12-1 [World B: Perspective of the Dawn Dynasty]

What the hell is going on?

Where is this?

Why are you here?

Standing in front of me was none other than 'Kawanayuki'.

"Who the hell are you...... Where is this ......?"

"I'm sorry, but I've been discovered in another world. So in this world, I have to tell you something. ”

"What the hell are you...... You're not a famous snow ......."

"Well, I'm not Kawanayuki, you may not know me."

“……”

'Mingxue' approached me and put her right hand on my forehead.

Suddenly—

I felt the most powerful fear of my life.

I jerked back, and I didn't know where the end was in this chaotic world.

"People generally call me the god of fear. ”】

"God, god?"

The person in front of you who is wearing the skin of Kawana's snow?

"Unfortunately, that's not what I look like, I just borrowed her skin. Moreover, what you see now is not the essence of the God of Fear, but only a small part of the energy body. ”

“…… What are your intentions? ”

I still can't stop shaking, stop it.

"Let me be merciful to tell you a very sad thing, the world you live in, including you as a person, is a false existence."

"Fake ......"

What is she talking about?

"Did you see that? Here it is a chaotic world, a world of darkness mixed with other colors, a world of nothing. ”

“……”

"This is the world you have been living in as it is. ”】

"What...... What do you say......"

I looked at the chaos and was dumbfounded.

"To be precise, since seven years ago, after that incident, you have been 'created' and have been living in this false world."

"Seven years ago?"

"It's after the death of this body, 'Kawa Nayuki'."

“？！”

["You are a false being, including this world, it is a false world. ”】

"I'm ...... Fake? ”

"There is no such person as Xi Qianchao, your body is called Xi Zheji, so I often mispronounce the name - I'm embarrassed."

"You...... Say what. ”

Receiving so much unbelievable information at once, I felt like my whole worldview was on the verge of collapse.

"You're actually one person—eh......"

The god of fear sighed.

"Let me help you remember what happened seven years ago."

The god of fear raised his hand, and for a split second, I remembered countless things that didn't exist in my brain.

"You can do such a thing......"

"I can manipulate and transfer memories. Because I am the god of fear, many humans have incense burners and beg me to help them forget some terrible things—"

She patted her chest complacently and said.

"I remember—"

Before, it turned out - I had done something like this before.

"Seven years ago, the owner of this body, 'Kawa Nayuki', was brutally tortured and killed. You, who are extremely sad and guilty, that is, Xi Zhiji, can't accept this fact. ”

“……”

"And the anger and guilt of the halberd awakened a god who had been waiting for him—"

12-2 [World A: Perspective of the Halberd]

"Who the hell are you—"

After the early hours of the morning, the neon lights on both sides of Ping'an Road in the West District were empty, but there were no pedestrians on the street.

With the help of WES-1-style target tracking, I discovered Kawanayuki.

"You're going too far, putting a tracker on me."

Mingxue's voice was no longer gentle, and she said sarcastically in a mocking tone.

"I still believed in you."

"Really? And then what? ”

"I remember you telling me that when you first moved into my house."

"What did I say?"

"At that time, you casually asked - where did Sister Xi Ning go?"

"It's true that she hasn't been home since I stayed overnight."

"Then you said again—['Xiao Ning is very tired in her third year of high school now.' 】”

"What's wrong with that?"

"According to [memories generated out of thin air], you and I should have been separated seven years ago."

"Ahh

"Although Xiao Ning is a year older than me, she has been frail and sickly since she was a child - so she studied late for a year, and until she graduated from primary school, she was two grades younger than me."

“……”

"In other words, seven years ago, I was a sixth-grader, and Lemon was still at the end of fourth-grade."

“……”

"Xiao Ning is indeed in her third year of high school now, because she is too smart - she skipped the first grade in junior high school. But anyway - you shouldn't know about it. ”

"I see—"

"But you said it very plainly—something you shouldn't have known. At least prove that you have conducted a thorough investigation on me, and while I believe in you, always keep an eye on you, no matter what the purpose. ”

"Unfortunately, you shouldn't have believed me."

"Ahh

"Uh-huh."

"But in this way, it says a very strange thing. Only when you know in advance that Yuyu has a knife mark on her body will you tell such a testimony and lead us astray. ”

"Ah, yes."

"Why do you know so many things—who the hell are you—"

"Hmph."

A completely different cold smile appeared on Mingxue's face, not cute or gentle at all.

"That blood stain that doesn't belong to anyone - what the hell is going on."

I kept a straight face and showed no mercy.

'Mingxue' walked towards me step by step, the neon lights of the buildings on both sides illuminated her, and she looked like a god in the backlight—majestic and cold.

'Mingxue' stood in front of me, and I immediately made a vigilant posture.

"Don't be nervous."

She told me and pressed her right hand on my forehead.

Zizizizi———————————————————————

Rumble.

