As for how they were supposed to grow close and entrust their lives to each other, that mostly depended on my fragmented screenwriting ability.
Was it well written? No.
Was it satisfying? I found it pretty satisfying, anyway.
I liked writing emotionless girls, and sometimes I was even smug about it. Later, I realized it was mainly because there were no beautiful girls with that kind of personality in real life, while I was just a dumbass who had never dated.
Lastly, please, give me some votes.
Ashes and All, I'll Scatter Them for You (1/3)
"Don't miss a single corner."
That was Zhao Bai's reminder to Bronya, and it happened to align perfectly with her own thoughts. Bronya wanted this thing to disappear completely too, so it would not dirty her eyes.
Help him pick up girls?
Just hearing that made her angry—far angrier than if Zhao Bai had shown no reaction at all. Bronya stared fixedly at the screaming monster and reported its position coldly.
"Six o'clock, eighteen meters."
Flames descended like Heaven's Punishment, severing the vine that was trying to scatter seeds. It twisted as it burned, then began trying every possible escape route—from spores to seeds, even cutting off a nutrient-rich section of its roots.
Drawing upon the accumulated evolution of plants over hundreds of millions of years, it used every reproductive method imaginable. Colorful flowers bloomed all over the vines, dandelion seeds silently took flight, and pea-shooter seeds blasted into the distance like cannonballs...
But it was utterly useless.
"Eight o'clock, thirteen meters. Wide horizontal sweep."
Zhao Bai moved as his heart commanded, swinging his arm through a perfect arc. The blade light was like a meteor streaking across the sky, and every attempt at reproduction was utterly annihilated in the flames.
Slash!
The monster