The animation freezes on William's frozen hand and the open diary.

The room was very quiet.

"what!"

A gasp broke the silence.

It's Chtholly.

Her face drained of all color in an instant.

Those eyes, which had just been smiling faintly because of William's help, were now filled with panic.

She saw what William was looking at.

That was the deepest secret she kept in her heart.

Almost instinctively, she rushed forward, reaching out to snatch the diary back.

However, William seemed to have anticipated her movements and instinctively dodged to the side, causing her to miss her target.

He didn't do it on purpose, nor did he intend to make things difficult for her.

In that instant, his body was overwhelmed by immense shock, making it impossible for him to make the simple action of letting go.

He needs an answer.

"What is this?"

William's voice trembled slightly with extreme unease.

He slowly raised his head, his gaze fixed on Chtholly's eyes, each question uttered with extraordinary difficulty.

This problem completely panicked Chtholly.

Her eyes darted around nervously, avoiding William's gaze.

She forced a smile onto her face.

"It's just a joke between girls!"

She stammered as she explained, her hands twisting helplessly in front of her.

"Everyone can write that! Yeah, it's just for fun!"

This lie is so clumsy.

Even she herself couldn't convince herself.

William watched her quietly.

He saw through her lie, but he didn't press the matter further.

Because he understood something deeper than a lie from her evasive eyes.

That was fear.

A kind of sadness that feels like one has already foreseen their fate, yet is powerless to resist it.

He suddenly understood.

She wasn't lying to him.

She was protecting him.

He tried to keep him out of a fate he was unaware of with a clumsy, laughable lie.

Continuing to press her will only hurt her more.

William remained silent.

He slowly closed the diary that held ominous secrets and gently handed it back to her.

This action is a gentle concession, but also the beginning of a rift.

The moment Chtholly trembled as she took the diary.

The budding, beautiful atmosphere between them was completely shattered.

An invisible wall quietly rose between the two.

On this side of the wall, William remained silent, filled with doubt and unease.

On the other side of the wall lies Chtholly's sorrow, a secret she harbors.

William didn't say another word, but just looked at her deeply, then turned and silently walked out of the room.

Outside the door, the faint sounds of laughter and chatter from the other children inside the warehouse could be heard.

Inside the door, Chtholly stood alone, clutching the diary tightly, as if trying to meld it into her very being.

Her thin shoulders could no longer be contained and began to tremble violently.

A single tear finally slid down from the corner of her tightly closed eye.

......

When the end credits song for the episode "Three Questions for the End of the World" played, the online community went completely crazy.

The shock brought by the suicide note, through the anime's storyline, transformed into a deeper level of pain.

Bilibili's bullet comments and comment sections were flooded with a massive amount of messages.

Don't ask, William! Please, just pretend you didn't see it! I'd rather be fooled for the rest of my life!

[Ctholly's smile broke my heart. She tried so hard to lie, but she just couldn't! Why did you do this to her, you old scoundrel Su?!]

[I can't take it anymore! One second it's a pure romance anime, the next it's a suspenseful thriller?! My heart is pounding!]

I have a bad feeling this is just the beginning! There are definitely more terrifying knives waiting for us!

[This is my first time watching anime, and I don't want the main characters to seek the truth. Wouldn't it be better to just let them live in a lie? Wouldn't it be better to let William believe it's just a warm fairy home?]

The audience wailed, yet couldn't help but replay the final confrontation scene over and over again.

They were gripped by the oppressive atmosphere of grief, filled with both fear and an urgent desire to know the truth.

On the other side...

The atmosphere in the internal chat of the "Find a Knife Alliance" was unusually lively.

The humiliation of being publicly executed the day before vanished, replaced by a sense of exhilaration, as if I were the only one sober in a world of drunks.

The group admin sent a voice message in the group with trembling hands, raising his arms in a triumphant shout.

"Brothers! Did you see that?! This is Su Laozei's trick! He hasn't changed at all!"

"I told you long ago, the more sincere his smile, the sharper his knife! We will wash away our shame with our own hands!"

"That's right! We're the ones who understand that old scoundrel Su the most!"

"Pure Love Warrior? Bullshit! We're the navigators of a sea of ​​swords!"

The expert analysts in the group were incredibly fast, immediately posting a long analysis on Bilibili.

[A deep analysis of the tragic core of Chtholly's three doomsday questions, revealed through her micro-expressions and clumsy lies. What was she truly afraid of?]

This post captured the questions in the hearts of all viewers, and was instantly forwarded and liked like crazy, with the comment section filled with desperate viewers.

"Master! Please analyze this quickly, I'm panicking!"

"The Knife-Finding Alliance, you are our last hope! Tell us where the next knife will come from!"

They were hailed by countless viewers as the last beacon of hope.

The members of the "Find the Knife Alliance" felt their vanity greatly satisfied at that moment.

......

Healing Animation Company, office.

Shen Qingyue looked at the overwhelming wails on the computer screen, her heart clenching tightly.

She turned her head to look at Su Bai, her voice tinged with reluctance.

"Does it have to be this way? Their relationship was so wonderful at the beginning."

Su Bai's lips curled into a satisfied smile.

He pointed at the soaring data on the screen, his eyes gleaming.

"Look, now, the hearts of all the audience members are firmly bound to William."

"They'll be just as eager as William to know why."

"When the audience actively seeks the truth, they have already grasped the knife I handed them."

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