At this moment, Angela's ghostly female voice suddenly came into my buzzing, noisy ears, as if all physical barriers were useless-

"It is the vehicle for the rebirth of the Bird Deity at the End, the sacrifice, which means that he will inherit the power of the Apocalypse—and become more and more deeply and completely complete over time, and finally completely dissolved and lost in the end—into Him."

"Become Him......" The moment these three words appeared in my mind, a familiar and unfamiliar fear instantly hit my fragile and sensitive spirit - "become...... Becoming ......" I kept muttering, driven by desire, my weary soul finally stopped reluctantly degrading - reining in the precipice, and suddenly stopped the bombardment of energy. I stared blankly in place, like a robot with a clockwork strip removed.

"Uhhh

"Do you remember everything?" She asked, silently recovering her burned body.

"You...... You did it on purpose...... Why are you doing this? I turned around abruptly and asked sharply, "If you don't stop me, I'll kill you!" ”

Angela was relieved about this: "It's not time yet. She explained lightly.

"Don't look like that." Angela looked at me sarcastically, "You, too, knew from the beginning what the price would be, the moment to activate that power in that alien dimension called the 'Black Forest'. ”

"We are also aware that the speed of 'transformation' has accelerated dramatically." Angela said, silently pointing to the shrunken bloody mouth on my abdomen, "Don't tell me it's just a disgusting ornament on that dress called 'Bo Twilight'. ”

"Hmm......" I swallowed, and quickly and inexplicably glanced carefully under me—yes, it was no longer as silent as it once was, and I could no longer fade away from this "dress," and I could feel it clearly and truly when it sucked and moved, and felt it at every touch—just like ...... It's like my own body.

"And for you to be transformed to such a level in just over ten days, you naturally know the reason-" Angela said, and couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth proudly: "You rely too much on the power of the Apocalypse, and participate in every battle without restraint - every swing of your sword, every inch of your body repaired, his power is imperceptibly moving away from your original body, and when you can use the magical power of the Bird of End: the stage of suspending time and space teleportation, this process is accelerated again." She pursed her lips, "The 'container' has begun to devour yourself in this world, and that wings is proof of that. ”

......I was silent, but my body still involuntarily flapped the wings behind me, as if to corroborate Angela's statement at the moment......

"You don't need to eat anymore, do you feel sleepy or tired after three days of sleeplessness?" Angela asked indifferently, "There is no denying that your body is being fully containerized, constantly being transformed by the power you rely on...... Wait until the moment when it all ends......" Angela suddenly added in an extremely pretentious tone: "At that time...... I'll never see you with such a cute and angry face again. ”

"So...... So you're pushing me?! ”

It dawned on me that while realizing Angela's true intentions, my body suddenly tensed up with fear: "You want to speed up this process and make me a 'container' in advance." So that's what you're for?! ”

"Poof...... Hahahahaha! When Angela heard this, she suddenly burst out laughing maniacally, and her body couldn't help but start dancing: "You...... You are really my own sister, and you really have the same heart! ”

"Bang!!"

Before the words fell, the silver-white giant blade immediately pierced in my direction—"Dang——! "I swung my black feather greatsword and slashed down, picking it apart suddenly.

"Is this the only way you can do this?" I glanced at the hilt of the blade embedded in the wall in the distance, and asked harshly and slightly playfully.

"Yo-oh." When Angela saw it, a smile couldn't help but appear on her face:

"This time...... Don't get angry? ”

I also raised the corners of my mouth and asked rhetorically, "Are you angry?" ”

"Angry?" Angela listened to it, as if she was deliberately echoing her teeth as fiercely as she refused, making a harsh and strange sound.

"That's right, I'm angry." Angela nodded unexpectedly, but every word she said next was filled with intolerable complacency and madness:

"I'm angry at your stupidity, sister, for your arrogance and sluggishness. Until now, you have not been able to escape your fate. ”

"I already know your intentions!" Not to be outdone, I refuted with great seriousness: "No matter what tricks you play, you won't have another chance." ”

"Is that so?"

