Sky Eater Traveler

With a sigh, Alastair replied, "Well, he's a shrewd guy."

The girl glanced at Ye Qiu, then took a step back, and raised the index finger of her right hand to the sky.The next moment, the girl's fingertips radiated light.Under the light of the light, scattered scattered on the road, the faint flames like the last relics of people floated gently, burning to restore the appearance of human beings.

After humanity fully recovered, the light did not stop shining.Silently, the gaps in the slates that were laid out gradually closed, the broken window glass was repaired, and the fallen arcade roof was propped up... Like rewinding the video, the entire street slowly returned to the way it was before the destruction, as if No change at all.

No, no...there is still change!

Suddenly, a chill ran up Yuji's back.Because he saw a flame burning in the bodies of the people who were standing still. Some were the size of a fist, and some were like a flame that was about to burn out, and it would go out at any time.

A very ominous foreboding suddenly enveloped his mind.

"It can only be this way."

Following the girl's announcement of judgment, all the light that wasn't so bright exploded, causing Yuji to close her eyes subconsciously.

"?"

In an instant, the clamor that entered his ears made Yuuji open his eyes again immediately.Looking around, I saw that the prosperous streets rendered by the blood-like crimson sunset, and the flame totems under their feet had all disappeared.The crowd resumed flow, and everything seemed to be completely back to before the mutation, but Yuuji knew that everything was different.

Subconsciously, his eyes fell on his teacher.

Fire, like a flaming torch!Brighter than anyone else, and bigger than anyone else, but there is no essential difference...

"teacher……"

Ye Qiu looked back and smiled: "Have a lot of questions?"

Yuji nodded silently.

"This is not the place to talk, let's go and find a place to talk." Ye Qiu pointed out, "But before that, you might be able to look at your chest first."

Hearing this, Yuji couldn't help looking down at her chest in the direction of her index finger, where there was also a flame burning quietly.The ominous ominous instinct made him stunned for a moment, and he suddenly returned to his senses. Just as he was about to ask a question, he realized that his teacher and the strange girl had already started to leave along the crowd.

"...Wait, teacher!"

He quickly picked up the handbag that had been thrown aside, and Yu Er quickly chased after the two people in sight...

……

The afterglow of the setting sun shrouded the sky, and in a small park beside the river, You Er sat quietly on a bench, digesting some of the things that his teacher had explained to him along the way.

The red world, the apostles, the ban, the existence, the torch, and my own death...

"...Come on, pineapple bread!"

Noticing that his teacher was coming back from the moving booth, Yuji couldn't help but raise her downcast face.But what caught his eyes was the gentle smile of his teacher, and the happy smile the girl showed when she took the pineapple bread.

It's a bit incomprehensible, why is the same torch, his teacher can still show such a gentle smile.

As the wreck of Sakai Yuji, is it still Sakai Yuji who is here?

No, it must not be!

The real Sakai Yuji has long since died, and he is just a substitute, a torch that was shaped in order not to cause too much distortion in the world, a torch that is destined to disappear.

But why...why is he still troubled by his identity as 'Sakai Yuji'.If Sakai Yuji himself was eaten by monsters, he would naturally feel hopeless for his own death and fear that his existence is about to disappear.

But what about him?What about him as a scum? ...

"...Your thinking is a little dangerous, Yuuji!"

Ye Qiu stared at the expression of the young man's constant thoughts. He had just experienced several death threats, experienced unprecedented fear, and the bottom line of his mind was broken several times.Ordinary people have long been mentally atrophied, or their instinct for self-preservation has come into play, and they have fallen into a coma.But the boy did not, at this moment he was sitting here quietly thinking.

Just like he used to be, thinking with absolute rationality...

Chapter [-]: Zero Hour Mystery

Meeting the gaze that saw through almost everything, Yuji opened her mouth, but in the end she remained silent.

He felt that his thoughts were unprecedentedly chaotic, and he couldn't even find the reason why he was chaotic.The meaning of life as Sakai Yuji has been almost completely denied, and he has lost his future as a wreck. So, why did he stand here?

"Are you afraid of the fate of your own disappearance?"

Yuji was stunned for a moment, then nodded.In the face of the demise that cannot even exist in the slightest, who can face it calmly.

"Since you are still afraid, do you think you are already a 'dead thing'?"

"...No, no!" After pondering for a while, Yuji gritted her teeth and replied.Only at this point he could clearly feel that his mind was still spinning.

"Then you who are not a 'dead thing', why do you want to deny the meaning of your existence here?"

Hearing this, Yu Er couldn't help but be stunned, "I... I am denying myself..."

"An hour ago, did you doubt that you were 'Sakai Yuji'?"

Yuuji shook his head.

"Then what about your memories at the moment, what about your feelings, everything in 'Sakai Yuji' memory, everything 'Sakai Yuji' has, are all illusory to you?"

Yuuji shook his head again.Relatives, friends, classmates, the memories and feelings accumulated bit by bit, although they are very ordinary, they are extremely real, and until this moment, he can't identify them as illusory.

Seeing this, Ye Qiu's eyes narrowed slowly, and the corners of his mouth curled up coldly: "So Yu Er, apart from this flame in your chest, how are you different from the one you were an hour ago... this kind of you? , why do you want to deny that you are 'Sakai Yuji'?"

"I……"

Yu Er subconsciously opened his mouth to speak, but the next moment, he suddenly found that he could no longer find words to refute.An hour has allowed him to understand many unknown things, but he himself is no different from himself an hour ago. Just by recognizing the truth, has he completely denied himself?

No... not just that!