[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist":3,"chapter-this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-chapter-1309":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","This Life, I Will Be the Protagonist",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1533120,1991,"Chapter 1309 1309: 1309: Divine Game: Graveyard of Bones 31","this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-chapter-1309",1309,"\u003Cp>\"All used up,\" she answered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps because she had finally met someone who didn't judge her actions, QM Foolishness spoke a little more than usual. Not to justify herself. Just… to say it out loud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What do Starsea and Quiet Mountain's futures have to do with us?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This universe, that endlessly swinging pendulum, this kill or be killed conflict between Starsea and Quiet Mountain… none of it is our fault. None of it is our responsibility. So why should we sacrifice ourselves for a disaster that has no end and no reason?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What right do Starsea and Quiet Mountain have to become our ideals?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She had already lost Brilliance. Her world wouldn't survive the next bell. She had no future. I had no past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"All we had left… was the Foolishness Game we were creating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That was the only thing we could still change.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>QM Foolishness didn't need validation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in that moment, she found herself wanting to know what BS Rita thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her gemstone eyes shimmered as she asked,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Doesn't that make sense?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that exact same face as Starsea Foolishness, asking such a question—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita almost wished the original could see this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A faint smile flickered in her eyes before she thought seriously about her answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a moment, she said,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In our era, there are also many… willful players.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Willful?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes. Acting on instinct. Without restraint.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one ever said that reaching this stage meant you had to fight for Starsea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As she spoke, countless figures flashed through Rita's mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maple Syrup, who shattered Forest Sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mistblade, who judged all beings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Smoke Tune, who avoided war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Quex, who exiled herself after failure, only to later seize control of Dark Reef.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And even… her past self, who never considered BS her responsibility.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the only \"correct\" way to live was to serve a world, a race, a cause—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then that kind of correctness was unbearably dull.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There shouldn't be only one answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There never was such a rule.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But killing players of your own side in a moment like this…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That still crossed a line.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So she chose a softer word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Willful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She thought it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And she said it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn't believe Foolishness had always ignored Starsea or Quiet Mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back when they first met, QM Foolishness had said,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Battle and victory are our purpose.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But by Graveyard of Bones, both of them claimed those things no longer mattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And QM Foolishness had described Starsea Foolishness as someone who had \"lost her future.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was a future?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the world and everyone in it were destined to be destroyed by the bell…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then perhaps there was nothing left to protect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One lost her future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One realized she had no past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the gemstone grew cold again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After hearing Rita's answer, the last trace of distance in QM Foolishness's expression melted away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She could tell—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita meant every word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not flattery. Not performance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just understanding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Rita wasn't trying to please her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because the next question she asked cut straight to the core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Can't a World Graveyard be directly given to another player? Or were you looking for more than just that?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>QM Foolishness looked at her deeply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course we needed more than that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Precious materials aren't limited to World Graveyards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Living beings count too.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita sighed inwardly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That earlier statement echoed again in her mind—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything in the world can become components.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Magic patterns could be dismantled and rebuilt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Order Badges and Brilliance graves could become weapons and toys.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So why not living beings?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One word surfaced in her mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Madness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>QM Foolishness stood in the open space ahead, staring at her own hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is madness,\" she murmured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even if we didn't kill them… even just extracting parts of their essence…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That alone was enough to horrify anyone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her voice rose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They looked at us like we were monsters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But what about this world?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Starsea resets again and again through destruction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Quiet Mountain pretends to be peaceful, but we're stripped of our memories and thrown into a place that isn't even ours, forced to fight for it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Isn't that madness too?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her eyes burned with intensity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Our purpose was forced onto us by Starsea and Quiet Mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We had to create something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We had to leave something behind before everything ended.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was also Foolishness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet Rita had never seen this side in Starsea Foolishness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most emotional she had ever been…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was getting dragged into the sky over BS, holding a green onion and fighting Deceitful Bloom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That version of Foolishness would rather quietly walk away than explode like this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita had never imagined her past could look like this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or perhaps—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was precisely because they were so rational…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That once they set a goal, they could ignore everything else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ignore morality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ignore judgment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ignore consequence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Graveyard of Bones,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They became this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Foolishness were only rational, maybe she couldn't have gone this far.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she wasn't.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was brilliant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And obsessed with her craft.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The description of Foolishness Game surfaced in Rita's mind—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Foolishness is not a sin.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then what is?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Our combat strength couldn't match the very top players,\" QM Foolishness continued, \"but we were the most stable alliance at the time. Nothing could divide us. And we carried an enormous amount of materials into the game…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this point, she suddenly laughed, as if recalling something genuinely amusing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We rarely awakened top-tier skills before. Of course we had emotions, but they never overrode our reason.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But after making that decision in Graveyard of Bones… we were practically gaining new skills every single day.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She paused, eyes bright with excitement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even our divine talent keywords were evolving constantly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita immediately asked, \"What was it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Chaos,\" QM Foolishness said, clearly pleased.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Her divine talent and my demonic talent were both Chaos.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She continued, almost like recounting an experiment log.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We tested all kinds of materials.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Vineborne vines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Candlebeast flames.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wind Sleeve ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oak Owl feathers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even half of a mountain deer's antler…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She shook her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"All failures.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her tone didn't carry disappointment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only obsession.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So we shifted our focus.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her gaze deepened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"To the divine wills buried here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita's expression changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this point, it was no longer just amazement.\u003C\u002Fp>",1043,"2026-06-06T06:15:33.502Z",1,"novelbin.me","f138357230f383fb5b8391bc10d80e5eff5361164e1365f573d976ebd530fe02","this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-chapter-1310","this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-chapter-1308",1404,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthis-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-cover.jpg"]