I'm Not a Flame-Chaser - Chapter 593

"One of them has yet to be obtained by anyone, and the other is in the hands of a fellow Stargazer."

So, the objective is clear: Lin is responsible for persuading Rita and the others to hand over the Poké Ball, while Welt and the others go to Stargazer. If they can't persuade them, they'll steal the Poké Ball, and then they'll search for the last Poké Ball together.

"Okay, let's go."

Bronya was a capable and pragmatic person. After finalizing the plan, she immediately wanted to take action. However, when she reached out to take Seele's hand, Seele took a step back and walked to Lin's side under her questioning gaze.

"Um... Seele should stick with Brother Lin for now, we're teammates for now..."

Seele nodded shyly to Bronya and Lin.

"Alright, it's too much trouble for the three of us to travel together." Welt also considered that he was currently a burden, and if Seele were added, Bronya would have too much to take care of. "Then let's agree to meet here in an hour."

The four parted ways there and went their separate ways. Seele couldn't help but look back at Bronya, and Bronya also silently looked back at her. After seeing Bronya's face, Seele nodded with relief.

"Brother Lin... do you want to go back to your own world?"

As Lin came over and hugged Seele, she asked softly.

"... I don't know, maybe there's someone in my world waiting for me." Lin shook his head.

But...

"I... want to go back."

A hint of red light flickered deep in Seele's eyes.

New Testament: Afterword of the Dirac Sea: Chapter 113 Man and Beast

"Bang!"

"What happened?"

While we were still halfway back, the ground began to shake violently.

Immediately afterwards, a deafening roar shook her hearing, causing Seele to cover her ringing ears and bury her head.

Is this the direction Rita is heading?

Lin could see the thick smoke not far away.

Delta has returned and is fighting Rita and the others.

Lin has been traveling or on his way to travel for the past two days. On one occasion, he thought of a problem: there is one last person among the participants that he has not yet met.

Given that all the participants are related to Lin, could the last person be...?

"Boom!"

Just as they jumped from the streetlight to the ground, the building in front of them exploded from the inside out. Lin kicked away the flying debris, protected Seele, and retreated behind cover, frowning as he observed the location of the battle.

"Buzz..."

What was that sound?

A deep, powerful hum of a mechanical motor starting up emerged from the dust and echoed down the street, sounding somewhat like...

Chainsaw?

"Buzz!"

The noise suddenly escalated sharply to a decibel level! Two figures rushed out of the dust one after the other. Lin squinted and saw that the person dodging in front was Rita, who was holding a scythe. She didn't seem too flustered, but she wasn't relaxed either. Her opponent was also quite strong. She swung her scythe to block the opponent's chainsaw attacks, which were so heavy that each strike sent her back.

"Hand over all the Poké Ball!"

Lin was stunned for a moment when he heard the familiar voice. As the aftershocks of the fierce battle spread around, the smoke and dust that had been covering the area gradually dissipated, revealing the appearance of the person who was fighting Rita.

It was a petite figure wielding a large, double-edged chainsaw that was disproportionately large for her size. She swung it swiftly and fiercely as if it were a small knife, each swing making the crimson in her eyes, which were even deeper Rita's wine-red, appear even more vibrant.

"Buzz!"

With a stomp of her foot, she shattered the ground, her slender arm grabbing a chainsaw and bringing it down heavily, forcing even Rita to barely dodge.

"Give me back Poké Ball that guy gave you, and everything you own!" Blood emanated from the air, and an extremely thick, foul-smelling blood mist filled the surroundings, blotting out the sky and even blocking out the sunlight.

Her long, silver-white hair swayed violently beneath her veil, revealing a wildness completely different from her Xiao Ke appearance.

"Oh dear, this is really..."

Rita used the scythe for support, propping herself up with one hand to dodge the chainsaw's blows. Although the attacker intentionally avoided using the blade, the terrifying power it displayed still made her break out in a cold sweat.

"Hand over the Poké Ball and I'll let you go." The petite girl in gothic-style clothing said in a low voice, plunging the chainsaw into the concrete and staring at the maid who seemed to be handling the situation with ease. "I'm looking for someone very important."

"Hehe, little kid, who doesn't want their wish to come true?"

Rita slowly stood up, her right hand spinning the scythe, the soft sound of it cutting through the air filling the air. She smiled and said, "Simply stating your requests won't get you anyone's approval, you know~"

On the streets shrouded in blood mist, the gloom on the girl's pretty face gradually faded, replaced by a cold expression.

"Um?"

Your aura is different now?

Rita looked at the silver-haired girl with a completely different aura in an instant with a puzzled expression. Rita could see even the slightest difference between different people, and she could even tell twins apart in three seconds.

Therefore, she could clearly sense that the girl in front of her had become a different person, like a knife drawn from its sheath, its cold light sharpened.

Theresa.

"Huh?"

At that moment, a soft call dispelled the cold glint of the blade.

Almost instinctively, the silver-haired girl turned her head. Her gaze shifted, and in the sunlight she no longer found repulsive, she saw a man with black hair standing not far away.

One eye is a bright and eerie rainbow color, while the other is a familiar, deep black.

"Humans..."

The vampire girl could hardly believe her eyes. She repeatedly closed and opened her eyes to confirm that what she was seeing was not a fantasy, but the man who had used all his strength to fill the cracks in the sky.

She tried to control the expression on her face, but it kept twitching, and her eyes were filled with warm, moist tears.

How... did you get here?

"Clang."

The chainsaw fell to the ground with a dull thud.

"... It is a pity that Mr. Lin seems to have patched up that crack at his own expense, just like Nuwa in the ancient myths of China, whose body transformed into thousands of gentle breezes to nourish the whole world."

