Night World Players

Chapter 68 Are you here to kill me too?

Chapter 68 Are you here to kill me too?
"Is this really the ending you wanted?"

A familiar voice sounded in Gray's ears, causing her to raise her head subconsciously.

Then, she saw a thin figure, crossing the frozen time and appearing clearly in front of her.

Gray saw the other person's face clearly.

Rast...brother?
The girl's mind froze for a moment, and her originally chaotic thoughts slightly emerged from her previous desperate self-denial.

next moment.

Everything around Gray.

The flickering lights, the tangled silk threads, and the blood moon in the sky... everything that was frozen in the weirdness returned to normal at this moment.

pat.

On the clock tower, the pointer that had been frozen in place and trembling continuously began to move clockwise again.

After realizing that in the spiritual vision, the light and shadows of the thousands of hourglasses disappeared.

The mysterious silver-white luster in Last's eyes also faded away quietly.

The "Eye of Peering" was lifted, revealing the original dark pupil color again.

Luster stared at the girl in front of him and said softly, "Do you still want to continue deceiving yourself like this?"

"Deceiving yourself?"

Gray raised her head slightly.

She felt confused, as if countless complicated fragments of memories were surging in her mind, but there was always a thin veil between them, making it difficult to glimpse the true appearance.

"Ah."

Luster nodded: "You can continue to deceive yourself and force yourself to forget your previous memories."

"Then continue to sink into the illusion of the past, over and over again, year after year, repeating the endless today."

"But that also means that you will never be able to touch the future."

"I can't even truly know the truth hidden in myself."

He said calmly: "Do you want to know the truth?"

"Even if the truth may not be as beautiful as you imagine."

The truth...lurking within myself?
Gray raised her eyes and looked around at the town wrapped in silk threads and the broken cocoons.

And there was the hideous blood moon in the sky that appeared again and again in her nightmares at midnight.

Then I feel the broken memories in my mind that are constantly surging and stirring, but they are always separated by a layer of fog and difficult to see clearly.

After a long time, her emerald green eyes changed from confusion to determination.

"I think."

She looked at Rast, whose face was calm, and nodded vigorously.

“I want to know the truth about myself.”

"very good."

I don’t know if it’s an illusion.

Gray saw that for the first time, a smile appeared on Rast's handsome face, which had always been calm and had never shown any emotion.

The next moment, she saw the young man in front of her, and the mysterious silver-white light appeared in his eyes again.

Snap——

The sound of something breaking could be clearly heard in Gray's ears.

In her spiritual world, something like a barrier shattered silently.

Then, a thousandth of a second later.

Countless fragments of memory washed over her brain like a wave.

These were memories that she had personally experienced before, but was unwilling to face.

Therefore, under the self-protection mechanism of the brain, she was forced to forget these memories that might cause her collapse.

Or rather, it is not completely forgotten, but buried in a corner of the memory attic, covered by a hazy, invisible fog barrier.

But at this moment, this barrier was penetrated by Last's "Eye of Secrets".

Then, Gray recalled the truth of everything.

……

She once had parents and a family who loved her.

In a small inland town, I live a simple but warm life.

However, one day, the Iron Cross Plague broke out in that small town for unknown reasons.

Her parents sacrificed themselves so that Grey could escape alone.

She escaped from the city engulfed by the Iron Cross tide and began an endless wandering.

If that were all, there would be nothing surprising about it. It was just the most simple and unpretentious epitome of the countless refugees in this era of disaster and chaos.

And a little homeless child like Grey is destined to die during the long wandering due to physical weakness, food shortage and other reasons.

However, even though the gathering places she settled in were destroyed one after another, Gray herself was never harmed.

Each time, she was the only survivor of the disaster.

Until Frozen Water Town. As a street kid, Gray, who had been ostracized and looked down upon in other towns, felt the warmth of home for the first time in this remote town.

however--

The red moon came again.

All the beautiful things she cherished were destroyed into nothingness.

As a result, Gray collapsed into complete despair.

In Gray's eyes, she was the one who brought disaster to every town she set foot in; she was the embodiment of disaster.

She wanted to deny it all like crazy, deny the destruction of Dongshui Town, and deny that as the embodiment of disaster, she would bring destruction wherever she went.

So, in the girl's despair, some kind of great power was mobilized.

The time of Dongshui Town was turned back.

Everything went back to before the blood mist and the silk thread descended... including Gray's own memories.

The time belonging to Dongshui Town was forever frozen on May 5th, and was repeated thousands of times in this fog.

And Grey has always maintained an ignorant attitude, living a happy life built on a fantasy bubble in Dongshui Town day after day, year after year.

Until, at midnight, she collapsed after witnessing the blood mist, and then restored everything to its original state and started all over again.

However, in this repetitive cycle of memory, there are some variables.

Shore Guard

Gray raised her eyes slightly and looked into Rast's dark eyes.

Then, her body began to tremble uncontrollably.

In past cycles, Gray had seen out-of-town visitors wearing shore watcher badges more than once.

They seemed to have come with some kind of mission. The moment they arrived in Dongshui Town, they immediately began to investigate everything in the town.

Those who were guarding the shore also discovered their own abnormalities and investigated themselves in various ways.

Even after the blood mist descended—

Among those people guarding the shore, some also broke out of their cocoons and came straight towards him.

They want to kill themselves.

That's right...

The duty of the shore guards is to protect the broken coast and waterways, maintain civilized order, and eliminate internal sources of pollution.

Just like the story in the fairy tale book that Gray had read before -

The fearless hero went through numerous hardships and finally defeated the Demon King in the Demon King's City. He returned to the royal city carrying the Demon King's head, and was bathed in flowers, applause and glory from the people.

The shore guard is like a brave man in a fairy tale.

As the embodiment of disaster, it will pollute human cities as long as it lives.

A girl named Gray.

Naturally, he is the devil in the story, and he is the target that needs to be killed by the shore guards.

Tears rolled down the girl's cheeks.

"So...Brother Rust."

"Are you here to kill me too?"

Through her tearful eyes, Gray saw an iron-moon-like revolver appear in the hand of the young man in front of her.

Then he slowly raised the black muzzle of the gun.

Yes.

Even the brother Rast who gave me a name... would definitely kill me after witnessing my true face.

And the previous conversation was just the last kindness given to me by Brother Last because he didn't want me to die in obscurity.