Chapter 29 Prerequisites
“Juncheng!”
Almost at the same time, Li Nai smashed the door open again. I remember she clearly closed the door when she left. How could she have broken open a locked door?
Moreover, I had clearly commanded her to leave with Destiny Power… I only told Li Nai to leave, but I didn’t say she couldn’t come back.
The situation was too urgent just now, and I didn’t have time to elaborate, so Li Nai probably returned immediately after leaving.
“It’s okay now. Xuan’er just suddenly received a massive amount of memories, so she couldn’t control her emotions for a while and went berserk. Fortunately, she woke up in time.”
The strangest thing is that even though I am no longer a zombie, Xuan’er still showed a desire to eat me.
In fact, in the Mirror World, the Xuan’er who was swapped also went berserk.
It’s the same situation as it was then.
Li Nai first let out a sigh of relief, and then collapsed to the ground, utterly exhausted.
It was a stroke of luck that nothing happened.
Xuan’er in my arms also closed her eyes. I wiped away her bloody tears. The blood was strange, leaving no trace after being wiped, and it directly decomposed and disappeared.
The scale on my abdomen returned to its unbalanced state with nothing on either end. I suppose the scale only becomes balanced when Xuan’er uses her ability.
“Thank goodness, thank goodness.”
Unexpectedly, Li Nai rushed forward, grabbed my collar, glared at me, and roared at me through gritted teeth.
“Thank goodness for what! If you dare to drive me away again next time, I’ll kill you! Do you understand! I’ll definitely choke you and force you into social security in pain, do you understand!”_
“….”
Wow, it seems Li Nai is really angry, she’s actually saying things like that.
And this threat is really novel. This is the first time I’ve heard a girl use something like that as a threat.
“I was also considering your safety.”
No matter how I look at it, it was the right choice to make Li Nai leave the scene at that time, and I still think so.
“What about your safety?”
“That’s not within my scope of consideration.”
I answered calmly.
“You really… it’s always like this!”
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Hearing such an unreasonable answer, Li Nai was speechless for a moment, not knowing what to say.
Her eyes were almost spitting fire, a mixture of anxiety and helplessness.
She knows I’m that kind of person, so she couldn’t say anything to reprimand me. I also know that others will worry about me and care about me, but I will still not waver in my thoughts.
Li Nai sees herself as my older sister, and me as someone who ‘needs protection’.
It’s the same for me; you are all people I need to protect with all my might. I will give my everything to save you. Although I can’t save everyone, at least the most important people must be protected.
As for others? What does that have to do with me?
Of course, I also fall into the category of ‘others’.
The atmosphere became awkward. At this moment, Xuan’er in my arms raised her head and said weakly.
“Don’t argue… It’s my fault…”
Li Nai and I looked at each other, and then simultaneously said as if reciting lines.
“No, we’re not arguing, it’s just that Juncheng is too stubborn.”
“Okay, let’s just say it’s like that. Actually, I didn’t think too much about it at the time.”
We were only thinking about one thing at this moment: we couldn’t let Xuan’er feel that this was her fault.
In fact, she probably already thinks so, but we can’t let her continue to think that way. If we continue to argue, Xuan’er will be the one most hurt.
See, in the end, Li Nai, you and I are thinking the same thing. We prioritize important people and put our own matters aside, don’t we?
I looked at Li Nai with eyes containing this meaning, and Li Nai read my inner thoughts, pouting a little unhappily, but said nothing more.
Seeing the atmosphere ease, Xuan’er’s furrowed brow relaxed. After relaxing, she fell into a deep sleep.
She still needs more time to accept the sudden surge of massive memories and emotions, which can be described as ‘another different life’. The best place to sort and accept it would be in a dream.
Li Nai sighed again, took the sleeping Xuan’er from my arms, and said.
“…I understand. Since it’s not within your scope of consideration, then we’ll consider it for you. So you have to promise me, next time! If something like this happens again, you absolutely cannot drive me away! Do you understand!”
“….I understand.”
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I think I should change my way of thinking. Instead of driving the other person away from the scene from the beginning, it’s better to think about what help they can provide. Refusing from the start will only make the other person feel untrusted.
Of course, this also depends on the level of danger of the scene. If it is an extremely dangerous situation, I will still let others leave without question.
After taking Xuan’er to the bedroom and covering her with a blanket, Li Nai and I quietly walked out of the room.
“I was careless. I didn’t expect that re-establishing the fated connection would be such a dangerous thing.”
