Players and Chat Records

When she saw the face behind the Conductor's head, even Yu Gugu, despite her nerves of steel, felt her heartbeat skip slightly.

The change in her was not born of fear, but of shock.

She recognized the face behind the Conductor. Or rather, not long ago, they had lain together on Hospital Beds and shared hardship.

—It was Naraku no Honoo's face.

But compared to before, all that remained of him now was a face. A black Thorn had pierced through his cheek, and a red Xiao Hua bloomed at its tip.

When Yu Gugu looked over at him, his vacant gaze happened to turn toward her as well. After staring blankly for a moment, she realized that he had clearly recognized her too.

From her angle, she could see quite clearly that, in that instant, the light of survival returned to his eyes.

Excitement, exhilaration, perhaps even a trace of pleading.

Like a traveler dying of thirst in the desert finally finding water just before death, or a drowning person grasping a stick and breaking the surface at the last possible moment. She was that water, that stick.

Yu Gugu did not know what terrifying ordeal he had suffered to become like this, but she knew very clearly that she could not save him.

What was more, the situation she was facing now might be even worse.

As if sensing something, the Conductor, who had been about to walk past her, silently stopped when Naraku no Honoo's gaze met hers.

"..."

Instinctively holding her breath, Yu Gugu's body tensed slightly as she prepared herself for battle.

But in the next moment, Yu Gugu discovered with some astonishment that Naraku no Honoo had looked away. As the desire to survive rapidly faded from his eyes, she saw his lips move