Chapter 2: The Outstretched Blade
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The robber, who couldn't figure out the situation, asked Emilia about the sudden appearance of being nosy.
"I'll be able to spare you if I stop now, so return the stolen things now. β
"Stolen things?"
"Come on, that's something important. Anything else is fine, and that thing must not be lost. Honestly, give it back to me!"
Standing at the junction of light and darkness, the girl waved her hands so that everyone present could understand how important it was to her.
Arashi, who already felt that he had completely reduced himself to a spectator, leaned against the wall with his hands folded, and he knew the next plot development in his chest. The robbers will begin to explain that they are not thieves, and after realizing that she has found the wrong murderer, Emilia still decides to spend a significant chase time to help the hero chase away the three thieves.
At this moment, with the sound of a hard ball hitting the flesh, there were three sounds, and several small thieves were directly knocked out by fist-sized ice cubes, ah, it was really appropriate.
"Oh, it's magic. β
The red lotus dog split its lips, revealing its sharp canine teeth, and its dark and bright dog eyes squinted at Lan who was full of bamboos in his chest, and asked curiously, "Do you remember the news about this world?" β
"Well, a little bit. β
"That ......"
"We'll talk about that later. β
Arashi interrupted the pet dog's question, and looked at Emilia who was walking towards him, and the male protagonist Atsuki Ang, who was saved on the ground and staggered to get up.
"Aren't you their companion?"
The silver-haired girl who stopped looked curiously at Arashi, who had been watching the play since she appeared.
Arashi shook her head silently, but instead looked seriously at Emilia in front of her and the miniature cat-like elf named 'Parker' floating beside her.
The two seem to be caught in a strange stage of eye contact, or more accurately, their pets, and the Red Lotus begins to grin when he sees Parker, feeling like he is fighting for territory.
"Saved, thank you. β
It was Caiyue Pleiades who had been forgotten to the side who spoke, and at the moment he looked very embarrassed with a blue nose and swollen face.
As if finally realizing that there was a third party again, Emilia turned to stare at Natsuki and said, "Don't move." β
"Huh. Caiyue didn't seem to have figured out the situation yet, and her eyes subconsciously looked at Emilia, perhaps because of the girl's overly outstanding beauty, Caiyue looked away slightly.
"I look away when I'm ashamed, and it seems that I'm not mistaken. β
"God knows, it was just a boy's normal reaction just now, and I didn't feel malicious at all. β
"Parker, shut up. You know what it takes to steal my badge. β
Emilia, who told the kitten to shut up, asked Natsuki Pleiades, and her face showed a smug look at seeing through them.
"I'm sorry, but I didn't mean to disturb your interrogation. Since the robbers have been driven away by you, I'll go first. β
Before Natsuki could speak, Arashi turned around and waved her hand, then put her hands in the pockets of her trench coat and walked out of the alley, leaving Emilia and Natsuki standing still.
Sitting cross-legged on Lan's shoulder, the Red Lotus Dog complained angrily: "Damn, that cat can even talk." β
"Well, don't worry about this little thing. Lan patted the head of the red lotus dog, and his body was flexible and shuttled through the crowd, and from time to time he passed by the aborigines of this world, their appearance was quite special, and the hair colors that had been confirmed were varied, and from time to time there were some body parts that were contrary to the 'animal ears', 'dog ears', 'cat ears' and 'bunny girls'.
After searching again to no avail, Lan simply found a corner that was invisible to outsiders, jumped to the roof of someone else's house and sat cross-legged. It is airy on all sides, with a steady stream of people and wagons at your feet, and a castle in the distance, a huge cumulonimbus cloud with a few black dots slowly fluttering under the blue sky.
It's a great place to talk and talk without worrying about being overheard.
