Chapter 768: Lets Fight
“But what if I hide you in the basement dark room?”
Sonya suddenly asked, “You just stay inside and train or entertain yourself, don’t go out, and only I come to see you. That way you won’t be exposed at all, you won’t implicate me, but we can still be together.”
At first glance, this suggestion actually sounded okay, but Ashe still felt something was off, a strange anxiety rising in his heart. He quickly shook his head. “No, I want to go back to Gospel and find Lise!”
“But you can’t go back right away,” Sonya’s eyes flashed with a strange light. “During this time-“
“Um…”
Deya raised her hand and said, “Actually, I have a way to establish a Void Gate from Gospel to Stars, but the Void Gate in Stars would be at a random location. But if you give me a few days, it’s not impossible to set up a Void Gate to Galaxia.”
Ashe was stunned, then realized, “Gospel system?”
“The Void Gate concept is a brand-new world rule. Even the Gospel Deity needs some time to get familiar with its inner logic,” Deya said. “The Void Gate Spirit definitely has better support for establishing targeted Void Gates, but that requires the sorcerers’ intelligence to develop. The Gospel system can only use big data analysis, similar to brute-force calculation, to forcibly deduce the general range of Void Gates established in different environments and times.”
“If you want to return to Gospel, Ashe, I’ll have it ready in three days,” Deya said seriously. “Now the Gospel Kingdom is under my rule, and the Omniscient Weaver has never given any special instructions about you travelers from another world. As long as you come back, I can not only protect you, but also open up the seven-hundred-year Yisuo royal treasury for you.”
“You’ve been wandering for so long,” the Witch said gently. “Now you can finally go home.”Ashe was dazed by this sudden surprise-could they really leave Stars now? They didn’t have to go deep into the Abyss, didn’t have to slowly grind for a Void Gate, just wait for Deya to set one up?
He, Igor, Harvey, finally didn’t need to keep running wild across the land, and could rest well under the protection of the Yisuo Empress?
This long journey of theirs… was it finally reaching the promised end?
“Can the Void Gate be fixed permanently?” Sonya asked, eyes wide.
Deya shook her head. “No, there’s no related Miracle researched yet.”
“Then can you create Void Gates frequently, like letting me go to Gospel Kingdom two or three times a week?”
“No, creating a targeted Void Gate is also a huge drain on the Gospel system, because too many factors affect the Void Gate-Virtual Realm Vibration, environmental factors, even Golden Flow Water… Every time a targeted Void Gate is created, it squeezes a massive amount of Gospel computing power. Once or twice is fine, but if done long-term, it would cause irreparable negative effects on people’s livelihoods and the economy.”
“How about twice a month? Go in once, leave once, I could take a month-long vacation.”
“Still no.”
“Why not?”
“Because I wasn’t planning to tell you this in the first place.”
Deya lowered her head, looking at her toes. “If Ashe were in another Kingdom, I would have secretly told him. But since he’s in Stars, there’s no way to hide it from you, so I might as well be honest.”
Ashe hesitated, his gaze shifting between the two girls.
“…Aha.”
Sonya crossed her arms and said calmly, “One of you didn’t plan to tell me you were in Stars, the other didn’t want to tell me you could connect to Stars. Truly… like father and daughter?”
“I told you,” Deya pursed her lips, “Lise is Ashe’s daughter, I’m Deya! I’m the princess, Ashe is my knight!”
“I can tell you’ve always wanted to avoid this point, you’re afraid he’ll see you as a daughter, that your feelings will be purified into familial love,” Sonya said. “But you and Lise are one body with multiple souls. When you were on the Time Continent, you didn’t have any feelings for the ‘Observer’ beyond friendship, so you must have liked him from Lise’s perspective, right?”
“Ashe said your Yisuo royal family doesn’t seem to have a paternal line, and the maternal line is just puppets occupied by the Gospel Deity, so as the princess, you must lack both fatherly and motherly love. You’ve always tried to avoid it, but the starting point of your feelings is actually infatuation with the fatherly love he gave you, isn’t it?”
