"You finally came."

The waves crashed on the beach, and the sound gradually rang in my ears. I looked at the Yamata-no-Orochi standing in the moonlight, and its gaze made me unpredictable.

"Then you also know why I came to see you." I said while blocking Ah Zi behind me.

"Haha..." Yamata no Orochi laughed, "I thought the lamb was already very interesting, but I didn't expect the monster to be so interesting. You were originally nothing, but now I can clearly see your desires."

I looked at the evil god who had degenerated into a demon in front of me and said nothing. My desire...

Originally, I was just born into nothingness. I didn’t know who I was or where I was going. Originally, I was just a puppet to carry Aye’s ideals, at the mercy of his malice. Originally, I was just a monster born by chance... I shouldn’t be like that.

idea.

But……

When did I start to care about those things?

"But you also know, right? Even if the mark appears on her body again, she will never be the same as before." Yamata no Orochi stopped laughing and asked me quietly, "Similarly, even if you become that divine envoy

It’s impossible for you to look like—”

"This is her business." I answered, and the waves on the beach seemed to be answering my words.

Yamata no Orochi stopped talking and just stretched out his hand. I turned around, looked at A Zi with dull eyes, and gently held her hand.

I don't understand... I don't understand what this emotion is that is beating in my heart... It's just that this feeling is so hot that it makes me uncomfortable, and I want to be infinitely close to her.

Obviously I was born in nothingness and had no hope at all, but I always wanted to give her hope. So at that time, I was reluctant to die...

"Axi, there is something I want to tell you."

It was one night after defeating Yamata no Orochi and taking care of some trivial matters in Genji. I was walking to my room when Aye stopped me in the corridor.

I originally wanted to refuse. After all, at that time, I had already discovered that my feelings towards her were completely different from before.

"It's about Azi." Aye added softly, as if he could see through my thoughts.

I had no choice but to sit on the edge with him.

"The moonlight is so beautiful today." Aye said lazily.

I looked down at the tea cup in my hand, and the tea inside reflected a bright moon.

"You care about Azi, don't you?" Aye asked suddenly.

Do you care? Having said that, because I was born from nothingness, all I can do is obey the malice left in his body. That malice is already as powerful as his love, so strong that I have to care.

"Because you are brother and sister, isn't it?"

So I answer this.

"No, I'm talking about being 'you', not because of me." Aye answered me this way, "Now that you have the ability to get rid of and suppress my malice, you no longer need to exist as my ideal puppet. At that time, you have the ability to get rid of and suppress my malice.

I entrust you with something like this..."

"Are you kidding me?" I couldn't help but feel angry, "I've always done this, and you want me to stop when you tell me to?"

Aye blinked, lowered his head, and said no more. I put down the tea cup and stood up.

"But... you don't hate her as much as before, right? I thought you had become you." Aye said softly, "I have never been a good brother, and I have never been able to protect her well...

…”

"Now that I know, I should stay with her better now." I replied impatiently.

In the quiet summer night, I suddenly realized what I had said.

"Hahaha, look at you, don't you care?" Aye laughed out loud.

No matter what, I couldn't adapt to this feeling, so I looked at him coldly: "You called me here just for such a boring thing?"

"Of course not!" Aye said sternly, "Do you know that gods have divinity?"

"...?"

I wanted to reach out and hold her in my arms, but I didn't feel anything real, so I just gave her hand to Yamata no Orochi.

"You mean... you..." After all, this was the first time I heard of such a thing, and I couldn't help but be surprised.

"Compared with this, I also care about the white thing in the narrow room that Azi mentioned." Aye said with a proud smile, "I have to go to the narrow room. So in the near future, you guys go to the underworld.

Please be sure to let her enter the source of the Sai River, where I have already made an agreement with Bianhua."

I don't understand why he did this.

"Why should I help you lie to her? Wasn't it enough for you to worry about being disappointed when she ran away from home last time?"

The smile on Aye's face gradually solidified, and finally turned serious: "It's better that she is disappointed."

I slapped the book I was reading on Aye's head hard: "You know you are very important to her, right?"

"It hurts!" Aye cried, "Even if you like Azi, you can't do this to me...I am the one who gave you life."

like……

"Answer the question." I ignored his complaint.

"I'm not important to her." Aye said, "I'm just something that binds her."

"...Only an idiot like you would say that." I felt a little bored.

"I'm going to die in the end anyway, let her get used to it first." Aye said easily.

"……what are you saying?"

"I'll explain it to you then."

Like Azi, I was in the game he had laid out. At that time, he might have realized that he had no need to exist for that god.

It is impossible for a god who no longer wants to return to Gaotian Plains and a godhead who wants a god to return to Gaotian Plains to exist at the same time.

So the gods are free.

"Axi, you don't want to die, right?" Aye asked me the night before going to the underworld.

If you die...if you die, you won't be able to see her...

"Even though I'm asking you this, I'm not very sure." Aye smiled, "Do you still remember the story about the gods that I told you?"

Such a ridiculous story, I can't forget it even if I want to.

"During the coming of false gods, heavenly punishment will also appear. Originally, I also thought that if both of us died, there might be no worries." Aye paused, "But I still want her to live well.

. She has not seen the beauty of the world yet. However, I don’t know which choice will allow one of us to survive, so do you want to stay with her? "

Stay with her...?

"...What do you want to say?" I couldn't help asking.

"Stay in the underworld. If it were you, you might be able to survive."

The little purple snake crawled down from Yamata no Orochi's finger and slowly crawled towards the original position on her arm.

I stared at the little snake slowly crawling over, but I saw her hand move slightly. Then, the little snake was pinched by one hand.

I opened my eyes wide and looked at Azi.

She looked at Yamata no Orochi calmly: "I don't need this kind of thing."

As if she felt my gaze, she looked over. However, bitterness filled her heart. She had never seen herself so ugly, right? In addition, nothing good had ever been done to her since she was a child.

.

She put the little snake in Yamata no Orochi's hand, turned around and walked towards me.

"...Azi?"

"Hug...me..." she said.

"No...I..." I backed away subconsciously.

She was so beautiful and slender under the moonlight, and I should not have appeared in front of her like this. If Aye hadn't told me this, I might have been watching her secretly like Aye before, and I would never have seen her again.

Get close to her.

"Hug me...brother..." There were tears in her eyes.

...Are you still unwilling to accept the fact that Aye is dead? I stopped stepping back, but I didn't have the courage to reach out and hug her.

Her pure white hair gently rubbed against my hand, and her fingers gently touched my ulcerated face.

"It doesn't matter... Even if my brother becomes like this, I can still recognize him..." Azi's eyes were full of attachment.

I really want to reach out and hug her...

However, there is a voice in my heart saying...

I am not Aye...

But...as long as she admits that she is Aye, maybe she can stay by my side.

Stay by my side... Then, how long will this lie continue? When one day, Azi discovers that I am not Aye...

No...I can pretend...even become Aye.
To be continued...