This is not the date I wanted.

Economy, art, religion...

Astronomy, geography, history...

The formation of the universe, the extinction of stars, the birth of the earth, the differentiation of the tree of life, the reproduction of mankind...

From the small change of a quark to the undetectable universe, all the knowledge in the world is like countless stars, surrounding Erya and dancing according to some mysterious law.

(What a nice view……)

Erya couldn't help but sigh, and stretched out her hand, wanting to touch the stars. However, before that, her fingertips suddenly touched a barrier similar to an electric fence, and the tingling feeling made her suddenly wake up.

[Warning! The amount of information in front of you exceeds the human brain's capacity to accept. If you force yourself to accept it, it will 100% cause the host's personality to collapse. ]

Hearing the alarm from the Sage of Dawn, Erya was startled and quickly retracted his hand, not daring to commit suicide again.

(Is this the nature of the obituary?)

Erya thought in surprise. In the past, she just used her angel as a convenient searcher and monitor. Until today, she understood the significance of the phrase "knowing everything in the world".

At this moment, the electronic sound rang in Erya's mind again.

[Connection completed, chance of passive skill being upgraded to active skill - Future Peeping, activated.]

In an instant, everything in front of me was blown to pieces with a loud bang.

Filter, aggregate, crush, filter again, aggregate again, crush again...

After repeating this cycle countless times, the next second, the broken powder gathered together and turned into a picture that appeared in Erya's eyes.

Finally, there is something I can understand. Erya couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

However, after seeing the content of the painting, Erya was stunned.

The person in the picture is none other than Erya himself.

The pitch-black spiritual energy poured onto the ground like mud and spread in all directions, corroding the earth like a deadly poison. Among them, strange-looking "aliens" kept emerging from the mud.

Erya was in the middle of the mud, with wounds on her forehead, hands, feet, and body, and a lot of blood flowing out, looking like the holy marks on a sincere believer. The originally sacred nun's clothes had become tattered and entangled with an ominous evil spirit.

Erya cried, wailed, and screamed like a wild beast that had lost its mind, looking up at the sky with tears of blood.

(What's this?)

Erya couldn't understand what he saw.

But even so, my body still honestly sent out a rejection reaction. An indescribable sense of discomfort stung my skin like a file, and a feeling of nausea that was completely different from being drunk surged in my mouth, as if I wanted to vomit out the blood in my body. I wanted to vomit, but I didn't dare to.

However, this is not over yet.

At this moment, from a position that Erya could not see, from behind "Erya", a bloody hand emerged from her chest like an insect breaking out of a cocoon.

(Could it be that…)

As if she understood something, Niya's breathing stopped at the same time. She lowered her neck stiffly like a rusty machine.

At some point, a blood-stained hand appeared on his chest.

(No, no, no... don't kill me.)

Unable to suppress her fear, Erya kept begging.

——Sage of the Dawn, cut off the connection!

【learn! 】

——!

The soles of my feet felt solid as they stepped on the floor.

Erya suddenly raised his head. Comics, sofas, fluorescent lights, TV... There was no doubt that this was the apartment where he lived.

Looking around in panic, Erya suddenly seemed to have thought of something. He hurriedly touched his chest, and there was no hole or blood-stained arm. His heart seemed to be beating clearly to prove that he was alive.

“…Is it a hallucination? Haha…hahahahaha…”

Erya couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and a hoarse dry laugh came out of his throat.

"No, it's not an illusion. But it's also not reality."

The sound beside her ears made Erya raise her head suddenly. She saw Liangyi Mengyue lying on the sofa, her clothes completely soaked with sweat.

Pursing her lips slightly and hesitating for a long time, Mengyue spoke out a cruel answer that Erya didn't want to accept.

"That's you - Honjo Nia, the future that cannot be avoided"

PS: I have finished my exams, and I have an internship in July, haha… (dead eyes.)

[Note*: The famous thought experiment about the superposition of life and death of a cat proposed by Austrian physicist Schrödinger in 1935 is a deduction that extends the quantum behavior in the microscopic field to the macroscopic world. The experiment is as follows: There is a cat in a box, and a small amount of radioactive material. Afterwards, there is a 50% probability that the radioactive material will decay and release poisonous gas to kill the cat, and there is a 50% probability that the radioactive material will not decay and the cat will survive.]

17 The unavoidable dead point

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December 12th, 30:11 pm, Gokawa's house.

"Huh... It's so cold..."

The coldness of the night was even more perilous than that of the day. Seeing the lights in the neighbors' houses gradually go out, Shidao couldn't help but shiver and put his hands into the pockets of his cotton-padded jacket to keep warm.

"Onii-chan, please come in quickly. You'll catch a cold if you keep standing at the door."

After walking out of the house, Kotori couldn't help but say worriedly.

"It's okay, I'll just wait a while."

Shidou smiled and shook his head. He exhaled a puff of white mist and looked towards the intersection ahead, silently waiting for someone to appear from the corner.

(Meng Yue...has he sent Erya home yet?)

His shoes tapped lightly on the floor, and Shidou thought silently. If that's the case, then she should be on her way back now.

At around nine o'clock, Shidou and Kotori were making some final confirmations for tomorrow's comic showdown, while the others were exhausted from the rush to finish their manuscripts over the past few days, so Mengyue went out for a walk alone at that time.

At first, Shidao didn't take it seriously when he knew about this, thinking that a walk wouldn't take much time. But he didn't expect that Meng Yue would be out for more than two hours.

