BA, I just want to save the world

"Guilt?"

"Don't worry."

Unable to explain the subtle emotions of the innocent girl in front of him, he could only silently let Bai Zi hold him tightly, and then pedaled hard in the direction she indicated.

After a brief discomfort, Bai Zi put her cheek against his back and unconsciously sniffed his scent. But when she realized that her behavior seemed to be wrong, her pretty face turned slightly red.

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Chapter 13: Memories of Hoshino filled with regret

Compared to Bai Zi's girlish feelings that she herself did not understand, as the surrounding scenery quickly passed by, the subtle emotions in Mo Lu's heart had long since disappeared, replaced by a lingering question - why is this pedal so heavy? !

After riding for more than ten minutes, the destination was still nowhere to be seen. Sweat was dripping down like beads from a broken string. He was almost exhausted and couldn't help but gasp and ask:

"Bai Zi...is it really not far? Huh...why do I feel like I've already ridden three or four kilometers? Right?"

"It's not far, it's just ahead. Is this really a bit too much for the teacher? Let me..."

“Ha, haha! What are you talking about? Reluctantly? There’s no such word in my dictionary!!”

After hearing what the beautiful girl said, any man would not admit that he couldn't do it. Mo Lu, who had already been exhausted, was forced to force a smile, muster up his energy, and continue to move forward.

However, after holding on for more than ten minutes, his strong will began to waver, and he couldn't help but ask the distance again, but all he got was the vague answer "almost there", so he was forced to hold on for another half an hour.

He was already exhausted, and after riding for about an hour with a girl on his back, the fire of hope in his heart gradually died out, and he finally collapsed to the ground completely exhausted, with only a faint gasp left.

The girl on his back didn't expect that he, who had been trying so hard, would collapse. When he fell, she slid down and sat on his back. She forgot to get up, and stretched out her finger in worry, gently poking his cheek:

"Um...are you okay?"

"...Rather than wondering if anything...will happen...I would rather...want to know...how long it will take?"

Mo Lu felt like he was forced to complete a triathlon. He was so dizzy that he couldn't see the road ahead. Even the world had become extremely dim. In this state of complete exhaustion, he asked the last question breathlessly.

"Is it really coming soon?"

"...I forgot to ask...how many kilometers do you have left...?"

"Now, it should be only eight or nine kilometers, right?"

"Eight...nine...kilometers...!?"

"I don't know the exact details, but there are definitely less than ten kilometers left."

“No, no… Did I hear wrongly…? Or… What’s going on? This… What… ‘only’——?!”

The answer that made him doubt his ears made his eyes widen for a moment. He turned around suddenly as if he had a flash of light and looked at the girl behind him in disbelief.

He felt that he had reason to suspect that this child was the retribution of karma - a punishment specifically for his various inappropriate behaviors that disrespected his teacher.

But Bai Zi looked very confused when he saw his betrayed expression: "...are we really close?"

"——Where?! The distance I rode my bike to get here must be at least 20 or 30 kilometers!"

He was already tired, hungry and thirsty, and after this angry roar, he gasped for breath again and could no longer hold on. He wanted to just lie on the ground and die.

This complaint made Bai Zi behind him not know what to do for a moment. He waved his hands in panic: "Yes, I'm sorry... I didn't know... The teacher was so weak..."

"Don't call me weak!"

"T-Then... I didn't know the teacher was so weak...?"

Bai Zi tried to give another answer, which almost shocked him. He almost shed tears of blood and asked with a face full of resentment: "...Bai Zi, you are really angry with me, right?"

"Nothing like that."

".......real?"

“I am always grateful to my teachers.”

Bai Zi shook his head slightly, put his hand on his chest, and gave an affirmative answer.

These words made Mo Lu feel even more uncomfortable, as if he had been hit hard and felt like he could never get up again.

But being hit to such an extent, he was stimulated and had a last burst of energy, pedaling the bicycle desperately with Bai Zi on his back.

Just like that, he exploded his potential to the point of complete exhaustion and arrived at the familiar gate of Abydos High School.

