A journey into an infinite dimension

However, through this, Jia Ye has realized that he must answer this question seriously.

"I am just a second personality. Protecting Gokawa Shiori is the meaning of my birth and my own wish."

Slowly walking to Caihuo's side, Jiaye looked up at the starry sky above his head, feeling the cool and slightly chilly night breeze blowing towards his face, his heart gradually immersed in peace.

As for his identity in this world, the greatest wish of "Second Personality - Kaye" and the meaning of his existence is to protect Shiori.

Although Kisaragi's greatest wish is for other things, those are matters of other worlds. At least in this world, he is just Shiori's second personality, nothing more.

Therefore, when faced with the question of the color disaster, the only answer that "the second personality - Jiaye" can give is this one.

"What if we put aside this fact?"

Her eyes flickered slightly, but Cai Huo did not turn around because she didn't want Jia Ye to see her expression at the moment.

"This possibility does not exist, and even if it were, it would not change that."

The voice gradually became somewhat distant, and Jia Ye said calmly.

"Let's not get into the practicalities and just discuss hypotheticals. If you weren't my secondary personality, if you were a separate entity, could your protection of me change from 'protection of your primary personality' to 'protection of your lover'?"

Looking up at the starry sky above his head, his eyes focused on the crescent-shaped moon, Cai Huo asked softly.

"If you put aside all other factors, then there is a possibility that I will fall in love with you, with Gokawa Shiori."

If I hadn't met Hong, if I hadn't summoned Meilu Xing, if I had been born into this world, if I had the chance to meet Shiori, if I had the chance to be with Shiori, if——

With the accumulation of various "ifs", the possibility that "Kaya Kisaragi will fall in love with Shiori Gokawa" does exist.

However, unless the "strongest" intervenes, these "ifs" will not exist.

"Kaya Kisaragi" has fallen in love with Hong, has fallen in love with Meilu Xing, and has been born in that world. The "second personality - Kaya" who is here at this moment, his identity is nothing but a false bubble.

He will never fall in love with anyone again. He will make all the feelings of love for him disappear, and then continue to move forward alone with the understanding, witness and memory of these feelings, and finally return to the person he truly loves.

He could allow her feelings for him to germinate, but he would never let such feelings last until the end.

You could say he was cold or ruthless, but he had already decided to do this.

In the end it won't hurt anyone anyway.

Anyway, it won't make anyone sad in the end.

For him, that was enough.

Therefore, his answer at this moment was merely based on an assumption that did not exist, an impossible assumption.

"So, if the past were changed, if the opportunity that led to your birth was lost, would it be possible for you to be born into this world as a true individual?"

Her slender white fingers clenched quietly, and there was an imperceptible tremor in Cai Huo's voice, reflecting her mood at the moment.

"I see. Were you there this morning?"

Jiaye finally understood why Caihuo suddenly brought up this topic.

"As for the answer to this question, no one knows whether it will happen until it actually happens."

"That----"

"but."

Interrupting Cai Huo's words softly, Jia Ye turned and looked at Cai Huo, his flaming eyes filled with tenderness and indifference, two completely opposite emotions.

"Even without me, you can still live happily, and all the misfortunes of the past will no longer exist, so you don't need to worry about whether I exist or not."

"...Jiaye, I'm very curious about how you developed these three views."

Staring straight at Jia Ye, after a long silence, Cai Huo suddenly smiled.

It was a very sad smile.

"Hey, Jiaye, do you know how you left me in my world?"

In response, Jia Ye did not respond, but just listened to her story quietly.

Because he knew that Cai Huo was not asking him to give an answer.

Next, as Cai Huo narrated, the events that happened in the parallel universe were gradually outlined in Jiaye's mind.

At the same time, the system's tasks were also updated:

......

Branch Quest 3: Parallel Worlds. This concept exists in countless worlds, symbolizing the infinite possibilities of that world. However, when a certain being possesses the power to travel through parallel worlds, it means that the possibilities of that world will be destroyed and eroded.

Of course, this is a headache for the partners of justice. You are just a second personality without emotions. However, in a sense, this is your fault. Because of the existence of you who does not belong to this world, the tragedy that should have happened has disappeared, and has been replaced by a new tragedy.

Message 1: Countless parallel worlds have been destroyed, and countless years have passed. A mindless slaughter, driven by the last vestiges of perseverance. A certain being has traversed countless parallel worlds and countless years searching for you. Now that she has finally found you, how will you face her?

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Message 2: In a distant parallel world extending from this world, there is a person who fulfilled her dreams and wishes with your assistance, but you left her forever in the process. Therefore, after losing her long-standing support, in extreme sadness and despair, she was sublimated by the power in her body and achieved a reversal in an instant. It is better to say that she has mastered the power of both normality and reversal at the same time, because her despair has already surpassed the impact of the reversal.

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Information 3: She has fulfilled her wish to seal all the elves. She possesses the power of all elves, including the Origin Elves. She is equivalent to the Origin Elves whose power has never been split, a true god.

Yet, how could a mortal body contain the power of a god? Even though she was conceived by the Primordial Spirit herself, she ultimately ran amok due to the overwhelming power, her body and soul gradually fading from the backlash of that power.

But because of your existence, she survived and successfully ascended to another god, possessing the qualifications to hold power. As a price, you, who bore the backlash of power on her behalf and helped her complete the transformation, left her forever.

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The information is fully unlocked and the completion conditions of the task are unlocked:

In that world, you also made a promise to Gokawa Shiori that you would give an accurate answer to her feelings after everything was settled. However, you and she did not wait for that moment to come.

