Another World Trip: Journey with My Cat and an Otaku Loli Goddess Chapter 330.6 - Aftermath

Silence reigned for a long time after this, until it was broken by something most unkind.

“Human, die for me!” A roar of anger rang out as Long Nuhuang looked upward to see First Claw Long Jin with killing intent blaring, descending upon her to destroy her entirely!

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Long Nuhuang didn’t have the strength to resist.

She fell to her knees, not to the calamity currently bearing down on her, no, it was to the exhaustion that threatened to take her.

Little spots of darkness freckled her vision, heralding the coming of her consciousness’s loss. She forced her head to remain skyward, or whatever counted as sky in this godforsaken place.

She wanted to take in the dragon and all its features. She wanted to immortalise this scene, to know that this, this right here, would be the closing chapter of a most novel life.

How hateful was this?

It was almost funny, actually. She had a powerful urge to tell Long Di this story, to see if he would finally laugh when she was done.

For a minute, for a blissful, hopeful minute, she led herself to believe that her path would end in her success. Instead, she died to these damnable things for exceeding their expectations. An overachiever… much like her son.

She wanted to meet him to let him know that she tried her best to avenge him.

Maybe this was for the best, to succumb to the embrace, to step deeper into the abode of death. To let it take her, let it hold her and reunite her with that piece of her stolen soul.

This line of thought somehow slipped a semblance of peace inside her. The idea of seeing Long Di again, to accompany him through the Yellow Springs.

“Mother?”

His voice echoed out within the darkness.

She actually saw him there, saw him treading that path on his own. She ran after him, ignoring the bloodstained dust that she kicked up along the way.

“Wait!”

She yelled in excitement at seeing him again, though she only saw his back. It was his back. Long Di’s back!

He looked all over as if searching for her but he never looked back!

She tripped several times

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