“…………… You ........."

There was a dead silence in the hall, the blue-haired young man looked at Fang Zheng in amazement, while the girl behind him opened her eyes wide and didn't say a word.

"The struggle of mortals, ridiculous and ignorant, but also very interesting, is this your last choice?"

“———————！”

As Fang Zheng's words fell, suddenly, several flames emerged from under his feet, opening their mouths like a huge evil dragon, engulfing the dead in all directions.

Seeing this scene, although the faces of the girls behind Fang Zheng changed slightly, they did not go up to stop them. They weren't fools, after Fang Zheng said it just now, they knew that the other party was obviously trying to kill them, but they were just blocked by Fang Zheng. Although dying in this place is not really dying, it is ......... Not everyone wants to live as a dead man!

"Wura, get out of here!"

Looking at the hall where the fire snake was raging, the blue-haired young man hurriedly grabbed the hand of the black-haired girl sitting on the throne and tried to take her away, but before he could take a step, he saw that the raging flames had completely surrounded the entire hall, and at the same time, Fang Zheng walked up slowly.

"Say your choice, Miss Wura."

“…………………”

"Oh, don't worry, if you're afraid of your power, I've wiped it out."

"What......... What?! ”

At this moment, the blue-haired boy seemed to have heard something unacceptable, his eyes widened, and he looked at Fang Zheng, who smiled coldly.

"What an interesting mythological story, the gods gave Her Highness the power to die and destroy her enemies? Mortals always like to attribute anything that is not trivial to the gods, so in that case, there is nothing wrong with me taking this power back. ”

Fang Zheng raised his right hand, and at the tips of his fingers, a black mist slowly swirled.

"That's not the power you should have, little girl, now, say your choice."

At this moment, the incomparable coercion suddenly came, whether it was the black-haired girl, the blue-haired boy, or the people behind Fang Zheng, as well as the dead who were desperately trying to avoid the flames around, they all stopped their movements at this moment, their eyes widened, staring at the figure in the raging flames, and involuntarily knelt on the ground——— it was not because of reverence, but because of fear, it was instinctively sensed that the existence far above them exploded into power, It's like an ant perceiving the horror and fear when a person stretches out his finger and easily wants to twist himself to death.

This is the gods.

The blue-haired boy wanted to speak, but even if he tried his best and blushed, he couldn't make a sound, and the black-haired girl ——— Wula opened her blue eyes and stared at Fang Zheng, and after a while, she whispered.

"Why me?"

"Because you are the ruler of the city, it is your responsibility to decide the future of these dead, and......... You were the one who made them like this, didn't you? ”

"Shut —————!!! up"

The blue-haired boy yelled almost madly, while Fang Zheng stared at Woola.

"I think you're aware of it yourself."

“…………… Yes. ”

Facing Fangzheng's gaze, Wu La slowly lowered his head, and hearing Wu La's answer, the blue-haired boy looked at her in surprise.

"Wula, you ........."

"I know that I seem to be different from others, I seem to have some kind of power, but I don't know exactly what it is, today......... I didn't know until now, when I said it from this god-sama, ........."

With that, Wula took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and opened them.

"I......... Is it ......... kill someone? Is that right? ”

"No, it's not your fault, Wura!"

The blue-haired boy desperately wanted to reach out, but he was already doing his best just by talking.

"It's us, it's us who use your power! It's not your responsibility! It was we who used your power to destroy those who tried to destroy Osta, and made them our companions, all of which we did! It's us who do it!! ”

"Those who have power are responsible."

However, in the face of the blue-haired boy's roar, Fang Zheng didn't even look at him, still staring at Wula.

"The city, all the inhabitants of Osta, one and a half million people, have become dead because of you. To be exact, you killed 1.2 million people. Therefore, it is most appropriate for you to decide their future, because it is your responsibility and your obligation. ”

“…………………”

Hearing this, Wula was silent for a moment, then looked at Fang Zheng again.

"Kami-sama, I want to ask, become a ghost......... What does that mean? ”

"To put it simply, spirits will maintain the appearance of the deceased, but they will not be able to see the sun, and they can only live in darkness, they will have an icy chill, they will not be able to coexist with the living, and the living will not be able to touch them. Because this chill will erode the living, if you stay with the ghost for a long time, it is like staying in a cold cellar all the time, and sooner or later you will die, of course......... It's just a matter of degree. ”

"So, if Ziccoli becomes a ghost, will I never be able to touch him again?"

As she spoke, Wura looked at the blue-haired boy beside her, which seemed to be his name.

"That's pretty much it."

"So......... Kami-sama, can you turn me into a ghost too? ”

"What nonsense are you talking about! Wula! ”

Hearing this, the blue-haired boy immediately shouted, but Wura looked at him.

"Do you want to die?!! Are you going to let me watch you die?! ”

"But isn't that what happened?"

“……… Ay? ”

"I'm different from Zikoli, aren't we?"

Wula looked at the blue-haired boy and said to herself.

