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“Washe…”
As she drew closer, she heard the same familiar tone and heard the same familiar face. Marcel's eyes welled up with tears, but she didn't notice the sadness in Vinier's words.
"I never imagined that we would meet again in this way."
"I didn't expect this either... Vinier, how... how have you been all these years?"
"..."
"Very good, really good, Washa..."
The man and woman chatted casually, as if it were nothing out of the ordinary.
The public was completely confused.
Even Funina walked around to Jiang Qiao's side and asked in a low voice, "What are you doing?"
Logically, this should have been a trial, but instead of seeing any instruments of torture or the executioner, the prisoner was chatting with someone who appeared to be his lover.
The public is extremely dissatisfied with this.
Why aren't you shooting down this kind of wicked person? Why are you just here fulfilling his dying wish?
The blue-and-white-haired girl glanced at it sideways and calmly said:
"she--"
"Vashe—I am your executioner."
Jiang Ningna's words differed from those of Vinier (?), but the content they revealed stunned everyone, including Vashe.
"Why...why...?"
Vasher looked incredulous.
"Vinnie, everything I've done is to win you back! It's all for you!"
He felt that everyone might have the right to criticize him, but only with Vinier, he had given his heart and soul!
Vinier (?) looked indifferent.
What she wanted to say, she didn't need to repeat herself.
“She is not Verneel, or at least not entirely.”
"Then who is she?"
"The pure water spirit we saw in the Dew Spring was the collective consciousness of the girl who was persecuted by Vashes and dissolved." Sitting by the Dew Spring, the girl with her fair thighs crossed and her hands politely placed between her legs spoke calmly about the origin of Vinier (?).
—The Victim
Her smooth, blue-white gradient hair, rippling in the wind, obscured her heterochromatic eyes, which held a divine, watery quality. Gazing at the stunned Vasher after the truth was revealed, she whispered:
"Wouldn't it be the most fitting outcome to have the girls who were persecuted by Vasher execute this perpetrator themselves?"
For someone like Vasher, simply executing him would be too lenient.
Dying with regrets is certainly one option.
But if there's a better way, why not use it?
For people like Vasher, what they fear most is not death—at least not the most important one. What they fear most is the sudden annihilation of what they have pursued all their lives.
All the sacrifices not only failed to bring him what he sought, but also caused his loved ones great suffering, turning their love into hatred.
What results is the collapse of belief, and the unwavering commitment that has always supported our actions.
"Let his lover, whom he desperately wants to win back, end his sinful life herself."
Beneath the fictional guillotine lies Vashj.
Beside the guillotine lay Václav Riviera, the lover Václav Riviera cherished.
“Veneer...Veneer..."
No matter how much she called out, trying to find something through past friendships, all that awaited Vasher was the guillotine that Vinier (?) lowered with a smile.
A sin has now come to an end.
Sound lost its meaning, and there was no visual impact, because the spontaneously combusted flames consumed the individual named Vasher.
Afterwards, Verner (?) asked about what had been bothering her:
"Lady Funina, I don't understand why you won't let me take him away."
As a group of girls persecuted by Vasher, they not only wanted to kill Vasher, but also wanted to take his soul with them and make him suffer eternal torment.
But Jiang Qiao stopped him from doing so.
There's no need to make the water even muddier.
Pure water spirits are extremely pure beings. They are simple-minded and kind to others. However, this also means that when pure water spirits come into contact with evil thoughts, even the slightest bit of evil, they will lose their dominant consciousness and become a disorganized mess.
The victims were made up of girls persecuted by Marcel, who harbored a deep hatred for him. This hatred had already made them, as pure water spirits, no longer pure. Why add scum like Vasher to the mix?
“I have cleared away the remnants of Vashe flowing into the ley lines, and that is enough.”
“As for you, I hope you can face tomorrow in a better way,” said 'Furina'.
Dissolving in water does not mean the end of life; at least for the people of Fontainebleau, it simply means that their consciousnesses have merged together and their past memories have been fragmented.
Of course, in the sense of the eternal world, this is indeed the end point for a 'human being'.
But... if consciousness follows the mainstream, wouldn't it be fine as long as it's separated?
He separated the consciousness of the sacrificed girls from the collective of pure water spirits and used the power of the 'Primal Fetal Sea Water' to re-nurturing them, resulting in the individual that has reappeared in human form before us.
"You... can separate them again?" Funina asked, her voice a mixture of surprise, anticipation, and even joy.
The revelation of the primordial womb has made her understand many things, yet she remains trapped in a state of confusion.
Then, the method that Jiang Qiao demonstrated seemed to give her a glimmer of hope.
"It's not difficult, but it's a bit troublesome."
Jiang Qiao offered her own perspective.
It is not an easy task to separate people who were originally integrated into the collective consciousness. Only by mastering the division at the spiritual level can one manipulate this intangible thing. Of course, this problem is not difficult for Jiang Qiao.
After all, he was able to create the 'Holy Sword', and the Primordial Authority could also produce a similar effect.
For him, the biggest problem is still finding someone.
The fragmented memories dissolved in the water, while not impossible to retrieve, are certainly a time-consuming task.
Unless it's intercepted beforehand... well, Jiang Qiao does have a better way, but that would take more effort.
"This is the result of my experiment."
"Her will is composed of the collective will of those sacrificed girls, who may have some missing memories, but after being pieced together, they form a new collective will."
"Is she still one of those girls from the past?" Looking at Vinier, Funina was somewhat uncertain.
"It depends on how you define it. At least what constitutes her is indeed those girls, and those memories are indeed proof of their existence in the world, created by their own hands."
"But the fact is, she should indeed be a brand new life."
"However, it's not impossible to divide it again if needed...but she doesn't seem to have that need."
The blue-and-white-haired girl shrugged.
The latter nodded in agreement:
"Yes, that's good, Lady Funina."
To be honest, for Pure Water Spirit, the shift from the superficial individual to the collective isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Being able to feel each other, to understand each other, is a kind of beauty that humans cannot comprehend.
However, if one tends towards a collective consciousness, it is also possible to become addicted to this group.
However, most of these girls who were persecuted by Marcellus had regrets.
Some of them still cherish human life.
But perhaps because of the cluster, the mutual understanding and connection between them has become a habit over a long period of time, and separating them would feel somewhat awkward.
So this is better.
After parting ways with her, in the side courtyard of the opera house, after reuniting with the fairy Airi and the others, Airi revealed Luminous's true feelings.
"Now that the truth has been uncovered, shouldn't the case of the serial disappearances of girls involving Ying be dropped?"
The girl nodded vigorously, hands on her hips, as if to say with her expression—I am innocent.
She was really upset about being wrongly accused.
Now that things have been clarified, shouldn't they give me some kind of reward for my hard work and effort?
"Yes, indeed..."
“I’m sorry, but I’m afraid it can’t end so simply.” Just as Miss Funina nodded, indicating that there was no problem, Villette appeared and said quite seriously.
"Huh? Vasher has already been killed, right?"
“Oh, my wording was inappropriate... Miss Ying’s case regarding the serial disappearances of girls can indeed be closed, but according to Fontaine’s laws, she has another crime on her hands.”
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