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Ten days were spent devising countless strategies, yet the outcome remained elusive, for the chessboard was simply too vast and the moves too complex. Yet, the strategy remained unchanged, for a major misstep could allow the opponent to seize the opportunity and achieve a decisive victory.

Yukino glanced at them, whose eyes were already red but who still refused to back down, and ignored them, continuing to fish.

Xingye glanced at the chessboard, then looked away. If she were to calculate, she could, because in a sense, she could be considered to have mastered the calculations of fate. Perhaps she couldn't compare to that man, but on this side, she was superior.

Yukino Yukinoshita reached out, took out some kind of peach that he had given her before, and took a bite.

So the person sitting down also reached out, took out a peach, and took a bite.

The two looked at each other.

Yukino Yukinoshita said with a hint of helplessness, "Senpai, you really don't need to argue with me."

"Heh." Yukinoshita Yukinoshima sneered, "Me, compete with you? With your attitude of being the mistress of the Nomiyama family every day, do you think I'd compete with you?"

“Am I not?” Yukino Yukinoshita retorted.

"Your mistress hasn't been home for ten days? And the man hasn't even glanced at her?" Xuexia Xuewan's sneer deepened.

"Likewise," Yukino Yukinoshita replied calmly.

"Isn't it Megumi who's in charge at home?" Shiwan listened to the conversation and cautiously approached Yangnai. "I feel like Megumi is the one in charge at home."

"Nonsense, I'm in charge of the household." Yukinoshita Haruno pouted.

“Nonsense, you don’t care about anything.” Ziwan maintained her basic judgment.

"What does it matter? Once I have a baby, I'll be a superhuman! I've been having a really intense time with him lately, and I feel like the baby is coming soon." Yukinoshita Haruno gripped the fishing rod, starting to struggle, her face flushed from the effort. "Shizuka! Yomi! Come help!"

In the blink of an eye, two more people appeared beside her.

Upon hearing the description of childbirth as a terrifying ordeal, Yukino Yukinoshita felt her head throb even more. She turned her head to look at the person leisurely munching on a peach and said, "Senpai, there's no point in dragging this out any longer."

Xuexia Xuewan watched the three people being pulled along the lake by the fish, too lazy to pay attention to her. What nonsense are you talking about? You should admit defeat first.

The atmosphere quieted down, with only the occasional exclamations from the three people on the lake.

Yukino Yukinoshita sat down again, this time simply hugging her knees and facing the lake.

As she watched the petals being swallowed by the fish from time to time, she suddenly became curious about something and asked, "Senior, over the years, have you ever felt particularly sad?"

Xue Xia Xue Wan casually tossed the peach pit aside, glanced at the person not far away, and said without any intention of hiding anything, "Of course I have one."

Yukino Yukinoshita became even more curious, to the point that her curiosity became vivid on her face: "Why?"

"Of course it's because of him, what else could it be?" Xue Shita Xue Wan thought she was talking nonsense.

Yukino Yukinoshita looked at her, her eyes open, but she didn't say anything.

In her eyes, the story of these two people was by no means sad or tragic. One person decided to die for the other's future, and the other was unwilling to accept it, so he took the risk to test the river of time. In every sense, it was not tragic at all.

Looking into her eyes, Xuexia Xuewan pouted and said, "No matter how beautiful the ending of a story is, its process must inevitably involve untold joys and sorrows."

She stopped looking at her, relaxed her body, and collapsed onto the large rock, stretching out her arms and legs.

"Yes, all of this should have been beautiful. Even if I die and don't come back, it will still be a beautiful story, worth remembering. I will also be the one who went to my death with happiness and contentment."

"A person encounters a god and trades their own life for the god's descent to earth, thus securing the god's happiness from then on. Even if that person disappears, in the overall story, when all that remains are various kinds of happiness, people will subconsciously forget the dead person amidst those happinesses. Even if they don't forget, they will still feel that this story is truly beautiful, moving, and poignant."

Looking at the sky, Xue Wan smiled bitterly: "But why did he have to come back to me again? My life, which should have been empty, was forcibly filled with reasons to continue thinking and living."

"So I'm sad because I didn't die."

Turning her head, she looked at the junior in the white dress who was hugging her knees: "My sadness is not because of your existence, but because of him, or rather because of myself."

“I thought I had done enough. I had arranged everything for him. During the boring thousand years, his clansmen kept him company. After he came down from the mountain, I ensured his safety. In other aspects, you all kept him company. My fishing rod kept giving him surprises and proof that someone in this world had loved him. At that time, I died peacefully with a satisfied heart.”

A petal of a wildflower fell off and drifted across her face on the wind.

She didn't try to grab him, but just murmured, "That's how it should be, but he just had to come looking for me."

“I came back to life and lived a thousand years in the future, so it is only natural that I should read his memories from those thousand years.”

“I read those memories, watching him being stabbed in the heart by my sister, watching him stand blankly on the mountain after spitting out blood. I kept turning the pages, watching him fall silent, and finally he was about to go down the mountain.”

