the first god

Chapter 646 Memory
"You bastard!" At this moment, Shana walked up to Lizi who was pinned to the ground immobile by the spear of victory, "Who is your master!"

"Do you think I will say it?" The woman said with a sarcastic smile, but was soon replaced by pain.

I withdrew the spear of victory in my hand with a flat face, and said with a smile, "Long time no see, Shana, long time no see, Alastor!"

"Humph!"

"It's been a long time, Ma Yunteng. You know, this little girl calls your name every night!"

Shana's greeting to me was just a heavy snort, and Alastor laughed out loud without any morals. He didn't care about Shana's gradually flushed face, and he just exposed the shortcomings of his contractor.finally……

"Ulusay Urusay Ulusay!"

Shana finally broke out.She waved Zhe Dian Zana in her hand, aiming at the enemy who was almost ignored by us, "I never thought of getting some information from you, your master, I will send him to see you!" She said , will be cut off.

"Wait a minute!" At this moment, Yuji, who had been playing the role of the victim, jumped out suddenly, and blocked Shana's knife with both hands.

"Yuji, what are you doing!" I frowned, my voice a little low.Having been neighbors for so many years, Yuji and I have a pretty good relationship, so I asked aloud.

"I...uh!" Yuji just said a word, and then stopped, and after self-study, it was the Ryoko who was protected by him, which had reached into Yuji's body with one hand, and it seemed that he was searching for a treasure. .However, don't say I don't agree, even Shana does.

Shana's knife fell quickly, and before the woman's face could react, she cut off the right half of Yuji's body, and also forced the woman's face's hand out of Yuji's body.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhly

"Ulusai! What are you doing!" Finally, Shana couldn't help it again, turned around and looked at Yuji who was sitting on the ground with dissatisfaction.

"Hurry up and call an ambulance!" Yuji was sweating profusely, after all, his life was at stake, so he couldn't be careless at all.

"Yuji, save yourself, it's okay." Seeing this scene, I had to walk over and said.

"How can it be okay!" Yuji's voice raised a few degrees, "I'm so hurt!"

"Then are you bleeding?" Shana's words hit the red heart, and Yuji was stunned for a moment.

"What's going on..." Yuji looked very confused.

"Because you are already dead." Shana looked very impatient, "Hey, Alastor, brother, can I destroy this 'Mystis'?"

"No!" Alastor's voice was rarely serious, and this tone stunned me for a moment.No way, who made Alastor be an off-line royal sister in my impression?
"Have you forgotten the example of Tianmu?" Alastor explained with a slow tone.

"But this guy is really annoying!" Shana held her head, looking very distressed.

"Then tell this thing the truth of this world, so that he will understand." I stood aside, saw Shana's appearance, and couldn't help reminding me aloud.

"Hey, let me tell you, what is this, this thing, you don't treat me like a human being at all...!"

Listening to this defiant conversation, Yuji retorted while stroking the reddened finger marks.

The girl suddenly said indifferently:

"You are not a person, but a thing!"

"Varied……?!"

Yuji was at a loss.

Facing Yuji who was at a loss for words, the girl felt that she had to listen carefully before continuing:

"The real existence of 'you who used to be a human' has been eaten away by the 'Red World' and disappeared long ago. The present you are just to alleviate the impact of the disappearance of existence on the world. And set the replacement 'torch'".

A series of instructions beyond comprehension.

"……What did you say……?"

Yuji was at a loss.

However, in a corner of consciousness, there is another self who can calmly explore the meaning of these words.

An inexplicable and terrifying feeling came quietly.

There are many words hovering in the face.

"Now that you have returned to the original state after our blessing, you should be able to see the ray of spiritual fire in your chest. This is the 'power of existence' that constitutes the pseudo-body. This is the ultimate reason why you are not a human body, but a residue of existence. Good proof."

Yuji could see it.He could see the swaying spiritual fire in his chest.

