VIP Chapter 135: Sunrise Beyond Fate (3k)
“Young Master Will?”
“Classmate Will?”
“Teacher Will?”
“Little Will!”
…
In a deep, dreamless sleep, Will seemed to hear someone calling him to wake up.
He groggily opened his eyes…
He saw a black-haired figure swaying before him, and it seemed she even patted his face with her hand.
Iaar?
Liya?
Treya?
Or…
“Wow, you sleep like the dead. I was the one who drank the most last night, so why am I awake and you’re still sleeping?”
She flicked her forehead with her finger, and Will finally opened his eyes completely.
Shuna!
She was very close. Even with Will’s slightly blurry vision without his glasses, he could clearly see her appearance.
Shuna seemed to have just woken up too. Her long black hair was messy and curled, and she sat in front of him with barely any grooming.
She brushed her hair aside with her hand, smiling unexpectedly sweetly.
Wait, why was it her?
What happened last night?
Will held his forehead, trying to think, and finally remembered.
Oh, right.
Yesterday, he went to the tavern to meet S, only to find that S was this beautiful young girl before him.
She could drink a lot, but it turned out she was just pretending. In reality, she got herself completely drunk.
And then…
*Clack-clack.*
Will heard the sound of rolling wheels by his ear.
Right!
This person had taken him onto the train in a confused state, and after it departed, she had mistakenly left him behind!
And they didn’t even know how long this train would run or where its destination was.
“You finally seem to be awake? How are you feeling now?”
But…
Shuna seemed very happy, holding a hard, black bread in her hand.
She didn’t seem to be in any distress or awkwardness about the situation.
Instead, she had a relaxed, “go with the flow” attitude.
“There’s plenty of backup dry food in the observation car. I checked it, and the magically preserved food is edible. For water, we can always get a little by squeezing with a Water Ball Spell.”
Shuna said while using Water Ball Spell to create two water balls the size of her own… breasts in front of her, and squeezed them with a pop.
She still had the mood to play those childish, lewd pranks that young boys who just learned magic would do!?
“No, no, that’s not what I meant…”
But Will was different.
His mind was in chaos. There were too many things he needed to think about and arrange.
He had chosen to just go to sleep last night because he didn’t want to think. Now, his dream was over, and the night had passed. He had to start using his brain.
“Now… what should I do…”
Will frowned.
Since he was born, he had never encountered such a “sudden” event.
Perhaps it was because he had transmigrated into a book he was very familiar with, and he had the idea of following the plot from the beginning. Coupled with “fate” always finding him…
For the past decade or so, he had been steadily and methodically walking a “known” path.
Whether it was the training of the three girls, their “blackening” training, the formation of the adventuring team, or his own life plan, Will had everything in order.
He liked this process, where everything was under his control, and nothing went off track.
It was like when he drew gacha, he always had enough resources, even if he had to hit the pity pull, and could easily get the character he wanted, bringing him a sense of security.
But…
Now…
He looked at Shuna before him and the dilapidated observation car carriage, listened to the continuous sound of the train moving forward, and felt the unfamiliar air with a hint of dust.
It was as if everything was like a runaway wild horse, galloping in a direction he could never have imagined. All he could do was cling tightly to the horse’s head to avoid falling off.
“What to do? We can’t jump off the train now anyway. It’s better to just wait patiently until the train reaches its station. Based on my experience, trains only run for at most a day, so they won’t go too far.”
Shuna was very cheerful, taking a bite of the extremely hard-looking bread, her teeth good, and eating with relish.
“A day can already cover a lot of distance!”
Looking at Shuna like this, Will finally understood who the wild horse was and what he was experiencing now—
He had planned resources, carefully laid out his strategy for subsequent banners…
And suddenly, the game developer had unexpectedly dropped a super-powered gacha banner, bringing a super-local file that he couldn’t bypass if he didn’t pull. It had emptied him completely, leaving him to go home empty-handed.
Blasted game developer!
Oh…
So he was the developer himself. Never mind.
“Hmm… I’m actually more worried about my three teammates.”
Will lowered his head, searching the ground for his glasses. He had carefully placed them aside before sleeping to avoid crushing them.
After all, his myopia in this world was quite severe. Without a place to get glasses, he would be as good as blind.
“There’s no way to tell them where I’ve gone now. They were planning to clear a Dungeon today. Iaar must be crying, Liya will probably think I’ve met with an accident, and as for Treya… would she suspect I’m on a secret mission?”
“Thinking about them… their weapons are still waiting to be forged, and I need to help them get used to them. After they have weapons, they need to break through in their respective directions, otherwise, when they encounter those BOSSes…”
“And… oh right, in a month, the person who will appear in Nov, I was waiting to have a good laugh at his expense!”
