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Extra Chapter 314.15 Killing Saya

Yumiko and Ayano passed through the door and continued to move forward in her stage, following the memory of Yukinoshita Saya.

——This scene is after school, on the streets of Shibuya at dusk.

Tens of meters in front of Yumiko and Ayano, Yukinoshita Saya was walking forward calmly with her back to them, but the setting sun cast her narrow and lonely shadow at Yumiko's feet.

"........."

The whisper of the foreign object sounded again.

As if in conjunction with this, the entire scene below Yumiko and Ayano started to rotate.They clearly didn't move, but in the blink of an eye they went from looking at Saya's back to in front of her.

Then they saw the shocking hole of nothingness again.

In this scene, behind Saya, the hole of nothingness appeared again.

Yukinoshita Saya still seemed to be out of sight and out of hearing, but continued to walk forward with a dream-like expression.

"......."

The voice continued.

Tamaki Yumiko didn't know if it was her imagination, but she felt that after she finished speaking these words, Yukinoshita Saya's steps were invisibly slowed down.

Then, there seemed to be sparks blooming from the depths of her pupils——

not good! !Some kind of premonition made Tamaki Yumiko's heart suddenly rise to her throat.She didn't care that the "Saya Yukinoshita" in front of her was just a shadow, and she couldn't hear her voice at all. She just shouted out without thinking: "Saya——"

That's too late.

A samurai sword whirled down from the sky again.

"--night"

As soon as the second syllable left Tamaki Yumiko's throat, the middle section of the long blade turned from the neck of the "Yukishoshita Sandyar" in front of her to the back of her neck.There was no obstruction - it was like passing through a phantom, and it just made a clean "buzz" sound.

Head falls.

And the body spurted blood from the head and neck, knelt down softly, and then collapsed to the ground.

This time Yumiko Tamaki didn't scream.

Facing the blood splashed in front of her in the hallucination, she forced herself to overcome the instinct to close her eyes and just stared closely at the place where Yukinoshita Saya fell.

...Sure enough, a shallow shadow soon emerged from the spot, as if stepping on the separated body of Saya under the snow.

The shadow soon took on physical form.

The "new" Yukinoshita Saya was born again.

She inherited the "old" Yukinoshita Saya's previous posture, naturally leaving her body behind and continuing to move forward.

However - Tamaki Yumiko frowned, keenly aware that the movements between the old and new Yukinoshita Saya were not completely coherent.

...Strange, that is to say, the new Saya did not actually inherit "the moment before being killed"...

"Yumiko——" Ayano on the side pulled her again and whispered.

Yumiko Tamaki had no choice but to put down her original train of thought and turned to look. At the same time, she realized that Ayano was much calmer this time.

Now Ayano is no longer as frightened as she was when she saw Saya being killed for the first time.She could even continue to watch without blinking - watching the strange scene of the new Saya leaving the old corpse.

"I feel so strange..." She stared there and muttered to herself, "Although I was really shocked all of a sudden...but I feel more and more common..."

"Commonplace means...?"

"Kill Saya." Ayano paused, and said, "She should have died many times, and we have watched many times... I have this feeling. What do you think?"

Tamaki Yumiko couldn't answer.

Although she also realized that she seemed to calm down a little quickly when faced with the horrific scene of "a person's head being chopped off" over and over again.

So the two of them remained silent and continued to follow.

Yukinoshita Saya walked across the street, entered a building, and walked into the elevator.

While the elevator was running, she was beheaded again.

Standing outside the scene, Yumiko Tamaki stared helplessly at the illusory blood flowing on the floor of the elevator car, looked at another new Saya standing there calmly, and then looked to the right side of the elevator - nothingness The cave appeared there again.

The elevator is rising.Although the Hole of Nothingness swallowed half of the entire small elevator car, it maintained a stable relative relationship with Yukinoshita Saya... just like another passenger sitting in the elevator with Saya.

This time, the whisper didn't come out.

But it was too close... This time, the Hole of Nothingness was only one step away from Yukinoshita Saya.

When we reached the top floor, the elevator door opened.Yukinoshita Saya got off the elevator and watched her enter the door of a kendo dojo.

"Moto Sekikai..." Yumiko read the name of the dojo on the signboard, guessing the relationship between the dojo owner and Saya.