Her brows furrowed, and her eyes, already red from mental exhaustion, became even more bloodshot: "I saw him cry. He cried, not sobbing, but tears just kept flowing. He wasn't waiting for me anymore, nor was he going to live forever. He was going to become a human and die on some bed decades later. He let go of all memories related to me and walked toward what he considered death."

"He wasn't crying because he gave up immortality; he was crying because he had waited for many years and finally realized that I would never come back to find him, nor would I come back to fish with him."

“When I looked at him then, I kept thinking, did I do something wrong? If I hadn’t appeared, he would never have had to go through this. He would have lived on this mountain forever, with no joy or sorrow in his eyes. But he wouldn’t care either, because he didn’t have that concept. He said that joy and sorrow are good, that they are vivid proof. But why should I think that way? Maybe in his eyes, being carefree is good, rather than having those chaotic thoughts. Why should I judge him with human concepts and then act on my own?”

“I dragged him down to the human world, but I gave him nothing but a thousand long years of loneliness. I left him on the mountain and let him stay alone for a thousand years. No one could approach him, and no one could understand him.”

"When I saw him full of sorrow that day, I realized that all my scheming had only given him a thousand years of dreamless loneliness."

Xue Xia Xue Wan stood up, dressed in black, by the lake, and said nothing more.

The atmosphere naturally quieted down.

Everyone present, whether fishing, reeling in fish, or simply daydreaming, could hear those words and feel the emotions within them. No one could comment on this past, because it was their story; everyone present was an outsider, a mere listener.

Yukino Yukinoshita took a deep breath, stood up, and walked to her side.

"At least I should thank my senior for bringing him down the mountain."

She tilted her head.

"Senior, would you like to hear what I have to say?"

Without waiting for a response, she began to speak on her own.

"I've had many sad moments in my life, both when I was a child and when I grew up, but the saddest thing is definitely about him. It's probably something I can't avoid, since I like him so much."

Yukino Yukinoshita stretched out her hand, and a wildflower drifted to her hand from a short distance away. She looked at the swaying red petals and said, "But it's definitely not the kind of sadness you're thinking of, Senpai, when you discovered that thing."

She opened her mouth and bit off a petal: "I was sad when we finally reached the point of death together."

“Actually, I knew he would catch up. He definitely would. As long as I made the choice, he would catch up.”

“I didn’t say anything more to him, I just silently led him to his death, and he just followed quietly.”

“He must have realized something, so he didn’t say anything at the time, but just quietly followed me, repeatedly torturing and wearing down his body, until when we were heading to the end of the world, he finally couldn’t walk anymore and stood quietly in that pile of snow.”

“I was constantly sensing him, so I knew he really couldn’t walk anymore, and his body was truly exhausted.”

Yukino Yukinoshita lowered her head, looking at the wildflower whose petal had been bitten off, and smiled: "I really felt happy at that time. He knew my thoughts, didn't reject them, and quietly stayed with me, getting closer and closer to the end of the line of death. I know it was selfish, I know he had all sorts of thoughts in his head, but I also know that as long as I wanted to, he would definitely be with me. It was never a choice for him. He rarely had choices because he was an extreme person. His head was full of mandatory choices. If I wanted to die, he would have to accompany me. That was his mandatory choice."

"I am very happy, and then I am very sad. This sadness is very simple, extremely simple."

"I was sad that I would never see him again after this day. It was the result of my own pursuit, and I should be satisfied, but I was still so sad that tears were streaming down my face. It was the first time I had ever cried, and I cried so hard."

“I think my thoughts were similar to his when we were preparing to go down the mountain; we were just sad about one thing.”

Why can't I see you anymore?

......

Nomiyama lay on his back on the moon, gazing at the starry sky and the sun, peaceful and serene.

Kato Megumi lay on top of him, her fingers twitching as she sensed something. She asked, "Kazehaya, what's wrong?"

Nomiyama ruffled her hair: "It's nothing, I was just thinking about some things from the past."

"before?"

"Yeah, before, I thought about a lot of things, and then I felt like I hadn't done a lot of things well."

Kato Megumi scratched his cheek with her finger: "Like what?"

"Um..."

Nomiyama pondered for a moment.

"For example, Yukinoshita and Yukinoshita, if it weren't for me, they would have been happier."

Chapter 298 Nothing is more romantic than having your child.

"If she hadn't met me, no matter how much trouble she caused outside, as long as she didn't want to destroy the world, I wouldn't have cared about her. With her personality and talent, she has plenty of freedom and friends."

Nomiyama patted Megumi's hand and stood up.

Before him lay a water-blue planet enveloped in boundless darkness, so vast it could trigger megalophobia, and so beautiful it was mesmerizing.

He stretched out his hand, palm outstretched, pointing at the beautiful world, gesturing to show its size: "Such a big world, she can have whatever she wants. Those magnificent treasures, those joyful winds, frosts, rains, snows, spring, summer, autumn, and winter, she can see them all. If she gets tired of it one day, she can leave here and go to the sea of ​​stars to find new fun in the boundless possibilities."

