Chapter 579
There was nothing there.
What does one feel inside in this world?
Deep within my heart, or perhaps no longer within my heart, this place feels like the end of everything.
Standing there was only a girl with long, silver-gray hair, always covered in snowflakes, her face pale from the cold.
For her, the world has always been this way.
However, when she looked into her deep purple eyes, which were covered with a thin layer of frost, she saw another person on the other side of the snowfield.
The other person was also looking at her.
She has a calm and serene demeanor, much like a young girl in winter.
---- Kirishima Ai
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The sky seemed never to brighten, and the snow never to stop. They stood in the middle of the snowfield, snowflakes falling all around, the biting cold wind whipping at their skin.
The snow and wind continued to howl, yet were swallowed by the silence of the night, so quiet it felt like the soul returning to its earth, making one feel that perhaps this was the end of the world.
Perhaps some story will end here, and someone will be buried here silently.
On this snowy day, under the gloomy and cold clouds, there was a gray-haired girl whose skin was as white and flawless as the falling snow, translucent and cold, as if the person who painted this picture mistook her for the snowy day and forgot to add color.
She also had a face as cold and silent as the snowy day.
In the distance, another girl was walking in the Snowfield. Her beautiful black hair was turned white by the snow, and her clear, fair skin had a faint blush from the cold.
When they breathe, they exhale white vapor, which is tinged with silence and desolation.
There is no one else here, no time, no light, only this eternal winter.
Snow and wind are the eternal song of this place.
At some point, a slender girl with long, silver-gray hair, who looked like she stepped out of a fairy tale, seemed to be moved. She took steps silently in the snow, gradually approaching another girl named Kirishima Ai.
The black-haired girl tilted her neck slightly, her eyes unblinking, and waited with her gaze lowered as the gray-haired girl approached her.
It wasn't until the gray-haired girl stepped across the snow curtain and stood before her.
As she drew closer, the gray-haired girl quickened her pace slightly, and upon reaching the other person, she raised a hand without any hesitation.
----Bang.
The next moment, the gray-haired girl punched the black-haired girl in the face, and with a dull thud, the black-haired girl was knocked to the ground in the Snowfield.
The sound wasn't loud in the howling snow wind, but it definitely hurt.
The beautiful girl with black hair had a red bruise on the side of her face where she had been hit, and her hair had also bumped against the Snowfield.
Apart from that, neither of them made a sound.
After that, it seemed as if he hadn't yet vented his hatred.
The girl with long silver-gray hair bent down and continued trying to hit the black-haired girl.
She gripped the black-haired girl's neck tightly with one slender hand, while her other fist pounded on the girl's head again and again. Even though the black-haired girl raised her arm to protect herself, she was still hit hard.
Several loud "bang" sounds were heard as the hammer was pounded.
The black-haired girl's face went from being bruised on the side to bleeding from a broken forehead.
Blood was also flowing from her nose, making her originally fair and beautiful face look very disheveled.
The black-haired girl, her hair covered in white snowflakes, lay on the Snowfield after being hit several times. She whimpered in pain, one hand covering her face, and mumbled softly:
"Ouch... it hurts so much!"
The black-haired girl looked annoyed.
Perhaps finally realizing what was happening, the gray-haired girl, who still wanted to continue fighting, felt the person she was riding struggle. Soon, she also felt a punch coming at her.
Caught off guard, the unsuspecting girl Lilith was also knocked to the side.
They both rolled around in the Snowfield in pain for a while.
Lilith seems to be very afraid of pain.
The black-haired girl wiped the blood from her face, and the Snowfield nearby, which was originally pure white, was now splattered with her crimson blood.
But Lilith didn't stop there.
The two of them stood up and started fighting.
Kirishima Ai seemed to be primarily on the defensive, always raising her arms to protect herself, but Lilith seemed to be using her as a punching bag to vent her anger, hitting her head hard several times.
That's really brutal.
Amidst the swirling snow, the two girls disregarded any semblance of a relationship, seemingly driven purely by mutual loathing and rejection.
Lilith seems to really dislike Kirishima Ai.
On this cold, snowy day, she didn't want to do anything; it seemed she just wanted to beat Kirishima Ai until she was covered in bruises and her head was bleeding.
If we're talking about who's better at fighting, they're probably evenly matched.
Neither Lilith nor Haihara ever lost a fight when they were kids.
Kirishima Ai is also one.
There was no Magic, no weapons, and no elaborate costumes; it seemed like just two girls fighting.
