The story we started

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Saki Kawasaki looked at "herself" being teased by Zaimokuza in the light screen in front of her and her weaknesses that she had been trying hard to hide being exposed. Her snow-white face turned red and began to turn purple.

At this moment, she understood the feelings of Kyosuke Kousaka, who had always been persecuted by Zaimokuza.

The curve of her chest, which had already begun to look like the future, expanded as she inhaled air, causing many of the boys nearby who were secretly laughing to stare at her with wide eyes, and also attracted the jealous looks of a bunch of underdeveloped girls.

"Material-wooden-seat!"

Three seconds later, an angry shout spread throughout the corridor of Sobu High School, causing countless people to turn around and look.

[“It’s already very late! Jinghua, hurry to the bathroom on the second floor, take a shower with your sister, brush your teeth and go to bed. Ignore this bastard! Just let him die like this!”]

[With a pair of red eyes and a few tears in the corners, Saki Kawasaki walked angrily to the second floor. The sound of her footsteps was as heavy as the sound of a pork chop knife hitting a chopping board every time it broke bones.]

【"Brother Yihui, are you okay?"】

[Kawasaki Kyoka crouched beside Zaimokuza, who was lying prostrate on the floor, with one hand around his calves, and with one hand touching the top of his head, he asked with a worried look on his face.]

【“I… I’m fine… um… don’t worry about me.”】

[Feeling the warmth from the delicate palm of the loli touching his hair, Zaimokuza, who was lying dead, moved a few times, raised his face with difficulty, which had a clear red palm mark and two nosebleeds on the side, and looked at her with a silly smile. ]

[This slap almost gave him a concussion, his whole head was buzzing, and it seemed like there were several cute versions of Kousaka Kyosuke flying around in front of Zaimokuza with revolvers in hand and expressionless faces.]

[“But your nose is bleeding? Did your sister go too far?”]

[“Don’t worry! This kind of injury is nothing to me. I will recover in ten minutes.”]

[“This is um… I deserve it. I went too far this time. Don’t blame your sister.”]

【Zaimokuza sat up cross-legged, patted Kawasaki Kyoka's fluffy and soft hair and laughed, his voice a little muffled because of the swelling on one side of his cheek.】

[The intense pain from the slap on his face made Zaimokuza doubt his life. Is this really the strength that an ordinary human woman can possess? The feeling he got was no less than the heavy punch from the 22nd human body! ]

[“By the way, Jinghua, you seem to have classes every day, right? The school seems to be quite far from here, right?”]

[“It’s okay~ Sister said she will ride her bike to take me to school when you wake up tomorrow. She said she can wake you up anytime, even if she wakes you up!”]

[“…Really? That’s good.”]

[Zaimokuza held his breath, smiled viciously, and rubbed the little girl's hair. She felt comfortable and her eyes curved into a pair of crescents, with an expression like a kitten whose chin is being rubbed by its owner.]

[“By the way, this heavy rain is a bit strange. Even the weather forecast didn’t mention it in advance.”]

[Having said this, Zaimokuza turned his head and looked out the window at the dull thunder and the continuous heavy rain that continued to sound from time to time, with an inexplicable worry in his eyes. ]

[For some reason, Zaimokuza had a strange feeling in his heart, and even he himself couldn't explain where this feeling came from. ]

[He just had this feeling, and for no reason, as if someone was telling him this directly through his consciousness, which felt very strange.]

[——This sudden heavy rain seemed to have brought something with it.]

……

[In a forest somewhere in Nagano Prefecture. ]

[This place is also covered by heavy rain at this time. There are countless dense lightning bolts in the clouds from time to time, illuminating the dark forest below. ]

[Snap——]

[A lightning bolt that was far more dazzling than the previous one streaked across the sky, like an ink painting with a black background being painted across the entire picture with a brush tip dipped in white watercolor.]

[The entire sky was illuminated by this thunder for a moment, and then countless lightning bolts followed closely behind. It was as if countless trees with countless branches grew out of the clouds, eerie and majestic.]

[At the center of the intersection of countless lightning bolts, a relatively "small" black shadow appeared with intertwined arcs of electricity, and then fell towards the woods below.]

【--boom!!!】

[The shadow was captured by the Earth's gravity and the potential energy brought by its own weight and crashed straight into the woods. As it fell, huge amounts of sand and dust were splashed, and the soil flew everywhere. Even more than a dozen trees fell down under this impact.]

