Chizuru Godera looked back subconsciously, but saw nothing. She almost thought that what she just heard was an illusion.
Odera Shitaka, who turned into a monster, stretched out a huge arm and slapped his daughter.
Upon seeing this, Chizuru Godera jumped away quickly.
boom!
A big hole was instantly made in the wooden floor.
Looking at this disgusting monster, Chizuru Godera's emotions fluctuated a bit, and the size of the monster immediately grew larger.
"Don't be impulsive, stay calm!"
The familiar man's voice rang in my ears again, as if he was standing nearby.
This time, Chizuru Godera did not turn her head to look, and her emotions magically calmed down, and the size of the monster immediately shrank.
It swept its huge arms violently, and Chizuru Godera jumped into the air on her toes.
The monster's other arm grabbed her in the air.
The sword flashed!
Chizuru Godera swung her katana, drew a fan-shaped sharp blade, and cut off the monster's four fingers.
Although the fingers were cut off, the strength of the monster's palm remained intact, and it slammed into Chizuru Godera, knocking her away, hitting the wall and falling to the ground.
The monster's power was so strong that Chizuru Godera felt like all the bones in her body were being knocked apart, and her original powerful strength was also taken away.
She held her knife on the ground and barely stood up.
The monster's palm swept over again, and Chizuru Godera slashed with the sword, but the blade cut halfway and got stuck.
boom!
She was knocked out, smashed through the door of the room, fell through the corridor into the garden outside, and fell on the gravel-covered ground.
"Wow!"
She opened her mouth and spit out a mouthful of blood. She felt weaker than ever before, not even as strong as an ordinary person.
The mood returned to fear and nervousness.
Peng!
Peng!
The size of the monster became almost as big as a house. It moved hard, and every step made the ground tremble slightly.
"Crack! Boom!"
The wooden door was shattered by it, and the entire wall collapsed.
"Fear and nervousness are taking away your power."
The man's voice was full of magic, soothing Godera Chizuru's emotions, and the power returned to her body.
The size of the monster also shrunk by half. It was very dissatisfied. It crushed the wooden corridor with its size and walked towards Chizuru Godera.
Chizuru Godera dodged the monster's outstretched arm and said silently in her heart: "How should I defeat it?"
"This is your regret and your inner demon."
Sure enough, the man's voice sounded again: "Only by facing your past regrets can you kill your inner demons."
My regrets and demons?
Chizuru Godera was slightly startled, but her body's reflexes were extremely good. She kept dodging the two arms swung by the monster. If she couldn't avoid them, she would cut them off with a knife.
The monster's arms continued to regenerate, throwing out afterimages, shattering the garden in front of them.
boom!
Chizuru Godera was slightly distracted and was slapped.
When the dust and smoke dispersed, she had already been lifted up by the monster in his hands.
Chizuru Godera's forehead was bleeding. She ignored the monster and looked up at the vast starry sky. Countless scenes of her daily life with her brother flashed through her mind.
In the picture, Chizuru Odera gradually expands, and her appearance changes from a girl to a young man, and then to a mature and charming thirty-year-old woman.
And the appearance of Kirito Odera next to him also changed, turning into another man.
"I see."
Chizuru Godera whispered: "Thank you, Makoto."
Countless sword lights suddenly bloomed, cutting the monster's hands into pieces.
Chizuru Godera fell to the ground, looked up at the monster, her expression was solemn, her eyes were as sharp as a knife, and her body shot forward like a cannonball.
“Chizuru!
"
On the monster, the heads of three Godera Shitaka roared in unison, and two regenerated arms attacked her frantically.
Chizuru Godera waved the katana in her hand and cut through the attacks like a violent storm in front of her.
Her figure disappeared in a flash, and the next moment she appeared behind the monster.
The monster behind him froze in action, and its huge body slowly split open from the middle.
"Qian... Crane..."
The heads of the three imperial priests made a slight murmuring sound, and then turned into tiny spots of light and disappeared.
Chizuru Godera looked back.
She already understood that her regret was that she did not wake up and rescue her younger brother Kirito Odera in time that night twelve years ago.
If she had drawn her sword to save people like she does now, maybe there would have been a different ending.
Her inner demon is her father. The three heads on the monster represent her three impressions of her father.
Kind, cold, angry.
The father who forced her mother to death and killed her younger brother has always been hidden deep in her heart, gradually becoming a shadow.
Now she cut off the shadow with her own hands, finally feeling completely free.
