Three Ways to Survive in a Ruined World (Final Revision)

A world without you there (3)

Zhou Mingrui was also overcome by a haze and the scenery was distorted.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Fool."

He heard the familiar voice of Miss Justice.

Looking around, he realized that he was in front of the long bronze mottled table above the gray fog. On his left, a silver mirror was put there.

Miss Justice tilted her head in worry.

"Mr. Fool, is there something wrong?"

Zhou Mingrui, no, Klein's trauma wasn't 'something that had already happened' but 'something that could happen'.

Actually, his spiritual intuition even told him that it was 'something that would happen'.

Curious, Klein observed the scene, wondering what the problem was.

Now that he thought about it, weren't there quite a few seats that were empty?

He turned back to Miss Justice.

Wasn't Audrey Hall dead?

At the moment he realized this, the image of Miss Justice disappeared, replaced by other scenes.

The first one was the police knocking at his door and peacefully interrogating him instead of directly dragging him to Chanis Gate.

The moment where Xin Jian rolled on the floor so that him, Leonard and Xin Jian could live at 7 Pinster Street together was replaced by him cooking and chatting with his siblings in Tingen.

When he died and saw Xin Jian waiting for him at his tomb, it was replaced by him going to Backlund alone.

At the Tarot Club, Xin Jian's seat didn't belong to her, but to his trumpet.

When he laughed with her at 15 Minsk Street, it was replaced by him talking to his neighbor's cat about being lonely.

When he felt betrayed by Xin Jian and made her leave his house before laughing like a madman was replaced by him killing Lanevus.

In the haze, the one who smiled at him wasn't Xin Jian but the Evernight Goddess's divine container.

Instead of only Audrey losing her life in the war, countless soldiers died.

There was no one to pick up Daly and bury her when she died, except Leonard.

There was no one to lure Amon away from him and save him in the Abandoned Land of the Gods.

There was no one watching him talk with Adam while his heart was pierced in the Bone Church.

There was no one...

Klein took a deep breath.

In front of him, every moment she had been involved in was replaced.

It was a world where he hadn't killed Xin Jian.

A world where he hadn't fought Xin Jian.

A world where he hadn't resented Xin Jian, hadn't befriended Xin Jian and a world where he hadn't met Xin Jian.

It was a world without her.

Then, Klein was back to the gray fog with Miss Justice. The latter calmly looked back at him.

There were also others there, but somehow... He felt that there were far less people than there should've been.

Where were Leodero, the Evernight Goddess, Lilith, Medici...?

When he first saw this scene, he first thought that it was a vision of after the end of the world, when a lot of them would have died while fighting.

However, seeing Audrey alive, he felt like he understood what it represented now.