CH 37

Eyebrows, lips and teeth, face…… Shen Qingjia looked at the face of the young girl in front of her greedily, everything was so familiar, joy almost spurting out in her heart, even the strand of hair was dancing happily.

The face of that person was one that woke her up in the middle of the night with guilt, a ripple in the river and mountain isn’t as bright as her eyebrow and the moon in the sky isn’t as bright as her smile.

They met in a post-apocalyptic world, in her second life together, she led her to hope, held her hand and gave her warmth.

She was the one thing she could rely on more than her powers, she was the only thing that tied her to this world.

They had been together for a long time but she wanted to be with her for longer than that.

She was alive, yes, she was still alive!

Shen Qingjia’s mind rumbled, extreme surprise and joy filled her body, her mind went blank, before her consciousness could react, her lips trembled and she had already called out the person’s name.

“Zhu Ai ……”

Shen Qingjia opened her eyes wide and couldn’t bear to close them, two lines of tears finally couldn’t help but flow down from the corners of her eyes.

As soon as the teardrops hit the ground, it was as if the start button had been pressed and the wind howled, killing people with a chilling feeling!

The white-clothed, black-haired Zhu Ai leapt down from the viaduct, pulled out her long sword from her waist with a bang, and slashed at Shen Qingjia from a height. If this sword landed on her, Shen Qingjia had no doubt that it could cut her in half!

The speed of the sword was unbelievably fast, and the sound of the wind was so harsh that Shen Qingjia could not even block it with her bow and dagger, and only narrowly let it pass her body.

The tip of the sword swept across her arm, blood splattered out in an instant, and the dagger appeared in Shen Qingjia’s hand, blocking another thrust of Zhu Ai’s sword. The two of them were so close that Shen Qingjia could even see the long, curly, distinct eyelashes on Zhu Ai’s face.

Shen Qingjia knew that Zhu Ai was cold, almost indifferent to everything, and that her pupils carried ten thousand years of ice and snow. As long as she is determined to do so, almost no one could look into her eyes.

Whether it was the first time they met or the day they said goodbye, Zhu Ai had never looked at her with this kind of cold gaze, so Shen Qingjia didn’t know that a gaze like this could hurt so much. Her heart felt like it had been rubbed with dense needle size-hair, even the pain was stealthy and unending.

Shen Qingjia looked at her in a daze, “Zhu Ai …… is me, I am Qingjia ah ……”

Zhu Ai’s cold gaze did not fluctuate in the slightest, her body swung back and fiercely shook her longsword, swishing and stabbing Shen Qingjia with fast movement as if there were four swords.

The flame of hope in Shen Qingjia’s eyes burned to ashes little by little, and despair slowly spread out.

“I hate you the most, Shen Qingjia.” The words spoken by the beautiful girl with the cold face were as merciless as ice and snow.

Shen Qingjia’s eyes widened and her face turned pale white in an instant, as both Zhu Ai’s words and movements overwhelmed her. Doing her best to swat away Zhu Ai’s long sword, she closed in on her, yet opened her mouth, only to find herself at a complete loss as to what she should say.

“I’m Qingjia ah ……”

In the end, all that could be said was these dry words, as if in confusion and as if in pleading.

“Stab……” [1]

Shen Qingjia lowered her head to look at her abdomen, where a sharp sword had pierced deep into it, blood gurgling out, and the dagger clutched in her hand dropped to the ground with a snap. Time seems to have gone back two months, when the smiling maiden’s glowing hand also pierced her body deeply like this, and she fell into her arms with a smile on her face.

In the world, there is really this kind of person, knowing that they will die at her hands, they are still willing to risk life and death for her.

A kick sent Shen Qingjia’s dagger into the distance, Zhu Ai’s cold pupils had no emotion, a snowy blizzard of killing aura, “I can find a bunch of weak and incompetent guys like you, but I see that you have a lot of valuable secrets in you, in order to improve my strength, so I’m just playing games with you, you don’t think I consider you a real friend, do you? Foolish one!”

The pain spread from her hopeless wound to her whole body, and Shen Qingjia fell to her knees with a pale face, unable to refute Zhu Ai’s words, she could only swallow the blood that gushed out of her throat with a painful gulp.

“I was just putting on a show, but I didn’t know that I would end up in Zhu Ming’s hands because of you! This is simply the shame of my life. ……” The corners of her mouth outlined a cold, hard, cruel smile, as her drawn sword was pulled out again and again and then stabbed into Shen Qingjia’s body.

“So that’s why I hate you the most, Shen Qingjia.”

