Chapter 114: Kill x Love Part 5
“Oh, I was just wondering how to get back, thank you for giving us a ride. Long live understanding.”
The vehicle the Salvation Army guys came in, their K, was unaffected, so we asked Zhao Zili to give us a ride home.
The other party readily agreed to take us back without refusal.
As expected, long live understanding.
The cabin had two rows of seats. Zhao Zili opposite me, with her arms crossed, narrowed her eyes and looked at me like I was a monster, asking,
“…Never mind understanding, nobody dares to provoke you now, right?”
“Not at all. No one knows I did it.”
“You’re truly insane… A source of unknown energy that contained a whole nuclear bomb. How did you manage that?”
“The principle is actually the same. Strong nuclear force; it was directly intercepted and enveloped in the upper atmosphere.”
“Is that your special ability?”
“You can understand it that way. It’s one of my special abilities.”
“If it were just me, I could accelerate myself to near-light speed and return instantly.”
Zhao Zili rolled her eyes, too lazy to deal with me anymore.
Perhaps it was too unbelievable, and she dismissed my words as the ramblings of a madman.
“No! Juncheng, you can’t leave us behind!”
I sat in the row on the left, with Lan and Lily Black on either side, hugging my arm. Unfortunately, I could no longer feel the softness of their embrace.
Well, but flatness has its own charm, doesn’t it? For example, when you hug, there’s no gap between you two?
But right now, the person in my arms, sitting on my lap, is Xuan’er.
“I won’t let you bear it alone this time. We’ll be by your side.”
“Lord Juncheng…”
Saint stood to the side. I had told her to sit down, but she had been looking dazed and lost since we were at the hospital.
I pondered the remaining nodes and turned to Saint.
“Saint, relax. You don’t belong to me.”
Hearing my words, Saint fell into despair. Biting her lower lip, she poured all her emotions into a fervent plea.
“Even if Lord Juncheng considers me a traitor, I…”
I added my surname, called her name again, and interrupted Saint’s confession.
In the previous world, I didn’t let her use the same surname as me.
This was the undisputed F Light Novel.
“Don’t misunderstand. ‘Nothing has happened’ between us yet.”
Saint seemed surprised by my statement, her mouth half-open, too astonished to speak.
“No matter what you saw, it wasn’t something you experienced. You don’t need to worry about ‘things that haven’t happened’.”
“I understand, Lord Juncheng. I understand…”
Sigh. It seems that this alone can’t change Saint’s mind?
Some beliefs are deeply ingrained and cannot be persuaded by mere words.
If people’s worldviews could be changed by simply talking, there wouldn’t be so much conflict and contradiction in the world.
Especially on this matter, Saint’s obsession is very deep.
“Hehehe, Lord Juncheng~”
Lan, beside me, suddenly chuckled. Saint, confused, turned her gaze to Lan.
“You…”
“It’s nothing. I just felt nostalgic hearing you call Juncheng like that.”
“Yes, do you know Yu Hui?”
Lan suddenly started talking about Yu Hui. Saint didn’t know about Yu Hui’s existence.
“Bai Yu Hui, junior sister Bai. She’s a woman I admire greatly. Among all sisters, she’s the only one who wasn’t guided by fate and stayed by Juncheng’s side.”
“Unlike us who were chosen, she was not chosen.”
“But even so, she reincarnated with Juncheng 47 times, retaining those memories!”
“Reincarnated 47 times? Seriously?”
“Yes, a terrifying obsession, right? But guess what her current situation is?”
“Naturally, she’s still by Lord Juncheng’s side!”
Saint answered with certainty.
If only that were the case…
“Wrong!”
Lan cheerfully extended her index finger and said.
“She’s completely forgotten about Juncheng now~”
“Huh? How… what?”
“Because she’s not Juncheng’s F Witch. So, she didn’t retain her memories when the worlds merged, and ended up forgetting everything about Juncheng.”
“This situation…”
“But so what? Juncheng will still look for Yu Hui. Because Juncheng is a scum who creates a harem and won’t let go of any woman Saint has ever had, right?”
I rolled my eyes, not granting Lan any favor, and pouted, saying,
“I think your statement is problematic.”
“Just tell me if it is or isn’t! The reason you insisted on going back to school is because Yu Hui is at school! Otherwise, you wouldn’t want to go to school at all, right!”
Hmm, she found out? No, it’s not surprising that Lan would notice.
And that’s the truth, so I honestly admitted it.
“Alright, I did return to school for Yu Hui…”
“Hehehe, do you get it now, Saint?”
Lan slyly nudged my side with her elbow and said.
“If Juncheng really takes a liking to you, even if you forget about him, he’ll still cling to you like a pervert.”
“Hey, hey, who’s the pervert here?”
