The Only Way to Leave (Third Update)

Number Two's voice remained utterly flat as he described these things.

It was as if he had long since grown accustomed to everything, with no passion or impulse left toward anything.

But as Lu Xin and Xia Chong listened, they gradually grew horrified. When certain words appeared, that horror reached its peak.

Xia Chong could not help shouting, "The Fifth Stair?"

"You've already set foot on the stairs to Fantasy Nation?"

"You can directly use your mental power to control the actions and thoughts of everyone around you?"

"Y-you can directly bring an entire city into this world?"

"How big a city? As big as Kindling City?"

"And—and you said you could turn the entire world into whatever you wanted to see. What does that mean?"

"You can change the attributes of the real world... the real world itself?"

"..."

As Xia Chong panicked, Lu Xin was panicking too. "That's terrifying..."

Number Two seemed caught off guard by Xia Chong's barrage of questions. After a long while, he slowly said, "What you're asking is a little complicated. I don't know how to answer, either. But I do seem to be able to make the people around me do and think whatever I tell them. If I want to, I can even see their memories, then casually make them erase or rewrite those memories."

"As for cities, I've never tried, and I've never considered where the limit is."

"But if I wanted to, I should be able to pull all of Kindling City into this world..."

"Rewriting the real world..."

"I don't really understand what that specifically means, but before this, that voice once had me conduct an experiment. If I looked at a cup and told other people it was an apple, everyone would think it was an apple..."

"After