"Do you feel that you can't accept it?" I stood aside, watched Shana explain, and wanted to ask Yuji.

"It's so eerie and horrific."

The experience was too real, and the facts learned too convincing, to be dismissed as never having happened.

The girl continued to talk like she was chasing after the victory.

"You should also see a lot of people passing by, right? All of them are leftovers that have been eaten, because there is a "Red World" that collects and eats the "power of existence" nearby. Apostle'. 'The real you' was one of the victims, it's no surprise, it happens every day in the world."

Yuuji could vaguely understand what the girl said, completely understandable.

When he came back to his senses, the girl had already left him and left.

"Wait, wait a minute!"

The other party panicked at the slightest movement, like a child abandoned by his parents, Yuji followed closely.

"But...but, I...I've never heard of the hung (my own note: "red") monsters that you just mentioned are destroying everywhere!"

Although she is small, she has big strides, so the girl walks quite fast.Yuuji desperately moved his feet that were almost knotted due to the wavering in his heart, and chased after him.

"Of course, since you can move around inside, let me ask you, you should have seen the wall that seals off, right?"

"Ah! You're referring to the red, rosy clouds that surrounded it, right?"

"To be precise, that is the space in that barrier. That space can temporarily cut off the time and cause and effect of the outside world. People 'no longer exist', leaving no trace."

"……how so……"

At this point the girl stopped.

Yuji raised his heavily drooping face, and it turned out that Zaou was already in front of a stall selling sea bream and red bean cakes.

The girl told the clerk that she would buy all the red bean cakes on the baking tray.While waiting for the clerk to pack the bag, he said softly in a gossiping tone: "It's just that when human beings are eaten, the world is distorted because of the sudden blankness of existence, so it is necessary to set up substitutes for the eaten human beings." Torch, to soften the impact of the blank closure." I paid the money and helped the girl take the bag full of sea bream and red bean pancakes.

"You have also seen the torches dangling around, right? It is to replace the human beings who are being eaten in that way. The connection between human beings and the world is temporarily maintained, and then the sense of existence will gradually fade away. When the spiritual fire burns out, it will be forgotten by everyone... Ah, it's just in time."

Girls touch each other with empty fingers.

"Uh?"

"Just now, you should have seen a torch coming towards you, right?"

Among the crowds, the middle-aged man who had a fleeting impression of others was walking awkwardly.There was a faint spiritual fire in this person's chest.

"Is that the person with the weak spiritual fire... ah..."

Suddenly, the spiritual fire went out.

The man also disappeared without a trace.

As if it was no big deal, I was not surprised by this abnormality at all.I just felt that the man suddenly disappeared.

The passers-by around did not notice this at all.No, I don't care at all.In fact, even Yuuji was the same, if the girl hadn't reminded him, he probably wouldn't have noticed this person.It shows that this man's "existence is very weak".

In a blink of an eye, it was overwhelmed by the crowd and could no longer be seen.

But this person did disappear just now.

"Then...that is, the meaning of burning out...?"

"Yes."

The girl answered briefly, then took another step forward, and took out sea bream and red bean cakes from the bag.

About one out of 30 people...Among the crowd, the "human substitute" with a weak spiritual fire residing in its body is so eye-catching and annoying.

"!"

Another person, the spiritual fire extinguished at the edge of the horizon.

Another person disappeared.

The crowd is still flowing.

This is the true face of the world I live in, without knowing it...?
The leftovers of people who were eaten wander around... A world that is gradually becoming mutilated...?
The crowd is still flowing.

Yuji hugged his head, as if he couldn't bear the real feelings and fears pressing in front of him, as well as the heaviness of the facts.

"Those people, all...all of them were eaten...were they eaten by those monsters just now...too much!"

Instead of the girl who started munching on sea bream and red bean pancakes, Suiko replied:
"It can't be said that, due to unrestrained gnawing on the existence of this world, the world is out of balance, and many of us 'Red World Apostles' are also worried that this will cause damage to our world 'Red World' adverse effect."

