Bizarre Honkai, a Wife-Chasing Crematorium

Under such circumstances, if you ask for a gift from the Bizarre, the Bizarre will demand two prices in return.

In a transaction with the Bizarre, humans can never gain the upper hand.

"Thank you for telling me this."

"You're welcome. After all, I have inherited all of Dr. MEI's memories, consciousness, and behavioral patterns… as well as the wishes and desires of the previous Bizarre Mei. There's no problem analyzing this."

"…"

Yes, time reversal cannot change everything.

For example, the little Bizarre Mei who had granted him "Wish" was already dead. Even if he went back to the past, he couldn't save her.

The existence of the Bizarre itself transcends time. A person erased by a Bizarre Rule will not be revived even if time is turned back.

"The notebook told me that you have a way to save MEI. From our previous conversation, I can't find a way," Li Mo said, not forgetting his original intention for coming here, still not giving up.

Mei pondered for a moment, her brain working rapidly.

In the long and deep sea of her thoughts, countless fragments flickered like stars, sometimes hidden, sometimes visible. Mei immersed herself in memories that did not belong to her, letting her thoughts search, and finally captured the glimmer of light Li Mo craved from this vast expanse.

"There is one way that I know of."

"What is it?!" Li Mo blurted out, his eyes filled with eagerness and desire.

Mei took a deep breath, hesitated for a long time, and only after looking at Li Mo's eager eyes did she slowly speak, revealing the answer: "Just like Dr. MEI, have an audience with the Source of the Bizarre. As long as you go before it and call out its true name, you can make three wishes without any cost."

"How do I do it?"

Mei's eyes were filled with pity, her voice low:

"I can't tell you. Having an audience with the Source of the Bizarre requires a great price. The only end is annihilation, just like Dr. MEI. Even if you revive MEI this way, she will use the same method to revive you."

"In the end, the two of you will just be trapped in an endless cycle of exchange."

"In her value system, you are number one. You still have many things to do, many more responsibilities to bear. She can die, but you can't."

"I have inherited Dr. MEI's memories. I know that she is actually a very selfish person who wants to possess you all to herself."

"But she didn't do that, because possessing you would mean being unable to change the predetermined tragedy."

"Shigure Kira, Kiana Kaslana… she had to make you bear these responsibilities so that you would no longer sacrifice yourself when it comes to death. Otherwise, with eyes only for her, you would definitely make the same choice as her."

"You and Dr. MEI are the same kind."

"But you have more attachments. For Dr. MEI, you are the most important. Therefore, she can abandon everything to save you. But you have more responsibilities, countless shackles binding you, making you weigh the pros and cons when making a choice of self-sacrifice."

"There's no need to blame yourself. This situation was arranged by Dr. MEI. What she is good at is not just research."

"When she fell in love with someone, as a scholar, she would naturally try her best to understand him, and then help him go further. This is the only thing she can do as a scholar."

The words came to an abrupt end. Mei did not continue.

This was an ending no one wanted to see. Li Mo now possessed an immortal body. As long as he didn't actively go before the Source of the Bizarre, there would be almost no danger.

He could do whatever he wanted within the five hundred years MEI had fought for him, whether it was enjoying a happy life with Shigure Kira, or finding a way to restore Kiana's sanity and lead the living through five hundred beautiful years.

And the sacrifice required for these many gifts was just the disappearance of one person, the end of one person.

It was an incredibly good deal.

…

But emotions are not a transaction. Love and choices weighed by pros and cons are neither love nor choices.

"I understand," Li Mo said, gently closing the door to Mei's room. The door slowly closed, as if it had also quietly taken with it the unfinished thoughts and emotions in the room.

Li Mo turned and walked into the living room, his steps slightly heavy.

The light in the living room was soft and warm. A gentle and slightly concerned voice broke the silence in the room.

Shigure Kira walked up to Li Mo.

Even now, she was still completely confused, not understanding what had happened.

Why had Li Mo suddenly changed his character and argued with MEI? And why had MEI suddenly disappeared, her body shattered when Li Mo brought her home…?

Everything was inseparable from the Bizarre. Even if Shigure Kira was slow, she understood that in that short period of time, perhaps too many things had happened.

