The Infected World

Another "personality" dwelled within her body.

For the dignified "Origin Witch," this was not something difficult to notice.

Although, with the Witch's strength as the only genuine Eighth Sequence in the world, the fact that another personality dwelled within her body beyond even her own detection sounded more or less absurd.

But—

No matter how foolish the Witch might be,

when it came to the fact that she would always suddenly seem to space out for a moment, only to appear in some absolutely inappropriate place in an utterly inappropriate, shameful pose,

she would notice something unusual sooner or later.

It was just like... that heroine from the "time stop" thing Youzi had watched before.

At that thought, the Witch sitting before Su Youzi subconsciously tightened the hand resting on the girl's shoulder.

A flash of panic appeared in her beautiful crimson eyes.

Besides, the Witch was not foolish.

After only a few incidents—

she had caught the scent of something strange.

Someone was playing with "time."

Yet "time," as the eternal movement, continuity of change, and manifestation of sequence of the most special substance in this world, was not something even the "Origin Witch" herself could toy with easily.

She could only walk within an instant.

Or grant the concept of "eternity" to things that should have vanished in the blink of an eye.

And... only she could walk within an instant.

As for the matter of Su Youzi plucking the strings of time to resist "Jialan," separating herself or her contracted operators from time, and creating Time Crystals... even the "Origin Witch" had to admit she could not do it.

There might be only two people in this world capable of playing with time.

Excluding the possibility that Su Youzi had secretly copied a portion of the authority