Depressive Screenwriter

Snow fell heavily, obscuring everything. Kenshin's eyes were hollow as he trudged up the mountain path, each step conveying a sense of despair and sorrow to the audience through the scene's color palette and composition.

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Comments began to appear on the screen.

[Is it really that bad? He's about to have a mental breakdown.]

[He's just a teenager, after all.]

[He doesn't understand the pain his past killings caused to the families of his victims. He thought he was doing the right thing.]

[Now, the boomerang has come back to hit him. He cares about Tomoe, so he feels her pain as if it were his own.]

Next came the ambush on the mountain path, which the audience suspected and indeed existed.

Agile men wearing masks, skilled in swordsmanship and using hidden blades.

His battle with Kenshin was silent, save for when he jumped from a tree and struck Kenshin's shoulder with a hidden blade.

His flamboyant and nimble swordsmanship was utterly useless against Kenshin.

In just a few exchanges, Kenshin, in a trance and fighting on instinct, pierced his heart.

The assassin with the hidden blade shed a tear before dying, then used all his remaining strength to detonate nearby explosives.

Kenshin was caught in the blast, receiving numerous minor wounds but remaining unfazed.

He simply continued his dazed march towards the summit, where Tomoe was.

Gao Mengwen felt her heart clench.

Blood flowed from Kenshin's ears, indicating he had likely lost his hearing temporarily.

A sense of sorrow arose.

At the same time, Tomoe encountered the assassin leader, an old man, at the summit.

She believed she had failed in her mission to assassinate Kenshin and had returned only to die, thus ending the conspiracy against him.

But the assassin leader told Tomoe...

Whether she decided to assassinate Kenshin or not, whether she could find Kenshin's weakness or not, his goal had already been achieved.

Tomoe had become Kenshin's weakness.

If Tomoe wasn't on this mountain, Kenshin would never have knowingly walked into an ambush.

Tomoe's expression changed. Realizing the conspiracy, she tried to kill herself, but was stopped.

"At this point, your life or death is meaningless," the assassin leader said coldly.

He discarded her dagger and prevented her from biting her tongue.

"Indeed, she has become bait. Dead or alive, Kenshin will come up the mountain." Gao Mengwen watched with growing anxiety.

Many viewers understood and sent out barrages of comments.

[So from the beginning, the assassin leader never expected Tomoe to kill Kenshin, or even find any weakness in him?]

[His initial goal was to make Tomoe become Kenshin's weakness.]

[Only Tomoe was foolish enough to think that returning to die would end the conspiracy against Kenshin?]

[It's a honey trap!]

[Even the beauty who used the honey trap doesn't know the role she's playing?]

[I'm a little afraid to keep watching. Is Kenshin really going to die?]

[Absolutely not! Kenshin will definitely fight his way to the summit and kill that disgusting old assassin leader.]

The following plot was filled with fighting scenes.

Assassins and traps appeared one after another on Kenshin's way up the mountain.

First, the assassin with the hidden blade.

Then, a towering, masked strongman wielding a giant axe.

An assassin with grappling hooks.

Explosives, flashbangs, hidden blades, giant axes, ground spikes...

Various traps emerged endlessly.

Kenshin was in a daze, but his body instinctively drove him to engage in life-or-death battles with these assassins.

Gao Mengwen's eyes widened.

Unlike the previous episodes, the video comments weren't filled with praise for the high-level action scenes.

The fights were impressive, but they were increasingly tragic.

Kenshin's expression showed he had a death wish.

Finally, Kenshin was severely injured in the gauntlet of battles.

His eyes were temporarily blinded by the flashbang and another explosion.

He couldn't hear or see, but he continued towards the summit with his long sword.

Behind him lay the corpses of the assassins he had killed along the way.

The comments finally had a chance to catch their breath.

[Sob, I feel like crying a little.]

[Kenshin already has a death wish.]

[He feels like he wants to apologize to Tomoe with his death. A normal person wouldn't be able to continue with these injuries.]

[Kenshin, don't go up! Why are you going up the mountain knowing that Tomoe is bait?]

[If Tomoe hadn't affected his fighting will, Kenshin probably wouldn't have been injured like this.]

[Beauty is a hero's downfall. This is the first time I've had a direct understanding of this phrase.]

[The screenwriter won't really let Kenshin die, will he?]

[Thinking about it now, his master's words when Kenshin went down the mountain were really meaningful. After going down the mountain, he would be driven by justice from all sides and be unable to control himself.]

[The assassin leader's side thinks they are maintaining the current ruling class, maintaining stability, and preventing chaos, thinking they are just. Kenshin's side believes that the ruling class is corrupt and must be overthrown, also thinking they are just, alas.]

[Who is just? It's hard to say. But Kiyosato's death would make Tomoe sad, and Kenshin's death would also make Tomoe sad, alas, it's so sad to watch.]

[No, I clicked on this episode expecting a happy ending, don't mess with me, screenwriter.]

Even Gao Mengwen was starting to waver.

Kenshin could recover from any amount of injuries, the screenwriter wouldn't let him die if he didn't want him to.

But what did the assassin leader mean by what he said to Tomoe during Kenshin's fight?

If Tomoe cared so much about Kenshin's life and death, even to the point of killing herself to eliminate her weakness in Kenshin.

Then what was Kiyosato in her heart?