During this period, Yukinoshita Saya walked through the dojo in a familiar manner, entered the small room at the other end, and closed the paper door with a bang.

Then, in the empty room, she sat down on her knees facing the wall with her back to the paper door that separated the dojo, and began to remain motionless like a monk meditating.

The light from outside the paper door began to flicker rapidly, bright or dark, like a broken lamp.

As the light changes, the date and time displayed on the electronic clock on the wall also change suddenly like a jump.

——20XX年，11月1日，18：00
——20XX年，11月5日，17：26
——20XX年，11月2日，19：40
——20XX年，11月6日，19：05
——20XX年，11月4日，20：56
……

Then, Yukinoshita Saya began to be killed by katana flying from the sky again.

Once, once, again.

The room was soon filled with corpses.They were all the headless corpses of Yukinoshita Saya.

Only among the corpses, there was always a girl sitting there on her knees, with her back to the dojo and the paper door, facing the wall, her face as calm as dead water.

Tamaki Yumiko and Ayano always stood on this side of the wall.

The wall is part of the stage, but does not exist for the audience outside the stage.Therefore, they could clearly see every subtle change in Saya under the snow facing the wall.

Therefore, in the process of being killed again and again, Yumiko Tamaki finally confirmed two things through observation.

In fact, what the new Saya inherited was not "the moment before being killed", but "the moment before being cremated".

Therefore, it seems that it can be said that this kind of killing came just to extinguish the sparks.

But the beheading actually came from Yukinoshita Saya herself who is a witch.

So, it's like pruning a branch that's growing in the wrong direction?
Tamaki Yumiko looked up to the high place, the direction projected by that ruthless gaze, and thought of a not-so-bad metaphor.

But the question is, why would Saya prefer to kill herself, but also keep killing the spark?What is that spark?
Could it be - some kind of pollution that is bad for Saya?

Tamaki Yumiko lowered her gaze again.

All the scenery on the "stage" cannot block the view of the audience below.Therefore, Yumiko's gaze penetrated the walls and paper doors and looked directly at the center of the dojo.

——The hole of nothingness.

That hole of nothingness is permanently located in the dojo next door.It was like a jailer guarding Saya and not allowing her to leave this room.

From time to time, that mysterious whisper would sound.

Tamaki Yumiko also observed.

It can't be said that after every whisper, sparks will appear in Sha Ye's eyes, which will lead to beheading.But it is true that every beheading is after that mysterious whisper.

And... there was another whisper.

--"call".

Another knife comes.

Tamaki Yumiko frowned - the sparks in the depths of Saya's eyes were lit up by that whisper, and the frequency was obviously getting higher and higher.

The frequency of Saya being beheaded was getting higher and higher... Although, her expression and posture remained motionless.

——20XX年，11月7日，20：56
Finally, the time jump of the scene was fixed on the seventh day.

A sudden visitor finally broke the time that Yukinoshita Saya seemed to be frozen in.

The visitor was a mature woman with a face that Yumiko felt vaguely familiar.

Yumiko stared at her for a moment, and suddenly realized - wasn't this the girl she had seen in the courtyard of Yukinoshita's house before, the girl who had a conflict with the swordsmith?
In other words... Saya's aunt?

In the small room, my aunt got into an aggressive one-sided argument and stormed out of the house.

From the beginning to the end, Saya seemed like a stone statue. Except for saying a few words, she never even looked away from the wall.

But Tamaki Yumiko saw it clearly: deep in Saya's eyes, sparks began to flash again.

Just when Yumiko thought again, thinking that the katana was coming from the sky again... the sword never came.

Yukinoshita Saya also made a different movement for the first time—she raised her right arm and slowly stretched out her hand towards the air in front of her.

Then, her hand just stopped there, as if hovering over something that didn't exist, as if hesitating for something.

After an unknown amount of time, Yukinoshita Saya let out an inaudible sigh and retracted her hand.

Tamaki Yumiko was confused, but suddenly raised her eyes and looked at the dojo in surprise.

The Hole of Nothingness, which was stationed in the dojo as if guarding Saya, suddenly jumped up at this time and rushed out of the window of the tall building.

Before Yumiko could react to what happened, the perspective of the scene shifted again.

In an instant, Yumiko and Ayano followed the hole of nothingness and rushed out of the window.

Looking at the scene that suddenly came into view, the two of them let out another "goo" and grabbed each other's hands nervously.

