First Player

Chapter 411 Chapter 409·HE·Chan Shigure

——The so-called sense of departure, the end point is controlled death.

Once people anticipate their own death and accept it calmly, they experience a strong sense of stability.

Because they know that before this, all actions have meaning. They will know their ending very clearly, and their course of action will remain the same, from birth to death.

Naraku experienced this feeling of departure for more than four days.

As if she was picking up her backpack and starting a long journey, her mind became extremely calm.

In these days, she thought of many things.

For example, when I was a child, I received advice from my family.

The marksmanship that he has practiced hard every day since he was growing up.

The gloom in my heart when I boarded that ship with a mission on my back.

And the pain of losing his vitality and having his soul sucked dry when he was captured by the princess.

besides……

When she was most desperate, she saw the hand stretched out in the thick cloud-like darkness.

To her outstretched hand.

The owner of that hand was still standing in front of her, just like every time she saw him.

She stared at him for a long time through a narrow layer of morning mist and moisture. The morning light fell on his face like cutting through the water and splitting the milky white petals.

She is leaving.

Even though she had only just learned his real name.

"Su Ming'an." She said, "I want to go home."

"After that...I will have someone take you back." Su Ming'an said.

Naraku smiled:

"When I was alive, it was like I would never die...but when I died, it felt like I had never lived."

"..."

"Help me see the future of this world, okay?" Naraku said, "If you can come back from that Cloud City, help me... take care of Duoya, okay? I don't know anyone here, She is the best person to me."

"..."

"Now that I think about it, the happiest time in my life was actually when I saw you come to save me." Naraku said softly:

"You are the prince and I am the princess under a spell."

After saying this, she suddenly noticed that her vision began to blur again.

A strong feeling of weakness climbed up, and she had an extremely obvious premonition.

She lowered her eyes and saw the pale color starting to creep up on her fiery red hair.

Under her long fiery red hair, which symbolizes youth and flamboyance, her extraordinarily slender eyes are gradually showing bloodshot eyes.

Under the blowing of the warm wind, her hair began to turn white and dry, her beautiful eyes gradually became cloudy, the whites of her eyes tended to turn yellow, and her originally fair skin became wrinkled like cracks.

It was as if the waterfall of time fell completely at this moment, and her life force was quickly drained away in just a few seconds.

The time for reflection has passed.

The morning light swayed on her increasingly older face, and there was a slight glimmer of water in her eyes.

The unstoppable passage of life is unfolding in front of Su Mingan and hundreds of millions of viewers. This is aging that cannot be stopped by human power, and it is a solemn process of life silently ending.

At the last moment of his life, Naraku saw that the person in front of him finally moved slightly, and his overly calm face finally changed slightly.

When she was young, she wrote sad poems like her peers.

She said that if one day she was about to leave, she hoped that her name would leave a mark in people's hearts, like a mark on the bones and a burning fire on the pyre.

She hoped that she didn't want any cremation or burial, she just hoped that someone could hold her tightly with all their strength and build a hot tombstone for her.

But obviously, this is just "poetry".

Just like her,

They are just "NPCs" who cannot leave this world.

She hugged the flowers in her hands tightly.

The warm wind blew her long hair, which was gradually turning pale, and her young and beautiful face, which was originally as red as a rose blooming in the fire, gradually showed the marks of time.

The young lady who was once young and energetic, as bright as the wind, suddenly smiled.

"I won't follow you to that cloud city."

Facing the blue and distant sky and the peaceful and tranquil Praia, she smiled softly.

"You must..." she said, "Always remember this lady, forever."

next moment,

The paleness completely dyed her hair, she closed her eyes and melted into the light wind in an instant.

"Su Mingan."

"You have to remember..." Her eyelashes trembled: "...my name is Naraku."

…

The bright red color disappeared.

…

[You guy, let me tell you - I will no longer be stupid, and I will no longer love you! 】

[You have to remember, there will never be another woman who loves you as much as I do in this world! 】

[Just spend this life regretting it! 】

…

【Like it? Do you want me to send you off? But my mother said that this thing will become my dowry, it is very precious...]

[——Rin, look, look, do I look good now? 】

[What are you going to do? Take me with you. Since you restored my youth and beauty, I can give you a chance. 】

[I think even if I am so old and deaf, I still won’t be able to hear your name clearly. 】

[Then, you must take me to that city on the clouds. That has been my adventurer’s natural fantasy since I was a child! I am a young lady from the Mir family! 】

…

【——What’s wrong with your legs? 】

【——Um, ah. Anyway, it’s not easy to walk. I’m tired. 】

…

[——Naraku, turning other people's memories into your own tombstone is the most meaningless behavior. 】

[——But, she just... wants to go home. 】

…

【Give it to you. 】

…

[I don’t remember my name. 】

【But I remember you. 】

…

【Take me...home, okay? 】

…

…

Warm winds pass over the land and time passes.

