Horror Game Designer-Chapter 667: Willing to Bear All the Regrets

Please wipe away all the memory about me. Do not get close to me. Do not remember me. The lonely shadow stood in the middle of the island. Reality touched the illusion. Past encountered future. The three Unmentionables didn’t hold back. Three distinct rules weaved the island, which was covered in despair. Through various coincidences, a ray of light shone on the shadow.

The giant whale rolled in the sea of mist. Her massive body raised giant waves. She was happier than most. The shadow stood there alone. He faced away from the whale. Even though the whale tried to get his attention, he ignored her.

“Why do you stay? You are a whale that has wings. You can easily fly away. Why do you stay to accompany a cursed corpse?

“I am not your child. My soul has perished. Put away your pity and love. I… don’t want to kill you again.”

The sea made from mist was affected by the shadow’s emotions. He stood between the real and the fake. He was both alive and dead. The God of Flesh and Blood and No. 2 detected a frighteningly evil presence on him.

“Did he say the giant is accompanying a corpse? Is this island his corpse?” No. 2 was surprised. He had seen many things, but he hadn’t encountered anything like this.

The giant whale tried many times, but she failed to touch the shadow. She didn’t force it. She was like an old mother who finally saw her comatose child wake up. Her action radiated joy. Melodious whale song travelled far and wide. It didn’t match the inner world. However, no one dared to do anything. The giant tail slammed on the black mist. The giant whale opened her mouth and carefully spat many strange things on the island. There were incomplete altars, lost souls, cameras and dirty dolls from the human world. These were the toys she had collected for her child. They were her surprises.

The wind blew and opened a photo album. The whale had carried the lonely island to many places. She wanted to give the shadow the best of everything. The mother grew wings to carry her child to further places. The cursed hand reached out. When it was about to touch the pictures, the shadow paused. He raised his head to see the giant whale. He knew that would be the first thing he saw whenever he opened his eyes. The shadow abandoned by the world was cherished by his mother. He was probably the first ‘island’ to have explored the world.

With cunning in her eyes, the giant whale tried to approach the shadow when he was distracted. Her wings gently reached towards the shadow. A Demon God was clearly able to stop her, but he gave himself an excuse not to.

The whale’s joy thinned the black mist. The shadow was emotionless. He saw the wounds that were corrupted by the curses on the whale’s body. After so many years, the giant whale had never given up. She had been using her own power to sustain the island. The mother’s feathers caressed the arms and shoulders. The shadow contained endless curses, but the giant whale didn’t mind.

“Is it worth it?”

The nine kids before the shadow disappeared. Only a boy remained. His name was Xiang Nuan. That was the name his mother gave him. He had always ‘hated’ it. With the whale tailing him, the shadow turned to the God of Flesh and Blood and Gao Ming hidden in his heart. A dying human and a ghost who risked their existence to protect the human. It felt so familiar.

“Gao Ming! Wake up! The Demon God is approaching!” No. 2 warned him. When he saw the curses that were inside the shadow, his skull numbed. This Demon God mastered nine different abilities. He collected all the regrets in the inner world. He was worshipped by all manners of creatures. How powerful was he?

Gao Ming wanted to respond to No. 2, but he couldn’t speak. His soul was half-rotted. The wound was related to the rules of decay. Even the God of Flesh and Blood couldn’t heal him. He looked worse than any ghost.

The fake bubbles burst, and the endless shadow realm receded. Without the intervention of the two Unmentionables, the God of Flesh and Blood could focus on the rot within him. The smell of decay was slowly overtaken by the fragrance of meat. The Blood City Tattoo slowly recovered.

Just as Gong Xi’s face recovered, he injected clean blood vessels into Gao Ming’s body. He used his blood to keep Gao Ming alive. He wanted to turn Gao Ming into his heart, but the three other faces were unwilling. The blood vessels ruptured. Gong Xi’s face growled with hatred. Just as the God of Flesh and Blood was about to collapse from infighting, the shadow reached his hand out at the edge of the island and pulled a chain bound with blood from the broken dark realm. The curses crawled onto the chain. The shadow flung the chain at Gao Ming.

Gao Ming saw a child fall into the dark realm and tossed out the chain without hesitation to save him. The chain was returned to him, curled with curses.

Before Gao Ming could react, the cursed chain wound around his soul. It cut into his skin like a brand. The pain caused Gao Ming to scream. The God of Flesh and Blood glared at the shadow but they soon realised the rules of decay on Gao Ming were destroyed by the curses.

The shadow didn’t know how to save someone. His curses caused Gao Ming to suffer more pain. Various curses grew inside Gao Ming. They cleverly avoided the God of Flesh and Blood, focusing on cleansing the decay. After the rotten flesh was eliminated, the curses swam back into the chain.

The God of Flesh and Blood healed quickly without the rules of decay. He started to rebuild Gao Ming’s body.

The shadow didn’t take back the chain with his curses. He turned to look behind Gao Ming and saw the shivering black dog that leaped out of Gao Ming’s shadow. He lay respectfully on the ground.

The black dog hid in the cellar before and after his death. He sealed himself up, surrounded by inky darkness. For him, the lonely island in the inner world’s sky was his only reliance. In this world, there were many broken souls like the black dog who treated the lonely island as their spiritual home. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

No matter where they were and what they did, the lonely island radiated a light warmth and was willing to accept all manners of broken souls.

The shadow turned into the island and carried all the sins. He left his purest energy to the giant whale.

The shadow had cursed the living all his life, but his last present to the world was a blessing. Regardless, the giant whale didn’t leave. She always tried to make up for her regrets and pay penance for the shadow. Without realising it, they became the faith of many shattered souls in the world.