Wanting to Walk Hand in Hand with You Until the End

Dinner took place during the conversation.

Mobius mentioned the current treatment progress, which can be summarized as stagnation. She personally believes that instead of wasting resources on such a meaningless thing, it would be better to let her do other more meaningful experiments.

Disaster objected, saying that no one should give up so easily.

Mobius put down his cutlery and said calmly, "Disaster, I've heard too much about never giving up over the years, including myself. Once you have a goal in mind, you never give up until you achieve it. But I've also seen too many people who, in the pursuit of those unattainable dreams, either give up or drown in their ideals. In the end, very few actually succeed."

Since Zhu Yufeng wanted Disaster to grow up, she didn't mind giving this junior a piece of advice from someone who had been through it all.

And she wasn't wrong.

Someone like Kosma was only saved from drowning in his naive ideals thanks to Zhu Yufeng in his past life. She still harbors resentment towards Kosma for abandoning the Project Ark and almost letting Griseo carry it out.

There were actually three candidates for Project Ark: Zhu Yufeng, Griseo, and Kosma. Kosma and Zhu Yufeng, needless to say, Vishnu's properties that were enough to protect them safely in space.

However, after the incident involving the Tenth Herrscher, Mobius discovered that Zhu Yufeng's body could no longer support him in carrying out the Project Ark. To put it bluntly, his remaining lifespan at that time was not long enough, and he was already nearing the end of his life.

His best ending would be to go to the moon and dedicate his strength to humanity one last time.

Therefore, only Kosma and Griseo remain as candidates.

Kosma was reluctant to carry out Project Ark, feeling that doing so would make him a deserter.

If things go as planned, and with everyone else's agreement, Kosma wouldn't stubbornly refuse to carry out Project Ark. But... Griseo is a good girl, so she noticed Kosma's reluctance and offered to carry out Project Ark in his Kosma.

Vill-V told Zhu Yufeng about this, and he directly rejected Griseo's application to carry out Project Ark. As a result, Project Ark was temporarily shelved due to the lack of an executor.

In the Finality battle, Zhu Yufeng sacrificed his life to bring the Finality to a standstill for 72 hours. During this time, Kosma restarted Project Ark and embarked on a journey to the stars.

Kosma noticed that Mobius's gaze was lingering on him, so he chose to remain silent.

After all, he was indeed in the wrong in this matter.

(Is that person who supposedly "drowned in their own ideals" referring to me? I once stubbornly wanted to be a Heroes, but in the end... I accomplished nothing.)

He still remembered what Zhu Yufeng said to him at that time, "You think this is running away? Ha... Kosma, you... You have the awareness to sacrifice, but you can't win against the Honkai just by having the awareness to sacrifice. So what if it is running away? Sometimes, running away and compromising are not cowardice, but are for the next victory, for the hope that follows."

(For the next victory... That's what you told me, but what about you? Have you ever backed down? These words are utterly unconvincing coming from you. Clearly... only if you survive will humanity have more hope, right? So... even if it happens again, I won't change my choice. We've already learned from our experience once; this time, we might do even better.)

On the other hand, although Zhu Yufeng roughly knew that Mobius was subtly mocking Kosma, Zhu Yufeng still felt that he was being implied as well! "Drowning in his own ideals"? Strictly speaking, he did seem to have drowned in his own ideals. He had given everything so that the Thirteen Flame-Chasers could have another future, and in the end... he saved everyone except Elysia.

The price seems to be one's own life.

So it's not wrong to say that he ultimately drowned in his own ideals.

Elysia glanced at Kosma, knowing that Mobius was talking about Kosma, but... she then looked at Zhu Yufeng, whose expression seemed a little off.

It seems that Mobius also insulted Feng in the process.

Disaster remained silent. She wasn't a researcher; she couldn't understand those cryptic data. She simply wanted to save as many people as possible.

"Mobius is right. One cannot always cling to a vague ideal, but one must not lose sight of one's ideals either, because it is ideals that provide the driving force for human progress and the opportunity for evolution," Zhu Yufeng said. "Your ideals may seem ridiculous to professionals in the relevant fields, but... why not look at it from a different angle? Since you can't save those Honkai by the Corrosion, why not try to rescue them from the clutches of the Honkai before that happens? I've told you before, Kosma has never changed, and this is because that's what he thinks now. He always wants to do everything in his power to save everyone."

In short, he felt that Disaster was getting a bit stuck in her own head. She was focusing too much on the tragedy and helplessness brought about by the Honkai, and she should have focused on the root cause of all this, the Honkai.

However, it's not entirely Disaster's fault. After all, she's still too young, at an age where it's easy to get stuck in a rut. If she has a knot in her heart and doesn't resolve it in time, it will be like a thorn, taking root and sprouting, affecting her entire life.

He's been through it all, he understands...

He once got stuck on Elysia's obsession. At that time, he really liked Elysia. He would be happy for her, jealous for her, and impulsively report her. After the "failure" of the report, he tried to comfort himself with various reasons. In the end, he simply gave up and remembered the idea that "Elysia would never fall in love with any single individual" for more than ten years.

They never, and refused to, consider other possibilities.

Now he understands that Elysia is just an ordinary girl, someone she likes, someone who makes her happy and sad... but he himself is...

Mobius stared at Zhu Yufeng with narrowed eyes. "Da Yuli, you really know how to talk a good game, but how come I remember someone dying in the same way?"

I absolutely have to keep an eye on you in this lifetime!

Why do you spend all your time thinking about how to sacrifice yourself? Can't you just live a good life? Is it good to be unable to sleep every night? Is it good to feel like you only have a few days left to live before the Finality battle?

"Amo?" Disaster's eyes flickered, then she looked at Kosma.