Even though she has her answer now, you still owe her a real date.

Mission Reward: [Homology Tracing: Combine two entities of the same origin into one at the conceptual and fundamental level, including but not limited to consciousness, power, soul, memory, and other factors. (Also, note: Perfect fusion does not mean that one entity is dominant and the other entity is the other entity. It is a literal fusion, which can be understood as '1+1=1')]

......

The system's reward was already telling Jiaye without any disguise what he should do.

But the problem at the moment is that he had promised Shiori in the morning that he would change his attitude towards Caihuo and would no longer treat her the same way he treated Shiori. So how should he invite her now?

In other words, if he asked Cai Huo out of a desire to "complete a mission," would she and he be able to accept it?

Chapter 216: So lazy, so sweet, I really want to take a leave

"I will stop you, Jiaye."

"It's not about that guy, but I just don't like the ending you expected."

"You can kill me here to prevent me from interfering with your plan, but if you don't do it, then I will do my best to thwart your plan."

After leaving these words, Cai Huo turned his back to Jia Ye without any precautions and left the balcony, leaving him standing alone in the wind, without saying a word for a long time.

"...Shiori, feel free to ask anything you want to know."

Sitting down gently on the leisure chair on the balcony, Jia Ye said softly.

"..."

After a brief silence, Shiori's voice came from another direction.

"So it has been discovered."

Coming out from a dark corner, Shiori cutely stuck out her tongue, trying to get away with it.

"The color disaster probably didn't occur to him. Perhaps it's because he wasn't in a very peaceful mood."

He looked at Shiori, shook his head, and gestured to another empty chair.

"Sit down, you probably have a lot of questions."

"...Can I ask anything?"

Instead of walking towards the chair that Jiaye pointed to, she squeezed in with him and sat on the same chair, her curvy body pressed tightly against Jiaye. Shizhi didn't care about this, but just looked straight into his eyes so close to her and asked.

"Ask anyone I have an answer for."

Jia Ye said as he pushed Shizhi's pretty face back with a look of disgust.

"Then, can I take what you said to Cai Huo as your answer to me?"

Gently biting the palm of Jiaye's hand that was pressing on his face, Shizhi asked with bared teeth.

"can."

He shook his hands and looked at Shiori whose head was shaking along with his movements. Jiaye suddenly leaned over and blew gently in her ear.

"Ugh!"

Her body suddenly fell limply into Jiaye's arms, and the silver teeth that were biting Jiaye also loosened. At this moment, Shizhi's expression looked particularly soft. He glared at Jiaye angrily, and then kept butting his head against Jiaye's chin to vent his dissatisfaction.

"Smelly Jiaye, you think you're so great just because you know my weakness. You only know how to bully me!"

"Your reaction after getting the answer is completely opposite to Cai Huo's."

Looking at Shiori who was acting like a spoiled child, Jiaye said.

"I don't know what she's thinking, but for me, although knowing that you don't have that kind of feelings for me makes me unhappy, knowing that you'll fall in love with me after removing that premise makes me very happy."

Stopping the headbutt attack, Shiori buried his face in Jiaye's chest, breathing in his breath, his expression gradually becoming calm.

"Also, no matter how you feel about me, my feelings for you will never change. So no matter what you want to do, as long as it may cause you to leave me, I will do my best to stop you."

Naturally, having heard the first half of the conversation, Shizhi would have heard the second half.

Although he didn't hear the entire plan that Kaya told Kurumi like Caihui did, what he just heard was enough for Shiori to make guesses.

After all, she is the person in the world who knows Jiaye's character best.

"...Within a matter of minutes, both main personalities declared war on me. I'm truly the worst secondary personality ever."

With a slight wry smile, Jia Ye shook his head helplessly.

"Come to think of it, do you remember the bet we made during the last stage competition?"

“—Ahahaha, is that true? How come I didn’t know about that?”

The corner of his eye twitched slightly, Shizhi smiled dryly and turned his face away from Jiaye, resolutely choosing to play dumb.

Life has been so peaceful lately that I almost forgot about this.

"Don't worry, I won't use it to force you to do anything you don't want to do."

Looking at Shizhi like this, Jiaye couldn't help but laugh.

"But since your reaction pleases me enough, I'll keep this bet for now."

"...A perpetrator of evil pleasure."

Shiori looked at Jiaye with disdain, then suddenly leaned forward at lightning speed, and then——

"Have you finally been driven to become a kissing maniac by kissing?"

Pinching Shiori's cheek with one hand and making her mouth pout, Jiaye said coldly.

"The sea does not lose its mud until it has air floating on it."

Shiori retorted with his eyes wide open and his speech a little unclear due to his mouth being pinched.

"So in your eyes, a forced kiss is an act of revenge?"

Letting go of his hand, Jia Ye secretly felt lucky that he had been on high alert all the time because of what happened in the morning and complained.

"I only do this to you."

Although his body has recovered its strength, he has no intention of leaving. Shiori said seriously while lying on Kaya.

"If our genders were swapped, your statement would be a damn sure thing."

"Hey, I think it's very touching!"

"Don't you always pay the price of your IQ every time you kiss?"

"If you let me kiss you again, I won't mind becoming your fool."

"You're getting more and more corny. Are you feeling aroused by the experience of the Color Disaster?"

"..."

Following Jiaye's words, the atmosphere on the balcony suddenly became cold, and Shizhi was no longer clingy.