Old Wounds Reopened: Sakura and Rin's Past!

"You old fogey, stop laughing!"

Fu Hua's expression immediately became more composed, but the smile on her lips could not be hidden.

"Ah!!!"

Little Knowledge is about to go crazy.

A mother who commits fraud will be talked about for the rest of her life.

566

Chapter 566 The Old Sword Retrieved, Sakura and Rin's Past!

"It's really unexpected that Sakura would appear at this time..."

Blanca sighed.

Since the night Sakura disappeared in Elysia, she seemed to have vanished into thin air, with no further plot developments. Even Su said that there was something wrong with Sakura's data. All the suspicions and doubts she had faced completely disappeared at this moment.

"Of course! I believed from the beginning that my older sister would be absolutely fine!"

Ling's face lit up with excitement.

Nothing could make her happier than seeing her sister back on stage.

"Rin, have you ever thought about this? Sakura's appearance at this time is not a good sign. Maybe she'll be the next one to leave..."

Pardo said something that spoiled the mood.

Everyone was stunned.

I couldn't help but think of what Pardo had said.

Indeed, Sakura's appearance at this time is certainly exciting for the audience, but it also makes one wonder if the screenwriter has already prepared her as the next target for nerfs.

Su, however, did not have such thoughts. He felt that his guess in the plot was very accurate, and that Sakura was waiting for the opportunity to kill him in one fell swoop in the opened space.

"..."

Aponia felt there was something she didn't know whether she should say or not.

For a long time now, viewers have been speculating about when Aponia would die. Now, one or two others have left the stage, but Aponia remains on the field like a phoenix.

What?! Aponia is all alone! Something's definitely going to happen to her!

What?! Aponia got infected because of Zed! She's going to be in big trouble soon!

And now...

"So... Sakura, are you still willing to believe in me? Just like... in the past."

Elysia's voice came from the dark screen.

That night in the archives, Elysia looked at Sakura who had come carrying the Purifying Thunder of Seven Sins and was somewhat worried. She was unusually serious and told Sakura that there would be no traitors in the Elysian Realm.

After a moment of silence, Sakura told Elysia that she only wanted to verify one thing, about a girl, and she wanted to know the answer from Elysia.

Sakura spoke casually, her expression calm. As someone who was used to seeing life and death, she was often the calmer she appeared, the more grief she felt.

She always found herself trapped in the same dream, a dream where, apart from nothingness, there was only a lone girl sitting there, weeping with hatred.

Because of her memory loss, she could never remember who the girl was, and she would wake up from her dream whenever she approached the girl.

"These dreams show no signs of disappearing; on the contrary, they're appearing more and more frequently. Even though so much time has passed since I first learned about them..."

Sakura paused, took a deep breath, and even the background music stopped abruptly, falling into an eerie silence.

"From the time I learned... that Rin had been killed as the Herrscher of Corruption."

"What?! Sakura, you..."

Elysia couldn't believe her ears, her eyes widened, and she stared at Sakura in astonishment.

Sakura tells her that she has always known, and Elysia understands that while they were keeping it a secret from Sakura out of goodwill, Sakura was doing the same thing.

"Surprising, isn't it?"

Sakura's voice was very soft, so soft it seemed fragile.

"No, Sakura, you never surprise me. I just... don't want to see you face such painful choices again."

Elysia looked at Sakura with eyes full of affection.

"Yes, what a painful choice... I can't accept giving up like this, but revenge would also lose its meaning..."

Sakura closed her eyes, not wanting Elysia to see the sadness in them.

She didn't know who she should seek revenge against.

Is it addressed to the true culprits who died 50,000 years ago, or to Aponia, who also passed away, leaving only a wisp of memory?

Eden always says, "May time stand still in this moment," but Sakura is the one who most wishes time would stop...

They were already deeply shocked when they heard Sakura say that Rin had become the Herrscher of Corruption, and they had the same reaction Elysia.

But when they saw the expression on Sakura's face, that strength that concealed loneliness, sadness, and pain, they were stunned for a moment.

I never imagined that the knife I stabbed in the Sea of Quanta would pierce my heart at this moment.

So much time has passed.

"Sakura...she...she knew all along, and for fifty thousand years she pretended not to know in front of us...I..."

This sudden reversal made Elysia feel just as bad as she did in the story.

The thought that Sakura had to pretend to be unaware in front of them for the past 50,000 years, only to reveal her pain when she was alone, was unbearable.

Elysia suddenly felt pain, excruciating pain.

Ling was completely stunned.

She wanted to see her eldest sister wreak havoc after she came out, not to kill her after she came out.

This strike was truly devastating!

"I..."

Ling wanted to cry, but she couldn't.

She was stunned for a moment, unsure of what expression to wear in response to this scene.

Sakura sighed and covered her forehead in exasperation, then hugged the nearly broken bell to her chest.

