"Cough, cough, cough..."
The mont Yan Huan loosened his hands, which were bulging with ferocious blue veins, Ye Shiyu's body went limp before him, and she collapsed directly to her knees on the ground.
But even so, she continued to stare blankly at Yan Huan with wide eyes.
Amidst the vast pallor of her skin, the only traces of color were her red-rimd eyes and the deep crimson marks on her neck left by Yan Huan's forceful grip.
"Cough, cough, cough..."
A second later, having barely caught her breath, Ye Shiyu began to cough violently.
She covered her mouth, her body trembling slightly as the coughing fit refused to subside.
Along with it, illusory, crystalline spiderweb fragnts tumbled down one after another.
This ti, she dropped far more fragnts than ever before.
However, Myau-chan did not go to pick them up. He simply stayed quietly on Yan Huan's shoulder, leaving the ti to Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu.
[Congratulations, you have caused the Index Finger to drop fragnts once again. Available Battle Defeat CG triggers
1]
[Current remaining triggers: 1]
"..."
Looking at the utterly disheveled Ye Shiyu before him, Yan Huan's expression could not help but freeze.
Whether he forgot or simply did not want to, he offered no apology, only watching her in silence.
At this mont, his heart was filled with astonishnt and he was half-believing, half-doubting. His brain felt slightly overloaded.
"Cough, cough, cough..."
Because her head was bowed, her black hair tumbled down, obscuring her features in dark shadows.
Yan Huan could only see her lips parting and closing as she tried to speak several tis.
Yet her long hesitation did not smooth her words; her voice remained hoarse.
"If only... you had said these words to
earlier... Xiao Huan..."
"..."
Hearing this, Yan Huan's jaw muscles clenched slightly.
His gaze flickered, and though he remained silent, he lowered his hand.
On the back of his hand, a previously fallen teardrop slid down along his gradually calming blue veins.
"Drip."
The instant it struck the ground, it shattered into even smaller droplets on a microscopic level.
Reflected in every tiny splash was the smile Yan Huan had shown Ye Shiyu while wearing his mask.
Those smiles fractured along with the splashing water. When the dust settled, what was revealed before her was Yan Huan's true appearance beneath the mask he had worn earlier.
His disgust, his anger, his loathing...
Along with the teardrops on the ground, they beca profoundly etched and impossible to erase.
It was like a fleeting illusion that had finally been shattered.
"..."
A mont later, the devastated Ye Shiyu opened her mouth.
She did not intend to say anything else; she planned to let Yan Huan leave this place.
After all, she had brought Yan Huan here not only to confirm whether he knew about the superpowers...
But most importantly, to force him to rid himself of his flaw of greed.
The various illusions Yan Huan had created earlier made Ye Shiyu believe that he harbored at least a little bit of affection for her.
Whether it was his goodwill towards the opposite gender, or his affection for his sworn older sister...
Or at the very worst, just like in the lover's ending, even if he only lusted after her body.
But now it seed that Xiao Huan felt none of these things for her.
In that case, continuing to imprison him would never make him fall in love with her.
Unless she used hypnosis on him to change his mind...
But what would be the point of that?
"Tap."
With these thoughts in mind, Ye Shiyu slowly stood up. Keeping her head bowed, she opened the door for Yan Huan.
"Creak."
"Xiao Huan... you can go... I was wrong."
"...Hmph."
Seeing this, Yan Huan did not even want to glance at her. He rely let out a cold snort and walked straight out.
However, as he passed by her, he spat out a single phrase.
"Disgusting."
Hearing this, Ye Shiyu's body could not help but tremble slightly.
But she did not retort.
Perhaps Sakuramiya Hitomi had been right earlier.
She had been wrong from the very beginning.
No matter how much she tried to turn over a new leaf, she had rely returned to the baseline of a normal person. She never should have expected Xiao Huan to fall in love with her.
She simply thought she had hidden her true nature perfectly from him.
Just like a criminal trying to hide their past sins, fantasizing about starting anew and earning the right to be loved.
And since Xiao Huan had known everything from start to finish...
Then this was rely paying off her debts. She deserved to be treated this way.
"..."
Ye Shiyu stood silently in the basent, and it was not until she heard the sound of the front door closing on the first floor above that her body went limp and she slumped to the ground.
But not long after, the wail of sirens pierced the air outside.
"Wee-woo, wee-woo, wee-woo!!"
"Police! Nobody move!! Put your hands in the air, or we will shoot!!"
