NOVEL ONLINE FREE Chapter 70: Hello, Tomorrow
"..." I'm… dead again? No way… am I really that unlucky?
Hiss… My chest hurts so much… Why is it so painful this time?
"Shu… Shu! Shu, wake up!" Ah… I feel like Kiana's about to cry…
"Bronya, you wait here, I'll go find Bishop Otto!" That's Mei… I can tell she's also trying hard to remain calm…
Why is that? Is it because of me?
"Blood… it won't stop… Bronya needs more cloth." Hey, this is the first time I've heard such fluctuations in Bronya's emotions…
"Cloth? Will the ones I'm wearing work?" Hmm? What's Kiana doing?
There seems to be a rustling sound. Shu felt pain all over his body. The most painful spot was the area close to his heart. Shu felt like something had pierced through his chest.
The temperature was slowly flowing away from his body, and Shu felt his desire to breathe weakening.
Here it comes again…
"Bronya! Shu… Shu's not breathing anymore!!"
"Bronya is trying to find a way… but the blood…"
...can't hear clearly...
...next time...
"What happened?"
"Otto… please save him… please…"
"Bronya… assist me… he can be saved…"
Shu completely lost consciousness.
…
[Around him was a vast expanse of white. Only a tiled road, stretching into the distance, was visible ahead.
Shu felt like he had walked this road many times before, but it also felt like the first time, like countless first times.
His intuition told him that the surroundings shouldn't be so blindingly white.
"Are you really going to go and see?" Shu heard a voice ask him. Maybe it was him asking himself.
"Yes, I want to go and see," Shu replied.
It seemed like someone was in front of him, but it also seemed like it was just a mirror. Or perhaps, there was nothing there at all?
"There's a road ahead. There's nothing there. Aren't you going to take it?" Shu asked again.
"But I still want to see," Shu answered his own question again.
"..." A moment of silence.
"Okay." Shu convinced himself, but he gave himself one last piece of advice. "Don't regret it."
The white light that was obscuring his vision gradually faded, as if the true colors were being revealed after the colors of an old painting had faded. The sides of the road also revealed their true colors.
As expected, behind the light was the familiar waiting hall. The same ceiling, the same platform, the twilight sun shining into the last ray of sunlight, illuminating… the mountains of corpses and seas of blood that covered the ground.
Shu's eyes widened…
Incomplete and complete, in strange and normal poses, with horrified and flustered expressions. Shu saw countless bodies, as well as a sea of blood that spread across the ground.
Shu took a step back, his face pale. But his heel bumped into something.
Shu instinctively turned his head and looked down. Another [Shu] was covered in blood, his eyes looking blankly at the sky.
"Ah!" Shu cried out and lost his balance, falling to the ground. He scrambled backward on his hands and feet, trying to get away from that [Shu].
But he hadn't moved back two steps when his hand plunged into something slimy and sticky.
He lifted his hand and saw that it was covered in blood, and there were even some unknown soft tissues.
His sense of smell suddenly returned, and the pungent smell of blood rushed into Shu's mind, making him nauseous.
He regretted it.
He hurriedly scrambled to his feet. Shu looked at the corpses all over the ground, his heart full of fear.
Then, he saw a path ahead. It was the only path that had not been tainted. He began to run toward the platform along the path.
Incomplete hands pointed to the platform. Complete bodies pointed to the platform. Those in strange poses only had their fingers pointing to the platform, and those in normal poses all pointed to the platform…
Shu ran out of the platform. He saw the train that was about to depart. And at the train door, the last corpse, its body still covered in the blood, leaned against the train door. It was wearing an orange coat that was dyed red with blood, and its gaze was dim.
A dark arrow pierced through his chest from the back. The arrowhead was covered with dried blood.
He also died… Shu felt the feeling return to his chest, and it was so painful that he was uncomfortable.
Enduring the severe pain, Shu stepped onto the train door, but at the last moment, Shu turned his head and looked at the path he had walked.
Suddenly, he understood.
It wasn't that the path hadn't been tainted. It was that all the taint had coalesced to create the path.]
…
"Cough!" Shu suddenly coughed violently, then slowly opened his eyes.
His blurry vision gradually became clear. Shu immediately looked up at the ceiling.
It was an unfamiliar ceiling.
There was a blanket on his body. His chest felt a little heavy, and the bed seemed small… There was also a white-haired bundle of energy sleeping next to the bed.
Shu squinted at Kiana, who had dark circles under her eyes but was sleeping even more soundly than him. He didn't know what his emotions should be at the moment.
"Hehe… Shu… the food you made… ugh…" Kiana giggled, showing no signs of waking up.
Spit! Spit! You're drooling on the bed!!!
Shu's heart roared. His thoughts also became truly active at this moment, shaking off the chaos that came with just waking up.
Looking at Kiana's appearance, Shu took a deep breath, and, with the pain in his heart, gave up on waking Kiana. He turned to look around the room.
The room was very small, about a dozen square meters. There was a small television, a small table, and the bed he was lying on. There was nothing else.
The windows had curtains on them, but he could still see that it was daytime.
Shu's eyes gradually widened. He used his hands to support his body, slowly sat up from the bed.
He was now…
Shu's eyes stared straight at the window, at the curtains that were blocking the scene outside the window. For the first time in his life, he had such a strong urge to open something.
The blanket slipped off his body, revealing his chest that was only wrapped in bandages.
Shu threw off the blanket, quietly walked around Kiana, and stepped on the ground barefoot. He supported himself against the wall and slowly walked toward the window.
"Umm..." Kiana frowned. Her braised pork had once again run away from her mouth. "Ah… why did I fall asleep…"
Kiana rubbed her blurry eyes. It was clear that she had been sleeping on her face for a while. The marks of her hair left on her arm made her arms ache.
"Right, Shu!" After smacking her lips, Kiana still wanted to savor the taste of the braised pork. She suddenly remembered Otto had told them that if Shu didn't wake up for a long time, they would have to consider starting an IV.
This made Kiana quickly look toward Shu on the bed.
Huh?
Kiana stood up suddenly and "whooshed" as she threw the blanket aside and looked around the bed in a daze.
Where's Shu?! Where's Shu, I ask you!!
Kiana held the blanket as if she wanted to strangle it and force it to tell her where Shu had gone.
Her huge Shu was gone!
The blanket: I don't know!
At this moment, the small room suddenly brightened. Light shone in from the side, making Kiana instinctively raise her hand to block the sunlight. At the same time, she turned her head to look.
She saw Shu standing by the window. He was holding onto the curtains that were still slightly swaying. The sunlight gently covered his face, even coating the fine hairs on his face with a faint glow.
The scene outside the window was first a blinding white that couldn't be seen clearly. It was set against the background of Shu's figure, who was only wearing pants and bandages.
Then, her eyes gradually adjusted to the strong light outside the window and saw the scenery of the sea that was rapidly moving backward.
The deep blue sea stretched out infinitely, and the sunlight covered the sea with a layer of white light.
It also covered Shu with a thin golden veil.
Shu turned his head back. His smile was so bright that Kiana had never seen it before. The faint pink light that Kiana had once seen was flashing in his eyes.
"Hello, tomorrow!!"