"Whew...... Call...... Whew......"

Emma, who almost fell headlong, leaned on Leon with most of her body, and the vest of the beige gauze skirt was wet with cold sweat.

Even though he had broken free from Leon's memories, once he remembered the cold and frightening reality of the thin girl's proposal, and recalled the calm look on her face as if she were talking about what to eat for dinner when she talked about how to dispose of her body after her death.

Emma's heart will still be the same as Leon at the beginning, as if it had been ripped out entirely, and it was being crushed and crushed by someone's own hands, and the pain was so painful that she was almost unable to breathe.

Is this what Lyon has been suffering?

After gasping for breath for a while, he looked at Emma, who was helplessly supporting him next to him, as if he had been fished out of the water, and couldn't help but ask with a slight tremor of his lips:

"Leon, you...... Don't you hurt? ”

“……”

Leon, who understood what she was asking, shook his head slightly, and then glanced at the system prompt.

[Through your own observation, induction, and repeated experience, you have obtained a lot of information about the "Black and White Bridge", and the heterochromatic badge "Materialist Soul (Crimson)" has been activated.

Thanks to your deep understanding of the rules for the "Black and White Bridge" to take effect, your resistance to the anomaly has increased dramatically, and you are now able to shield yourself from the effects of extreme depths.

It's impossible not to hurt, and I'm sure I'll remember it for the rest of my life.

But one is that the influence has been blocked a lot by [materialism], and the other knows that the final result is good, think more about Anna who cleans up her younger brothers and sisters at home every day and mingles with Melanie, and those pains are not so unbearable.

……

"It hurts...... It's still a bit ......."

Looking at Emma, whose eyes were full of shock and guilt, and who obviously misunderstood the strength of her heart, Leon smiled a little embarrassedly, and then explained:

"But when I thought that I joined the clean-up bureau in the end, I didn't let things really develop to that point, Anna and the others were still waiting for me at home, and they would still leave me food when I went back late, so it wasn't so uncomfortable."

Is that so......

After listening to Leon's explanation, Emma tried to put Leon's perspective on it.

But no matter how hard she tried, the thin girl who had so insipidly offered to secretly throw her body into the sewage river in order to defraud her pension to feed her younger siblings was still tearing at her heart again and again.

Liar, how can this not hurt?

I just watched your memories, and only watched it once, and my heart hurt like a knife, in order to help me step on the white bricks, but you have to relive the powerlessness and pain again and again, how can you not be sad?

"Don't think about it."

Looking at Emma, who seemed to want to say something, Leon thought about her situation, and couldn't help but secretly pour chicken soup and said:

"The pain of the past is gone, compared to what we have suffered and lost, we still have to look at what we still have, and the most important thing is to cherish the people in front of us,"

“……”

Cherish the people in front of you...... Is it?

Similar advice, Emma has heard it from the red-haired director I don't know how many times, but after sharing Leon's memories on the black and white bridge, after experiencing the happiness and pain he once had.

In the face of the early death of her parents, who worked hard to pull her younger siblings to grow up, took the initiative to join the clean-up bureau for her sister, became a clean-up worker with a very high mortality rate, and really tried to cherish everything she had, this comfort, which she had heard countless times, finally entered her heart for the first time.

"Emma-senpai?"

After looking at Emma, who was looking at him in a daze, Leon let go of her palm, squatted down slightly, and said:

"There are dozens of steps to get off the bridge, and in the end, these roads, or I'll just walk on my back!"

“……”

Although she subconsciously wanted to say no, looking at Leon's shoulders, which were not too broad, but seemed so reliable, Emma leaned over slightly and leaned on Leon's back after being silent for a while.

After the body was in the air, listening to Leon's steady and powerful breathing, feeling his slightly thin back, the one beating like a flame, was constantly warming his heart, Emma's tense body completely relaxed, leaned up reassuringly, and reached out to gently wrap his neck around Leon's neck.

Cherish the people in front of you......

……

It's a bridge......

After stepping on more than two dozen black bricks in a row, all the way to the bottom of the bridge, Leon couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Although it has the cover of [materialism], so that I will not be so "vivid" to relive the painful memories again and again, even if it is a painful memory at the level of "scratching the boots", it will still be uncomfortable to be scratched too much.

After taking a few more steps forward, completely out of the range of the black and white bridge, seeing that Emma's predecessor did not make a sound, Leon, who had just played a handsome wave, was embarrassed to remind her to come down, so he raised his head and looked ahead.

As far as the eye can see, there is a black cliff that is so high that you can't even see the top, this cliff called [Death], the color becomes lighter the higher you go, and the top that seems to be non-existent seems to be directly connected with the gray sky of the death world.

As for the lower end of [Death], it is as pure as the dark and dreary earth of the Death Realm, and even the reflection is very faint, as if it does not exist at all, and there is a kind of abyss-like void when you step on it.

And the countless bright red crow's nests are like the bright cranberries that bend all the way from the ground and reach into the black earth that reaches high in the sky, and it seems that on this pitch-black canopy that hangs down from the sky, a large number of bright red blood spots are constantly pouring outward, which is extremely gorgeous and extremely weird.

"Something doesn't seem right......"

Squinted at the black walls and the red crow's nest, at the end of the point of no return...... Or at the beginning, after seeing a huge door like a mist, Leon reached out and patted Emma's thigh, motioned for her to look up, and then frowned slightly:

"The director said that as long as we keep walking along the road of no return, and after crossing the [Black and White Bridge] and the [Dead Crow's Nest], we can see the dog god guarding the entrance to the death realm.

But now that we've crossed the bridge and reached the range of the crow's nest, we've even seen the entrance, why haven't we seen that dog god yet? ”

"It's okay, just move on."

After hearing Leon's question, Emma, who was using the warmth that kept coming from front of her to resist the increasingly frantic abuse behind her, spoke:

"The people in the dead world don't like the director very much, so she must have broken in, and the responsibility of the dog god is to guard the gate of the dead world and prevent the living from entering the dead world, and most of them were beaten by her.

So we can go a little further, and if there is a puppy on the side of the road that has passed out and is tied by hair, it should be the dog god who is in charge of guarding the door.

If you don't meet it all the way, then look through the crow's nest near the entrance, after the director defeats the dog god, sometimes he is afraid that he will forget where to throw it, and when he comes back, no one will help open the door, so he will casually stuff it into the crow's nest next to him. ”

“……”

"Oh......"