Yae Sakura!Beep!

In fact, what she wanted to say was not just that.

Or rather, none of those at all.

"……what?"

Dazed for a moment, Hitomi watched her little hand raised up to caress the other's cheek, which was tightly grasped by Mirai.

"how about you?"

Holding down Hitomi's hands, Mirai repeated it again.

"I... now, it's okay..."

For a moment, Hitomi's pupils shifted to the side, and then she looked directly back at Mirai's eyes in a disguised manner.

"Enough! Why are you still pretending to be stupid!"

But the future has not been deceived by her.

"Obviously you knew it all along!"

Why pretend like you don't care.

"What are you talking about and don't understand what I'm doing for..."

Future's tone dropped for a few seconds.

"What do you think it is for?!"

The next moment, she yelled again.

"If you go on like this, you will die!"

…………

she will die.

That's right.

Hitomi knows.

She has always known.

To heal a broken soul?

It's not that easy.

What's more, her soul is not just broken.

During this period of time in the future, the soul essence that has been collected to repair her soul is nothing more than nutrients.

What was really used to repair Hitomi's broken soul was the part of the original power that was consumed when the future pieced together her soul, acting as the glue between the soul fragments.

Like a piece of broken pottery, relying on these Xu Benyuan forces as glue, it is forcibly bonded into a whole.

And that is also the origin of Hitomi. When Hitomi divided the soul, the whole thing was left to the origin of the future.

If it is said that putting together a soul for Hitomi in the future is an operation, then the soul essence obtained from the Seed of Lamentation after that is the pill used to replenish blood after the operation.

If Hitomi has not lost her origin, then these essences are also dispensable.

But losing the original pupil also lost the ability to heal itself, so in the future, she will always collect the seeds of lament for her to absorb.

But this is nothing more than a temporary solution.

The original power that serves as the glue will eventually be exhausted.

At that time, the pottery that lost its glue will break into pieces again.

Hitomi's soul could no longer bear such harm.

Even if you take ten thousand steps back, even if Hitomi's soul is not broken.

The soul that has lost its original source will disappear completely sooner or later.

The only way to heal Hitomi is to let her soul get a source again.

However, their souls are too high.

Even if the issue of adaptation is not considered, the future will not be able to find a second source of their souls other than herself.

Having retrieved almost all of her memories, Hitomi woke up again and immediately understood what she wanted to do in the future.

Good guess isn't it?

…………

"That's why I left a layer of protection for your origin at the end."

Pursing her lips and smiling slightly, Hitomi broke away from Mirai's hands that didn't use much force at all.

"It is both protection and a seal."

Gently stroking Future's cheek, unlike the cold rain, the liquid flowing down from it is so warm.

"It's the boundary that blurs my sense of distance, the ring that makes the 'distance between my origin and the periphery of my soul infinite'."

She had long understood what the boundary that Tong had drawn at the beginning was.

For countless days and nights, Future has been thinking about how to break through this concept.

"useless……"

"I said, you just need to live for yourself."

"Isn't it?"

Hitomi persuaded.

"..."

Future didn't say a word, she turned her face sideways, looking at her hand on the ground.

Those five fingers, the fingertips were so hard that they turned white.

"I thought you wouldn't do this."

Hitomi murmured softly.

"That boundary is really just a protection."

"I just thought, it's too rude to say goodbye immediately after meeting for the first time."

"Well, it's a meeting ceremony."

she asked again.

"Aren't you an absolute egoist?"

"Why would you do something you hate?"

……

"I'm hating..."

After a long silence, Mirai once again looked into Hitomi's reddish eyes.

"Whether it's that world, or the woman who killed you countless times..."

"I hate you too."

Her tone was flat.

"I hate you, why didn't I resist once, why, I have to passively endure all that..."

Although the tone was very flat, the dark red gaseous energy that had been lingering around her boiled up again and again following her words.

"Why, you want to throw everything to me, and then die calmly by yourself."

Hitomi opened her lips, but couldn't say anything.

"But I hate myself more."

Then the boiling energy was suppressed by her and calmed down.

"Nothing can be done, nothing can be stopped, nothing can be changed..."

Until these words fell, the energy abruptly produced a riot.

It was a reaction induced by her intense self-destructive psychology.

The maliciousness shown to others can be well controlled by the future, but she cannot suppress the maliciousness towards herself alone.

Or rather, she didn't want to suppress it.

The temperature of the air rose by a small margin. Future took a deep breath and forcibly controlled his emotions.

"Then since you know you can't break through the protection I set up, why do you insist on it?"

Hitomi originally thought that Mirai had been obsessed with absorbing the despair in the seed of lamentation in order to feel the two emotions of sadness and fear that she took away.

But when it comes to this level, Hitomi feels doubts about Mirai's strong self-destructive psychology.

"Is it really impossible to break through?"

Future asked softly.

"The concept you define is not absolute."

This sentence gave Hitomi a bad premonition.

"As the rational side of you, throwing away your sensibility and using your abilities mechanically can reduce a lot of consumption and get a huge increase, but the price is the loss of emotion."

Mirai stared at Hitomi's face.

"And as the emotional side of me, if I throw away rationality and swallow and burn emotions as fuel, I can forcibly modify the things you define."

In an instant, Hitomi finally fully understood what the purpose of everything he did in the future was.

"Then your price... what is it?"

Her throat was dry, and it was difficult to say even a short sentence.

"We are one body with two sides. As a whole, no matter which method is used, it can be used, and there will be no such price. Even if there is, it cannot be so serious."

The future doesn't answer the question.

"But as early as when our personalities split into two, everything was different."

"It's just what the price is. In this case, is there any point of further investigation?"

Even if she didn't answer, Hitomi knew what the price would be.

Even a beast has reason.

When humans lose their sensibility, they become machines.

So, what happens when human beings lose their rationality?

Unthinkable, beast.

SECTION 260 SECTION 185 The string burns the blood and extinguishes the soul

Lying in the ruins, Hitomi, who was pinned down by the future, tightly grabbed the collar of Future's bright red dress with both hands.

"It doesn't make sense for you to do such a thing..."

She tilted her head up.

The rain kept falling, hitting her face and falling into her eyes, making her uncomfortable.

But she still looked at the future, at her face that was exactly the same as her own, at her eyes that were redder than her own.

"Whether it is meaningful to me or not is not important at all."

The future will not back down either, she said softly.

"That's what you taught me."

"Forgot?"

……

forget?