Live, So That Others Can Die Happily

 

 

 

"So, what will it be? Hm?" Flor's words awoke Yun Beishang from his previous pensive state as his eyes locked into hers, unafraid. His head turned towards each of his sides once, he then exhaled and massaged his mouth area on his face before taking another look at the two available choices.

*PING*...host has the chance to either decide to utilize the bodies from the civilization that is still fighting for survival, sacrificing everyone including soldiers, officials, citizens of all ages and both genres, pets, stray and even wild animals to even spiritual leaders and highest in command from your organization. The other choice, is to select the most powerful technology, armaments and high-powered shields of all kinds that can be mounted to redirect the damage made by the imminent, incoming total destruction towards the selected regions to be decimated in return for a small piece of land to survive in.

'Oh... dear... boy.' What does one do in this situation? What does one chooses in a world that is already like this...? What does... what does one feel? Yun Beishang could only think that the True Wish relic's testing was about forming a sense of duty and of leadership on the player that was experimenting with it, experiencing it. And what he could do, was his best. Not for whatever this could bring him, but what it would mean for Tonkia, what it would open up for Irllytia and in how it would help Tornyllia.

Yun Beishang was about to choose, he didn't wanted to speak it out loud nor tell it to the system inside his mind, so he chose to place together both his right index and middle finger and move them towards one of the decisions. Number two was a great risk, there were bound to be less casual-no, sacrifices at the moment of whatever comes; came. One was total annihilation, he didn't know what could make such a catastrophe that is endangering to such a vast, powerful and healthy world to be safe just because he used the lives of everyone present and of those who were outside, living their lives like nothing was going on.

But then, he stopped; both his fingers were detained an inch before the second option. What does this test entails, what is the supposed role of his? Is he even supposed to take a role, or just a decision?

'...Their faces!' Indeed, each and every single one of the citizens that Yun Beishang saw; in them, he also 'saw' their deepest hatred, hopelessness and sadness. Before, he could only guess and wonder; but now, he can very well dictate their each and every life as well as that of the supposedly safeguarded rest of their civilization. They weren't simple pixels anymore, they were 'lives' that he had to choose between immediate death or unknown death. For starters, the unknown is always the worst, but that was only for the weakest and the cowardly. Only one who is facing their faces forward while walking a slow walk in the middle of the darkest darkness are able to pick up their hearts and involuntarily, raise their chests; proudly.

With such a motion, Yun Beishang was certain that choosing the second option would've result in the best case scenario and, who knew, may even be that the world itself may 'heal' back up or even into an even stronger world. What doesn't kill you- right?

But Yun Beishang's hesitation not only made Flor's gaze on him warm up and almost tear up, her eyes growing slightly red and slightly puffy as well. But also managed to allow Yun Beishang another opportunity, in other words, the ethereal image of Tonkia's body suddenly embraced him from behind.

Her arms were lightly locking his neck with her hands intertwining each other delicately for Yun Beishang to see while her head was deeply nesting on the back of his left shoulder, not quite placed on his shoulder nor on his shoulder blade. And though Yun Beishang couldn't feel nor smell her, let alone to 'presence' her being; he could still understand her every heartbeat and emotion without equal, and without needing to see her face to face, or even directly at all.

Nestling on the back of his left shoulder, the petite figure of Tonkia still made Yun Beishang's body relax and forget of all unnecessary matters, clearing up his mind but more than anything, his hesitating heart.

Was the 'job' of a leader too much? Was the burden of leadership so impactful? Was the role of leading even necessary?

Whatever it was the case with Yun Beishang, it didn't really mattered.

Click.

Yun Beishang used both his right handed fingers to select the first option, to make everyone join up and take upon their bodies, the full brunt of calamity.

Even if a leader was extremely precious and rare; even if leadership was too much to bear and impossible to discern and even if leading was difficult, overly complicated and counterproductive. It mattered not; for Yun Beishang, it only mattered if his heart was clear on this decision of his. On every decision of his. A leader does not give up in order to be a better leader, a leader bears a heavy heart and exposes it, flauntingly; fearlessly.

*PING*...host has chosen the course of actions, please do clarify your decision with the rest of the world.

Yun Beishang calmly, silently looked at the everyone in front of him, every single one of them could even feel their leader's pair of eyes without exception, deeply penetrating into the minds of everyone else. Then, Yun Beishang slightly parted his lips, inhaled in ostentatiously to form just a tiny bit of anticipation as he then spoke in a casual tone. "We'll bring everyone to the accorded point, we will set everyone to perish along their fear and desperation..."

Yun Beishang couldn't help but lower his own eyes as he gave them the notice. As for them, the listeners? They didn't even flinch, they didn't even fucking blinked in concern, their only sight right now was that of the still unfinished spoken words of their leader and nothing else.

And being granted such a moment naturally rewarded them all with Yun Beishang's following words. "...We will go for it, and give those in hiding all of the protection they need, we will give them life that fate decided to take from them. I assume all preparation have been made; finished. Since it is so, do go ahead and notice the rest... Mn, that's all. Dismissed."

