I loaded the dream game

"Good evening, Mr. Summer Solstice."

Seeing the smile on her face, Xia Zhi breathed a sigh of relief, patted her head and replied:

"…Good evening, Hinata."

Feeling the long-lost familiar warmth above her head, the smile on the girl's face finally disappeared. She walked up to him silently and gently hugged his body.

Just when Xia Zhi was slightly stunned, her voice came from his arms.

...... .. ...

"…I clearly said I would be right back after just a moment."

The girl took a deep breath, raised her head, looked at him and said:

"Mr. Xia Zhi, you have kept us waiting for a long time."

Xia Zhi recalled...because it wasn't that long ago for him, he remembered it quickly.

It seems that this is indeed the case.

But at that time, I was busy with Tohka... No, I was busy with important matters and completely forgot about it.

"…Sorry to have kept you waiting."

He humbly admitted his mistake.

…But then again, why does she still remember this incident?

Xia Zhi began to have such doubts in his mind.

The girl smiled again and shook her head slightly.

Although the boy did not keep his promise to return right away, he did fulfill another promise.

She hugged the boy again.

"Welcome back."

as well as……

"Thank you for saving me then..."

He really protected them and didn't let anyone hurt them.

"..."

Feeling the soft body in his arms, Xia Zhi temporarily put these questions aside.

Anyway, I should have found a place to stay tonight, right?

He thought in his mind.

……Several.

Chapter 991: What duties does a witch need to perform?

After that, the accompanying priestesses told them many things.

The truth about the white monsters that fell from the sky, the world facing destruction, the God Tree deploying something like a barrier to protect the four countries, and the existence of the "hero" and the "mikoto".

The heroes are girls who have obtained special powers from the gods and can defeat those white monsters.

The priestess is the one who receives the oracles from the sacred tree, senses the appearance of monsters and accepts instructions from the sacred tree.

Although there are not many of them, there are also several heroes and priestesses besides them.

The girl named Kamisato Hinata is also one of the shrine maidens.

Coincidentally, Yokote Jasmine also has this ability.

Jasmine raised her head and looked at the starry night sky.

Unlike the outside world, after entering the barrier, the connection between her "Six Two Three" and that indescribable existence seemed to become closer.

Her eyes were dazed for a moment, and it seemed as if she heard again in her mind... the "voice" from the Lord God, stronger than ever before, clearer than ever before...

Need her... help... serve...

Jasmine let out a soft “wu” and held her forehead.

Her unusual reaction also attracted the concern of her good friends.

"Jasmine, are you okay?" The brave girl with short red hair, Takashima Yuna, supported her body and asked worriedly.

Jasmine shook her head, but her mind was not on her side at all.

In her mind, along with the oracle from the Lord God, a strange figure appeared.

The name of the person who needs her service...

Just as she was thinking this in a trance, a noise came from not far away, attracting her attention.

Jasmine turned around and looked in the direction of the voice, and found that the girl named Kamisato Hinata had returned.

And the one who came back with her was a young boy.

Yokote Jasmine looked at the strange black-haired boy and murmured softly:

"Summer Solstice... Sir..."

……

Time is really magical.

It was just a few hours for me, but it seemed like a long time ago to them?

Looking at the purple-haired girl walking beside him, Xia Zhi thought for a moment and said with emotion:

"You've grown up."

"What's grown up?"

Kamisato Hinata looked confused when she heard this:

"It's only been less than a month."

is it?

Xia Zhi continued calmly, "Children of your age always grow up faster."

Kamisato Hinata didn't care about his obviously stubborn words.

After all, she already had a general understanding of the boy's existence.

On the other hand, after Kamisato Hinata's explanation, Xia Zhi roughly understood why the girl in the singularity still remembered what happened between them.

As a space-time that has been separated from history, the existence of singularities isolates the internal and external time, making time no longer as coherent as before, but becoming a film-like form of the real world.

On this basis, changes in the "past" cannot be continued to the "future". Theoretically, no matter what Xia Zhi does on the timeline outside the singularity, it should not affect the inside.

But there is an exception... The existence of the "Sacred Tree" Congyun ignores the stripped timeline and runs through the entire three hundred years of history.

As the priestess of the sacred tree, with the help of the sacred tree, Kamisato Hinata has, to a certain extent, become a being allowed to exist simultaneously in this entire timeline.

"Master Shenshu made me 'recall' what happened in the past."

Walking briskly beside the boy, Kamisato Hinata turned around and looked at him, smiling and saying:

"Likewise, Ruoye will remember you as well~"

Anyway, this should be considered good news, right? Xia Zhi thought.

After all, for someone like him who doesn't like socializing very much, clearing the file and starting over is indeed a very unpleasant thing.

"Besides this, Lord Shenshu also gave us an oracle."

Kamisato Hinata continued.

After learning about what would happen in the future, she knew clearly that in order to save the world, what they needed to do was no longer just to fight against the gods, but something more important.

That is...

She paused for a moment, raised her head slightly, looked into the boy's eyes, and said softly:

"I will do my best to help you save the elves..."

"..."

Help yourself...

Xia Zhi breathed a sigh of relief and rubbed the girl's head again.

In other words, although Cong Yun cannot appear in this era in person, he is helping himself in this way.

He thought to himself.

"Mr. Xiazhi seems to be very skilled at comforting one girl while thinking about another girl in his heart." Tokisaki Kurumi teased.

"That's right. I've been through a lot of battles."

Xia Zhi replied casually, drawing his attention back to the present.

As they were talking, they had already returned to their original main force.

Facing the return of the two, the priests and priestesses immediately assumed a respectful attitude.

Xia Zhi ignored them and fixed his eyes on the red-haired girl not far away who was also looking at him with curiosity.

That familiar figure and appearance made it hard for him not to be reminded of the brave girl with the same name three hundred years later.

"The first hero, Takashima Yuna... I was also shocked when I first saw him."

Tokisaki Kurumi in my mind also sighed

"No matter how you look at it, they look very similar."

Except for the accessories in her hair, she is almost the same person.

If Younai saw this, she would definitely be shocked, right?

"Summer Solstice... Sir..."

Just as Xia Zhi was thinking this, he heard a murmur from the side.

Hearing this, he looked at a girl who looked like a student next to Takashima Yuna.

...I don’t know him.

"...Who?" He tilted his head slightly.

Kamisato Hinata seemed to understand something and smiled meaningfully.

"Yokote Jasmine."

"Ah? Yes!" The girl named Jasmine seemed to be startled and responded hurriedly.

"Please fulfill your duties as a miko well~"

"Oh..." Jasmine nodded subconsciously.

Then, she came to her senses and blinked blankly.

……what?

What duties do I have to perform?

.......

Chapter 992: Yokote Jasmine is a Miko

According to historical records, the shrine maiden who discovered the brave Takashima Yuna during the disaster and led her to Shikoku was named Karasuma Kumiko.

Although she later lost her power as a shrine maiden because she exceeded the normal age of a shrine maiden, she still has an extremely special status among the priests of the shrine based on her position as "Takashima Yuna's shrine maiden."

And in the subsequent reforms of the big shrine, he gave great support to Kamisato Hinata and Nogi Wakaba.

This is the "official history" recorded by the world three hundred years later.

But it’s not actually like that

The person who was actually "Takashima Yuna's Miko" should have been Yokote Maruri.

After witnessing the negotiations between Karasuma Kumiko and Kamisato Hinata, Xia Zhi learned about this unknown history that had been buried in the past.