[The area where the shadow fell was filled with smoke for a while, but it soon subsided under the heavy rain, revealing a large pit at the center of the fall.]

[A toilet-sized, triangular-shaped object with a flat top. It is white in color and resembles a capsule. Nearly half of it is embedded in the soil. From time to time, small arcs of electricity flash across its surface.]

【puff--】

[The flat top of the "capsule" suddenly split in the middle, and a puff of white mist emerged. ]

[“Hmm…”]

[Amid a vague groan, a pair of black-gloved hands grabbed the edge of the "capsule" and a figure wearing a strange, thick black protective suit that looked like a space suit struggled to climb out.]

[“Hmm… What on earth is that? Why is there…” in a place like that?]

[A voice that was indistinguishable between male and female came from under the helmet because it was through a voice changer. The figure who climbed out of the "capsule" raised his head, and the black goggles reflected the surrounding woods. ]

[“Where is this place?”]

[This person seemed to be stunned, and after looking around, his voice was full of disbelief.]

[He/she quickly raised his/her right hand and operated the instrument wrapped around his/her right arm, while his/her fingers wrapped in black gloves tapped on the display screen.]

[Beep. 】

[A message popped up, and the figure quickly clicked it, looking at the screen with hope.]

[——The information detection center has been damaged, and the arrival location and time cannot be determined. ]

[“How could it be…”]

[Looking at the content of each word in this message, the mysterious man's inner hope was shattered, and he murmured in disbelief.]

[He/she sat down on the top of the "capsule" in a daze, looking up at the sky with lightning in confusion, letting the rain fall on the visor of the helmet.]

[“Why did things turn out like this? Everyone is… I—I…”]

[Even with a voice changer, the crying voice can be clearly heard coming from the helmet, echoing in the woods where no one can hear it. ]

[“Which era have I arrived in???”]

6. “Real things” and “fake things”

"Which era have we come to???"

Outside the light curtain, everyone was shocked when they heard the mysterious man say this.

The reason is simple: the amount of information revealed in this sentence is so huge that it is too much for anyone to digest.

The concept of "time travel" is no longer a new thing, and it has basically been played out by various artists.

"Die Hard", "Terminator", "17 Again" and similar famous movie series all use the theme of time travel. If we add various animations such as "Doraemon" and special effects works, the number will be countless.

After decades of development of the eighth art, compared to the shock and surprise when this subject matter first came out, the audience has long been immune to similar settings, and it is impossible to arouse any sense of novelty or excitement.

But the reason why people are not moved at all is because, after all, those are just the various artistic settings and imaginative themes of the movie, the products of the director's fantasy and processing, they are false things, and everyone knows that they cannot be true.

But when this kind of time and space travel, which is different from false and real, appears in reality, no one can remain calm.

Who wouldn’t have some regrets during the growth process of a normal person?

For example, you missed the recruitment of that company, you gave up the experienced rich older sister and chose the young younger sister because of your youthful vigor, you missed the opportunity to invest in that company during its development period, you missed the ideal university by one point because you got the questions wrong, the girl who was waiting for you was picked up by the guy next door because you didn't show up on time... and so on, there are countless regrets.

Time is the most powerful force in the world for human beings. Even if you are at the top of the world, you cannot buy back the last second you just lost even if you give everything, let alone change the regrets in your life.

If you have the ability to travel through time and space, can you change those regrets and have a perfect life?

And this is just the idea of ​​ordinary people. Those bigwigs at the top of the world's power have thought of other aspects of the ability to travel through time and space.

If that country had not been unified two thousand years ago...

If Xu Fu hadn't brought three thousand boys to Penglai Island...

If the first steam engine invented in England had failed...

If that country had not declared independence from the British Empire...

If that once-in-a-millennium thinker had not created an ideology to guide human progress...

If Columbus hadn't discovered the New World...

If the October Revolution that opened the curtain on a new world had failed...

If the designers of the first atomic bomb had somehow died...

If a failed art student won World War II...

When one thinks about what direction the world will be headed in if some changes occur at these critical junctures in human history that are considered to be the key points of life and death, all the knowledgeable people in the world take a deep breath and feel a chill all over their bodies.

This is the power that can truly change the world!

Chiba Prefecture, Sobu High School, health room.

