“…… Incomprehensible. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

Sanae was silent for a moment, no longer facing the battlefield with the lofty posture of a god. Facing the fragrance that should be the same human as the battlefield, I don't know why she looks a little constrained.

"I'm not interested in your understanding. The act of understanding each other is too boring, and if all the people in the world understand each other, then each other's thoughts will not be mixed with each other's will. This kind of boring thing makes me feel sick and want to vomit just thinking about it. ”

Yuka waved her hand in disgust and rubbed her abdomen with her hand, as if she would really vomit in the next moment. It seems that her aversion to the act of 'understanding' is no longer normal.

"It's so headstrong that people don't know what to say, you guy."

From behind Youxiang, there was a sudden sound of Mei Hong's voice that seemed to be scattered, she walked slowly while moving her wrists, because she did not dodge the wind pressure caused by Yuxiang's blow just now but chose to fight head-on, Mei Hong's clothes were slightly scraped out of some large and small cracks, but the skin under the cracks in those clothes has already been restored by the repair ability of Penglai people like a newborn baby, without a trace of damage.

"Isn't that actually a super-ego-centered guy after saying so much, and the annoying level is already the same as that guy Yakumo Zi, I highly recommend that the two of you meet and have a good chat. It's best to get started and kill one. Ah, it would be great if you two could die together - but until then, since you didn't have the killing intent to fight that guy, how about you just wait for Lao Tzu to shine around. ”

didn't care about the combat power shown by Yuxiang just now, and Mei Hong made no secret of her disgust for Yuxiang. It's not that the immortal attribute of the Penglai people makes Mei Hong fearless, it's purely that she has seen a lot of all kinds of powerful guys in her thousand-year-old life, although Yuxiang's performance just now is indeed powerful and almost terrifying in the eyes of humans, but in Mei Hong's eyes, it is not enough to make her feel scruples.

"Fighting?"

Yuxiang showed a dumb smile, and turned her head to look at Mei Hong with a smile as if she wanted to say something, but finally changed her words.

"Well, after all, I'm really not good at fighting. It's too hard for me to retaliate with murderous intent or something. ”

Mei Hong didn't even bother to pay attention to this extremely poor acting - or rather, she didn't plan to hide her guy at all. Instead, he walked straight towards Sanae. Although her face was calm, as she slowly marched, a bright red flame like blood rose from under Mei Hong's feet, and the extremely flat ground compressed by the blow of the fragrance was imprinted with a series of footprints that exuded high temperature, and even distorted the air into a glass-like color.

"You just said that your goal is not to kill that shrine maiden, killing him is just a condition for achieving the goal, right?"

Mei Hong took out a slightly wrinkled cigarette from the fat red bib pants embroidered with fire runes and lit it casually, through the space distorted by the smoke and the heat of the flames, Mei Hong looked like she had lost her human form at this moment. Due to the burning flames floating around his body, it looked like a living flame surrounded by hundreds of small balls of light that was constantly transforming.

"So, can you tell me what your purpose is? Although it won't do any good if you say it, I'll beat you up until you cry later. But if you can, it's best to tell me about it, I'm generally curious. ”

Sanae watched as Mei Hong was silent for a while, and even from under the mask, she could feel the atmosphere in which she was thinking about something.

After a long time, she replied slowly.

"To describe it as a 'purpose' is a bit of a miscalculation. If I had to say it, I would prefer the word 'fate'. ”

――Do you know the story?

This question is not to ask if you know any story that you see this sentence, but to ask if you know what the word story entails. But if you don't know, it's very simple, it's not too advanced. All you need to do is pick a story or two that you know from your head.

Whether it's a fairy tale loved by children, a mythical story full of monsters, gods, and humans, or a love story that girls dream of. No matter how different their plots are, the elements that make them up basically don't change much.

Basically, a story is a way of conveying an event with a certain meaning.

Yes, it is very important to have meaning.

If it's just about a person kicking a tin can off in the street one day - in the eyes of the person involved, this is of course very interesting. However, for those who watched the event, it had no meaning, no narrative value. So of course it doesn't go around and write it down and become a story.

On the basis of the point of meaning, it is immediately necessary to create the characters.

"If it's just a story of a brave man and a princess, then no one will find it interesting. For the story to be true, the character of the evil dragon must appear, right? It's not about being clichéd or boring, it's just a necessity. ”

Just as you have to breathe air and eat food to live, you don't do it because it's fun, but because you don't do it, you will soon die.

The yellow-white rotten robe that shrouded Sanae's empty body beneath Sanae's pale mask fluttered slowly in the wind. As if telling some bedside story, Sanae said lightly.

"If this world was created because of you protagonists, then of course, what was created with it was the existence of the [opposite] of you protagonists."

After all, that's the only way to make the story true.

If you are the protagonist, you are good. Then there is no doubt that what follows us is evil.

Of course, good and evil are not particularly important, and if you are the protagonist and you are careerists who want to destroy the world, then I will be the hero to save the world. And if you are the guardians of justice who guard the order, then I will be the monster who destroys it all.

It's not about the character or the will of the character, it's just a pure, conceptual definition.

If anything, woe is a perfect counterexample.

She herself is the sum of all the evils of this world, but it is not appropriate to define her in terms of evil, just as in reality some people hate colds but almost no one defines them as evil.

On the contrary, as long as the conditions are right. Even the most ordinary innocent teenager is defined as all the evils of this world, not by his own will, but simply by being placed as such.

After finishing speaking, Sanae didn't look at Mei Hong again, but looked up at the black star that had hung above the Kalkus sky.

Since this story and the opposite evil were created by your will

So if the story goes to tragedy

Unscrupulously tear reality to shreds, only to replace your own fantasies with the pretentious you......

――In the end, how will you feel about the ending that you have created?