, she didn't have the courage to jump.

This hesitant attitude seemed extremely ugly to Ikaros himself.

So she didn't plan to prepare any more.

After all, it's just a moment of leaping. Since you have made up your mind, why waste so much time?

After all...

Or am I still holding unrealistic expectations for things called the future and happiness?

But...it's time to end it.

"I feel a little unwilling, since there are so many places I haven't been to yet."

Starry sky, earth, deep sea, snowfield, rainforest, desert, coast...

Ikaros murmured softly, and found that her whole life seemed to be confined in this water city and she had never left. She was like a bird that was imprisoned and had its wings broken for people to admire and play with. She seemed to have never been restricted in her freedom, but she had never been free.

Thinking about it this way, Ikaros found that death didn't seem to be so scary to him anymore.

At least this is the only choice I can make as a 'captive' broken-winged bird. Moreover, by doing this, not only I can be liberated.

Gloria can also stop worrying about herself and walk on the road to success.

Laurentina can focus more on her family and do what she likes after working as a deep-sea hunter.

Skadi... can also seek revenge on Haisi with the help of Goletia, and after she retires from exhaustion, she can also inherit a place to stay from herself.

Everything is perfect, isn't it?

I was constantly undergoing self-suggestion and hypnosis in my mind, and Ikaros seemed to see my future like that in a trance.

Now that she didn't have to worry about herself, Goletia could focus on her work. Eventually, she became a well-known figure in the core of Agor's power. No matter where she was, she could gain Agor's respect and people's love.

After serving in the military, Laurentina, with the help of her parents, pursued what she loved again, and finally became the greatest sculptor in the history of Agor with the care of her loving parents.

Under the protection of Goletia, Skadi successfully completed her revenge on Hai Si. After washing away her hatred for Hai Si, she retired and lived in seclusion in the flower shop she left behind. She would inherit her own flower shop or sell it and use the money to do what she wanted to do...

What a wonderful future this is, even without the existence of a man named Ikaros.

The girls can still bathe in the warm morning light, pursue their own careers, have different but colorful lives, and use their healthy bodies to unscrupulously pursue their own happiness and ideals.

It seems that it was the disabled man named Ikaros who was dragging them down with his emotional ties, and might even hurt them because of this bond.

Even bringing them death in the end.

So jump down, as long as all this is over, they can move towards a bright future.

And it would be enough for the unfortunate self to just disappear.

“You can also choose to follow me, my blood relative. I will take you anywhere you want to go, whether it’s the deep sea, the land, the rainforest, the desert, the snowfield, or even the starry sky.

Marsala, if you will only follow me back to the herd, I can promise you wherever you want to go."

Sitting at the girl's feet, 'Ikaros' raised his head and looked at the girl's delicate face from different angles, gently uttered the regret in Ikaros' heart, and once again released his goodwill and bargaining chips, wanting to invite Ikaros to join the group.

Hearing this, Ikaros looked at the blood-red blue eyes of Ikaros who was sitting beside him and staring at him.

She saw the sincerity and kindness in it, as if they were just talking about ordinary things, but it gave people a sense of trust that was more reliable than any vows of love, as if as long as she nodded in agreement, even if it was not from the heart, the other party would definitely do what he said.

However, Ikaros finally looked away after staring at the other person calmly for a long time, closed his eyes and nodded slightly, put his hands behind his back and sighed, then reopened his bright blue eyes and smiled:

"Well, maybe..."

"But as expected, compared to having the rest of my life arranged for me and being restricted by this frail body, I still want to be a little willful."

"It can be considered as... doing something for them in the end."

The last sentence was just an excuse. Ikaros knew that those kind and loyal children would not want to choose death, nor would they regard themselves as a burden.

But Ikaros knew her situation clearly. She was being targeted by the Agor officials. She was a test subject, a monster that was not human, an anomaly between the Haisi and the Agor people, a patient who could not see the future and who would die at any time because of a little storm or accident. She was also an unfortunate and incompetent person...

So it is not only to prevent oneself from continuing to sink deeper into the vortex, but also to free oneself, and more importantly, to prevent one's own existence from continuing to affect the people around him whom he loves.

Ikaros looked at the desolate water city submerged by the tide in front of him, faced the salty smell of the ocean, and took a last lingering look at the scenery of this world. Then he slowly stretched out his feet, suspended in mid-air, and slowly closed his eyes.

Maybe this time, it's forever...

boom--! ! !

"Sister Ekaros! Don't jump! Don't do anything stupid!!!"

However, just as Ikaros closed his eyes and prepared to jump down from the tall building, the door to the rooftop was suddenly smashed open by a huge force with a loud bang.

The twisted and deformed remains of the iron door passed by Ikaros, pulling the air with the sound of an air explosion, forming a violent airflow that swept past like a storm with dust.

It was like a cannonball hitting the rooftop of the opposite building, achieving the same effect as a large-caliber cannonball hitting the target, and turning most of the entrance to the rooftop of the opposite building into ruins.

This made Ikaros, who was originally planning to end his life, subconsciously open his eyes. Looking at the rooftop entrance of the opposite building that suddenly became a ruin, his brain briefly went into a state of shutdown.

Of course, the reason why Ikaros was confused now was not because of the door panel that suddenly flashed by like a cannonball.

But it was because that voice belonged to Skadi and shouldn't have been here at all.

Although Skadi's voice was a little cracked at this moment due to the reckless use of energy to rush on the road and the panic, how could Ekaros, who was familiar with Skadi, not be able to distinguish the voice of this little killer whale?

Therefore, almost instinctively, Ikaros retracted his foot that was about to step into the void.

Subconsciously, he temporarily gave up the idea of ​​committing suicide, took a deep breath, and instinctively put on a gentle and decent smile, intending to explain to Skadi that he had no intention of doing anything else, and just came to the rooftop to enjoy the breeze, the scenery and relax.

In a panic, he turned around to face the little killer whale, and even spoke directly, instead of writing a small note like he did in the past.

"Skadi, it's not..."

"Sister Ikaros! Don't jump!!!"

However, Skadi did not give Ekalos a chance to explain, especially after Ekalos spoke for the first time in a long time, and looked at the sickly girl who turned around with her eyes slightly red and swollen because of the nightmare of tears.

Skadi felt as if her heart was being torn apart, and she even vaguely regretted leaving Ekaros to become a deep-sea hunter.

Then, she suppressed her guilt and tried to dissuade Ekaros. At the same time, she used her well-trained and strengthened body to blast in front of Ekaros and grabbed his slender and soft waist.

Ikaros, who had temporarily given up the idea of ​​jumping off the building, rushed into the air from the edge of the rooftop due to inertia.

Ikaros, who was feeling the impact and wind pressure, had his azure pupils suddenly shrink and tremble because of pain and confusion.

The pedestrians downstairs were greeted with greetings, the hospital director had a look of death on his face, the man sitting on the edge of the rooftop subconsciously reached out to grab Ikaros but got a confused look on his face, and the blue-haired girl in the crowd who had just received an "instruction" and was wearing ill-fitting clothes and a black robe was staring blankly at the "target" in the sky.

Even the cute expressionless face under the hood tilted its head in confusion, as if it didn't quite understand what was going on...