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Mo Lu could no longer remember how he entered the school.

With his legs almost numb, he even temporarily sat on the wheelchair that Bai Zi found for him from the warehouse. Bai Zi, whose legs were covered in his sweat, took a shower separately from him at his persuasion.

"....The warehouse of this high school is really weird. There are even wheelchairs?" Looking at the wheelchair that was wiped clean under him, a subtle look appeared on Mo Lu's face.

But soon he tried to move the wheels of the wheelchair and walked along the barrier-free passage specially used for the disabled in the teaching building, hoping to go upstairs to see if he could meet anyone he knew.

Before he could even enter the room with a sign that read "School Closure Countermeasures Committee," he heard a familiar voice.

".....I received a reply from Xia Lai yesterday. The legendary teacher of Xia Lai will come here soon to help us."

"Wow~ Ayane-chan is really enthusiastic... But teacher, it's been a long time since I last heard of you."

Hoshino was lying on the table chatting with his juniors about how to save Abydos. When he heard the word "teacher", his usually lazy expression showed a bit of loneliness.

"??? Is there another teacher in this era? Does Hoshino-senpai know him?"

"...Looks familiar~?"

"What kind of person is that? Compared to Xia Lai's teacher, who do you think is more reliable?" The girl called Ayane had never seen a teacher before, and she couldn't help but become curious.

"What kind of person is he?" Xingye's eyes became particularly complicated at this moment: "...He is the most outstanding adult I have ever seen. That Xia Lai's teacher is definitely not as good as that guy."

"Maybe....."

"Impossible." Before the junior could finish, Hoshino interrupted her with an unquestionable whisper.

Just noticing that Ayane was frightened by her unusual tone, she immediately smiled to ease the atmosphere: "Sorry, sorry~ It is indeed possible in terms of talent, but~ Uncle, Baizi, and Meng Senior will definitely not agree. Teachers other than that person... No, there is probably no way to agree, right?"

"That teacher is very important to the seniors?"

"It's very important~" Hoshino chuckled, as if to hide his inner feelings, he looked out the window with one hand on his chin: "...Now that I think about it, why didn't I notice it? That person is obviously better and more trustworthy than I thought."

"Hey~ Senior Hoshino, you actually identify with one person so much? What kind of person is that person?"

"How should I put it... In order to protect the uncompromising things and the promises made casually, he would stand up even if he was afraid, and he would not back down even when facing the threat of death... He is very kind and reliable, right?"

Now thinking about it carefully, if I hadn’t quarreled with Meng at that time, if I could have followed through, if I could have listened to Mo Lu... maybe the result would have been different.

The heavy sense of guilt and huge regret were almost crushing Hoshino.

Just thinking back to the time when I was thorny towards everyone...especially him, and even said I hated him at the end - Hoshino could no longer stand his former self.

She couldn't help laughing at herself for being so embarrassed, but that smile was full of bitterness.

Chapter 14 I crawled back from hell for you

Even someone who doesn't understand the atmosphere can sense the bitterness in Hoshino's smile.

This made Ayane, who was sitting opposite her, look worried: "...Senior Hoshino? Are you okay? What happened?"

"Ah... It's okay, uncle is just thinking, I once said that if I could really meet him again, I would have a lot to say to him. That guy said... If I could really have the chance, it would definitely be fun to act like a spoiled child with him, right?"

Hoshino chuckled and said things that he himself thought were impossible. Ayane certainly didn't understand...but she was mostly just saying it to herself.

However...she would never have imagined that her words of regret were heard clearly by Mo Lu who was sitting in the wheelchair outside.

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Originally, Mo Lu thought that this time might be a touching reunion.

In other words, it would be nice to have a touching reunion. After all, his encounter with Baizi... was so bad that it made him want to cry and even left him half paralyzed.

He even thought of something to say in order to have a good reunion and be moved by her, but...

Something is wrong. I don’t know how to get in after being praised to this extent! — Listening to the conversation between the girls through the door, Mo Lu, who was overwhelmed by the praise, even doubted whether the person in the story was him.

