I'm on the Ark, and I started as a succubus.

Kal'tsit remained silent, her emerald eyes displaying a complex mix of emotions: joy at their reunion, hatred, and above all, wariness.

"A name is just a code, and a code is just a code, Doctor. What's past is past, and it won't affect the decisions we make right now."

The doctor involuntarily raised his eyebrows, a look of confusion flashing across his face, which was much smaller than hers, but he quickly concealed it, transforming it into a nonchalant expression.

"Doctor, aren't you going to say anything more?"

Kal'tsit stared into the Doctor's eyes, seemingly waiting for her to apologize, or perhaps simply being wary of her next move.

The Rhodes Island doctor merely pursed her lips, then a gentle smile appeared on her face. "Have you had dinner?"

"Have a meal?"

Kal'tsit's voice was calm. "What a ridiculous question. Doctor, I never expected you to be interested in such a trivial matter."

The Doctor seems to be very good at teasing Kal'tsit and knows how to deal with the extremely bad-tempered Flint.

She took a sip of hot tea, spat out the pink liquid, and said, "Ouch, it's so hot. It was Kal'tsit who told me to 'say something'~"

"So, Doctor's answer is this kind of meaningless and useless question? Doctor, you've become different from before. You seem to be like Amiya, who described it, temporarily losing your past memories."

Kal'tsit slowly closed her eyes and sighed softly.

She seemed to relax a little after confirming that the doctor had indeed lost his memory.

"However, I regret to inform you that I cannot answer your question accurately right now. I am still able to come to your side, but at a price. I am not invincible; every failure comes at a cost."

Kelsey paused. "Doctor, for a long time, the concepts of hunger and food have been very vague to me, so I'm afraid I can't answer your question accurately."

The doctor suddenly asked, "Are you still using those medications?"

After saying that, she paused for a moment, realizing that it was almost subconscious, a kind of instinctive remark. She had no idea what the 'potion' she was referring to actually was.

Kal'tsit and the Doctor stared at each other for a moment, her breathing only becoming slightly heavier. She didn't ask the Doctor about the potion, nor did she probe into his memories.

After a long while, she simply said softly, "Doctor, we won't die, but there's a price to pay for not dying. No, to be precise, most of the beautiful girls on this land won't die, and their time will even remain at its most beautiful stage."

Kal'tsit slowly opened her eyes and suddenly shook her head gently at the Doctor.

When did it start?

Since when did it become the case that pretty girls... or rather, beautiful young women, never truly die?

It seems that long, long ago, from this land filled with suffering... no, since the birth of this planet, since the birth of this galaxy, beautiful girls have been beings who are absolutely immortal; yet it also seems that only recently, in this recent period of time, have beautiful girls possessed this divinely blessed immortality.

It even seems that they will only acquire that immortality in the future, in the very, very distant future.

She couldn't tell the difference.

I really can't tell the difference.

Time and years leave no trace on her, but they make her sense of time exceptionally blurred.

History, present, future... the meanings implied in these three names seem to point to the same thing.

The Doctor neither interrupted Kal'tsit nor raised any questions.

She simply listened quietly to Kal'tsit's explanation, which was far beyond the realm of common sense.

In a world where magic exists, anything is possible, isn't it?

"Doctor, you should be grateful that even the cheapest food can still provide you with a sense of happiness—but you must be wary of this, because the dangerous Dobaan is giving you a pathetic sense of happiness, tempting you to the abyss of depravity...Doctor, it seems that something has always been watching this land, watching this land full of beautiful girls."

Kal'tsit stopped talking and fell silent. The Doctor didn't disturb her; she subconsciously felt that the familiar yet unfamiliar old lynx in front of her needed some time to calm down.

Warm tea was handed to Kal'tsit.

Kal'tsit's dazed emerald eyes suddenly brightened a little, and she lowered her gaze to look at the hot tea the Doctor offered. A smile appeared on her usually stern face, which gave the impression of a bad temper.

She took the tea, but didn't bring it to her lips; she simply held it in her hands.

"Doctor, if only we could have continued like this forever back then..."

Kal'tsit interrupted herself again, holding the porcelain cup and casting her gaze at the sky, which had now turned almost crimson.

"Doctor, the question is whether we are destined to pursue happiness, or whether happiness has always enslaved us—it's like an endlessly spiraling paradox. We keep asking questions and trying to understand, but we can never find the answer. Yet, it seems that even the cheapest sense of happiness is in keeping with this chaotic world, as inferior, vile happiness... even decadent happiness is still happiness."

The Doctor glanced sideways at Kal'tsit, raising an eyebrow. "Kal'tsit? Hmm, it's rare to see you not mention 'this land'."

"【Earth】A word that is widely known in a narrow sense."

Kal'tsit said softly, "The world encompasses the land and the sky, as well as the oceans that are little known to the inland nations; only it can depict the course of life over billions of years."

She suddenly switched to a more ancient language, a language that shouldn't exist in this world, and whispered again, "World."

High Gothic.

The Doctor seemed to recognize the language and raised an eyebrow at Kal'tsit with a smug look. "Kal'tsit, you must have been a noble lady from a wealthy world before."

"Thank you."

Kal'tsit took a deep breath. "Doctor, you should understand that my presence here means the situation is dire... Huff—Doctor, we must retreat, even at a great cost."

174 System, add points!

Bai Chen gazed at the crimson sky flashing with firelight, watching as the Rhodes Island team dispatched to Ursus National Television, aided by Angelina's Originium Arts, evacuated high in the sky.

The flying fox seems to have pretty good Originium Arts skills.

He led his group and ran incredibly fast.

The fluffy fox tail swayed left and right in the wind high in the sky, exuding a kind of adorable charm. Angelina must be a very cute Wollper.