Shigure Kira knew she was just an ordinary person. Li Mo not telling her the specific details must have been because he was afraid of worrying her, and even if he did, it would be meaningless.

She would only be a burden, unable to help at all.

"Li Mo, wait a minute," Shigure Kira said, walking over from a corner of the living room, her eyes filled with worry.

But this worry quickly turned into encouragement and trust.

She knew Li Mo too well. There was a tacit understanding between them that needed no words.

From the slight tightening of Li Mo's lips, the fleeting resolute light in his eyes, and the fist he unconsciously clenched and then relaxed, she could read the major decision he was about to make.

"Are you going to do something dangerous?"

Hearing this, Li Mo was slightly taken aback, then nodded. "It's not dangerous. I won't die now. I'm just looking for someone. The past has been severed. Can't the plan Mei mentioned save everyone at once? Perhaps I can get the answer I want from her."

"What if you can't?"

"Then I'll keep looking."

"How long will you be back?"

"Tomorrow at the earliest, three years at the latest. After three years, regardless of the result, I will come back."

"Okay, I'll wait for you for three years."

Shigure Kira took a step forward and gently brushed her lips against Li Mo's, her eyes filled with starlight.

Although Li Mo said the earliest would be tomorrow, she was already prepared for the worst.

"Mo-bro, remember to come back!"

"Yeah, I will."

After saying goodbye to everyone at home, Li Mo's thoughts moved, and he appeared on a tall building in the present world, his mind immersed in the lingering scent of rosemary in the sea of his soul.

Irene Adler, the most complete Bizarre entity he had ever met.

Her characteristic of ignoring rules had pushed open the door of a room that a ghost couldn't open, and helped him complete the ritual on Mount Taixuan.

From a factual point of view, she had done him a favor.

MEI had said before she left that Irene could complete the Bizarre pistol. But now there was no need for that. He was almost omniscient and omnipotent, if he didn't care about the cost…

There are only two ways Bizarre items are born. The first is when an item is accidentally contaminated over a long period of time, its essence and rules twisting and deteriorating into a Bizarre item.

The other is created by a Bizarre entity itself.

It was highly likely that the Bizarre pistol was a Bizarre item created by Irene.

In his memory, he had accidentally obtained the Bizarre pistol while helping a wealthy man in medieval Europe deal with a ghost that was clinging to his daughter.

But thinking about it now, he had obtained the Bizarre pistol too easily, and there was no cost to using it.

This did not conform to the rules of Bizarre items.

Could it have been left by Irene, just like when she saved him on Mount Taixuan?

"She needs me to be alive. Irene has the ability to foresee the future, so she must have foreseen my current state. There is something in the future that she needs me to do, and only I can do it."

"Very good. I've found a bargaining chip. Irene Adler, I hope the promise you made to me last time still counts."

"Go to the world of Irene Adler in my memory."

As the "Wish" was made, Li Mo's consciousness revived to a different scene.

It was dusk, and Europe was gently covered in a soft and mysterious golden glow. On the stone-paved streets, sparse pedestrians walked slowly in the afterglow of the setting sun, their shadows stretched long.

Tall clock towers, black and white suits, old-fashioned steam cars driving on the road…

Li Mo stood in the center of the bustling street, motionless like a statue.

He was using Ghost's Vision to search for traces of Irene.

Just then, a little girl, wrapped up so tightly her face couldn't be seen, walked up to Li Mo.

Her body was petite; the little girl only reached Li Mo's waist.

She looked up and carefully held up the flowers in her hand, every movement incredibly cautious.

"Sir… sir, would you like to buy a bouquet of flowers? It's only five pence…" the little girl's voice was very small, so small that almost only Li Mo could hear it.

Without the enhancement of a Bizarre body, an ordinary person would not be able to hear it clearly.

Li Mo, having regained his complete human emotions and escaped the one-death state, still did not speak. He lowered his head, his eyes indifferent.

"Three… three pence is also okay…" the little girl's voice became even smaller. Because she wanted Li Mo to see more clearly, she stood on her tiptoes, her body trembling uncontrollably.

