Chapter 36: She is the source of this anomaly.
“Lan?”
I could still see her title, so it wasn’t a hallucination after all. Then why couldn’t I see Lily’s or the others’ titles? I could only see the titles of specific people… What is this specific condition?
Lan, who is in front of me now, might know these things, but would she honestly tell me…?
Putting aside her now dangerous title, I felt something different about her.
I don’t know how to describe this feeling, but it’s like ‘the old Lan’, or more precisely, ‘Lan before going to the beach’.
It’s that kind of…
“Mhmm, hehe, I am your Lan.”
Her eyes were full of possessiveness.
Lan came to the bedside and hugged me. The warm, familiar feeling gave me a sense of peace, suppressing the panic I felt.
I held her and brought her back to the bed. After lightly kissing her forehead, I asked,
“What’s going on? Did you remember? Or did you…”
She placed her index finger on my lips, stopping the words I was about to say.
“Hehe, let’s put that aside for now. Shouldn’t we cherish this reunion? Juncheng, I haven’t felt your warmth for a long time.”
Even though understanding the situation was the most important thing right now, seeing her like this, I couldn’t get angry at all. My earlier anxiety had somehow disappeared.
Perhaps this is Lan’s magic.
Now that Lan is asking me to hold her, what reason do I have to refuse?
Constantly being on edge won’t solve anything. Since she doesn’t want to talk now, I can’t force her. It’s better to grant her wish and accept this love.
“I… I really need healing too…”
I hugged Lan Hua and said in a voice that I tried to suppress from trembling.
“Finally… finally, we meet again… I’ve wondered if those memories were real, or just my delusions. Though I’ve always believed… I was really hurt… that it was all false…”
“I know, Juncheng… I know everything. It was us who pulled you out of your loneliness, but in the end, we pushed you back into it… It’s our fault. But you don’t have to worry or be afraid anymore, because I’m here, and I’ll always be by your side.”
I didn’t doubt her at all…
There was no need for further words between us. We naturally came together, achieving the great harmony of life.
“You should tell me now, shouldn’t you?”
“Ugh… I’ll tell you after one more time.”
“This is the sixth time I’ve heard that! I’m a bit overwhelmed. Let’s stop here for today?”
“Hee, Juncheng, you’re no good~”
Any man who hears the word ‘no good’ will have their blood rush, and even if they’re not capable, they’ll become capable.
But I said with a wry smile,
“You’ve used this provocation a few times too… Please spare me. If we continue, it won’t be healing, but life-threatening.”
Lan tilted her head, thought for a moment, then gave a big smile and said, “Okay.” She then lay down on the bed.
Actually, I knew she was also exhausted. She probably had weak legs now and couldn’t even get out of bed.
“Lan, how much do you know?” SF Light Novel
“Hmm? You mean about this world?”
She actually used the words ‘this world’…
As expected, she didn’t come to this world unknowingly, but came to find me.
“You’re right, Juncheng. I came to this world specifically to find you, through a method called ‘exchange’.”
My spirit suddenly lifted, and I got up from the bed and asked,
“Exchange? Who did you exchange with?!”
“Of course, I exchanged with ‘myself’. Otherwise, how could I have come here?”
“Exchanged with yourself?! What do you mean? Are you saying you, Lan, exchanged with the Lan of this world?!”
“Yes, that’s right. Hehe~ If I hadn’t exchanged with myself, how could I have come to your side?”
“But…”
Can exchange only be done with oneself? …How is that possible?
The Juncheng in this world is Zi’ai, right?
Meaning, logically, Zi’ai and I shouldn’t have met, yet we did…
There are only three possibilities.
One, Lan is lying to me. This is unlikely. Lan knows I hate lies, so lying to me is impossible. At most, she might omit some explanations or hide some things, but she would never lie to me.
Two, transmigration has multiple possibilities, and Lan just happened to exchange with herself…
Three, then… Zi’ai is not my other half.
Although she seems to have taken my place in this world, it’s possible we are not the same person.
In reality, gender differences only occur between the two of us. Others don’t experience such obvious and huge differences.
“SF Light Novel”
I once thought that if the me in this world were female, then Lianbing and the others would also have… but it turned out that such a huge difference did not occur.
Why is it only me…?
These are the problems.
It’s still unclear what’s going on right now. I need to gather more information.
“So, Lan, do you know what’s going on in this world? And how did you know I was here?”
“Hmm? I don’t know much about this world. At first, I thought you were dead. After all, I saw that scene.”
“…The scene where I was eaten, you saw it?”
The scene Lan mentioned was naturally when I died. According to the hint I left for Xuan’er, she was supposed to have eaten my body. I would die as the last corpse eaten by the Ghoul Kaoru Tsukiyose, and after that, Xuan’er would forever be free from the shackles of being a ghoul. This was also part of the deal between me and the Mother of Black Goats.
However, the place where I died… Ah… It must have been pretty brutal. It’s a bit embarrassing to be seen by a girl, especially since my insides were exposed…
“Yeah, the camera I installed on you recorded until the very last moment… I almost went crazy when I saw it!”
“Sorry… Actually, I did consider it at the time. Even if my body was gone, I could still exist as a visible ghost like Akiko. I thought I’d just be a ghost or something… Uh, but I didn’t expect to wake up in this world.”
Lan puffed out her cheeks and pinched my arm, saying with dissatisfaction,
“That’s right. We all thought you were dead and your soul had gone to the underworld. So, from the moment you died, we kept searching for a way to go to the underworld and a way to resurrect you. We searched for about a week.”
“SE7”
“Wait, a week? Lan, tell me, how long has it been since I died? Now.”
Lan tilted her head strangely and counted on her fingers.
“So, it’s been a week. Starting on Wednesday. –Yes, exactly seven days.”
Seven days?!
Really? Not to mention the blank year, I’ve been in this world for almost a year, and only seven days have passed in that world!
Two years and seven… The flow of time is different…
Right, this isn’t the first time something like this has happened. It was the same when we were on the uninhabited island. We spent several days on the island, but when we returned, we found out that only a short time had passed… Could it be that we actually came to this side (this world) at that time!
That’s right, that’s why I met Zi’ai on that island.
Then what happened when Zi’ai came? Based on her and my experiences, there shouldn’t be any time difference between the two worlds… Was Zi’ai lying to me?
What is going on? Why is there such a discrepancy?
It seems like the source of all these discrepancies is… Ai?
The person with a title I saw under the moon yesterday was also Zi… And what Keling saw, Ai…
It seems this whole incident isn’t revolving around me…
Is Zi’ai the root of everything…?
What have you done, and what will you do, Zi’ai?
I’m starting to… not understand you anymore…
