"Get out of the way!!"
At this critical mont, a flash of silver light violently swung toward Perfect Sakuramiya from the side.
Unable to dodge in ti, her right hand, which was gripping Petite Hitomi, was viciously smashed by a hamr wielded by Rash Sakuramiya.
"Thud!!"
Following the muffled sound, the originally peaceful hot air balloons surrounding them, which represented various people, instantly beca incredibly agitated.
So scread, so wept, and so fled. In an instant, the entire sea of hot air balloons seed to boil over,
In the very center of the balloons, Perfect Sakuramiya's tightly clenched hand was knocked open. Petite Hitomi hastily broke free, flew out, and hid behind Rash Sakuramiya's head.
Perfect Sakuramiya raised her bruised and deford hand. With a smile, she glanced at the hamr in Rash Sakuramiya's hand and praised,
"To think you possess such imnse strength without even having Frail Sakuramiya removed... How truly amazing."
But right after she spoke, her hand twitched slightly. The twisted flesh and bruises instantly writhed and returned to normal.
Then, with a wave of her pale hand, she pulled out a fire axe nearly as tall as herself.
"Are you kidding ..."
Seeing her succeed with a single blow earlier, Rash Sakuramiya had assud Perfect Sakuramiya was nothing special and even considered trying to defeat her head-on.
But watching her injuries heal as if they were never there, she looked up at her in absolute terror.
"Run! She... she has already killed and devoured the Sakuramiya here! Look over there, the door to this barrier is open!"
The voice of Insecure Sakuramiya rang out from behind, prompting Rash Sakuramiya to turn her head.
Only then did she notice that as the surrounding balloons bobbed up and down in agitation, a door of light was opening toward them at the very edge of this distant space.
That was their escape route!
"Run!!"
Seeing this, Rash Sakuramiya turned and bolted. Petite Hitomi imdiately flew onto her shoulder, tightly gripping her collar, and leaped up along with her, landing together on another pitch-black hot air balloon.
"Thud!!"
The two Sakuramiyas, carrying the petite one, took a few steps across the hot air balloon. When the balloon beneath them rotated, they finally realized that the massive portrait painted on it was actually Ye Shiyu's.
"Ah, it is Ye Shiyu! That despicable girl who used hypnosis on the president!!"
Petite Hitomi pointed at the expressionless face of Ye Shiyu's giant portrait and identified her, while "Ye Shiyu" continued to stare back at her indifferently.
After a few seconds, she suddenly spoke,
"I have already turned over a new leaf."
"..."
The three Sakuramiyas all revealed speechless expressions. But in the next second, a fire axe was violently hurled from below, completely shattering Ye Shiyu's hot air balloon.
"Bang!!"
The erupting shockwave blasted the three of them right into the air. They tumbled a few tis before landing on a hot air balloon painted with sparkling, starry eyes.
This was Bai Yi's hot air balloon.
"Aha, Yan Huan likes
the most!"
"...Hehe, you can just go die!"
Rash Sakuramiya lightly gave Bai Yi's balloon a flick on the forehead. With the past mistakes serving as a warning, she did not dare to linger for even a mont and quickly continued her mad dash forward.
"Bang!"
Sure enough, in the very next second, Bai Yi's balloon was also struck by the fire axe and exploded instantly.
"Run, run faster! Whoever runs the slowest will find my axe lodged inside her head!"
Below them, the elegantly smiling Perfect Sakuramiya declared, as another fire axe instantly materialized in the palm of her hand.
"Spencer..."
"Bang!"
"An Le..."
"Bang!"
At this mont, Perfect Sakuramiya was playing with them like prey in a cage, preemptively destroying the balloons they were about to step on.
Because of this, they were forced to turn back and keep spinning in circles high above, completely unable to reach the distant exit.
"What do we do?!"
Rash Sakuramiya was already covered in sweat from running, yet the Perfect Sakuramiya below acted as if she never grew tired. She lightly tossed her two axes in her hands, watching them with amusent,
"If you do not run, you are going to die very soon."
Saying so, she had already aid her axe right at Insecure Sakuramiya's head.
It seed she was her primary target.
"Ah, I rember whose barrier this is!"
At the critical mont, the mouse-like ears on Insecure Sakuramiya's head twitched slightly, and she hastily warned,
"This... is Reflective Sakuramiya's barrier!"
"These balloons record the beautiful sides of a person or event. At the very bottom, there are also many sunken stone steles acting as anchors, tying these balloons down."
"The awful things other people and events have done to her—those are the stone steles."
"Reflective Sakuramiya continually observed these balloons and steles to summarize her various emotions and thoughts after the fact."
Hearing this, Rash Sakuramiya asked with a face full of disbelief,
"Is this even considered a weakness? Is not this a very good habit?"
"What she hunts down is far more than just flaws in the broad sense. Otherwise, Petite Hitomi, who represents 'conscience,' would not be chased down either."