Shen Qingjia covered her bleeding wound, clenched her teeth and looked at Zhu Ai in a daze, unable to say a word.

“Once I kill you, all my humiliation will be over!”

“Stab ……”

“Once I kill you, I will still be the same glorious Zhu Ai of the past!”

“Stab ……”

“Once I kill you, there is a smooth path ahead of me without anyone to slow me down!”

“Stab ……”

“Once I kill you, my world will be perfect!”

“Stab……”

Sword after sword, blood after blood, with the blood rapidly draining away Shen Qingjia’s eyes were blurred and her consciousness almost fell into darkness in the next second.

Zhu Ai raised her cold glittering longsword high, a smile on her face, ” Therefore, for my own good, Shen Qingjia, you can die right here!”

“You are not Zhu Ai ……”

Shen Qingjia, who was kneeling on the ground and dying, suddenly said, although her voice was weak, her tone was firm and unquestionable.

The hands holding the sword stiffened for a moment, ” What a joke Shen Qingjia, don’t you think you’ve done me harm, you hypocritical and cowardly fellow? Have you already despised yourself to such an extent?!!!”

“Although I know you are not the real Zhu Ai, it still hurts me to see you say such things with this face with my own ears. ……” Shen Qingjia’s palm tightly blocked her wound.

“Zhu Ai” clutching the long sword, her face turned blue, stiffened in place, staring blankly at a sentence Shen Qingjia said and could not say a word.

Her body had turned into what looked like an indistinct three-dimensional image, flickering between nothingness and solidity, as if it would disappear completely in the next second.

Shen Qingjia glanced around and smiled in admiration, “It should be a formation that connects what the mind wants most or can’t face, and it’s also a large formation that can face multiple people at the same time. My companion would have been trapped in the formation by now, a perfect blend of mental power and supernatural abilities. When the thing you want the most or fear the most appears in front of you, no one will be able to keep their senses.”

Shen Qingjia staggered to her feet and looked at the “Zhu Ai” in front of her, the young girl who had just been so proud and aloof subconsciously took a step back, but her body image flickered even more.

“I can tell exactly who she is even from a finger, a smile that covers her face, a posture of her back, or a little scent. I can accurately identify her. And who in the world could really be like her, even if it were an exact copy from my memory? For the name Zhu Ai itself stands for uniqueness, unparalleled in the world.”

“And most importantly, someone as proud as Zhu Ai would not allow herself to escape responsibility even if she failed, that fool would only take the fault all on herself.”

As Shen Qingjia spoke, several bottles of strong hemostatic medicine suddenly appeared in her hand, and she casually mixed her fire powers and applied them to her gaping wounds. As long as the control is precise, in fact, each ability almost has a healing effect, but it is far less comfortable to use than the water ability, that is all.

The double pain of the wound, feeling like it was being burnt by fire made Shen Qingjia’s forehead dripping with sweat, but she clenched her teeth and did not let out a single grunt of pain.

She dragged her leg and walked step by step towards “Zhu Ai”, “The mental illusion formation kills people in a way that makes them almost defenceless, but if the person in the formation is convinced that what they see before them is not real and stays true to their heart, then the formation will break itself.”

She walked up to “Zhu Ai”, paused for a moment, and then embraced the young girl in front of her, who had the most familiar and unfamiliar appearance, and the moment she touched her, she slowly disappeared as a dot of light.

Shen Qingjia watched her slowly disappear, smiled, the corner of the lips slightly coloured by blood, it is not so much a smile rather than say more like weeping laugh, “even though from the beginning I know you are false, even if you want to kill me with a sword, I want to see you one more time before being killed …… “

“Even if it’s just one more second, what’s a little pain, getting hurt and shedding blood …… As long as I can be with you, even pain can be a joy.” [2]

Translator’s note :

[1] 噗呲; Stabbing Onomatopoeia. Honestly I don’t know if I choose the right word for this because according to Google, the word is like this

Sqwelp! Shunk! Plorkk! Sphhhlt! Schunk! Glurnk! Shluk! Sshhluck! Thwump! Penetrated! Shluk! Klshuk! Shnk! Schloook! Chut! Shik! Fffftt! Shank! Splitch! Pkkkhht! Pllkkkcchhhh! Plik! Shplort! Slice! Bleed! Shhhhhunk! Glish! Shhtaab!

And I don’t want to mix comedy when the atmosphere is serious so yeah. Simple ‘Stab’ word it is.

[2] SQ, STOP! STOP! STOP! You’re scaring me!!!