It's still purgatory.

Sissi's golden light was no longer visible, and she didn't know where she had run in this endless plane. And the conversation between Madison and Leo is still ongoing.

"Hmph. Madison smiled, "You should really go up and comfort Zach~~"

Leo was silent, not knowing what to think, and looked at Madison with a bad face, "Don't say such boring words again, this is my home." You said that the 'Colt' of this world is no longer valid, and if I go to this world, there will be no way to come back. I don't think the Vampire Ancestors have the ability to affect my body with their blood (the way Sissi came to Purgatory), and I don't interact with any living creatures in this life. It was an unexpected surprise that I was able to send back the weaponized Vanzhuo blood, 'Colt', at midnight. I'm not going to risk going to this world to comfort Zach. ”

Madison raised an eyebrow and looked at Leo, "Heh, look, you understand, your motive is very convincing~" Leo's words became evidence of Madison's argument that biology is selfish and only for its own benefit.

Never mind.

Madison waved his hand, not pushing the subject into embarrassment for saying that there were living creatures, "But now you believe that I can come back to this world?"

"If you put so much effort into making Zach miserable!" Leo just expressed his selfishness, but that didn't stop him from speaking for Zack in an environment where he couldn't help Zack in the slightest, hehe, feel the irony, "I can only trust you guys to know what you're doing......"

"Not true. Maddison shook his head, and Leo said something wrong in principle, "You're wrong, you still don't understand." We didn't bother to think or do anything to make Zach uncomfortable. It's himself, and that's what he should be through. And I just let him happen. ”

Leo's stony brow furrowed, "You asked Sissi to spread the secrets of the vampires, and you didn't do it?"

"Huh. Madison smiled, "Leo, I don't blame you, you don't understand time." You don't understand the past, the present, the future. You are a creature of purgatory. ”

"I don't need you're not to blame. Leo was a little irritated, not a boring reaction, it was Madison's gesture of speaking, as if with a hint of contempt, the kind of superior to inferior, "It's a fact that you let Zach be misunderstood, and no one will say anything about you if you admit it, anyway, we all know what you think of you as the 'main character'! You don't like him at all!"

Madison pursed his lips and looked at Leo for a moment. Again, in this purgatory, the concept of 'for a while' is vague, it may be as long as an eternity, it may be only for a moment, no one can be sure, and when Madison speaks again, "All right. I guess I still need to explain. Leo, I can see the future. If you have to understand, it's, well, you can see the way forward in the labyrinth. ”

Leo glanced at Madison and said nothing.

"Now I want you to imagine a bunch of people walking through a labyrinth, and everyone is confused by the 'thoughts', the colors that are full of color, and they don't know where to go. It can be seen that Madison is reflecting on his own inadvertent contempt for Leo, the creature of purgatory, and Madison is trying to describe this example, "But in this situation, you and I are the only ones who know the way forward, right?" We can all see the road ahead. ”

Leo still didn't speak, and it was clear that Madison was deliberately comparing himself to Leo on the same level. There is sincerity, but Leo doesn't care about this unintentional contempt after all, right, it's because he feels unfair about what happened to Zack in this world.

Then let Madison explain it well.

"And then at this time, the people who can see the way, you and I, should take on the responsibility of leading everyone out of the labyrinth, right? Maddison is genuinely sincere and has been trying to get Leo's involvement, "For you, it might just be to take everyone forward." For me, I can't just take everyone with me, because there's another factor in the maze that limits where everyone is. ”

Leo finally participated, and this must be acknowledged - "time. ”

Madison nodded, "The coordinates that determine a person's location in this world are not only spatial, but also temporal. And the scale of the calibration position is always 'now'. No living being in this world can go beyond the scale of 'now' and go ahead. ”

Leo tilted his lips, "You can't lead the way, is that what you mean, you can only point in the direction of the future on the 'now' scale, just like everyone trapped in the labyrinth." ”

"Yes!" Maddison said, not agitated, "you know who the last 'person' was to do something like 'future.'" That's right. ”

"It's the Holy Lord, it's West. Leo pursed his lips, "The Holy Lord who guides the future has become the old woman who shapes reality. ”

"Correct. And then what happened to West?"

"All known time was sent out by everyone, and exiled out of time. ”

"Yes. And of course, everyone naturally threw this pot to Zach again. Madison waved his hand, "But the point is, even if I 'love' my protagonist, I have to protect myself." It's not hard to see why. ”

Leo's mouth twisted, "So you just don't show the way." Your manuscript deliberately did not exceed the present point in time, and then you realized that even if you were so careful not to touch the future, you would inevitably be inspired by someone, so you let the people in the maze wander around. ”

"No, I didn't let them go. Maddison also seemed a little helpless, "Don't you realize it, we, you, me, we are just the trick in this story, and we have no influence on this story - just like now you are full of grievances for Zack, and you will not do anything about going to this world, I have no ability to lead Zack's life." He was a very 'gentleman' and never relied on me to peek into any future, but he also did not consciously protect me, the person who has this ability. I'm nothing in this story. I have never taken on the role of a guide. The people in the labyrinth have been ignoring my existence since the past, creating their own future, and I see these futures created by themselves, past, present, and future, without my participation, I have never 'allowed' anything to happen......"

