"If she realizes I know she's [Unfulfilled Wish], she'll attack and kill me."
"But if I act normally, we'll actually be fine."
Confessing his feelings was out of the question, of course... He wouldn't dare use the Demon God Contract.
So, did Gourd really not exist? Had it all been an act?
Zhang Ming felt he was truly about to crumble. This might have been the most vulnerable moment of his life. Even if he survived, it seemed little different from dying... His inner world was on the verge of collapse.
Everyone was an island, and the times made loneliness eternal.
But he kept pretending. That was his instinct as a fighter.
Whatever the circumstances, anger was better than despair.
He did everything he could to make himself angry.
Amid those subtle emotions, he happily put the hundred fruits into the Space Sack, muttering things like "five million" and "ten million," his body trembling slightly.
He was almost delirious. Great swathes of his vision darkened, and even what he said became instinctive.
"Transplant it back, then. I don't know how to care for that miraculous tree anyway. That's our money tree..."
"Make sure you raise it properly!"
He wanted to charge at her in despair and fight to the death!
But as he was now, he couldn't even take her down with him.
The world was that hopeless.
Perhaps too many people lived in such despair. At that moment, Zhang Ming seemed shrouded in darkness, unable to see a hand before his face, unable to see the light of the future.
A simple thought arose in Zhang Ming's mind: he should take [Unfulfilled Wish] to the Space-Time Worm's main body for a final battle. If he lost, so be it.
Before dying, he could make the "Space-Time Worm" self-destruct, blasting