Bizarre Honkai, a Wife-Chasing Crematorium

Chapter 286: A Land of Infinite Restarts, the Echo of Sorrow



The rats rolled and scurried inside her body, gnawing their way out bit by bit, until they drilled out of her skin from the inside out.

"Ahhh!! No! No!!"

The young Sakura was already weak. Her thin body couldn't support her to push them away. In a desperate and helpless cry, her head was eaten by a huge pig. The shouting came to an abrupt end, and not even her bones were left.

The trace of her existence was only a large pool of blood on the bed...

"..."

"..."

Her consciousness became clear again. The tipsy sunlight shone on Sakura's skin. Although the temperature was suitable, a chill uncontrollably welled up in her heart.

"No, don't eat me!!"

Sakura squatted on the ground, holding her head with both hands, tears streaming down her face uncontrollably.

She was scared, she was really scared.

The memory of being eaten alive by livestock that night, her flesh and blood being gnawed away, was still vivid. Even though nothing was happening now, her limbs still trembled, and she felt a faint tearing sensation.

"Wuwu... I, I want to go back. I don't want to stay here! Go home... I want to go home... Rin, Rin..."

The image of her sister appeared in her mind. The still shaken Sakura gradually stopped crying and stood up trembling.

Her chest heaved violently, and the tragic state of death and the bloody scene filled her mind.

She couldn't stay here. She had to leave immediately.

Sakura started to run desperately in the opposite direction of the village entrance. Although she didn't know why she was still alive and why time had restarted to yesterday morning, Sakura didn't want to miss the chance to escape.

As long as she escaped from this deserted place, found a highway, and followed the highway, she would always be able to return to the city.

"Ugh..."

Sakura squinted her eyes and shuttled through the woods. The opposite direction of the village was a dense forest, and it was an excessively large forest...

The trees, dozens of meters high, suppressed Sakura's emotions, and the lush branches and leaves blocked the road ahead.

"Hah... hah..."

Sakura's pace gradually slowed down. She held her chest with her left hand and gasped for breath. The long run had almost exhausted her stamina. She had to find a place to stop and rest for a while.

"How long have I been running... I should be there soon... as long as I run out of the forest, I should be able to see the road," Sakura comforted herself, but her right hand couldn't help but tighten, holding the cursed blade even tighter.

This was her only weapon, although she didn't understand why she had come to this place, and why the cursed blade had followed.

On the way out, she had not seen any creatures, including animals.

The stream flowing in the mountain stream attracted Sakura's attention.

"Ugh... I'll drink some water."

The thirsty Sakura walked to the side of the stream. After a moment of hesitation, she placed the cursed blade by her feet and cupped her hands to scoop up some stream water and drink it.

The cool feeling soothed her dry throat. One mouthful after another, Sakura greedily enjoyed the stream water.

But just as her attention relaxed, a black goat with a strange expression hid behind a bush, staring at the cursed blade on the ground.

"I've rested enough. Let's continue. I have to leave this place quickly."

Sakura washed her face. After washing away the sweat on her face, she picked up the cursed blade and started to run.

And after Sakura left, the black goat came out from behind the bush, came to the place where she had just stayed, and with a deformed movement that a goat could not achieve, knelt on the ground with its hind legs, and put its two front hooves together into the water.

It cupped a few drops of stream water and drank it.

Noon, dusk...

Night was about to fall, but Sakura still hadn't walked out of the forest.

She only stopped for a moment on the way. The rest of the time, she was running with all her might.

Seeing the sky darken, an ominous feeling appeared in her mind. Sakura looked around in fear. There was still nothing around, and seeing nothing was the most terrifying thing.

Even if Sakura's experience was little, she knew that it was impossible for a large forest to have no creatures.

Fortunately, she remembered that there was a cave a hundred meters behind her, with no signs of animals having lived in it.

"Tonight... I'll just sleep in the cave for a night. I'm so tired..."

Sakura rubbed her eyes and entered the cave with the cursed blade.

The village had a problem. The forest probably didn't have a problem, right?

Drip—

The air inside was very humid. Water droplets dripped from the stone above her head from time to time. Sakura chose a relatively dry place that would not leak and sat down, leaning against the wall and slowly closing her eyes.

Her spirit was too tired...