Ashe stood up nervously. “Sword Princess…”
The sword Princess directly reached out and pressed him back down, staring at the Witch, whose face was pale as death. “My Mental Sect may be shallow, but I know that one body with multiple souls will influence each other. Lise’s feelings for Ashe will affect you sisters, and your feelings for Ashe will also affect Lise… Can you really tell, do you want a lover, or do you want a father?”
The Witch’s lips trembled, her eyes welling up with tears, as if she would cry the next second. At this moment, her hair color suddenly changed, black, white, and red switching back and forth, finally turning into a distinctly dirty mix of colors. She gritted her teeth and said, “This is why we don’t want you to come to Gospel.”
“The Virtual Realm is our limit of tolerance. We don’t want to keep seeing you in reality.”
Sonya was so angry she laughed. “Tolerance? What are you tolerating?”
“Tolerating you breaking the agreement and crossing the line of friendship first? Tolerating your sneaky moves when I’m not paying attention? Tolerating you intentionally or unintentionally blocking me from getting close to Ashe?” The Witch’s voice grew louder, her face more and more indignant. “You almost took all the chances to be alone with him in the Virtual Realm. You ask what I’m tolerating?”
“You don’t want to take the initiative, so why blame me?”
“It’s not that I don’t want to, I’m afraid to!” The Witch shook her head hard, her messy hair drawing streaks of muddy color. “I don’t want to quarrel with you, don’t want to affect the team’s atmosphere, don’t want to ruin the stable relationship we’ve finally built, but you always think everything is taken for granted, you always want to take more, you always stuff your pockets full of candy and still want more!”
“But at least then I could comfort myself that as long as Ashe returned to Gospel, we wouldn’t have to worry about your gaze, we’d have our own time as princess and knight, we… at least wouldn’t have to love so humbly, like dust.”
“You should be humble,” Sonya said word by word. “Because I was here first!”
“Oh, really?” The Witch pointed at Ashe. “If a childhood friend suddenly fell from the sky for him, would you also sensibly step aside?”
“That hypothetical is meaningless.”
“But you only know the Observer in the Virtual Realm, you don’t understand the real Ashe at all, don’t know what he likes to play, don’t know what he likes to eat, don’t know who his friends are… From this angle, I liked all of Ashe first, you only like that side of him called Observer!”
“Not to mention you can’t even protect him in Stars, while I can provide him with everything in Gospel. If we’re talking about who should be humble, it definitely isn’t me, who can give him a whole Kingdom!”
Sonya’s anger almost burned through her stomach. She subconsciously gripped her sword hilt, her eyes blood-red. “You-“
“You’re selfish,” the Witch retorted, ten fingers pulling out sharp Dead Lines. “But that’s fine, we’re all selfish, but you can’t be so selfish as to think everyone else is selfless.”
“Are seeds that miss the season not allowed to sprout? Is late love only to be handed over? There’s no such logic!” she shouted. “Sword Princess, I’ve never thought of defeating you or making you leave, because I know that’s impossible. We’re destined to be Shared Life and share death comrades, our Fate Threads are already entangled in everything… More importantly, Ashe could never give you up.”
“But you think you can cut off my relationship with Ashe.”
“I’ve had enough of this treatment in the Virtual Realm, and I won’t endure your bullying in reality too. I will never let you come to Gospel Kingdom, never.”
“That’s because everything is rightfully mine!” Sonya’s face flushed. “I did nothing wrong!”
“Then what did I do wrong?” The Witch tightened the Dead Line in her hand. “Was it wrong to fall for the knight who saved me from falling, the prince who led me out of the Royal Palace? Why do I have to swallow my anger in front of you? You never consider my feelings… you haven’t even considered Ashe’s position.”
Sonya bit her lip hard, tears sliding down her cheeks like pearls, but she still stubbornly lifted her head, her red ponytail proudly flying:
“I did nothing wrong!”
Clang!
The sword tip struck heavily on the ruby floor. Ashe stood up, leaning on his long sword, spreading his virtual wings, opening his Sanctuary, Shadowblade Spellforce surging violently.
“Speaking of which,” he suddenly said, “it’s been over a month since we met, I don’t even know how much stronger you’ve become.”
“Let’s fight, with all we’ve got.”