Absolute Choice 10

by Pear Lands In The Autumn Spring

  When did the topic of conversation slowly shift?

  The Infernal Queen turned increasingly vexed the further she thought. Looking at the gorgeous face which had a relieved look, like she had taught someone well, projected in the chessboard, she nearly burst out in angry tears.

  How infuriating!

  What happened to the mutual damage?

  Why was she the only one hurt!?

  The Infernal Queen's red lips twitched slightly as she used a stiffened tone to say, "I understand now. Compared to that blond girl's sincerity, my naked body back then was indeed not worth mentioning. But! But so what? Was it certain that by devoting her precious sincerity, it was taken for granted that the boy would be moved? Was it certain that if the boy's love was split into two, you wouldn't feel sad because of it? Was it certain that as you watch him and her embrace each other tightly, without separating up to this point, you wouldn't feel upset about it? Was it certain..."

  Without any consideration for logic or excuses, the Infernal Queen began to use 'was it' as a counter attack after she turned shame into anger.

  Along with the Infernal Queen's counter, Kali's expression turned increasingly cold.

  This had caught the Infernal Queen by surprise for her unreasonable counters had turned effective.

  That azure blue eye gradually turned dark and dull.

  It isn't an illusion!

  The Infernal Queen immediately laughed.

  So that was the reason. She had chosen the wrong method from the very beginning.

  The pixie who was almost a 'sage' could indeed accept everything about the boy, but because of her deep love for him, it was impossible for her to not have the desire to 'monopolize' him.

  She must have also wished that the boy would belong only to her.

  That jealous expression from before was not an illusion.

  The Infernal Queen gave a charming smile. She finally found a weakness that could be pulverized from the nearly perfect pixie.

  "Even if Shi Xiaobai has...intercourse with that girl, would you really not mind at all?"

  By using a gentle tone to forcefully say the sharp word of 'intercourse', the Infernal Queen had given Kali a brutal strike ruthlessly.

  "How is it possible..."

  Kali's dull eyes flashed a look of melancholy. She pouted her lips and muttered to herself in an inaudible manner, "How can I not mind..."

  The Infernal Queen's smile immediately turned richer.

  Her original goal was not to 'sow discord' because she knew that the chances of success would be extremely low. She only believed that it would be extreme vindication for her if she was able to make the azure blue pupils that resembled a sea of stars reveal a hint of distress.

  But she never expected that a goddess could reveal such a frail state that looked so heartbreaking.

  This...

  It truly...felt too good!

  The grief expressed by a goddess nearly overwhelmed the Infernal Queen with euphoria.

  I want it!

  I want to tear and destroy the mask of the goddess!

  I want to violently trample on the pure feelings of a girl!

  This twisted desire was suddenly born in a very natural way from the will of a program that should not have had any desires.

  The Infernal Queen used a charming voice to say in a manner filled with emotions like she was weeping and grumbling, "Too pitiful. You are really...too pitiful. You clearly do not wish that his body is touched by other women, but you watched with your own eyes how they embrace each other to the point of sinking their bodies into one another...You clearly only wish to be his only one, but you can only resign yourself to fate and accept the fact that another girl had entered his heart...You clearly wish to reserve your 'valuable chastity', but he might very well have intercourse with other women in the future, leaving behind a 'cheap body' for you...Ah, this is too sorrowful. It's really not worth it!"

  The Infernal Queen's voice made it seem like her body was filled with deep emotions of grief and anger.

  Kali sighed and said coldly, "You are right. I do not wish that he touches other women. I wish to be his only one, and similarly, I care about his 'chastity'. But I will not make my wish turn into ugly selfishness. Because compared to all of this, what I cannot accept is...to have such ugly jealousy that I become something he dislikes."

  Once again, the purple-haired pixie did not put up a false front by lying nor did she avoid the topic. Instead, she openly admitted her wishes and expressed her moving thoughts directly.

  Compared to her wishes, what was more important was to not become something he disliked.

  Such a love...

  The Infernal Queen said in disbelief, "Isn't...isn't your love too submissive?"

  It was too submissive.

  Compared to her loftiness as a 'goddess', such a love was just too submissive!

  Kali smiled faintly as she shook her head and said, "Love between two parties is never equal. There would always be a side who will love the other more. From the moment Xiaobai 'snatched' the evil seed of corruption, I was completely defeated in this comparison of love... From the feelings known as 'like' to the fear of 'not wishing to be disliked by him and not lose him', what else can I do but to carefully and submissively taste these sweet fragments dipped in glass?"

  It was impossible for love to be complete happiness.

  The pixie who clearly fell in love for the first time had the understanding that many couples lacked. Due to the loss of her family and race and having spent ten thousand years in loneliness, she would be horrified over the tiny possibility of losing the boy she had met by sheer chance.

  Even if her love was even more submissive, she could not be disliked by him.

  "Idiot!"

  The Infernal Queen angrily responded to the pixie's concept of love with vitriol.

  "What do you mean that there are no options!?"