"She should have been the freest person in the world, but in the end, because of me, she was confined to such a small place as Chiba, wasting those years on the mountain, and in the end, she even committed suicide."

“I gave her nothing, I just enjoyed her favoritism.”

Nomiyama withdrew his hand and continued to look at the beautiful planet.

The view from the stars is different. From the moon, that enormous world is nothing more than a beautiful jewel hanging in the darkness, and the darkness is so vast that it appears so lonely.

He murmured, "Yukinoshita is the same. She was actually very capable when she was a child."

Turning his head, Nomiyama looked at the person standing beside him, gazing at the starry sky, and smiled faintly: "Back then, she was always targeted by many people, but she was very smart and ruthless. Even without me taking action, she would solve those troubles in her own way."

He sat down, spread his legs, and gazed at the Earth 38 kilometers away.

Kato Megumi sat down next to him, hugged her knees, and looked into his eyes.

It reflected a light blue color, with twinkling starlight; it was very beautiful.

"She will go to London as usual. She may not have any friends, but she doesn't mind. With her personality, she should study harder during those three years in London and strive to become stronger so that she can face her sister and mother in the future."

Nomiyama fell silent as he pondered.

Kato Megumi looked at him curiously: "What's wrong?"

Nomiyama scratched his head, somewhat embarrassed: "Well, I suddenly feel that with Yukinoshita's personality when she was little, she probably wouldn't be able to face Haruno and Miyazame when she grows up..."

He then added, "I still think Yukino is amazing. I love her personality. It's just that she might clash with Haruno and Miyami, those two..."

Kato Megumi smiled as she watched him try to make amends.

Nomiyama turned the subject away, saying, "In short, she won't suffer so much injustice because of me, and she won't be forced to accept so many things because of me. She should have a bright future that aligns with what she believes is right."

......

"You feel that you didn't do a good enough job, giving him that dreamless loneliness, while he feels that he didn't do a good job, leaving you trapped for thirty years, and ultimately choosing death."

Yukino Yukinoshita continued to look at the bright red wildflowers in her hand, their petals swaying gently in the wind. She murmured, "But there's no such thing as right or wrong, good or bad in these things. There's no such thing as perfection. The coincidences followed one another, and the ending we have now is already a great thing."

"He came a long way to meet me, and I came a long way to get to this point. We were destined to love each other. Everything else is trivial."

She let go of his hand, letting the wildflowers fall in the wind, her voice leisurely: "Kato is right, love is about indebtedness. He always feels that he hasn't given enough, and he is full of indebtedness and wants to give more. I always feel that he has given enough, and that weight has made me feel satisfied. We are destined to face indebtedness with indebtedness."

"Kato said that we are like two birds now. I don't like the outside world, so he flies around everywhere and brings me back every time he finds something new. I can also tell him that I like it and take him to a nearby orchard to eat my favorite fruits."

"Birds of a feather flock together are not necessarily the best, and people do not necessarily have to see the same world together."

The snow fell and the night was quiet for a while, and finally a strange smile appeared on my lips.

Her eyes held an unreadable emotion as she looked at her proud and aloof junior: "Do you really think so?"

When their eyes met, she grinned and said, "Love is about owing someone something, but it doesn't necessarily mean you have to be a pair of lovebirds. Going your separate ways isn't necessarily a bad thing. Do you really think so?"

Her voice gradually brightened: "Have you ever thought that Hui, who said those words, is actually someone who owes him nothing? In other words, his debt to Hui is much purer than ours. Unlike us, Hui spends the most time with him, after all, when this guy isn't working, he likes to stay at home every day."

"You were really fooled by Hui. No wonder you were so busy at the company late at night the other day. When you weren't home, Hui was probably laughing her head off."

"Does it not necessarily mean we have to be a pair of lovebirds? Then there's really nothing we can do but wait for Huilai."

Yukino Yukinoshita remained silent for a moment, then turned her head and began to scan the world around her.

A moment later, she frowned. He wasn't there, and neither was Kato.

Did they deliberately block my view?

"Alright, stop looking. They're probably on a date somewhere. Let's play chess."

As the snow fell and the evening fell, I sat down at the chessboard again.

Yukino Yukinoshita turned her head to look at her, and said coldly, "What exactly are you thinking?"

"What are you thinking about?" Yukinoshita Yukinoya stared at the chessboard, propping her face up with one hand. "Isn't it obvious? Take advantage of this opportunity to bring out more people, and also bring out Hui who's hiding behind me, so she can play with you and stop you from keeping an eye on me every day."

With a slight twitch of her fingers, she lifted a black chess piece and placed it on the board, smiling: "Come and play chess, junior, or do you want to concede?"

Yukino Yukinoshita glanced at the chessboard and sat down again.

She mentally rehearsed the game, her tone returning to calm: "I won't lose."

"Yes, yes, Second Miss is the best."

"hehe."