“Ahem, although the content might not be very wholesome, at least the girls in those games look really pretty.”
Watching the blonde girl huddled in the corner muttering something to herself, Vester awkwardly scratched her head.
Having viewed part of the other’s Remembrance, the current Vester could roughly understand why the blonde girl was acting like this now.
Is this what they call social death?
What else can I say, sister, you win.
“Er, at least it shows your aesthetic sense isn’t bad?”
“?”
What’s the difference between words like this and “three minutes is already very impressive” or “small is also cute”?
Almost amused to anger by the other party, the blonde girl finally recovered.
Damn shame, I order you to shrink back!
After a few seconds, the blonde girl actually recovered her usual appearance, as if nothing had just happened, and stood up by dusting off her pants.
It was merely a touch of hardship.
She could still hold it together!
“…”
Looking at the blonde girl whose expression changed in a second, Vester suddenly curled the corners of her mouth.
Of course, she wasn’t amused to laughter by the other’s sudden change of expression; she just felt some emotion about it.
Although the other person’s cloud drive had 2 terabytes of mysterious torrents, her fetishes were rich to the point of being somewhat bizarre, and she liked to let out bizarre laughs when playing galgames, it didn’t affect the fact that she was a good girl.
It was just human nature.
Moreover, from the other person, Vester could feel a strong will.
The blonde girl in front of her possessed the exact same appearance as her, yet the radiance in her eyes was not as lifeless as her own.
Those were eyes as calm as the ocean, but beneath this calmness, much like the undercurrents surging beneath the sea surface, Vester could feel a long-suppressed emotion about to erupt.
“If it were someone like you, you would definitely be able to do better.”
Thinking of the dream throughout the other’s life within her Remembrance, Vester’s tone was resolute.
“I don’t think so,” the blonde girl said candidly, “if I were you, I’d probably treat that pair of biological parents as dead, and then squander the money they saved for retirement without any psychological burden.”
“If they refused to cough up the money, I’d push the wheelchair to the place with the most relatives in the family, throw a tantrum, and extort it right out of them.”
?!
Strong-on-strong?!
“If it were Mom and Dad, I’m afraid they really wouldn’t be able to do anything about me like this.”
Carefully thinking about the possibility of this method, Vester finally came to this conclusion.
“It just treats the symptoms, not the root cause, after all… Forget it, forget it, how old are you anyway, what do you know about this.”
As she spoke, she wanted to touch the other’s head, but her outstretched hand suddenly froze mid-air.
Only then did the blonde girl notice that more than half of Vester’s body had become transparent, just like a phantom that could vanish from this world at any moment.
“Next, I’ll leave it to you.”
A voice in the dark told her that her life had already reached its end, but the blonde girl in front of her was not the same.
Perhaps it was precisely because of that strong will that allowed the other party to still possess such a powerful soul after death, to the extent of even crossing worlds.
Being able to let the other person take her place to see the outside world and experience the feeling of being alive, she was already very satisfied.
So, let it be like this.
“Tch, why are kids nowadays so self-willed, did I allow you to leave?”
Under Vester’s surprised gaze, the blonde girl grabbed the former’s hand.
She had a hunch that doing this would allow the girl in front of her to live on in another form.
“Doing this will only make our souls fuse together, and by then you won’t be yourself anymore.”
“Not myself anymore? But just letting you vanish like this really doesn’t look like something I would do.”
To this, the blonde girl merely shrugged.
“Who can say for sure about things in the future.”
“No, I don’t need—”
“You’re actually quite unwilling too, right?”
Strictly speaking, the two were meeting for the first time, but knowing each other’s roots and bottoms, they were already very familiar with each other.
Just as Vester could see the emotion beneath her calm eyes, she could likewise feel the other’s suppressed yearning.
“Tell me, do you really want to vanish so pathetically like this, or do you want to fiercely retaliate against those guys and go see for yourself what the outside world is truly like?”
“In front of me, there’s no need to lie, because we’re the same kind of people after all.”
Knowing everything about each other, at this moment they were like two-in-one entities.
“…”
Vester lowered her head and clenched her fists tightly.
Had she truly let go, had she truly put it down?
No.
She was only comforting herself pathetically like this because she had no other choice.
She had never let go; instead, she had become so numb that she no longer dared to hope for anything.
“Actually, I, I don’t want to die.”
Even though Vester’s reply was as soft as a mosquito’s buzzing, the blonde girl still heard it clearly.
“Heh, just not wanting to die? If you keep acting like this, I really won’t care about you anymore.”
“…”
Being ignored, ostracized, bullied—all the negative emotions born from these were suppressed deep in her heart.
Unlike the demon pill that kept stimulating her at this moment, she was a naturally kind person.
However, the things buried deep in her heart would not disappear because of this.
At the very last moment of her life, her lifelong suppressed yearning finally transformed into twisted resentment.
