The Truth of the World

"Setting aside the part about obtaining information, Yūko Ichihara and Clow Reed left behind a dream that required both of us to open. You didn't know anything else either, right?"

With the images of Clow Reed and Yūko Ichihara in his mind growing ever clearer, Adam nodded in satisfaction and stripped the gossip from their conversation to summarize it.

"Yeah..."

Just thinking about how that one sentence had somehow expanded into a full day and two nights of conversation made Watanuki Kimihiro's head hurt.

Still...

"The part about obtaining information was important too, wasn't it? Was it really okay to just set it aside?"

"Well, we already knew everything we needed to know. If we still couldn't set it aside, then it could only mean something had gone wrong."

Through their earlier exchange, Adam had already confirmed the current situation.

This world was like a mirror. Compared with the story he knew, the people who truly existed outside the mirror had largely changed beyond recognition; only the dimension within the mirror was still repeating stories from the past.

Just as Clow Reed's thoughts could distort space-time and create Fei Wong Reed, the thoughts of Watanuki Kimihiro and other sufficiently powerful people could naturally affect space-time as well...

Thus, under multiple wishes, this world gained a mirror-like dimension that replayed phantoms of the past again and again.

That influence had not involved Yūko Ichihara. Perhaps those distorting space-time were not as powerful as Clow Reed, perhaps their thoughts were not as pure as his had been, or perhaps... they had not wanted to force Yūko Ichihara.

In any case, Watanuki Kimihiro was still the only one in this shop.

Adam did not ask where Shizuka Doumeki's descendants had gone.

As for the current Fei Wong Reed, since he was a reflection,