Ye Shiyu looked up blankly. Completely devoid of her soul, she hadn't even processed what was happening before countless guns were aid at her. Several female officers then rushed forward and forcefully pinned her to the ground.
"Cuff her!!"
"Ugh..."
Pinned to the floor, Ye Shiyu was quickly hauled up by the officers, a black hood pulled over her head, and escorted outside.
Her field of vision was completely black. She could only hear the murmurs of the police and Xiao Huan's voice as he spoke with an officer nearby.
"She's a complete lunatic! I obviously don't like her, but when she saw
interacting with other won, she suddenly went crazy, knocked
out, and locked
up down here..."
"..."
"If only she had asked nicely and begged
to sleep with her, I might have actually considered it, but she just had to do things this way..."
"Alright, I understand. You'll need to co back to the station with us later to give a formal statent."
Hearing those words, Ye Shiyu was dragged to the patrol car, her heart completely dead with a sorrow beyond despair.
Before her, the car door slowly opened.
Awaiting her was a prison sentence ranging from three to eleven years for the cri of kidnapping.
And that wasn't all. She knew her disappointed mother would not only refuse to bail her out but would have her deported back to their ho country the mont she was released.
But it didn't matter.
Her heart was already dead, anyway.
And so, one night, she slit her wrists and committed suicide in her cell.
[Defeat~]
[...]
[Battle Defeat CG Unlocked]
[Ending D: Death Row Inmate]
[Yan Huan learned all of your secrets, discovered all your filth, and completely tore away all pretenses with you.]
[Unwilling to use hypnosis on him, you actually chose to release the tiger back to the mountain.]
[By surrendering your fate to another's hands in this way, you received nothing but disappointnt and death.]
[GA OVER]
[Return to save point?]
"Buzz!!"
"..."
In reality, not a single second had passed.
She was still kneeling on the ground, having just spoken those hoarse words and about to stand up.
But at this mont, drenched in cold sweat, Ye Shiyu's tear-stained eyes slowly focused as she snapped back to her senses.
Amidst a sharp tinnitus, her accelerated heartbeat roared like thunder, completely burning away her previous thought of letting Yan Huan leave.
"Thump... Thump... Thump..."
So this ti, Ye Shiyu simply stood up with a trembling body, not saying anything else.
"I'm going out to buy so necessities. Wait here for a bit, Xiao Huan..."
Her hoarse voice was full of sorrow and fragile vulnerability. Still lacking the courage to look at Yan Huan's expression, she only pulled the door open a tiny crack and squeezed out.
Hearing her words, Yan Huan also snapped back to reality.
"Ye—"
He had just raised his eyes toward the entrance, intending to say sothing, but the door was already shut.
"Click."
Right after, the sound of the lock clicking from the outside echoed through the room.
"..."
Staring at the tightly closed door, Yan Huan finally exhaled the stifling breath that had been compressed in his chest all this ti.
He glanced around. Although the basent was spacious, it contained absolutely nothing other than the chair that had bound him.
Massaging the space between his eyebrows, Yan Huan couldn't be bothered to sit on that stool. Instead, he simply sat on the ground, leaning his back against the locked door.
"How is it, feeling any better, ow?"
Beside him, Myau-chan finally spoke, making Yan Huan turn to look at the deeply concerned face on his shoulder.
"...Thanks, Myau-chan."
"No problem, ow."
Yan Huan let out a sigh, resting his head fully against the door, his gaze becoming blank.
Soon after, he suddenly asked in his mind,
‘Myau-chan, what exactly was the deal with that Battle Defeat CG?’
‘What do you an, ow? Shouldn't you have just triggered a Battle Defeat CG and seen the bad future of what happens if you don't resist, ow?’
Myau-chan tilted his head and continued,
‘I thought about it for a second. I was wondering why you suddenly decided to clash with Ye Shiyu like that, but you must have seen that she wouldn't do anything to you, ow.’
‘...’
Hearing this, Yan Huan turned his head to look at Myau-chan and spoke aloud,
"I did trigger a Battle Defeat CG just now, but it showed a bad ending where, after I rejected her, she hypnotized
until I lost my entire personality."
"ow?!"
Hearing this, Myau-chan's eyes widened in utter disbelief.
"Th-Then that ans..." "That ans I was genuinely planning to go all out against Ye Shiyu just now."
"ow?!"
However, bringing this up caused Yan Huan's expression to naturally freeze.