  The Infernal Queen did not know why she had a baffling sense of frustration rise up in her heart. Furthermore, this sense of frustration felt like it was boiling, as though it was about to burn her chest.

  "You are too foolish!"

  The Infernal Queen finally abandoned the last guise of respect with a switch of her tone.

  She angrily said, "All you need to do is stay by his side and declare your sovereign rights to him. With your looks and your strength, there is no woman in this world that has the courage to snatch him from you! With your charms, all you need is to give the boy a tiny perk and he will definitely not be able to extricate himself from his infatuation towards you. It would impossible for him to have his heart stirred by others! In your so-called 'comparison of love', you can cause a complete reversal going from defeat to victory. Why do you admit defeat so easily? Why!? Are you really such a fool!?"

  Ah, she understood. She understood the reason why she was so angry.

  That was because the pixie in front of her was perfect in everything except for her pubescent body. It was something that even she as a 'program' could not replicate. It was an existence she could only look up to and feel jealous of!

  Her beauty and her strength, her every gesture and smile, made her doubt the bias of the Creator.

  But she, who was a favorite of the Creator, had revealed such a despondent expression for a weak human. She had revealed such a submissive state!

  Such a preposterous fact was infuriating!

  Towards the Infernal Queen's anger and the aggressive tone she had, Kali could only smile faintly. She did not make any retorts.

  Indeed, just as the Infernal Queen had said, if she could stay by Shi Xiaobai's side all the time, even Dawn Li would not have any chances.

  But unfortunately, she could not do so.

  "He and I were two trajectories that should have never been able to cross...Every intersection that happened out of an accident is illogical. If I were to selfishly linger around him, how would his fate be distorted when I have no choice but to leave him? Therefore, what happens now is
already sufficient."

  An analogy that was obscure and difficult to comprehend was actually describing a simple and direct reason.

  A goddess and a mortal's encounter might seem beautiful, but the destiny of their intersection was cruel.

  If a mortal fell in love with a goddess, he would be infatuated with the goddess. He would rely on her or even be possessive of her. The goddess might have to leave the mortal world one day because of a mission she had no choice but to bear the burden of. Then, how would that mortal's destiny change?

  It would be pointless grieving over it. No amount of pain and sadness could alleviate the problem. One could only hate himself for being weak and curse at his own submission. As one could not find a substitute for a goddess, one would drown in the beautiful memories as he lived alone the rest of his life. That was the destiny of a mortal.

  Therefore...

  By maintaining an illusionary distance or by positioning the goddess as a beautiful bubble that could burst at any time, it would make it more acceptable when the mortal were to lose her. Only then would the mortal not be as sad...

  Kali did not want to become a goddess, but Shi Xiaobai and her were never residents of the same world.

  There was bound to be a day she would leave his world and return to her own. And the world that belonged to her was a world he would never reach regardless of the pursuits he would embark on.

  Therefore, in order to reduce the grief he would bear when the moment came and in order to reduce the destined pain, she could not increase even a tiny inkling...of lovely memories between them.

  For her, that was enough.

  She was already satisfied with the present situation.

  "I'm already satisfied to be able to see him from afar."

  This was probably the sweetest expression of love in the world, but also simultaneously the bitterest expression of love in the world.

  Even a goddess, no, because she was a goddess, her love was more submissive than mortals.

  "Is that so? Is that really enough?"

  The Infernal Queen found it inexplicable. She could not grasp the way Kali thought.

  Perhaps it was because she was born in the cold 'program', so she had no way to understand what such warm 'sacrifice' was.

  As such, she was feeling infuriated.

  The Infernal Queen said with a sneer, "Should you be called foolish or naive? Love without partnership will one day lose its original flavor. If you continue watching him from afar, there will be a day when the memories fade away. He will no longer love you! Now, he is only unfaithful, but if this carries on, the distance between the two of you will result in him having a complete...complete change of heart! At that moment, you will really lose him!"

  By being too submissive in her love, it would instead result in the matter she feared the most to happen. Would it really end up making her lose him?

  This possibility was something Kali had never thought of.

  However, every time he felt the grief of losing her, wouldn't that also mean that there was an additional possibility of him not loving her?

  Ah, why did she not think of such a simple logic?

  No, if he were Shi Xiaobai, he would not so easily turn unfaithful!

  But...

  But...even Shi Xiaobai could possibly turn unfaithful, right?

  Kali's eyes flashed a perplexed look.

  The worry of making him sad, as well as the fear of losing him, there was no way to tell which side was heavier when they were mixed together.

  "Enough...Enough...This is something between him and me...It has nothing to do with you."

  As Kali said that, she categorically rejected this conversation that had finally wavered her.

  The Infernal Queen's eyes constricted slightly as she could not help but clench her fist.

  She had noticed a look of despondency flash in the girl's eyes.

  Using a forceful but unreasonable method of 'it has nothing to do with you' was no doubt the limpest of surrenders.

  In this debate of 'mutual damage', it looked like she had clinched the final victory.

  But why?

