Bizarre Honkai, a Wife-Chasing Crematorium

[In the Soul-Ferrying Passage, a living person cannot walk out. Staying will surely lead to death.]

[But a dead soul is different. A dead soul will lose all consciousness and will be reborn into one of countless cycles upon reaching the end.]

[I just need to die in the Soul-Ferrying Passage, not disappear, to return to the place I want to go.]

[My name is Li Mo. I hope the choice I made is the right one.]

"..."

With the experience of St. Freya's funeral, Li Mo was clearer about the purpose of the notebook's first page. The notebook tried to lure him into suicide, and then be reborn in the form it desired. But the purpose of doing so was still unknown. Perhaps... it was waiting for a suitable opportunity to control his body.

Li Mo believed that it had the ability to do so. Because so far, the notebook had never revealed what it could do. Li Mo only knew some of the rules, but he was completely unaware of the Bizarre abilities it possessed.

"The Soul-Ferrying Passage is attracting Bizarre Kiana..."

"I've now taken the place of the knocking ghost. I'm not a living person, so I won't die in the Soul-Ferrying Passage. I just need to walk to the end and wait for Bizarre Kiana to kill me."

"Bizarre Kiana won't let me leave, so she will definitely freeze time and space. She will kill me first, then eat me."

"The Soul-Ferrying Passage forces disappearance, and Bizarre Kiana will make me die. The rules conflict. As the target of the rule conflict, I have a chance to break free from the restrictions of both rules and live on as a complete self, corresponding to the 'complete' mentioned in the notebook."

"If everything goes smoothly, I will break through the state of space-time lock, and also retain my memories, Bizarre abilities, and everything I have now."

Li Mo murmured, but this was the most ideal state. The reality was very harsh and often did not go in the direction he thought.

It was more likely that Bizarre Kiana's rules would override the rules of the Soul-Ferrying Passage. It was also possible that the rules of the Soul-Ferrying Passage would suppress Bizarre Kiana, and he would disappear and enter the next cycle. Then... repeat the same ending.

Perhaps he was not in the first cycle at all. But no matter what, Li Mo had to take a gamble. Not to mention that the destruction of the inner world would lead to the destruction of the outer world.

To save Seele, and the children in the orphanage who had just started their beautiful lives. And... Kira.

According to the description of the junior high school girl, a long time had passed in the inner and outer worlds after he died. After he died, Shigure Kira would find a way to pay off her debt to Cecilia, and after paying it off...

"I must hurry back and tell Kira—I'm still alive."

Thinking of this, Li Mo no longer hesitated. Because he did not have the capital to waste time.

Before going to the fourth floor, there was one thing Li Mo had to do: clear out all the ghosts that had ascended to the fifth floor.

"There are a lot of them, but not as many as the three hundred and twenty-seven mentioned in the notebook."

The notebook would not lie. There were far fewer ghosts on the fifth floor. Even if he ate them all, it was still within his capacity. And Li Mo had a feeling that before the ghosts in his stomach were separated, he seemed to be able to use the ghosts inside to act as the ability of the Bizarre handgun and collide with other rules.

The air on the fifth floor was cold. Gradually, the black mist was stained with scarlet again, and blood foam floated in the air. A thick fishy smell spread, filling every corner and crevice of the fifth floor.

Li Mo's figure became bloated, but the shadow at his feet remained thin.

Walking to the stairs, Li Mo quickly came to the fourth floor. After a short period of thought, he destroyed the stairs between the fourth and fifth floors. Only in this way could he protect Seele from the attacks of malevolent ghosts while he was transforming the fourth floor.

"Control the black mist and gather the ghosts here."

"Then, with the power of the two storybooks..."

"Do the storybooks also have Bizarre abilities?"

Li Mo was puzzled. He had picked up the storybooks several times but had never felt the unique aura of the Bizarre from them.

With confusion, Li Mo first gathered the black mist into a shape on the fourth floor, and also spread the black mist to other parts of the world. The black mist had a rule of attracting ghosts and would contain them inside. Li Mo didn't know where this rule came from, but since it existed, he should make reasonable use of it.

"The ghosts will follow the black mist to the end and will soon arrive at the fourth floor of the haunted house. I must transform the fourth floor into a Soul-Ferrying Passage before it is filled with ghosts."

