Chapter 240: No Matter How Many Times We Forget

Because she refused to forget anyone, refused to discard any single precious memory.

Even if the price was being forgotten by everyone, vanishing into the end of nothingness.

This was indeed her usual style.

But...

There was no way they could accept it.

"Don't... don't, don't, don't, don't, don't!!!"

Tang Keren screamed hysterically, the Soul Gem on her phone case erupting with unprecedented blinding light as she prepared to forcibly enter her Full Bloom state: "I want to stay here with you, I don't want to go out!!"

"If you're going to burn out, then burn my soul along with yours!"

Zihan covered her right eye again, molten gold blazing through her fingers.

Su Fang said nothing, but azure magic power surged forth like tears spilling from her eyes.

The Phoenix flapped her wings frantically, holy flames erupting from her body as she shouted: "Mengmengxiang! I've lived long enough! Out there, I should've already died on a hospital bed! Don't you dare trade your life for ours!"

Only Amber's eyes seemed to carry a certain resolve, ghostly pages of nothingness already flickering rapidly through her hands.

—If that's how it's going to be... then at the very least, I have to hold onto the last possibility...

Lin Guang slowly raised his right hand and pressed down lightly, almost casually, toward them.

The next instant.

Something wrapped around the girls.

Not magic power. Just her Domain. Her will.

And so the magic light that had just ignited around the girls was snuffed out in an instant, like candle flames in a raging storm.

The cherry-haired girl simply stood there, her expression unchanged by even a single degree.

Someone truly capable of wielding this Domain of Pride, which rightfully belonged to a Forbidden Species, how could she possibly be a normal person persuaded by common sense?

She was far more arrogant than that Abyss Will. Far more resolute.

Absolute self-centeredness.

Once she made a decision, nothing in the world could turn her back.

But at that very moment.

As if perfectly timed against them, the seemingly frail silver phantom suddenly erupted with intense silver radiance, forcibly breaking through that impermeable field, enduring the overwhelming repulsive force as she staggered forward to stand before her.

Slap!

She couldn't even keep her footing, accidentally falling to her knees, yet she grabbed the cherry-haired girl's hand with all her might.

And so those desperate silver eyes met cherry-red ones once more.

At this moment, Airwen finally understood the meaning of those words she had spoken that day.

—There will still be chances.

If she really let her do this, she would indeed have the opportunity to atone for her sins against everyone else.

But.

If that happened, then for this girl before her—only for her—her past actions could never be made up for!

"Mengmengxiang, let me stay..."

Airwen rasped: "I... I don't exist out there anyway."

"I never had a reason to go back. If everyone else can remember themselves, that's more than enough!"

Her voice trembled to the extreme, carrying the sobs of someone hating her own powerlessness: "Why can I—someone who hurt others and hurt you—get to leave, while you have to stay here?!"

"I'm not worthy at all..."

The cherry-haired girl suddenly cut her off coldly.

"Don't hold me back."

"...!!"

She bent down, reaching out, and pulled apart the fingers Airwen had clenched with all her might, one by one.

An inexplicable force pushed her back, delivering her to the Phoenix's side.

Airwen staggered to her feet: "Mengmengxiang, don't—"

The cherry-haired girl actually wore a look of mild disgust: "It's already hard enough, now I have to figure out how to fish you out too. As if my burden isn't heavy enough."

Everyone was stunned.

Lin Guang looked around calmly and said: "Did you all misunderstand something?"

"Why would you think I'm giving up?"

The girls stared at her in disbelief.

She lowered her head, looking at her own palm, then clenched her fist one finger at a time: "Falling into nothingness, burning to ashes—so what?"

"It's just another new battle, another new cycle, another new game. I've long since gotten used to it."

"So..."

She looked into everyone's eyes and said seriously: "I will win."

Tang Keren choked out: "Are you kidding me?! This is completely different! What are you going to win with?!"

After burning herself completely, denying her very existence, she still wants to fight?

That's absolutely impossible.

Even in the wildest hypothetical.

Even if she truly continued fighting in that illusory world after burning out completely, trying to break through... everyone would forget she ever existed. They wouldn't even be able to reach out a helping hand to her.

But they couldn't persuade the girl before them. They couldn't even make her waver by a single hair.

Because she had always been like this—stubbornly and obstinately carrying everything on her own back, never considering anything else.

Perhaps this was the true Pride: seeing through all the despair and helplessness, yet still never lowering her head.

Lin Guang raised her hand again.

The next moment, golden specks of light bathed everyone once more.

Warm and comfortable.

The girls felt their eyelids grow as heavy as if filled with lead, growing drowsier and drowsier, their bodies no longer feeling like their own, about to fall asleep.

But...

"Senior!!"

That was Su Fang's voice.

She bit hard into the tip of her tongue, breaking free from that drowsiness—but not to plead.

She shouted through her tears: "I believe in Senior!!"

"Senior will definitely create miracles again like before. This time is no exception!"

"So—"

"We made a promise!!"

She sobbed beyond words: "No matter how many times I forget... no matter how many times we start over... Senior must come and get to know me again..."

"No matter how many times... *sob*... I'll be waiting for Senior!"

"And... *sob*... and..."

Su Fang forced her eyelids to stay open, but her voice grew weaker and weaker: "The times I spent with Senior."

"I was really, truly happy..."

The drowsiness grew heavier and heavier. She could no longer resist it.

In her memories, the other's face began to blur, little by little.

It was forgetting.

And so, she began desperately recalling everything about the girl before her to resist that forgetting. Countless images flashed through her mind frame by frame, like countless photographs.

Su Jingyan had once told her something.

Human memory is very unreliable. It's like a fragile demagnetized disk, eventually dissolving into a vast blank, impossible to distinguish anymore. That's the human self-protection mechanism—so you can forget the sorrow and keep moving forward.

But Su Fang hated that. Hated forgetting.

That's why she loved taking photos, recording every precious memory.

Yet at this moment, even the photographs in her memory were yellowing. The memories about that person dissipated little by little, until even her face could no longer be recalled.

Su Fang finally couldn't hold back any longer and closed her eyes.

She knew with absolute clarity.

When she woke up this time, she would not see that cherry-haired angel gazing at her in the morning light, as if about to kiss her lips.