Saint said.
“Don’t you understand yet? Juncheng has already taken a liking to you!”
“Huh?”
“You’re one of his F Witches. How could he truly ignore you? Even if you forget everything about Juncheng, or betray him, Juncheng won’t give up on you.”
It makes me sound like a simp, but in the end, I didn’t end up with nothing, but with everything (laughs).
Xuan’er also smiled, with a reminiscent look, and said.
“That’s right. Trust Juncheng. He’ll never abandon you in the end, no matter what happens…”
“Moreover, Saint, you have such a nice body. Compared to us, who have become flat-chested, it’s too much!”
“…Ugh…”
Stop bringing up chests. Isn’t Lily Black retreating into her shell again?
Saint finally understood what Lan meant. Her face turned completely red, but she didn’t shy away. Instead, she faced me directly.
“Juncheng…..”
I originally wanted to give Saint a choice, but how did it turn into this?
I rubbed my nose and said.
“…My name, Juncheng. It means ‘Jun, with sincerity towards me, I will surely not fail Jun’.'”
Saint was on the verge of tears. With tears welling up, she rushed towards me. Xuan’er, being perceptive, moved from my lap to sit on Lan’s.
Allowing Saint to lean on me.
I stroked Saint’s soft hair.
“…Although I don’t want to interrupt your romantic moment, we’re about to reach our destination.”
“Oh, that was fast.”
“As an Earthling, I have to ask you first: will there be another situation like swallowing a nuclear bomb later?”
“No, you don’t have to worry about that. I said it was a ‘quarrel,’ so it won’t really escalate into a fight.”
“I hope so…”
The plane landed at the airport. Zhao Zili didn’t follow us; she was going to headquarters to demand an explanation.
As for me, I returned to my doorstep.
Not the new house where everyone lives together after moving in later, but the small house where Zero and I used to live.
I knew he would be waiting for me at home.
Just like a wife always waiting for her husband to return late.
Lan and the others didn’t follow.
This was an one-on-one situation. They knew very well that they had no room to interfere here.
I stood at the door, tidied my clothes, and then pushed the door open.
The previously messy room had been tidied up.
She was kneeling elegantly by the low table. Seeing me push the door open and enter, she offered a warm smile and said,
“Welcome home.”
I tilted my head, grinned without making a sound, took off my shoes, and closed the door in response.
“Ah, I’m back.”
So, the marital quarrel was about to begin.
I walked to the low table and sat opposite Zero.
She poured me a cup of tea and took a sip from her own cup.
Looking at the tea leaves standing up in my teacup, I asked,
“Did you see this scene from ‘the beginning’?”
“Which ‘beginning’ are you referring to?”
“From the moment the derivative new world began, you knew that it would eventually lead to this situation.”
“No, at that time, I was just a fragment and couldn’t see such a distant trajectory of fate.”
“…Is that so? That’s good.”
I let out a sigh of relief. My previously serious face relaxed, and I leaned back.
“Yes, that’s good. Because if even the words I said back then, ‘I will fulfill this wish for you,’ were part of a plan, I would feel… very scared.”
“Scared? Not terrified?”
“Hmm, not terrifying. I know every inch of you. What’s there to be terrified of? I was just afraid that the real… that I knew…”
“But perhaps the reason I fulfilled your wish back then was only because of the world’s instinct to become complete. You already know that, right?”
“Even so… hmm, that’s fine too.”
“But in the end, I exploited you. Women are realistic beings.”
“You still consider yourself a woman?”
“Of course. I was your woman ‘before’.”
“‘Before’…”
Ah, ‘before.’ You already knew what happened, didn’t you?”
“…”
“I’ve left ‘her’ for you. Having her by your side is enough.”
Lou Ling deliberately separated her out, not for the sake of her gaining emotions.
The reason I felt Lou Yi was becoming more humane wasn’t because she gradually understood human emotions.
The reason Lou Yi, who previously treated me with indifference, suddenly became friendly wasn’t because my masculine charm attracted her.
Then why did Lou Yi develop feelings for me?
It was because Lou Ling had separated her emotional components into Lou Yi.
Just like Lian Bing back then, separating out Ruansui.
No, it should be said that she ‘learned’ this method from the Lian Bing incident.
Emotions are an obstacle to revenge, so they were removed.
“Revenge… Is it that important to you?”
Zero looked at me with a calm gaze.
“I don’t hate you. In fact, I’ve always loved you.”
She didn’t look at me like an enemy, nor like a lover, but more like facing a ‘stranger’.
“But revenge is the root of my soul. Lou Ling’s existence was born for revenge. This is my mission.”
Discarding love and hate, joy and sorrow.
“Shedding emotions, following instinct.”
From now on, we are strangers.