She suddenly covered her face and replied with an extremely oozing laugh, "Even if you are now, it is impossible to leave this shelter. I'm here to fight you, and whether you attack or hurt, you'll bring your body closer to the gods. And when you're thoroughly ......!! ”

"Ahem!" At this time, the excessive excitement and madness had made Angela incoherent, but she continued to continue the gibberish in her mouth: "At that time, the suppressors here will not be able to stop the power of the rampage!" I...... I will lend your hand - your hand! Angela suddenly rebuked me hysterically: "You will kill everyone you care about with your own hands - whether it is the group of returnees who don't know what to do, or the few little henchmen in the control department, even the group of worthless civilians you are protecting with your life now, and the pigs who are outside the facility, outside the nest, and outside the city, and who are afraid of the weak and afraid of the hard!! Their lives will be wiped out in the blink of an eye! ”

"Their lives are as cheap as paper, and they are innocent of death!"

Angela roared hoarsely, accompanied by body movements flying up and down, and the whole person seemed to be about to flip:

"I'm different from you! I'm different from you! This ego gear is extracted from the painful self and the happy self! It's my own power! ”

"With this force...... I will definitely complete my revenge. I will definitely ...... The revenge that must be accomplished with all my life—overthrowing, shattering, and destroying all that has been done to me! ”

"Hoo ——!!" As soon as the words fell, Angela suddenly stretched out the giant blade that shone with cold light, did not move, pointed directly at my door, and announced to me the final declaration of battle:

"Now! …… My dear sister, fight with me! Let my death be the final piece of the puzzle for the end and destruction! ”

“……”

"Angela ......"

At this moment, I knew that there was no way back, and Angela was no different. She is no longer the sister I remember to play with, maybe all this is not the result she has always expected, she also had a yearning for friendliness, love, freedom, etc., but when she chooses to wield the butcher knife, everything is irreparable......

She is under the neon of the city, lurking and breeding all evils, scars that can never be smoothed out.

I silently gathered my strength, once again put the black feather giant sword in my hand, glanced at the murderous sister in front of me with an indifferent expression, and slowly opened my mouth-

“…… Hopeless, already hopeless......"

"-Bang!"

In a flash of lightning, the silky blade of the Black Feather Greatsword slashed straight at Angela's front door—and as expected, a wing bone that suddenly poked out blocked it. saved Angela's life, but left her completely out of flight.

"Very good...... "Angela's face was not sad in the face of this sudden everything, "That's it...... Sister, Fighting...... Fight with me! She smiled weirdly:

"But how much will you pay for it?"

"Buzz ——!" The next second, I swung my sword at Angela again - this time, she unsurprisingly chose another intact wing bone to block. The black feather slid through the twisted skeleton that shimmered with silver light, leaving a pitch-black scorch mark that pierced through the entire body, nearly severing the sturdy blade wings that had been tempered by the extreme wind pressure and scorching heat.

"If you want to fight, you can fight...... Where is so much nonsense. I frowned slightly, and said with a little annoyance.

Angela saw it and nodded contentedly:

"Hee-hee."

"Poof——!! In an instant, a formidable chill suddenly hit behind him! "Damn it!" I immediately turned around when I felt a stab in my back, but I was extremely shocked to find that the silver knife that should have been embedded in the wall turned the head of the spear and stabbed in my direction! Its speed is so fast, the direction is accurate, and the distance is so close that I can't make any timely and effective evasive action-

"Long Arm - Grasp!!" Against all odds, I chose to continue to cast that power.

"Buzz ——!"

There was a roar, and in an instant, everything around it came to rest again.

"Uhh

Unlike usual, this release of power did not go as smoothly as usual, accompanied by a series of nightmarish abnormal changes - first the whole body burned like sharp pain and almost death suffocation, especially in the forearms and abdomen - but the body did not feel any instinctive reflex action, on the contrary, except for the brain was still running, the whole body fell into an extremely strange stiffness, even though the body was still releasing pain and tormenting my brain during this period, but I did not have a trace of mood swings, It was as if it were just a sign of pure danger to me - this abnormal state lasted for almost a few minutes, and I didn't feel any boredom or anxiety, as cold and pure as a machine.

"Ahem...... Ahem!! ”

At some point, I suddenly and unexpectedly regained my freedom—and in an instant, the accumulated emotions rushed into my mind like a forgiven prisoner, and instantly knocked me to the ground. "Damn...... Damn it...... "I tried my best to stop myself from continuing to think nonsense, and my companions had to cut it off...... Now I can only think of their sacrifices, or the uncertain path ahead. "There will be a way...... There will be a way...... There will be a way to ......" I had to keep hinting at myself to stabilize the chaotic mood at this time.

After a moment of calm, I slowly stood up and looked at everything around me that was still motionless, and I realized that my body was now more proficient in using the power of the terminal bird—to grasp the time...... It's just a little trick that isn't worth mentioning, though. But when I looked at myself tremblingly, I was surprised to find that compared to the body in my memory, it no longer gave me hope and peace of mind......

