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Extra Chapter 314.18 Yukinoshita Saya has been waiting

Xue Che's Milky Way washed over.

Just like facing a tsunami, Tamaki Yumiko only felt despair.

At the last moment, a certain habit that Tamaki Yumiko had cultivated since she was a child and then abandoned by her resurfaced again.

She lowered her head, closed her eyes, clasped her hands, and began to pray.

Of course, since that incident, she no longer prays to the god she has been praying to since she was a child.

Now, she just said goodbye to the boy silently in her heart.

After finally saying "goodbye", she quietly waited for a thousand knives to cut her body into pieces, waiting for herself to be cut into indivisible tiny particles by the countless blades.

……

But after an unknown amount of time passed, she suddenly realized that she still existed.

——Because she can still feel "watching".

The witch is still "watching" her, so she hasn't been chopped up yet.

So Tamaki Yumiko opened her eyes and saw her clenched hands.

——Not only was she alive, she was even intact.

The gaze was still pressed down from the top of his head.

Then, Yumiko slowly raised her head.

The scene in front of her made her heartbeat slow down by half a beat.

Tamaki Yumiko didn't even dare to look away, she just kicked Ayano next to her: "Ayano, look at-!!"

Ayano, who was holding her head, squatting on the ground, burying her face in her knees like an ostrich, and shivering, finally came to her senses.

"Huh? How am I still alive-"

She raised her head stupidly, and instantly froze like a statue.

The "stage" and "scene" have been completely removed.Surrounding them now was only the deep purple void.

But in the void, they have some kind of place to stand.

The ground material under your feet is made of metal. Looking forward, you can see two roads extending upward at the end of the platform.

...But the familiar traces on the two roads to the sky still made Tamaki Yumiko wake up all of a sudden.

-That's the arm.

The witch's arm.

Their current foothold is in the palm of the witch.

Tamaki Yumiko took a deep breath, suppressed her strong heartbeat, and continued to raise her eyes at the slowest speed.

Finally, the witch's "body" came into view.

Waist, abdomen, shoulders... If you don't consider the huge volume like a skyscraper and the material of steel, it is just a girl's body with beautiful lines.

From the witch's back and shoulder blades, countless silver lights were constantly spurting out, forming two wings of light.

Upon closer inspection, there are countless swords among them, including traditional bladed weapons that have been lost and only have historical records, sword embryos that are rough but capable of killing people, and even various torture instruments.

But the shoulders continued up, and above the witch's neck, there was no head.

But it is not empty - in the broken hole of the head and neck, there are densely packed knife handles of various colors inserted like vases.

This headless girl's body, which looks like a skyscraper, is sitting on her knees.

It rested its arms gently on its thighs and gently held them in its palms.

——Then from high above, there was no head, only the hilt of the knife, and continued to cast a cold and gentle "look" down at them.

After meeting the witch's gaze for a moment, Tamaki Yumiko felt some kind of guidance from it.

So she calmed her eyes again and looked forward.

Nearly a hundred meters ahead, there was a figure that looked small and inconspicuous compared to the giant witch behind her.

Yukinoshita Saya was sitting there on her knees, looking at them with a dull expression.

She was sitting on her knees, holding something in her arms.

Yumiko realized immediately that this Saya was finally no longer the illusion they had just seen on various stages.This is Saya, the Yukinoshita Saya who entered the old Rose Hall with them.

So Tamaki Yumiko picked up Ayano and walked over.

Only when she got closer did she see clearly what was in Saya's arms.

A sheathed snow sword and a sand table.

In the sand table, the sand was changing regularly and regularly, repeatedly transforming into a four-season courtyard, a dusk campus... countless stages they had just experienced.

"Saya—" Yumiko called, "I finally found you."

After such a long experience, she finally reached the end, and she had mixed feelings.

"It's true, we had a hard time looking for you." Ayano was also a little resentful, "It's just you sitting here comfortably by yourself, isn't it too much?"

Yukinoshita Saya said calmly: "I also have something to do."

"what?"

"Waiting for you."

"So ah-"

"In order to wait for you, I also have a lot of things to do."

"what?"

"As you see, kill myself."

Yumiko felt a strange feeling from Saya's words and frowned: "Why are you waiting for us to kill yourself——"

Yukinoshita Saya did not answer her words.

She just handed over the bloody snow knife on her knee.

Tamaki Yumiko took the knife without knowing why, feeling its heavy weight, and became increasingly puzzled.

Yukinoshita Saya looked at her and seemed to understand something.

She asked a question: "So, Tamaki, and Ijuin, do you remember how long we were separated?"

"Isn't this a 'stage'? In a place where time and space are so chaotic, it's impossible to remember the time clearly." Ayano said with a bitter face.

Yumiko Tamaki tried her best to sort out the story: "But anyway, didn't we go to the bell tower to investigate together, and then entered the old rose hall?

Ayano also helped think about it: "Yes, and when we wanted to leave the old Rose Hall, Yumiko and I were sent into that tower."

"Saya, you separated from us at that time, right? Then, you were sent directly here?" Tamaki Yumiko thought she had figured it out, "And then you were here...waiting for us?"

"Well, that's right." Yukinoshita Saya nodded expressionlessly, and then murmured to herself, "——But it's only a matter of one week."

"A week...what do you mean?" Yumiko held the heavy knife in her hand, feeling increasingly uneasy, "Saya, what weird thing are you talking about?"

And Yukinoshita Saya continued to ask: "So, Yumiko, based on your current memory, what are you planning to do when you come to this place?"

