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This has really heightened my anticipation!

So what if she's armed with a knife? Once I, Kevin the Ancestor, unleash a powerful attack, I'll roast the Herrscher of Corruption to a crisp!

……

P.S.: Don't laugh! Lots of people catch colds from sitting in air conditioning all the time.

Chapter 361 [Sunrise] and [Stars]

"Gresh, I need your help this time."

I promised you I would tell you what I was planning to do.

After making the agreement with Hua, Kosmo immediately found Gretchen and began to "deceive" her.

"Now, a wicked person has appeared in the Pure Land of the Past."

"Only with Gretchen's power can we defeat her."

Greta looked at Kosmo with a cute expression: "Bad guy? Do you need the knight's help?"

Kosmo shook his head: "No need to bother with it, Gretchen. You just need to paint as before."

"But, things will be a little different."

"Could you... draw according to what I said, without using my [colors]?"

In the game, Gretchen has picked up her paintbrush and is ready to begin.

The background music also changed to a somewhat melancholic piano melody.

"Let's start with a portrait of a young boy."

"He... must have been very thin, but like all boys, he wanted to be a hero."

"At the age of eight, he had already begun to act as a chivalrous hero, wanting to advance towards his goals in this way."

……

As Kosmo slowly began to narrate, Gretchen's paintbrush finally came to a stop.

Seeing this, a hint of reluctance finally appeared on Hua's face.

She stared intently at the paintbrush in Gretchen's hand, as if its movements would bring terrible calamities.

The players bit their lips and listened quietly to Kosmo's narration.

They all knew that Kosmo was referring to himself.

He described himself as cowardly and selfish.

Only the players knew that Kosmo had already become a hero without anyone noticing.

"As his life drew to a close, he once again faced a choice he simply could not accept."

He was assigned a mission: to leave Earth aboard a massive spaceship when the world faced annihilation, and to find new hope for humanity.

"In other words... you can survive the disaster, but you'll also become a deserter."

"Or...stay and die with the world, as a hero."

Greta: "That sounds... familiar."

Kosmo: "I might have told you this story before."

"Although I didn't like the story, I did finish reading it."

Greta wrinkled her nose: "But, Kosmo, you can't talk about others like that."

Those who go in search of hope are also heroes.

Kosmo: "...But that was...an abandoned plan..."

"The search for hope... that was never real to begin with; the home of the stars... is too far removed from humanity."

Although that manned spaceship was designed by a genius, it ultimately could not accomplish this great feat due to the limitations of the era.

At this point, players will know that Kosmo is referring to the "Ark Project" from the previous civilization.

The so-called "limitations of the era" refers to the fact that the geniuses of that time all focused their energy on fighting the Honkai.

Therefore, technologies like interstellar travel naturally did not develop very well.

"That boy... ultimately, he was too naive and too weak; he no longer had the strength to face such a choice between two evils."

Ultimately, someone else made the choice for him.

After a moment of silence, Kosmo managed to force out an almost imperceptible smile.

"The reason I'm telling you this is because I hope the boy in your painting can change."

"Can you……"

"Should we portray him as a more mature figure who can accept reality with equanimity?"

……

Upon seeing this, players were suddenly reminded of [Kosmo]'s appearance when facing the Herrscher of Corruption.

He was thin, yet great.

When the Herrscher of Corruption spoke of the [Scar], this is how the Kos Demon answered—

From the very beginning, the decision Hen made was not a choice between two evils... but rather a choice between the best of both worlds.

It was he who found the only way for me, which is why I stand here now, before you, to do what I must do.

Players then realized why Kosmo's dialogue box had a parenthesis.

It turns out that by then, he had already become a painting...

“Selfish people…are annoying, aren’t they? So Gretchen, please don’t draw him like that, okay?”

Greta: "...Hmm"

"Selfish people are the worst, unlike Kosmo."

Gretchen may be small, but she's not stupid.

She seemed to know what Kosmo wanted to do.

The brush is applied to the canvas again.

The pitch-black color, drop by drop, transforms into paint and falls onto the canvas.

The owner of those colors... the form of Kosmo, remains nowhere to be found.

Hua did not heed Kosmo's advice.

She did not use the Eighth Divine Key.

In her opinion, it was better for Gretchen to decide such a matter herself.

"Greschwitz...is much stronger than he imagined."

Or perhaps... she was unaware of what this action represented...

Hua looked at Gretchen with a complicated expression, her heart filled with mixed feelings.

"Thank you, Sister Hua."

By the time Hua came to her senses, the painting was already finished.

"Gresch... I hope you won't blame him. He did have his reasons for keeping it a secret."

Greta shook her head: "It's alright..."

"As Aponia's mother also said, some lies are not malicious."

"But, Sister Hua, what do you mean by 'strong'?"

"Isn't this a good thing?"

magnificent:"……"

As expected... Gretchen had no idea what this meant.

After all… personally “killing” Kosmo… Gretchen didn’t know that, which was for the best.

Hua breathed a deep sigh of relief.

At the same time, she was also thinking about how to phrase her next words—how to use children's language to minimize the cruelty of the matter.

However, before Hua could explain, Gretchen spoke first.

"...He's just staying here in a different way."

magnificent:"……"

She really wanted to say that Kosmo had already...

But she couldn't bear to say it aloud no matter what.

wrong……

Hua suddenly noticed that Gretchen's body...