Three pence was not much in this era, but he had no reason to buy this flower.

Or rather, any action he took now could potentially create a terrifying Bizarre entity or a Bizarre item.

He couldn't afford to feel pity. Li Mo raised his gaze and saw several men in black in the distance constantly rushing toward him.

They're not here for me.

Li Mo immediately judged, his peripheral vision glancing at the little girl and the fresh roses in her hand.

Soon, the men in black arrived.

The little girl reacted and was about to run away with the roses in her arms, but she was kicked to the ground by one of the men, the roses in her hands scattering all over the floor.

"Damn thief! Uncultured thing!"

The man in black berated the little girl on the ground, raising the stick in his hand and hitting her repeatedly.

To protect herself, the little girl curled into a ball, her hands covering her head.

Despite this, before long, blood slowly seeped from her clothes, spreading into the potholes on the ground and forming a small pool of blood.

"I'm… I'm sorry… I'm sorry… I'm sorry…"

Her apology was mixed with faint cries.

Li Mo stood aside, not intervening.

From the current situation, this little girl had stolen a few bouquets of roses from a famous flower shop and was trying to sell them on the street for a quick buck, but she had been found by the flower shop's enforcers and was being punished.

Li Mo shook his head slightly. This had nothing to do with him; there was no need to interfere.

"Ugh!"

Just as Li Mo was about to leave, the girl's black hat fell from her head.

Instantly, Li Mo's pupils contracted, and his body suddenly froze.

Short gray-gold hair covering her left eye, wine-red pupils, and a beauty mark at the corner of her right eye.

"Irene Adler?"

Li Mo blurted out, staring blankly at the little girl's familiar face. Just as the man in black raised his stick again to strike, he grabbed his wrist.

"Do you want to meddle? This has nothing to do with you. She's a thief. The law says that anyone who infringes on another's property deserves to be beaten to death!"

"How much did she steal?"

Hearing Li Mo's words, the man in black showed a meaningful smile. "Yo, are you going to clear her debt for her? Kid, you look pretty young and handsome. But I don't recognize you. Are you a young nobleman from out of town?"

"Take my advice, don't meddle. This little thief is a jinx! A witch! Do you think no one has helped her over the years? Anyone who lends her a hand will surely meet with disaster within three days, their family destroyed!"

The man in black was indignant, telling Li Mo many examples in an attempt to change his mind.

"Just tell me how much."

"Good advice can't persuade a damn ghost! Fine, a hundred pence in total. If you pay up, we won't bother her anymore. Who wants to have too much contact with this jinx!"

Li Mo reached into his empty pocket and wished for a hundred pence, which he then handed to the man in black.

"These roses are for you! Goodbye!"

After getting the money, the men in black didn't linger. Just as he said, no one wanted to have too much contact with a jinx.

When the little girl's hat fell off, the surrounding people quickly dispersed.

At this moment, only Li Mo was still standing there.

A few people in the distance were discussing among themselves. Li Mo heard them; they were predicting how he would die.

Witch…

Nonsense.

But… he felt like he had heard this title somewhere before.

He couldn't remember.

Li Mo didn't think too much about the title "witch." He walked over to little Irene, picked up the roses from the ground, arranged them, and handed them back to her.

"Th-thank you…"

After taking the roses, little Irene put her hat back on and turned to run, as if she didn't want to stay near Li Mo any longer.

Li Mo: "…"

After watching little Irene leave, Li Mo stretched out his hand and murmured, "I don't feel any Bizarre aura."

"Also, why did I come to this time node?"

He clearly remembered when he made the wish, he had said to go to the world of Irene Adler in his memory. The Irene in his memory was a mature and mysterious woman, not this self-conscious and sensitive little girl.

"The Bizarre wouldn't make a mistake. I'll follow her and ask her clearly."

Meanwhile, little Irene ran to a deserted alley. It was filled with piles of garbage, stinking to high heaven. Almost no one would want to get close.

It was also her "home," the place where she rested.

Only here would she not be driven away, would she not bring harm to others.

"Hah… haah…" little Irene panted, collapsing to the ground. Her stomach rumbled.