Li Mo walked to the bookshelf and quickly took down the two fairy tale books. He opened the title pages of the two storybooks. The first one was written with the name Kanagawa Yume, and the second with the name Seele Vollerei.

"Without Bizarre power, how can I create a Soul-Ferrying Passage on the fourth floor?"

Li Mo took out his notebook. Now was not the time to consider gains and losses. The notebook should be used when it should be used.

[My name is Li Mo. I am on the fourth floor of the haunted house.]

[The black mist is linking all the ghosts in this world to rush to the fourth floor, but the space on the fourth floor is limited. Soon, the ghosts will fill the fourth floor.]

[I need to create the Soul-Ferrying Passage in my memory before the space on the fourth floor is filled. It is a passage that never ends.]

[The only end point is the death of the host in a certain cycle. The host of the Soul-Ferrying Passage can leave to complete the conservation.]

[I turned the two fairy tale books to the title pages, covered the names 'Kanagawa Yume' and 'Seele Vollerei' with blood, and then wrote the names 'Seele Vollerei' and 'Kanagawa Yume' respectively under the covered areas.]

[The two names were swapped to complete the closed loop.]

[At that time, I will get my wish.]

"Swapping the names on the title pages of the two books..." Li Mo pondered for a moment and bit his finger. The wound was healing rapidly. Li Mo took advantage of the fact that his finger had not yet recovered and immediately covered the names of the owners of the two books with fresh blood.

The blurry flesh and blood rubbed against the paper, and Li Mo wrote down the names of Kanagawa Yume and Seele Vollerei again. At this point, the names of the two storybooks were swapped.

Li Mo looked back and found that all the pictures on the wall of the fourth floor had disappeared, and the bookshelf, table, and boxes had all disappeared. The floor under his feet was pitch black, and the surroundings were also void. It was as if he had fallen into a void, but his feet were firmly planted on something.

Seeing this, Li Mo quickly released the ghosts in the black mist. After leaving the black mist, the ghosts' eyes were dull. Just as he had seen when he first entered the Soul-Ferrying Passage, they were lining up, walking slowly forward, although there was no end in front of them.

Li Mo observed repeatedly and found that the skin of these ghosts was rapidly decaying, from pale to ashen.

"The ghosts' rules have been lost. Their superficial identity is not a ghost now, but a product between a human and a ghost."

"I just don't know if they will die."

Li Mo tentatively killed a ghost, but failed. It couldn't even restart, but at the same time, it wouldn't die. Perhaps it could only be erased of its consciousness and enter the next cycle by relying on the disappearing rule of the Soul-Ferrying Passage.

"Let's wait patiently. When all the ghosts in this world have entered the Soul-Ferrying Passage, we can start the next step."

Li Mo stood aside and waited patiently, not moving forward with the ghosts. He wrapped himself in the black mist, and the Soul-Ferrying Passage could not affect him.

While waiting, Li Mo thought about what had happened before. The notebook's answer was too smooth, which meant that everything was developing within its expectations.

Li Mo shook his head. He had no time to worry about the notebook's conspiracy now. Shigure Kira was still waiting for him. He couldn't waste too much time.

He didn't want the trope of saving his loved one at the last second to happen to him and Shigure Kira. That kind of thing... he couldn't accept it. Before a tragedy happens, you have to race against time. Doing your best is not enough, you have to go all out. Otherwise, regret will catch up, and regret will run through your life.

The clear moonlight pierced through the dark clouds, illuminating the earth, reflecting the sparkling waves, as if telling a sad story of pity.

All the ghosts in the inner world were gathered in the Soul-Ferrying Passage, lined up in a row, walking slowly forward.

Li Mo used the black mist to leave the Soul-Ferrying Passage and came to the fifth floor.

"Phew..."

Li Mo breathed a sigh of relief. For now, everything was going according to plan. He hoped there would be no mishaps.

"Thump... thump..."

"Creak... creak..."

Li Mo's footsteps became very heavy. With every step, he would crush the wooden planks on the floor, and his entire foot would sink in. Pull out, sink, pull out, sink.

Over and over again, his ankles were cut by the broken wooden planks, large and small. Li Mo ignored it. These injuries would heal soon.

The fifth floor was very quiet, so quiet that the sound of his footsteps became the only source of sound. Due to the change in his life form, even breathing became optional. The faint breath was filled with coldness.