My hand...... It's mine...... It...... Above the familiar fingers, sharp claws grew; The once fair and smooth skin was covered in patches of dense inverted black feathers, and was slowly rising upwards at a speed visible to the naked eye. And the already terrifying bloody mouth on the abdomen, the "small beak", at this moment, also grows protruding pieces of flesh and dense sharp teeth like proliferating slime molds, and uses it as a base point to climb the body of the plain clothes, gradually expanding the flesh and blood to the periphery. The pieces of meat converge on each other to form a lump of flesh, which forms a volcanic shape around the abdomen, like a rafflesia flower that takes root on all sides......

Sure enough, all power is by no means costless......

That's right...... As Angela said, I knew early on that this was going to happen, and I greedily used this god-sent power to deceive myself under the pretense that "my colleagues need me" and "my supervisor needs me...... And everything that is happening at this moment seems to be its backlash against me.

"I'm sorry...... Hanna, Maxi, I couldn't save you......"

Gregory ...... Loki, I can't stop Binah from putting you in such a dangerous situation. ”

“……”

"And I'm ...... now It could become a more terrifying and desperate threat than Binah, more desperate than the nihilistic courtier, at any time - and a sister by his side who is happy to see it happen. Whatever I do, I will inevitably go to that fateful end...... What am I going to do? ”

At this time, a strong sense of helplessness suddenly hit my heart, followed by continuous loneliness.

When people are frustrated, they always recall the past, and I am no exception-

Father...... Was my father like that? When he was faced with a cruel choice between two flesh and blood relatives, but he shouted out that he would rather be crushed than destroyed...... For the only remaining tenderness in his heart - the affection of the family, in the desperate situation of being in an ambush and running out of ammunition and food, under the obscenity of the powerful forces of the Brain Lobe Company, when this last hole card was grasped in his hand, he suddenly became his biggest threat, and also became the biggest threat to his cherished beloved relatives......

Supervisor...... Was this also the case with Ayin? When he faced the flesh-and-blood and devastated ruins of the Institute, the corpses of the enemies in his hands, and the pervasive surveillance of the "eyeliner" and the claws of the "minions" hanging alone. How did he reach out his hands, dig out Garion's brain, create the horrific Fog Massacre, and create the Brain Lobe Company as brutal and brutal as the Wings of the Other Worlds? For the sake of his lifelong mentor, he wrote a "script" to pull his faithful companions who had sworn to help him into this endless cycle......

At this moment, I finally truly appreciated the struggle and pain they went through—further, sacrificing blood and wounds; Take a step back, and there will be no return.

And now, fate has duly handed me the same choice.

True...... Such thinking will not bring any happiness to my heart, but life is inherently accompanied by countless choices and pains - I am both a human being and an adult.

"Anyway...... There is still something to be done, it can only be done, it must be done. I kept muttering in my heart.

At this point, time no longer seems to matter, and there is only a powerful body that destroys the world and a lonely soul that is about to die.

I slowly raised my head and looked at Angela's frozen smile, and scenes of the past flashed in my mind, and I suddenly felt a pity that I had never felt before.

"My dear sister......" I murmured, "I am glad of all the pain you have suffered...... You're not wrong, but for now...... I can't let you go wrong any longer. ”

I lowered my head again and looked at my hands, which had completely turned into bird claws, a little less fear and repulsion, and more openness and suddenness.

"I have to...... Give it up......" I said, between the words...... It is a faint sadness and a firm determination......

There was no need to chant, just a short series of thoughts, and the giant claws that clung to time and space immediately relaxed, and I easily avoided the speeding silver giant blade, and looked at the high-speed tail flame released from several rows of small spouts behind it, I understood its meaning, and couldn't help but raise the corners of my mouth, and nodded in satisfaction.

"Forehead ——!" In an instant, Angela quickly recovered the whistling silver heavy knife, looked at my sudden change of appearance, and was instantly surprised, and suddenly laughed with extreme excitement:

"See, sister! You're going to change in no time, and you're going to change! Become an apocalypse and destroy all ......!! ”

"Poof——!

Before she could finish speaking, an extremely sharp black feather greatsword pierced through her body, and Angela didn't seem to realize the other changes beyond this powerful body. When she was still immersed in the joy of victory, she did not know that the weight of hope had already quietly turned the balance of victory—she had no chance of winning.