Throwing down the katana, Chizuru Godera went to her younger brother's room, opened the door, and saw him kneeling upright on the ground, closing his eyes and concentrating.
Hearing the sound of the door opening, he opened his warm eyes and gave Chizuru Godera a gentle smile.
"Sister, no matter what choice you make, I will support you."
Chizuru Godera took a deep breath, then walked over, grabbed her brother's hand, and dragged him out.
The ground and buildings behind the two people gradually collapsed and decomposed, and the familiar environment was disappearing and returning to nothingness.
Chizuru Odera escaped from the house with Kirito Odera and came outside.
She randomly chose a direction, then covered her head and ran. She didn't know how far she ran before she was shocked to realize that the hand she was holding was gone.
She suddenly turned around and found that her brother had disappeared at some point.
A look of despair appeared on Chizuru Godera's face, and she smiled bitterly: "That's right. How can the past history be changed?"
She allowed the darkness to swallow her, and when she opened her eyes again, she found herself lying on a fragrant grass.
Xu Cheng sat next to him, grabbing the Kyoho grapes with both hands.
Chizuru Godera: "..."
Xu Cheng: "..."
The two looked at each other for a few seconds, and Xu Cheng suddenly said the secret code for the connection: "Who is the person who is referring to in the seventy shares of life?"
"American Rare."
Chizuru Godera answered and stretched out her hands directly towards him.
Xu Cheng quickly raised his hands to protect his face: "Don't slap me in the face."
The next moment, he was pulled down by Chizuru Godera, and then he was gently held in his arms and hugged tightly.
She already knew that the person who kept encouraging and reminding herself during the test was Xu Cheng.
Xu Cheng was forced to wash his face again, but this time he felt at ease.
If he hadn't committed suicide and restarted the game twice in a row, and kept using the Emotion Master (enhancement) to calm down Chizuru Godera, she would have jumped off the road long ago, and there would be no way she could pass Amaterasu's test.
After working hard for so long, you deserve some benefits.
But before Xu Cheng could enjoy it for long, he heard the voice of Yudera Chizuru: "Were you sneaking up on me just now?"
Xu Cheng got up from Yudera Qianhe, sat aside, and said calmly: "No, I'm just checking whether your development is normal."
The main thing is that after the Emotion Master (strengthening), there is no need for eye to eye contact anymore, only physical contact is required.
Since it's physical contact, of course you have to choose a place where his hands can blend in perfectly.
"I believe you ghost!"
Yudera Qianhe pretended to be angry, stretched out her hand and tapped Xu Cheng on the head as punishment.
Then she sat up from the ground, looked around, and asked in surprise: "Is this Takamagahara?"
Although it was at night, with the mountains and dense forests and the shadows of the trees, it didn't feel gloomy. Instead, it had a fairyland atmosphere.
"Gene Era"
Xu Cheng reminded: "Close your eyes and feel the wind here."
Chizuru Godera did as he asked, but before closing her eyes, she warned him: "Don't touch me secretly again."
Xu Cheng said in surprise: "Is it okay to touch it if it's just and aboveboard?"
Chizuru Godera: "..."
She made a threatening gesture towards Xu Cheng, wiping her neck, and then closed her eyes.
There is a gentle breeze in the forest, which feels very comfortable on my body.
Chizuru Godera felt that the wind was very familiar. After a while, she opened her eyes and said in surprise: "Lingzi Tomb?"
The wind here is actually exactly the same as the wind blowing from Lingzi's tomb.
"Yeah, it feels exactly the same."
Xu Cheng stood up from the ground: "But the environment here is completely different from the Lingzi Tomb. There is a huge tomb there, but here it is full of life."
According to Kagebei, both belong to the secret realm.
The secret realm contains a high concentration of spiritual seeds that can turn humans into people with abilities, which is called a blessing by the Protectorate.
There was something vaguely connected in Xu Cheng's mind, but he couldn't figure it out for a while.
He stretched out his hand towards Chizuru Godera, who was still sitting on the ground: "Let's go, Amaterasu should be waiting for us."
Yudera Qianhe didn't need help from others, but facing Xu Cheng's extended hand, she smiled slightly and handed her hand to him.
The two left the grassland and walked not far forward. A forest path appeared in front of them. There was actually a sign posted on the side of the road with an arrow drawn on it, pointing into the distance.
Now that they have arrived in Takamagahara, the two of them will not hesitate and walk forward in the direction of the sign.