Leo suddenly glared at Madison, because he couldn't listen anymore, maybe there was a 'trick' that was constantly being mentioned, and the self-esteem that was aroused. But the point is, "Who said you didn't, when your manuscript was first exposed, you were in a hurry to find a way out for yourself, and spread the manuscript everywhere, so that Barton and the rest of the race could see what Zach had done." ”

"Well, just that once. And at that time, I was not very sure of my ability, I wanted to protect myself, I had my reasons, it was reasonable. ”

"Not once. Leo stared at Maddison, "You were killed by the Bruch Ancestor this time and came to purgatory, didn't you send the manuscript out again?" I remember you saying that you sold Zach's story to Rutt Lesenbra and let that vampire of the Feast make a third Zachary Torredo!"

Madison opened his mouth, "Okay." I admit that I did it on purpose. But I still want to emphasize that I am here to protect myself, and I have changed my own future, and that's understandable. Am I going to be a trick from start to finish and hang up in Zach's story? I also have self-esteem, and I also have the desire to live. ”

Leo can now despise Madison, deliberately looking down from top to bottom, "Then you don't deny anything." Whoever pushes Zach down the path of 'selfishness' starts with you. It was you, in order to create a future in which you were killed by a full-body vampire, who refused Zach to understand your situation, and asked Zach to 'selfishly' redeem the incident that the third 'Zachary Toredo' might have been created by Lesenbra, ignoring your situation, and finally the future developed into a reality, and Bruch killed you!"

Madison took a deep breath and exhaled. This action is purely emotional, and in purgatory, this physiological reaction has no meaning.

"You're right. Madison looked at Leo, "It was I who opened the door to Zach's 'selfishness', and it was I who made him begin to realize the significance of his existence as 'Zachary Toredo' in the secrets of the Republic, to the Confederacy's feast, to Barton." Everything I asked Zachary Toredo to do in this world began to have a motive that everyone could accept. He is a selfish creature, and at the moment when he is repeatedly reproduced, Zagger, and the image ability, the protagonist finally realizes the meaning of his own subject to the world, whether it is to discover or abuse, and let the protagonist play his role in the story to the fullest. Madison's face was less kind, "What did I do wrong?

"Then what are you denying. It's you, creating all the situations Zach is facing right now. You use a high-sounding reason to 'write about him', and then you write about this person you write to the point where everyone hates it. You did it, you did it on purpose. ”

Leo paused, perhaps a million times, "Your own life is completely out of your control, because you are a weak chicken who has no control over anything but the future, and then you don't want your protagonist to live well! You're the disgusting selfish guy!"

Madison opened his mouth and looked at Leo for a moment, "That's it......"

It's not that Madison's sentence contains an exclamation and drags out the end of the note, but ......

Maddison's body, the afterimage is disappearing, the movement is slowing, and the skin is turning gray......

Madison, using up the last of his 'thoughts,' turned to stone.

Leo stood in front of Madison, blinking, "Mai, Madison?" a few more winks, "Madison......!

Don't.

Maddison died, died in front of him Leo.

Said dead? No.

After Madison finally told him about the relationship between this trick and all this story, his mind was gone.

"Where's Madison?"

Tsk, Sissi is back.

"This is Madison!" Leo glared at Sissi, "You don't have eyes!"

Sissi circled twice in front of Madison's 'stone statue', "Ugh. What's wrong with him?"

"He's dead!" Leo really didn't want to repeat the definition of death in purgatory now, and only concluded, "He's dead!"

"Whatever. Sissi waved her hand, her eyes off Madison, "Why is there nothing here, how big is this place, what ...... is here and outside?"

"It's broken!" Leo grabbed Sissi with one hand and Madison with the other, "We need to get out!

Leo had already run, dragging Sissi, who was still making remnants, and Maddison, the stone statue who was no longer able to create remnants.

Sissi was very calm, and as she was being pulled around, she asked her own question, "Infinite expansion? Was this just limited? Why didn't I find the border? What the hell is this place, is it still purgatory? Uh, don't just run and answer the questions." ”

"Shut up!" Leo didn't bother to pay attention to Sissi, and his other limbs and arms had reached out from his shoulders, and he ran with his legs touching the ground......

This picture may have had an impact on the girl Sissi, and Sissi didn't say much. Silence is pulled away from this infinite space.

A 'labyrinth' filled with color.

"Where are we going now?" Sissi spoke again, "I'll tell you first, I'm waiting for Gangero, they're the key to my getting out here, don't let me miss it." ”

It may be an illusion, or it may be a fact, and the colors of the confused vision are a little stronger. If the stone statue Maddison could move now, he would probably be able to see his own 'thoughts' in these confused colors~

"You're going out?" Leo heard a point in Sissi's words, "aren't you going to take Madison out?"

"Didn't you say he was dead? What am I going to do with a dead man? Sissi was blunt, turning around in the 'fog' of color, "Where should I go?"

"Stop!" Leo stared at Sissi, even without the sight to see through the colors, Leo could see Sissi in the colors—gold, the saint did not hesitate to show her own color, "Madison is dead, but you only care about yourself?!"

"He's all dead, what do you expect me to do?" Sissi seemed to take it for granted, "Hurry up, I know that the difference between Gangaro's coming to Purgatory and my coming to Purgatory is only one day in this life, I don't know how you react to time in this Purgatory, but you'd better not let me miss the timeline of this life." Gatekeeper of Purgatory, you don't want to see the saints, me, angry in your world. ”

"No!" Leo turned and disappeared into the mist of color, "This is not this world! This is purgatory! My world! Need me? Need me to show you the way??hum!" The voice, in a slightly trembling color, was transmitted to the saint Sissi, who had been completely confused, "Please! beg me to tell you how to get to the future you want!!"

The fate of the dragon set...... Naturally, they want to resist a little. Otherwise, Madison is an example, isn't it?