This is not the date I wanted.

(Bilijiang promised me that she would never force herself. Not lying to her family is her motto, so she would never do something stupid like dying together. Either she can't beat Lingyin and run away, or she can beat Lingyin and come back safely. Right? I believe in you, Mengyue.)

Erya slapped his cheeks hard, took a deep breath, and shouted at the deserted open space with all his strength.

"Bili-chan, are you there?! If you hear me, answer me!!!!"

——Ding ding ding ding!

At this moment, Erya's bag suddenly whistled violently.

"Wow! W-what happened?"

Erya was startled. He opened the bag and saw that the spiritual power detector was sounding an alarm.

"What a high spiritual power reaction. Strange, there was no reaction just now... and the position is so close!?"

Erya hurriedly looked around, and after confirming that there was nothing unusual, she hesitated for a moment and looked up at the sky.

In the pitch-black night, a round hole similar to an eye pupil appeared at some point. On the other side of the round hole, Erya could vaguely see a blue planet.

"This is... the [door] of the Lord of Sealing. It's Meng Yue! She is still alive!!"

Erya shouted excitedly.

At this moment, a figure suddenly came out of the [door] and fell heavily to the ground like a meteorite.

Erya hurriedly ran in the direction of the fall.

"Mengyue, are you okay?"

In the dust-covered cave, the girl was slowly standing up, which made Erya breathe a sigh of relief.

"Really? Bili-chan, you scared me to death. If you're fine, just squeak. It's not good for your heart to scare people like this—"

——!

Suddenly, a tingling and numb feeling came from my cheek.

A pure black lightning flashed past Erya's head at a distance of only a few centimeters.

"Eh?"

It was not until a while later that Erya realized what had happened.

"——————!"

A roar like that of a wild beast came from the smoke.

Then the smoke cleared, and what came into Erya's sight was a white-haired girl wearing a pale windbreaker, her body wrapped in black lightning.

"Beep...li...chan?"

Looking at the strange girl in front of him, Erya seemed very confused.

"—"

As if she heard Erya's voice, the girl slowly turned her head and looked at Erya.

Honjo Niya felt a chill deep down in his spine.

Those were a pair of eyes that flashed with a cold green light and were as aggressive as a wild beast.

——Run! Run! Otherwise you will be killed!

Just like a herbivore being targeted by a carnivore, every cell in Erya's body was sending her a warning.

However, before she could escape, the pair of eyes that looked like ghost lights suddenly enlarged in her field of vision. Her neck was grabbed by the other party, and her whole body was lifted up in the air with her feet suspended in the air.

"...Dream...Moon?"

Erya said in disbelief as he looked at the girl in front of him.

It was not wrong, although the distance was too far for Erya to be sure. But now that he had a closer look, he saw that except for the hair and eye color, the other person looked exactly like Liang Yi Meng Yue.

(What's going on... could it be... a reversal?)

"Ms. Niya? What happened over there?"

"Such a high spiritual power reaction, could it be Commander Liangyi?"

"Oh no! Miss Erya is in danger!"

At this time, the crew members and magicians who were still searching nearby rushed over.

“————————————————!!!”

Suddenly, a hoarse roar echoed between heaven and earth, and a powerful spiritual wave burst out from Meng Yue, turning into a powerful shock wave that blew away everyone within a one-kilometer radius.

(This...is not good...)

Feeling the force on his neck getting stronger and stronger, Erya's consciousness gradually became blurred due to lack of oxygen.

Unlike Shidao and Mengyue, when facing the reversed spirit, Niya can neither seal the spirit power of the spirit by kissing it, nor does she have the power and knowledge like Mengyue to forcibly remove the spirit crystal from the spirit body. She can only be slaughtered like a fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered.

but--

(No... I can't die... I must live... Otherwise Meng Yue...)

Thinking of this, Erya squeezed out some strength from somewhere and said jokingly.

"...Hey, Bili-chan...wake up...don't you remember me...I, I'm your...most beloved...with an F cup...gentle and virtuous...intimate big sister...Honjo Niya..."

After finally uttering a complete sentence, Erya's vision fell into darkness.

“…Bullshit!”

He heard a burst of curses in his ears, and Erya felt the force binding his neck suddenly disappear, and then he fell to the ground with a thud.

“——cough cough! Ugh——cough cough cough——”

After a violent coughing fit, Erya took a deep breath with a painful look on his face.