Although Lilith is also a formidable fighter, she hasn't used her fists in a long time, and Kirishima Ai quickly regained her former advantage.
Because she had been beaten to this extent, she became somewhat frantic, even grabbing Lilith's hair, her face full of dissatisfaction.
"It hurts so much..."
Kirishima Ai retaliated with another punch to Lilith, then wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth.
Maybe the ground was too slippery.
They both fell down while fighting and started wrestling again in the Snowfield.
Finally, Kirishima Ai was a little upset after being beaten.
She quickly lost her footing in the Snowfield and became completely Snowfield.
A burning sensation kept spreading through my body.
Kirishima Ai hasn't given up yet; even with Lilith pinning her down, she still manages to retaliate.
Lilith completely ignored the pain in the end, looking down at Kirishima Ai with an expression of utter disgust and coldness.
"... Why?"
She suppressed the emotions in her voice.
It seems like he's annoyed.
The anger burned brighter with each breath, so unlike the winter landscape, carrying a hysteria that was so out of place with the woman's elegance.
Like being drenched in a downpour, one feels disheveled, confused, and angry.
"... Why won't you give up? Why do you have to get in my way? Why won't you fall?"
"You're so annoying, just go die!"
"Saying that this isn't my idea, saying I don't want to do this, but who are you?"
The girl with long silver-gray hair spoke with disgust, like a willful, self-centered child.
In the deepest recesses of her heart, only this self-destructive girl remained.
She really speaks without restraint!
In response, Kirishima Ai simply took advantage of Lilith's anger and threw another punch at her.
The sound of a solid fist.
A crimson line appeared on the silver-haired girl's beautiful face, and blood flowed comically from her nose.
She raised her hand and touched it blankly.
Afterwards, Lilith's expression became even more furious and twisted. She pinned Kirishima down and retaliated with more blows until Kirishima was completely exhausted and unable to resist.
"Because... cough cough---"
The girl's voice was weak.
"... I care about you a lot. I like Teacher Haihara, so I was thinking, 'If only you could come back...' or something like that?"
Another string of nonsensical ramblings.
A flush of annoyance rose on Lilith's pale face as she denied it.
"That wasn't real liking at all, was it? It was just a naive, superficial, and foolish concern. You wouldn't recognize me if I just changed my appearance!"
"We haven't known each other for very long, that's all we've got!"
"Actually, you don't know why you're stopping me, do you? You don't understand anything, you don't think about anything, right?"
In the bone-chilling Snowfield, amidst the quiet yet howling wind, a girl covered in wounds spoke in a weak and somewhat melancholic voice:
"----Um."
The air fell silent once more.
Originally, Kirishima was carrying two diapers, covering his face, looking pitiful as he panted and sobbed.
But now he has lowered his arm.
In Lilith's eyes, she saw the girl's aggrieved and tearful expression.
"Yes, I'm terrible."
"She has a terrible personality. Maybe it's just an unclear, unspoken attraction to you, and she doesn't even know what she's thinking!"
"They may also be unable to distinguish right from wrong."
"But aren't you an adult?"
"Aren't you my teacher? If I'm wrong, then teach me!"
"I will change! I will become better! I will become less annoying! I will try harder and harder!"
"But you won't give me any chance—what should I do?"
The girl's warm tears dripped down, so hot they melted the snow. She looked utterly foolish, yet combined with her injuries, she appeared pitifully pathetic.
Is he trying to cheat her?
Is she being coquettish?
Are you kidding me...?
Those words only made Lilith's expression more gloomy and cold, as if she had heard something unforgivable, to the point that she even gritted her teeth and revealed a twisted look in her eyes.
With a gaze as cold as if she had fallen into an ice cave, she stared at Kirishima Ai with a gloomy expression. Seeing the other's infuriatingly sullen expression and her stubborn eyes, everything about her made Lilith so unhappy.
"... What do you know?"
"Did you think you had time to change, to become better, to become less unlikable...?"
The gray-haired girl clenched her fists, making a trembling sound as her bones shook.
Her voice was low and hoarse, suppressing her disgust.
"--I hate you."
From the very first moment I saw you.
"I wish you had never existed."
Kirishima Ai lying in the blood-stained Snowfield, the girl uttered the most Malice curse she could imagine.
Those were words powerful enough to crush and pierce Kirishima Ai's heart.
It's like a mother cursing her child to die young.
----It would have been better if you had never existed.
Nothing could be more heartbreaking than this.