On both sides of the path are towering ancient trees that are rarely seen outside, but no matter how high they are, they cannot block the sky above the path. As long as you look up, you can see the vast starry sky at any time.
The forest was filled with fireflies-like starlight, providing illumination for the two of them. Occasionally, small animals such as deer or rabbits would appear.
Chizuru Yudera was not a person who could sit idle, so she started asking Xu Cheng what the test was about along the way.
Xu Cheng didn't hide anything and told her the content of his test.
"Hahahahaha, calling this girl out is just to ask for money."
Chizuru Godera burst into laughter, and her laughter spread far in the forest.
She even laughed until tears came out, and had to hold Xu Cheng's shoulder with one hand and hold her belly with the other.
"How will you, a straight man like you, find a girlfriend in the future..."
The voice stopped suddenly. Only then did Chizuru Godera remember that Xu Cheng had two girlfriends now, and he also stuffed a lot of women into her house.
This is no longer a straight man of steel, he is simply the King of Steel.
She suddenly became a little angry and reached out to hit Xu Cheng on the head: "You go around picking up women, why are you so good at flirting with women?"
Not only Akimiya Yue and Hoshizaki Yukina, but also the Nagumo sisters and the prophet, can all see that they have a clear liking for this brat, and he is the kind who succeeds as soon as he gets started.
Xu Cheng ignored her, stared fixedly in a certain direction in the woods, raised his hand and pointed: "What is that?"
Chizuru Godera looked in the direction he pointed, and saw a strange, round head sticking out from behind a certain tree in the forest. It was pulling at the trunk of the tree with both hands, and a foot was exposed underneath, heading this way. look.
It looks like a person, but the height of his head is at least two meters and closer to three meters.
Chizuru Godera was startled when she saw another round head popping up from behind the tree trunk.
The two sides looked at each other in silence for a few seconds. Xu Cheng and Yudera Qianhe were ready to fight, but two heads came out from behind the tree trunk and staggered away.
These two heads are two deformed people stacked on top of each other. The person below has a pair of bamboo pole-like thighs with a height of two meters. The person above is sitting on his neck. His legs are short, but one pair is more than three meters long. arm.
Xu Cheng gasped, this was not a human being at all.
But Chizuru Godera exclaimed: "This is foot length and hand length!"
Xu Cheng turned to look at her: "What do you mean?"
Chizuru Godera had a solemn look on her face and felt a little scared in her heart: "A legendary monster."
In fact, they are two monsters - the one with long hands and the one with long hands. The one with long hands and short feet is called the one with long hands, and the one with long legs and short hands is called the one with long hands. The one with long hands can only move around by being carried by the one with long hands. People with long legs have to rely on long hands to get things.
"Did you admit it right? Maybe they were just two brothers with deformed hands and feet."
"I also hope I admitted my mistake."
A legendary monster suddenly appeared, giving both of them a ridiculous and incredible feeling.
But since even Amaterasu is real, the existence of monsters doesn't seem to be a big deal.
Back in the Lingzi Tomb, weren't there a bunch of strange creatures that seemed to come from another world?
Xu Cheng and Yudera Qianhe quickly calmed down and continued to move forward along the path.
On the subsequent road, the two began to frequently encounter various strange monsters. Xu Cheng had no understanding of Japanese monsters and only felt that his sanity had been falling.
Although Chizuru Godera is Japanese, she doesn't know much about monsters and can only recognize a few occasionally.
Fortunately, these monsters only appear in the dense forest and will not come to this path. At most, they will follow them from a distance.
After walking for nearly an hour, the two of them arrived at the end of the path, where there was a stone staircase with an almost invisible top.
Climbing up the mountain along the shrine, the scenery below gradually comes into view. It is a continuous dense forest, which seems to make the earth uneven, dotted with large and small lakes.
After climbing thousands of steps, the two finally reached the top of the shrine. After passing through the tall torii gate, they saw a tall shrine.
A woman dressed as a priest stood in front of the shrine. She had a curvy figure, but a curtain hung on her face to block her face.
Although her face was obviously blocked, she still seemed to be able to see things. When she saw Xu Cheng and Yudera Qianhe appeared, she bowed deeply to them and made a gesture of invitation.
Xu Cheng and Yudera Qianhe looked at each other and silently followed the female priest.
Entering the shrine, passing through complex buildings and corridors, the two came to a traditional Japanese courtyard.
Priestess stopped here and bent down to invite her in.