Drip—drip—drip—

The sound of water droplets suddenly broke off halfway. Sakura was completely unaware. Soon, the chewing sound sounded again.

Following that was another heart-wrenching wail...

"..."

"..."

"Wuwu... I don't want to stay here... I want to go home..."

The awakened Sakura collapsed on the ground. The two consecutive deaths had made her spirit almost collapse.

Every time she slept, when she woke up, there would be countless livestock pressing down on her, greedily eating her body. The intense pain, the terrifying appearance of the livestock, were like an unscattered haze, always covering Sakura's courage to resist.

The third day, the fourth day, the tenth day, the twentieth day...

An endless cycle, an endless restart.

She couldn't escape, couldn't hide, couldn't resist...

Even if she forced herself not to sleep, at night, the livestock in the village would change their appearance, rush out of the fence, and crazily walk towards her.

No matter where she hid, the livestock would find her.

Long periods of being alone, witnessing herself being eaten by livestock again and again.

The eleven-year-old Sakura couldn't bear this kind of pressure at all. After the three hundred and seventy-second restart, Sakura pointed the tip of the Crimson-Dyed Sakura at her own forehead.

Crimson-Dyed Sakura was very sharp, cutting through iron like mud. Even rocks and trees could be cut with a gentle slash, let alone an ordinary flesh and blood body.

"As long as I kill myself, I won't have to endure it anymore..."

A stream of blood flowed from the small wound on her forehead. Sakura held the blade with trembling hands, her pupils dilated. The tip of the blade got closer and closer, piercing through the surface of her flesh and blood, and stabbing into her skull.

The pain made Sakura instinctively want to let go, but the desperate and painful memories made her even more determined.

The pain of the blade piercing through her skull was nothing compared to being eaten by countless livestock.

As long as she held on for a little longer... a little longer and she could end this endless nightmare of restarting...

Stab!

Sakura hardened her heart. Sakura Blizzard pierced through her skull. The noon sun shone down, falling on Sakura's small body.

The scarlet blood was like being covered with a layer of hazy and magnificent golden gauze, a tragic and beautiful death.

Cherry blossoms fell from the sky, covering Sakura's body.

After an unknown amount of time, the corpse was buried by the soil, and a cherry blossom tree grew wildly. The fallen flowers were colorful, and the splendid cherry blossom petals floated to all parts of the village.

"..."

"..."

"Ha... haha... hahaha..."

After waking up, Sakura saw the same scene as when she had first opened her eyes. She couldn't help but laugh.

She stood up mechanically and looked at the unchanging fields in despair. The highlight in her eyes gradually dissipated.

This time, Sakura did not choose to escape, but walked numbly towards the village, her right hand tightly holding the cursed blade, and a strange and distorted smile always hanging on the corner of her mouth.

"I'll kill you all..."

Sakura took the initiative to walk into the fence where the white sheep were kept, raised the cursed blade, and began to slaughter.

The livestock during the day were not aggressive. When they were dead, they were dead.

In the fence, the flock of sheep ran crazily, but they could not escape the sheepfold, just like Sakura, who could not escape the forest no matter how hard she tried.

It was as if their respective worlds were only that big.

Baa! Baa!

The tragic cries rose and fell one after another. Soon, apart from the white sheep corpses and the sea of blood, there was nothing left here.

But this was not the end. Sakura's eyes were dim. She carried the blade and walked into the next fence where livestock were kept...

Dusk had arrived. The molten gold afterglow of the setting sun shone on the idyllic country road. However, unlike before, the crisscrossing paths were already piled with the corpses of livestock, and black-red blood flowed in the ditches.

The sun set, and the sky became darker. The sun had fallen.

It would surely rise again. This was common sense, but... what was the point?

Her clothes were soaked with black-red blood. Sakura was dirty.

But she no longer had the desire to wash. Like a walking corpse, she swayed on the streets of the village.

All the livestock here had been killed by her, not a single one was left.

However, the nightmare was not over. Even if she no longer had to endure the pain of being gnawed, there was an even more tormenting loneliness.

She was the only person in this world...

"Ugh..."

Just after killing the livestock, Sakura was relieved. Her whole person was liberated, and her tense nerves finally relaxed.

Once it relaxed, it never tightened again, or rather, it could not be tightened.

As time went on, Sakura fell into confusion. She had tried to find if there were still living people hiding in some corner, but her hopes were all in vain.

