Chapter 272

She took Will's hand.

Just like before in the palace, I planned to leave with him.

She had thought that someone like Will would be happy.

"Oh, by the way, I think I haven't told you before. I got new clues about the stone you have been investigating. Get out of here and avoid them. We still have interesting things waiting to be found in the dungeon. Experience.”

"Let's go, I also thought of a place that is suitable for hiding for a while."

"Oh, by the way, the floor where Treya locked me up is actually very interesting. I'll tell you when you come out with me -"

…

She rattled off plans.

But now, in just two weeks, Will is different from before.

"But wait a minute, Will...is there something...something wrong with you?"

Shona calmed down after holding that hand, as if she was holding a weak arm holding a gibbon doll that could only stand up.

"Let go."

"……What's wrong?"

"Now, it probably doesn't make sense for me to leave with you."

"What are you talking about?"

Shona's hands trembled slightly.

"I... gave up. It's good to be locked up here."

Chapter 300 Angry Shona

"What nonsense are you talking about? And it sounds like you have a leak when you speak? Like you lost a tooth?"

She held up the flame in her hand and bent down to observe Will's expression.

Then, she saw...

Even if the firelight shines a few centimeters in front of him, Will's eyes have no highlight, and his lips are gray and bloodless.

If Shona thought before, Will was like a hot stone, radiating hot feelings towards everyone, but no one could break through his barriers.

Then Will now...

Like a cold but broken stone.

He cannot respond to everything so "enthusiastically", but in its cracks, its fragments, and its hard shell, you can see the "sincerity" that was once hidden.

Although he looked a little miserable, Shona felt a very unexpected... aura of trying to survive in this world from his body.

Shona understood.

Those three people smashed this stone with blows one after another, by denying his will and taking away his hope. Perhaps the next step would be to start a crazy war of partition.

"No, I'm serious."

"After Yi Aier comes back, she will probably start preparing for the surgery to cut off my little finger. Without my little finger, I will lose half of my grip..."

"I can't hold either the staff or the sword at all."

"After this, maybe a whole hand? A tongue cut off? An ear cut off? A limb?"

"Look, now that I calmly say these things she may have done to me, it doesn't matter anymore."

"..."

Shona bit her lip.

She didn't really like the Will in front of her now. He was unspeakably strange and completely different from before.

"because……"

"Because I discovered that whether it is a fate that can be changed or cannot be changed, I have been being played with. In the end, I can't even subdue them with my current strength. I can't accomplish anything here..."

"No...it's not that I accomplished nothing here. Before this, I also..."

"..."

Xiuna wanted to speak, but paused again. She just looked at him, whose voice was calm and low, but very sober. He analyzed the current situation very well and was not talking nonsense at all.

Well, even at this moment, Will still had the aura of "Will" that she was familiar with.

"But their love...maybe makes me feel a little better. I'm thinking that this is indeed the gift I left for myself."

"Love my heroines."

"So, for me to be locked up here like this and continue the rest of my life is... pretty good, right?"

"..."

Shona still didn't speak.

She heard the word - heroine, the last page she saw in Will's "Mission System", what he wrote with the craziest expression and eyes.

"Anyway, I'm sorry."

"You did save me many times... you would appear here again every time..."

"But this time... I did give up, and it was better this way."

"I feel like I can't fulfill the date I made with you..."

"You can leave. As the 'protagonist', there are more exciting stories."

The firelight cast a deep shadow on the hair on his forehead, so deep that it seemed to pierce into his eyes.

Indeed, this look was very unlike him.

People who think everything through clearly, and who can always withstand pressure and cheer up even when faced with any difficulties, are more like him.

Nothing surprising though.

But now Will is more like a living person.

In the end, you will despair after being rescued and drowned in many difficult situations. You will choose to sink in the deep water after being rescued and drowned. You will choose the easier path of lying down, losing yourself and letting others slaughter you.

Shona sighed and extinguished the flame in her hand.

So Will raised his head again and looked into the complete darkness. He had been listening to Shona's footsteps, as if expecting to hear her leaving.

Speaking of which, she always appeared in front of him despite all odds, and she always showed "never giving up" to him.