"Say, the situation you remember. The red lotus dog, who had changed from Lan's shoulder to his lap, snorted, "Those two people just now should be important plot characters." β
"Yes. Arashi nodded, placing the long knife at his side, and looking at the castle in the distance, "To be exact, it should be the hero and the heroine." β
"Eh, what an important person, why don't you take the opportunity to build a good relationship, they are synonymous with trouble and incident. Following them, are you still afraid that you won't fight? Damn, just such a good opportunity. β
"Because there is a problem in the world. β
"What's the problem?"
"Remember the guy who was just robbed? His name is Natsuki Pleiades, and he looks like an ordinary person, but he has the ability to turn back time, no, it doesn't seem appropriate to say that. Arashi rubbed his chin with his hand, "It's like a save point in the game, he returns to the nearest save point after each death and starts over." β
"I'm sorry, this can't be, it violates the three basic laws of Gaia's consciousness. "Red Lotus's reaction was unexpectedly intense, for this ark creature, Red Lotus, who followed Lan around as a 'guide', still stopped at the ark to learn the knowledge of the world.
But it's true. Lan shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands, "And every time Cai Yue re-reads the file, except for himself, everyone's memories will also be reset, and the memories of the advance will disappear." β
Hearing Arashi's words, the Red Lotus Dog furrowed a few eyebrows above his eyelids and continued to ask, "How much do you know about this world?" β
"Not much, probably just watched the first few episodes. When I was summoned by the Ark, it happened to be not long after this new episode came out. The implication of Arashi's words is that he doesn't know very well, "The only thing I know, it seems that the ability that gives Natsuki this ability is an existence in this world called the Jealous Witch." β
"Jealous witch?"
"Well, it should be the biggest villain in this world, the root of everything. β
"I still can't believe that the guy named Natsuki has such an ability, and I doubt even the villain called the Jealous Witch. Lan, do you remember the three basic laws?"
Arashi nodded, about Gaia's basic law, it is an iron law that all things must obey, and it is the knowledge he learned on the ark.
"Independent, unique, normal. β
"Independent and parallel to other worlds will not interfere with each other, and the three thousand worlds in the universe maintain their uniqueness and the principle of moving forward according to the normal state of all things. As long as these three laws are violated, Gaia will not allow such a world to exist, and there is no need to punish at all, and the world will begin to disintegrate from itself. β
"Shang Zi is playing with the two golden threads of time and space, this guy called the Jealous Witch is really bold, isn't she afraid of causing trouble?"
Lan didn't respond to the red lotus dog's chatter, but just put her hand on her eyelids, the clouds in the sky were gradually fading, and the obscured sunlight shone on the earth again.
"Could it be that the world is still in its nascent stage?"
Hearing the Red Lotus Dog's whisper, Arashi asked rhetorically, "Freshman stage?"
"Well, because of some special relationship, Gaia will have special care for the newborn world, probably ...... Probably, it's what you used to call the novice period, which is pretty much what it means, anyway, Gaia's dead mother will be very tolerant of this kind of newly born world. β
"I don't really care about that. Lan patted the head of the Red Lotus Dog, who had been entangled with rationality, "Cai Yue Pleiades resets everyone's memories every time she reads the file, and I wonder if this condition is also true for me." β
The Red Lotus Dog frowned and thought about the feeling of being manipulated with his memory, just thinking about it made the dog feel so disgusting that he wanted to vomit, stretched out his paw on Lan's chest, and said in a casual tone: "Kill him once and you won't know." β
"Good idea. β
Hearing the words of the Red Lotus Dog, the corners of Lan's mouth raised, and his sharp eyes happened to see two familiar figures running by in the crowd below.
The young man with the blade in his hand stood up again from the floor of the house, the white trench coat blown by the whistling mountain wind 'rustling', and the fleeting sunlight was obscured by the clouds, and a huge shadow was cast on the roof where Arashi was.
Facing the empty and quiet world, Arashi's eyes gradually locked on the boy in the strange tracksuit, and then when a strong wind hit, his figure disappeared like a leaf in the wind.