“I said, I don’t want to die!”
“I also want to live, I also want to go see what the snow-capped mountains mentioned in books are truly like, I want to know what lies on the other side of the sea, I want to know what walking actually feels like.”
“I want to know why children in fairy tales have carriages pulled by unicorns, fairies giving them glass slippers, and parents who love them, while I have nothing! Since you didn’t like me, then simply don’t let me come into this world!”
“Why, why, why? Why do I not have the things everyone else can possess, why is it that even when things have come to this, there are always people putting on an expression as if I’m the insatiable one!”
“And you too, do you have to see this ugly appearance of mine before you’ll stop? Go to hell!”
“Ahahaha, all of you go to hell, go to hell, go to hell!”
Vester at this moment was undoubtedly furious.
“How about it, do you want to live now?”
With that, she merely slightly twitched the corners of her mouth, raised her clenched fist, and then extended it in front of Vester.
“Believe in me, belief needs no reason.”
“…”
Vester opened her mouth, seemingly wanting to say something, but in the end, she couldn’t squeeze out a single word.
At this moment, mere words could no longer express her thoughts.
Since that’s the case, there’s no need for further words.
Just believing is enough!
Reaching a final tacit understanding in silence, the two fists bumped together.
At the instant of passing away, a completely different soul followed closely behind; that minuscule possibility took root, sprouted, grew sturdily in Vester’s long-standing prayers, and ultimately bloomed into a flower from another world.
This was a brand new existence born between two souls, and also a brand new possibility.
The already dead Vester opened her eyes once more.
“Given her physical condition, being able to live this long is already pretty good.”
“What I want is a solution, not excuses like this.”
On the other side, the quarrel between the two seemed not to have ended yet.
Clearly, they didn’t think the girl could survive today’s ordeal.
“This fellow is really stubborn.”
“Indeed, I didn’t expect her to live this long, but today she’s finally reached the end of her life.”
“Where will we be transferred to next? Forget it, thinking too much is useless, let’s go prepare dinner first.”
Hearing this, Vester turned her head and locked eyes directly with the two maids.
From their eyes, the blonde girl saw only fatigue and apathy.
So, what should she do?
In just a few seconds, Vester thought of a very simple method.
This wasn’t some female-oriented novel where a few stray-dog-like villains had to be fussed over for hundreds of chapters before being resolved.
As a noble and one of the Celestial People, as long as she wanted, she could let these servants witness what the darkness of the Apocalypse family was like in minutes.
She was a noble now, after all; she completely didn’t need to waste so much brainpower trying hard.
No longer having to think about work all day, no longer having to hustle for a livelihood all day, she could live on without worrying about food or clothing.
She only needed to be like other noble young ladies, obey her parents’ arrangements, only needed to fulfill her responsibilities as a noble, and slowly integrate into the noble social circle.
Sounds very relaxed, right.
Just catering to what others demanded of her would suffice.
Wasn’t she very good at this kind of thing in her past life?
“…”
[Two worlds, two lives, twice choosing suppression and compliance]
[This time, will you repeat the same mistakes?]
The light screen that had once appeared in that space appeared before her once more.
A strong wave of emotion abruptly surged into her heart.
‘Listen to your own voice, Vester, what is it that you want to do the most right now.’
Compared to that ordinary person who was nothing before, she was much better off now; as long as she did things step by step, she could definitely live a better life than her past life.
However, just like in her past life.
Those things were not what she truly wanted.
She also wasn’t clear whether her future would become better if her previous self had made a different choice.
However, even if it would make the future worse, even if she would end up battered and bruised.
This time, she would definitely live as she pleased for once.
[You saved a soul that should have completely perished in your own way, detected drastic fluctuations in the world line, generating rewards based on the new world line…]
[Acquired new talent: Resurgent Wrath]
[Resurgent Wrath]
[Refusing to fall into eternal slumber after death, returning like lightning, the flames stirred by this butterfly that strayed into Honkai are precisely what can burn the entire world]
[* Permanently strengthens the host’s physical fitness and enhances self-healing ability at a high multiplier, which will be further enhanced in a state of anger]
[——This is a parting gift left behind by a girl]
“It seems our compatibility is higher than I imagined.”
Feeling the emotions from the depths of her soul, Vester curled the corners of her mouth.
The sense of weakness that had accompanied her all her life like a shadow receded like a tide; now, she felt an unprecedented strength.
Should she go for it?
No, having just arrived in this world, neither familiar with the outside situation nor having reliable partners…
Therefore, choosing to endure at this moment for various reasons was understandable.
However, that was the mindset of the weak.
Not avenging herself with her own hands, and still having to socialize like a noble young lady, or even get married?
Screw that, the only thing Vester wanted to do right now was to beat the people in front of her to their knees with her own hands, and then smash the whole damn world with her own single strength!