"But... but it seems I still lost, after all. I'm still not the same as her." Sister Konia began to sob softly, her body trembling violently.
"Wuwuwu... I don't... I don't want this either! Why is it like this... Why do I only have this one hour..."
The sobbing gradually subsided, and Lord Li Feng saw Sister Konia slowly raise her hand to wipe her face, as if wiping something away.
"Actually, I also understand that this is nothing but a falsehood. What I pursue is also very different from this; it should be real, not a boundless, ethereal existence like this. I think we are all like this, Lord Li Feng?"
"So I shouldn't be like this, so disheveled. I thought I could always become her and replace her, but... but... even the Chaos Gods are helpless against you..."
Sister Konia's voice choked up again, like a drowning person desperately trying to grasp a lifeline.
"But I'm so sad, Li Feng. Even though I am so real, I still yearn for this false time. I can't help but think, if only this hour... if only it could be a little longer."
"I originally... I also wanted to be by your side, like her, to fight together, to live together..."
"So... I still couldn't resist. I hope you don't mind. I truly have no more time. I only have this one hour, and that's all."
"But I'm still very happy, even if it's just this one hour, it's enough. The memories of this one hour, I suppose, are exclusively mine, truly mine. I am that greedy kind of person, you see."
"So..."
Sister Konia turned around, her hands clasped behind her back, a bright and captivating smile on her delicate, fair face, her eyes filled with endless tenderness. Only her reddish eye sockets and the tear streaks on both sides of her cheeks hinted at the choked emotion in her earlier words.
"This one hour of me, you will remember it, right, Lord Li Feng?"
"So, please don't forget this one hour, we made a promise, you see."
"The pumpkin carriage sets sail, countdown begins, sixty, fifty-nine, fifty-eight,..."
"It's almost over, Lord Li Feng..." Sister Konia looked around, seeing nothing. The cozy room, the campus filled with youthful energy, all gone.
"Twenty, nineteen, eighteen..."
As time dwindled, the surrounding space gradually transformed back to its original state, becoming brighter. Sister Konia's figure in front of him also gradually blurred.
Suddenly, Sister Konia took a few forceful steps forward, grabbed Lord Li Feng by the shoulder, and brought her pretty face—scarred but incredibly handsome—close to his. Her pink lips lightly touched Lord Li Feng's mouth, a warm, sweet, and moist sensation emanating from his lips, vaguely carrying the freshness of lavender, and then their lips parted.
"Hahaha, this time, I won, didn't I! I easily accomplished something that even Sister Fides couldn't do!"
Sister Konia looked at Lord Li Feng with a smile in her eyes, her proud expression once again returning to her face, only tears streamed down her cheeks incessantly.
"Don't tell Fides, and don't tell Miss Sanguinius or the Living Saint, they wouldn't like it. And I know, Sister Fides is actually a petty person, so..."
Sister Konia's words abruptly stopped before she could finish. Lord Li Feng looked down, only to see that the eyes, once full of spirit, were now lifeless, calm like a pool of stagnant water. The tear streaks on her cheeks gradually dried at this moment, like a perfect yet lifeless sculpture.
"Sacrifice complete."
As the announcement sounded, Sister Konia, who had just been in front of Lord Li Feng, instantly burst into flames. She exchanged her life for a normal girl's life, but only for one hour... Lord Li Feng slowly opened his eyes. He found himself lying on the bed... and everything around him was the same as before, as if he had just had a very realistic dream.
Fides was found; the Tech-Priest repairing the pipes found her, but she was completely bewildered, remembering nothing about why she had been locked in the pipe maintenance room.
Lord Li Feng went to Grand Sister Margaret to inquire about Sister Konia, but... Grand Sister Margaret was very confused, saying she didn't know any Sister Konia.
Lord Li Feng described Sister Konia's appearance to Grand Sister Margaret. The Grand Nun even brought out a group photo of the Nuns, but Lord Li Feng couldn't find Sister Konia's figure in it, as if she had never existed.
Lord Li Feng found the Sisters of Battle squad Sister Konia belonged to, but the original five-person Nuns squad now only had four people, and they said they had always been a four-person squad, and they had never known any Sister Konia.
It was only then that Lord Li Feng realized what an extreme Nun had sacrificed in this extreme world to experience a normal life.
Because the target was Lord Li Feng, the price of the sacrifice to Slaanesh was her everything, everything that had ever existed of her... "This one hour of me, you will remember it, right, Lord Li Feng?"
"But I'm still very happy, you know, even if it's just this one hour, it's enough. The memories of this one hour, I suppose, are exclusively mine, truly mine. I am that greedy kind of person, you see."
"So, please don't forget this one hour, we made a promise, you see."
At this moment, those words echoed in Lord Li Feng's ears, completely unaware of how he had returned to his room... Lord Li Feng sat on the sofa, his brain still processing everything that had happened... so much so that he didn't notice Celestine had returned to the spaceship, and even brought someone else back.
Sanguinius saw Lord Li Feng sitting on the sofa, looking a little tired. The playful words she had prepared, having not seen her Boy in a long time, were swallowed back.
She slowly walked behind Lord Li Feng and wrapped her arms around his neck from behind... "Did something happen?"
Hearing that familiar voice, he turned and hugged Sanguinius, burying his head in Sanguinius's embrace.
"No, nothing..."
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