bookbashuk Chapter 7 Bad Ending
Chapter 7 Bad Ending
"You clearly have power..."
The robin's carcass rose to its feet, its wing fragments dragging on the ground with a screeching sound.
The star stumbled backward and crashed into the wall.
"I don't know... I don't know how to use it..."
"lie."
The robin's face was only a few centimeters away from the star, and the stench of decay was overwhelming.
"You just don't want to use it. Because you're afraid. Afraid that I, once resurrected, will become a monster, just like those people before me."
Hoshi closed her eyes.
The screen crashed.
……
The black swan sensed its sanity level was decreasing.
The purple mist began to change color, mixing with black and dark red.
The level of contamination in memories is rising, exceeding the threshold that the person remembering can tolerate.
But she cannot quit.
We must see the truth.
The black swan gritted its teeth and continued its advance.
When the next scene appears, the scene has become empty space.
There are no up, down, left, or right directions, and no source of light, yet everything can be seen clearly.
The star floated in the void, surrounded by seventeen halos of different colors.
Each halo was engraved with runes.
The black swan recognized several of them—the amber of "Preservation," the crimson of "Destruction," the deep purple of "Nothingness," and the emerald green of "Abundance."
She had seen the others, but couldn't recall their names.
In the image, Hoshino reaches out and touches the nearest halo.
"Hunting".
A silvery-white light instantly surged into her body.
Hoshi screamed in agony.
Skin torn, blood vessels bulging, bones cracking.
The body underwent hundreds of "hunts" in just a few seconds—chasing, fighting, and devouring.
Her consciousness was dragged into countless battles.
Some of them are wars between humans.
Some of them involve conflict between alien beasts and civilizations.
Some are battles between beings that transcend cognition.
Every battle was replayed inside her body.
Each death shattered her soul.
When the "hunting" baptism ended, the star collapsed in the void.
Her skin was covered in cracks, like a porcelain doll that could break at any moment.
But the light of "abundance" shines automatically.
The wound has healed.
Body restructuring.
Shihoshi opened her eyes, her gaze empty.
"Sixteen more..."
She reached out and touched the next halo.
Seeing this, the black swan finally understood.
The star is not "given" seventeen destinies.
She used her body and soul to forcibly endure all the trials of fate.
Each time a new destiny is acquired, one must experience all the "concepts" that destiny represents.
"Hunting" is about pursuit and fighting.
"Destruction" means end and collapse.
"Nothingness" is extinction and oblivion.
"Greed" refers to desire and the act of devouring.
Every twist of fate seemed to tear at her existence.
"Abundance" and "immortality" act like shackles, forcibly pulling her back to reality and preventing her from dying.
The scene continues.
The star touches "pleasure".
A pink light flooded in, and her expression instantly twisted into a sinister smile.
Tears streamed from her eyes, but the corners of her mouth turned up in an unnatural arc.
Laughter and crying came out at the same time from his throat.
"So happy...so painful...so happy...so painful..."
Hoshino clutched her head and tumbled in the void.
The light of "abundance" shines once again.
My emotions were forcibly calmed down.
The star lay in the void, panting heavily.
"There are... fifteen more..."
The Black Swan tried to stop her, but it was just a memory. What has happened cannot be changed.
The video speeds up.
When the star touched "order," his body was bound by countless rules, and every movement tore his muscles apart.
Touching the "balance" point drags consciousness into countless scales, each choice meaning the destruction of the other.
Touching the "memory" will replay all the pain experienced at the same time, repeating itself in your mind thousands and thousands of times.
Touching "intellectual knowledge" forces the brain to be filled with the knowledge of the entire universe, causing the skull to crack due to the weight.
Each time a new destiny is granted, the star dies once.
Each time she died, "Fertility" would pull her back.
In the end, only three halos remained.
"End," "breeding," "expansion."
Mohoshi looked at them and hesitated for a long time.
"If I obtain 'The End'..."
She reached out her hand, her fingertips just centimeters from the halo of "the end".
Will the universe eventually face heat death?
The hand stopped in mid-air.
In the end, Hoshino withdrew his hand.
"cannot……"
She then turned her attention to "breeding".
A golden-green light surged in, and the scene suddenly changed.
……
The black swan spotted Onphalus's battlefield.
But unlike the previous scenes, this battle was much more brutal.
The Iron Curtain has been born.
The entire Onphalus was shrouded in a gray-white mist, and all life was withering away.
The star's core erupted, tearing the earth apart with fissures.
The train crew members collapsed in the rubble.
Danheng's dragon body broke in two.
March 7's body was encased in ice crystals, but the ice had shattered, and blood was seeping from the cracks.
Himeko lay beside the shattered train wreckage, her coffee cup lying on the ground, the dark brown liquid mixed with blood.
Walter Young's cane was broken in two, his body was leaning against the wall, his glasses were shattered, and the lenses were covered in blood.
Pam lay in the rubble, her small body no longer breathing.
All are dead.
Mohoshi stood in the center of the corpse, completely unharmed.
She looked around at everything, her lips trembling.
Why... am I the only one alive?
Golden-green light emanated from her body.
The power of "breeding" spread, covering the entire battlefield.
The body began to tremble.
Danheng's severed body reconnected, and new flesh and blood grew from its scales.
The ice crystals melted on March 7th, and the wounds healed.
Everyone's body is repairing itself.
Ye Xing knelt down and grabbed Dan Heng's hand.
"Wake up...please...wake up..."
The green light grew brighter and brighter, almost blinding.
Danheng's eyelids trembled.
Hoshino held her breath.
Danheng opened his eyes.
The pupils are grayish-white.
There was no spark in his eyes.
"Hoshinogi?"
Hoshino's voice trembled.
Danheng opened his mouth and made a hoarse sound.
"Kill...us..."
That's not Danheng's voice.
It was a mixture of countless sounds, men, women, young and old overlapping together, like a choir screaming.
Hoshino loosened her grip and stepped back.
The others opened their eyes as well.
All of them had grayish-white pupils.
All the sounds were distorted.
"Why don't you let us die...?"
"It hurts so much..."
"Kill me..."
"Why did you pull us back...?"
Dan Heng got up, his movements stiff.
March 7th stood with his body twisted, his joints bent at unnatural angles.
Himeko, Welt, Pam, and everyone else stood up and surrounded Hoshino.
"You shouldn't have done that..."
"We are already dead..."
"Let go..."
"Let's leave..."
Hoshino held her head and squatted on the ground.
"I'm sorry...I'm sorry...I'm sorry..."