To save the innocent people of Changkong City, sending Miss Mei to heaven ahead of time—as Emiya Shirou had said—would make many people smile. That definitely wasn't a wrong thing to do.
But sacrificing an innocent girl's life for the smiles of the so-called majority, under Mo Yi's still-naive, positive worldview that had not endured much cruel hardship, was definitely the wrong thing to do.
Even if Kiana suddenly powered up now, immediately turned into Miss Pufferfish, and began slaughtering everything in this newbie village of Changkong City, Mo Yi, with a gun in hand, didn't know whether he could bring himself to pull the trigger.
Everyone understood grand principles, but few people lived well just because they understood more principles. After all, humans were creatures driven equally by reason and emotion, and reason and emotion often led to opposite conclusions.
Come to think of it, Mo Yi had even spent a sleepless night over the matter he had written in his little notebook under the name "Miss Mei's Heaven Plan." When the final moment came, should he really give her a "righteous backstab"?
"Oh—"
Kiana still trusted Mo Yi deeply. After all, having always been alone, once she acknowledged someone, she would trust that person without hesitation.
Theresa trusted Mo Yi because of one hundred yuan's worth of chocolate, but over these past days, Kiana had eaten far more than a hundred times that amount of chocolate from him.
It was also because of that invisible trust that the cheerful and open-hearted girl had always disliked Theresa, who seemed more favored than her. As for their earlier misunderstanding, now that it had been cleared up, she no longer cared. After all, they were both Honkai Messengers, both outsiders rejected by the human world. Why did they need to kill