Chapter 37: Dream and Reality Exchange Day (6)
About ten seconds ago.
The maid, Yao Chun, continued to stare at the target in front of her, like a stone statue.
When staring at a target, one cannot move their gaze, not even blink, so their field of vision is completely fixed.
However, not being able to see doesn’t mean being completely unaware of the surroundings. Yao Chun knew the flaws of her ability, so she pretended to be blind and thoroughly trained her senses other than sight, especially her hearing.
She wouldn’t miss any subtle sound, so she had of course long since detected the sound of rapidly flowing blood cutting through the air.
But even after detecting it, there was nothing she could do to stop it.
Without the support of other maids, she couldn’t resolve such a sudden situation alone. Zihua’s escape had become a sure thing.
Even so, she instantly erased her panic, grasped the situation, and anticipated the next development. Yao Chun kicked away the curtain of blood in front of her with a high kick, but the blood immediately merged again.
One second before her vision was about to leave the paradox space, Yao Chun jumped.
The blood didn’t continue to obscure Yao Chun’s vision; instead, it transformed into a blade and impaled her abdomen.
Even so, Yao Chun endured the pain with her strong Spiritual Power, not closing her eyes in agony, not even letting out a scream. This level of sacrifice was within her expectations.
But the moment Yao Chun endured the pain also became the moment she exposed a flaw.
Unable to shake off the blood blade in time, Yao Chun was drained of most of her blood and then thrown away. Severely injured, Yao Chun did not avert her gaze. Relying entirely on her body’s instincts, she landed steadily and swung a punch, her punch dispersing the blood. Her eyes were still fixed on the paradox space.
However, although her eyes never closed until the end, her vision had already gone black from excessive blood loss.
Her ability therefore failed, and Zihua escaped.
At the same time, I also arrived at the scene.
“Miss Yao Chun!”
I immediately ran over and hugged Yao Chun. I found that although her eyes were open, she was already unconscious.
Fortunately, there were no visible wounds, but I could smell the pungent scent of blood. What exactly did Zihua do?
“Hoo, relax, I treated her wounds very kindly. And besides, she’s a demon, her body isn’t that weak.”
“Oh my, you’ve worked hard, Zi’ai. Now all the conditions are finally met.”
I had been used.
This moment, only this thought remained in my mind.
I thought Zihua wouldn’t know that Ariadne’s Thread was just my personal wish. But the truth was, Zihua from the future knew almost everything.
While knowing, she had been hiding and preserving her true trump card, only to reveal it at the last moment and catch us completely off guard.
She had played all of us for fools.
That cunning fox!
“Is Li Nai still in a coma because of you?”
“That has nothing to do with me. I just borrowed her body while she was unconscious.”
“How… How can you split your consciousness?!”
Zihua should have been confined in Lanhua’s body. Even if it was just her consciousness, escaping from that boundless space would be impossible.
That could only mean that Zihua had split her consciousness long ago!
“Hoo, I just used an ability called ‘Water Soul Technique’ to borrow Li Nai’s body. After all, she’s been lying in bed for so long, it’s time to let her move around a bit.”
She could actually do something like that?
“Hehehe, I knew you would definitely be able to escape from there.”
Ji Lianbing, with a smile on her face, still looked so composed.
Conversely, Zihua, upon seeing Ji Lianbing, showed an expression of ecstatic joy. She walked up and opened her arms, as if to give her a big hug.
Ji Lianbing also called out that childish nickname in the same tone. The two looked like good sisters who had been separated for a long time, with no hint that Ji Lianbing herself had ordered Zihua to be trapped earlier.
The two embraced like that.
“Die.”
The next second, the smile on Ji Lianbing’s face instantly vanished. The corridor floor turned black, and hands stretched out from the darkness, wrapping around Zihua’s body, attempting to drag her into the abyss of death.
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Zihua wasn’t pulled into the darkness.
“What a shame, I’ve already died. And I died without a whole body, hohoho~”
She still wore a smile, as if telling Ji Lianbing that she would be the one laughing in the end.
“Disaster of Death, did you really think I’d be helpless against it? In terms of Destiny Power, I am a Calamity Witch above you. I can even control the waters of the Styx.”
Black water gurgled out from the darkness, a liquid as black as ink entwined around Ji Lianbing’s white stockings, as if dyeing them black, entangling Ji Lianbing and leaving her unable to move.
“What a shame, there’s no part for Little Bingbing in the next script, is there? So please stay put until it’s over.”
A sense of powerlessness arose within me. How many more abilities did she have?
Endless abilities, immense Destiny Power, no physical form, an uncatchable spiritual existence…
This was simply invincible, wasn’t it?
