Chapter 249

【This farce began with a death, and it will end with a death...】

【... So that's why the Diamond chose you?】

Sunday's Topaz said.

【All he wants is Penacony—no matter the means, no matter the cost... It has nothing to do with any specific person.】

Topaz shook his head and offered an explanation.

【Must be hard, huh.】

Sunday's Topaz's tone suddenly grew concerned.

【You've suddenly become quite considerate—conscience pricking you?】

Topaz neither agreed nor denied it.

【In the end, I was born from your very self, so I know well enough that taking back a chip once thrown is harder than scaling the heavens.】

【What you mean to do, I cannot stop. Where you are headed... we cannot change that either.】

Sunday's Topaz seemed to be starting to lean toward Topaz's side.

【Spilt water cannot be recovered.】

【All we can do is seize every chance, to win ourselves one more second for as long as possible.】

A look of resolve surfaced on Topaz's face.

【Yeah.】

【It's a pity a person can't make only the correct decision their whole life... although good fortune has always stood on your side.】

【You'll keep on winning, you've never lost—but why you? Why... does it have to be you?】

【If a lucky man's miracle is built entirely upon the misfortune of everyone he loves—or even more people...】

【If every rain you bring never symbolizes the Mother Goddess's forgiveness and grace, but death upon death, meaningless and without end...】

【... then just how many mistakes must the two of us have made, to be born into this world?】

Sunday's Topaz jabbed at Topaz's heart one last time.

【.....】

【... Perhaps once I reach that endpoint, the answers to our doubts will finally be revealed.】

Topaz fell silent,

then answered Sunday's Topaz.

【Hmph... alright then.】

【I'll go on ahead, friend—I'll be waiting for you up front.】

【For the time you have left, say a proper goodbye to this child.】

【Try to make yourself...】

【... die without regret.】

Stelle: "This Sunday's Topaz, he seems to have really disappeared this time?"

Stelle: "But the past that belongs to Topaz—Kakavasha—still exists."

Welt: "Sunday's Topaz represents Topaz's future; Kakavasha belongs to Topaz's past."

Welt: "What he's actually doing here is negotiating with his own inner demon."

Welt: 【Whether to bid farewell to the past and walk toward the future,】

Welt: "or to drown forever in the regrets of the past and never wake again—lies in a single thought of his."

Furina: "I understand now..."

Furina: "The words Sunday's Topaz spoke were actually the very things Topaz has always been trapped in, doubting himself over."

Furina: "Topaz has never lost; Topaz's luck has always been good."

Furina: "But Topaz doesn't know whether this good fortune is a blessing or a punishment..."

Furina: "If it's a blessing, then why has his good luck cost him everything he holds dear?"

Furina: "But if it's a punishment, then why does it 4.2 let him win these gambits again and again?"

Black Swan: "Life is like a maze—Topaz has now walked himself into a dead end."

Black Swan: "Unless he can break out of this dead end, he may be lost forever."

Brother Dan Heng: "So he created a turning point for himself—a grand, spectacular death!"

Brother Dan Heng: "Death is also rebirth; perhaps this can let him rediscover the meaning of being alive."

Himeko: "But perhaps... it will truly kill him outright."

Serval: "Isn't this also a kind of high-stakes gamble?"

Serval: "A gamble on whether he truly wants to keep living?"

Serval: "I hope that in the end, he can find the answer that lets his wish come true..."

Topaz: "I will. At the final act of fate, I will surely understand all of this!"

The video continued.

【... Now... it's just the two of us left.】

【Could you take a photo for me?】

【Just as a keepsake.】

Kakavasha smiled,

wanting Topaz to take a photo for him.

【... Mm, go ahead.】

Topaz nodded gently.

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