After his vision gradually recovered, Erya saw that Liangyi Mengyue was holding his right wrist tightly with his left hand and cursing through gritted teeth.

"You are such a shameless person who loves to flatter others. My real destiny will always be Shiori-chan!!"

Hearing this familiar voice, Erya couldn't help but burst into tears.

"Bili sauce!"

"Don't come over yet!"

A roar stopped Erya who was about to hug her. Mengyue gritted her teeth and tried her best to suppress the spiritual power running wild in her body.

Finally, the black lightning gradually dissipated, the windbreaker turned from pale white back to pure black, and the hair and pupils also returned to their original tones, with only a little gray remaining on the land and the ends of the hair.

"Huh... so dangerous."

Finally, Meng Yue sat down limply on the ground and let out a sigh of relief with lingering fear.

"Bili sauce!"

After restoring Mengyue to her original state, Erya rushed over and gave her a bear hug without saying a word.

"Ah! Bili-chan, I'm so touched! You were able to recover from the reversal. Did my love really reach you?"

"Go away, your power of love? I recovered it with my own consciousness."

Mengyue pushed Erya away angrily.

"Eh? Don't be shy. It's not something to be ashamed of."

"You're so shy. If I had completely reversed myself, you and the others would have been dead by now."

Meng Yue couldn't help but hit Erya's head with a knife and explained helplessly.

"Well, at least everything is alright. Bili-chan."

Erya touched his head and smiled with relief.

"…I'm sorry, I couldn't control the reversed spiritual power for a moment. I caused you to be injured."

Thinking about how she almost lost control and hurt Erya, Mengyue couldn't help but lower her head in shame.

"It's okay. Don't worry about it."

Erya waved his hand as if it was nothing.

"Anyway, it's a bit of a bummer to stay in this godforsaken place, let's go back to the airship first."

"Yeah...that's right."

Meng Yue nodded, propped herself up on her knees and stood up, but as soon as she stood up, she fell forward involuntarily.

"Oh - safe."

Erya carefully supported Mengyue.

"I'm sorry... the strain on my body is greater than I thought. I'll be able to move after a short rest."

"Idiot, how can you rest well in a place like this? There's no need to hold on at this time. Come on. I'll carry you back."

"but……"

Meng Yue couldn't help but hesitate.

"You've fought enough. At least try to rely on me at this time. Otherwise, won't I be of no use at all?"

As he said that, Erya turned around and squatted down with his back to Mengyue.

"Um...thank you. I'll take care of it then."

After thinking for a while, Mengyue nodded in compromise.

"Hmph, leave it to me."

"—!"

The moment he carried Mengyue on his back, Erya's eyes suddenly contracted, his knees bent, and his upper body suddenly bent forward sixty degrees.

"Bili-chan... let me ask you a question? How much do you weigh?"

"About 45 kilograms. Is that okay? I'll just walk on my own after all."

"Hahaha... more than enough, no problem at all. Okay - let's go."

Erya laughed dryly, took a deep breath, and walked towards the airship at a speed almost as fast as a turtle.

(It seems I need to exercise more in the future.)

Erya couldn't help but swear secretly in his heart.

"But speaking of which, Bili-chan is really amazing. She actually defeated that Siwon's Pokémon."

In order to divert his attention from his numb legs, Erya began to talk to Mengyue.

In response, Meng Yue shook her head slightly.

"It's just that Shancun was lucky. Without your help, I would have lost long ago."

"Oh? So I was useful?"

"Yeah, that helps a lot."

Nodding slightly, Mengyue relaxed a little and leaned on Erya's slender back.

"…Niya."

"Huh? What's wrong?"

"Juya... and Junai and the others, are they okay?"

"..."

Erya was speechless for a moment.

Without waiting for Erya's answer, Mengyue continued speaking on her own.

"At that time, after you used the spirit spell to transform the 'Paradise of Samsara' into the 'Eternal Miasma', I was given two opportunities to use my power."

Yes, twice. The first time, Meng Yue added a rule of "Injury equals death" just as she said to Mio, and the second time, she took advantage of Mio's panic and quietly cancelled a rule.

What Mio declared at the very beginning - "Anything that exists in this world cannot leave."

It was also because of this that she was able to use the "Sealing Master" to escape the attack range of the Angel of Nothingness at the critical moment.

"Hey... It sounds like a battle of incredible proportions. Maybe it can be used as a reference for a battle in a comic."

Erya replied nervously as Mengyue described her battle with Lingyin.