——From the sky, above the city, accompanied by the whistling sound of huge objects squeezing out the air, an arm that is large enough to measure the size of the entire city is being extended.

At this moment, the city is like a simulated sand table, a small garden for playing house.

As for that arm, the little master opened the lid of the tin box containing the toys and stretched his hand in.

Yumiko looked up at the arm in surprise - although the arm was huge, it had slender proportions and seemed to come from a young girl.Unfortunately, although the skin itself is delicate and fair, it is covered with countless old scars like centipedes.

But Yumiko has actually seen the location and shape of these old scars many times.That was obviously Yukinoshita Saya——

No, Yumiko's thoughts suddenly changed and she suddenly realized.

——This is the "witch".

The witch transformed by Yukinoshita Saya, the owner of the watchful eye.

Perhaps because she was too big, the witch did not show her full body shape.

She just stretched her arm from above the clouds towards the city, holding a katana.

..."Xue Che"...

Yumiko looked at the huge inscription on the sword and sighed slightly.

Although the size is different... But whether it is the shape or the inscription, it is obvious that this is the same sword that has killed Yukinoshita Saya countless times before.

——Then, the long knife swung in the air.

Not only the shape and eyes, but also the size could be compared to a real crescent moon, the sword light was pushed towards the ground.

The target, however, was my aunt who was leaving the building without realizing it.

But at this moment, the hole of nothingness also expanded in an instant, and faced the sword light head-on with a body that was so huge that it swallowed up the building next to it.

At the moment of contact, the extremely sharp crescent moon sank directly into the body of the Hole of Nothingness.

——But then, it was like falling into mud, stuck there.

Yumiko looked carefully at the contact point between the two, and saw that the moonlight was actually still melting the hole of nothingness.

The hole of nothingness seems to be extremely deep and can never be penetrated.

Of course, it also seemed to be very difficult, and it was emitting a mixture of a lion's roar and a snake's hiss, directly conveying the pain at the soul level beyond words, and at the same time, countless tentacles like shadows protruded from the inside, swinging violently.

But the crescent moon still couldn't make any progress, and gradually dimmed.

Finally, disappear completely.

There was a moment of stillness on the field.

Whether it is the huge arm or the hole of nothingness, the two city-sized aliens are motionless, as if they are confronting each other, and they seem to be silent.

After a moment, the witch suddenly turned her wrist.

"Xueche" swayed, and a flash of light was reflected from the Xueliang blade, and it slashed towards the building next to it.

Tamaki Yumiko was startled and turned around to look. The sight of the "audience" instantly passed through countless obstacles to catch up with the light of the sword - just in time, she saw the crescent moon as thin as paper that ran across the entire building, light and precise. It passed by Yukinoshita Saya's neck.

So, in the spray of blood, another head fell to the ground.

The witch's arm then lifted the knife, drew it upward, and submerged it into the deep space again.

The Hole of Nothingness also disappeared.

Countless fragments of space were replaced as if going back in time, filling the hole without a trace in an instant.

The scene continues to unfold.

But it seems that the big scene just now caused a temporary shortage of budget. Except for the gaze above the head, the next scene has not come yet.

——In this darkness that seemed like an "intermission", there were only two "audiences", Yumiko and Ayano, looking at each other.

Looking at the empty gray space around her, Ayano trembled, chose to be an ostrich again, and buried her head tightly in Yumiko's arms.

Yumiko quickly fell into deep thought.

In the Endless Tower, Yumiko also felt the gaze of her own witch.

——Of course, to be more precise, "Witch's Gaze" should only be part of the scene.It was the "witch at the time" watching "Yumiko Tamaki at the time".

But in short, after truly becoming a witch, Tamaki Yumiko realized one thing: that witches can only "watch."She became a witch, and then in countless dreams, she watched her past self wandering in the Endless Tower, and also watched her climb to the top of the tower.

The witch did nothing...because the witch didn't need to do anything.

The witch only needs to wait, wait for the fate that will inevitably arrive, and wait for "me" to become a "witch".

——But the witch of Yukinoshita Saya did not wait.

She just keeps killing herself.

Although they don’t know the reason or who did it, the purpose of the space they are now trapped in seems to be to reproduce the "stage" of the three of them.In other words, what Yumiko sees now should be the reality of what happened to Saya at that time.

……why?
(End of this chapter)