Chapter 50: I Love You All
"There's no real choice, right? If I use it now, can I wait for another Judgment-level to drop loot? Haha, that's hilarious. I've made a huge profit in this simulation. I'll give it to Cocolia."
[At 32 years old: After returning to the orphanage, you had three daughters, and you embraced your family happily. You got married to your three sisters, forming a new family. The joyous life made you reluctant to face death. However, your time was running out, so you took out the crystal that Otto had given you and handed it over to Cocolia. In this life, you had already lived splendidly. Considering your innate Decay energy, it would affect your family. For you, there were no regrets in this life, and you chose to peacefully embrace death.]
[Due to the host's participation in a choice, according to the rules of this simulation, the host will enter a random scenario in five seconds... 5, 4, 3, 2, 1]
[Random scenario time locked, entering the random scenario.]
In a Schicksal branch in Russia, Lu Yu slowly opened his eyes.
Regaining consciousness, Lu Yu's first reaction was weakness. Numbness spread throughout his body.
It felt as if his body had fallen from somewhere, and he had no control over it at all.
Am I... at my limit?
Lu Yu struggled to lift his head and looked around. His memory told him that this was a private rest room within the Schicksal branch, a small favor from Otto.
Being born with Honkai energy was truly troublesome.
Various tubes and beeping instruments all over his body indicated just how bad his condition was. No wonder Otto had granted him leave a year ago; it seemed he knew long ago that Lu Yu's time was running out.
Lu Yu glanced outside the window; it was pitch-dark. Was it nighttime now?
"Seele... Sin Mal... Bronya..."
Lu Yu's three wives, as he remembered them, were all sleeping by his bedside. Cocolia was with the three children still in cribs, sleeping on another nearby bed.
Looking at his three sisters by his side, Lu Yu tried to raise his hand to touch their heads.
"Sigh..."
After trying for a long time, Lu Yu found that he couldn't even move his right hand now.
Truly, this was the end of the road for a hero.
Feeling his current state, Lu Yu sighed inwardly.
Just a few years ago, he could recklessly face Judgment-level Honkai Beasts by gambling with his life, and now he couldn't even touch his wives while lying on a hospital bed.
The lack of proper development of his four-star combat talent, combined with his reckless gambling with his life, was the price he had to pay. Thinking it through, Lu Yu decided that he must properly train if he acquired another four-star combat talent next time!
"Brother!!"
Seele, who wasn't sleeping deeply, seemed to sense Lu Yu's movement and sleepily opened her eyes, seeing Lu Yu trying to move.
"Brother!!!"
In an instant, Seele was wide awake. She immediately reached out and held Lu Yu's trembling hand, and at the same time, her voice woke up the other two sleeping sisters.
"Lu Yu!"
"Brother Lu!"
Seeing the three sisters wake up, Lu Yu gathered all his strength and managed to muster a somewhat strained smile towards the three wives he had simulated this time.
Seeing this smile, the three sisters couldn't control their emotions, and tears welled up in their eyes.
"Why, why is it so unfair, Lu Yu, why..."
Among the three sisters, Sin Mal, who appeared the strongest, was actually the most fragile inside. She was the first girl to enter the orphanage and get to know Lu Yu. No one could understand what Lu Yu meant to Sin Mal.
Sin Mal was never a girl with a broad mind. If the other two girls could understand Lu Yu's behavior, Sin Mal was completely opposite. Although they were all family in the orphanage, the others couldn't even compare to one percent of Lu Yu in her heart. Sin Mal even considered taking the crystal from Cocolia and forcefully using it on Lu Yu, but Lu Yu refused.
Why did such people exist in this world?
Why did they have to be so good to everyone and take away their hearts, leaving them alone?
Why was the world so cruel, and why did her beloved person, her brother, give everything and end up like this?
Why...
Sin Mal, who was already a mother, was now crying like a child.
Her hero, her love, the big brother who used to secretly make pastries for them in the orphanage, couldn't even make tasty pastries for them now.
"Seele, Bronya, Sin Mal, don't cry."
Perhaps due to the mercy of the system or a last burst of strength, Lu Yu suddenly felt a powerful force surging within his body.
His pale face turned rosy in an instant, and his previously weak body regained sensation. The hands that he couldn't lift a moment ago were now restored.
Lu Yu sat up from the hospital bed and tightly embraced his three beautiful wives.
"Sin Mal, Bronya, Seele, I'm so happy."
He had saved everyone in the orphanage, had beautiful wives, and three daughters. Lu Yu was truly content with his life.
"To meet you all, as well as Cocolia, is the luckiest thing in my life. You are all my angels."
Lu Yu wanted to hold his three wives in his arms even tighter, but he could already feel the power that had surged within him rapidly fading away.
It seemed that his time was running out.
A sense of weakness gradually overwhelmed him, and Lu Yu slowly closed his eyes.
"I love you all."
...
[Event concluded, random scenario completed. The host will return to reality in five seconds.]
[You have died.]
[Age at death: 32 years old]
[Cause of death: Frequent use of Honkai energy within the body, leading to complete physical breakdown.]
[Congratulations, the host has achieved an ending: You have no regrets.]
[Simulation ended.]
[Congratulations to the host for achieving the ending in just one simulation. In recognition of the host's outstanding performance in this simulation, the system will grant the host a special reward!]
(A/N: Ah, such a sweet ending, it was enjoyable to write.)