The End of the Black Box, Uesugi Tetsu's Final Answer! After Endless Years, Nanjō Emi Awakens!

Ye Chun, who received no answer, instead felt relieved.

From then on, she often went to the top of the lighthouse. She did nothing and said nothing, simply sitting quietly beside Uesugi Tetsu's pupil and gazing in the same direction as him.

Even though what they saw was not the same scenery.

—Other than Uesugi Tetsu's three closest and most understanding companions, Erchi, Ye Chun, and Ririko, nobody else noticed that anything about Uesugi Tetsu had changed.

Because from an outsider's perspective, Uesugi Tetsu truly had not changed much from the beginning.

He continued working normally, pointing out directions and marking the difference between dangerous and safe places. Whenever a Correct One encountered danger and shouted for help, he would lend a hand.

At most, he had simply become "quieter."

But on the Wandering Present World, apart from ordinary people whose lives and deaths came swiftly, and a very small number of Correct Ones, every other Correct One had also grown quieter.

There was no other reason. It had simply been too long.

The time the Wandering Present World spent sailing across the boundless Deep Sea was far, far too long.

Even though the Black Box had blurred their precise sense of time, and there were no obvious signs of time passing, such as sunrises and sunsets or the changing seasons, the Correct Ones had still experienced time stretching out like something tangible.

Besides, ever since leaving Everworld, nothing they saw had changed from beginning to end. Under such unchanging tedium, the fun and passion they once possessed were gradually worn away.

Even Kitano Runa, who had not experienced it personally but had been "controlling" it for fun, had already become mentally dazed from playing.

Although she had once played games like Stellaris and Civilization, those "start-from-nothing coloring games" had