I loaded the dream game

"Then you will definitely like Sanzhi-san~"

Is this some kind of grouping of people? Xia Zhi complained in his heart.

Nogi Sonoko supported her hands on her knees, her legs swaying slightly, and brought the topic back to the topic: "Because we are classmates and heroes, we are together every day and have become very good friends. We study, train, live together, go hiking, take hot springs, go to Ines's food court, and talk about love-related topics..."

“That was a really happy time.”

When talking about this memory, the girl couldn't help but smile slightly, as if she was missing him very much.

"Brother Xia Zhi, when you were a kid, you also met really good friends who you hoped to be with for the rest of your life, right? It's almost like that."

Xia Zhi: “…I don’t have any friends.”

"Ah, sorry..."

Nogi Sonoko stuck out her tongue and stopped talking about "friends". She continued with the original topic:

“The training days were very hard, and the injuries during the battles were very painful, but because I was with my friends, I didn’t feel that I couldn’t persevere.”

"The three of us helped each other, supported each other, defeated enemies one after another, and overcame difficulties time and time again."

"Koji, and Sanno-san, we originally thought... no, we wanted this to go on forever and ever."

The girl's voice became lower.

"But later, the child sacrificed himself to protect us."

Xia Zhi, who already knew the result, did not speak, but gently stroked her hair to soothe her mood.

Nogi Sonoko shook her head slightly, quickly adjusted herself, and continued, "Because we were too weak at that time, we couldn't even achieve full bloom."

"We, who have become powerful, can do nothing about what happened in the past."

She raised her head, looked at the boy and asked:

"In this situation, Brother Xia Zhi, if you were given the opportunity to change the past, what would you do?"

The answer is obvious.

Everyone has regrets about the past, and everyone has thought about how great it would be if they could make up for their regrets.

This emotion is generally called regret.

If I could have known that at that time...

Almost everyone has said or thought something like this.

So, if one day you could go back to the past, what choice would you make when faced with such an opportunity?

The girls' actions are self-evident.

Is it just...interference in the past?

If the dream game did not make any other magical changes to this world, the sacred tree in Xia Zhi's memory should not have this power.

And those who have this ability...

Xia Zhi thought of an elf

He shook his head and did not ask the question for the time being, but instead thought about another thing.

If what Sonoko said was true, even though she had the opportunity to change the past, she still had not met the girl named "Gin Minowa".

This also means...

"You failed?"

"Yeah." Nogi Sonoko nodded, lowered her eyes slightly, and then said

"Try again, again, again, and again

In order to avoid being exposed, we can only trace back at the conscious level."

"But no matter how hard we tried, we couldn't save her life."

Her tone did not change, and she continued to speak softly.

"At that time, our system was not fully activated, and we were powerless in the face of powerful enemies..."

So, in the end, they chose to take the risk in order to save her with a more powerful force.

"But in the end, we couldn't save any of them."

"Our actions led to the ultimate evil consequences and almost destroyed the world."

"..."

Listening to the emotions hidden in the girl's soft words, Xia Zhi sighed softly in his heart, said nothing, and just hugged her tightly in his arms.

Nogi Sonoko leaned against the boy's arms and gently closed her eyes. Her words finally showed a hint of her inner emotions.

"...Brother Xia Zhi, I am not a hero."

"I can't protect my friends, I can't protect everyone I love."

"Similarly, I can't protect you..."

She turned around, tears welling up in her eyes, but still looked at him with a smile, and said apologetically

"I'm sorry... Nogi Sonoko, I'm not your hero."

"..."

Looking at the brave girl in front of me with tears in her eyes, I don't know why she is sad.

Xia Zhi reached out his hand and gently wiped away the tears from her eyes.

"You are my hero."

As he spoke, he embraced the girl again, gently stroked her head and said

"You said it yourself. Everything you have belongs to me, right?"

"...I lied." Yuanzi said sullenly in his arms.

“But I took it seriously.”

