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Without a doubt.

Rachel had been the one who drove over.

After Rachel got out, she picked up Helen, who came running toward her. After kissing Helen, she saw Lake walking out with a strange expression on his face. "What's wrong?"

Lake shook his head, his expression perfectly normal. "Did you all arrange this?"

Rachel blinked. "What? I have no idea what you're talking about."

Lake's face immediately darkened. "I haven't even asked my question yet."

She had just given herself away.

Good grief.

If Katherine hadn't been an adult yet, Emilia would probably have come to pick her up first, followed by Hermione, and then Rachel. If the other women had children in the future, this chain of pickups might continue indefinitely.

Sure enough.

A woman's words were all lies.

Hadn't they agreed not to contact one another? Lake increasingly felt that these women had secretly created a small group chat. And this wasn't merely suspicion on his part—he had evidence.

The last time Lake had once again used his multi-line micro-control skill, every single one of them except Tethys, who apparently hadn't joined the group yet, had noticed. Every one of them had immediately exposed the fact that Lake had used his clones again.

And then...

They even seemed to have planned it. Despite the time differences in their various locations, they had somehow seduced Lake into exercising at exactly the same time.

Fortunately, Lake had not gotten this far on empty boasts.

Before the Chaos Universe had expanded, using this move had been somewhat troublesome. But ever since the Chaos Universe obtained Creation Soil and opened the Chaos Underworld, Lake had been able to use it.

Simply put.

The Lakes scattered across the various locations at the time had not been clones. Every one of them had