Tomorrow is the day of the showdown with Erya. Given the girl's personality, it is impossible for her to wander around at this time. As time gradually approaches late at night, everyone's nervousness gradually turns into uneasiness.

Just when Kotori couldn't help but want to send her men to look for Mengyue, Shidou's phone suddenly received a text message from Mengyue.

[Sorry, I ran into Erya while walking and something happened. Now this guy is drunk, I will go back after I send her home. You guys go to sleep first.]

As if afraid that Shidou and the others would worry, the text message also included a photo. In the picture, Mengyue was carrying Erya, who was already drunk like a puddle, with a helpless look on her face.

Although there were many things to worry about, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that Mengyue was safe and sound. Then, unable to withstand the fatigue accumulated over the past few days, they returned to their rooms to sleep.

"Kotori, go to bed soon too. I'll be going to bed in a little while."

“Really… Ha~ Sorry, Onii-chan… I’m going to rest first. You should go to bed early too, because you have to get up early tomorrow.”

Rubbing her eyes that were about to close, Kotori yawned, then nodded gently, gave Shidou some instructions, and went back to the house to rest.

(Everyone is exhausted...)

Looking at the Elf Apartment where all the lights were turned off, Shidou couldn't help but think.

It's not just Nanashi and the others who are in charge of finishing their manuscripts. In the past few days, Tohka, Miku, and Yoshino, although they can't draw, have been very active in cooperating with Kotori in various behind-the-scenes preparations. Tomorrow is their turn to really go into battle as the aces, and it's impossible to let them stay up late with him.

If Shidou said that he was not tired and did not want to fall into bed and fall asleep immediately, he would be lying. He insisted on standing here now, just because of his willfulness.

December 12st, 31:0.

“…! No, no!”

Almost falling asleep leaning against the wall, Shidou slapped his cheeks hard and propped up his eyelids that were about to close.

(At least... say 'welcome home' to her before going to sleep...)

————————Ring ring ring ring!

At this moment, the ringing sound of the cell phone in his pocket suddenly rang out in the quiet street like spring thunder, waking Shidao up instantly.

He quickly took out his cell phone, and after seeing that the caller was Mengyue, Shidao answered the call.

"Hey! Mengyue, where are you now?"

[In Erya's apartment... You answered the phone really quickly. ]

After answering Shidou's question, Mengyue asked with a little surprise.

[I thought I would have to wait a while before the call was connected. Are you still awake, Shidou? ]

"Eh? Ah--well, I just got up to go to the bathroom. And that's when you called."

Too embarrassed to tell her that he was still waiting for her, Shidou told a small lie to get away with it.

"Where's Erya? How is she now?"

[Eiya... is now resting on the bed in the bedroom. Because her emotions are too unstable, I used a little tough measures. ]

"Meng Yue?"

Hearing Mengyue's answer, Shidao felt a little uncomfortable.

If he thought about it in conjunction with the previous text message, Shidao would understand this as Mengyue complaining that she couldn't stand Erya's drunkenness. But at this moment, Shidao could not hear the usual calmness and steadiness in Mengyue's voice.

——Self-blame, confusion, and anxiety.

"What happened?"

His expression turned serious as Shidou asked worriedly.

【……call.】

A deep breathing sound came from the phone, and then Meng Yue's voice became much calmer.

"I've encountered a bit of a problem. I need your help, Shidou."

————————————————————I am the dividing line for transferring scenes————————

"Okay... I've switched to Ratatoskr's encrypted channel... Unless we encounter a situation like Erya or Mengyue... there is basically no possibility of being eavesdropped..."

At 0:46 in the evening, in the school's physics preparation room, Murasame Reine spoke while tapping on the keyboard.

"I'm sorry, Lingyin, to bother you so late at night."

Shidou said apologetically.

"It's okay... I really... I won't sleep..."

With a pair of very convincing dark circles under her eyes, Ling Yin slowly shook her head, indicating that it was not a big deal.

At this moment, the cell phone in his pocket rang again. Shidou placed the phone on the table and clicked the hands-free button.

[Okay, I've almost finished dealing with my situation. Shidou, how are things going on your side?]

"The channel encryption has been completed... although it may not be as strong as yours..."

Before Shidou could speak, Reine spoke first.

[Reine... that's right, you're probably the only one awake at this time. Anyway, Kotori and the others should notify you tomorrow.]

Meng Yue was a little surprised at first when she heard Ling Yin's voice, but she soon accepted Ling Yin's presence and began to explain things to the two of them.

[It’s hard to explain what happened here in detail. So I’ll just give you the conclusion first.]

Meng Yue said in a very affirmative tone,

[Tomorrow, after the comic convention ends, Erya will become a reverse spirit and then be killed by DEM.]

"Varied--!"

Will Erya reverse? Will he be killed by DEM?

Hearing the unexpected content, Shidou widened his eyes and didn't know what to say for a moment.

"... Please... explain in detail... Mengyue..."

Compared to Shidao, Reine's reaction was much calmer. After a moment of silence, she accepted Mengyue's words and waited for what to come.

Then, Meng Yue connected yesterday, the Dawn Sage and the Whispering Volume, and explained in simple and clear terms what happened. The Dawn Sage activated the future peek and saw Erya's reversal and being killed by "someone".

"Wait - Meng Yue."

Listening to Mengyue's explanation, Shidao couldn't help but have a question.

"If you just want to predict the future, you can do it even without relying on the proclamation, right?"