"Time waits for no one..."
Noah sighed, while Hikari, seated across from him, turned to look out the window.
Even with the Elixir of Life, not everyone could truly bear the price of immortality. What kept people from living forever was not merely external factors, but internal ones as well.
Without the proper state of mind, as the years stretched on without end, immortals would either become something their former selves would not recognize, like Zōken Matō, or regard immortality as a curse and torment, seeing death as their only release.
Once upon a time, the four good brothers from the dorm had stayed with Adam's avatar in the Harry Potter World. But as they began using hibernation pods they did not even need, and used them more and more often...
Adam knew it was time for them to say goodbye.
When he had become the only reason the four of them continued living, and immortality brought them nothing but pain beyond that, Adam ultimately chose to let go.
Then, he sought a new solution in his own way.
That photograph was the method he had come up with.
The emotions and desires of anomalies naturally grew faint. This was mainly caused by their bodies being affected by the supernatural; after all, the seven emotions and six desires were fundamentally rooted in bodily hormones.
Yet unlike the seven emotions and six desires triggered by the flesh, feelings on a spiritual level—especially feelings that had existed before one became an anomaly—were generally not affected too severely.
In the timeline where Yang Jian became Yang Jian, his relationship with his good buddy Zhang Wei had never changed because he became a Ghost Controller.
When the body was affected by the supernatural, or could even be said to be composed of the supernatural,