Chapter 5: Past and Present
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"Stupid Charlotte killed herself......"
The eerie ballad is accompanied by the sound of clapping hands and laughter, making the atmosphere in the dark forest very eerie. The corners of Charlotte's eyes twitched, blood dripping from the blade of the knight's fetters, and he frowned and looked around.
It was the first time Charlotte had seen such a strange situation, she couldn't see any enemies at all, and the boundary between fantasy and reality was completely reversed. If it was an illusion, it would not explain the real beads of blood on the knight's bonds, and if it was, he could not imagine that there were still people in the multiverse who could hide their perceptions and sing and play around him.
This is simply not logical!
"Is it logical...... a flash of thought crossed Charlotte's mind, "Kitty said, this is Sylvia's dream, and everything in the dream is illogical. But dreams are more or less reflected in the dreamer's heart, isn't it...... Sister Sylvia has been worried about me?"
"No, it's not. Charlotte quickly disproved this assumption, "If that's the case, it doesn't explain that Malfurion and the others would also encounter this illogical situation......"
The sub-brains sped through the strange laughter, and soon came up with a conjecture, "Could it be ...... It's not Sylvia's dream, it's mine?"
In this way, everything in front of you makes sense.
"Deep down, have I been longing to go back in time?" said Charlotte, with a look of bitterness and stubbornness. After a while, he shook his head and sighed, "It's really weak......"
With that, he closed his eyes and said to the frolicking voice that saw no smile, only laughter, "I have to kill you, because you and I both know that the dragon slayer of Savoie Fort can't save everyone." ”
After the words were spoken, the frolicking stopped instantly, and an unsettling silence fell into the dark forest, as the other party seemed to seriously consider the meaning of the sentence and how to phrase it to answer.
Charlotte continued, "The stories in the biographies of knights and brave men are all deceitful, and the stories we see are the result of the poet's beautification, and justice is written. Until now, I don't know what is right and what is wrong, but the only thing I can be sure of is that no one can stand for justice in this war. Dragon Slayer, can you really be sure that you represent absolute justice?"
The brunette boy suddenly appeared in front of Charlotte, with a scar on his neck and blood gushing from it. He tilted his head and asked with a strange sneer from a ruptured trachea, "But you still killed me, why?"
Charlotte was silent for a moment, and this time, she looked at her past self with extremely resolute eyes, "Because I want to win! No matter how deep that world line is hidden, no matter how many times I taste the bitter fruit of defeat, I will grit my teeth and get up! Because I want victory more than anyone else! I must win!"
"At any cost?"
"It depends on the weight of the price. ”
"Even if you lose your father, betray your friends, and sacrifice your friends, it doesn't matter?"
“…… There's nothing I can do. ”
"No, father, don't say it, Kathryn you have a chance to save, you can ask your brother to reset the plane. ”
Charlotte sneered, "You know he won't agree, not to mention that when Kathryn chose to sacrifice, Vivien Leigh was also pulling the kingdom of God." ”
"What about the exchange for Lu Sien's soul fragments, and won't my brother agree to it?" Charlotte, a child who died frequently, opened her innocent eyes and looked particularly weird.
His words made Charlotte feel like a heavy blow, the buried emotions and shame crushed reason in an instant, and the extreme sense of shame and self-blame made Charlotte fall into depression and panic, he opened his eyes wide, wanted to refute, but he couldn't say anything, just gasped for breath, like a drowning person who felt difficult to breathe.
At this time, the childhood Charlotte showed a strange smile, he innocently clapped his hands, walked around Charlotte with a brisk step, and hummed a strange ballad in his mouth.
"Stupid Charlotte killed herself!Stupid Charlotte killed her father!Stupid Charlotte betrayed her friends!Stupid Charlotte didn't save her ...... when she saw death"
Charlotte's muscles were bruised, and she drew her sword and slashed at the phantom in annoyance, the sharp blade slashing diagonally through her left shoulder, slicing out of her right waist like cutting butter. The Phantom coughed up blood with a strange and mocking smile, but Charlotte's emotions were still hard to calm down.
At this time, he suddenly felt unbearable pain in his chest, and when he looked down, he saw a sword mark from his left shoulder to his right waist, and the sword mark quickly bloomed, revealing the snow-white muscles inside. The muscle tissue was infiltrated by blood in a second, and the blood was gurgling down the wound.
Charlotte struggled to breathe, and even though her inner sanity kept reminding her that it was just an illusion, the pain was like a bone-eating snake. In the dimness, the demons who didn't see their smiles but only laughed began to play and laugh again, and the whole world could hear no sound except that they were laughing - the stupid Charlotte killed herself......
The sword slashed through the phantom of the past and the mask on his face. In an instant, all the toughness and coldness that came out of the pretense disappeared, and the pain, remorse, weakness, and helplessness in her heart gushed out, and Charlotte only felt extremely sore in her heart, and the feeling was worse than the wounds on her body. But the sad thing is that until this time, he couldn't even ooze a single tear.
"Ah——!!!" he roared like a beast, retorting to the laughing demons around him, "what do you know? You don't understand anything!!!
The roar was like a trapped beast, making people shudder and inexplicably sad, and the laughter of the demons merged into a group around the forest. Charlotte's breath gradually weakened, and when his emotions gradually calmed down, the remnants of his sanity sprouted.
"It's not good!! reason warns, "I'm caught up in madness by my own dreams, and I have to find a way to get rid of it!"
However, the blood had dried up and her strength was gone, and Charlotte realized that she had gradually lost her ability to resist. Just when he was at a loss, he suddenly felt that someone pulled him hard.
It's like riding a roller coaster, falling from the top end. Charlotte's eyes widened instantly, and she looked to her side in a cold sweat and in shock.
Beside him, Malfurion's old face had a relieved and disappointed expression, and the momentary expression of emotion quickly disappeared, and it turned into its original tired and old state.
"Are you alright? ”
At this point, there was no point in pretending to be tough, Charlotte wiped the cold sweat from her forehead and nodded, "Thank you, Master Malfurion." Just now I ...... It seems to be stuck in a dream of its own. ”
"No thanks. Malfurion nodded, looking like he wanted to say something.
"Can't you face your past choices?" asked Kitty pointedly, "and you're going to have no way out of this nightmare." ”
Charlotte was silent for a moment, "I think everyone has their own difficult past, it's just a little different. ”
Malfurion nodded, "Yes, but all the people who can't face it have been assimilated into this world. Master Charlotte, I don't know what you've been through in the past, but I think it's the countless moments of self in the past that make up who you are now, and denying the past is equivalent to denying yourself. ”
Charlotte was shocked and bowed her head to Malfurion, "Taught, Mage Malfurion." ”
He understands that the reason why he is entangled in his past choices is because the time and space reset gives him a chance to start over, and it also gives him a worry that ordinary people don't have. But Malfurion is right, to deny the past is to deny the present self, and he must respect his past choices and recognize his present self.
Malfurion patted him on the shoulder and asked, "That's all for today." ”
Charlotte thought for a moment, and this time instead of being stubborn, he agreed to Malfurion's proposal.
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