At noon, a small stone monument was erected on the hillside in the central area of ​​Praia.

Duoya collapsed and lay on the stone tablet, with tears streaming down her face.

Beside her stood a group of soul hunters dressed in black. Among them was a young man who had just fallen in love with Naraku in the past few days and planned to confess his love.

They closed their eyes and lowered their heads, as if they were performing an ordinary farewell ceremony.

In this land, the handover of life and death is ordinary.

However, the deceased this time was a little special.

She passed away at an inappropriate age and in a completely deviant way.

Su Mingan took a carving knife and carved the poem on Naluo's paper onto her tombstone.

The crooked wooden sculpture of a young man fell beside him, flowers surrounded the small stone tablet, and there was a strand of white hair that had not been picked up on the ground.

Su Ming'an's hands were not steady and he was not good at carving things on stones, but with the help of Ming State, he used great strength to carve the small characters on little by little.

He carved with great care, as if he were completing a work of art.

After he finished carving, he put down the carving knife and wiped the dust on the stone tablet with a cloth.

Buried under this stone tablet is actually just a strand of Naraku's white hair.

Her body will be put on a merchant ship in Praia and returned to her hometown with the caravan to fulfill her long-held wish.

...She always wanted to go home.

He stood up and turned around.

"Let's go, it's almost noon." Noel, who had just arrived, said, "Today is the last day, we should board the city."

"There are five tulip hearts here. There should be one for each person, but the fifth person in our team, Mo Wen, still hasn't shown up." Su Mingan distributed the tulip hearts in his hand, which could resist the poisonous gas of Yunshang City. .

Su Lin was able to resist Yunshang City's poisonous gas before, thanks to the help of the Siren's soul, but now she has disappeared, and he must need the Tulip Heart to defend against the poisonous gas.

"I didn't succeed in bringing Mo Wen back. He disappeared." Lu Shu shook his head: "After I go back, I will contact him to see. After the dungeon ends, he should be forcibly teleported back."

"A waste of team spots." Noel said from the side.

The conflict between him and Lu Shu still existed. This week, Noel has not pointed at Lu Shu and scolded him, so Lu Shu is not as depressed as before.

"I admit that Mo Wen's presence is indeed not helpful." Lu Shu said, "I made a mistake in my decision-making. I'm sorry."

"..." Noel stopped talking.

"Let's go." Lin Yin took the initiative to smooth things over: "I saw it was very lively at the pier. There were banners, fireworks, balloons, and crowds of people seeing each other off. It should be a farewell celebration prepared for you, Su Ming'an."

Su Mingan recalled the farewell scene sixty years ago in Su Lin's Memory Stone.

The scene this time should be similar to last time.

"Let's go."

Su Mingan turned around and glanced at Duoya, who was wiping away tears.

"Stop crying." He said, "She doesn't want to see it either."

"...I know." Duoya wiped the tears from her eyes.

Facing the group of people who were about to turn around and leave, her straight back suddenly bent down.

At the same moment, the soul hunters around her also became shorter. They leaned down, lowered their heads, and bowed deeply towards Su Ming'an and his party.

"Master Su Lin, thank you... no, you, for everything you have done for Praia." Duoya bowed deeply.

"Yeah." Su Mingan responded very calmly.

When he and Noel and others left, his eyes were still fixed on the favorability reminder that sounded not long ago.

[NPC (Naraku), favorability: 90+10 (love line)]

[Current favorability rating: Eternal Love]

…

Su Mingan remembered.

In his first week, when he activated the ruler skill on Naraku, the system displayed.

[The current favorability level has reached (Friendship Line·Highest)]

then,

Her relationship with Su Lin was clearly just a "line of friendship".

"..."

He folded the piece of paper with the poem on it, put it together with the wooden carving left by Naraku, and put them into two adjacent compartments in his backpack.

At this moment, he heard a prompt from the system.

"Ding dong!"

[(Naraku) HE ending progress: 100%]

…

[You have reached the (Naraku) character ending: HE·Chan Shigure]

[(Chan Shigure): "You must...always, always, remember me."

"Remember my name."

"...My name is Naraku.\