At the same time, he was also convinced of one thing for no apparent reason...

The reason why memories are always so beautiful is that people will add subjective emotions to their memories, select memories, use time filters, look at the past and have good expectations for the future, and ultimately create these memories.

Not to mention that he was dead.

People always say that "the living can never surpass the dead", because death is the best filter.

After death, the regret of death will make the advantages be infinitely magnified and all the disadvantages be minimized. Memories, emotions, psychological imprints, all details will be repeatedly sublimated with the separation.

The dead cannot be surpassed and are always the winners. That's the truth. Even this ready-made winner was praised in front of the door until he felt ashamed.

This was completely different from his previous feeling of embarrassment, and he really couldn't adapt to it. He even felt a little itchy all over.

"...What should I do? Should I really go in? No, should I come back later? That way, everyone can be moved to see each other again."

He didn't know how to face the girl who was obviously praising him too much, so he controlled the wheelchair to move backwards and planned to take a walk somewhere else first.

He planned to pretend he didn't hear it and try again later, but...either Prana or Alona, ​​actually interfered with reality and applied force from behind, causing him to break open the unlocked door.

With a "bang", the door was suddenly pushed open.

The two girls in the room looked over at the same time reflexively.

One of the strange girls had a bewildered look on her face, while Hoshino's strange-colored eyes suddenly widened to the limit.

Mo Lu, who was forced to barge in, was embarrassed for a moment, but his eyes unconsciously lingered on the familiar girl.

At the same time, he brainstormed for a while, and then he patted his thigh, which was unconscious while riding the bicycle, and said, "You're welcome. Now you can act like a spoiled child with me as much as you want~!"

"Eh? No, no....Hey? Wait...wait a minute! Wait a minute you, you..."

Hoshino was so frightened that he leaned back reflexively, his expression becoming extremely strange due to excessive shock. He even lost the ability to speak in this excessive shock.

Just looking at this scene made Mo Lu feel quite interesting.

But what really surprised him was that Shiroko had changed from a lolita into a beautiful girl, but Hoshino was still the same as before.

Her delicate face is still as childish as before, and her height has not changed at all. She still looks like a delicate and soft young loli. Even though she is now a third year in high school, her breasts are still as flat as before, which makes people miss her.

But his hair had grown to his knees, and he couldn't figure out how his hair had grown so long in just two years.

The only and biggest change was probably the atmosphere, which had changed from the previous thorny and stern look to a much more relaxed one, causing him to unconsciously tease:

"To be honest, I came back from hell especially because I heard your desire to act cute with me~ Hurry up and don't be polite, seize the opportunity to act cute with me~!"

"No, no, no... Teacher, please wait a moment... My head is a little confused, please let me sort it out..."

Faced with the approaching wheelchair, Hoshino froze and waved his hands mechanically, looking extremely at a loss.

"What? Are you lying? I've come back from hell just for you..."

"But you are in a wheelchair, right?"

"That's the push back from hell."

"——No, it's not that kind of question!"

Hoshino suddenly stood up from his chair, stretched out his hands excitedly, and pressed them on his face, squeezing his face out of shape.

But before Mo Lu could complain, she was the first to be frightened. She instinctively took two steps back and couldn't help but exclaimed: ".... Is it real?! Not an illusion??"

"....Have you been treating me as an illusion so far?"

"No, but....Why? ....You are not..."

Hoshino still doubted his own eyes, unable to believe that the man who should have died actually appeared in front of him alive again. He carefully went up to him and touched every part of his body.

Without waiting for Mo Lu to speak, she stroked his cheek with her slender fingers, staring at the sweat on his body, and whispered: "Could it be that the legendary River Styx really exists? Is this all river water? You swam across the River Styx in a wheelchair...?"

"Yeah, yeah...that's it."

Mo Lu lowered his head with one hand on his forehead and nodded vaguely to confirm... because it was difficult for him to tell a loli that the thing on her fingertips was actually his own sweat.

However, Xingye was still curious and wanted to smell it, so he quickly held his hand down and said seriously:

"Compared to those strange things, you should have something else to tell me, right?"