["People generally refer to me as the god of fear. ”】

With a murmur, it was as if my brain was being forced to inject some emotion. It's an emotion I've barely experienced in years.

[Fear].

Suddenly, cold sweat flowed, every cell of my body seemed to tremble with fear, the soles of my feet and scalp were numb, my palms were constantly sweating, my heart was like stuck in my throat and eyes—my brain was buzzing, everything around me seemed to be about to swallow me, the buildings on both sides, the upright street lamps, the colorful billboards, all the things that usually looked ordinary and unremarkable, all turned into demons, and my lips were cracked and I smiled—

"Ah......h

I've never felt this way – this feeling of being terribly afraid of something.

I shook my head violently to sober myself up, and when I opened my eyes again, the world was back to normal, and everything just now turned out to be just my fantasy.

"Fear...... The gods. ”

I gasped for air, and even the salty and humid air seemed so delicious.

"I can manipulate and control human fears, and I can also control and store human memories—"

“……”

"Don't look at me like that, unfortunately, it's not the God of Fear body standing in front of you, it's just a small part of the energy body."

"Gods...... Do gods bleed too? ”

"Of course, God is not omnipotent—about our origin—ah, well, you don't need to know that."

"So—"

I stared straight at the god of fear.

There are more and more things that I can't figure out.

"Your memory is missing, not only the memory is missing, but even the emotions are missing – you are an incomplete person."

"No, incomplete......"

"In another world, far away, I call it World B, and there's something you've left behind."

"What the hell are you talking about-"

I was in a hurry, and I yelled in disgrace.

"It's simple—I just need to give you back the memories you've discarded, and I'll be able to remember—"

The god of fear clapped her hands, and the lilac light condensed in her palm, and she turned her palm towards me, and my vision was immediately surrounded by purple light—

"Ah——!h

I was irritated and covered my eyes in pain.

"What, what—"

My brain, filled with something—it was as if someone was writing a spell in the blank space of my memory.

"Ahh......h Ahhh

I screamed in pain, knelt on the ground, and with intense pain, my hands desperately grasped my face, my nails digging into my face, scraping out one blood-red mark after another, blood soaked my hands, and flowed through my arms and slept weakly on the ground.

"It seems that you are in a lot of pain—I didn't expect that memory to be so painful for you."

"Why—why!"

I screamed and roared desperately.

"Why do you want me to remember——!!!"

I shouted heartbreakingly, as if my world was frozen at this moment, and the hypocritical optimism and false self-confidence that had always seemed so ridiculous. I fell to my knees, holding my head, unwilling to face the world, the world I had abandoned, the world I had fled, tears mixed with blood, like a soulless ancient tree, wailing alone and painfully, and then being mercilessly swallowed up by the earth.

This is a story of incompetence, cowardice, self-deception.

A teenager who abandons his friends and abandons himself, what he has created - boring stories.

Xi Zhiji - an ordinary and unremarkable teenager, carefully stepping on the trajectory of his life. He is timid, he is not good at words, he has no specialty, he is a teenager who will never be remembered by the world, and he is drowned in the vast sea of people.

Until that day, when he abandoned his only friend, he locked himself up and let the wailing fill his ears—he covered his ears in fear, but the sound pierced his eardrums like sharp blades—

Out of fear, he made his only friend disappear from view.

Out of fear, he ignored his friend's only plea for help.

Because of fear, the only thing he did was to run away and escape.

"It's all so ridiculous."

A week later, when the boy saw the photo of his childhood sweetheart again, it was just a collection of stumps and pieces of flesh.

He also knows the pain, he knows the guilt, he knows the sadness -

He was angry at his own incompetence, angry at his fears, angry at everything about himself—

All fear, overshadowed by anger, seemed to have forgotten everything.

"Anger—"

A powerful anger from the heart - a strong anger against oneself that awakens the god of wrath who has been waiting for him. 】

"Why, why am I so useless, why ......"

It's all because of fear.

So the god of wrath told him.

"If only I hadn't been scared—"

Yes, if only you didn't have fear at the time.

"If only I hadn't opened the door then-"

Yes, it's all because of fear.

"If only I remembered the call the first time—"

Yes, it's all because of fear.

"If only someone had been next to me at the time—"

Yes, it's all because of fear.

"If only I had taken the first step then—"

Yes, it's all because of fear.

["If only I didn't have fear—"]

At the same time as the boy said this, his body glowed violently, representing his [fear] feelings and past memories [another him], separated from the boy's body—

"'He' was born – you put your fears behind. Detach it from your body and become another being—you in another world, bearing only your fears and memories of your past fears. ”

["His name is Xi Qianchao, and he exists with a false world World B. ”】

The god of fear pointed at me and said emotionlessly.

"Since then, you have forgotten the memories of the past, lost the feelings of fear, and lived freely and optimistically in this World A world."