Observing the Death of Death
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A deathly silence pervaded the air.
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A deathly silence pervaded the air.
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A deathly silence pervaded the air.
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A deathly silence pervaded the air.
When Fang Li came to his senses, he could already feel a deathly silence spreading around him.
Then, Fang Li slowly opened his eyes.
However, all that met his eyes was darkness and deathly silence.
The darkness has no end.
Because there is nothing here.
Fang Li floated in this empty darkness, as if floating on the surface of water. His body felt weightless, yet he could feel a chill spreading throughout his entire body.
In such a Fang Li, there is only one thing that Fang Li can observe.
A kind of entity that constitutes the endless darkness around us.
"Fog?"
That's right, it's fog.
The black fog continued to permeate the air, as if isolating everything, telling Fang Li that the reason this place was so desolate was because of this omnipresent black fog.
Fang Li recognized this black mist.
Because it was something Fang Li was extremely familiar with.
"Die..."
Yes, this is death.
The death of a character named "Subaru Natsuki".
The moment Subaru Natsuki was killed, Fang Li was engulfed by a cloud of mist.
In other words, Fang Li was involved in the death of a character named "Subaru Natsuki".
This is not strange at all.
Considering Subaru Natsuki's unique ability, this is perhaps the most normal development.
Rather, it's more accurate to say that Fang Li came into this world specifically to observe this thing.
"Since I was involved in it, yet I was able to maintain consciousness and memory here, it means that my initial assumption was at least correct."
As he said this, Fang Li raised one of his hands.
"Zheng..."
A faint light emanated from the device hovering in Fang Li's hand. Although it did not dispel the surrounding darkness called "death," it illuminated itself.
That device was the Reiji Maigo.
Treasure Tool that can interfere with time to a certain extent, causing time to get lost at midnight.
"Although the rewinding of time cannot be avoided, at least I can interfere with my time in this irreversible rewinding. My original idea was indeed correct."
Therefore, when Fang Li saw the "Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World- " Instance World as an option, he chose this world without hesitation and entered it.
The purpose was to observe Subaru Natsuki's death.
"So, the next step is to see if this death can resolve my doubts."
Muttering to himself, Fang Li put away the Reiji Maigo, raised his head in the fog of death, and looked ahead.
"Buzz..."
The black mist was churning.
Within the black mist known as "Death," Fang Li's eyes unknowingly transformed into Ice-Blue Demon Eyes, taking in everything around him.
Perhaps this is the first time?
For the first time, I used my Magic Eye, capable of directly facing death, to gaze upon death.
The Mystic Eyes of Death Perception have the power to make all death impossible to hide from, and to bring all things to an end through the wielder's hand.
However, at this moment, the "death" that Fang Li Magic Eye was extremely vague.
The crack-like Death Lines appear and disappear intermittently, like a mirage, appearing and disappearing, which is very stimulating to the eyes.
"Hmm..."
Fang Li instinctively covered his head.
A series of needle-like stings entered Fang Li's mind, causing a slight pain in Fang Li head.
"Is this the burden that using the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception places on the brain?"
Without a doubt, this was the first time Fang Li had experienced such a burden.
After all, Fang Li can understand all forms of death, so using the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception shouldn't put a burden on his brain.
However, at this very moment, everything that filled Fang Li's vision was already dead.
Since death has already occurred, how can we find the Death Lines of death itself?
Therefore, this contradictory concept confused even Fang Li's Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, causing his head to throb with pain as if pricked by needles.
At the same time, Fang Li also sensed it.
Deep within his own soul, the ocean that recorded all death began to churn.
"Even the soul is in conflict?"
Fang Li suddenly felt a stinging pain even in his soul.
Feeling this unprecedented change, Fang Li finally realized what was going on.
"I see, so this is what Ryougi Shiki wanted me to see?"
Ryougi Shiki said that in order to resolve the hidden dangers of the soul and find out one's own essence, Fang Li needs to observe people who are often accompanied by death.
At that time, Fang Li was actually quite skeptical.
"Compared to the countless deaths recorded in the ocean of my soul, is observing a person's death really useful?"
Fang Li once said that the death of one person is insignificant compared to the death of all things.
If that's the case, is observing such insignificant deaths really useful to me?
Despite this skepticism, Fang Li still followed Ryougi Shiki's advice.
It wasn't until this moment that Fang Li understood.
"Perhaps, one person's death is indeed insignificant, but I am now facing my own death, so the weight is the same."
Indeed, Fang Li's soul recorded countless deaths, making ordinary deaths pale in comparison.
However, Fang Li needs to understand is not the countless deaths, but why his own soul is able to record the essence of death.
"Therefore, what I should be looking at is not the death in that Sea of Death, but the souls that record these deaths."
"What I need to observe is not a person's death, but the death of that person itself."
In other words, Fang Li needs to observe death, rather than the people, things, and events that will die.
"But what does this prove?"
What is death?
It's just death.
What else could it be?
"I feel that Ryougi Shiki showed me was more than just this."
Fang Li stared intently at the black mist in front of him with his pair of Ice-Blue Demon Eyes.
The contradictory concept of death swirled within Fang Li's soul and mind, nearly driving Fang Li to the brink of collapse.
However, Fang Li ignored everything else, only wanting to observe the death before him.
"What else is in there?"
Just as Fang Li was staring at the death before him, suddenly, the surrounding black mist began to stir.
Fang Li's pair of Ice-Blue Demon Eyes suddenly narrowed.
Suddenly, in the darkness where there was nothing, a pair of hands reached out from behind Fang Li and wrapped around his neck from Fang Li, as if embracing Fang Li.
Those were a pair of incredibly fair-skinned woman's arms.
Immediately afterwards, a voice whispered in Fang Li's ear.
"----die."
As soon as he finished speaking, the black mist surrounding Fang Li began to swirl violently, engulfing him.