Bizarre Honkai, a Wife-Chasing Crematorium

Shigure Kira: "Hey, Gloomy Man, do you think there are parallel universes in this world? Not those independent world bubbles, uh, how do I explain world bubbles to you... Never mind world bubbles, it's parallel universes, you should know about parallel universes, right? Do you believe in them?"

Li Mo: "I believe."

Li Mo's reply made Shigure Kira smile brightly.

Hey, this guy, although he doesn't proactively speak, he still has basic manners. Although his answer was simple, it was very precise, going straight to the point. It was much better than those who completely avoided the topic.

Shigure Kira felt that this was an opportunity. She wanted to understand what kind of person Li Mo was through conversation.

Therefore, her attention was completely on Li Mo. She didn't notice that the white moon had once again turned crimson, like a bloodshot, bulging eyeball staring at the entire world, monitoring everything.

Shigure Kira: "I believe in them too! Then, do you think that in other parallel universes, other versions of us are also experiencing everything right now, and finally sitting here chatting leisurely?"

Li Mo: "..."

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Li Mo pondered, pondering for a very long time.

His thinking speed was very fast now, but this question made him hesitate to give an answer.

Perhaps the universe he was in now was a parallel universe. The difference between countless parallel universes was nothing more than one choice of an important person. That was all.

It was very similar to the domino effect.

In the world that Li Mo knew, Shigure Kira was just a game character who had died in the Second Honkai War.

No, she didn't die, but went to another world and had all kinds of adventures before returning.

And the current time was at St. Freya, when the main trio were still in school. Shigure Kira's appearance in this timeline meant that the Shigure Kira of this world hadn't "died" in the Second Honkai War.

From just a few words, it could also be inferred that Cecilia hadn't died in this world.

Parallel worlds...

Just like when he had taken MEI away in his second transmigration. In that parallel universe, Kevin was taken by his parents to Australia to study due to family reasons, while he dealt with the anomalies and went to Chiba Academy.

That time, the anomalies had spread to the entire world. After entering the night, wherever there was a statue, there would be a ghost within ten meters.

Once you looked away, the ghost would rush to your back at an extremely high speed and twist the neck of the person who saw its appearance. The most terrifying thing was that even seeing a photo counted as seeing it.

It was quite similar to the behavior of a certain foundation's peanut. [A reference to the SCP Foundation's SCP-173, also known as "The Sculpture."]

The containment difficulty was too high, and some anti-social humans uploaded photos of the ghost on the internet. In just one month, major cities were basically wiped out.

With MEI's help, Li Mo finally ended this anomaly, but that world had already been consumed by despair. After the anomaly was restricted, the central city was left with less than tens of thousands of people to fend for themselves, and there should be more survivors in the suburbs.

After a long silence, Li Mo finally spoke.

"If we are destined, then so be it. If not, then we are unique."

"I'm very glad that it's you that I met."

Instead of other disobedient, self-righteous people.

Li Mo spoke somewhat ambiguous words with a cold face.

The loss of emotion made it difficult for him to understand other people's emotions. What he said and did was almost entirely based on objective facts.

As soon as he finished speaking, a gust of wind blew by. The group of heads seemed to have moved, but they quickly fell silent again.

"Ugh! Hmm... Thank, thank you..." Shigure Kira's words were unclear and barely audible.

Li Mo only heard sounds like "um ah".

Shigure Kira turned away, no longer looking at Li Mo. She lowered her head and pursed her lips, moving her ten fingers restlessly, feeling at a loss.

The sudden red glow was the blush of a girl's panic.

She looked down at the past, in which the future was hidden.

In that ignorant possibility, there was the same calm and serenity.

The sky of the fish was but a fleeting fantasy and a fairy tale.

But this tranquility didn't last long. It ended the leisure time with a painful groan.

"Tsk, ugh...!!" The veins on Li Mo's neck bulged. He felt a strong sense of suffocation, but it only lasted for a moment.

