The cold mechanical sound of the system echoed in my mind:
As long as you can make the protagonist change from hating you to being indispensable to you, you can leave Eternal Night.
I originally thought this was just a mission game of equal exchange, pretending to get closer and going around step by step.
But later——
He broke every one of his proud bones, knelt in front of me, and clenched the corners of my clothes with bloody knuckles.
There was paranoia in his eyes that crushed all pride, and he murmured in a hoarse voice:
"Your heart is colder than my sword."
I lowered my eyes and chuckled, then asked casually: "Then you still hold on to me?"
I never thought that this paranoia would be so heavy.
Until later, in order to save me, that man sacrificed his body, burned up his soul, and spent thousands of years of cultivation.
In the bloody sky, he looked at me with a paranoid and gentle smile:
"If you are trapped in the eternal night, I will break the trap with my life and exchange for your freedom."
It turns out that from hating him to his bones, he finally had to do it for me. What he was betting on was his whole hot and broken heart.