At the point of the ending part of his speech, Yun Beishang had wanted to say something entirely different at first, something along the lines of giving everyone else another chance to flee into a haven. Towards the one of many, many, many of them; each constructed with the civilization's entire wealth, were only a few but ultimately powerful devices, tools and armaments were left to fend off against any raise of unrest and so on, which were thankfully not needed though. However, at the moment he thought of those words rather than speaking them bluntly after a short, silent pause; Yun Beishang felt that... felt that he would instead denigrate and humiliate everyone in this world by sending such a message. If they chose to stay, they stayed! If they wanted to hide, they hid! Even those who were genuine children chose to stay, even when each of them seemed more mature than most kids on New Earth that Yun Beishang saw, they still chose to stay in the prospect of such scary fate; such... injustice!

Creak~creak~creak~!

But at once, all seated individuals, including Flor, stood up as one right as Yun Beishang's words went off for a pair of seconds.

"Yes, Leader!!"

"As you order!!"

"We will die... we will die!"

None of their spirited cries were hateful, none were spiteful; just slightly relieved but more than anything, moving.

Yun Beishang was speechless to comment anymore, he simply watched as the Generals and whatnot moved outside the tent, each took their own path as it seemed that this 'tent' could be opened from any side. As long as one either had some kind of admissible item or even just status, who knew, with what he had seen, there might as well be items capable of holding that much of intelligence.

His lips parted slightly, Yun Beishang would occasionally tilt his chin forward and incline his neck below his resting, sitting pose as he sat on his transformed chair that simply became enlarged and slightly wider. He would also blink constantly every quite some seconds and make a slight frown while his eyes darted around, pensive and confusing.

Flor was then suddenly noticed as everyone had already left and Yun Beishang kept on glancing around, his head clearly in his own thoughts, lost in them as always. The young man was the last to leave with the exception of the still remaining Flor of course, but Yun Beishang did indeed catch up the young man's determined face becoming genial and relaxed, no longer holding any kind of stern nor heavy pretense; finally allowing himself to be a young man instead.

"Flor... mm, do you think I can go around? I... would like to, uh... 'play' with the technology over here. Really, of any kind, and also buildings! I am also interested in revising the armaments, vehicles, tools, weapons and-"

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"Leader, if you wanted so much a date with me, just ask me, I am more than wholeheartedly willing to do so." Yun Beishang's eyes widened as he felt the tall Flor's slender left index finger instantly tap at in the middle of his mouth, not having been able to react at all. Even if he had Rosey's Destroyer - Bloodline skill and his newest Corporeal Ignition talent-like skill, he was damn fucking sure he wouldn't be capable of escaping this godly woman's dashing up towards him.

Tonkia was slowly stroking Flor's left handed fingers as Flor herself tenderly looked straight into Yun Beishang's eyes, a little playful smile emerged on Flor's face as she continued to hold her finger at the middle on his mouth. Meanwhile, Tonkia lifted her left hand to carefully cup Flor's right cheek, with how immensely contrasting their size was, it looked to sweet even for Yun Beishang as his heart melted at the instant by just seeing it. After all, Tonkia was already a petite little woman, yet she still caressed the godly, slender but meaty in all perfectly chosen places woman who was as tall as 2.35 meters.

"Ah~... Leader, it is so warm. You are so warm, being touched by a man, by the man I want. It really is nice, hm~." Flor's face melted, her eyebrows quivered and her expression was utterly real, genuine, ecstatic. She was indeed feeling perpetually at ease, in comfort and secure at Yun Beishang's simple touch. She cupped Yun Beishang's left hand with hers, their difference not showing at all as his hand ended up being hugged by hers as it was bigger and wider. However, then, Yun Beishang figured out that it wasn't his hand touching her.

"!!!"

'Tonkia?!' It was indeed Tonkia's left hand that was touching her, but... why did Yun Beishang felt his hand incredibly satisfactorily? Why was he having a sensation of pure tenderness and purity?

"Ah!!" Yun Beishang let out a complete, foolish and unexpected exclamation from his mouth as he realized that it was no longer Tonkia's hand, with that ethereal image of her body, but now his and only his hand instead!

Opening her eyes, slowly and beautifully, Flor watched Yun Beishang as if expecting this reaction from him. She smacked her lips gently and noiselessly before murmuring, her breath tempting Yun Beishang to eat her mouth right just about now. "Leader please, don't behave like this, ah. You will be able to touch all of me as long as you wish it and demand for it, remember it."

Finished speaking, she parted her face away, not leaving Yun Beishang a chance to eat her little mouth up; little for her size that is. Though her skin wasn't resplendent, if just slightly a little bit, her translucence made her appear fairy-like; like a Goddess.

"Okay~, let's move on. You want to see it all, right? Greedy~. But smart. Me-hehe, let's go." Talking like a matured woman speaking to a young, innocent man; Flor then tilted her head lovingly to the side, watching Yun Beishang with those green-creamy eyes that radiated boundless wisdom as well as affection. An affection that Yun Beishang was barely familiar with, he did not delve deep into it though.

He was dazed, but as her hips began parting away from him, Yun Beishang quickly rushed down the chair as he woke up fully and calmly grasped Tonkia's wrists as she still rested on the back of his left shoulder.

