I'm in a crossover anime world, and I've been transported to Hogwarts twice.

Seeing Erina's sullen expression, Genichi Hanyu gave a helpless, wry smile.

They're really quite self-righteous about being jealous.

"Erina, do you think I'm the kind of person who would show favoritism?"

He reached out and, with a touch of intimacy and an undeniable force, gently pinched Erina's smooth, soft cheek.

This action made Erina stiffen slightly, but instead of immediately snapping and snapping at him as usual, she let out a louder snort from her nose, expressing her strong dissatisfaction.

Ignoring her snort, Genichi Hanyu took her hand and asked in a mysterious and guiding tone, "Speaking of which, haven't you noticed anything? Have some unusual things appeared in Chaldea's kitchen lately?"

"kitchen?"

Erina was taken aback by the sudden change of topic. She was pulled to her feet by Genichi Hanyu and followed him half-heartedly.

The two soon arrived at the central kitchen of Chaldea headquarters, which was comparable to a national research institute and had outrageously top-notch equipment.

This is a place Erina frequents, and it's also the base where she leads her team to provide cuisine for Caleb's higher-ups.

The air was filled with the mixed scents of various premium ingredients and cleaning agents, and everything was in perfect order.

Instead of heading towards the gleaming main worktops, Genichi Hanyu pulled Erina straight to a relatively quiet, separately designated storage area deep inside the kitchen.

This area is typically used to store rare ingredients that require special preservation conditions.

He stopped and pointed to one of the huge storage cabinets.

"Look, those things over there, didn't you notice them?"

Erina looked in the direction he was pointing with suspicion. The huge storage cabinet occupied the entire wall. The cabinet was made of a special transparent material, and the inside was divided into countless independent compartments, each with its own unique environment.

When her gaze focused on the items stored in those compartments, her beautiful violet pupils suddenly contracted!

The contents of those compartments were completely beyond her understanding of food ingredients!

Biting cabbage and other ingredients were all thrown in.

These are not any species known on Earth!

“These…these are…”

Erina's voice trembled with disbelief, her earlier jealousy and anger shattered by the sight before her.

She turned sharply to look at Genichi Hanyu, her eyes filled with shock and questioning.

Genichi Hanyu smiled with satisfaction as he watched her finally lose her attention and show this adorable look of being shocked.

He reached out and gently ran his hand across the cold surface of the storage cabinet, his voice carrying a calm confidence that commanded all things: "Alice loves novelty and change, so I gave her a..."

Let her explore and play with the world of interesting ingredients.

"And you, Erina, your God Tongue never pursues novelty, but rather the ultimate!"

He pointed to the display case filled with a dazzling array of ingredients from the world of Harry Potter.

Genichi Hanyu leaned slightly closer to the stunned Erina, his voice low and seductive: "What Alice has, I will naturally not treat you unfairly."

Erina stared blankly at the tempting ingredients in the storage cabinet, then looked at Genichi Hanyu, who was standing close by with a smile that seemed to say he had everything under control.

A tremendous, indescribable sense of shock and a deep feeling of being understood overwhelmed her instantly.

Jealousy grave?

It has long since flown to the highest heavens!

She opened her mouth, only to find that she had lost her voice.

In the end, all her emotions culminated in a soft hum tinged with extreme excitement and a hint of lingering pride, and a radiant blush on her cheeks, as brilliant as the morning sun, which she could no longer conceal.

237 Nightmare, Genichi Hanyu's Precognitive Dream

In the luxurious yet spacious bedroom, only Genichi Hanyu's slightly heavy breathing echoed.

Neon lights outside the window shone through the gaps in the heavy blackout curtains, casting cold, distorted shadows on the floor.

He was jolted awake from a deep sleep, his back soaked in cold sweat, sticking stickily to the expensive silk sheets.

How long?

Since his body was completely transformed by the power and his spirit was tempered into an ancient rock, he had long forgotten what it felt like to "dream".

For him, sleep was merely a procedural process for efficiently restoring energy, a process in which consciousness sank into an absolutely tranquil void.

Nightmare?

That is the fragile privilege of mortals.

But what was that just now?

"Gaia".

Genichi Hanyu's voice rang out in the silence, carrying a hint of hoarseness and solemnity that even he himself was unaware of.

Without any special effects or energy fluctuations, Gaia's figure, composed of pure information flow and bearing a hazy female outline, appeared silently before the bed, as if emerging from the void.

Her eyes, which seemed to hold the stars, gazed calmly at Genichi Hanyu.

"Your physiological indicators are showing abnormal fluctuations, and your mental state is experiencing strong disturbances. What happened?"

Gaia, however, accurately captured his state.

Genichi Hanyu did not answer immediately.

He leaned against the headboard, closed his eyes, and tried to dispel the haunting, brand-like horror images in his mind, but the more he resisted, the more vivid and suffocating the images became.

He took a deep breath and then slowly exhaled, as if trying to expel the lingering chill and fear from his chest.

When he opened his eyes again, his gaze had returned to its usual depth and sharpness, but a trace of shadow lingered in his eyes could not be completely erased.

"Gaia, why am I still having dreams? And that one dream at that?"

He paused for a rare moment, as if searching for the right words to describe the experience that was beyond his comprehension.

"A dream?"

Gaia's data stream seemed to experience a subtle stagnation, and the speed of information processing suddenly accelerated.

"This is not in line with the norm of your current life form."

She thought for a moment and then offered a possibility: "Perhaps it is because of your uniqueness that you have touched upon higher-dimensional cause and effect and possibility, which triggered an extremely rare information disturbance that manifested in a form that you can understand. In terms of your human metaphysical concepts, this might be called a precognitive dream?"

"Precognitive dream?"

