Volume 5, Chapter 8 – Encounter?

On a couples’ commercial street in Storm City where couples were everywhere, Tianyin was sitting in a dessert shop there, enjoying sweets together with a Paladin girl.

『Wuu… so what I mean is, this whole thing was just an accident!』

After Samael bluntly pointed out that fact, Tianyin’s small face had already turned completely red.

『Besides, we just wanted to have a bit of dessert at least, who would care about something like this…』

「Pff… alright alright, if you say it is nothing to care about, then it is nothing to care about, Xiaoyin.」

Although she really wanted to keep teasing Tianyin, after hesitating for a moment, Samael still felt that if she kept making fun of Tianyin nonstop, it really would not be very nice.

『Hmph… anyway, I am finishing my dessert first, then we can talk about other things!』

Tianyin wrinkled her delicate little nose, gave two soft snorts, then once more devoted herself to the great undertaking of the sweets in front of her.

Well, although Tianyin was still carefully savoring the delicious desserts at that moment, as time passed, the mood in the dessert shop slowly began to change.

More accurately speaking.

It was the gazes.

Aside from Tianyin and Fisiel, almost every customer present in this dessert shop was, without exception, focusing their eyes on Tianyin.

“That child… has she never eaten dessert before?”

“No… judging from her clothes she should be a young lady from some noble family… but to have eaten that much dessert and still look like she is not full… that really is very strange…”

“Honestly… why would such a cute child look like she has never had enough to eat, just how cruel are her family…”

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Of course, the conversation above was between the natives of Storm City, in other words the NPC couples.

Naturally, besides the NPCs whose gazes had been drawn over by Tianyin’s way of eating, the player couples in the dessert shop were also looking in Tianyin’s direction.

Compared to the NPCs, what the players were talking about was completely different.

“What an adorable NPC… that big eater setting is so cute~”

“Yeah yeah, and she is a silver haired loli. I don’t know why, but she feels familiar somehow. Still, a girl this cute really can only exist in a game, right?”

“I really want to bring one home to raise… uh, such a cute little thing, I could feed her all kinds of tasty desserts every day~”

Tianyin could not hear any of those words.

In fact, as the person in question, Tianyin was completely unconcerned about all the gazes that kept drifting over toward her from the surroundings.

Throwing her whole heart into the grand mission of clearing the desserts in front of her, she had almost entered a state where she forgot everything else.

Honestly speaking…

This Tianyin who, with all her heart, ate her desserts while her expression bloomed into a happy smile, after going through so many things, could only be seen at a time like this.

After all,

Even now, Tianyin still looked like a silly girl without any worries, but in truth, who could really know what Tianyin was actually thinking in her heart.

Xiaobingxue leaving, Ye Luo lying unconscious, Lucifa being hurt.

After going through that series of events, it was very hard for Tianyin to still claim she was someone with no worries at all.

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Only when she was eating dessert could Tianyin temporarily forget the shadow pressing down on her heart, and briefly free herself from the anxiety inside.

The dessert really was delicious food for Tianyin.

Of course, the dessert was not only tasty on the surface. It was also something Tianyin used to ease her mood.

While Tianyin was concentrating fully on dealing with the desserts on the table, in the most inconspicuous corner of the dessert shop, a player wrapped from head to toe in a black cloak was silently watching her.

Not far from that player, there were several other players sitting and ostensibly eating dessert, yet their eyes would occasionally flick toward the cloaked player.

Hidden under the shadow of the hood of that black cloaked player was a handsome, refined young face.

And that face belonged to Yunchou, who not long ago had said he was going out to meet someone.

“So you came after all.”

Silently watching Tianyin, who did not care about any of the gazes around her as she ate her dessert, the corners of Yunchou’s mouth lifted slightly.

“Tianyin, even though I already had you cut off contact with Karl in advance, and even drove Fisiel out of the Kingdom, you still arrived in Storm City on this day.”

Murmuring in a voice only he could hear, although Yunchou looked like he was smiling, in those utterly calm eyes, there flickered a faint trace of helplessness.

“Is this the result of this world’s self correction?”

“Or is all of this just the convergence of world lines?”

“Ah, how many times has it been now… I really, really am tired of this…”

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Letting out a barely audible sigh, looking at Tianyin in front of him, who was completely unaware he was watching her, the boy’s expression returned to calm.

“This time, I have already used everything I can possibly use.”

“If I fail again this time… then there is no need for me to keep plotting anything at all…”

He stood up. After calmly watching Tianyin for a few more seconds, Yunchou left a silver coin on the table, then left without looking back.

“Yunchou left!”

“Follow him, follow him!”

Right after Yunchou left, those few players hidden in the various corners exchanged a few looks, each left a silver coin behind, then departed the dessert shop one after another.

『Wuu…』

At the same time, as Tianyin happily ate her sweets, her movements suddenly paused slightly.

「What is it, Xiaoyin?」

Noticing the stillness in Tianyin’s movements, Samael’s voice rang out in her mind.

『Wuu… Samael…』

Questioned by Samael, Tianyin’s gaze suddenly became unfocused.

『Hey, Samael, tell me, do you think people who can foresee the future really exist in this world?』

「Foresee the future?」

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Hearing Tianyin’s words, Samael answered without thinking.

「Impossible, Xiaoyin. Leaving aside whether something like foreseeing the future could even exist, with how uncertain the future is by nature, it cannot be predicted in the first place.」

『Wuu… is, is that so?』

Tianyin did not understand what was meant by the future being uncertain. What she understood was only Samael’s words that the ability to foresee the future did not exist.

『So the ability to foresee the future actually does not exist?』

「Of course it does not.」

『Then, Samael… I have one more question…』

As if she had thought of something, Tianyin started to speak yet held back.

「Hm? Go ahead, Xiaoyin.」

『Samael, tell me, since the future cannot be predicted, is there a chance of another possibility. That there is someone who can come back from the future?』

「Come back from the future?」

After hearing Tianyin’s words, Samael unusually fell silent.

「Probably… that would not be possible either… something like that…」