An un攻略able BOSS, more like a Protagonist than the Protagonist, like an intruder who had completely disrupted the original development.
“Lily, Yuhui.”
The two had also arrived. Why did they come? Run! No one can deal with her anymore!
Moreover, at such a critical moment, where was the Head Maid?
The only person who could possibly contend with Zihua was probably that all-capable Head Maid.
In the end, I couldn’t even say the words to urge them to flee. Perhaps it was because I already knew in my heart that no one could stop her anymore.
I couldn’t even muster the will to escape.
Zihua smiled as she looked at the two of them and said,
“Perfect timing, it saves me the trouble of looking for you. Now all the conditions are met.”
“You are Zihua? Wow! What is this!”
“Senior Lanhua…”
Black water also entwined around Lily and Yuhui, who had just arrived, but it didn’t ensnare me. Perhaps she saw that I was already in a state of semi-surrender.
“Well then, let’s wait a moment? It should be over soon over there. Hoo.”
“Over there” referred to the Mirror World? Does that mean Juncheng is finally coming out?
Had she always been waiting for this moment?
For what?
Finally, I couldn’t help but break down.
Like a madwoman, I poured out my feelings of helplessness and despair, shouting almost hysterically.
“What I want to do is the same as what you want to do.”
“Stop joking! If you just wanted to revive Juncheng, you wouldn’t have to do all this! I don’t understand! I really don’t understand, Zihua! I have no idea what you’re thinking!”
“That’s a pity, because my Action Plan was basically set by you, Zi’ai.”
“What!”
What did Zihua say? Her Action Plan was set by me?
She couldn’t be talking about me, nor my main body in the Mirror World. Could she be referring to… my future self!
My future self was actually involved in this matter too!
That’s right, Zihua had said before that her Destiny Power was inherited from others. Who were these “others”? Could it be…?
“Ah! Aaaah!”
“Yuhui?!”
My thoughts were interrupted by Yuhui’s groan. I turned to see Yuhui’s pained expression.
“What did you do to Yuhui! Zihua!”
“I didn’t do anything. That’s just a part of Senior Bai’s past life memories returning.”
Wait, Yuhui’s memories?
That’s one of the clues! So it wasn’t that the clue existed within Yuhui’s memories, but that she was recovering lost memories!
“This indicates that the creator of the Mirror World, Saito Kibicho, one of Bai Yuhui’s past lives, has finally disappeared along with that Spiritual World.”
There was too much information, and I couldn’t process it all. But Zihua didn’t seem to intend to explain. She walked up to me, took my hand, and said,
“Then, it’s our turn to enter the Yata no Kagami now. The props are ready, right?”
“Huh?”
“I’ll leave the Succubus entering the dream to you. And we need to move Li Nai’s body over here too.”
Lily’s mouth was blocked by black water, unable to speak. On the other hand, the expressionless Li Nai also walked up to me, holding the Yata no Kagami in her hands.
“We’re going to enter the Yata no Kagami through ‘Li Nai’s Dream’.”
I understood this sentence for now. Zihua wanted to use the same method as Nana, using Lily’s ability to enter dreams, to enter the Yata no Kagami through Li Nai’s Dream.
She forcibly pulled me to press Li Nai’s shoulders together with her, and then used the black water to control Lily, making her place her hand on the mirror surface of the Yata no Kagami.
“Hoo, Teacher Lily, I’ll be counting on you?”
I don’t know how Zihua managed to make Lily activate her ability, but I only felt my consciousness become extremely blurry. My head spun, and it was three times more stimulating than riding a roller coaster.
Finally, I “landed.” I regained consciousness, but the dizziness and nausea made me unable to stand. I could only kneel on the ground and wait for my senses to return.
I barely opened my eyes. The first thing I saw was a blank space.
There was nothing here.
But I felt a special sense of familiarity with this void, as if I had lived here for a long time.
Could this be…?
“Very good, very good, you brought the key props properly. Here’s a kiss as a reward! Hohoho~”
I was kissed on the cheek, and then Zihua groped me all over with very lewd movements. I even started to feel something.
But she was clearly just teasing me along the way. What she really wanted were the butterfly-shaped necklace I was carrying and Juncheng’s finger.
I couldn’t help but wonder how she managed to bring these things in.
What was she planning to do?
The dizziness finally subsided a bit. I looked up at Zihua with difficulty.
She stood beside me. The butterfly-shaped necklace in her hand actually turned into a butterfly and flew away from her palm.
‘Did you ‘you’ see? We’ve entered the final act.’
Her expression was incredibly divine, as if her long-cherished wish had finally been fulfilled.
“Dream and Reality exchange at this moment. A new Fate begins from here.”
