I, the Lord of the Fifth Throne, am the source of all things!

"Let me guess, is Lianjun searching for her own difference?"

".......Um."

"The feeling of emptiness in one's heart is very unpleasant. Lianjun is also a person who never looks back and only moves forward. This is good, at least she has a goal and can move forward and put in the effort."

The girl named Yuko Amamiya seemed to know Duanmu Lian's inner thoughts very well, and spoke out many of Duanmu Lian's true inner thoughts on her own.

Feeling empty inside, he was searching for something that could motivate him to take action.

He is not afraid of having an extremely difficult goal; he is afraid of having no goal at all.

The idea of ​​returning across eternity is one of the reasons Duanmu Lian found for herself.

Without this reason, he wouldn't know what to do, and he wouldn't even have a reason or meaning to live.

It is precisely because it is so difficult to do that we can continue to do it and keep going.

The reason why Duanmu Lian so earnestly and urgently hoped to find another thing that she could keep doing until she died was because she could find another thing that she could do continuously.

It's also because he doesn't want to lose his reason for living, and he doesn't want to live a meaningless and empty life.

Perhaps this is a bit of an overreaction, but what should I do after he successfully crosses the eternal cycle and returns?

"I really think that Lianjun is very amazing, because Lianjun's experiences and stories are more exciting than myths and legends. When I came to your side a long time ago, I doubted whether I was qualified to interfere in your story."

"But in the end, I realized that I was just a sinner."

Yuko Amamiya's expression was calm and gentle, her eyes filled with memories of the past.

When Duanmu Lian heard that she was a sinner, she couldn't help but frown.

"sinner?"

"Yes, just like Daji who turned Emperor Xin into a tyrant, and Tamamo-no-Mae who bewitched Emperor Toba, I turned Ren-jun from a hero destined to create great achievements into an ordinary mortal."

Yuko Amamiya's tone conveyed a clear and complex sense of guilt.

As she said, because of her existence, Duanmu Lian, who was extraordinary in a previous life, became ordinary.

Although it was Duanmu Lian's own choice.

However, Yuko believes that she is the reason why Duanmu Lian, who should have been able to fly to a higher place, is hindered.

She became his birdcage, a birdcage in which the bird willingly remained.

The Kunpeng, which should have soared to great heights, has become a harmless domesticated bird.

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Chapter 55 Suwahara's Christmas

The person named Yuuko Amamiya is just an ordinary, unremarkable girl.

She has no extraordinary talent whatsoever.

Besides being cute and beautiful, he has the same virtues as the male protagonist in light novels: gentleness and kindness.

However, it was this ordinary woman who gave Duanmu Lian a kind of spiritual salvation.

Her acquaintance with Duanmu Lian stemmed from an accident.

In order to collect resources from various other worlds, Duanmu Lian not only uses the [Interdimensional Gate] to travel through time personally, but also uses the [World Projection] to carry out a kind of reincarnation-like time travel.

It was because of a world projection that Duanmu Lian, as Amamiya Ren, was adopted by Amamiya Yuko's family.

Duanmu Lian dislikes interpersonal communication, rejects so-called family ties, and does not want to be tied down.

When the world was projected, his parents after his reincarnation were either the type to die young or beings with bizarre and wicked personalities.

Those with bizarre and wicked personalities are like some of Duanmu Lian's parents from her previous life, or like some parents in novels who dote on their adopted children but hate their own.

Duanmu Lian felt no dislike or hatred towards this kind of person; she simply ignored and disregarded them.

In his view, they were simply the birthplace of his new world.

He is a nihilist, but not a negative nihilist.

Even if he sees something as meaningless, he will still do what a person should do.

For example, Yuko Amamiya's parents, who were destined to die young, were very good to Duanmu Lian.

Therefore, he gave Yuko Amamiya all the due reward, as if he had received a favor and did not want to owe it, so he returned it.

A sudden, massive earthquake devastated countless families.

Yuko Amamiya also lost both her parents in this disaster.

Duanmu Lian also took on the responsibilities of the girl's parents, raising her until she grew up.

When she grows up, becomes independent, and has her own family.

