Miss Ai... Li Manman...
His mind reeled from the shock of this discovery.
Han Su had no idea why any of this was happening or how the logic had been twisted, but he was certain of one thing.
He had seen Miss Ai.
Since Miss Ai had exposed her redundant computing power to help him and been sealed away on Life Path No. 01, this was the first time he had seen her again.
Not the mad World-Destroying Machine that went by the Codename Miss Ai, but the Miss Ai he knew—the one who had guided him when he knew nothing, kept him company, brought him into the Mysterious Side, and helped him grow step by step until he began investigating everything.
She was actually Li Manman...
Why was she Li Manman?
Miss Ai had clearly appeared on Life Path No. 01 long ago, so why had he seen a grown-up Li Manman on this Life Path, using the authority of Pallor to invade the World-Destroying Machine and finally become the woman he knew?
Han Su couldn't explain any of this yet, but he also felt a strange, hazy sense that the turning and shifting of Time and Space pointed to just one explanation.
The children kidnapped by the Ancient Castle had never been able to count on anyone else. They had only each other.
So there had been a reason for that familiar feeling.
Miss Ai had always been one of them. She had always been Li Manman, the girl who had once depended on him in the Ancient Castle, just as he had depended on her.
The truth almost made Han Su laugh, but it also left him with an extraordinary heaviness and sorrow.
And through all of this, he couldn't even stop it.
"What exactly