"..."
"Watch out!"
Rash Sakuramiya showed an expression of disbelief, but her face imdiately changed as she grabbed Insecure Sakuramiya's shoulder and pulled her away.
From below, a fire axe flew past, barely grazing her neck.
Although she had escaped disaster thanks to Rash Sakuramiya's rescue, a long strand of hair from her temples was cleanly severed and fluttered to the ground.
This gave her a terrible fright. Her legs gave way, and she slumped onto the hot air balloon,
"Wu... That was... almost..."
"Sotis, over-reflecting is not a good thing either. If we do not kill this one, who knows how long we would remain stuck on that night in Tokyo."
Down below, Perfect Sakuramiya smiled faintly. With a gentle wave of her palm, the entire world began to shake and tremble.
They watched as all the balloons below floated upward. Replacing them was a massive stone structure, a one-to-one replica of the Skytree...
A stone stele?!
"That night, when faced with the incident, Hitomi could do absolutely nothing. She could only watch helplessly as Spencer was devoured by the tentacles while trying to save her, and watch helplessly as An Le grew close to the president."
"Therefore, to prevent Hitomi from hiding in dark corners and blaming herself over and over again, I had to do it on her behalf and kill her."
She gazed up at the few Sakuramiyas, who shuddered with fear, and gave a calm smile,
"However, you do not need to worry. I still understand the principle that past mistakes serve as a warning for the future."
"You are all the two-sided coin of Hitomi's flaws and rits. Therefore, after being killed by , you will not just disappear."
"Instead, you will beco a part of , 'keeping the essence and discarding the dregs'."
"Just like Frail Sakuramiya and the others!"
Petite Hitomi was so frightened by her eerie voice that her whole body trembled. However, she suddenly caught sight of sothing in her peripheral vision and stealthily patted Rash Sakuramiya's shoulder.
At this mont, Rash Sakuramiya was still indignantly pointing at Perfect Sakuramiya and retorting,
"Are you joking?! Whether they are flaws or rits, these were all originally a part of Hitomi!"
"Even if it is truly as you say, and you can absorb the rits of those you kill, this part of Hitomi will disappear forever!"
"In the end, she will only be replaced by a monster like you, who decides for herself what is a rit and what is a flaw!"
Perfect Sakuramiya raised her axe once again, aiming it right at Insecure Sakuramiya's head, and countered with a smile,
"Is there anything wrong with that? Everyone lives in an environnt, and their sense of self will constantly change under its influence."
"What, is a self that changes due to past mories or sudden upheavals automatically more excellent than one I actively shape using the Modifier?"
Having said her piece, she violently hoisted the axe in her hand, ready to hurl it.
"Jump!"
But at this very mont, Petite Hitomi suddenly gave a command, causing Perfect Sakuramiya to pause in slight surprise.
In the next second, she watched helplessly as the three of them leaped onto...
A hot air balloon with Yan Huan's big head on it!
"President?!"
Upon seeing that balloon, the axe she had been about to throw abruptly halted.
She quickly reached out to steady her trembling right hand. Even though this was not Yan Huan himself, she still could not bear to strike and damage it.
"Hah, I knew it! All the Sakuramiyas like the president; she would never raise a hand against him!"
Petite Hitomi stood on Yan Huan's hot air balloon, gave it a gentle hug, and then spoke,
"President, we are counting on you! Take us to the door, let us go find you over at Linn!"
"Alright, let us set off right now." Beneath them, Yan Huan's giant balloon smiled warmly. It lifted off the ground, carrying them as it flew toward the barrier's wide-open door.
And ever since they had boarded Yan Huan's balloon, the Perfect Sakuramiya below finally stopped throwing flying axes up at them. She could only watch powerlessly as they escaped.
They were going to...
They were going to escape successfully!
Watching the door of light drawing closer and closer, the three Sakuramiyas could not help but smile.
"Thank you, President!"
The Yan Huan-branded balloon docked steadily at the edge. Petite Hitomi leaped down and imdiately led the other two toward the open door of light,
"Hurry up! As soon as we cross over, we will be at Linn!"
"Yeah!"
But just as Petite Hitomi watched the two running toward her and finally felt a sense of relief, she turned her head, ready to enter the door of light first.
However, the roaring sound of an engine drifted out from within ahead of her.
"Vrrrr-vrrrr-vrrrr!!"
That terrifying roar was accompanied by a continuously spinning silver chain extending from behind the door of light. Imdiately after, Perfect Sakuramiya's face erged, brandishing a pink chainsaw and wearing a sinister smile as she barged through,
"Bet you did not expect this! The Sakuramiya behind the door has long since been killed by ! How perfect. I have not tried using a chainsaw to kill a Sakuramiya yet. I have heard that this chainsaw is incredibly sharp."
With that said, she violently hoisted the chainsaw and slashed right toward Petite Hitomi.
"Eek!"
