"Rei'in..." Hyakka began to recall. "She was my friend."
"My home was on Shikoku Island."
"Then, one summer, I met a girl. She seemed to be injured."
"So I helped bandage her wounds, and we became friends."
"And that girl was Rei'in."
"Then I'll take you to see her," Su Yang said.
"No need." At that moment, a voice suddenly came from the void.
"Huh?"
Hyakka let out a startled cry. Nervously, she looked toward the source of the voice, but there was only empty space. She could see nothing.
She could not see her.
But Su Yang did.
He saw a blue-haired girl.
Her features were exquisitely perfect, a face that seemed utterly inhuman.
She was incomparably delicate and beautiful.
And absurdly powerful.
She stood in the void.
Su Yang knew this figure.
Kurumi Mio from Date A Live.
And she had a clone—Murasame Reion.
"I'm right here." Kurumi Mio—no, Rei'in—said, "Mr. Su Yang."
"You truly are a very extraordinary person."
"In the past, because of Hyakka's death, I once tried to travel through time and space."
"And I tried to do something about it."
"But I failed every time."
"After that, I no longer dared to try." The First Spirit said, "But this time, it succeeded."
"You completely changed Hyakka's life—her fate."
"It was truly remarkable."
"As though you were unrestricted by time, space, or worlds."
"So my conjecture was correct." Rei'in said. "You are not from this world."
"I'm not from this world—"
"You came from a world far more distant, and far more powerful." Kurumi Mio said. "That was also why I had remained vigilant and dared not act rashly."
"Because you are here."
In the original work, Kurumi Mio had made countless efforts to revive the deceased male lead.
At the same time, she had