Zongman: Evolution Paradise

Because his ship was full of secrets, Jolyne didn't want to just bring anyone on board. So when he assigned tasks to Jorogumo yesterday, he didn't waste any time and just gave her a few familiar names. Jorogumo focused her investigation on the names Jolyne had given her, which is why she was able to complete the task so quickly.

"Daiyu, you're not a player yet..."

Jolyne was immediately ruled out; dragging ordinary people into the dangerous underworld was just too much trouble.

"Zan Ryo has become a player, but is his father related to Nakano Maruo?"

Jolyne is eliminated again; it's easy to cause problems if you bring players with connections into the One Piece world.

After flipping through one document after another, Jolyne finally found one that interested her.

With long pink hair and blue eyes, she was wearing a tracksuit that completely covered her upper body, and a blue and yellow square accessory was tied to the tuft of hair on her right side. It's unclear where this photo was taken, but the person in the picture is hiding under a table, covering their head and looking terrified.

Her name was written under the photo:

Goto Ichiri.

"Little Boch has become a player?"

Jolyne's expression was strange. He had known this socially awkward Pochi-chan since he was studying in Tokyo. The problem was, given her extremely socially awkward personality, Jolyne simply couldn't imagine how this girl became a player.

Information about Goto Ichiri is not detailed.

After all, she was in Tokyo and wasn't a high-level player from any major organization. Chiba Zoo wouldn't have any specific information about a socially awkward girl. The fact that she was a player was something Jorogumo herself confirmed.

Hmm... Find a good spot, throw some superhuman spiders near her and see how she reacts.

"So, shall we go to Tokyo for a look?"

Jolyne fell into deep thought.

Social anxiety, social anxiety, and more social anxiety...

Goto Ichiri's personality is easy to grasp, making him quite suitable to be one of his crew members.

Moreover, they knew that even if Goto Ichiri were abducted, he would rather die than resist.

After thinking for a moment, Jolyne decided to be polite and took out her phone to open Line and browse her friend list.

The profile picture and chat box labeled "Goto Ichiri" are covered in dust; I don't know when I added them as friends, but we've never exchanged a single word.

"Are you there? Are you free lately?"

Xu Lun sent it to her.

In any case, whether Goto Ichiri can become a musician needs to be determined first.

What if she's going to join the game soon?

……

Tokyo.

Xiuhua University.

A corner of a staircase.

A pink-haired girl was having lunch when a sudden message notification broke the silence.

Goto Ichiri swallowed the seaweed and first peered down to see if anyone was there. Only after confirming that no one was there did he reluctantly take out his phone.

Because of her severe social anxiety, Goto Ichiri is afraid to socialize. Apart from her parents and younger sister, Goto Jiri, she is certain that she has no friends on her phone.

To use a comedian's exaggerated style, you could say her LINE friend list is so empty that anyone who comes in will catch a cold.

"Then who could it be?"

Goto Ichiri pondered the matter, her fingers unconsciously opening the pop-up window. Her heart pounded faster and faster, and the expression on her face became inexplicably chaotic.

With a "click," the phone's screen saver disappeared.

Jolyne: Are you there?

Jolyne: Are you free lately?

Two messages entered Goto Ichiri's eyes, and her brain instantly went blank. Looking at the profile picture pinned to the top of her friend list, her expression became increasingly confused.

Some unpleasant memories began to surface!

Several years ago...

"We need to team up for the home economics class later. Are you staying here alone because you don't have any teammates?"

"Your name is... Goto Ichiri?"

"Hey Lonely Boy, Pochi-chan, have you started learning guitar yet? They say learning guitar and joining a band can help you overcome social anxiety..."

"Not bad, want to add each other on Line?"

All of the above are wonderful parts, but what makes Goto Ichiri uneasy is what happened after they exchanged LINE accounts!

She was socially awkward for an entire class, and didn't even know what she responded to the talkative Jolyne. But none of that mattered. When Goto Ichiri got home and lay in bed, she looked at the profile pictures on her friends list and suddenly realized that she had finally taken the first step in making friends!

It is well known that a pair of good friends usually have opposite attributes, such as tall and short, fat and thin.

Goto Ichiri, thinking about Jolyne's social circle, began to fantasize about overcoming her social anxiety and experiencing various growth in a storyline that resembled a shoujo manga, ultimately becoming an elegant, noble, and fulfilled person in her later years!

Then the real despair began!

I waited all night.

She didn't receive another message! And naturally, Goto Ichiri didn't dare to bother her!

The next day, Goto Ichiri sneaked into the classroom with dark circles under her eyes and sat down. Looking at the Tsubakihara twin sisters surrounding Jolyne, she finally realized that just having LINE wasn't enough. Without a reason to contact her, even if she added them on LINE, no one would send her a message in the middle of the night for no reason.

Then... Goto Ichiri... gave up in despair after trying to strike up a conversation, and in the end, all that was left was a page with no chat history at all.

This is Goto Ichiri's inner demon.

It's reached a level comparable to Hachiman Hikigaya confessing his feelings to a female classmate he mistakenly thought liked him, only to be rejected and then being given a disgusting, dead-fish-eyed look by a cricket.

