Chapter 68 It's going to be the last day

  A whole day of karaoke is what kind of torture!?

  Although I think Haruhi Suzumiya sings well, but... for the whole day, Koyomi thought he should have prepared his throat a bit earlier?

  "Well... is that it? ...It's just like that." On the 30th, which was the last two days before the world would rewind, Haruhi Suzumiya looked at the paper filled with X marks and didn't show much excitement or regret. She smiled slightly and said, "Doesn't anyone have any other requests?"

  Looking at the crowd shaking their heads, Haruhi Suzumiya's smile subsided a bit, and she turned to Kyon, "Hey, what about you?"

  "Hmm... I'm thinking."

  "Whatever, it's been quite an experience this summer...". The people present were all relatively subdued, and Suzumiya Haruhi seemed not to have noticed everyone's expressions, finally standing up. "Originally tomorrow was going to be a reserve day, but let's just call it off then. Tomorrow will be a holiday, so everyone can take it easy."

  He opened his mouth, but somehow he couldn't say a word, what was he going to say?

  What else does she regret? In the notes of the nine lives' cycle, apart from Yuki Nagato, they had all read the 'strategy' section. Writing summer homework together?

  Don't make a fuss, this has happened many times before, and the world will still spin!

  In the end, Haruhi Suzumiya left the party venue, leaving behind a crowd in silence. "Perhaps... tomorrow will be the same again?"

  A-Huo's face didn't look too good, how long will this cycle go on before it comes to an end?!

  "Yeah... it's a bit of a headache." With a bitter smile, Jiǔ Mìng shook his head. He wasn't like ā Xū and the others, who could just keep reincarnating without any issues. If he continued on like this, someone would end up dead...

  "It must be that she has some unspoken regrets." Kosen Hitsuki smiled wryly, "If we don't resolve this, we might just keep repeating this cycle forever."

  Everyone looked at Nagato Yuki and then each of them withdrew their gaze, thinking about their own things.

  Kunmei rubbed his forehead and said that today's Suzumiya Haruhi was unexpectedly carefree when she left just now, without leaving any extra words behind. It seemed like she was expecting something, carefully recalling the details of what had just happened. Kunmei let out a long sigh, women's hearts are really hard to understand, it would be better if there were some regrets expressed.

  "Alas, I couldn't think of anything." He reluctantly stood up, downed the remaining drink in one gulp, "I'll leave first, you guys can stay and chat if you want to."

  He walked out of the store, and Jiǔ Mìng kicked away a small stone at his feet. He heard the sound of the door opening behind him, and he turned his head around, but saw nothing...

  Lower your head.

  "Shall we go together?"

  Nagato nodded and walked with Kurenai on the road, Kurenai holding that notebook with a worried expression flipping through it again and again, trying to find the overlooked place. Speaking of which, what's going on with this record from the eighth time?

  It seems that at that time, I encountered some kind of frustrating situation, which led to the fact that the record was not completely recorded and had to be re-sealed this notebook to prevent it from disappearing. It would be great if I knew what happened at that time.

  Ask the girl next to you?

  It seems that it's time for another cycle, and at this moment, Nagato's expression has become much more subdued, making even the Nine feel like they can't speak up.

  "...... Ah, Kaito......" He rubbed his nose tip and let out a sigh, completely unable to speak!

  "Is there something wrong?"

  "May I ask a question?"

  "Alright, no problem."

  Took a deep breath again, Jiǔ Mìng took out his notebook and pointed to the eighth record. "Can you tell me what happened at that time? What did 'I' encounter?"

  "At that time, you were drawn into the closed space created by Haruhi Suzumiya. I don't have a record of what happened inside the closed space, but there was a brief fluctuation in external time during that period, and then it was just another cycle."

  "Confined space?" Jiǔ Mìng scratched his head, what thing was that?

  Witnessing the confusion of the nine lives, Nagato explained that it was a space isolated from the real world due to Haruhi's mental pressure. It is a world very similar to the real one but filled with gray and devoid of human life. Conventional means cannot enter, and unrelated people can't even discover it.

  One thought, one world?

  You're really something on a spring day.

  "By the way, what's that fluctuation you were talking about?"

  "This world is on the verge of collapse, which means that at that time, in a closed space, Haruhi Suzumiya had the idea of giving up on the outside world."

  "......" Alright, Jiǔ Mìng shrugged his shoulders, so the eighth reincarnation appeared just in time. "Will I be involved again this time?"

  "From your 73rd to 80th reincarnations, you were trapped in a closed space. The time period of entrapment was from August 30th at midnight to August 31st at midnight. The fluctuations triggered by the 80th closed space increased by 93% compared to the 72nd."