Li Mo walked to the end of the corridor, to the door of the ninth room, raised his hand, and gently knocked on the door.

"Bang!"

When the knock on the door landed, Li Mo was stunned for a moment. He remembered the knocking ghost's rule. The knocking ghost would knock on the door as many times as there were ghosts inside. He was sure that there were no ghosts in his room, including that big bed. The bed had not yet transformed into a ghost bed, otherwise the ghosts would not have been able to see Seele at once.

So, the ghost inside was...

Li Mo said in a low voice, "Seele, it's me."

As the knocking ghost, he couldn't open the door. The candle on the wall flickered crazily until it went out. Li Mo heard something crawling on the floor in the room, then stood up, and ran to the door.

"Creak—"

The door was opened, and a soft body pounced into his arms. Fortunately, Li Mo had eaten many ghosts and his body had become bloated, otherwise this collision would have definitely made him take a few steps back.

The adult Seele shrank in Li Mo's arms, not at all afraid of the bloated Li Mo. Sure enough, she had seen this appearance before. In a certain cycle, he had made the same choice and became the knocking ghost, so why did he still fail?

Li Mo didn't know. He only knew that now he had to take Seele and leave this place.

"Let's go, let's go home," Li Mo stretched out his hand. Unlike before, when Seele hid in the ghost bed and dared not respond, this time Seele immediately grabbed Li Mo's hand, although it was extremely cold.

Li Mo held Seele's hand and came to the Soul-Ferrying Passage on the fourth floor. Like countless dead souls, they kept moving forward, not knowing when the end would be. This process could not be accelerated, and no matter how urgent it was, it would be useless.

Therefore, Li Mo had a lot of time to ask Seele.

"This world is about to be abandoned. Seele, Brother comes from another world, and I will definitely go back."

"In that case, would you be willing to come with me?"

Li Mo mentioned. Seele would have to make a choice sooner or later. But whether she chose to stay or follow, Li Mo would not stop her, because she was about to become an adult and had the right to choose her own life. Even a guardian could not interfere.

Seele was slightly stunned, lowered her head, and her voice was timid, "I can't. If Seele leaves, everyone will die." The outer world was derived from Bizarre power. If Seele, as the source, left, the world would naturally collapse and disappear without the support of Bizarre power.

Seele added, "Seele has to stay here, I can only stay here. If Brother misses Seele, wait at the orphanage gate at eight o'clock in the morning after you leave. In this game, Seele won."

Li Mo didn't understand what Seele meant. She didn't want to leave, but she wanted him to wait at the orphanage gate at eight o'clock in the morning. Winning the game was just something Li Mo said to comfort her. He made a promise with Seele to let her hide peacefully until eight o'clock the next morning.

"Alright," Li Mo agreed.

Soon, Li Mo noticed something was wrong. In the endless Soul-Ferrying Passage, a white light suddenly appeared in front.

"This is...?" Li Mo was puzzled.

"The place to go back," Seele said in a low voice. At the same time, her appearance and figure were rapidly changing. Li Mo was also the same. After walking in the Soul-Ferrying Passage for a period of time, the ghosts he had eaten would be lost, until they were all lost and the end point appeared.

"Kanagawa... Yume?"

Li Mo was astonished to see Seele turn into Kanagawa Yume at a speed visible to the naked eye. He didn't know what symbolic meaning this change had. But there was no doubt that that guess had finally been confirmed.

Seele stood behind Li Mo, pushed with both hands, and pushed Li Mo to the edge of the end. She smiled and said nonsensically, "Sure enough, I'm still better off alone... in many cycles, Brother chose to kill Seele to end the nightmare, but the nightmare won't disappear, they won't disappear."

"Sister Shigure is very good. Brother, you have to treat her well."

Li Mo: "???"

"What are you talking about?"

Li Mo was a little confused. Why did Seele say these things? Seele smiled wryly and looked at the end behind Li Mo. Li Mo also followed Seele's gaze and looked back.

Summer night, starry sky, girl, beach, sea, so romantic it was ridiculous. The starlight was shining, and the moonlight fell, reflecting a colorful and dreamlike ocean. The ripples gently rose and fell with the sea breeze, like a painter's gentle brushstrokes, constantly outlining the beautiful silhouette of the seawater.

