Me! Cleaner!

Chapter 337 It’s hard to go back (End)

"Huh...huh...huh..."

Emma almost fell down, leaning on Leon with most of her body, and the vest of her beige gauze skirt was heavily soaked with cold sweat.

Even though I have broken free from Leon's memories, once I remember the frighteningly cold and realistic proposal made by the thin girl, I recall that when she talked about how to dispose of the body after her death, she was as calm as if she was talking about dinner. As if he was eating something.

Emma's heart will still be the same as Leon's before, as if it had been completely cut out and was being crushed bit by bit by someone's own hands. The pain was so painful that she almost lost the ability to breathe.

Is this what Lyon has been enduring?

After breathing heavily for a while, Emma looked at Leon who was holding him helplessly next to him, as if he had been fished out of the water, and couldn't help but ask with trembling lips:

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

“…”

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

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

Due to a deep understanding of the effective rules of the "Black and White Bridge", your resistance to this abnormal object has greatly increased, and you have been able to block extremely deep effects]

It's impossible not to feel pain. I will definitely remember this incident for the rest of my life.

But one is that the influence has been blocked a lot by [materialism], and the other knows that the final result will be good. Think more about Anna who takes care of her younger siblings at home every day and gets along with Melanie, and the pain will not be so unbearable. .

…

"It hurts...it's still a little bit..."

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

"But when I think about it, I joined the cleanup bureau in the end and didn't let things really get to that point. Anna and the others were still waiting for me at home, and they would still leave food for me when I came back late, so I didn't feel so uncomfortable."

Is that so…

After listening to Leon's explanation, Emma tried to put herself into Leon's perspective.

But no matter how hard she tried, the thin girl who flatly proposed to secretly throw her body into the sewage river so that she could defraud pensions to support her younger siblings still tore her heart out again and again.

Liar, how could this not hurt?

I just read your memories, and only once, and my heart hurts like a knife. In order to help me step out the white bricks, you have to relive the powerlessness and pain again and again. How is it possible? Will you be sad?

"Don't think about it."

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

"The pain of the past has passed. Compared with what we have encountered and lost, we still need to look more at what we still have. The most important thing is to cherish the people in front of us."

“…”

Do you cherish the person in front of you...?

Emma had heard similar advice from the red-haired director countless times, but after sharing Leon's memory on the Black and White Bridge and experiencing his past happiness and pain.

Faced with 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, and became a cleaner with a very high mortality rate. Leon was really trying to cherish everything he had. He heard this sentence countless times. The comfort finally entered her heart for the first time. "Senior Emma?"

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

"You can get off the bridge in just a few dozen steps. How about I carry you on these last steps!"

“…”

Although she subconsciously wanted to refuse, looking at Leon's shoulders that were not too broad but looked so reliable, Emma, ​​after being silent for a while, leaned over slightly and lay on Leon's back.

After her body was in the air, she listened to Leon's steady and powerful breathing, and felt the heart beating like a flame under his slightly thin back, which was constantly warming her heart. Emma's tight body completely relaxed. He came down, leaned forward with confidence, and stretched out his hands to gently wrap his arms around Leon's neck.

Cherish the people in front of you...

…

It can be regarded as getting off the bridge...

After stepping on more than twenty black bricks all the way to the bottom of the bridge, Leon suddenly let out a sigh of relief.

Although there is a [materialistic] barrier that prevents me from reliving painful memories again and again, even if they are painful memories at the level of "not scratching the surface," it will still feel uncomfortable if they are scratched too many times.

Check out the 16-9 book bar and see the correct version!

After walking a few more steps forward and completely out of the range of the Black and White Bridge, he saw that Senior Emma didn't make a sound. Leon, who had just made a fool of himself, was too embarrassed to remind her to come down, so he raised his head and looked forward. passed.

What you can see is a black cliff so high that you can't even see the top. The color of this cliff called [Death] becomes lighter as you go up. The top that seems to not exist seems to be directly connected with the world of death. The gray sky merged into one piece.

As for the lower end of [Death], it is just like the dark earth of the death world. It is extremely black, and even the reflection is very weak, as if it does not exist at all. It is as if you will fall into an abyss-like hollow if you step on it.

And the countless bright red crow's nests are like the bright red berries produced on the black earth that bends all the way from the ground to the sky, and they are like a large number of berries on this dark sky hanging straight down from the sky. The bright red blood spots that are constantly leaking out are extremely beautiful and extremely weird.

"There seems to be something wrong..."

Squinting his eyes, he looked at the black wall and the red crow's nest. At the end of the road of no return...or rather, at the beginning, he saw a huge, misty door. Leon reached out and patted Emma's thigh, signaling her to look up. He went to see it, then frowned slightly and said:

"The director said that as long as we keep walking along the road of no return, after passing the [Black and White Bridge] and the [Death-Reporting Crow's Nest], we can see the Inugami guarding the entrance to the Death Realm.

But now we have crossed the bridge and are within sight of the crow's nest. We can even see the entrance. Why haven't we seen that inugami yet? "

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

After hearing Leon's question, Emma, ​​who was using the constant warmth in front of her to resist the increasingly crazy abuse behind her, said:

"People in the Death World don't like the Director very much, so she must have broken in. Inugami's responsibility is to guard the gate of the Death World and prevent the living from entering the Death World, so she probably beat her up.

So we can walk a little further. If there is a fainted puppy with three heads tied by hair on the roadside, it should be the Inugami responsible for guarding the door.

If you haven't encountered it along the way, then check the death crow's nest near the entrance. After the director defeated the Inugami, he was sometimes afraid that he had forgotten where he threw it. When he came back, no one would help open the door. He stuffed it into the crow's nest nearby. "

“…”

"oh…"

(End of chapter)