"Tongqiu, Yun Beishang... my Husband. Do you recognize me?" Yun Beishang and Flor began walking together, it was weird but she didn't made the act to talk or engage a conversation with him, not something that women or anyone normal would do when their beloved is so close by and, in a date! Right? In any case, Yun Beishang's attention was garnered by the incoming voice of Tonkia, she sounded astounded, just like she gasped when they entered into this world; as well as quiet, very quiet.

"'Recognize'... you... Ah..." Yun Beishang's thoughts turned complicated, there were many ways that such a word could be recognized as, would it still matter if he had a conversation with an in-game character of such a subject? Would it matter at all...?

'Is this... is it because the way that the test works? All NPCs that enter with me get 'humanized'...? After all, this is indeed a specialized quest for 'something' in particular. It would make sense that the NPCs that entered into such peculiarity with the player, were activated to become like this, even dubious of their own existence. But, why even do this? Is the Crestfallen Industry trying to enter the player's heads and string up a wake-up call or something?'

Yun Beishang felt that he had just exhausted himself entirely, he sighed through his nostrils while not responding to her voice in his being. Flor side glanced at him sneakily, looking ever so godly, beautiful and graceful still; as always. While Tonkia had her eyes grow vacant, she became silent even more in response.

"You To-, ah sorry, thinking out loud." Yun Beishang almost spoke out loud ever so bluntly but still managed to stop himself as he then gazed at Flor, seeing her glance sideways at him, she excused himself quickly with a half-honest and half-nonchalant expression before resuming his deadpan face once again. His mind, this time, made the work of speaking to Tonkia while his hands held her wrists tighter, not allowing her to escape away from his grasp.

"Mn, I don't know what I really do about that. But, Tonkia, my dear and my wife. If this is how you think, then you're silly. Whether you, uh, live in this 'world' or are silly, though, doesn't matter! I will... just like I said before, never leave you. But now I will tell you, you will also never be able to escape me!"

'Ugh, yeah. Knowing this is a game, it makes it slightly difficult to take my own words seriously but... I am truthful to my words, mn, to my heart.' Yun Beishang lifted and turned his head towards Tonkia's, she was now wearing the same fragile-looking but extremely, potentially omnipotent black and red armor as before when they first discovered a few things about the True Wish relic. Her smile was adorned of beautiful smiles as even her eyes smiled and as her nose scrunched up and her ears trembled from the contortions of her little face.

Her left eye celeste, the other right one emerald. Tears streamed down her lacrimals, looking more like beautiful bright liquid coming out of her body instead.

"Thank you, ogh! Thank you, Beishang, my Husband. Sniff, ah!" Tightening her grip on Yun Beishang's neck, she wiped away all of her snot and tears on his back as the left corner of his mouth turned upwards inadvertently. Flor gave him a side glance to the left, before smiling for an instant and slightly only, right before going back into her usual silent and introvert, godly self.

With her face all rosy from the nuzzling against Yun Beishang's back, Tonkia looked back at him for a long moment before a 'something' on her left hand appeared as well, just like it happened with Irllytia herself. She closed her little head in on Yun Beishang to meet his lips with hers, her beautiful eyes closed into a pair of puffy eyes that reminisced of a young woman in total lost to infatuation.

Mw... ... ...ah~~.

"!" Then, she just smiled as Yun Beishang dazed off with a moderately stupid face. He would've felt on a bridge if there were to be any, or maybe not since he had such incredibly vast Mental Power, but he instead chose to fall deeply into her fleeting ethereal image. He was more than obvious to what was about to come. And, indeed, she disappeared in beautiful sparks of glowing lights ever so slowly.

'Even if you ask me more, I'd still be foolish, stupid and mental; illogical. For you, Tonkia.' Such were the nonsensical vow of a man towards his woman.

"Haaah~..." Yun Beishang sighed, his head uplifted and his serene eyes gazing at the endless, dark blue sky. Flor's voice went out at this moment, striking his heart an even more beautiful blow. "Thinking of other women in front of your newest acquisition? Leader, even though I am a woman who would never share her man in any form nor way, it was because of Leader's charms and ugliness that I am even more than willing than to be simply a concubine of yours, you know? Just never, ever, let me feel neglected like I am a nuisance to you. Oh, now that I think about it, that doesn't seem too right... Ah~! I know, how about this? You tell me whether or not you want me beside you, to be with you and to accompany you, hm? How about it? I'll respect your decision. As for the 'tour', don't worry about it, everything is going to end in just a few days anyway."

Without thinking about it, not that he would do it as if he would always try to calculate a person's honest feelings nor do that to everything that happens around him, Yun Beishang responded not even a second later after her words went out; reason being that Yun Beishang became absorbed in her visage.

"Nah, I do want you. Just that, you'll have to earn that place in the hearts of the rest. Naty has to like you too, and Naty is the most incredible, amazing and gentlest of all beings. Mn, even gods and whatnot inside this game world are but superficial compared to my Naty."

"Ohh, is that so~? I'll work harder then~."

In tranquility, both figures, one almost as tall as the other, walked beside the other together towards a nearby building known as a research study.

 

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