For Kenshin, going up the mountain was a dilemma about rationality and his own happiness.

For Tomoe, wasn't it the same?

Could she really abandon everything, forget Kiyosato, and stay with Kenshin like this from now on?

Or...

The more Gao Mengwen thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong.

The plot, the atmosphere...

Everything was wrong.

A tragic BGM slowly rose.

Kenshin, temporarily blinded and deaf, began to hallucinate on his way up the mountain.

All the scenes since he met Tomoe flashed before his eyes.

[Going to Otsu?]

Kenshin's inner monologue sounded.

Gao Mengwen was stunned. Otsu, what place was that?

[Going to Otsu?]

Kenshin murmured again in his heart.

What kind of stream-of-consciousness line was this?

Gao Mengwen couldn't understand it.

"Going to Otsu?"

In the drama, Kenshin, with his blank, unseeing eyes, shouted towards the empty summit.

At that moment, a comment floated by explaining.

[At the end of the second episode, when Kenshin and Tomoe left Kyoto, he suggested going to Otsu together and living as a fake couple! But in the end, the organization arranged for them to live in seclusion in this place.]

Gao Mengwen's eyes instantly filled with tears when she saw this comment.

She understood.

Kenshin hadn't forgotten this at this time, and was thinking of taking Tomoe to that beautiful place they talked about...

To live there as a real couple.

His greatest dream was this simple.

The wind blew Kenshin's sleeves, and snow fell heavily.

But before him was an endless expanse of snow, and behind him were the people he had killed along the way.

But no one responded to Kenshin at this moment.

Could they both successfully go down the mountain, go to Otsu, and become a real couple?

The more Gao Mengwen thought about it, the more her nose tingled.

She couldn't take it anymore.

Kenshin walked step by step to the summit, using his sword as a cane.

Waiting for him there was the leader of the opposing assassin organization.

An expert who, despite his age, had clearly survived from a pile of dead bodies since he was young to this age.

He was no match for Kenshin.

But now Kenshin's eyes were temporarily blinded by the flashbang.

His ears were temporarily deafened by the explosion.

His will to fight had also been worn down to the lowest point because his fiancee was killed by him.

His body was also covered in injuries from the battles with a group of experts on the way up the mountain.

The plot of the fourth episode reached its climax at this moment.

Gao Mengwen held her breath, she was very afraid that Kenshin would be defeated, and could only pray in her heart.

"Don't mess with me! Screenwriter, let Kenshin turn the tables in a desperate situation!"

But the plot was obviously not that clichéd.

Kenshin, whose eyes could barely see anything due to the flashbang, only seeing afterimages flickering in front of him, whose ears could not hear, and whose fighting will was worn down to the lowest level, could only fight the assassin leader in this state.

It was a one-sided beating.

Kenshin could only protect his vital points, but his injuries continued to accumulate.

While the two were fighting.

Tomoe in the temple seemed to see the figure of her fiancé Kiyosato next to the Buddha statue.

Perhaps it was a vengeful spirit, or perhaps it was just a hallucination in her mind due to knowing that Kenshin would die because of her, being too sorrowful.

The other party just looked at her full of blood...

Without blame, as gentle as when he left his hometown.

The phantom of her ex-husband in the temple.

Kenshin in a life-and-death crisis outside the temple.

Tomoe's eyes changed from the previous confusion to clarity, and then to firmness.

Gao Mengwen had a hunch.

Kenshin was knocked down again by the assassin old man, and both the old man and Kenshin knew that he was already at the end of his rope and had no strength to fight anymore.

Kenshin stood up again, holding the sword in his hand, although he still hadn't recovered his sight, his aura had changed, and his killing intent was boiling.

Kenshin rushed towards the assassin old man, and his body exploded with desperate speed.

His inner monologue sounded.

[I have killed so many people just to exchange for the happiness of more people.]

[But, Tomoe, you have lost your happiness.]

[I took away your precious person. But unknowingly fell in love with you.]

[I am not qualified to protect you at all.]

Kenshin held the sword in his hand and slashed towards the black shadow in front of him.

[Even so, I must...]

Even so, Kenshin still wanted to protect Tomoe.

Kill these people, take her down the mountain safely, and prevent her from being used and controlled by these organizations.

Kenshin seemed to hear Tomoe's gentle words to him in his ears.

His eyes couldn't see clearly, but in his mind, he saw a hallucination.

That was the grave that Kenshin helped the thieves and the prostitutes he protected dig in the first episode.

There, there was a new tombstone, and wrapped around the tombstone was the scarf that Tomoe gave him.

Kenshin said word by word.

"I will, protect you."

The hallucination disappeared.

Gao Mengwen's tears burst out.

Kenshin's sword slashed on the assassin old man's neck.

But it was not just slashing on the old man's neck.

This sword also slashed on Tomoe's shoulder, penetrating more than ten centimeters, revealing the bone.

Tomoe stood in front of Kenshin, using her body to block the dagger that the assassin old man stabbed towards Kenshin's chest, and tightly grasped the blade of the dagger with both hands to restrict his actions.

So that Kenshin's sword could accurately slash the assassin old man in a situation where his vision could barely see a black shadow.

The turbulent video comments of the fourth episode disappeared at this moment.

Gao Mengwen pursed her lips.

She lost all illusions about this drama having a happy ending.