Who hid My Corpse!-Chapter 270: Eighty-five Thank you (5K)

Chapter 270: Eighty-five Thank you (5K)

They walked out from the station, a small path naturally extending from the pale world, destination unknown.

Yet, without much hesitation, they had taken this path, walking in this pure whiteness.

“It seems that everything has ended,” Gerard rarely felt a sense of relief and looked at Bai Wei leisurely walking beside him, asking, “Did you succeed?”

“I succeeded,” Bai Wei corrected, “but to be precise, it was you who succeeded.”

“Me?”

“Yes,” Bai Wei said lazily, “I was merely the initiator of Rule. You were the one paying the price. You succeeded in enduring until I finished using the two Rules. So, it was you, not me, who succeeded.”

“…Is that so?” Gerard didn’t feel any particular emotion for having endured till the end, he simply said, “I don’t remember anything.”

“Yes, that’s normal. After all, you were already burning up,” Bai Wei said. “It’s like expecting someone who is self-immolating to watch what others are doing while his eyebrows are burning. It’s really quite difficult.”

…Was that a joke?

For a moment, Gerard was uncertain.

He looked at Bai Wei beside him, feeling a familiar yet foreign sense of absurdity.

The familiarity naturally arose because Bai Wei could be called the true ‘confidant’ during this time, since he literally lived in his heart.

As for the foreignness, it was also because this was the first time Gerard saw Bai Wei’s true form… That wasn’t quite accurate, to be precise, it should be the complete form, not just ‘bits and pieces’ like eyes and fingers.

So, he scrutinized Bai Wei seriously, wanting to take a good look at what this legendary entity really looked like.

Honestly, he had imagined Visas’s form before, but those fantasies all ended up resembling a monster with multiple arms and legs, otherwise, how could it combat the gods?

Thus, seeing that Bai Wei’s true form was so ‘ordinary’, he was a bit surprised.

But mixed in the surprise was a strange thought that, ‘He should look just like this’, which was why Gerard had guessed Bai Wei’s identity at first sight back at the station.

The most distinct feature was his eyes, those eyes that seemed to see through everything.

“So, this is you going home.”

Bai Wei suddenly spoke.

Then, Gerard shifted his attention from Bai Wei and looked around.

He noticed that the luminescent buildings gradually materialized on both sides of the road, looking like the quaint houses of Night Star Village, but not in their later dilapidated state, rather how they were in memories and in the sun-warmed images of faded photographs.

Even from inside those houses, there were faint figures moving.

“Is this… the afterlife?” Gerard asked.

“I don’t know how to answer that question,” Bai Wei said, “because I have never died.”

Gerard couldn’t help but glance at Bai Wei again.

“Looking at me won’t help,” Bai Wei said indifferently, “I was dismembered, not dead.”

…His words sounded strange no matter how you heard them, but what was even stranger was that, coming from Bai Wei, they disturbingly made sense.

Perhaps because he was in a good mood, Bai Wei didn’t act like a cryptic sage as usual but rather explained.

“Rather than saying this is the afterlife, it’s more accurate to say this is the world you wanted to come to,” Bai Wei said. “Have you heard of a life flashing before one’s eyes?”

“What’s that?”

“It’s probably what happens briefly in one’s mind right before death,” Bai Wei said. “But it’s too short to reflect on a lifetime, so there might be more memories on things that matter more… So why not try to see everything here more clearly?”

“Just think more clearly?”

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Gerard nodded slightly then looked around again.

The phantoms emerging from the white light became more and more real, even the path beneath his feet felt somewhat firmer than before.

“It seems you really can invite me to sit in your house,” Bai Wei said. “I mean, the one that hasn’t become ruins yet.”

Gerard smiled again and gestured ‘please’ once more.

“Of course.”

…

…Had it really ended?

Yuri stood under the massive Order Sword, his face still full of disbelief.

The Order Sword he now faced, not one transformed by Bishop Weisen from Fifth Zone, but one manifested by the God of Lyra, matched the height of the Sky Tower, the true Order Sword.

This Order Sword, like a verdict from the skies, stood firmly upon the earth.

And its enemy, the powerful and mad God of Eternal Life, had vanished.

Not just the physical disappearance.

All trace of His existence was gone.

‘Everything’ here also included… the corruption.

Yes, the corruption brought by the God of Eternal Life had vanished.

According to the Devil Knights in the vicinity of the Order Sword, the God of Eternal Life had disappeared suddenly.

Indeed, in the blink of an eye, He was gone.

And with His disappearance, the pollution that threatened the surviving Devil Knights in Fifth Zone also dissipated.

That’s why Yuri could still leave that room.