However, there was an out-of-place coffin among the beautiful elements.

The end was another world.

The girl opened the coffin and took out a skeleton that had rotted to the point of being only white bones.

"It's beautiful here, right..."

"If I die here, after I go to hell, as long as I look up, I can see the beautiful and brilliant starry sky, right?"

As if in response to the girl's words, a few meteors streaked across the night sky, fleeting, leaving a long halo in the night sky. The cool evening wind blew, and the blue and white skirt fluttered in the wind, swaying like catkins.

That long blue hair that had been praised many times for being beautiful fluttered in the wind. The sea reflected the brilliance of the stars and the moon, and her hair seemed to be dotted with dazzling stars, twinkling and shining...

Shigure Kira hugged Li Mo's skeleton and walked towards the depths of the sea with the steps of a falling bird. Although she was rushing towards death, her face was full of a happy smile.

A white veil was draped over her head, simple and rough, with faint traces of blood. This was woven by her own hands.

"The memories between us... all carefully collected..."

"I always cry secretly... like a tired bird that has lost its way home..."

Her lips parted slightly, singing a simple and plain ballad. Surprisingly, Shigure Kira, who had never sung in tune before, and whose singing at the concert was a mess, this time every word was in tune, as gentle as goose down falling on snow.

"Kira!" Li Mo couldn't help but shout at the end.

Why did this idiot choose to die for love at this time?!

Seele shook her head, "Brother, Sister Shigure can't hear you, so go quickly. Seele believes in Brother, there must be a way to break the cycle of reincarnation."

"Don't worry about Seele..."

Before Seele could finish, Li Mo immediately walked into the end, and his consciousness and the Bizarre on his body quickly dissipated.

Seele: "..."

On the verge of death, Li Mo finally shouted that name.

"Kiana, I'm here!"

As his voice fell, the Soul-Ferrying Passage still operated as usual. Li Mo's expression was very bad. He could feel that he was about to disappear, and then be reborn into one of countless cycles.

No... no... hold on...

Li Mo bit off his lip and forced his Bizarre power to revive and heal, so as to resist the rules of the Soul-Ferrying ritual.

The Soul-Ferrying Passage still operated as usual. The expected space-time freeze did not appear. Li Mo took out his Bizarre handgun and shot himself in the head without any hesitation, trying to restart.

Unlike before, this time the ghost fire did not kill him, but just kept burning on his body. There was no concept of death in the Soul-Ferrying Passage, which meant that Li Mo could not restart and could only be forced to accept reincarnation.

"Ngh!!"

Li Mo knelt on the ground in pain. The faint blue ghost fire spread to his whole body, devouring every inch of his flesh. His hand holding the gun was shaking, and the Bizarre handgun was almost thrown away.

Li Mo endured the pain and once again pointed the Bizarre handgun at himself, firing four consecutive shots. Five shots was the maximum damage the Bizarre handgun could cause. But there was still no sign of a restart. The rules of the Soul-Ferrying Passage were constantly confronting Li Mo's own rules. As long as Li Mo accepted disappearance, he could be reborn.

But after rebirth, all the tragedy would be irreversible, and the nightmare would be re-enacted.

No... hold on...

Li Mo gritted his teeth, and a large amount of scarlet blood overflowed from the corner of his mouth. He shot himself with the bullets of the Bizarre handgun again and again. He only accepted death, not disappearance.

The concept of death could collide with disappearance. As long as the ghost fire did not go out and he was in a near-death state, the Soul-Ferrying Passage would not let him disappear. Because death and disappearance could only exist one at a time.

What Li Mo had to do was to wait for Bizarre Kiana to descend.

"Kira..." Li Mo's voice was hoarse, his eyes staring at the other world at the end. The seawater had already submerged most of Shigure Kira's body. Even Shigure Kira herself had given up the will to live and actively closed her eyes, but the smile on her face did not diminish.

Li Mo's nails dug into the palm of his hand. The ghost fire was quickly extinguished under the suppression of the Soul-Ferrying Passage. Without any hesitation, Li Mo began to tear his limbs. If his palm was bitten off, he would tear off a hand. If his hand was torn off, he would smash his head crazily against the ground.

