I, holding a long sword in my hand, only know one move

Because Liuli was watching him on the screen.

"Sister Shinoda... I found you."

"Sister Shinoda..."

"Why? Why did mom--become like that?"

Intermittent images flashed directly in his mind.

——It was a pain as if the heart was being torn apart.

".....Mother?"

A frightening scene, separated by a thin layer of glass. The flashing red light and the operating table stained with blood...a monster that had completely lost the appearance of a human being was roaring at him from there.

Liuli screamed and wailed in despair. She witnessed her beloved mother turning into a monster.

The scene returned to calmness, and Shinoda's face turned pale.

"....do you know?"

"......do you know?"

Chapter 103 Confession

It was a happy time, a day full of laughter and sweetness.

It was him handing out brightly colored candies to the children, watching them happily tear open the wrappers, put the candies into their mouths, and then smile at him.

"Sister Shinoda, I like you the most~~!"

"I want Shinoda-san to be my wife!"

I, who knew nothing at that time, sat on the bus seat as I was leaving. Before I left, I gave all the candies in my pocket to my favorite Liuli.

"Here, these candies are reserved for you."

"Can you give mommy a taste too?"

"Of course~"

It was the first time that Liuli got so many candies. In the past, every time she got them, she just got them and ate them all eagerly.

When parting, Shinoda hugged Liuli's petite body and cried reluctantly.

She smiled and waved to herself, and so did the children—

"I want to come back and play!"

Then, the truth was revealed step by step. What did the bright wrapping paper with the [IV] pattern mean to the children and the kind and simple villagers in Qixing Village.

But it was too late, before everything was the boldest guess, and before the truth and evidence were finally obtained——

The gastrula war broke out.

Everything was destroyed and disappeared in the flames of war.

My beloved teacher also died in that war, and his relatives and home were all taken away.

The huge black monster located far away on the horizon was flashing with blue-purple light strips all over its body, and it was emitting an ethereal and plaintive cry like a whale. The pitch-black sky dyed red with flames was suffocating.

Stage five....Scorpio.

.....Why?

Why does this happen? Why is it Liuli?

"Ahhhhh!!!"

Shinoda's spirit collapsed at this moment. She screamed, hugged her head tightly, and fell to her knees.

"Shinoda! Shinoda, what's wrong with you?!"

She couldn't answer the child's question.

In this huge black stone barrier, become an ordinary doctor...

For ten years, she was burdened with pain, despair and guilt, always wanting to pay off the sins of those who died innocently.

She provides erosion rate testing to the Cursed Children free of charge, sends them food, and regularly purchases expensive inhibitors out of her own pocket.

She turned that guilt into meticulous care for the Cursed Children.

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry, sorry, sorry!!" Shinoda cried desperately.

But the sin will not fade away, and nothing will change.

That has become an eternal scar on the minds and bodies of humans and the original sons.

"I can't do anything...I alone can't change the world at all...!"

Of those who know what may have happened in Seven Star Village, apart from the mastermind behind all this, he may be the only one who knows this secret.

But so what? No one will believe in themselves.

In the ten-year suffering, I kept persisting, kept persisting...

But at this moment, Shinoda finally collapsed, completely collapsed, and she could no longer hold on.

She simply didn't have the courage to face that familiar face again. Everything about Qixing Village should have been burned with the ignited flames.

But now it happened to appear in front of me again.

Cruelly, it shattered her cracked heart.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!"

The raging and crazy crowd dispersed Igarashi. He desperately tried to catch the figure who was kneeling on the ground, collapsed and crying, but the distance between the two became farther and farther.

"Shinoda! Shinoda!!"

"Stop squeezing out and let me in!"

"There are not many places left, hurry up! Damn it!"

...

The boiling crowd around him froze in an instant, and everything around Shinoda became blank.

Her forehead rested on the ground, tears covering her face.

"Sister Shinoda."

Shinoda's body trembled violently, and her sobbing voice seemed to have been pressed on the pause button. She slowly raised her head and looked at the figure that appeared in front of her.

