I adopted a child demon from the Gap, and I'm a special agent for the Bureau of Supernatural Ab

I can't feel anything anymore, I can't feel anything at all. My body has reached its limit, it's time for me to rest in peace, there's... no reason left to fight to live.

He could almost hear a soft murmur in his ear. Was it her lying beside him? Was it the soft singing he remembered from that small house, in his arms?

Have I... already gone home?

Am I finally... home?

In the hazy, warm light, a faint call seemed to be heard from afar.

What was that again? Was it something intimate? Something very familiar? But I don't want to know anymore, I don't want to continue. I'm so tired, so very tired. I want to stop, I want to go home. Back to the house where she is, back to the mud house where my mother is, I want to go back, I want to go back…

"Cheng—"

Is it becoming clearer? What was that voice? It sounds so familiar, so familiar... It's like I've forgotten something. Have I forgotten?

"Cheng!!"

"Ugh—"

With his vocal cords blocked by blood, he managed to produce a few sounds.

The blind, mutilated man, as if convulsing, lifted his bloodied and mangled face from the ground.

"Uh, tide... Xi, uh, ahh, uh, tide..."

With slurred speech, he hoarsely uttered the girl's name—the name of the girl crying out inside the container—from his mouth, which could no longer close.

He stretched out half of his hand and began to crawl forward. Struggling, crawling, in the most awkward posture, like a mentally challenged fool who couldn't walk, he desperately crawled towards the source of the sound. He mumbled the girl's name incoherently, using his remaining arm to support himself as he crawled forward. The action was truly comical and laughable; if anyone had seen him at that moment, they would surely have burst out laughing at his distorted and unsightly posture.

But he could think of nothing, couldn't process anything. His mind, nearly burned out, contained only the girl's voice, only her desperate cries. With all his remaining strength, in the boundless darkness, following the girl's voice, he finally crawled to her side.

Grab the bottom of the container, grab the edge, grab the hole he'd punched in it. With one last hoarse roar, the man pushed beyond his physical limits, shattering the highly reinforced glass container into pieces. He had finally broken free of her restraints; he had finally rescued her completely.

He finally stopped breathing, fell onto the base of the container, and died quietly.

"Accept! Accept!!"

tide cried out loudly, desperately squeezing out of the broken container and grabbing the now-cold body of the man. She wept bitterly, her tears staining her once beautiful face. But the man lay silently on the ground, unresponsive to her cries, utterly still.

"I accept! I accept, sob sob, I accept!!"

With great effort, Xi lifted the man's body, her pupils constricting in shock. She couldn't imagine how someone could have become so terrifying, or how, in such a state, he could still crawl to her and break through the last barrier that bound her. But she knew clearly that he had fought so hard for her sake.

"Cheng, no, don't die, Cheng!"

She held the man's lifeless body tightly, unsure of what to do or how to proceed. Her memories were filled only with carefree days protected by him, with joyful play and delicious food. She had never faced this before, never imagined it. But the innate common sense born of her demonic nature told her that he was truly gone.

"No, Cheng, don't die, don't die..."

Holding his body, tide pleaded and cried out uncontrollably.

"tide, I won't be greedy anymore. tide, I won't make you angry anymore. tide will listen to Cheng, I will be obedient. Don't die, Cheng, don't die, don't..."

Her dull purple pupils gradually brightened.

In the silent, ethereal darkness.

Li Cheng opened his eyes, looked at his body floating in the darkness, and raised his head blankly, seeing countless eyes peering at him from the darkness, covering him from all sides, above and below.

And that purple figure facing him, almost as radiant as the sun.

He saw the figure walk up to him and gently embrace him. Then, there was the sound of flesh and bone merging together, and light and shadow continuously poured into his body.

He heard the figure whisper in his ear, through gritted teeth:

"Trying to walk into my heart like that and then irresponsibly walk away is utterly delusional, you despicable man. Since you chose me, you'd better take responsibility for me until the end of the world!!"

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Section 96, Chapter 31: Your Eternity and Mine

In the dilapidated testing ground, behind the unconscious Kiritsugu Emiya and the struggling Jin Konoe, at the very center of the testing ground, a bright purple light almost completely covered the entire area.

Sitting atop Li Cheng's mangled body, tide's eyes gleamed with a bright purple light, emanating an extremely unusual aura.

Two inconspicuous small cuts were made on her wrists, and the blood, shimmering with an unusual luster, seemed to have a life of its own, slowly flowing down the wounds and covering Li Cheng's already cold body.

In that pitch-black space of consciousness, covered by countless eyes, Li Cheng stared in horror at the purple phantom before him, which slowly coalesced into a graceful, mature body.

"You, you're tide? No, wait, who are you? Are you tide's mother?"

Looking at that incredibly familiar face, yet one that had clearly matured considerably, Li Cheng felt that he needed to return to the classroom to reinforce his worldview and methodology.

"tide, hehe, that's a name you gave me without my permission. If you want to call me, you have to call me Zi."

With long, golden hair reaching her waist, and a face that bore a striking resemblance to Xi, yet possessed a more cunning and mature quality, this woman who called herself "Zi" embraced Li Cheng, their noses almost touching. At that moment, he clearly felt the two soft orbs pressed against his chest.

