Time Key Souvenirs

When Shade backed out of the bedroom holding two leaves, the cat lying beside the pillow merely gave a lazy meow~, greeting Shade after their three-second separation.

Judging by its appearance, it had no intention of getting up yet. The cat kept an extremely regular schedule: it absolutely would not get up before six-thirty, but once six-thirty arrived, it would definitely wake Shade up and demand breakfast.

Outlander, you have returned to the present time.

A message from the Ancient God, "Father of Infinite Tree":

Infinite Time watches over you.

Listening to the voice by his ear, Shade looked somewhat wistfully at the two leaves and the intertwined black-and-white ribbon in his hand. The ribbon had successfully been brought to the present, proving that it was merely an ordinary item:

"Something about this time feels off."

What feels off?

"There were no conspiracies, no sudden attack at the end, not even a task I couldn't solve. Although this dragged on for a week and only ended after a three-week interval, the reception actually ended safely just like that."

Were you hoping for more drama, or a final battle against a blood-drinking god?

"Not exactly. It's just..."

Shade had an indescribable feeling. He always felt that this matter had not truly ended, yet the two leaves in his hand unquestionably showed that the Time Key of the year 3014 of the Fifth Epoch had been perfectly resolved.

"Am I overthinking this?"

He walked to the window and looked outside. It was still early, and there were not many people in Saint Derain Square. He examined the leaves in his hand again, casually selected one, and pressed it over his right eye.

The veins of the leaf turned gold in an instant. The radiance of that Miracle flowed along the veins until