“No, only those memories are dangerous… The trigger for Xuan’er’s awakening and what happened back then were all horrific… Yes, I died there too.”
When I explained earlier, I didn’t go into detail about Xuan’er awakening as a Witch of Calamity, so Li Nai didn’t know the specific events.
But Li Nai seemed to understand and said.
“I see… After all, it’s a disaster… When I awakened, such a catastrophe also happened… If it weren’t for you helping me, even I would have become a zombie.”
“But it should be fine for you, Li Nai. You would only gain the memories that ‘Li Nai who lost her memory’ experienced.”
Restoring the memories of the time when she lost her memory.
This sentence is really awkward to say.
“So you shouldn’t go berserk like Xuan’er.”
Li Nai suddenly showed a flirtatious smile, as if her anger had completely disappeared.
I have had plenty of experience dealing with the ever-changing faces of women, so I calmly said.
“I hope to make a breakthrough.”
“Then you lick it yourself, you take off your clothes too. I won’t take them off, nor will I take the initiative. Here, do it yourself, I will not resist.”
Li Nai simply opened her arms, giving up resistance.
But I dared not act rashly.
“…..”
“I knew you wouldn’t dare.”
This time, it wasn’t that I didn’t dare, but if I did, I’d be in trouble.
Li Nai said she gave up resisting, but in reality, she hadn’t.
She used Destiny Power to add something to herself.
“After all, if you really licked it, Juncheng, your tongue would be itchy for a week~ Haha~”
“Recovering the fated connection means accepting the memories of your ‘original world’ self, right?”
Because it’s about restoring the fated connection with someone from my old world.
So it can make them recover their memories.
I wasn’t very sure before, but judging from Xuan’er’s case, it’s true.
“Then I refuse.”
“So, why?”
I can see that you refused! Otherwise, you wouldn’t have prepared to plot against me.
“I don’t want to accept other people’s memories.”
“That’s your memory.”
“No, that’s not me, is it?”
You see through it very clearly.
Indeed, that was not ‘her’. In fact, even though they are both called Li Nai, there are still differences between individuals.
Would you dare say that you are the same person as yourself ten years ago?
Joking, they are completely different people, both in their experiences and thoughts, and even their personalities.
People change. Every moment, they ‘kill’ their past selves and transform into a new self.
But… so what?
Accepting the past is also a kind of progress, and accepting another possibility is the same.
“No matter what the memories are, you are still you. You are Li Nai, not someone else.”
“Heh, yes, I am Li Nai. Whether or not I become a zombie… It’s not that I’m afraid of becoming someone else. And from what you said, that zombie me seemed to be quite happy.”
Why?
I know you’re not afraid, so I can’t understand why you refuse.
Li Nai should be the least likely of the Four Calamities to refuse to restore the fated connection.
“Because I’m unwilling.”
“What? Unwilling?”
“That’s right, I’m unwilling. I was the first to fall in love with you, Juncheng. I liked you so much, but you rejected me in the end.”
“What? Uh, …”
“Don’t speak yet.”
Li Nai’s expression wasn’t angry, and her tone wasn’t complaining, she was just stating a fact.
“And for that, I made a concession. I treated myself as your older sister and chose to support you, simply because you genuinely liked…”
“…That was the feeling of my ‘this world’ self, not the current me…”
“No matter what the memories are, you are still you?”
Using this logic to counter-attack me… Truly, I’m defeated by you.
“But I also don’t want to refuse you, Juncheng. After all, this is your request, and I instinctively long for love with you. In fact, for me, the choice to restore the fated connection might be better.”
I remained silent, I knew Li Nai still had something to say.
“But I don’t want to forget the feeling I have right now. If I recover my memories, my feelings will definitely change, so I have to make a condition.”
“You say it.”
“If you don’t confess to Xinran, I won’t re-establish the fated connection with you.”
“Nonsense! It’s all because you suddenly ran to my house that day and told me you liked Younger Sister Xinran, a bolt from the blue, that I gave up the shota cultivation plan. I watched as your last shelf life as a shota was about to pass, yet I still didn’t ‘eat’ you!”_
Li Nai excitedly pressed my shoulders and said.
“I’ve made such a concession, and in the end, you tell me this patience is meaningless?! Are you kidding me! If I don’t see you and Younger Sister Xinran together, I’ll definitely die of suffocation! So! It’s settled!”
In order to pursue other girls, I have to confess to my own sister first?
What kind of twisted game development route is this!
