The self-cultivation of the passer-by hero

"Sorry, that's why I can't tell the truth."

In the world shrouded in flames, this time Wu Ye no longer hid behind, but stood calmly in front of Mei Hong.

Her expression looked a little gloomy. Meihong looked at the little girl in the flames. She couldn't lift her clenched fists no matter what, so she could only loosen them weakly.

"Really, it's all about this guy."

"Um."

Takeya's expression wasn't very good either: "The person who has the deepest relationship with this cycle and this 'Meihong' is you. Because you were born in the correct history, so only you can bring me to this place. Find 'her'."

"Did she do all those strange things I dreamed about and those messy guys?" Meihong tried to look at the little girl in front of her, but found that her unfocused eyes were filled with confusion. , nothing but emptiness.

"That's right."

Takeya sighed and explained: "Although I have started to eliminate those bad things from the history of Gensokyo, many things that have become established facts cannot be rewritten, such as the existence of parallel worlds."

"That kid...is me in the parallel world?" Meihong asked with some difficulty: "But her, why..."

"It's a little different."

Wu Ye looked at Mei Hong and paused for a moment before saying: "In most parallel worlds, after eliminating the influence of the weapon of sin, history has returned to 'normal', but there are exceptions, such as this world's Mei Hong', she——"

As if he couldn't bear it, Wu Ye avoided the eyes of the two sisters, lowered his head and looked at the flames on the ground and said: "'Her' tragedy has nothing to do with the weapon of sin. Fate is originally cruel. She is just .Just bad luck.”

"Bad luck?" They are obviously unrelated existences. Yes, they should be two unrelated worlds, but Meihong is a little angry for no reason.

She didn't know what was going on, but she had a special feeling. Looking at the little girl Hong, and herself in the parallel world, she always had this thought in her heart -

If I had chosen another path, would I have become like her?

Wu Ye looked at the lifeless flames and whispered: "When I was investigating the cause of this cycle, I had some understanding of the situation of 'you' in this world. To put it bluntly, it is miserable."

"Really?" Meihong glanced at Wuye, then turned to little Meihong again, and said: "Looking at her, it seems like she hasn't grown at all. Don't tell me-"

"That's right." Wu Ye closed his eyes and said calmly, "You in this world have not eaten the medicine of Penglai, nor have you become a native of Penglai."

"."

"She just endured everything as an ordinary human being."

Takeya told the story of this girl with regret: "The Kaguya of this world did not leave directly after using the power of the Fujiwara family to complete the Horai Medicine. Instead, just like in the story, she severely humiliated the people on the ground. Humanity."

"Because there is not much intersection with 'you', the medicine of Penglai this time was not eaten by 'you'."

"What happened next is similar to the original history. Because he failed to complete the task of making the elixir, Fujiwara Fuhito was punished. He probably felt embarrassed because he was fooled. The punishment issued by the superiors was very serious. Almost all members of the direct line of the Fujiwara family All were executed.”

"It's also thanks to 'your' mother's low status that 'you' didn't receive unequal attention. You were able to escape and be expelled from Kyoto as a servant."

"But the difference became huge after that. 'You' began to wander around, and neither met a good person who was willing to take 'you' in, nor a confidant who was willing to understand 'you'."

"The ending is conceivable. 'You', as a child who is not valued by the family, does not have any connections and does not have any ability to survive. He died at a very young age, so the current 'you' It will be like that.”

Takeya's story is very short and finished quickly.

After Meihong heard this, she surprisingly didn't feel unwilling or angry. If she thinks about it carefully, this is her original destiny, right?

While he is angry at the fate of being entangled with Kaguya, he has survived to this day relying on the Penglai medicine he got from her. If it weren't for this elixir, he might have died like the "self" in front of him. It went into a corner that no one knew.

no, more than that

What the medicine of Penglai brought to me is not just the ability to live, everything so far, the meeting with Huiyin, settling in Gensokyo, and

Meihong turned her head and looked at Wu Ye.

That's right, without the medicine of Penglai, I'm afraid I wouldn't have met him, let alone have such a bad relationship.

Wu Ye didn't notice Mei Hong's gaze. He took out the glass beads from his pocket. The small balls reflecting the firelight quickly merged with the surrounding flames and disappeared without a trace.

After doing these things, Wu Ye said: "Originally, this was just a short and miserable life for 'you' in another world, but because of the weapon of sin, it became what it is now."

Seeing those glass beads recover from the flames and rolling to Xiaomei Hong's side, Wu Ye let out a deep sigh: "Although 'you' were not affected by the weapon of sin when you were alive, but when you are You've died and unexpectedly attracted the shards of mortal sin."

Looking at Meihong's eyes that gradually dropped, Wu Ye said slowly: "'You' obtained the memories of 'yourself' in other parallel worlds through the weapon of mortal sin, and also knew the lives of other 'selves', which led to All disasters happen."

"I can't reconcile myself to her. No, is it 'I' who hates you?" Meihong asked with a complicated expression: "Is it because 'I' am jealous that I can survive in other worlds, so I have such powerful hatred? ?”

"No, you are wrong, Meihong."

Wu Ye looked at the world of flames and suddenly said something seemingly irrelevant: "Although she is a girl in a parallel world, she is a girl in a parallel world. She looks scary, but she is actually a gentle person. "

"What?!" Suddenly blushing, Meihong angrily stepped on Wu Ye and said angrily: "What did you say suddenly?"

"Ah, I'm sorry, I just couldn't help but tell the truth suddenly."

After laughing, some of the heaviness on Takeya's face dissipated, but he still couldn't happily say these words.

He took a long breath and said: "The fact is completely opposite to what you guessed. Although this 'meihong' saw 'self' in a different world, she did not feel jealous or jealous of their continued life. Hatred, 'she' is happy."

He didn't know how to tell such a sad story. Wu Ye never looked at Xiao Meihong from the beginning to the end. He just looked at the flames as if to escape and finished the rest of the story. .

"'She' felt very satisfied knowing that her other selves would be able to enjoy their 'happiness' in the future, but she couldn't bear to see 'herself' who was always bound by the hatred of the past, so she I have the desire to bear that hatred on your behalf."

"Could it be that?" Meihong's pupils narrowed little by little, and she seemed to have guessed what Wu Ye was going to say next.

"It's that 'could it be'? This pure heart was polluted by the weapon of sin. 'She' did bear the hatred that did not belong to her, but at the same time she also connected the hatred of all the girls in the parallel world. , 'She' became the core of all hatred, and even became the hatred itself under the influence of the weapon of sin."

"." Meihong gently covered her chest, as if she could feel the pain in the other "her" heart.

"The weaker the soul, the easier it is to be swallowed by the weapon of sin. Now 'she' may even have her original personality damaged, leaving only the distorted desire. In other words-"

Ding.

The tip of Ganggnir's spear was gently tapped on the ground by Takeya, and the surrounding flames quickly "gave" a way as if they had encountered a terrifying natural enemy.

The little girl Hong in front has nothing to protect herself.

"As long as she is eliminated, this cycle of sin and the chain of hatred will no longer exist."