“Although it might only be a few days away, I’ve stepped onto a stage of fate with completely unimaginable consequences…”
He quickly reviewed all the possible situations after his departure.
For some reason, although the situation was quite urgent, after quickly thinking through all the problems… he didn’t feel “anxious.” It was just a mental confusion from having too much information to process.
Why was that?
In his previous life, if something like this happened, where he was told by his boss at the last minute to change something before launch, he would have been so miserable that he couldn’t sleep at night.
At this moment…
He suddenly felt the cool temple of his glasses slide over his ear. The lightweight blue-rimmed glasses were placed on his eyes, and his vision became much clearer.
“Shuna…?”
She had put on his glasses for him.
Shuna’s hands were on the frame of his glasses. Her dark eyes met his through them, her eyes filled with laughter.
At this distance, he could even see her long eyelashes.
At the same time…
It seemed the sunrise had occurred, and the environment inside the carriage had become much brighter. Shuna’s eyes sparkled as if they contained light.
“Your glasses… they’re here. You were looking for them, right? Put them on, and hurry and come with me. It’ll be a shame to miss it.”
“…Miss what?”
Without another word, Shuna directly took his hand and pulled him up from the ground. He was still a bit unsteady and stumbled after her.
She reached out and pushed open the iron door of the observation car – the same door they had fallen through last night.
The early morning air was a bit chilly, but the sunlight, which was too bright for the dark carriage, streamed in through the gaps.
“It’s a bit dazzling…”
As Will shielded his eyes with his hand, Shuna had already pulled him to the small platform outside the carriage, where they had made physical contact last night.
*Whoosh—*
The first thing he felt was the wind from the speeding train, lifting the hem of his clothes.
Compared to being inside the carriage, standing on this small platform outside conveyed the speed of this era-defying mode of transportation more effectively.
Then, after his eyes adjusted to the light, he opened them…
Before him lay an endless plain and the slowly rising sun.
Sunlight spilled onto the grassland. With the wind stirred by the train, the grass and the hem of his clothes swayed in the same rhythm.
As the sun gradually peeked over the horizon, the shadows on the grassland were swept away by the sunlight, changing from deep green to a vibrant emerald green.
In the sky, as if following their train, white birds soared, leaving small, constantly rippling shadows on the gravel track.
It was beautiful.
Will had taken trains in his previous life, but modern trains were mostly taken sitting in stable carriages. Experiencing direct sunlight, clear wind, and the air like this was indeed his first time.
If…
If he hadn’t gotten on this train, if he had only followed the footsteps of fate, he probably wouldn’t have seen such a view.
This was a beautiful scenery that belonged…
Outside of his “fate.”
Perhaps Will had followed the steps of “fate” for too long and too far, becoming somewhat numb.
Gazing at the gradually rising sun in the distance, Will felt as if he had been reborn.
Since he had already come out on this train…
Hmm…
Perhaps he should let go of some things and stop overthinking.
He had personally trained the three girls, so they would definitely believe in him.
The three of them were already capable of handling things independently, even clearing Dungeons rated A3 or below on their own. There was no need to worry.
Even without him, they would probably do what they were supposed to do. They wouldn’t panic and chase after him just because he disappeared, would they?
“Haa— Phew— So refreshing!”
Shuna stood beside him, holding the railing, taking a deep breath and exhaling.
After breathing, she stretched with a sigh of relief.
“How is it? Watching the sunrise from the train isn’t bad, right?”
“The wind whistling past your ears, watching the darkness in the distance gradually disappear, it felt like space and time were flowing around you.”
The wind also blew her black hair.
“I like this time the most. This is the advantage of trains departing at night.”
Although Will was looking at her profile and her smile…
He was contemplating Shuna’s words in his heart.
“Like the most… the advantage of trains departing at night…”
Will felt like these few words carried a lot of information.
Speaking of which, hadn’t Shuna mentioned before that, based on her experience, trains only ran for at most a day?
Something’s not right.
As a new mode of transportation that was still being used for cargo, how did she know that?
“Shuna, have you… taken a train like this before? No, I can’t say ‘taken’ since they’re only cargo trains now…”
“Huh?!”
Shuna seemed to have just realized she had said something wrong, and her eyes darted towards the top of the train.
“Ah… ahaha, occasionally… I’d… hitch a ride. Who doesn’t want to go fast like this?”
That made sense!
As the newest mode of transportation, it was naturally the fastest.
As expected of Shuna, always finding unique and unconventional methods!
It’s just…
Why did Will feel…
That she had done something on purpose?
