Stargazer put the choice back into Ning Feng's hands.
...Are you still doubting it now?
"Alice, I really am me."
Although this sentence is strange, Ning Feng believes that she can understand it.
"I kind of remembered everything in the past."
"Everything about the Dark Ages, you who were still in the crystal at that time, the growing prophet society... I remember all those things."
After hearing her name, Alice's light eyes moved slightly:
"Alice, it's been a long time since I heard someone call me that...it's been a really long time."
"You said you have remembered everything?"
She stared deeply at Ning Feng, questioning Ning Feng's soul with her calm eyes.
"Do you still remember the oath you once swore?"
"……Remember."
Ning Feng straightened his back and looked directly at the stargazer opposite.
"I promised them I would keep them alive."
"I promised that I would lead them in front of them, and they would only have me in front of them."
"I promised you..."
Taking a deep breath, Ning Feng said the oath he had made with the most sincerity.
"I will definitely come back."
Go to the dead with all your heart, the last vow you made.
It is also the only oath that he does not intend to fulfill.
For them, and for her, the prophet at that time chose to sacrifice himself to pollute the Lord of Holy Light, hoping to gain a chance to breathe.
Judging from the results, Ning Feng succeeded and made the gods sleep for a whole thousand years.
But from another perspective, he also failed.
He broke the promise, leaving Alice alone to wait for his return for a thousand years.
To the world, he is a hero.
But to a woman waiting, he is the worst kind of liar.
"You haven't forgotten."
"No."
Her breath fluctuated for a while, and finally returned to calm. Alice nodded:
"Then you haven't shown up for so many years. Do you have anything to explain?"
"No."
Ning Feng didn't intend to explain. For the current situation, any explanation would be pale.
As if surprised by Ning Feng's calmness, Alice raised her eyebrows and leaned back.
"Then you still dare to come to see me now?"
"…………"
Shaking his head, Ning Feng still insisted on his decision.
The space fell into silence again, Alice narrowed her eyes, and the aura on her body began to become dangerous.
"I'll ask you one last time, Lord Prophet... This is the last chance."
Leaning forward, the stargazer's eyes lit up, staring closely at the prophet, and asked word by word:
"Do you really have nothing to explain about these?"
This is an ultimatum.
"No."
"I don't have anything to explain."
In the unspeakable silence, Ning Feng never lowered his head and looked into Alice's eyes.
"The mistake has been made. I am the one who broke the promise, and I should bear everything."
After squinting for a long time, Alice shook her head in disappointment and sighed:
"Bear everything...heh."
Closing her eyes, Alice seemed not to want to see the disgusting Oathbreaker in front of her anymore, and seemed to be driving him away with actions.
Just when Ning Feng was about to get up and leave to let her calm down for a while, Alice suddenly opened her eyes.
"Until that moment just now, I felt that nothing had really changed for you."
"I……"
She looked at Ning Feng and said coldly:
"You didn't actually break your vows, did you?"
!!?
"……What did you say?"
Ning Feng's eyes gradually widened. He didn't expect that Alice would discover something he had deliberately not mentioned.
From the beginning, Ning Feng's promise to Alice had destined him to leave a way out for himself.
【I will definitely come back.】
"After all, you only said you would come back, but you didn't say when you would come back."
This oath does not specify a time limit!
Alice watched with amusement as Ning Feng, who had always remained calm, suddenly lost his composure, sneered and shook his head:
"You even lied to a little girl. Did you have any conscience back then?"
I, you, that...
Ning Feng's eyebrows kept twitching, and Ning Feng was speechless for a long time, but he didn't say a single continuous sentence.
little girl?
You back then?
"…………"
On such details, it is better to remain rationally silent.
I don't know if it was Ning Feng's misunderstanding, but he felt that the whole thing suddenly started to go off the rails.
Shouldn't you be angry?
After admiring Ning Feng's expression proudly for a while, Alice started teasing in a relaxed tone:
"Very surprised?"
"You don't really think that I've never thought about this all these years, do you? In your heart, I'm just a resentful woman who only feels sorry for herself?"
laugh.
"Stop your awkward pride that makes me wonder what to say, Lord Savior."
Ning Feng:?
???
"The way you look now makes people really angry."
"It's exactly the same as it was a thousand years ago!"
The stargazer's temperament quickly changed, returning to the style of Alice that Ning Feng was familiar with.
She curled her lips and gave the confused Ning Feng a disgusted look:
"You don't need to take all the responsibility on yourself."
To the man who has always chosen to bear everything alone from the beginning.
she says:
"Do you feel hurt now? Do you feel that your self-esteem as a prophet has been challenged? Do you feel uncomfortable that you are not responsible for everything on your own?"
hehe.
Smiling, she fiddled with her long hair and said easily:
"You are not as important as you think. Even without you, the world will still function the same."
"A large part of the reason why I chose to become a stargazer is because of you, but it's not just because of you."
The smile faded, and Alice looked at Ning Feng seriously:
"I made the choice based on my own will, do you understand?"
"This choice has indeed made me suffer for a long time. I have always experienced the so-called loneliness of the whole world, and I have also thought about regretting it."
"but!"
Boom.
Alice slapped the table hard, and it seemed like she slapped Ning Feng's heart hard.
"I'm not that fragile."
"I don't need you to feel sorry for me either."
Getting up from the chair, Alice strode to Ning Feng's side and pulled him up.
"Stop thinking of yourself as the poor self-sacrificing hero in a tragedy."
"I don't need you to save me, you should save yourself."
Looking at the face so close to him, as well as her sullen anger, Ning Feng, who was still a little confused, suddenly laughed.
Ha ha ha ha……
That's right.
It turns out that it was no one else who locked myself in the past.