Genichi Hanyu chewed on the word, his eyes growing even darker.

He never believed in these illusory things; power was the only reality.

But the dream I just had felt so real, that deep-seated despair and helplessness, was just too vivid.

"But what kind of scene did you dream about? The information it contains must be extraordinary to cause such a strong mental disturbance for you."

Genichi Hanyu gazed intently at the information aggregate that represented the fundamental consciousness of the world, his gaze deep and penetrating.

He paused for a few seconds, seemingly assessing whether to describe the chilling vision. Finally, he slowly, word by word, described the shattered apocalyptic scene: "I saw it. The heavens were shattered."

"It's not a single world, but all the dimensions we know and connect to, crushed into dust like fragile glass by an invisible force. Stars extinguished, laws collapsed, and the lines of spacetime broke apart inch by inch like a burning spider web."

"The moment Yukino tried to deploy her ice crystal shield, she and the entire Academy City behind her were swallowed by a twisted darkness, without even having time to utter a cry."

"The light of the daytime was like a candle flickering in the wind, only flashing for a moment before being swallowed up by endless chaos."

"The last taste that Erina's God Tongue experienced was the ashes of destruction."

"Kaguya, with the power of the united Zaibatsu, collapsed like a sandcastle in the face of absolute power."

"The game that Arisu had meticulously laid out, along with her newborn body, was completely torn apart."

"And Alice and the others, and even you, Gaia."

Genichi Hanyu's voice grew increasingly somber, each name uttered carrying a heavy, painful weight, as if he had witnessed the very fall of a person.

“One by one, they fell before my eyes in the most thorough and desperate way.”

"at last."

He paused for a moment, a chilling glint flashing in his eyes that even Gaia felt a chill run down her spine.

"Even the power I was so proud of was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot in the face of that catastrophe. I saw my body disintegrating and my consciousness fading away. I was not spared."

As Genichi Hanyu uttered his last word, the entire room fell into a deathly silence. Even the neon lights streaming in from the window seemed to freeze.

For the first time, Gaia's hazy figure, composed of information streams, exhibited violent and unstable fluctuations!

The normally flowing data light strip suddenly twisted and flickered, as if it had encountered the highest level of logic storm!

For the first time, her ethereal voice took on a sharp, horrified tone: "The heavens are shattered? That's impossible! That means..."

Gaia's voice stopped abruptly, but Genichi Hanyu fully understood what she hadn't said.

The shattering of the heavens signifies the complete annihilation of the countless worlds, rules, and lifelines that constitute her existence!

She is the embodiment of the world's consciousness, the incarnation of the World Tree!

If a tree withers, where will its branches and leaves remain?

If the skin is gone, where will the hair attach?

That means the very foundation of Gaia's existence has been completely destroyed!

She will perish along with—no, the very foundation of the multiverse will perish along with her!

The information flow surged violently for a long time before it finally calmed down, but the shock still lingered.

Gaia's voice was more solemn than ever before, even carrying a hint of fear.

"Your precognitive dream is unusual."

Her voice was low and deep, like a sigh, each syllable carrying an unimaginable weight.

"This is by no means an ordinary subconscious activity; it even transcends conventional causal disturbances, touching upon some kind of fundamental destruction."

Upon hearing Gaia's conclusive judgment, Gen Hanyu's lips curled into a cold, sarcastic smile.

"laugh!"

He scoffed at it, his eyes sharp as knives.

"Does Gaia really need to say that?"

His voice carried suppressed anger and a restlessness stemming from being watched by an unknown behemoth.

"How could I, Genichi Hanyu, not know that this dream was extraordinary? The scene, the feeling—it was a despair branded into my soul. I know its weight better than anyone else!"

He suddenly stood up from the bed, his bare feet stepping onto the cold floor, his invisible aura making the surrounding air seem to freeze.

He walked to the huge floor-to-ceiling window, turned his back to Gaia, and looked out at the dazzling city he had created, a symbol of power and the future.

However, at this moment, the city in his eyes was like a fortress built on quicksand, which could be swallowed up at any time by the world-destroying waves in his dreams.

"But here's the thing."

Genichi Hanyu's voice suppressed a storm as he asked, word by word.

"I don't know why I would have such a dream. My power and my will have long since transcended the shackles of the mortal world. My spiritual sea is as solid as a rock. What kind of being could bypass my layers of defense and project such a terrifying scene directly into the deepest part of my consciousness?"

He whirled around, his gaze sharp as he locked onto Gaia's fluctuating stream of information: "I have no idea what this dream symbolizes!"

"Is it an inevitable future? Is it a warning from some terrifying being? Or is it some force I don't yet understand trying to reveal to me that we, including you Gaia, are heading down a path of no return to ultimate destruction?"

Tell me, Gaia!

Genichi Hanyu's voice was like thunder, carrying an undeniable pressure.

"As the embodiment of world consciousness, what do you know? What exactly is that fundamental destruction?!"

Gaia's emotions surged violently under Genichi Hanyu's intense gaze.

After a long while, that ethereal voice finally rang out, carrying an unprecedented heaviness and a hint of bewilderment: "I cannot be sure, nor do I know anything."

"I can only tell you that your precognitive dream may not be unfounded. It may be a warning, a huge shadow that none of us have ever noticed, buried deep beneath the foundations of the multiverse."

A deathly silence descended upon the room once more.

Genichi Hanyu stood by the window, his back as straight as a mountain, yet shrouded in a deep shadow that even the bright lights outside couldn't dispel.

238 Gaia: Are you crazy?

The cold sweat seemed to still linger on his skin, and the suffocating feeling brought about by that soul-tearing nightmare lingered in Genichi Hanyu's heart like a leech.