The blond man spoke of regret, but there wasn't a trace of remorse on his face. He stood with a light laugh in front of the silver-haired girl who had her head down.

"He believes in you, that even without him, you could eliminate me as a threat... He really is a man who unconditionally trusts humanity." Otto's smile held no contempt. He recalled the man's eyes and sighed softly. "Perhaps if he had been born into this world, we could have been friends."

"..."

"However, the final result remains unchanged, Miss Yue. The Herrscher Core and the Aether Anchor within you should be returned to their rightful owners."

"...wrong."

"Wrong?"

Otto raised an eyebrow and smiled, "What's wrong with it?"

"First of all, Lin is not dead. He is my familiar. Even if we are separated by the entire world, I will never fail to find his way." Yue raised her head, her red eyes gleaming slightly. "Secondly, I do not intend to give you the Herrscher Core and the Aether Anchor. They already have new owners."

A new owner?

Otto suddenly realized what was happening. Just as he was about to turn around, the wall behind him was blasted to pieces, and a petite figure flew out from the rubble, grabbed Otto by the back of the head, and slammed him to the ground.

The girl, who looked exactly like Yue, gritted her teeth and pressed down hard on the man she called "Grandpa".

In the moment he struggled to see Theresa, Otto understood Light's words and realized why she had chosen to make a deal with him before.

From the beginning, Yue never intended to hand over the Herrscher Core and the Aether Anchor to him.

"I'm sorry... Grandpa, but you've gone down the wrong path. We can't entrust the world that humanity has given everything to protect to you." Theresa whispered, tears welling in her eyes, biting her lip.

"Theresa..."

"Smack."

Before Otto could utter a complete sentence, Yue stepped forward, placed her hand on his head, and her eyes, as red and viscous as blood, instantly emptied and stagnant the blond man's gaze.

"He's not dead. He really did have a backup plan. We need to hurry."

Yue stood up and, without hesitation, reached for her chest. Theresa asked softly—

"Moon, are you really willing to do this...?"

Two similar-looking girls gazed at each other as if looking in a mirror; the one with the blank expression let out a soft sigh.

"... There's no question of whether I wanted to or not; it's just that a wild beast has become a human."

The New Testament: Afterword of the Dirac Sea: Chapter 114 The Serpent Emerges from Darkness

"Their past and your future are intertwined. Since when did you become like a ghost, neither in the past nor in the future?"

"..."

"When did it start...? Looking back now, it was after your Hypervariable Surgery, right? You began to observe the threads of destiny from the future. So, your Hypervariable Surgery wasn't a failure. On the contrary, you should be the most successful one among us."

"..."

"Lin, let me tell you, there is only one ideal in the world, and that is 'to trample on the ideals of others'."

"What exactly is going on? And why are you here?"

Even though Lin was mentally prepared, he still couldn't help but ask when Theresa appeared in front of him.

According to Rita, she asked Himeko to look after Yae Kasumi while she went out to find Lin, but was attacked by Theresa on the way.

"I... let me do it."

Just as Theresa was about to speak, her crimson eyes reflected a faint red light, and her previously excited expression returned to calm. This expression reminded Lin of someone else.

"...moon?"

"It's me."

Theresa gave a curt reply, confirming Lin's idea.

"... I hope you can explain in simple terms why you are now in the same body."

Lin admitted that after entering the dream world, he encountered many unbelievable things, such as discovering that he had already traveled in the Quantum Sea before his memory was lost, meeting people from his original world and finding his own world, and finding a Herrscher Core inside a building in Changkong City...

Now, the two vampires have merged into one and are standing before him, adding a vibrant touch to his fantastical journey.

"I gave the Herrscher Core and Aether Anchor to Theresa."

With a blank expression, Yue indeed revealed the truth of the matter in a simple sentence.

"...what happened?"

"Since the problem lies in our consciousness, we can change our consciousness. My Herrscher Authority are naturally good at this kind of thing, so I gave Theresa the Herrscher Core sealed my consciousness. Now our consciousnesses have merged into one."

"..."

Is there... such a method?

Lin then realized that since Theresa was also a contestant, it meant that she had been in the World Bubble for a full four days. Lin was also in this World Bubble, but he did not encounter the rejection from the World Bubble and the Quantum Sea. In other words, this method did indeed solve the consciousness problem.

The only price was that Moon lost her own body, and she and Theresa could only coexist in one body from then on.

"Then, after resolving Otto's problem and settling Kallen, we left World Bubble to come find you." Yue spoke quickly, but Rita and Lin could both hear her clearly. At this moment, Rita realized that the people in front of her were Theresa and Yue from the previous World Bubble that Lin had mentioned.

"...Sigh." Lin shook his head. He now understood why Stargazer had asked if she was Theresa, whom he knew. It turned out that Theresa and Stargazer had teamed up, and each of them had a Poké Ball. Their wish was probably to find Lin.

This explains why Stargazer so generously handed the Poké Ball to Welt; her wish seems to have come true.

So far, all team members have been revealed, and he was surprised to find that after figuring out everyone's identities, they no longer needed to fight for the Poké Ball.

This absurd competition came to an end on the fourth day, and what we would discuss afterward was simply the world of Lin and Welt.

But why did Lin sense something was amiss?

This strange feeling quickly dissipated after Theresa regained control of her body. She stared intently at Lin's face and then said softly, "Human, I have regained my memories."

"..."

Recovering memories...

Lin realized that after Yue's Herrscher Core and Aether Anchor entered Theresa's body, her memories from the loop were also restored.