  Why did she not have the slightest inkling of joy?

  Why was she filled with anger instead?

  The Infernal Queen lowered her head and gave a stiff smile, "Then, this conversation can't carry on?"

  "Yes...the happy chat ends here."

  Kali sighed and suddenly her tone returned to normal. A blizzard-like cold voice emitted out of her soft, red lips. "Let's return to reality. That stupid bull that you reared has regenerated itself after ten minutes of hard work. It would fully recover in another ten seconds. I believe your nonsense should also come to an end? Take the opportunity in which no one is injured and end this joke that has gone too far. You and I might be able to become 'friends', if not..."

  Kali's words pulled the Infernal Queen back into reality.

  The conversation that appeared calm on the surface was, in fact, a dangerous situation that could explode at any time.

  At that very moment, in the mountain valley of the Silent Desolate Lands, seven trial-takers from the human world remained motionless because their shadows were captured by the Shadow Wraith.

  Earthbound Yaksha, which had nothing to do, was napping while leaning against a rock cliff. Although it had yet to deal the fatal blow, in the past few minutes, Field Marshal Awesomo, who had been nearly ground into meat pulp, was finally about to recover to its perfect state after a slow self-recovery process.

  The terror that had been brewing for ten minutes was about to descend!

  How would Field Marshal Awesomo, who had been brutally dealt with, brutally abuse the seven trial-takers over the accumulation of humiliation and anger, especially that azure-dressed girl that had diced him into pieces? The unnerving scene that was about to happen was something unimaginable even if one tried.

  This was a cruel situation that was approaching despair.

  Kali could not save them because the moment she made a move, the Infernal Queen would be able to activate the self-destruct sequence. Shi Xiaobai, who was in the array world, would not be able to survive.

  Shi Xiaobai similarly could not save them because he was a 'silver-haired demon' at the very moment. To repress the urge to kill the girl in his arms already took him all his strength.

  Dawn was even more unlikely to be able to save them. She was unwilling to depart the boy's embrace, so how could she have any intentions of returning to that world?

  The friendly forces on their side were no longer able to give a helping hand.

  At that very moment, the only person that could prevent the tragedy from happening was the Infernal Queen, who was the enemy!

  Kali was helpless. The only thing she could do was persuade the Infernal Queen to end this 'joke that had gone too far' and persuade her with the sincerity of 'becoming friends'.

  However, how could the Infernal Queen, who had painstakingly machinated this scheme, compromise after forcing Kali and the rookies into such a state of despair?

  "Becoming your friend...is truly an irresistible enticement..."

  The Infernal Queen smiled coquettishly. The sincerity of becoming 'friends' had indeed moved her.

  Unfortunately, the present her was enraged. She was extremely furious!

  Therefore...

  "Please forgive me, but I reject it."

  "That's because compared to becoming your friend, I'm more interested in knowing...what expression you would give to apologize to him for not being able to save the boy's friends."

  "That would definitely be the most beautiful scene in my opinion."

  ...

  Due to her jealousy, indignation, as well as anger that came from anticipation, she ripped the possibility of a peaceful outcome to shreds.

  The shattered pieces fluttered like snowflakes descending down to the ground.

  It was ashen and ice-cold—just like the soon-to-happen tragedy of utmost cruelty that no one could salvage.
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  Chapter459 The world without the Minotaur

  The world in the seventh level was apparently not on the same timeline as the array world. As it was already evening in the array world, the world of the seventh level was far from welcoming in the dusk.

  Although the glaring sun was no longer as hot as it was at noon, the rays of light it dawned down onto the mortal world was still as resplendent as ever. The sunlight penetrated the holes in the clouds, illuminating the land fully.

  Inside the vast and empty basin, there was not a single spot that escaped the sun's illumination other than the periphery regions near the rock cliffs. And because of that, the seven young boys and girls within the basin had their 'shadows' imprisoned.

  If a large mass of clouds floated across the sky to temporarily shade the sunlight, it would cause the 'shadows' rooted to the ground to temporarily disappear. Only then might they be saved.

  Unfortunately, such a miracle did not happen. During these short but seemingly endless ten minutes, not a single miracle happened no matter how much they were praying.

  Therefore, this story that was stained by an atmosphere of despair did not seem like there would be any reversal happening. It was finally reaching the closing curtain of this tragedy.

  Field Marshal Awesomo's flesh that had been diced to bits were like maggots. It squirmed inch by inch before slowly merging together. After ten minutes of hard work, the pieces of meat were finally about to be fully restored as a whole in another ten seconds.

  This self-recovery process was filled with repugnance—severed intestines were gluing themselves together, shattered organs were slowly merging together, sticky blood was squeezing back into the dried up blood vessels, foul brain fluid seeped into pale white bones...Such a process that looked like a reversed dissection was even more sickening and tragic than the dismemberment scene.

  And accompanying this process was an atmosphere that was constantly brewing with horror and despair.

  The more miserable Field Marshal Awesomo's restoration process was, the more brutal his revenge would be.