"I've found out since I was a kid, Zikoli, it's always been like this, everyone else is like that, but I'm different. I remember very well that I was just a little kid, but every day I got up, my height changed, I used to be as tall as Ziccoli's waist, but now, I am only a little shorter than Zikoli. ”

“…………………”

A girl who was raised by a dead person since she was a child, has no common sense of the outside world at all, and unlike others, there is no one around her who grows up with her, there will be no companion who is taller than her, and no one will meet after a while, and then say that you have become more beautiful than before, everything is set in stone. The people you see, the people you meet, the people around you, everything will always be like this, but only you are different.

If there is no doubt about this, then it is not only natural, I guess I am a fool.

However, the girl in front of her is obviously much smarter.

"I know my eyes can have some kind of effect on people, and I know that you're trying to hide it from me, but I don't know exactly what I've done. But I think it doesn't matter even if that's the case, since people don't want me to know, then it doesn't matter if I don't know. ”

“…………………”

Hearing this, the girls behind Fang Zheng were dumbfounded, and Ai also stared at Wula with wide eyes in surprise.

"To be honest, in today's world, I don't really know what murder is all about, and even if the gods say it to me, I don't really understand it. However, some breathed a sigh of relief, others sighed, and those who had been fighting each other with weapons stopped fighting and came to Usta, while others chose to go to the wilderness. However, everyone had a liberated expression........."

As she spoke, Wura looked at Fangzheng.

"Gods, my existence......... Death, is it bad? ”

"That's cowardice."

Fang Zheng silently gave an answer.

"The cowardice of mortals when trying to escape the rules of order, of course, everyone will have their own reasons, but birth, old age, sickness and death are an inseparable part of order, there is no naivety in this world to get anything you want without paying a price, it is the instinct of any creature to want to live, and the same is true for escaping death. At the end of the day, what they want is eternity, but there is no eternity in this world. There will come a time when everything will die, and death is for them to understand this truth, not an excuse for them to continue to escape. ”

Speaking of this, Fang Zheng pointed to the blue-haired boy in front of him.

"How would you feel if I burned him here now? If you don't understand, then I'll be clearer, you will never see him again, he will no longer speak to you, he will smile at you, you will not have a future, your call will not be answered by him, he will disappear forever——— this is the real death. ”

With each word Fang Zheng, Wula's expression turned painful, and she reached out and pressed her chest down.

"That's what it is......... Death? ”

"That's right, death is such a thing, separating the dead from the living, the two sides are separated by yin and yang, and they will never see each other."

"This ......... It's too painful, isn't it? ”

"But it's because of the fear of this pain that I cherish the other person's existence even more, isn't it?"

“…………… Ay? ”

"Thinking that one day maybe the other party will suddenly disappear and die suddenly, shouldn't you cherish the present with him? But what about after becoming immortal? Will the feelings still be so pure? Ten years, twenty years may be fine, but what about a hundred years, two hundred years? Because both parties can't die to each other, will they still cherish each other at that time? ”

Speaking of this, Fang Zheng smiled.

"But after all, you're just a little girl, it's not yet this time, maybe when you live for a few hundred years, you'll have a personal experience, so now......... Make a choice. ”

“…………………”

Faced with Fangzheng's request, Wura fell silent again.

"I......... I don't know if I made the right choice. ”

"There's no such thing as the right choice, and a lot of times, the choices you make may have completely different results than you thought, and you may regret 'why I did it at the time' or you may be glad that 'I did it at the time' and that the important thing is that you made your choice."

“…………………”

This time, Wura was silent for a long time, and finally, she looked up.

"I see."

The road to the core was as dark and even cold as ever, but the crowd didn't seem to care about it at the moment.

"Mr. Fang Zheng is really a god.........

Saten Tears walked behind, lowered her voice and said to Mikoto Misaka, and the other girls also looked unacceptable.

"I really thought he was joking........."

Mikoto Misaka also had an expression that didn't know what to say, although they had always been close to Fang Zheng, but because of this, they still felt that Fang Zheng was just joking when he said that he was a god. However, at that moment just now, they clearly felt that kind of power.

The kind of power that is almost impossible to refuse in the bottom of one's heart, far beyond the ordinary, that is not a power that human beings can have, and even bee-eating prayers cannot give people this feeling. No matter how much she manipulates people's hearts, it is absolutely impossible for her to have this level of coercion.

But......... I still can't imagine it!

"What do you think, Kuroko......... Sunspot? ”

Thinking of this, Mikoto Misaka looked at Kuroko Shirai beside her, and subconsciously wanted to ask her opinion, but to Mikoto's surprise, Kuroko Shirai was silent with a complicated expression at this time, and that expression was so complicated that Mikoto Misaka never seemed to have seen this expression on Kuroko Shirai's face.

"Kuroko? Are you okay? ”

"Huh? Yes? Sister-sama? ”

Hearing Mikoto Misaka's call, Shirai Kuroko was stunned for a moment, and then came back to her senses.

"Nothing, I'm just a little scared."

Saying this, Kuroko looked at the square back in front of him again.

"That's right............ Just a little bit scared........."