43. 3 lives(?)

She talked for a long time, so long that, her voice became coarse, but she felt very happy, sharing these otherwise impossible happening and that, it happened to her...

Plus, talking about it made her cherish those moments again, she wanted to go back there, she wanted to relive such moments... talking about them, she could still feel that she was connected to that world, even though she had given up on her first life so easily, she still wanted to stay as Yuki for a while longer~

…...

By the time she had finished, it was night time already.

Yuki had a faint guess that the world has been facing this apocalypse for quite a while now.... because there was no electricity.

For the first time in her 3 lives(?), Yuki found what it meant to live in the darkness, well, she didn't have any adverse condition, but it was indeed a bit shocking.

The whole world was deprived of any light, she could hear the cries of people at a distance and the morbid smell of death was taking a toll on her body, more than it should have...

Even the moon didn't help and was hiding behind the clouds, as if, hiding from this hell on Erth.

This suddenly reminded her that the man she was talking to, actually hadn't made a move against her and heard her till the end... even at the end, he didn't ridicule her.. wait.. wasn't he too silent...?

But she could only feel her presence because of her decades of experience and it seems, his breathing and heartbeat were still normal... somehow she was a bit glad... he may not have accepted everything, but these two conditions showed that he didn't have much adverse reaction to it... in a place, he couldn't see, Yuki breathed out a sigh of relief.

A minute passed by just like that, then some more.... just when Yuki was about to ask him something, she felt the warm embrace of a person--

"I don't know what you went through, nor could I ever understand it... But you have worked hard, Yuki... You gave your all", the man spoke in his deep voice, but maybe her sight was not helping and her sense of smell was very delicate, but she felt that his voice reverberated and echoed inside her head for a long time... it was as if, something she had been trying to forget came in huge tide to drown her, making her lose control of her emotions for a moment...

She didn't push him away, he was strong, she was fairly weak.... and she probably wanted this...? But--

"hahaha... You.. are weird, I tell you... Shouldn't you hate me..? This world came to this point because of my ancestors, you know! I don't deserve praise! Condemn me... You should hate a person like me... I have not... done anything... I was so... so... selfish.... ", for the first time in her over a century of living combining her two lives, Yuki cried, the number of emotions she had suppressed couldn't be contained anymore and in a strange place, in the warm embrace of a stranger, the person who was hailed as the strongest in the whole of a galaxy at a point, cried like a baby... When she thought back to it, she wondered if it was because she was in an Omega's body...?

It seems this body was going to be very tough to handle....

The two of them stayed like that for a long while, even when this world was facing its end, the warmth of a single person could give you a hope... when this man thought back to this day in the far future, he always had a gentle smile on his face...

'Yuki was indeed his hope...'

…..

For better or for worse, the zergs didn't came to that place that night and when the day came, the two of them were nestled together, Yuki had cried herself to sleep while the man had slept after over a year for the first time...

…..

When they woke up... Yuki was back to normal and told him to stay back, that she will go find something for them to eat...

Yes, she knew that this man was strong, but even with the small amount of soul force this body had, she knew she was in better condition than him...

Of course, the man tried to say otherwise, but Yuki was adamant, she said that, if she couldn't even find some food for them, she will just be a dead weight, it was something the ex-imperial marshal with 206 proud bones couldn't expect to tolerate... as for how the rationale Yuki of now thought inside her head, well, this man was too good for her(!)...

How can someone still be this good when the world itself was dying?!!!

Anyway, Yuki told him that she could handle it and asked him to rest, she had checked his pulse and couldn't believe how this man was still functioning, he had numerous internal injuries and fractured bones, just not fainting was already an exemplary feat!!

When she gets back, she will help him recuperate!!

As for the man who was left behind... well, he was actually a simple man, he had lost someone important to him and was living lie a dead person, he was killing every zerg in his way and in the process was hurting himself... he probably wanted a good reason to die already....

But that changed when he saw this person... she was similar to him, she too was miserable, but for some unknown reason, he felt a deep instinct of 'life' from her, as if, her body had given up but her soul was still flaring... he had never seen such a beautiful paradox in his life and so when she had called for help, without carrying he got his hope back... even if it was to save her, he wanted to try living again...

But the moment he had put her down like that, something inside her had changed again... the death looming over her was long gone, and she shone brighter than the sun!

He was confused and for a second felt betrayed... he had pointed his sword at her...

But what she said after, well, it was probably 'what' changed his life forever...