I! Cleaner!

"Hoo...Hoo...Hoo..."

Emma almost fell down, leaning on Leon with most of her body, and a large area of ​​the vest of her beige gauze dress was soaked with cold sweat.

Even though she had already broken free from Leon's memories, once she remembered the cold and realistic proposal made by the thin girl, and recalled her calm expression when she talked about how to deal with her body after her death, as if she was talking about what to eat for dinner.

Emma's heart would still be the same as Leon's at the beginning, as if it had been completely cut out and was being crushed bit by bit by someone's hands, and it hurt so much that she almost lost the ability to breathe.

Is this what Leon has been enduring?

After panting for a while, Emma looked at Leon who was holding her helplessly, as if she had just been fished out of the water, and couldn't help asking with a trembling lip:

"Leon, you... don't you feel any pain?"

"..."

Understanding what she was asking, Leon shook his head slightly, and then glanced at the system prompt.

[Through your own observation, induction, and repeated experience, you have obtained a lot of information about the "Black and White Bridge", and the heterochromatic badge "Materialistic Soul (Red)" is activated.

Due to a deep understanding of the effectiveness rules of the "Black and White Bridge", your resistance to this abnormal object has increased greatly, and you have been able to shield the influence to a very deep degree.]

It is impossible not to feel pain, and I will definitely remember this incident for the rest of my life.

But one is that the influence has been shielded a lot by [Materialism], and the other is that I know the final result is good. Think more about Anna who cleans up her younger brothers and sisters at home every day and gets along well with Melanie, and the pain will not be so unbearable.

…

“It hurts… a little…”

Looking at Emma, ​​whose eyes were full of shock and guilt, and who had obviously misunderstood the strength of his heart, Leon smiled a little embarrassedly, and then explained:

“But when I think about the fact that I joined the Cleanup Bureau in the end and didn’t let things really develop to that point, Anna and the others are still waiting for me at home, and they will still leave food for me when I go back late, so it’s not so painful.”

Is that so…

After listening to Leon’s explanation, Emma tried to put herself in Leon’s perspective.

But no matter how hard she tried, the thin girl who blandly proposed to secretly throw her body into the sewage river to defraud the pension to support her younger siblings was still tearing her heart again and again.

Lie, how could it not hurt?

I just read your memories, and only read them once, and my heart hurt like a knife. In order to help me step on the white bricks, you have to relive the powerlessness and pain of the past again and again. How could it not be sad?

"Don't think about it."

Looking at Emma who seemed to want to say something, Leon thought about her situation and couldn't help but secretly give her some chicken soup:

"The pain of the past is over. Compared with what we have experienced and lost, we should look at what we still have. The most important thing is to cherish the people in front of us,"

"..."

Cherish the people in front of us... right?

Emma has heard similar advice countless times from the red-haired director, but after sharing Leon's memories on the black and white bridge and experiencing his happiness and pain.

Facing the early death of his parents, Leon worked hard to raise his younger siblings, took the initiative to join the Cleanup Bureau for his sister, became a cleaner with a very high mortality rate, and really tried to cherish everything he had. This sentence of comfort that he had heard countless times finally entered her heart for the first time.

"Senior Emma?"

After looking at Emma who was staring at him blankly, Leon let go of her hand, squatted down slightly and said:

"There are only a few dozen steps to get off the bridge. For the last few miles, how about I carry you on my back!"

"..."

Although she subconsciously wanted to refuse, looking at Leon's not-so-broad but reliable shoulders, Emma leaned over slightly after a moment of silence and lay on Leon's back.

After her body was in the air, listening to Leon's steady and powerful breathing, feeling the heart under his slightly thin back that was beating like a flame and constantly warming her heart, Emma's tense body completely relaxed, leaned on him with confidence, and reached out to gently wrap her arms around Leon's neck.

Cherish the person in front of you...

...

Finally got off the bridge...

After stepping on more than twenty black bricks in a row and getting all the way to the bottom of the bridge, Leon couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

Although the [Materialism] shielded him from reliving the painful memories so vividly, even if it was a painful memory of the "scratch the itch through the shoe", it would still be uncomfortable if it was scratched too much.

After walking a few more steps forward and completely out of the range of the black and white bridge, seeing that Senior Emma did not say anything, Leon, who had just acted cool, was too embarrassed to remind her to come down, so he raised his head and looked forward.

What he saw was a black cliff that was so high that he could not see the top at all. This cliff, called [Death], became lighter and lighter as he went up. The top that seemed to be non-existent seemed to be directly connected to the gray sky of the Death Realm.

As for the lower end of [Death], it was the same as the dark earth of the Death Realm, extremely pure black, and even the reflection was very weak, as if it did not exist at all. It felt like a hole that would fall into the abyss if he stepped on it.

And the countless bright red crow nests are like the bright red berries grown on the black earth that bends from the ground and reaches the sky. It is also like a large number of bright red blood spots that are constantly oozing out on this dark sky that hangs down from the sky. It is extremely gorgeous and extremely weird.

"It seems a little wrong..."

Squinting at the black wall and the red crow nest, at the end of the road of no return... or the beginning, seeing a huge foggy door, Leon reached out and patted Emma's thigh, motioning her to look up, then frowned slightly and said:

"The director said that as long as we keep going forward along the road of no return, after passing the [Black and White Bridge] and the [Crow Nest], we can see the dog god guarding the entrance to the death world.

But now we have crossed the bridge and reached the range of the crow nest, and even saw the entrance. Why haven't we seen the dog god yet?"

"It's okay, just keep going forward."

After hearing Leon's question, he was relying on the warmth that kept coming from the front. Nuan, Emma spoke to resist the increasingly crazy abuse behind her:

"People in the dead world don't like the director, so she must have broken in, and the dog god's responsibility is to guard the gate of the dead world and prevent the living from entering the dead world, and she was probably beaten up by him.

So we can go a little further. If there is a three-headed puppy with a fainted face tied by hair on the side of the road, it should be the dog god responsible for guarding the door.

If you don't meet it along the way, then look for the death report crow's nest near the entrance. After the director defeated the dog god, sometimes he was afraid that he had forgotten where he threw it, and when he came back, no one would help open the door, so he would just stuff it into the crow's nest next to him."

"..."

"Oh..."