"This isn't my world. There's nothing here to cling to..."
Kaguya finally came back to her senses. "As for my own world and the Otsutsuki Clan, I don't feel any attachment to them. I even wish they would disappear."
"But you..."
As her awareness returned to herself, she suddenly froze. "When did you hug me?"
Wuye's hand had only been hovering lightly over her abdomen, but now that she had noticed, he simply stepped closer and tightened his arms around her from behind.
"I've been hugging you for a while," he said, tilting his head to whisper in her ear. "But what were you saying about me?"
Held tightly around the waist by him, Kaguya Otsutsuki felt a little lost, yet she also enjoyed it.
The impulse she had felt since earlier had now been fulfilled. So this was what intimacy felt like...
She quietly savored the sensation, not even thinking of breaking free.
"I meant..."
She spoke softly. "Although we've only known each other for a few days, because of the special relationship between us, perhaps you'll become my final attachment to this world..."
"An attachment?" Wuye repeated.
Kaguya gently nodded. "Yes. If I don't build an intimate relationship with you, then even if you wake me up in the future, I think I'll still feel awkward."
"Why?" Wuye asked.
She fell silent for a while before saying, "Because then, I would feel like I was the one who came later."
Wuye was taken aback.
In truth, he wanted to say that no matter what, she had already come later for him...
"You share the same soul. You simply have different memories because of your different bodies. Will they remain separate forever?" he asked.
Kaguya Otsutsuki thought about it. "No. Even with different bodies, once the souls interact for