Zhu Yufeng also looked at Kosma. He had done his best. If Kosma could still argue with Disaster like this, then he was truly beyond saving and could be buried.

Kosma paused for a moment, then said, "... Feng is right."

Disaster: "..."

Amo is hopeless... Oh well, at least Amo can finally communicate normally with me now, so I can't expect this blockhead to suddenly have an epiphany or anything.

Speaking of which, Feng's tone of voice is really mature, like a man who has experienced a lot and has a long and arduous past...

But the problem is, isn't Feng still under 18?

"Speaking of ideals, what are everyone's ideals? Let's take this opportunity to have a good talk about them, shall we?" Elysia said with a smile. "They can be childhood wishes, or some of your current thoughts~"

"Ideals?" Pardo scratched her head. "We... we don't have any grand ideals. We're just happy living carefree every day, with sunshine in the air, um..."

Ideally, Brother Yu Feng would be there to sunbathe with me.

"Hmm~ That's an ideal that fits Phyllis's personality~" Elysia nodded. "Then, what are the ideals or wishes of the others?"

Zhu Yufeng squinted at Elysia, and he had a feeling that someone was up to something.

Ideals... he... doesn't seem to have any.

If we're talking about ideals before he transmigrated, he did have some. As for whether they count... he probably would, but he didn't want to be given special treatment because he didn't have any ideals.

"Ideals? I don't have any grand ideals." Sakura reached out and patted Rin's head. "I just hope that Rin can grow up happily and healthily. As for other things... I haven't thought about them."

Zhu Yufeng: "..."

Are you her older sister or her mother? That's true, since they're sisters who depend on each other, it's normal for Sakura to be both the older sister and the mother...

Thirteen Flame-Chasers... most of them had very simple ideals and aspirations.

Aside from Mobius, everyone else's wishes were probably quite normal.

Mobius's ideals were too advanced for humankind.

"... I've always wanted to be a Heroes," Kosma said, then looked at Zhu Yufeng, "Yufeng, what about you?"

Everyone turned their attention to Zhu Yufeng.

Rin and Disaster were purely curious, but the others wanted to know even more: what were the ideals of this young man before them? What sustained him as he walked down a thorny path?

It will come as it always will.

Zhu Yufeng thought about it for a moment. This was probably a solution that Elysia had come up with. She had said that she wanted to go through things with him and that she would gradually get to know him and understand him again...

So why not just ask him directly? If you just ask him directly, he'll say "yes" too.

That's why people say it's hard to guess what girls are thinking.

"My wish... in the earliest days, was to get into my ideal university and find a job that wasn't too busy or too slow," Zhu Yufeng said. He had mentioned this to Kevin in a casual chat in his previous life.

Once you get to know Kevin, you'll find that he's actually a good friend, someone you can be brothers with for life.

"And then?" Elysia asked.

Zhu Yufeng thought about the actual situation in his previous life and said, "Then, when I got to the 20s, my family urged me to get married and I went on blind dates, hoping to meet someone I liked and spend a relatively peaceful life with her."

But even living like this, very few people can actually do it, right? That's why we say it's an ideal.

Actually, he had considered marrying his childhood sweetheart, after all, they were childhood sweethearts and had a good emotional foundation.

Rather, this is the most likely scenario.

However, if he were to say it out loud, his current situation might become even more difficult.

It's so hard to be a person. jpg

Speaking of my childhood sweetheart... I wonder how she is now. My family probably thinks I'm dead since I've been missing for so long. I just hope they can get over this.

After the initial excitement and thrill of time travel, he actually missed home quite a bit. Time travel wasn't that fun. He was alone in a place where he knew no one, and where he could die at any moment. How could he not miss home?

But he couldn't even contact his family.

He is not an orphan, nor is he some emotionally deprived monster. He has his own family, his own relatives and friends.

Suddenly, I was "abandoned" from everything and transported to another world... with nothing...

During this time, his pillar of support was Elysia, who was far away at headquarters at the time. She was the first person he met in this world, and the only one he knew.

Then there was the incident with the Fourth Herrscher, when Elysia Alicia's team. During that time... she received a lot of care from her.

Everyone was speechless. Disaster wondered if this senior Sea King's ideals were really that simple?

Others might think that he couldn't even fulfill such a wish, because he had taken on a world and destiny far removed from that wish.

Elysia paused for a moment, then said softly, "My wish is actually quite simple~"

It's quite simple: I want to meet someone like myself, someone who is like me.

Zhu Yufeng had expected this, but Elysia's next words surprised him greatly:

"My wish is to spend every day with the person I love. I want to watch fireworks with him, travel the world together, and... stay together until the end."

Elysia said this while looking at Zhu Yufeng.

Pardo & Vill-V & Mobius & Disaster: "!"

Is Sister Elysia Elysia that cool?!

Elysia truly thought so; this was her current wish, or more precisely, it was what she thought when she was alone gazing at the starry sky after the Twelfth Herrscher Incident in her previous life.

He and she had watched fireworks together during festivals in big cities, and they had promised to come back together under the dazzling fireworks and starry sky.

But... they only watched the fireworks together this one time, just this one time...

She knew that Zhu Yufeng had definitely seen it more than once, after all, she herself had seen it quite a few times, but she also knew that... at that time, the person standing next to him was not her.

"It suits your personality and your wishes..." Zhu Yufeng looked away. He did indeed remember that he and Elysia had made a promise to see Yanyu again, but...

In the end, Lilith didn't even know how many times she had dragged him to see Yanyu.

He and Elysia had only seen each other once.

Elysia simply smiled as she looked at Zhu Yufeng. Since everyone present knew what she was thinking, a hint wouldn't hurt. She just wanted to remind Feng of her promise to him and, incidentally, assert her rights.