"...Liu...Li..."

"Sister Shinoda... Liuli wants to continue to be with you."

Liuli knelt down and stretched out her hand to Shinoda who was kneeling on the ground. Her innocent smile remained on her face as always, very cute.

"Liu Li...Liu Li! I'm sorry! Ouch!"

"Why do you need to apologize, Shinoda-san?"

"Because it was my fault that Liuli's mother became like that! The candies you received when you were vaccinated, those were the reasons why your mother became like that, but I knew it was too late, everything was too late Got it!"

"I can't do anything... nothing..."

I worked hard day and night, studying and researching from dawn to dusk, but it was too complicated. I had no experience at all and could only explore a little bit.

My body is exhausted and there are thick dark circles under my eyes... I want to be the best at the end

Uncover the truth as quickly as possible and prevent it from happening.

"I...it's really useless..."

There was a slight chance to prevent all that from happening, but due to lack of ability, he watched hell unfold before his eyes, almost destroying everything in the human race.

Shinoda hated himself for being so useless.

Liuli calmly walked forward and gently held the crying Shinoda in her arms, patting her back as she had done to comfort herself who was crying due to injury.

"Sister Shinoda has worked very hard. It's not your fault."

"Sister Shinoda is just fulfilling her obligations seriously. You are an excellent nurse sister, and you will also be a good doctor with great love in the future...Sister Shinoda has worked very hard. What caused all this , not you, Sister Shinoda."

"So please don't take all the blame on yourself."

Shinoda tightly hugged the small body in his arms, feeling the familiar temperature and breath of her body.

"I can't forgive myself...no matter what...I can't forgive..."

What he endured was nothing compared to the pain endured by those innocent children and villagers.

During the nights when I was the only one suffering alone, I woke up countless times due to nightmares and kept my eyes open until dawn.

While working in the hospital, the girls who were getting closer and closer to each other, because the erosion rate increased, or they received news from the promoters that they would die in battle one day...

His desk is filled with various small gifts given to him by the children.

They like themselves, but one day, they can no longer stand in front of them and call her Sister Shinoda sweetly.

Those gifts become the last memories that the children leave to the world and themselves.

But there is nothing I can do.

"Please don't keep fighting."

Whenever Shinoda persuades the children whose erosion rate has reached the critical point, someone will always say it to them with a smile.

"It doesn't matter...because only by fighting can you know the meaning of your existence."

There are so many such children that Shinoda has even forgotten the names of some children, and when picking up their relics, he cannot even recall the appearance of its owner.

Shinoda is now in her thirties, and she can no longer bear to live like that...

So, she made a request to Liuli in front of her.

"Liu Li... please, I'm under too much pressure, I can't bear it... I really can't bear it... I can't bear it anymore!"

Shinoda held the small figure tightly in her arms and cried heartbreakingly.

Ask her——

Kill yourself.

Chapter 104 Trial

Empty, dark, nothingness...

In the center, a figure crushed by the stacked despair was hugging another small figure, crying.

"That's not Shinoda-nee's fault."

Liuli caressed Shinoda's back, and the surrounding void gradually melted away as if it was being burned.

She kept repeating softly——

"That's not Shinoda-san's fault..."

Sobbing, choking, and finally stopping.

"Those who really make mistakes will definitely be punished."

Liuli gently pushed Shinoda away from her arms and smiled.

"Sister Shinoda...please wait for me. Then, let's play together again, right?"

"Liu Li?"

The girl's figure disappeared.

The noise of the noise and the crowd turned into a wave, drowning Shinoda again.

Shinoda wanted to reach out and grab the girl who disappeared into the stream of light again, her cheeks red from crying were stained with tears, but there was nothing between her fingers.

"Liu Li!"

Shinoda's empty hand was suddenly held tightly by another hand reaching towards her against the crowd.

"Igarashi?!"

"It's too dangerous, get up quickly! You have to go in and take shelter quickly!" Igarashi looked anxious, with beads of sweat hanging on his forehead, and forcefully pulled Shinoda up from the ground.