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Chapter 77 The Innocent Monster
When Ari heard Li Ke's words, she became even more panicked. She didn't dare to look at Li Ke, because she took the bell from a woodcutter.

A long time ago, she couldn't bear the hunger, and frantically wanted to devour her memory and vitality, so that her sanity began to blur, and she wandered around like a walking dead.

When she regained her sanity, she found herself standing beside a vicissitudes of the middle-aged man, and the other party was seriously injured—of course it was not her handwriting, but a wild beast.

When Ari found the other party, the middle-aged man was actually about to die.

She looked at the other party, hesitated for a long time, but still suppressed her hunger, and wanted to leave here to prevent herself from gradually becoming a monster.But the other party held her hand when she was confused, and called the names of the two women.

Ari turned her head and wanted to break free, but the person said how much she missed these two people, and Ari's body, which had not been nourished by vitality and memory for a long time, began to absorb it without being controlled by her consciousness.

Thus, Ari saw the other person's life.

The woodcutter was very happy when he was young. He had his own farmland and his childhood sweetheart wife. The two lived happily and had a daughter.

However, one day, a group of bandits attacked their village when he went out to go to the market. When he came back, what he saw was the samurai who killed the bandits and the miserable corpses of his wife and daughter.

Without an enemy or a family member, the woodcutter left that sad place and found a random place to rot himself.He pawned everything he could to buy wine and drink, and he didn't even go to the Spring Festival.

It wasn't until the only thing left around him was the bell that he had given to his wife when he was a child, and then his wife had given to his daughter, did he wake up, and found a job to do at will, so that he would not starve to death.

Then, one day he lost the bell and while searching frantically, he also found a baby wrapped in strange clothes.

He thought this was a revelation from his wife and daughter, so he adopted Li Ke and wanted to start a new life.

But every night he still dreams about the tragic death of his wife and daughter, so he decided to go to the legendary Wangyou Garden to forget the tragic death of his wife and daughter.

So he bid farewell to the child and came to Shangzan to look for Wangyou Garden.

Then, he failed.

He couldn't persuade himself to forget the memory of his wife and daughter, even if it was just a little bit of memory, so he lingered in Wangyou Garden for a long time before giving up.

But when he finally tried to leave, he was attacked by a hungry beast.

After that, it was her arrival.

The woodcutter was in great pain. He was in pain for not being able to protect his wife and daughter, for not being able to die with his wife and daughter, for not being able to fulfill his promise, and for not being able to realize it now.

This pain made him feel more tormented than death, and in the remaining seconds of his life, he only had pain left.

So Ari gave him a sweet dream.

At the end of his life, he is still the happy farmer with his wife and daughter by his side, and his son is also very sensible and obedient, and can become a shrewd, rich and compassionate businessman.

His life will only get better.

So holding this expectation, the woodcutter laughed and died.

Also because of the other party's love for his wife and daughter, Ari put away the bells he had scattered around to remind himself that he had eaten another human soul.

The dead woodcutter will never think of the tragic death of his wife and daughter again, but she still remembers.So as long as she can remember, the happy life between the woodcutter and his wife and daughter will still exist, and the feelings of the woodcutter will still exist.

Resisting the urge to run away, Ari didn't want to be misunderstood, so she stopped and faced Li Ke's sword.

"A few years ago I met a woodcutter... He was seriously injured by a wild animal near Wangyou Garden. Before he died, he told me his story, so I took his bell as a souvenir... A few years ago their story."

Ahri somehow didn't want Li Ke to know that she was a man-eating beast.

No, the beast is also better than her, because although the beast can eat people, it will not make this person no longer himself, but what about her?Swallow memories, devour emotions, are real monsters.

But Li Ke knew that the story would not be so simple, his hand still did not fall from the hilt, and his eyes were still fixed on Ari.

"You can devour people's memory and vitality, right? I've heard of your legend, the demon fox that devours memory."

He didn't know why he didn't pay attention to this in the simulator, and he didn't know if he didn't notice it in the simulator.

But for him, he will not pretend not to see it.

The old woodcutter's kindness to him is as high as a mountain. If he doesn't even know how to repay his kindness, then what is the difference between him and a beast?
Ahri's body trembled a bit, Li Ke's eyes made her uncomfortable, she didn't know how to answer Li Ke, because even though she didn't want to do it herself, she still absorbed the remaining memories of the woodcutter.

Even if she didn't, the old woodcutter would be dead in seconds, but that was the truth.

Maybe a monster like me shouldn't be alive?

Looking at Li Ke's eyes, Ahri had an urge to give up on herself. Before she gained human rationality, she never felt that there was anything wrong with what she did.

But after gaining human memory and tasting human emotions, she realized how despicable she was doing, and her shame kept haunting her.

So she wants to run away.

He didn't intend to give Li Ke an answer, but ran away like a coward.

But at this time, Li Ke also calmed down. He looked at Ari and asked word by word.

"So I want to know, was he in pain when he died?"

Painful?
Ari raised her head, she didn't know if the old woodcutter was happy, although he passed away with a smile, but it was just a false illusion.

"It's very painful. He can't let go of the boy he adopted and his wife and daughter who were killed, so, so I made him a sweet dream, but..."

Pursing his lips, Ari planned to tell the truth.

"...I did absorb his memory, so I know all this."

"........."

Li Ke wanted to draw out his sword for a moment, but after a long silence, he still took it back.

"Is there any evidence?"

Ali pursed his lips again.

"No."

No one can prove that the old woodcutter was not killed by her, and Ari also recognized that Li Ke was the child adopted by the old woodcutter.

Perhaps, I should die here?
In this way, there will be one less monster in the world.

Ahri, who was so hungry, couldn't help thinking of this idea.

　Well, there is some water these days, the main thing is to digest the results of the simulation and lead to other simulation routes... I can write one simulation after another, and finish the plot quickly, but that would be boring...

　　As for the mainline...

　　Of course the main line is eating and drinking to fight Yasuo.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)