Unfortunately, the well-behaved and adorable Angelina was tricked by Rhodes Island and ended up on their pirate ship, now aiding and abetting their evil deeds.

The cute fox-eared, twin-tailed high school girl turned into a bad girl.

In the future, he should pay more attention to this pretty fox-eared twin-tailed JK girl so that she knows what she did wrong, reflects on and corrects her mistakes, and becomes a well-behaved and sensible JK girl again.

"Waaaaah... Kroos, my Kroos sister, my twin-tailed beauty... They, they ran away! It's all your fault, it's all your fault for deliberately staying there and dawdling. You could have invited them to a space full of joy, happiness and bliss first, and spent some wonderful time with them slowly."

The system burst into tears, its sobs filled with grief and indignation, sounding as if it were crying its heart out.

She sniffled, her voice choked with resentment as she said:

"You could have just gone up there! You could have kept them all here! But you insisted on going back downstairs to find Nearl. With Lappland holding her back, she wouldn't have been able to escape! Waaaaah! Beautiful girls, beautiful girls... Waaaaah, so many beautiful girls have run away!"

The system cried even louder, and suddenly her eyes widened as she glared resentfully at Bai Chen.

"We know everything! We know everything! You've started again, haven't you? You've started again, haven't you! You deliberately let them escape, you're just creating a massive flood again! It's like you're trying to make the beautiful girls run away!"

The system's voice grew louder and louder, like a noise warrior. Bai Chen could even vaguely feel the buildings on both sides of the street trembling with her loud voice, making a faint rattling sound.

Bai Chen raised his hand and rubbed his ear. "Ugh, so annoying!"

He glanced at the beautiful girls conjured up by the system, "Can't you be a little quieter? Don't worry, they won't escape. I won't let a single one of the beautiful girls who twisted this land escape. I guarantee they will all fall into depravity. Beautiful girls who can't die or even get hurt will find eternal happiness in that space where there is no concept of time."

"Degeneration?"

The system-generated, ethereal beauty muttered to herself in a mosquito-like voice, "I never said I wanted the beauty to fall into depravity. I... I just hope you can flirt with the beauty and date her. I truly believe in love!"

"Believe in love?"

Bai Chen chuckled, "We've always been involved in bead abduction, haven't we?"

That's you!

The system started yelling again, "It's you, it's you, it's you! It's you who's been trying to create this 'Fallen Beads' thing, all you wanted was for me to have a proper romance with a beautiful girl! To have a romance with a beautiful girl on this land full of beautiful girls! To believe in love, to always believe in love."

She paused slightly, then murmured softly:

"They even believe that true love still exists in no matter how distorted or dark the environment, and that no matter how distorted or deformed the world is, it cannot taint the pure beauty of love."

"Oh~"

Bai Chen responded dismissively, then said with a smile:

"Love is just a figment of human imagination. I remember very clearly that as modernization becomes more widespread and the times become more avant-garde, the divorce rate in countries on Earth remains high."

"Hey hey hey! Look, look, you're the one who doesn't believe in love, aren't you? This land is a wonderful anime world full of beautiful girls, how could a wonderful anime world be without love!"

The system hummed in response.

"In the world of anime and manga, the longest you can change your waifu is three months. Usually, it's one month, and if you're really fast, it's one week."

Bai Chen glanced at the system with a look full of pity and said softly, "That's lust, that's carnal desire, that's lust."

System bit her cherry lips, puffed out her cheeks, and instantly transformed into a pufferfish.

"No, love exists, true love exists!"

She raised her voice, "Hill and Isco are the best example! I love this couple so much!"

Bai Chen frowned.

He felt he knew the couple the system had mentioned, but he couldn't quite remember who they were.

So he glanced at the system and said, "System, didn't you say that all the beautiful girls in the world belong to us?"

"correct."

The system paused for a moment, then nodded. "It's not Seele Volleriane, it's her subordinate, the 'Sherlock'! She's not a beautiful girl! She doesn't... she doesn't fit your aesthetic, and her appearance is nothing like a beautiful girl. Um, she's the kind of person who firmly believes in inner beauty and emotional dependence between people."

Bai Chen frowned and thought for a moment, then said firmly, "I don't know him. I have absolutely no recollection of him. Do I know such a person?"

He didn't pursue the issue of whether or not he knew the person, but instead said with a sneer, "A strong belief in inner beauty and love? Hmm, I get it, then you must be exceptionally ugly."

The system paused for a moment, then, recalling for a moment the bloody, fleshy, indescribable creatures that looked like wriggling tentacles were forever intertwined, and reluctantly nodded.

"Indeed, indeed... indeed that kind of aesthetic is still a bit too early for my dear God of Love at this moment."

She paused for a moment, her beautiful pale pink eyes fixed on Bai Chen, and said with absolute certainty, "But love definitely exists!"

"Oh."

Bai Chen looked at the devastated streets of Chernobog. Under the doctor's manipulation, the city had fallen into even greater chaos. The natural disaster had caused the last vestiges of order in the city to collapse. People were fleeing for their lives, and some were venting their anger after realizing they had nowhere to escape. Against the backdrop of the natural disaster and the fire and rain, Chernobog was heading towards irreversible destruction.

No one is organizing the evacuation of residents anymore.

The radio broadcasts went wrong during the battle with Rhodes Island, the nobles were fighting amongst themselves... and the students from the New Military Academy, who were still trying to organize the evacuation of the residents, were now lying dead in the streets.

They are dead.

Perhaps he died in the battle against Rhodes Island, or perhaps he died in the conflict between factions within the city.

They could no longer protect this mobile city.

"Sir, even in such a despicable world, you still want to fall in love?"