Is it... because he did what the "good friend" in the original book did?

Will couldn't remember what his good friend, who seemed particularly open-minded when Xiu kept recalling, said and did in the original book - after all, Xiu's life experience was very complicated, and it should be a mystery until the end.

But no matter what that person did, Xiu's entire state in the original work, even the excessive paranoia, autism and caution after being kicked out of the team, all came from the dead good friend.

However...

Will has actually been resisting meeting and contacting this "protagonist" - even if it has happened many, many times, even if Shuona has hinted at him many, many times, even if she has come to save him many, many times.

Perhaps what he rejected was not "Xiu" or "Shuona" as a person - there is no doubt that both of them are his favorites in terms of excellent decision-making and cautious and accurate judgment and exploration in the dungeon.

What he rejected was...

It was the emphasis on the existence of "protagonists" in this world...

Crackling.

But he did not wait for the sound of Shuona's boots stepping on the moss on the ground and walking away from him in the dark.

What he waited for was the sound of someone hanging fire magic on the lamp next to him, which he originally thought was only for decoration.

And the sight was brightened again.

"Okay, I'm done."

Shuona took two steps and sat directly on the handle of his chair.

"Anyway, even if she comes, I can escape. In the last time... I want to hear you tell me in person, what role do I play in the "future" you see? Why do you reject me so much?"

"...Hmm?"

Thinking of the various reasons for Shuona's leaving, Will didn't expect her to be more than one

"Yes, that's the question. If you can't figure it out, if I die one day, I will post this question on my tombstone. If you are still alive at that time, my ghost will also haunt you and press your head in front of my grave to ask you to answer me."

"Shuona... You are not angry..."

"Yes, I am very angry. But You know what kind of person I am - I want to know the reason why you did something rather than you apologizing to me as if to appease me. "

"Because... because you and I were... opposites in a sense..."

"Hmm?"

"I... no, Will System, would be the one... the one who forced you out of the Star of the Brightest, the one who made you leave your favorite and most important team..."

"Then you are now too."

"Hmm?"

Xuna showed the Star of the Brightest team emblem that she had always proudly worn on her chest, but now that position was empty.

"If I hadn't quit, when you left Treya, there would be no one to hold her back in the Zero Castle of the Darkness."

"..."

Will's dull eyes seemed to widen because of this reflection of the original work that he himself had not expected.

"Then... you will... defeat me... my former teammates, Leah... Traya... Iel... In the end, I will be alone... I will be crushed to death by slimes in a dungeon..."

Now this plot...

It seems...

It seems to be realized in some weird way...

What was the name of that dungeon? He will never forget it, as long as he thinks about it...

"Oh, so that's the case, it's really a difficult relationship. It sounds like in that 'future', we are really incompatible."

Will did hear the displeasure of Shuna, as if the gas tank has been filled up and will explode soon.

He seemed to hear Shuna put two daggers in her palms and the sound of metal colliding.

"Oh, okay, I understand this part. Then let's talk about 'my favorite and most important team to me'."

"...What?"

After a sigh, Shuna's tone was calmer than before, and she seemed to be telling a story, and she didn't seem as angry as before.

Will seemed to realize something.

He had never "cultivated Shuona to be evil", and from the first time he saw Shuona in front of the tavern, she seemed to have always been...

This kind of person, cheerful and optimistic, mentally stable, and rationally figured out the reason even when she was angry.

Even when the relationship had reached the freezing point and her boiling point, she was still communicating with him with an open heart, treating herself with the simplest and most important way of communication in interpersonal relationships.

She seemed to have nothing to do with the word "evil".

She was completely insulated from the psychological state of the word "morbid".

But...

Perhaps...

The fact that she could always maintain this state was not a manifestation of "health"...

"There was a girl, she was born in the dungeon, she had no life for the first thirteen years, and the first thing she did after she was born was to find out that she had killed the emperor of the dungeon in front of her."

In the basement without a trace of wind, the flames burned steadily, and even their shadows on the wall did not shake.

Shuona spoke in her mature voice.

Will knew the part that ended here.

In that book, every time he came to this memory, Xiu's description was always full of riddles and rhetoric, all of which implied that this memory was full of foreshadowing.