God Invasion: It's awesome to save the world with five problematic girls!

Chapter 1610: Chapter 481: To Choose Right Once

"..."

This instead made Ye Shiyu stop in her tracks and look at her,

"Where’s my mom?"

"Don’t worry, she’s fine. I sought help from Aunt Ye Lan to lure you here."

"...For what?"

"To talk to you."

"We...have nothing to talk about now."

"..."

Upon hearing this, Sakuragi Hitomi lowered her gaze, put down her teacup, and instead of mentioning the ritual, she started talking about something else,

"Ye Shiyu, I actually know... why you want to run for Student Council President."

"!"

Ye Shiyu remained expressionless, but her sudden, halted breath revealed her surprise.

"You just want to get as close to the President as possible, right?"

"..."

"Because he is the Student Council President, you want to experience the same things as him, perhaps to understand him better, to comprehend him more..."

With the faint candlelight, Sakuragi Hitomi’s face was blurred, but her eyes were incredibly bright.

She continued to speak to Ye Shiyu, who seemed to merge with the darkness,

"Because you always feel like you don’t fit in with us, as if you’re incompatible with the President.

"You like the President’s sunshine and gentleness, and because you are the opposite, you strive to be close to him, attempting to become similar or even identical to him...

"And it’s not because you want to monopolize the President as they think, right?"

Ye Shiyu remained silent, giving no response.

But faintly, from her clenched fists and trembling lips, one could verify the truth in Sakuragi Hitomi’s words...

"...So, what do you want to say?"

"..."

Facing Ye Shiyu’s unspoken question, Sakuragi Hitomi also didn’t provide an answer, instead continuing to ask,

"So, what was the result, Ye Shiyu? Whether it was trying to run for Student Council President or helping the President complete the ritual... have you achieved your goal?"

"..."

No, she hadn’t.

She put in a lot of effort for the student council elections, but her classmates even misunderstood it as Bai Yi running...

They even preferred her to run.

And regarding the ritual...

"Did you feel closer to the President? Did your help make the President better?"

"..."

Underneath her black hair, Ye Shiyu’s expression became indistinct and unclear.

In her mind, Xiao Huan’s body covered in hideous wounds and his defeated expression seemed synonymous with Sakuragi Hitomi’s questioning.

After opening her mouth, she finally uttered a frail phrase,

"Why..."

Hearing the evident change in her voice, Sakuragi Hitomi blinked and lifted a candle towards Ye Shiyu.

And, by following the flickering candlelight, Sakuragi Hitomi finally saw clearly...

A glistening teardrop was slowly trailing down her cheek at that moment.

"Drip..."

Sakuragi Hitomi tightened her grip on the candle, just as Ye Shiyu clenched her fists so tightly that her nails nearly dug into the flesh...

"Whether it is about building a good relationship with you all... becoming cheerful and popular... or helping Xiao Huan achieve his goal..."

"..."

"But why... no matter what, it’s still unreachable... why did it still result in Xiao Huan’s suffering..."

"..."

"Thud..."

Saying this, Ye Shiyu trembled, her shoulders shook, and she couldn’t even stand stable, falling on her knees.

She hung her head low, her black hair covering her face...

"I just... want to give Xiao Huan happiness... I want to become the person capable of doing that...

"Instead of being the outsider you all deem shouldn’t be with Xiao Huan... someone brought up only to be disregarded..."

"..."

In the darkness, Ye Shiyu’s voice was calm yet faint.

But paired with the teardrops continuously slipping from her black hair, her silhouette seemed as fragile as the candlelight.

At this moment, as she knelt on the ground, her chiffon dress slightly slipped, revealing the scars she bore from enduring Yan Huan’s desires.

"If, according to you, I can’t do it either..."

"!"

Suddenly, in the midst of this cold fragility.

In front of her, Sakuragi Hitomi’s faint voice suddenly sounded, making Ye Shiyu pause slightly.

She didn’t know, if even Sakuragi Hitomi couldn’t do it, then who could?

Xiao Huan obviously liked Sakuragi Hitomi that much, and in others’ view, they were perfectly matched.

Her relations with others were also very good, even the modifier couldn’t bear to trouble Xiao Huan, at most just locking her up instead of causing harm to Xiao Huan...

If you can’t do it, then who else...

"..."

Before her, a small hand suddenly held Ye Shiyu’s hand.

Ye Shiyu raised her eyes, only to realize that Sakuragi Hitomi was holding the candle, squatting right in front of her.

She lowered her gaze, softly saying,

"My body is weak, regardless of height, appearance, I couldn’t compare with you...

"By your logic, would I need to stretch myself and change my face to a more satisfactory appearance? It’s impossible...

"Sakuragi Hitomi is just Sakuragi Hitomi, just as Ye Shiyu is just Ye Shiyu...

"So, do what Sakuragi Hitomi would do, firmly believe that ’Sakuragi Hitomi can bring happiness to Yan Huan’, rather than trying to become someone else or replace a part of oneself with the whole.

"This is something the President taught me."

The teardrop at Ye Shiyu’s eye corner reflected the candlelight, faintly flashing Sakuragi Hitomi’s face.

She said,

"I hope you can think this way too, Ye Shiyu."

"..."

Facing Sakuragi Hitomi’s face, the indifference on Ye Shiyu’s face began to crack bit by bit.

Perhaps all along, Ye Shiyu had wanted to express something.

From the beginning, Ye Shiyu wanted to express disapproval of her parents’ separation...

But she didn’t, she remained silent.

Later on, Ye Shiyu wanted to express she didn’t want to be afraid anymore.

But she didn’t, choosing hypnosis instead.

And now, Ye Shiyu should express her desire to give Xiao Huan happiness.

But she didn’t, she just tried to follow Xiao Huan’s life path, just attempted to do what Xiao Huan did...

She seems to know the answers but always gives the wrong ones.

It doesn’t matter.

Precisely because she is Ye Shiyu, she makes mistakes.

If she didn’t, she wouldn’t be Ye Shiyu, wouldn’t become the host of the modifier, wouldn’t have encountered Xiao Huan and come to this point.

But if she could, she still wanted to make the right choice once.

Even if it’s only today.

"..."

And so, amidst each dripping teardrop, Ye Shiyu gazed at the Sakuragi Hitomi before her and with great difficulty opened her mouth...

At last, she told Sakuragi Hitomi her thoughts:

"I don’t want... don’t want to see Xiao Huan’s suffering due to the ritual...

"I want... Xiao Huan to stop."