"What...... What ......" her eyes widened and she trembled as she looked at the large wound on her chest; Then he turned his head and stared at me like a lost child, recognizing his mother he hadn't seen in years.

I shook my head slightly and said, "My sister is disobedient...... It's time for my sister to teach a good lesson. ”

"Not really...... Not like that......" she kept trembling,

"It's just...... Just a despicable sneak attack, what are you proud of?! She let out a hysterical cry, and her feet slammed into the ground, pulling her hollow chest out of the long blade, and it was not a suicidal act of madness—"Drip." With a small button sound, suddenly a spherical barrier of dazzling blue light flashed completely, completely enveloping Angela's miserable body in an instant, and in an instant, it condensed, collapsed, and collapsed, and disappeared into the vast space......

A brief silence, a surging undercurrent.

"Here!!" I let out a loud shout, immediately turned around and swung my sword, blocking the heavy silver blade at the last moment, and then turned around and kicked, and put on a stance.

Not bad...... It was still Angela, but now she was fully healthy, even the two discarded wing bones. I watched as she stepped on the pieces of the wing bone fragments that had fallen off from the heavy blow, and I knew - "Directional Regression Device......" I muttered, "She used the fragments of her own slander to retrace herself two minutes ago......

"Buzz ——!" In an instant, Angela, who had recovered her body, fired on her full throttle and launched a storm of attacks on me like crazy - accelerating, slashing, impaling, and parrying head-on, and I had nothing left to parry in the face of her completely different fighting style. But with the blessing of the incomparable learning ability and judgment of the new shell wealth, Angela's several pressure moves were quickly understood by me, and within a few moves, I found a small flaw in Angela's furious sword light and sword shadow - "Hmph!! Lifting the sword and stabbing it straight, the hand rose and fell, and in the flash of lightning, the blade of the black feather greatsword pierced Angela's body again, and slashed again, as if cutting butter, and completely split the shining silver chest into two parts.

"Drop!" With a loud sound, the backtracking device was activated again, and it wasn't long before another new Angela appeared in front of me again.

It seems like a complete wasted effort.

"Hmm...... Hahahaha!! Angela laughed arrogantly, "You can't kill me...... You can't kill me! ”

"Bang ——!" As soon as she finished speaking, she immediately unfolded her wingbones and gathered energy—as she jetted off and accelerated her maneuver, she directed the energy of the two wingbones into me, pouring deadly fire on me like a high-speed gunboat. "Damn it!" I frowned, and immediately spread my wings, dodging and blocking the string of light bullets that were fired at me, and at the same time, I flapped my wings and climbed rapidly, like a missile, and instantly flashed towards Angela's non-stop firing figure - "whoosh-!! But as the distance gets closer, the firepower becomes more difficult to avoid. "Suddenly, there was a series of loud explosions, and the scorching heat of the red light bomb burned my skin severely! But this sudden episode couldn't change the doomed fate after all, and in the next second, Angela's ridiculous speed finally made the desperate resistance useless - "poof——! In an instant, the sharp blade pierced Angela's neck, and with a pry of the hand, it pried off her head like a bottle lifter—

"Drop!" It was the familiar sound again, and even the blood gushing out of the broken neck did not splash on the cheeks of the "murderer", and suddenly disappeared in a familiar blue light curtain, and returned and reshaped here.

Soon, a living Angela appeared in front of me again, still with a hideous smile on her face.

"The feeling of burns...... It's uncomfortable, sister. She "cared for" me with an exaggerated hypocrisy: "Then use that power to repair yourself." Release it, embrace it! ”

"You guy......" I glared into Angela's eyes and said, "Have you always been so fond of talking nonsense?" ”

When Angela heard this, her face immediately turned pale: "Give up, sister." She shook her head and said in a cold tone, "I will continue to reinvent until you completely turn away from humanity." ”

"Come on, then." I shook my head indifferently: "I must stop you, no matter how many times you are resurrected, I will kill you as many as you want." ”

"Bang!!"

As always, Angela and I began to fight further, and in the fierce battles of life and death, she began to pour out all kinds of new tactics, more and more limitless means, and more unscrupulous attacks, forcing my reason to collapse and unleash my power without restraint; And I gradually grasped Angela's habits, temperament, and even preferences in the process of slashing again and again...... It can be said that it was this long-lost battle that finally gave me a chance to truly understand my only remaining relatives in the world......

However, the family affection that blood is thicker than water...... But it's impossible to come back anyway.

