The Vixen's Gambit: Tonight We Hunt

Death is an eternal topic of human thought.

There is great terror between life and death, but those who are called heroes can usually transcend this fear from the soul and face it calmly.

So should Lee be afraid?

As a person who had struggled on the verge of death countless times and was called a hero by others, Lee naturally shouldn't be afraid – but she was not that kind of fearless hero at all. The so-called savior, the so-called warrior, were just her superficial disguises.

The real [Lee], in essence, was just a timid ordinary person who would cry and feel pain.

Therefore, when she saw her already doomed ending approaching, strong fear still drove her to do something that heroes should never do – run away.

In the face of the Honkai and Herrschers, no matter what the situation, she would always be the first to charge forward. But at this moment, she was panicked and chose to retreat because of humans. It would be difficult to gain trust if she told others about this fact.

But that was the reality.

It was just a pity that even if Lee wanted to escape, it was too late.

In order to help Kevin successfully retreat from the hands of the Herrscher of Finality, Lee chose to stay here and look for an opportunity to use the SELENE to attack the enemy, which made her miss the last chance to escape.

Those people had already searched up layer by layer, and would soon reach the floor where Lee's control room was located. And among these people, there were even a few former members of the Fire Moth, which made the doors in the corridor have no blocking effect on them.

Lee could only find a hiding place for herself in this remaining layer of space – even though she also knew that it was meaningless.

But sometimes even if it is meaningless, you have to do it, just like Kevin still chose to fight even though he knew he couldn't win against the Herrscher of Finality – but Kevin's reason was much greater than Lee's.

At the moment Lee killed Aponia, she saw her future.

The dead Aponia only saw that Lee chose to bear the lives of everyone and become a savior who slaughtered humanity, but what Lee saw was her own ending.

She would be killed by humans, in the most cruel way.

...

The future can be changed. Just like because Lee killed the MANTIS Soldiers in advance, their consciousness, which should have been wiped out by the Herrscher of Finality, was now preserved in her core.

If Lee gave up her plan and didn't intervene in other people's lives and deaths, she could definitely avoid this vicious ending..... But that would mean the death of more than 100 million people.

Therefore, no matter how afraid she was of that future, Lee still chose to carry out her plan.

And there was another reason – she always chose the option with the most bullet comments.

Dying in a stimulating way was good! It just so happened that Lee could do an experiment to see how much gold coins a protagonist who was extremely emotionally agitated could burst out.

A normal protagonist with full affection could burst out one million gold coins when seeing the most important person die in front of them. This was the case with Otto and Denji in the past.

But Hayakawa Aki, who used the charging efficiency of a supporting role in the past, burst out more energy than the protagonists at the last moment, which fully shows that the method of stacking buffs can ultimately make the harvested energy more.

And now Lee wanted to try how much more energy she could get when the scene the protagonist saw became more stimulating, in addition to constantly compressing emotions and stacking buffs!

When Lihua died, she was instantly burned to charcoal in front of Otto, and when Shoko died, she directly turned into air in front of Denji.

If Lee were to evaluate these two operations.....

Not slow enough, and not cruel enough!

Since you have to die, you should die a little slower, a little more torturous, so that the sheep can truly feel that their most important things are being lost, but they are powerless and painful!

Just like when Makima lost Shoko – but even Makima still had flaws at that time. Although Shoko died slowly enough, it was not shocking enough.

Because she was paying the price of the wish, she disappeared directly..... If Lee were to say, let Makima watch Shoko being eaten bit by bit by Chainsaw Man on the side, and the other party cried and begged Makima for help, but she couldn't do anything – wouldn't the gold coins bursting out of such humiliation and despair be even more worthwhile!

It's a pity that the situation at that time didn't allow for such a performance to be completed reasonably, but now the opportunity was presented to Lee, how could she miss it?

So Lee would not really change her ending..... She wanted to see if the gold coins that Kevin burst out when he saw such a desperate scene could make her laugh out loud!

Kevin was a strong person, presumably he could withstand a little more pressure, right? After all, Lihua didn't see Kevin do anything at that time. He shouldn't have become the kind of madman who would say 'Project Stigma, activate' every day when he opened his eyes.

Since that was the case, Kevin, come and welcome this show specially designed for you~

...

In the dark and narrow space, Lee was nervously huddled into a ball, only able to hear her trembling breathing.

And around her, she could hear people's footsteps and conversations.

"Did you find her?"

"No, she's probably hiding."

"She must still be nearby. The console in the control room was used just now."

"Damn Herrscher! She must have sneaked up on Kevin while he was fighting the Herrscher of Finality!"

"That's right, Herrschers all deserve to die, they all deserve to be cut into pieces!"

"I knew that guy was not right. What artificial Herrscher, I think she had already become a Herrscher! It was obvious when she was slaughtering people everywhere..... We should have killed her at that time!"

"Kill her! Kill her!"

Hearing these voices, Lee's breathing became more rapid.

Not finding her body at the previous battle site, these people suspected that the Herrscher was still not dead, and they found this place all the way, preparing to kill her, the Herrscher, completely.

From a human point of view, this was a very stupid but brave behavior.

Even if they had obtained weapons against the Honkai from the Fire Moth's arsenal, most of these people were still just stronger civilians – in front of an opponent who could easily kill the strongest combat force of humanity, the MANTIS Soldiers, their resistance was simply suicide.

But they still went. Lee's mind-steel seal that humanity would definitely defeat the Honkai affected them. If Lee still had the power to drive the Herrscher of Sentience's authority, she might be able to cancel this seal and let these people regain their fear and scatter – but it might not affect them.

After all, these people had nothing left to lose, and all that remained in their hearts was infinite anger towards the Honkai.

And these problems were no longer something Lee needed to consider, because she didn't have the power to lift the mind-steel seal now.

All she could do was wait for the judgment of fate.

At some point, Lee realized that the surroundings seemed to have quieted down – it seemed that those people had already left.

Did she survive?

At the moment when Lee breathed a sigh of relief, the dark environment was suddenly illuminated by a dazzling light!

"Found her, she's here!"