"But Ye Shiyu's reaction was completely different from what happened in the Battle Defeat CG."
He suddenly rembered an issue he had realized earlier while eating with Ye Shiyu:
Myau-chan wasn't in the Battle Defeat CG.
Look at what just happened: he had chosen to reject her in the exact sa way as in the Battle Defeat CG, fully intending to clash with her.
But the mont that thought had crossed his mind, Myau-chan appeared to stop him and even helped him untie the ropes.
Then what about the Battle Defeat CG?
Why was he missing from it?
Moreover, Ye Shiyu's reaction had been entirely different.
Not only did she not ruthlessly use her hypnosis on him, but she had even...
Shown that kind of expression...
"I'm just thinking, is there a possibility that the content of the Battle Defeat CG is fake? That it isn't the 'future sight' the Little Finger claims it to be at all?"
"ow?! Could it be that the despicable Little Finger tricked us, ow?!"
"...It shouldn't be. I heard An Le say that before the Tokyo Skytree incident, this is exactly what it told her. What reason did it have to lie to An Le back then?"
"That seems true, ow..."
Yan Huan lowered his gaze, still unable to fully confirm whether his deduction was true.
After all, strictly speaking, what happened just now wasn't completely identical to the scenario in the Battle Defeat CG.
Although he rejected her, he also suddenly retaliated and planted the sparks into Ye Shiyu's neck...
Could it be that these factors influenced the CG?
"...Yan Huan, then what should we do now, ow?"
"..."
Deep in thought, Yan Huan heard Myau-chan's words and couldn't help but inspect the door leaning against his back.
He noticed that the door was extrely old and dilapidated. If he used all his brute strength to ram the door, he could probably escape.
The main issue was that, even if Ye Shiyu hadn't used her hypnosis on him, An Le and Sakuramiya Hitomi were still in her hands.
For all he knew, they might be locked up upstairs.
Whatever happened to him was fine, but no matter what, he had to rescue them, right?
With this in mind, Yan Huan subconsciously prepared to stand up.
But the next second, he couldn't help but stiffen slightly.
It suddenly occurred to him that he had been operating on the assumption that Ye Shiyu would do sothing to Hitomi and the others after fighting them.
That was why the very first thing he had asked Ye Shiyu after being locked up here was exactly that...
But what if...
What if she hadn't done anything to Hitomi and An Le?
What if...
She was rely lying to him?
What if, even if he just stayed here and waited for her to return, nothing bad would happen?
"Buzz!"
The mont Yan Huan entertained this thought and abandoned his attempt to stand up, his entire field of vision was instantly enveloped by the energy of the Battle Defeat CG.
The Battle Defeat CG had been triggered!
He saw it: himself, just waiting for Ye Shiyu like this.
Until hours later, when the door lock finally clicked open.
Ye Shiyu returned, carrying bedding, dinner, water, and other daily necessities...
At the sa ti, she held a thick tal chain in her hand.
"Xiao Huan, I'm back..."
With lowered eyes, Ye Shiyu expressionlessly dropped the bedding and items, simultaneously picking up her mobile phone.
She then showed the screen to Yan Huan.
On it, the hollow-eyed, expressionless figures of An Le and Sakuramiya Hitomi shockingly appeared.
They were sitting on the chairs on the first floor of the villa upstairs, blankly staring at Ye Shiyu who was recording the video.
"Let
ask you both..."
Following that, Ye Shiyu's voice ca from the video.
"Who is Yan Huan?"
"..."
Faced with this question, the dull-eyed Sakuramiya Hitomi and An Le tilted their heads. Imdiately after, they simultaneously revealed expressions of confusion.
"Yan Huan... who is that?"
"I don't know him."
Looking at the video on the mobile phone, Yan Huan's pupils instinctively contracted, his entire face turning a ghostly pale.
"Good, you can go now."
"Mhm."
"Okay."
Then, in the video, the hollow-eyed An Le and Sakuramiya Hitomi simply stood up and turned to leave the villa without a shred of reluctance.
Watching the back views of the two girls walking further and further away in the video, Yan Huan's heart almost stopped.
He could barely catch his breath, to the point where a deep, agonizing pain sprouted in his chest.
"Clink."
But at the sa ti, Ye Shiyu silently fastened a collar connected to the chain around his neck.
"...It's okay, Xiao Huan. I won't use my hypnosis on you..."
"Because even if you hate , it doesn't matter, as long as I make the girls you like completely forget about you..."
"This way, you will stay here forever, spending day and night with ..."