After all, there is no power for nothing, and Angela naturally cannot face everything she has experienced with the mentality of "eternal life" forever-

"You have to disappear...... You have to disappear! Finally, at a certain moment, when Angela was "reborn" from a burst of unspeakable panic again, in the face of her wingbones that were suddenly cut off and immediately fell like a comet, she finally couldn't suppress the bitterness and despair in her heart at this moment - it was a wound that no amount of whitewashed sneers could erase:

"I'm going to let them know...... The price of despising me, let the world know that the price of crushing me like a worm! ”

She finally burst into tears, just like the girl she remembered crying because she couldn't build the bricks in the drawings. But this sadness has never brought relief, not even expectation and calmness, the surging emotions have not melted into the tears, but engraved on the door of the heart, which can never be unraveled and inexhaustible.

"Why are you still in such a body?!" She hysterically asked me a series of questions, "Why don't you just release the power of the apocalypse?!" Why are you just unwilling to give up and integrate into such a force?! ”

At this time, Angela's details are already clear in every move, every word. But looking at her eyes full of anger, sadness, despair, and resentment, I couldn't help but feel pity, withdrew my sword feathers, and walked unhurriedly to Angela's scarred body, looking at her giant blade, which still refused to let go, I couldn't help but stop in place, and fell into a short and painful silence.

"Hoo ——!" Not surprisingly, even though I was mortally wounded, the broadsword slashed at my head—but I didn't want to end it all, so I swung my sword with my wings and slashed in an instant, flicking the bloodless blade to the side, stomping it firmly to the ground.

"Don't ...... Don't come, don't come near me! Angela's eyes widened and she screamed in panic as she desperately tried to escape, but her limping legs could no longer support her to move at the same speed as she used to, and even barely enough to maintain her position. With each step we got closer, her voice grew more desperate and sad, moving even the most hard-hearted of people, but I wasn't going to stop there—between us sisters, someone had to put an end to the story.

"Don't come near ...... Don't ......"

When we were really close to each other, almost close to each other, this noisy and noisy sister suddenly became as docile as a lazy kitten, and the voice of resistance gradually disintegrated, softened, and subsided.

Finally, when my hands really touched the delicate and firm skin beneath the silver scales, this resistance was finally completely ...... Dissipated.

"Sister...... Sister ...... Angela looked up cautiously, and the moment we made eye contact, she immediately sank back, like a child who has made a mistake.

"Ann...... Angela, sister. Slightly tired, I called her name, and suddenly stepped forward and hugged her tightly.

"I'm sorry Angela, we sisters...... In the end, I actually want to meet again in this way, and say goodbye in this way. I clung to her long, soft hair, feeling the warmth that still lingered beneath the cold nails.

Angela heard it, she might want to say something, but she didn't seem to have any more expectations or shortcomings, she just nodded indifferently: "...... Thank...... Thank you, sister. She slurred:

"Goodbye then...... Good bye. ”

When I heard this, I closed my eyes slightly, my lips and teeth tightly closed, and sealed my only remaining lust.

I slowly raised my hand and stroked Angela's jerky face, wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes.

"Buzz ——!!" In the blink of an eye, the gentle fingers that wiped away tears suddenly turned into a terrifying weapon that exported energy—in an instant, countless golden particles full of the power of the apocalypse immediately erupted into Angela's shattered body like a burst pipe, and the weather-beaten soul, along with its carrier and decades of grievances, was completely wiped out in an instant under the illumination of a scorching twilight.

"Goodbye...... Good bye. I couldn't stop muttering, I couldn't bear to loosen my hug posture, there was nothing in front of me, and my heart was lost.

And just like that, I killed her, Angela Leonard, my only relative.

The heart-rending pain suddenly invaded my mind, and the rusty body became a catalyst for despair. For a moment, I even wished I had died and never had to bear the pain of the world again......

But I ...... I can't do that.

Both my intellect and my emotions are encouraging me to live - it doesn't end there, the outside ...... Outside, there are countless colleagues who urgently need to be evacuated, and comrades in arms who need support, I can't do it...... I can't be as cold as steel, I have to help them.

Angela is gone, the restriction of the "refuge" is lifted, and I can finally choose to leave with dignity rather than a needless escape.

As the door slowly opened, and before I actually left the "shelter", I noticed the hour on the wall—it was 00:49, it was already late at night, and we were struggling in pain and pain in the endless chaos that followed the launch of the "Seed of Light" until the third day.