Having completed all her duties in the new world, Duanmu Lian can now depart and begin a new journey.

However, the reality is often not as simple as people think.

In every respect, Duanmu Lian was extremely devoted to Yuko Amamiya.

But it was merely fulfilling its duties.

There was no family affection to speak of.

Yuko Amamiya sensed this when she was very young.

In Yuko Amamiya's eyes, her brother Ren Amamiya is omnipotent and treats her very well in every aspect of life, both materially and practically.

But she felt no affection or care from her family.

It's as if the other party has abandoned the entire world, treating everything in the world as a game.

Yuko Amamiya felt like a female character on a game screen, being taken care of by a player named Duanmu Lian.

Therefore, there is a very obvious barrier between them when they get along.

Brother, don't you like Yuko?

One day, Yuko Amamiya finally couldn't hold back any longer and said those words to her older brother, Ren Amamiya.

【...】

Duanmu Lian responded with silence.

It was this silence that made Yuko Amamiya completely unable to bear it any longer.

She held Ren Amamiya in the highest esteem and affection because he was only slightly older than her but had taken on the responsibilities of a parent to care for her.

She liked his calmness and maturity, his voice, his composure in the face of all difficulties, and everything about him.

Therefore, she cannot accept the fact that the person she likes has no feelings for her.

Because of this, she became rebellious.

However, in Duanmu Lian's eyes, who had an unimaginable amount of experience, this was just a stage that a girl of that age should go through.

So even though she was rebellious, Duanmu Lian still did what she was supposed to do, silently taking care of the girl and waiting for her to be able to live independently.

They grew up together like that.

After Yuko Amamiya grew from a girl into a young woman, she also came to a complete understanding of one thing.

That is—only I am happy, my brother is not happy.

It was precisely because she understood this that Yuko Amamiya changed her personality from the beginning, becoming a gentle, polite, kind, and understanding girl.

Over the years, regardless of whether Duanmu Lian had feelings for him or not, she had lived a good and happy life.

Just this is enough.

Since she had never repaid Duanmu Lian for anything since childhood, how could she expect him to give her more?

If she wants to get those things, she has to give something in return.

That's what Yuko Amamiya thought, and that's why she had a dream.

That is to make Duanmu Lian happy.

It was after Yuko Amamiya realized her feelings that the situation changed from Yuko taking care of Duanmu Lian to Yuko taking care of Duanmu Lian.

To be honest, Duanmu Lian, who grew up enduring malice in her previous life, is really not good at dealing with kindness shown to her.

He's not a blockhead, nor is he emotionally insensitive.

He could clearly sense Yuko Amamiya's feelings for him, and therefore he had clearly rejected them.

Yuko Amamiya was heartbroken, extremely heartbroken, and also very unwilling to accept it.

She genuinely wanted Duanmu Lian to be happy, because only when Duanmu Lian said she was happy did Youzi feel that everything from the past to the present was real and meaningful.

Unable to win over Duanmu Lian's heart, and with repeated failures, Yuko Amamiya once considered giving up.

If she hadn't met that witch, she might have really given up.

The witch named Alice Kamishiro was very surprised when she first met Yuko Amamiya.

[This is unbelievable. There's only one timeline where your misfortune never happened. Besides being favored by angels, could you also be favored by gods?]

Angels? Gods?

If others could see the witch through Yuko Amamiya's eyes, she might have thought the other person was a chuunibyou (a person with delusions of grandeur).

But through her interactions with this witch named Alice Kamishiro, Yuko Amamiya also learned a great deal.

At the same time, they realized that Duanmu Lian was extraordinary.

You are an angel who brings happiness to others but cannot find happiness yourself. Your fate is very bumpy, but in this world, there is a very large 'singularity of fate' that has twisted your original destiny and taken away your misfortune.

These are the words that Alice Kamishiro told Yuko Amamiya.

At first she didn't understand, but after entering the dream under the witch's power, Yuko Amamiya completely understood the meaning behind the witch's words.

In her dream, she saw another possibility, a worldline where her brother Ren Amamiya did not exist, and her unfortunate and tragic life.

She lost her parents and entered an orphanage, where she met the boy she liked.