Uesugi Tetsu gripped the hilt of Kaga Kiyomitsu and quietly stared at Ye Chun, who lay on the stone platform with her fair neck exposed within easy reach of his hand.
--[Ye Chun/Kisaragi Station (three-star)].
He asked again, "If I bring the blade down now, does that count as saving you?"
"Ah, yes." The girl, unable to move anything but her lips on the stone platform, answered affirmatively. "Yes, Uesugi-kun."
She seemed to realize something and looked toward the Ye Chun sprawled on the ground. "Uesugi-kun, I think you must be worried about her."
"Don't worry, Uesugi-kun." The girl smiled. "After I die, she'll also vanish together with me as an obsession."
"From now on, there will be no more 'Ye Chuns' enduring pain, experiencing loneliness, feeling despair, and finally walking toward death, over and over again."
"Uesugi-kun, you're very kind. I understood that perfectly from the very first time I met you."
The girl spoke softly. "Although every Ye Chun, including me, is an independent individual, their memories are uncontrollably shared with me."
"--Even if everything I experienced before has ceased to exist because of the reset, I'll still remember you closing my eyes and burying me. I'll remember you shouting at me to run away by the tracks."
The girl lowered her eyes, her shoulders trembling faintly. "So please, save me from this cage of endless reincarnation."
--He only needed to kill Ye Chun to free her. There was a high chance that he could also complete the mission directly and end the Kisaragi Station map.
Uesugi Tetsu rubbed the cold hilt of Kaga Kiyomitsu.
He knew that whether the life of the girl named Ye Chun ended here or continued was all in the span of a single thought.
Uesugi Tetsu closed his eyes, then opened them