Chapter 185: Chen Yuan’s Unconscious True Heart, Sakura Falls…
“Kill her, kill her and your mission will be completed!”
In the dark fog, a voice questioned Chen Yuan.
“No… I can’t kill her…”
Chen Yuan shook his head and said almost instinctively…
“Why? Don’t you want to go back to your world?”
“I want to go back! But I can’t beat her!”
“How could that be… Isn’t the opportunity right in front of you? Look! She’s sound asleep, completely defenseless!”
The scene shifted, revealing Sakura curled up and sleeping in the fog…
Even in sleep, she instinctively curled into a ball, a clear sign of insecurity…
The voice continued:
“How many people like you have tried to assassinate her but couldn’t even get close! This is the opportunity many have dreamed of! You have it in your hands now!”
In a moment of realization, a blade suddenly appeared in Chen Yuan’s hand, the same one that Sakura had swallowed when he first crossed over…
“Now! All you need to do is stab her with the knife, and your mission will be complete!”
Chen Yuan: “No…”
“It’s simple, isn’t it? Compared to the missions in your previous world, this one is much easier!”
“Not at all…” Chen Yuan’s hands trembled slightly as he held the knife, “She trusts me so much…”
Sakura, seemingly sensing the approach of Chen Yuan with the knife, furrowed her brows slightly in her sleep…
Just looking at her made one’s heart ache…
Chen Yuan: “How could I bear to let her lose…”
“Kill her!”
The tone of the voice grew more intense!
“Kill her!”
“Kill her!”
“That’s not right!” Chen Yuan shouted angrily, “This knife… it shouldn’t be with me…”
He threw the knife into the fog!
In an instant, the fog dispersed!
The image of Sakura also gradually faded away…
In that moment, Chen Yuan seemed to see a glimmer of something sparkling, and then the world became clear…
Chen Yuan suddenly woke up from his dream!
He didn’t know when, but he had already arrived at Sakura’s bedside, and was holding the unsheathed Muramasa blade…
Sakura was curled up in the corner of the bed, still a small bundle, trembling slightly.
She hadn’t woken up.
Perhaps like him, she had dreamed of something unpleasant.
Chen Yuan quickly hid the knife, then climbed onto the bed to cover Sakura, who was huddled in the innermost part, with a blanket…
Did she have to find a corner to sleep even when she was dreaming?
Chen Yuan gently stroked her hair, making a bold decision.
He gently pulled Sakura into his embrace through the blanket…
Like coaxing a child, he softly patted her head and hummed a little tune…
He didn’t know if it would work, but in his original world, he had seen adults lulling children to sleep by instinctively humming some tunes, which seemed to help the child in their arms sleep soundly.
Chen Yuan hummed, but his childhood memories were quite vague; after thinking for a long time, he could only come up with the tune of a song that almost every child had heard, Happy Sheep…
So he slowly started to hum the melody:
Look at the starlight and the moon~
Look at my heart~
The moon represents my heart~
Dreams are sweet~
The path we chase never ends~
No matter how far~
I won’t lose my way~
I have the starlight~
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Please, starlight and moon~
Listen to my wishes~
I hope love fills the world~
Happiness never changes~
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Chen Yuan gently hummed, but he still seemed somewhat unreliable, or perhaps he was just a bit too tired.
For some reason, as he hummed, he became drowsy again…
And just like that, he fell asleep holding Sakura…
But what he didn’t know was that Sakura had already woken up…
She looked up with wide eyes at Chen Yuan, who was holding her tightly, recalling the off-key yet strangely beautiful melody he just sang…
Even the strongest girl couldn’t withstand the attack of Chen Yuan’s unconscious true heart…
She had already thought about letting Chen Yuan kill her…
Perhaps she finally found a reason to die…
She had experienced the world, made a good friend like Chen Yuan, and she didn’t want to keep holding on anymore; she was already very content…
If she could die at Chen Yuan’s hands, she would willingly accept it.
After all, when she first met Chen Yuan, he had come to kill her…
But…
Why…
Why wouldn’t he even lift a hand, even when controlling him…
The song he just sang was so beautiful…
She wanted… she wanted to hear it again…
Sakura bit her lip, tightly hugging Chen Yuan and curling up in his embrace…
Perhaps she didn’t know what this emotion was, but the near-death feeling she had was pulled back by Chen Yuan…
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“Today we go to… Nara Mountain, how about that?”
Chen Yuan said to Sakura, who was sitting in front of the mirror brushing her hair.
He didn’t dare to mention the fact that he had tightly embraced Sakura when he woke up in the morning…
Although he had lived several lives, he was still just a young boy at heart…
It felt shameful to have reached this age without even a kiss…
“Okay.”
Sakura obediently responded, wherever Chen Yuan went, she would go.
However, both of them tacitly didn’t mention returning home.
One had made a careless decision, while the other couldn’t bear to…
The two spent another full day traveling, getting further away from the city center they started in, and then transferred to a train to reach the top of Nara Mountain.
For the first time, they saw the settlement in the mountains, the full view of Naramachi surrounded by lakes…
The surrounding blue-green mountains reflected in the massive lake, with the settlement completely merging into the blue shadows…
As the sunset approached, the lake mirrored the remaining red of the sky, with pink hues spilling from the slopes, blending with the smoke from the chimneys of the settlement as it rose languidly…
Not only Sakura, but even Chen Yuan was seeing such beautiful scenery for the first time.
The two sat on the grass of the hillside, watching the sunset slowly descend the mountain and the world gradually shrouded in darkness…
But as night fell, assassins would follow like shadows.
This time, however, Chen Yuan stopped Sakura from using her abilities again…
Chen Yuan: “Let me handle this time, okay?”
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