"Sooner or later, you will fall in love with ~"
Ye Shiyu said exactly that.
[Defeat~]
[...]
[Battle Defeat CG Unlocked]
[Ending G: Digging Your Own Grave]
[There was once a sincere opportunity to escape placed right in front of you, but you did not cherish it.]
[Very well then. Thus, you can only remain here forever.]
[GA OVER]
[Return to save point?]
"Haha..."
Leaning against the door, Yan Huan's body once again broke out in a dense layer of cold sweat.
His eyes widened as he felt the imrsive Battle Defeat CG slowly dissipate, taking the trace of despair and anger in his heart away with it.
But this ti...
Gritting his teeth, he remained firmly seated exactly where he was.
"Myau-chan... this ti, I'm going to stay right here and wait for Ye Shiyu to co back."
"ow?"
"You weren't in the Battle Defeat CG, so as long as you don't interfere with reality, the ending won't change... Go up to the first floor and see if Sakuramiya Hitomi and An Le are there, then co back and tell . Don't do a single thing besides that."
"Understood, ow!"
Watching Yan Huan sitting there motionless, gritting his teeth, Myau-chan found it unclear but aweso. Nevertheless, he followed the order, turning intangible and phasing through the door.
"ow?!"
However, the mont he passed through the door, he was suddenly so frightened that he froze on the spot.
Simply because he saw that, right behind the tightly shut door, Ye Shiyu was sitting on the ground hugging her knees, similarly leaning her back against the door.
She hadn't left after all. She was separated from Yan Huan, who was also sitting behind the door, by only a single panel of wood.
"..."
She curled up, sitting blankly on the ground, her eyes vacant and devoid of expression.
Yet, from those eyes—where tears had previously been so precious in front of Yan Huan that only a single drop had fallen—tears were now devastatingly cheap, sliding down her cheeks one after another, dampening her dress.
She was crying, but doing so without a sound, rely resembling a doll capable of shedding tears.
In her hand, she tightly clutched a jellyfish-shaped keychain bearing her na.
Myau-chan recognized it. It was the one Yan Huan had helped snatch back from Spencer when he first visited Ye Lan's house.
She had carried this keychain with her ever since.
"ow..."
Ye Shiyu couldn't see Myau-chan in front of her. She simply allowed her sorrow to transform into tears that completely soaked her.
Her thoughts at this mont were also a tangled ss; she had no idea what to do.
If she let Xiao Huan go, he would take revenge and plunge her into an abyss of eternal damnation.
But if she didn't let Xiao Huan go...
He hated her so much, so what was the point of any of this?
Furthermore, Sakuramiya Hitomi, An Le, and the others would definitely not let this go...
As expected, she really should...
Just let Xiao Huan leave, right?
"..."
At this mont, the future seed like a dense fog filled with the unknown to Ye Shiyu.
A familiar, trendous fear instantly coiled around Ye Shiyu's heart.
But just then, an illusory interface suddenly lit up in front of her.
[Yezi AI's coverage has reached a new milestone. Video deductions of the future can now be conducted.]
[Initiate deduction?]
Staring at the interface that had suddenly flared to life before her, Ye Shiyu's breath subconsciously hitched.
[If you wish to view the contents, simply close your eyes and silently recite "Start Playback" three tis to witness the future.]
Ye Shiyu's pupils shrank bit by bit. Then, as if grasping at a last desperate hope, she gently leaned her head against the door behind her and closed her eyes.
In an instant, a scene unknown to any outsider blood before her eyes.
"Buzz!!"
At this mont, on either side of the door that separated them, the young man and the young woman sat together.
Both of them were shrouded in unknown fear and suspicion, their bodies drenched in cold sweat. They closed their eyes in unison, as if experiencing the exact sa nightmare.
It was just that the exits to their nightmare were not entirely the sa.
"!!"
"..."
In a mutual, unknowing silence, a brief mont passed...
At the instant they awakened from their nightmares, Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu, sitting as if back-to-back on either side of the door, opened their eyes simultaneously.
The difference was that entirely opposite colors appeared in their eyes.
"Inside the door," Ye Shiyu lowered her head, slowly holding her knees tightly as her body trembled slightly.
"Outside the door," Yan Huan gritted his teeth, slowly clenching his fists.
Then, one standing deep within the nightmare and the other standing at the entrance to the nightmare, they both voiced the exact sa conclusion.
"I cannot let Xiao Huan go..."
"I cannot go."
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