"What's wrong? What happened? Your expression is terrible... Don't scare me in the middle of the night," Shigure Kira asked nervously.

"It's nothing... My neck just hurt a bit just now." Li Mo immediately jumped to the ground and touched his neck. There was no crack.

He lied. It was very painful. Just now, he had completely suffocated for a moment. It felt like his neck had been twisted off, but thankfully, it didn't last long.

Pain...? After dying twice, even if his neck was broken, he wouldn't feel enough pain to cry out. What was that change just now? There was no sign of it at all.

Could it be that another ghost had entered the auditorium, and he had misjudged? Did the auditorium not have the ability to block the ghosts' perception?

Li Mo fell into deep thought.

Unlike others, Li Mo wouldn't think that sudden events were coincidences. Those seemingly "accidents" often meant an unfathomable supernatural event.

Shigure Kira was a bit flustered. She quickly jumped down and went up to Li Mo, carefully observing him.

"There's no crack, but on your neck... Why is there a handprint? As if someone had strangled you forcefully. Let me compare it."

Shigure Kira put her hand on his neck, and their sizes were almost the same.

"It even seems like it's a girl's handprint..." After saying that, Shigure Kira quickly waved her hand. "But I didn't choke you! I was sitting there just now and didn't move!"

"I know," Li Mo said coldly.

A girl's handprint about the same size as Shigure Kira's...

Was it her?

Li Mo quickly shook his head. He hadn't died yet. Kiana shouldn't appear, unless Kiana's behavioral patterns had changed unpredictably due to some kind of stimulation.

But he clearly hadn't done anything.

If Kiana were to appear now, he would probably die on the spot. He wasn't on the same level as her at all.

Li Mo continued to think.

He and Shigure Kira must have triggered a certain behavioral pattern of the bizarre Kiana, but it wasn't a killing pattern.

If it was a killing pattern, Li Mo definitely wouldn't have just felt pain.

Li Mo had felt the extreme pressure of his first death. The strange power in his body had instantly fallen into silence, and even the bizarre items like the coin, thermometer, and pistol had been completely suppressed.

This time, being strangled by the neck seemed like just a warning.

But he had only answered a thought-provoking question from Shigure Kira. If chatting with Shigure Kira could trigger a pattern, he should have been strangled a long time ago.

"Change the location for the night watch. Don't be under the moonlight."

Li Mo spoke in a rough tone. His neck felt as if it was in an ice cellar, piercingly cold, but his second death had greatly reduced his pain, so Li Mo could still endure it.

Thankfully, it seemed that Kiana only appeared after his death before the funeral was over.

However, Li Mo grew increasingly curious.

What had happened in the past of this world to make Kiana become such a powerful anomaly?

Li Mo hadn't felt this pressure for a long time. He had no clue how to contain it at all.

Shigure Kira followed Li Mo back to the depths of the auditorium, near the black coffin.

The incense swayed, and the dim light illuminated the strange spirit tablet. The portrait of Li Mo on the spirit tablet seemed to have changed.

The broken neck area was distorted, and there was a scarlet handprint.

"Drip, drip..."

In the darkness, the sound of dripping water was particularly crisp. The survivors that Li Mo had brought were gathered together, and Shigure Kira's team members were gathered together, sleeping on both sides of the black coffin.

No one noticed that the sound of dripping water was gradually disappearing. The eyes of the Li Mo on the spirit tablet were no longer seeping with blood. They were completely clouded and his expression was twisted as if he was experiencing great pain.

Thick blood dripped on the grave incense, and the firelight grew more and more dim. The blackish-red blood seemed to want to extinguish the flame of the grave incense completely.

Just when the last drop of black blood was about to fall on that tiny flame, Li Mo walked to the black coffin. The blood suddenly flowed backward, trying to return to the spirit tablet.

None of the Valkyries or students who were sleeping near the black coffin noticed...

A new ghost had already entered the auditorium, trying to erase the ability of the auditorium to shield the ghosts' perception.