Chidori felt Xiao Ran was joking with her, deliberately trying to scare her. What the hell were spirit and soul? Weren't they all the same thing? Besides, such matters still felt far removed from her. She had some vague sense of certain things but had never encountered them or formed any concrete understanding. Yet, faintly, she really could feel someone whispering by her ear. Instinctively, though, she was unwilling to admit it.
But it was difficult for Chidori to doubt Xiao Ran's words. He was not someone who liked making jokes carelessly, and the fact that he had kept her behind alone to tell her this was enough to show how serious it was. The feeling of being cleansed from the depths of her heart beneath Sheryl's singing today had also been especially miraculous, as though even her soul had been purified. A shadow that had weighed on her heart for some time now seemed to have suddenly dispersed.
Chidori held her head and leaned against the sofa for a long while before looking at Xiao Ran in disbelief. "Me? You're saying I can destroy this world? That can't be possible, can it? I'm so ordinary, so normal. How could I possibly do something like that?"
Xiao Ran said, "It's not that you would do such a thing. It's that you possess the ability to achieve it. You can think of yourself as a failsafe. Once that failsafe is activated, the world will naturally enter a reboot phase. From one perspective, you are ordinary, but from another, you are exceptionally special."
"And perhaps even if you have never thought of destroying the world, if something happened that you regretted deeply—regretted to the utmost—that caused you unbearable pain and sorrow, and you began imagining that none of it had ever happened,