"Of course I will find you, and then everyone will leave this place together!" "How to leave?"

Yumiko was speechless: "I don't know...but if we are together, there will always be a way, right?"

"Where are you going when you leave?" Yukinoshita Saya continued to ask in a smooth voice.

"What are you going to say - isn't it just to return to reality?" Yumiko frowned, not understanding what she meant.

Saya continued: "This is my stage. Where were you before coming here?"

Tamaki Yumiko replied: "On my stage."

"What about before that?"

"Old Rose Hall——"

"When you talk about reality, do you mean the old Rose Hall?"

Yumiko wanted to say yes, but then she frowned.

"No," she replied decisively.

"Actually, at this point, I have almost understood it." Yumiko sighed, recalling the situation when she walked through the torii gate in the corridor.

At that time, she had a wonderful feeling as if she had entered a different world.

But now she understands that it is not a psychological effect... but the "truth".

"Although I can't be sure...but I guess, since this is the stage for the reappearance of Saya, and the Endless Tower is the stage for the reappearance of me, then the old Rose Pavilion is naturally the stage for the reappearance of Ayano." She turned around and glanced. Ayano, "So, when we passed through the torii gate, we had already left reality and entered this different space."

Then Tamaki Yumiko paused and said in a positive tone: "What we should return to is Serenity Hall."

Yukinoshita Saya said calmly: "But Serenity Hall is not reality."

Yumiko was stunned.

"'Tranquility Hall'...where is it?" Ayano Ijuin asked curiously from the side.

Tamaki Yumiko glanced at Yukinoshita Saya and then at Ijuin Ayano, and was suddenly overwhelmed by fear.

"School, the name of the school..." Yumiko muttered.

Ijuin Ayano looked at her strangely: "The name of the school? Is it the Holy Knot?"

"Sha Ye, what the hell is going on!" Yumiko became even more flustered.

"You opened the wrong lock." Yukinoshita Saya glanced up at her again, as if she was too lazy to explain.Instead, she turned to look at Ayano next to her and called, "Ijuin Ayano."

Her tone was very calm, but Ayano who was called slipped behind Yumiko, trembling and not daring to come out.

Then Yukinoshita Saya ordered: "Unlock all the locks on Tamaki."

"Hey?"

"If you don't do it within five seconds, I will chop you. Five, four—"

“It’s being done, it’s being done!!”

Ayano trembled and shot a chain directly into Yumiko's heart.

The chains disappeared in an instant, as if nothing had happened.

Tamaki Yumiko was stunned for another moment.

——"This is just a week."

Suddenly, the words Sha Ye said just now flashed in his mind...

Tamaki Yumiko was suddenly horrified.

Because this sentence was not the one she heard just now... Although it was very similar, it was not the same sentence.It comes from the deepest part of my memory, another similar sentence I heard not long ago.

"——It's just a week."

"——One week, one week, one week, one week, one week——"

Yukinoshita Saya's voice began to echo and reverberate in Tamaki Yumiko's mind.

Tamaki Yumiko looked at Yukinoshita Saya in front of her blankly.

Accompanied by overlapping voices, she began to feel that there was more than one "sandy night under the snow" in front of her eyes.

"Crash-" Accompanied by illusory sounds, it was as if countless locks in the heart were opened.

What was released were countless Yukinoshita Saya.

They gradually rose to the upper level of consciousness and appeared in Tamaki Yumiko's field of vision, forming layers of double images.

They were in the same position, using similar tones, nodding their heads in similar but slightly different ways, and saying similar words.

——"Tamaki, you forgot. The three of us were together, that was a matter of the first week, and now it is the third week."

——"I see. But in the eighth week, neither of you happened to remember the reason for the matter."

——"How far is the progress?...No, forget it, you can't tell me."

Finally, whether it was the one in front of her or a certain Yukinoshita Saya in her memory, he stared at her.

"Tamari Yumiko, actually we haven't seen each other for a long time. It's been longer than you remember." She stared at Yumiko and said clearly and calmly, "...because I haven't left since the first week. Here. I've just been here, waiting for you to 'pass' once in a while and get here."

Tamaki Yumiko felt that the sea formed by fear had already reached her nostrils.

She was breathing like a death breath, about to overflow to death.

Countless broken and incomplete pictures suddenly exploded in my mind.

It's not just this scene.But other scenes, from Qiangwei's invitation, the bell tower in the rain, the dark old Rose Pavilion... all her experiences began to differentiate.

From one to two, two to four, and then to countless.

——It turned into a TV wall that extended infinitely to the left, right, up and down, with countless pictures piled up like a honeycomb.

In the same scene, familiar experiences overlap layer by layer. Each layer is very similar, but also subtly different.
During these many times, she sometimes had Ayano by her side, and sometimes she was alone.

Sometimes she would be killed by a doll in the old Rose Pavilion, and sometimes she would be trapped in the Endless Tower until she lost consciousness.

But there were several times when she really broke through all obstacles and reached the finish line.

--right here.

Tamaki Yumiko remembered.She had experienced this plot more than once - just like the same scene played on the stage countless times.

But indeed, it was only the first time that Yukinoshita Saya was really by her side as she remembered.

"Ah——!!!" Tamaki Yumiko held her head in pain.

Sha Ye's order came from the side: "Turn off the lock."

"Ah, okay, okay--" Then Ayano responded hurriedly.

--"Snapped".

The TV wall in front of him flashing countless scenes was suddenly unplugged.Tamaki Yumiko was instantly plunged into darkness.

But she finally got a chance to breathe, breathing with all her strength in the darkness.

(End of this chapter)