He subconsciously looked down and saw the other person's exquisite, completely naked body.

"You...you...you're not wearing any clothes?!"

"Oh my, you must be married, right? Why are you embarrassed about something like this?"

"How could it be shyness? This is clearly indecent! And who are you anyway, and why are you hugging me completely naked?!"

"How indifferent! You clearly gave me a bath, didn't you already see my body clearly? Pfft, oh right, you also said that as a mature old man, you have absolutely no interest in my body."

"Nonsense! I've never bathed anyone except tide! So who are you, and what kind of place is this?"

Those purple eyes suddenly appeared in his own eyes again, staring at him without blinking.

"Don't you already know in your heart who we really are, Cheng?"

At that incredibly familiar tone, Li Cheng's breath hitched. Looking at the gentle face so close to his, he stared in disbelief at the smiling girl and asked uncertainly:

"tide?"

"I told you, tide, you're the one who gave me this name without my permission."

The blonde beauty chuckled, took a few steps back, and opened her arms to him, saying:

"In this place, please call me 'Purple'."

Li Cheng avoided looking at the other person's smooth and delicate body, but he couldn't help but think to himself: Are there really people who are born hairless?

(Ahem, let's stop here. This book shouldn't be tested on the edge.)

"You said you are Zi, then what is your relationship with tide, and why are you so similar to her?"

Looking at Zi, who had seemingly appeared out of nowhere in a purple outfit, Li Cheng asked in confusion.

“I am tide, and tide is me,” Zi blinked and said to Li Cheng with a smile, “except that she doesn’t know anything, but I know everything.”

What the hell are you talking about?

Li Cheng stared blankly at Zi, who was sitting on thin air, not knowing what the other was talking about.

"Hehe, even if I answered you seriously, a fool like you wouldn't understand."

She jumped down with a grin, took a few steps forward, and hugged Li Cheng again. This familiar gesture, clearly Xi's habit, made Li Cheng momentarily dazed. Then, that young and beautiful face magnified before his eyes once more.

"However, you really don't cherish yourself. You've gone to such lengths that you've forced us to bleed a lot too. Now that I think about it, we've really suffered a huge loss. It's all your fault, you idiot."

"Me? What happened to me?"

Li Cheng felt increasingly confused.

“There’s nothing there,” Zi gently stroked Li Cheng’s cheek as she raised her hand, her expression softening. “After all, only an idiot like you could possibly put us in such a sorry state. We’ve truly lost completely this time.”

"purple?"

Li Cheng was a little confused about what the other person was saying.

"Let's just call me 'tide' for now. After all, it was the carefree Xi who created those memories and feelings for you. Right now, I can only appear in your consciousness like this. We'll talk about what to call me when I've fully recovered."

"recover?"

Li Cheng felt as if he had grasped something crucial.

"Yeah, traveling to a parallel world has really hurt me. So I can only act as that little kid who lost his memories and abilities. Tsk, speaking of which, I have a whole bunch of embarrassing history in my head. It's really a funny thing."

What the heck is this about traveling to a parallel world? Am I living in the world of some science fiction novel?

Once again, Li Cheng felt completely unable to understand what the other person was saying. Was it true that people couldn't understand each other?

"So, you don't know anything right now, and even if I told you, you'd still be completely confused."

The girl who called herself Zi tiptoed and gently patted his head like a wise elder, saying earnestly:

"Get stronger. When you are strong enough, you will naturally have the right and the ability to understand all of this. Right now, you are still too naive."

She embraced Li Cheng, and a soft purple halo surrounded her. To Li Cheng's surprise, she was slowly merging into his body.

"What... what's going on?"

He was utterly astonished when he reached out to touch Zi's body, only to find that he could easily pass through her. She was like a fictional body made of countless lights, rapidly fading and merging into his own body.

“So, we really lost out this time,” he heard Zi’s resentful voice in his ear. “You were injured like that, even I would have had a hard time dealing with you. In the end, it turned out like this. Luckily, we can’t go back now, otherwise, if those guys found out, we would definitely become a laughing stock.”

"So, what exactly happened?"

The other party did not answer Li Cheng's question. The dazzling purple halo completely merged into Li Cheng's body. The next moment, the black space suddenly trembled. He felt his body shaking continuously, even beginning to disintegrate, as a dazzling light shone from afar.

Finally, in the moment before his consciousness faded, he heard Zi's voice ring in his ears:

"Make sure you remember this well, okay? My name is Zi, and I'm seventeen years old. From now on, you and I are inseparable. This eternity belongs to us. Please take care of me in the days to come."

……

Upon awakening again, he found himself in the familiar testing ground where he had fought to the death.

Li Cheng struggled to his feet and was suddenly surprised to find that his vision had been completely restored; his blind eyes had actually grown back.

He stretched out his right hand in a daze, only to find that his right hand had also recovered. Looking down at his body, he saw that under his tattered clothes was his intact body, and he had recovered to his best condition.

At the same time, he also saw that small body curled up on him.

"Xi."