"I feel...I am becoming less and less able to understand this world."

"Is this really the everyday world I've lived in for more than 20 years? How come a bunch of monsters I've never heard of before appear one after another? And at the same time?"

"Those Gurongis are fine. From the previous video, we at least know that they are super ancient life forms that existed before the beginning of modern human history. They belong to a super ancient civilization that we have never known or recorded. But why are time travelers who only exist in fantasy settings appearing now?"

Shizuka Hiratsuka pressed her temples and felt a severe headache.

The previous video has already shown the future situation very clearly. The two sides are the righteous side, led by Zaimokuza Yoshiteru and Kousaka Kyosuke, who fight to protect humanity; and the evil side, led by the unconfirmed life form No. 0, whose whereabouts are still unknown, who wantonly slaughter humans in order to complete the unknown ultimate goal of "Kikiru".

The camps of good and evil are clearly divided, and there is basically no doubt about it.

But now with the addition of this mysterious man from unknown time and space, the originally clear situation suddenly changed.

No one knows what kind of changes this sudden emergence of a third-party force will bring to the two originally confronting parties. It seems that everything is shrouded in a layer of fog, leading the gradually clear outlines and paths of the future to a destination that no one can predict or know.

"Indeed, there are already enough mysteries."

"The exact time and place of the death of Hikigaya's sister and Zaimokuza's parents in the future, the specific cause of Hikigaya's death in the future, the unknown whereabouts of the unconfirmed life form No. 0, the unknown purpose of "Kikiru", the "GO" group Gurongi that has appeared but has never started the game, Tokyo that has been destroyed for unknown reasons, and now this mysterious person who is most likely to have traveled through time and space from the future..."

"We originally hoped that this new light screen would provide enough information to solve the puzzles in the previous video, but now I realize that the more I watch, not only are the original puzzles not solved in time, but new puzzles are already popping up, leaving no room for breathing or thinking."

Yukinoshita Yukino also agreed somewhat dazedly. She felt that her brain, which was the best in Sobu High School, was no longer enough.

"…But we still don't know what's going on. We can only keep watching."

Hikigaya pursed his lips, feeling an indescribable sense of depression in his heart.

He had no interest in this newly emerged so-called time traveler. Even knowing that there was technology that could travel through time and change the regrets of the past did not move Hikigaya in the slightest.

There was nothing he wanted to change about his past, and that didn't make any sense to Hikigaya himself.

Even if the past was full of regrets and setbacks, it was Hachiman Hikigaya's life, his "real thing".

Since it is the "real thing", it should not be replaced by a "fake thing", even if the "fake thing" is far more beautiful than the "real thing".

The past is already determined, but the future can still be changed.

Even so, he was not very interested in the tragic future of Tokyo and the final outcome of the war between humans and Gurongi, and could even be said to not care at all.

There is only one person that Hikigaya Hachiman cares about, and that is his sister, Hikigaya Komachi. There is also only one thing that he cares about, and that is whether he can reverse his sister's death in the future. On the contrary, he does not care much about the fact that "himself" will also die in the future.

If this world can only allow one of them to survive, and Hikigaya Hachiman has to choose between the two, then no matter how many times he has to choose, he will always choose to let his sister live.

Even if it means sacrificing his own life in exchange for the other party's survival, Hikigaya will do it.

When the moment comes when he really needs to make a decision, he won't hesitate at all.

7. Super ancient secrets

【An aquarium in Shibuya, Tokyo. 700txt.com】

【11:23 p.m】

【“…The new counting disc is ready.”】

[Gooma reluctantly handed a stone abacus to Baruba, who was sitting on a chair. His reluctance was written all over his face. When Baruba took it, he subconsciously increased the strength of his hands to hold the abacus. You can imagine how reluctant he was.]

【Snapped. 】

[After trying several times to get it but failing, Baruba, with a cold face, skillfully reached out his hand and slapped Gooma into the sink next to him. He took the counting plate and checked it a few times. After confirming that there was no problem, he nodded with satisfaction.]

[“The quality is good, so let’s get started.”]

【“Biran, it’s your turn to play the game.”】

[She lowered her head and spoke softly to a pool below.]

[After Baruba said this, the originally calm surface of the pool suddenly began to ripple violently, and then a dark red figure rushed out from the water in the center of the ripples.]

[“Oh!? It’s finally my turn!”]