Xia Zhi lowered his head, looked into her eyes and said seriously

"So, you are my Nogi Sonoko."

"..."

The girl didn't say anything, but just leaned quietly on his chest, feeling the warmth close to her. She pursed her lips and gently closed her eyes.

After a long time, her voice came again in my arms.

"Brother Xia Zhi..."

"Ok?"

The girl raised her head and blinked at him: "...was that a confession just now?"

The mood adjusted pretty quickly.

"Don't let your sister Mio hear you saying this." Xia Zhi said as he rubbed her hair again.

"Is it okay if I say it behind her back?"

Is that what I mean?

Xia Zhi complained in his heart.

After calming the girl down, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Logically speaking, we should think about what Sonoko just said about changing the past.

But, before that…

Xia Zhi looked in one direction

"Could you please ask that lovely lady over there, who has been listening for so long and still doesn't want to leave, to come out for a moment?"

"Ah, I was thinking of giving you some more time to be intimate...Will it bother you?"

As soon as the words fell, a strange girl's voice was heard.

The distorted shadow spread out, and out of it emerged a black-haired girl with twin ponytails wearing a red and black Gothic dress.

"But calling someone cute the first time you meet them... No wonder Mr. Xia Zhi is so popular with girls."

Facing Xia Zhi's gaze, the girl smiled, lifted her skirt slightly, and saluted gracefully.

"Greetings~, this... God from another world"

Summer Solstice:…

No, I didn't actually ask you to come out...

.......

Chapter 935 Tokisaki Kurumi

Xia Zhi knew about this. Sonoko once told him that there was another elf in this world besides Mio.

He also knew that the other party had actually been observing the situation on his side.

I just didn't expect that she would choose to come out at this time.

"..."

Looking at the black and red girl in front of him, Xia Zhi frowned slightly, always feeling like something was missing.

"What's wrong? Brother Xia Zhi?"

Nogi Sonoko noticed the change in his expression and asked curiously.

"……No."

Xia Zhi shook his head and replied, finally remembering what was missing.

He thought for a moment, lowered his head and looked at Sonoko and asked, "Can you play the saxophone?"

"No." Nogi Sonoko shook her head, and then said: "...But if Brother Xia Zhi wants to listen, I can learn-oh."

Then there is no need for that.

Xia Zhi rubbed her head as a thank you.

"Oh my, Mr. Xia Zhi really went too far by calling her out and then leaving her alone to flirt with other girls."

On the other side, the girl in Gothic dress narrowed her eyes slightly, looked at the two people who were intimate not far away, raised an ambiguous smile and said.

Her words made Xia Zhi turn his attention back to her.

"...It can't be said that I called you out."

Xia Zhi tilted his head slightly, "After all, you were planning to come out to see me today, weren't you?"

When the girl appeared just now, he noticed that compared to himself, Sonoko didn't seem surprised by her arrival.

Considering that Sonoko knew about the girl's existence in advance and had said that the reason why she was not convenient to explain the situation of the other elf to herself was because the elf asked for it, combined with the story Sonoko just told

Based on the above information, it can be concluded that there is a high probability that the two of them know each other.

In other words, the girl should have informed Sonoko in advance that she had decided to give up her previous hiding behavior and come out to contact her today.

...In other words, this might be one of the reasons why Sonoko chose to tell me about her past today.

"...Mr. Xia Zhi, you are really sensitive."

The girl's words confirmed Xia Zhi's guess.

"Oh, I forgot to introduce myself. How rude of me."

As she spoke, she lifted her skirt slightly and bowed again.

"My name is Tokisaki Kurumi, and I am the spirit of time~"

Xia Zhi was not surprised about the girl's identity. After all, he had roughly guessed it before she came out.

But why should she be so wary of herself?

In Xia Zhi's impression, the elf named "Tokisaki Kurumi" should not be such a "cautious" person, so that she would not have to be so cautious even when making contact and confirm it again and again.

There must be other factors that influenced her to make such a judgment.