"Now I understand why Yaqing was in such a hurry to return to Central Europe."

Kevin whispered in May's ear.

Mei looked up, her face full of confusion.

Kevin, who was the second victim of Sakura's personal visit to demand script changes, told Mei his suspicions, leaving Mei feeling both amused and exasperated.

"..."

Aponia looked compassionate.

If she knew the pain Sakura was in, she would definitely have taken on Sakura's revenge. But... would Sakura really take revenge on Aponia only has a wisp of memory left?

"Well."

Eden sighed.

As early as when she heard that Yaqing was planning to include everyone from the Golden Courtyard in the storyline, she had a bad feeling, and now, that feeling had come true.

Let alone wielding an old sword again, the real fear is that the Herrscher of Corruption might transform into Rin, making Sakura unable to bring herself to kill her, or even kill Sakura in Rin's form...

Eden had no doubt that such a thing could happen, after all, the Herrscher of Corruption had done nothing human so far.

Rin is everything to Sakura, so when she learns the truth by chance, she is almost consumed by hatred, but she doesn't do it.

Elysia also learned that Sakura Vill-V to repair the Purifying Thunder of Seven Sins, but only wanted to know the memories within them, but the only memory she had was of Sakura wielding her sword against her "kind".

And here, through this typewriter, Sakura finally saw the memory of saying goodbye to Elysia that night.

Sakura then dropped another bombshell: the one who had been hiding something wasn't Elysia, but her.

She had the opportunity to take Rin away before Rin was taken away by the Moth Chasing Fire, but Rin refused.

Although in her eyes, Rin was still just a child, that was not the case. Looking at the world of calamities, Rin was more worried about her own instability than Moth Chasing Fire.

Therefore, Rin believed in the measures Moth Chasing Fire and voluntarily allowed herself to be taken away so that others would not bear greater risks because of her. At the same time, she also believed that May would make the right judgment and that humanity also had a chance to control itself under the Honkai.

But what happened next...

Listening to Sakura's story, they finally understood Rin's thoughts.

What an understanding child, but the result was...

"Bell..."

Sakura looked at Rin, whom she was holding in her arms, with a pained expression.

"Those damned guys! And... those damned rules!"

Kalpas glared fiercely at Aponia.

What angered Kalpas the most was that Ling trusted the Moth Chasing Fire so much that she voluntarily allowed herself to be imprisoned, but those warriors influenced by the Commandments betrayed her trust and cruelly killed her.

The wounds on Ling's body seemed to be telling them that humans are not trustworthy.

Even when she was being tortured, did Ling ever feel a single bit of regret?

Aponia's expression remained compassionate.

"Aponia did not mean that. Her original intention was to prevent the warriors fighting against the Honkai from losing their resolve under the Honkai. No one wanted to see the consequences, and no one could have predicted them."

Eden spoke on behalf of Aponia.

At that time, no one could have imagined that the precepts would have such serious consequences.

This includes the death of Ling and... Fu Hua's Divine Sound, etc.

Mei, leaning on Kevin's shoulder, took a deep breath.

Ling believed she would make the right judgment...

In the end, however, she was unable to stop the soldiers from brutally murdering Ling.

Kevin didn't know what to say at that moment, so he simply pulled Mei into a tight embrace.

The moment Sakura regained that memory, she realized that the girl who appeared in her dream was none other than herself.

Sakura couldn't help but give a wry smile.

"I thought that pain and hatred were the echo of the bell left in my heart... but that was my misunderstanding."

"Just as I mistakenly believed that I was always protecting Ling, our relationship had already reversed the moment I decided to go against her original intentions to rescue her..."

"So, actually, she's protecting me. The one who can't leave the other person... is me."

The world-ending melody that evokes endless sorrow plays again, making one sigh that this background music is only ever used in top-tier matches.

That is precisely why Sakura cannot let her revenge run rampant. Once Fusion Warrior like her loses her rationality, she becomes no different from any other Herrscher, which would be tantamount to bringing shame upon everything Rin has done.

"I can't let her down again..."

Sakura's voice in the little tune was very fragile, so fragile that it seemed as if it could shatter at the slightest touch.

"After all, I'm the older sister... I should set a good example, shouldn't I?"

Sakura forced a smile, but her eyes were full of sorrow as she forcefully suppressed the urge to sob.

"So... Elysia, I only want to ask you to confirm one thing."

"I want to know my true fate."

"After deciding to go against Rin's wishes... in the final moments of my life, did I... make the right choice again?"

Those who witnessed this scene experienced a hallucination.

It was as if I could see that world again in the Sea of Quanta, the death of Sakura amidst the ruins, and those words, "I protected... my pride as an older sister..."

This is truly a case of wielding an old sword again.

Elysia couldn't hold back her tears.

It hurts, it hurts so much.