As long as his Bizarre power continued to heal, he could delay time and resist disappearance. However, the completeness of the two was not on the same level. Although the speed of his consciousness disappearing had slowed down, it had not stopped.

Gradually, Li Mo's body was already broken, and he had exhausted everything but still did not get the expected space-time freeze.

"No..." Li Mo wailed in pain, trying his best to open his eyes, only to feel a strong drowsiness filling his mind.

Seele stood outside the end, motionless. She saw the mournful Li Mo resisting disappearance by self-mutilation. Seele understood that Li Mo was waiting for the arrival of that woman. But there were too many cycles. Even if that Bizarre had mastered time and space, it was difficult to arrive in a short time.

Seele's eyes lowered, her expression lost. She turned around and whispered, "In the end, nothing has changed... it's just gotten worse."

Death is death. Reincarnation is just a recorded slide. It can only prove that there was once such a person, such a relationship. It is not the resurrection of the dead, let alone the continuation of life.

As her voice fell.

At the end.

The seawater had already submerged Shigure Kira. In the dark sea, Shigure Kira hugged Li Mo's skeleton and fell bit by bit. This process was very slow.

The light above also became dimmer and dimmer with the time of sinking, until her eyes could no longer feel a trace of light, and her body was wrapped in dampness and cold.

Breathing stopped, pupils dilated. The heart that sustained a living person's life stopped beating, and consciousness returned to nothingness. Her hands still held tightly to that pale skeleton.

Li Mo witnessed this scene, but now he couldn't even roar. He could only watch Shigure Kira die, his raw throat constantly making a hoarse "er'ah" sound. Although his heart was still beating, he felt as if it was being held tightly by a hand, unable to breathe.

A bird in a cage, if it is destined to die in the end, then to be able to touch the free sky before it dies, can it be considered a compensation for the regret of being imprisoned?

Has our life ever been given meaning at a certain moment, and then become worthless at a certain moment, full of nothingness and pessimism... at least for the current Li Mo, death or disappearance no longer mattered.

The stooped soul had already hung down.

The mottled corners of his mouth, the neck with scratch marks, the arms that had recovered but were covered in blood...

"Ha... hahaha..."

Li Mo laughed. He was actually in a daze, thinking that he could save everyone.

If only from the very beginning... he had killed everyone... from the very beginning... he had given up on everyone...

The law of disappearance began to act on his mind, and the ghost of misfortune let out a sharp curse. What did it curse?

Li Mo didn't know. Because it didn't matter anymore... it didn't matter... he couldn't even die, what else could he do?

A slight pain rippled in his heart, like an echo in an empty valley, lingering for a long time.

At the end, she looked so beautiful and happy... so much so that the dying Li Mo fantasized that if he really went back to the past and chose to escape the Bizarre regardless of everything, and spend his life with Shigure Kira, what would everything be like...

Many beautiful things only show their most precious side when they are destroyed. Death indeed reflects the glory of human nature.

No exception.

Everyone is like this.

...

You are an ordinary person who, by a twist of fate, learned a truth unknown to others. You often laughed at others for not following through on the good in their hearts, so you resolutely embarked on an incomparably difficult path.

You have the ability to restart after death, and with this, you use information asymmetry in paranormal incidents to complete rituals, cleverly maneuvering with the Bizarre.

In many paranormal incidents, you have made many talented and resourceful partners, as well as many who admire and even blindly believe in you. Among them is a girl, a game character from your memory, named: Shigure Kira.

You didn't care about this, because you knew very well that your mission and responsibility was to deal with the Bizarre and let the world develop on its original track.

This time, as before, you came to a Bizarre world to fulfill a mission that you didn't know where it came from. You collected information as before, reasonably used your props and abilities, and even with only one life left, you wanted to complete the ritual and go to the source of the Bizarre.

Good luck doesn't always favor a person. Soon, you died in the last two days. But you didn't completely die, but came to another place. Here, you reunited with that girl. You instinctively wanted her to help you out of trouble, so you summoned a terrifying ghost on her, let her control it, and go to the place where you died to save you.

She was very obedient and unconditionally obeyed your orders. At the risk of death, she accepted the power of that ghost. From this moment on, no matter what the final result was, her life had already entered a countdown.

She did not disappoint you. She came to your corpse and exchanged her life for yours.