  "Alas? That is to say, if things continue like this, this world will also infinitely cycle and eventually something will go wrong?"

  "Alright."

  "How to avoid it?"

  "Erase your existence."

  "Alas!?" Jiǔ Mìng was slightly stunned, erasing existence... This sounds even more cruel and inhumane than that thing called "eradicating", "What to say?"

  "Erase your existence in this world from the root, including any memories of you that Haruhi Suzumiya may have. Otherwise, even if you were to die, when the world recycles again, you will still be reborn due to the recycling."

  "Can you really do it?" Jiǔ Mìng swallowed hard and asked in a somewhat speechless tone.

  "It's challenging, but... it can be done."

  His lips twitched involuntarily at the corner of his mouth, and he himself was already unknowingly in such a dangerous situation?

  "Uh..."

  "It's not yet time to resort to such measures... I believe you can resolve it."

  Don't you want to get rid of yourself with this method? Jiǔ Mìng thinks that he should be grand and righteous for once, saying something like "don't mind your own feelings, come on, sacrifice myself to save a world..." It seems that dying like this also has some meaning, but somehow, it's a bit unacceptable.

  Maybe there's still a factor of natural coldness in my bones? Saving a world, but 99.999% of the people in that world have nothing to do with me, it feels like this salvation is a bit of a loss for myself?

  He wasn't fed any superhero ideology, and suddenly talking about sacrificing himself to save the world makes one feel quite fantastical, with an unreal sense of fantasy that completely lacks empathy, just abandon oneself... Don't be ridiculous!

  "Maybe I need to talk to Haruhi Suzumiya about this." One was taciturn, the other preoccupied, so the two walked in silence until they reached the entrance of Koizumi's high-class apartment building. Kyon stood at the elevator door and as soon as it opened, he said to the girl beside him.

  "Go for it!"

  She walked into the elevator alone, and before the doors closed, Nagato Yuki gave her a pep talk, but didn't she understand? This kind of encouragement was simply a blow to his morale!

  Who made it that every time Nagisa Hazuki lowers the difficulty of that dating simulation game, she always says this to him, and over time, the two words "add oil" have become his nightmare when he fails at playing simulation games...

  Add oil!

  Patted his own face, took a long breath of nine lives, turned around and walked out, let's try our best!

  "Hey, hey, I'm saying, is it really okay to go on like this? Has the world already become so dangerous?" Akane Chokura looked out the window and asked Nagato Yuki as she watched Kuroba's figure leave. Even without her abilities, she was still an alien, and Nagato gave her a brief explanation of the situation, after which she understood most of it.

  "Just get rid of him, after all he's not from this world anyway, and because of him..."

  "It's not needed." With a faint tone, Nagato Yuki cut off Asakura Ryouko's words, grabbed her with both hands and gently placed her into a colorful box. Asakura Ryouko, who was thinking about something, didn't even realize her situation due to Yuki's gentle handling.

  "Then wait for a new closed space to appear? According to you, if it appears again, this world will really be unstable. So, it's better to get rid of him as soon as possible!"

  "It hasn't reached the point where it's necessary to do so." Nagato Yuki gently pressed down on the lid of the colored box.

  Akane Chokubo, shrouded in darkness, finally realized her situation was off, "Wait...! What do you plan to do?"

  Crack——

  The colored box was completely closed, and the next moment, Azumaya Ryouko, who was stepping on the spring, was shot out like a cannonball... The ceiling echoed with the sound of impact and screams.

  "Hmm..." Jiǔ Mìng hesitated, looking at the house in front of her. To say that her family's house was superior to any other building in the area from every aspect would be an understatement. Now that he had arrived here, the sky was also getting dark, so what should they do next?

  Just knock on the door and go in?

  It seems that Haruhi Suzumiya has never brought anyone to her home before, and doing so might have some bad consequences. Anyway, he hasn't seen her bring anyone home in the past two weeks, according to Koizumi, and no one has visited her home since school started.

  It's quite a mysterious setup, is there some kind of taboo here?

  It's better not to knock on the door and go in, so I looked up at the windows here, but they were all blocked by curtains, and nothing could be seen inside. Maybe what I should do now is to buy 99 roses from a flower shop, change into a black suit, stand here and wait for one night, and then give Haruhi Suzumiya a huge surprise when she leaves the house on the second day, and August 31st will pass like this, ushering in September!!!

  It feels a bit weird to do this, but I'll just wait here instead. If the closed space that Nagato Yuki mentioned appears, I'll just barge in... This idea isn't bad, she likes thrills, and bursting in would be surprising enough, right? Bursting through the window should be enough too, right?

  Let's just wait and see then...