Upon receiving Jolyne's message, Goto Ichiri was immediately thrown into a mental whirlwind.

Why is he looking for me?

Should I reply?

Wait a minute, when you see a message on Line, it should show a "read" notification to the recipient, right?

So he's waiting for my reply now?

Ah!

It's impossible to pretend I didn't see it now, but what should I say?

Goto Ichiri's vision went black, and he collapsed onto the ground, turning into a mosaic.

It took her a while before she started typing.

If I have time... delete... If I don't have time... delete...

Jolyne waited for a long time, watching the continuous "typing" message above, but considering Ichiri Goto's personality, she gave up waiting for her reply.

"You're the guitar hero online, right? I'm sincerely recruiting a musician. We can discuss the compensation and players offline."

After sending the message, Jorin inexplicably felt that it would be more convenient for Jorogumo to kidnap her.

Chapter 423: Time is eliminated!

"How did he know I'm Guitar Hero! And what's with the player thing! Wait, the biggest problem now is that he said he wanted to meet me in person!"

Suddenly struck by a triple blow, Goto Ichiri's aura became increasingly distorted, with a series of strange vortexes and black lines emerging from around him.

Staring intently at her phone screen, Goto Ichiri felt a sudden jolt of fear and realized she had to refuse him immediately! She absolutely couldn't touch him! Absolutely not! She was completely unprepared to confront this inner demon!

What reason could you possibly have?

What reason should we use?

Think about it! Guitar Hero!

"I have a powerful enemy here. Don't come looking for me until I've dealt with her, or it will put you in danger..." Enter and send. In such a dangerous moment, Goto Ichiri unleashed countless potentials.

She was secretly delighted. This excuse should be able to buy her some time. She would make things even more complicated later to force Jolyne to back down!

But then a message tone came through on LINE!

He has already answered!

Jolyne: It's alright, I've arrived.

Jolyne: If you have any trouble, I'll take care of it for you as part of the payment.

Goto Kazuri: Σ(???ノ)ノ! ! !

"...We've arrived...what does that mean...?"

While still pondering Jolyne's answer, Goto Ichiri's intuition suddenly gave her a premonition. She stiffly lifted her eyes from the screen, her blue pupils trembling as she noticed that there was already someone at the bottom of the stairs.

Black hair, golden eyes, and a face resembling a dragon.

His eyebrows were like cold swords, and his body was like a mountain king.

He simply stood at the bottom of the steps, and an aura of "from now on, the world revolves around me" forcefully spread and crushed the space in all directions. For Goto Ichiri, the ultimate socially awkward person who believed "it's best if no one notices me," it was simply irreconcilable.

Goto Kazuri: Σ(OдO|||)ノノ! ! ! ! !

She looked panicked. We had just agreed to meet in person, why did you come all this way?!

Is this speed coming from the internet cable?

Or did you delete the time?

As Jolyne held a spider in her hand and opened her mouth as if to say something, Goto Ichiri's body became increasingly covered in mosaics, and she went completely insane.

A double has appeared.

It is a humanoid shape without a face, and its entire body is the color of stars.

The swirling vortexes and lines create a mosaic effect, making the Stand appear to be constantly changing!

Goto Kazuri: "Time is cut off!"

"I……"

next moment,

The scene before Jolyne changed; he was back at the Deer God Shrine, where he found Kallen burying her face in his coat, sniffing it intently, her fingers under her shrine maiden skirt clearly casting a spell.

Jolyne's appearance quickly brought Kallen, who had just begun the ceremony, back to her senses. Her mind went blank, and she didn't know where to put her fingers. Finally, she trembled and let out a few soft moans, pretending that nothing had happened.

Jolyne: "..."

"Don't hang out with those weirdos too much, they've corrupted you."

"No...I didn't..."

Jolyne opened his phone and found that part of his chat history with Goto Ichiri had disappeared.

Goto Ichiri's message still reads: I have a powerful enemy on my side. Don't come looking for me until I've dealt with her, or it will put you in danger...

And then he gave no reply.

"Time is cut off?"

Considering what Goto Ichiri said, Jolyne could only give a rating of 666.

They're not even going to act anymore. Little Pochi, although you look a bit like the boss, there are still some issues with awakening the Crimson King!

The Stand's power originates from itself.

Is the time erasure phenomenon caused by you, Pochi-chan, constantly thinking, "I need to forget what just happened," "Let time go back to before I was embarrassed," and "If I had known it would turn out like this, I shouldn't have gone out today"...?

Of course, this is just a rant.

The Stand activated by Pochi was clearly not the boss's Crimson King, but rather her own Stand that had awakened a time-erasing ability similar to Crimson King.

Judging from Karen's reaction alone, it's clear that Goto Ichiri's time deletion doesn't erase the entire world, nor does it delete the time that will happen a few seconds later on an enemy like the boss did. The clock ticks, and Jolyne observes the missing chat history on her phone and understands that she only deleted the time of her target.

This time is in the past, and the disappearance of the chat history indicates that this power also includes a bit of cause and effect. If Jolyne did not have the awareness of protecting the workshop, she would most likely have lost the memory of the time when she met Goto Ichiri.

"This ability... feels like it would make me completely invincible in the ever-changing battle!"

The park has too many capabilities.