"Us? Are you also the companion of that hung (where I live: red) or something... monster?"

Yuji finally felt (incomprehensible) that the sinker could speak by himself.

"The 'Rin' you met is just a servant of our 'Apostle', but you are right."

"In short, in order to prevent disasters, it is the mission of our 'Fire Mist Warrior' to capture and annihilate the indiscriminate existence. Do you understand that?"

After the girl who was a Fire Mist Warrior briefly agreed, she ate the sea bream and red bean cake again.Probably really thought it was delicious, but his face softened slightly, revealing a childish expression that was no different from his appearance.

Yuji forced himself to accept the almost absurd explanation that the girl and the pendant blurted out, and went straight to the point.

own focus.

The coldness accumulated in his heart... Fear made his voice hoarse.

"Just now you said that I... I am 'Mistis', right?"

Remember it so clearly!The girl was a little admired, but she still replied casually:

"That is, the 'torch' that possesses the treasure or power made by the 'Red World Apostle' in this world."

"torch"……?
Yuji senses that a tragic end is imminent.

"When this torch is extinguished, the treasure and power in it will be immediately transferred to another torch. Simply put, it means 'active treasure house'. You are unlucky to be discovered by the other party, so they will snatch the treasure in your body. Noble Phantasm or power." I explained kindly.

"torch".

How did this girl describe this noun before?

The heartbeat is getting faster and faster.

"You are not a person, but a thing!"

Everything fits perfectly.My own situation, position, and existence gradually take shape.Finally, he could gradually digest the other party's explanation.

"Replacing the humans being eaten, temporarily maintaining the connection between humans and the world, and then the sense of existence will gradually fade away, and when the spiritual fire in the body burns out, it will be forgotten by everyone..."

The voice trembled.

"Then, uh...then, I..."

Yuji stood still.

The girl also stopped walking impatiently, and turned to look at Yuji.

"Don't let me say it so many times, you are just your own residue, an existence that is about to be gradually extinguished."

Blow.

It should be said to be a huge and profound fear and loneliness.

It was a feeling that the whole world was shaking; or that he was abandoned by the world, an extremely serious sense of imbalance.

"Once it is extinguished, the treasure will be transferred to the next torch, and other people's memories of you, everything you have done, and the footprints you have experienced will all disappear, because existence disappears."

To him, this "fact" is tantamount to declaring a death sentence. Not only that, but it is even tantamount to the fact that "he is still alive", and the whole structure falls apart.

"how come?"

He stopped talking halfway, because he didn't know what to say.

I can only look around, looking for a place to escape, to escape from my present self.

It was completely dark.

Only then did I realize that I and the girl were standing on the sidewalk of the big iron bridge connecting the urban area where the downtown area is located and the residential area on the opposite bank.

Although the two of them were standing still, pedestrians were always coming and going, and the crowds flowed continuously on the wide sidewalk.

"But……"

A torch resides within its body.

A human substitute with a spiritual fire burning in his chest.

There are men, women, old people, children... all kinds of people.

Turning their heavy necks to look around the night scene, among the street lamps, only they could see the spiritual fire, although it was faint, but for some reason, it could be clearly seen that countless people were moving around.

presented in front of my eyes...

It is a world full of spiritual fires that will sooner or later be extinguished, and is also a substitute for oneself.

"But!"

Yuji refuted all of this.

He didn't need to look at the girl's surprised expression, he knew it quite well in his heart, and he couldn't understand more than that, this was an unquestionable rebuttal.

However, he still tried to fight hard.

"But just now, my body was injured!"

"If it is alive, it will be killed on the spot."

The girl replied without thinking.

Yuji was a little speechless, and then fought back again.

"But I still have the memory!"

"Of course, it's your own dregs."

Yuji thought desperately, trying to find clues that could prove himself... no, clues that could prove that he was the "living Yuji Sakai".What exactly is this clue?where?How to prove...?
(End of this chapter)