She had a beloved captain in the original world, fans who admired her, and had walked a long, long way on the road of her ideals and dreams. In the future, she might encounter more things she liked, even... people she liked.

Just because of one sentence from you, she gave up everything, sacrificed everything in the original world, and exchanged it for you.

You noticed the "Bizarre" of the "mission," and with the help of the Bizarre source in this world, you split yourself. You and her came to a world derived from pollution.

Your body was sick, and she took care of you meticulously for ten years without a single complaint. During this period, she lost face many times to ask her captain for medical help.

You raised many orphans, and the two of you worked together to raise many children.

She wanted to live a beautiful life with you in this world, but you never gave a positive answer, because your remaining reason told you that you had to deal with the Bizarre.

One night, she bought a ring and proposed to you. This should have been something you did. Although she didn't say it, she, who had traveled all over the world, had been observing the Bizarre signs in this world and would never hide any information, even if telling you would destroy the peaceful daily life of the two of you.

She hoped you would go further, with a clear conscience.

At the age of twenty-two, you died of organ failure.

"I love you."

She said to your corpse.

After that, she embarked on a life of paying off debts, earning money to subsidize the children's studies and life on one hand, and saving money to pay off the debts you had incurred in your life on the other.

You never noticed that her phone hadn't been changed for many years, because you didn't even know that she had lost a lot of weight. You subconsciously thought that she would eat well on missions, but you didn't know that she only ate to fill her stomach and never wasted a penny, all of which was spent on the orphanage and you.

Your thinking was slow, and most of it was spent on thinking about how to deal with the Bizarre, so naturally you didn't care much about these small things.

Finally, on the day the debt was paid off, she took your skeleton to the seaside. She didn't know if you liked this place, but this was her favorite place. She wanted to share her joy with you, although that joy... was small, humble, and not worth mentioning.

"It's beautiful here, right..."

"If I die here, after I go to hell, as long as I look up, I can see the beautiful and brilliant starry sky, right?"

She said with a smile, holding your skeleton and walking towards the depths of the sea.

This was something she had planned from the moment you died. If it weren't for the debt problem, she would have died long ago and been buried with you.

You are still alive. You seem to always be able to find a chance to live, no matter in what way. You stand at the "end," watching her go, no matter how much you shout, it's useless. She won't stop, because she thinks you're dead.

She doesn't want you to be lonely. In fact, she could have lived a happy and fulfilling life in this world. Without you, she still has many people who love her.

Everything is over.

She is about to die, and you can only watch. After all... this is the price of your "choice" at that time.

You will surely regret it... regret why you didn't die, why others didn't die.

But so what? You can't change reality. The only thing that responds to you is your gradually disappearing consciousness and the dryness in your throat.

You are also going to die.

"..."

Li Mo knelt on the ground, closed his eyes, and Seele, who had just turned back outside the end, sighed.

"In the end, it's still..."

Before she could finish, Seele suddenly froze on the spot. The dead souls walking in the Soul-Ferrying Passage were as if the pause button had been pressed. Time and space were frozen.

Except for Li Mo inside the end and Seele outside the end, the entire Soul-Ferrying Passage stopped operating. The law of disappearance also fell into silence.

"How could it be...?"

Seele was stunned. She knew the number of cycles very well. How could she find the correct position in such a short time?

Before Seele could be surprised, a beautiful figure appeared not far from the end. Her eyes were dark, and her outstretched fingers were flawless white, as if covered with a layer of white snow. Her complexion was extremely morbid.

Noticing that the law of disappearance was slowing down, Li Mo suddenly opened his eyes, and the hope of living was rekindled in his eyes.

Bizarre Kiana space-hopped to Li Mo's side and held Li Mo's head with both hands.

Li Mo broke into a smile through his tears. Finally... finally he had waited...

Hurry and kill me... kill me like before...

Li Mo recited in his heart. According to Bizarre Kiana's rules, she would kill him first, and then eat him. Killing meant death, but the end had the law of disappearance. In the process of disappearing, there would be no death. There was a conflict between the two.

As long as the rules began to collide, Li Mo would have a chance to leave the end and return to the outer world as a complete self.

After waiting for half a minute, Bizarre Kiana still did not move. She just held Li Mo's head and did nothing.

In the other world at the end, Shigure Kira had completely fallen into darkness and continued to sink, with no room for resurrection.