In the day after day, year after year of searching, this fantasy was finally shattered.

The only things accompanying her, apart from the cursed blade in her hand, were the piles of livestock corpses.

"..."

"..."

After a brief decision, Sakura decided to set off again, to leave the village and walk out of the forest.

This walk lasted for decades.

The blood was washed away by the rain, the footprints were covered by sand and mud, and all traces were gone.

Between heaven and earth, there was only a delicate body constantly moving forward, forward, and forward.

"There is no end..." Sakura realized this. She was no longer surprised by these strange things.

She had already compromised. The world only had her.

Walking to the side of the stream, Sakura squatted down and quietly stared at her reflection in the water.

Her messy, waterfall-like long hair had not been trimmed for who knows how long. Her tattered clothes and her dull eyes, her dirty clothes tightly wrapped around her voluptuous and graceful body.

Her body had stopped at the moment of complete maturity, and had not changed since then, no matter how long it had been.

"I shouldn't have picked up that blade back then."

"I didn't know this would happen. No one told me."

"No, she said that I would encounter things more terrifying than death..."

"Is it loneliness? Like now. The way out does not exist. No matter how long I walk, I can't leave. There are no people here, no creatures. I have killed the only creature that could bring me emotional fluctuations."

"If I don't kill them, I will be eaten at night. It's very painful... very painful. I don't want to endure that kind of pain anymore."

"But compared to loneliness, being eaten seems..."

"Not bad?"

Sakura murmured to her reflection. The reflection in the water was as if it were another person.

"Rin... is my sister's name Rin? I think so. Was it she who asked me to pick up this blade back then? I don't think so. I also wanted to have the power to protect my family."

"But... is protecting my family that important?"

Sakura tilted her head and looked at her reflection with a puzzled expression.

"It's good to be alone. Do I really have a family? Even if I do, it doesn't seem to be important anymore. I've always been alone..."

Sakura said calmly.

She had been here for too long, and had long forgotten what she used to look like.

After staying in nothingness for too long, for the person involved, was nothingness her essence, or was the short ten-odd years of experience on Earth her essence?

"Why don't I commit suicide now and go back to the first day? At least I can see those animals, even though they will eat me at night."

As her voice fell, the corners of Sakura's mouth turned up slightly, and she placed the cursed blade horizontally on her neck.

"Let me think, what last words should I leave for myself?"

Sakura thought, while rubbing the cursed blade against the skin of her neck.

In terms of controlling the blade, even if she returned to that world, no one could surpass her.

Sakura was not in a hurry to kill herself, because the time of loneliness was still very long, long enough... to make any ordinary person go crazy. The body was alive, but the heart had long since withered, as if it were dead.

But the pain could let her clearly know that she was still alive.

"By the way, did she remind me of something back then?"

Sakura fell into deep thought. The night quietly arrived, and the clear moonlight flowed into the stream.

An ordinary memory, a memory of midnight.

"Oh, I remember now. She said to me: if I can't hold on... then call his name."

"But who is he? Rin? I've already called her many times."

"If it's not Rin, then who could it be? I don't know many people, and even if I called, it would be useless..."

"Haha... hahaha... I'm really crazy. I actually thought that by calling out a name, I could get rid of my loneliness."

Sakura smiled self-deprecatingly, her eyes full of loneliness.

The road ahead was clear. She would stay here forever, until her spirit completely collapsed.

That might be a good thing. Only by being completely crazy would she not feel endless sadness, would she not... have expectations, expectations of being saved.

"..."

"..."

"Li Mo, is it... this name?"

Sakura said softly. After finishing, she looked around. It was silent. Only the moonlight seemed to have poured down, and it seemed to have become a little red.

Even if this time and space was fictional, was false.

Sakura smiled bitterly, mocking her reflection in the water, "You are too naive. You will stay here forever, until you collapse, and no longer have any expectations for anyone or anything..."

Blood overflowed from the wound and dripped onto the water surface, creating ripples.

Just as Sakura was about to end her life and return to the first day, she found that the usually clear and frosty pale moonlight had turned blood-red.

The bizarre scene that broke the routine made Sakura show a rare excited smile.

This scene was definitely not a good thing, but what could be more terrifying than a person wandering like a lonely ghost in a lonely world?

The appearance of an anomaly meant... hope


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