"Won!"
The girl's body became tangible and hugged Feng Chen.
The slightly oppressive atmosphere from moments ago changed because of the girl.
"You..." Feng Chen looked at the girl hugging him, his heart filled with questions.
"You didn't die?"
"Did you want me to die?"
Sirin released Feng Chen and puffed out her cheeks, as if expressing her displeasure.
"I was just a little curious. You clearly handed over your Herrscher Core, so why didn't you die?"
To a Herrscher, the Herrscher Core was equivalent to a heart. Once a Herrscher lost their Herrscher Core, they would die.
But why hadn't Sirin died? Welt, who had also offered up his Herrscher Core, was already dead, and the Black Xuanyuan Sword, which had lost its Herrscher Core, had disappeared as well. Sirin alone had not vanished.
There was only one possible explanation, but Feng Chen didn't believe it was correct. Yet everything happening now was telling him that his guess had been right.
"Why did you follow me here!"
The Sirin standing here wasn't the Sirin from the world replicated by the Quantum Sea.
Feng Chen possessed Sirin's Stigmata, so Sirin could return to his side at any time through it. Even if it consumed a great deal of energy, Sirin could still cross space and reach him.
"Bianca and I both tried to hurry as much as possible, but you still followed me in the end."
Feng Chen didn't believe Sirin would get up at six in the morning. Bianca, whom he had expected, had already caused him plenty of trouble. Now there was a Sirin too.
"Why do I feel like you're looking at me as if I'm some gigantic nuisance?"
"And how did you know?"
"Mm... How am I a nuisance?! Without me, you couldn't have used this