God Invasion: It's awesome to save the world with five problematic girls!-Chapter 1060 - 303: Listening to the Sound of a Broken Heart (Part 2)

Chapter 1060: Chapter 303: Listening to the Sound of a Broken Heart (Part 2)

Half a day, a day, a day and a night...

Staring at the girl’s unwavering calmness, the old man finally realized that such punishment was no longer effective on her, and he would have to resort to other harsh physical punishments.

Didn’t do the homework correctly, hit.

Eating, walking without grace, hit.

Using the wrong words, hit.

Even when she couldn’t bear it, when she cried thinking of her father, mother, and brother, she would be whipped by the vine...

Thus, Yan Huan witnessed a bizarre scene.

That enclosed cage meant to punish the girl surprisingly became her haven, so much so that she preferred to sneak into the closet to sleep rather than the bed.

Only in that place where she was alone, she could avoid punishment and see the white cat she cherished dearly...

And only there could she cry, embracing the painful scars from the beatings.

Once she left the closet, she had to put on a mask, pretend as if nothing had happened, and display a perfect demeanor to avoid punishment.

Her elegant and ladylike posture would become her invincible weapon, and her clever mind and exceptional knowledge would become the tools with which she schemed against others and seized benefits...

Time stretched on, and the girl thus went back and forth between the cage and the mask day after day.

Until one day, the sound of an electric saw came from outside the closet.

Yan Huan saw it; in the green outside the closet, many workers arrived, standing beside the old man with the blueprints, pointing ahead and saying something like "this area needs expansion."

The girl saw all this through the narrow crack in the closet window.

She stared blankly as the old man left and the workers began to work.

Until the cherry trees in her view fell one after another, and near dusk, the long-haired white cat returned, watching the uninvited guests from afar.

The girl’s originally dazed eyes finally brightened a bit when she saw the white kitten.

How she wished the kitten could stay and, like her, remain here...

But the kitten did not fulfill her wish.

It just tilted its head, then turned away, planning to leave.

Yan Huan and the girl both knew that the kitten would not come back.

"No...don’t...don’t leave..."

Time passes, gazing at the kitten about to leave, the girl who had been calm for so long finally made a whimpering sound like when she was first locked in this place.

She cried, desperately trying to squeeze her head through the narrow crack to catch up with the kitten walking farther away...

"Wu... wu!!"

But no matter what, she couldn’t squeeze through this narrow crack.

Because her true self was unable to leave this closet.

Only the clever, elegant self that could satisfy Grandfather’s discipline could leave here.

"..."

As soon as this thought arose, her facial features began to melt bit by bit.

As if transforming into a mask meant to be worn on her face, squirming through the narrow crevice.

"Gululu～"

The mask squirmed and crawled out of the dark closet, finally falling into the verdant freedom of the cherry blossom-filled wilderness.

Then, it gradually grew and expanded...

Until its appearance completely became identical to the girl in the closet.

"..."

The mask turned back, glanced at the girl in the closet, then smiled slightly and ran towards the distant horizon.

She could finally leave.

Just like the cat that didn’t linger here, that free cat.

But the girl whose facial features had been removed still remained in the closet...

As if, no matter where she went, she had never truly left.

"Haha... hahahaha..."

Watching the girl recklessly running, revealing a stunning smile under the light of freedom, Yan Huan paused for a moment, instinctively stepping forward to chase.

Because that was the girl in his memory, the one he first fell in love with.

Just taking a step, Yan Huan stopped abruptly.

He turned back, looking at the wooden wall behind him.

A faint, barely visible crack had appeared on the wooden wall due to aging.

Through the crack lay a stifling, closed darkness.

After a moment of silence, Yan Huan suddenly crouched down, quietly gazing at the crack...

Looking across the wall at the quiet, featureless girl within the crack.

"Sakuragi?"

After a moment of silence, he suddenly trembled as he spoke.

"..."

Through the wall, there came an endless silence like a dead-end.

But in the next second, a response suddenly fell into Yan Huan’s ear,

"President..."

Upon hearing this, Yan Huan’s shoulders trembled slightly.

Because that voice came from behind him.

"!!"

Yan Huan turned around abruptly, seeing behind him, the perfect Sakuragi holding his shoulder, showing a graceful sweet smile as she said,

"I’m here, President～"

...

...

"Ka... ka..."

In a dark void, countless broken rooms floated in mid-air, while countless centipedes crawled incessantly in the depths of the void, forming the background of this space.

All of this proved that some kind of mutation was happening within the Barrier.

"!!"

In one of the cracked rooms, Yan Huan suddenly opened his eyes.

He sat up abruptly, realizing he was sitting on a large bed with neatly arranged white bedding.

"President, you... you woke up!"

Beside him, a pair of trembling mouse ears caught Yan Huan’s attention.