*Huff—*
*Huff—*
*Huff—*
Mono bent over halfway, gasping for breath.
The [Sealing] Ability he had just used to imprison space had consumed a massive amount of his mental energy, and his current state had become weak once again.
[Sealing] could even freeze time, but the side effects were undoubtedly very severe.
Just as he was about to relax, Mono suddenly froze. He slowly raised his head and looked around.
As he returned to the tenth floor, it seemed he had thoroughly enraged something. Everything in the Signal Tower began to vibrate.
The walls of the tenth-floor room cracked, and massive eyes, connected to piles of flesh and blood vessels, actually began to slowly wind and spread across the surfaces.
"Damn it!"
Disregarding the fatigue and weakness washing over him, Mono quickly turned around and soon found Little Six standing blankly not far away.
He rushed over.
Little Six seemed to be entranced by something, standing motionless.
Mono grabbed Little Six's shoulders and shouted loudly:
"Little Six, wake up! Hurry, there's no time, we have to run out of here!"
As he shook her and shouted, Little Six's consciousness seemed to slowly return.
"Mono..." she murmured twice.
"Let's go, stop dazing out."
*Boom!*
To the side, massive eyes with terrifying pupils burst through the walls, lunging toward them.
Mono endured the sharp pain constantly radiating from his mind and chest, accelerating his pace once more.
Ahead was a vast space; the entire corridor and hall were bathed in red light.
The once solid wooden walls and stone slabs were now all shaking together. Fleshy orbs, tentacles, eyeballs, and lumps of meat constantly wound and crawled outward along the forced-open stone cracks.
It seemed they wanted to block the path for both of them.
"Damn it!"
Mono continued to run.
*Boom!* The ground ahead suddenly shattered as a massive eyeball burst through the floor.
"Little Six, quick, jump over!"
Mono quickly shouted to Little Six beside him.
As he spoke, he let go, and Little Six took a leap, clearing the distance. Mono also quickly stepped onto a protruding stone and leaped across.
Standing straight again, Little Six had already run ahead. Mono followed closely behind.
A long whip suddenly lashed straight toward Little Six. A sharp light flashed in Mono's eyes.
He raised his hand.
*Bang!*
An invisible force caused the long whip to explode in mid-air.
But after intercepting this attack, his figure couldn't help but stagger a couple of steps; it seemed the exertion was great.
However, in the deepest part of Mono's eyes, an obscure meaning flickered.
*Rumble, rumble, rumble!*
The vibrations became even more intense.
Massive stones were constantly collapsing from above, brushing past them several times—it was thrilling and dangerous.
Finally, an exit appeared not far away.
"Little Six, over there!"
The two figures kept jumping along the already broken floorboards.
Giant eyes would pop up from beneath them from time to time.
Behind them, the way was already blocked by a thick wall of flesh and eyes. Overwhelming like an avalanche, it constantly rolled toward them, trying to pounce.
"Faster!"
Mono shouted.
Little Six didn't say a word, charging straight for the door frame.
With a leap, she jumped onto the exit on the steps.
Mono glanced back.
Those giant eyeballs were pressing right against the final line; it seemed if he slowed down for even a moment, he would be swallowed in the next.
With a leap, Mono also climbed onto the steps and then stepped through the large door.
Outside the door was a straight stone bridge. At the end of the bridge was a massive gate of light.
Little Six's figure had already reached the middle of the stone bridge.
Under the vibrations, the long stone bridge began to buckle under the weight. Cracks spread along the bridge surface, and stones fell into the abyss below wherever the cracks reached.
Mono couldn't care less about anything else; he hurriedly broke into a sprint, charging forward.
After using his abilities repeatedly, his speed had dropped several levels. Fortunately, the narrow gap in the door at least prevented those fleshy orbs with eyes from continuing their pursuit.
The two figures, one after the other, sprinted rapidly toward the direction of the light gate.
Finally, the distance closed; it was right before their eyes.
But,
"Crack!"
Following a soft sound, as if fate were playing a joke, the stone bridge suddenly cracked—
A massive gap directly blocked the path ahead of Mono.
And the path behind them also began to collapse. Little Six's figure was right in front of the light gate.
"Little Six!" Mono glanced back and shouted toward the yellow figure on the other side.
Shouting.
He looked utterly exhausted now, as if he no longer had any spare strength to leap across this chasm that separated the two of them.
As his shout faded, Mono's feet reached the edge of the gap. Without the slightest hesitation, he stepped off the ground.
His body traced a long trajectory through the air,
falling toward the opposite side.
It was just like when he had crossed those bridges before.
He believed that if it were Six, she would definitely reach out and catch him.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh?"
Finally, driven by gravity, his body slowly descended, yet his feet were still a distance away from the ledge.
Just as he was about to miss and fall,
"Snap!"
A warm arm reached out and grabbed his hand.
He looked up, only to meet a cold gaze.
"Little Six..." Mono quickly called out in a daze, "Pull me up..."
However, the hand holding him didn't move an inch.
The gaze looking down at him remained unchanged.
Finally, a cold voice spoke:
"Mono... that shadow that was hunting me down before was actually you, wasn't it?"
"What? How did you know?" Mono's mouth hung open as he looked at her in shock and horror.
Little Six remained expressionless:
"They all just told me. You are the source of my descent into this miserable world. If it weren't for you... I wouldn't have gone through any of this. The monsters you created killed my parents, killed my friends, and destroyed"
"everything beautiful I once had. And now, you're still hypocritically"
"staying by my side."
"Do you want to monitor me? To continue creating pain and torment for me?"
Mono shook his head frantically and explained loudly, "Little Six, did you just enter an illusion too? Wait, don't believe the things in those illusions; they're all fake! You have to believe me, I never intended to hurt you!"
"No, I won't believe you anymore. You're just a... despicable Little person. I hope you... stay in this world and reflect on your mistakes."
"I will never forgive you!" With that, the tightly gripped hand suddenly let go.
"No!—" Mono let out an exaggerated shout, looking completely filled with despair.
And Little Six, her eyes ever cold, watched that slowly falling figure and the expression of despair on his face. An almost imperceptible smile slowly appeared at the corner of her mouth.
Finally, the figure gradually vanished into the darkness...
Thud...
Little Six slowly stood up...
Her face... still wore that cold expression...
After a moment, she suddenly let out a cold laugh again.
An ethereal voice that was neither male nor female, neither human nor ghost, suddenly came from her mouth.
"With every cycle, your ability grows stronger... you even noticed our existence this time. But a pawn is just a pawn; why think of resisting? Hehe... isn't it better to just accept your painful fate?"
After speaking, she slowly turned and walked toward the light gate behind her.
Now that one fellow had been dealt with, she only needed to deal with that girl.
But before she could take more than a few steps, her movements suddenly stopped. She whipped her head around.
In the darkness...
An enlarged hand suddenly fell toward her face.
Bang!
"Sealing!" A cold voice, devoid of any emotion, rang out leisurely.
In the next moment, everything froze.
Violent power and the tearing of space erupted from within her body.
"Ahhh—"
The fear of death—how could this be!
Escape!
Break free, quickly!
It's no use!
I'm going to die!!
How is this possible!?
In the next instant, everything vanished.
The yellow figure dissipated right before his eyes, leaving not a speck of ash behind. A Little person clad in grey clothes looked expressionlessly at everything slowly fading away.
"Sorry, I'm... the real actor. Ptooie!"
Mono clapped his hands and slowly walked toward the light gate.
Although he usually acted like a child in front of Six, sometimes even shouting naively and appearing innocent and foolish,
it would be a huge mistake to actually treat him like an idiot because of that.
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