Petite Hitomi was so terrified that her whole body trembled, and she froze in mid-air, completely unable to move.
"My chainsaw is also sharp!!"
At the critical mont, the roaring sound of an engine simultaneously ca from behind.
Before Petite Hitomi could even clearly see what was happening, two chainsaw blades violently clashed together, erupting into clusters of dazzling sparks.
"Screeeeeech!!"
"Clack-clack-clack!!"
Petite Hitomi's eyes went wide. Only then did she realize that Rash Sakuramiya had pulled out a crimson chainsaw from who knows where, and was currently locked in a strenuous struggle with Perfect Sakuramiya.
"Hah... I finally got the chance to use it, my secret weapon!"
And Petite Hitomi also suddenly recalled that before Rash Sakuramiya left her own barrier, she had rummaged around for sothing for a long ti.
When asked, she had simply claid it was her secret weapon.
As it turned out, she had brought along a sharp chainsaw too.
"Clang-clang-clang!!"
But as the two sides clashed, Rash Sakuramiya's body was gradually forced lower under the overwhelming pressure.
Perfect Sakuramiya looked at the brave Sakuramiya before her with considerable interest. While she verbally praised her, she pushed her chainsaw toward Rash Sakuramiya's neck without a shred of rcy,
"You are truly amazing. It is hard to imagine you actually have not eliminated Frail Sakuramiya. How did I not know about you before?"
"Because... that girl Hitomi has never been brave toward the president, not even once! Damn it!!!"
Rash Sakuramiya gritted her teeth, then suddenly exerted all her strength, shoving Perfect Sakuramiya back slightly as she shouted at Petite Hitomi and the others,
"Run! No matter what, just get to Linn first!!"
"Wu!"
Petite Hitomi looked at Rash Sakuramiya, who was inch by inch being encroached upon by the chainsaw. Her face was deathly pale, but unable to say anything, she could only hastily push the completely stupefied Insecure Sakuramiya backward through the door of light.
"Hurry up and go! What are you still spacing out for?!"
"Clack-clack-clack!"
The two of them stumbled wildly into the door of light, quickly disappearing from sight.
After roughly a minute or two had passed, Perfect Sakuramiya smilingly stepped through the door of light and arrived in a dark room.
This room was exactly Sakuramiya Hitomi's bedroom in the Kyogo Ward, which was also originally Lazy Hitomi's barrier.
It was just a pity that after Lazy Hitomi was killed, Perfect Sakuramiya no longer required sleep.
Thus, every night she would enter from this barrier and begin her hunt for the other Sakuramiyas.
"...Hm, did they get away again?"
She turned on the bedroom light, and with a re thought, sensed her surroundings.
Finding no trace of those two Sakuramiyas, her eyebrows furrowed slightly.
Imdiately after, she casually tossed a bloodstained, damaged samurai helt onto the floor, watching it as it rolled across the ground, gradually crumbling into fine powder.
And as that powder integrated bit by bit into Perfect Sakuramiya's body, an impeccable yet eerie smile spread across her face,
"Well, I have already killed almost all of the Sakuramiyas in Linn anyway. You will not be able to hide for much longer."
Saying so, she stretched her arms. Just as she was about to turn around and head to another barrier to seek out the whereabouts of those two Sakuramiyas, the soft clinking of a pendant in her palm caught her attention.
She looked down and saw the open pendant in her hand, which contained a black and white photograph of Yan Huan.
That Rash Sakuramiya had died clutching this very pendant tightly.
"Black and white, how truly pitiful."
She murmured to herself, then carefully put the necklace away, placing it right against her chest.
Except, in the very next second, the alarm clock on her bedroom desk began to vibrate gently, reminding her that it was already the next morning in reality.
"..."
The flow of ti in reality and within the barrier was different. So were faster, so were slower. Therefore, she absolutely needed an alarm clock placed in the Outer Barrier to remind her.
Perfect Sakuramiya pinched her chin in distress, appearing sowhat hesitant,
"Ugh, how distressing. I promised the president today that I would go help An Le and Spencer reconcile."
"However..."
"Since I only told the president earlier that I would be secretly watching, it should not prevent
from catching those two little mice while simultaneously helping An Le and Spencer, right?"
Thinking this way, she dispelled the barrier, pulled out her phone, and drafted a Plane ssage to Yan Huan.
"Beep-beep-beep!"
South Ward, Yan Huan's rental apartnt.
An Le's completely naked body was hidden beneath the bedding. Simultaneously, she had her arms wrapped around Yan Huan's neck, burying her head against his chest.
When the phone charging next to them rang, she let out a groggy whimper, and as if driven by pure instinct, she reminded Yan Huan,
"Xiao Huan... you have a ssage..."
"Mhm..."
Yan Huan also narrowed his eyes. He shifted his hand away from An Le's chest, reached out from under the bedding, and grabbed his phone.
When he saw the contact na "Sakuramiya
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