Something was wrong!
Xiao Yu's eyes flew open. When he had been testing his weapon, he had placed the refined ore on the table and used the Void-Breaking Blade to cut it. He had been a weapon's length away from the table, yet after opening the system panel and coming back to his senses, he found the writing on the table. Now, he could reach out and press his hand directly onto the words. The distance between him and the table had changed.
"There's only one possibility..." Xiao Yu said in disbelief. "My... memories..."
A glint flashed through Xiao Yu's eyes. Something must have happened after he checked the panel and the system malfunctioned, but his memories had vanished. The writing on the table must have been carved down by him after he realized his memories were about to disappear, meant to warn his future self.
"The punishment is fake!"
"Xiao Yi Xian in the Inner Academy!"
Staring at the writing on the table, Xiao Yu gradually pieced everything together.
"But what does it mean that the punishment is fake? What punishment..." Xiao Yu looked at the words on the table in confusion. They were somewhat messy, which also meant he had written them in a rush. "Xiao Yi Xian in the Inner Academy..." Xiao Yu's thoughts returned to those days in the Magic Beast Mountain Range—the gentle girl who was like an angel, Xiao Yi Xian's tender care, and the promise they had made beneath the starry sky...
"Will Xiao Yi Xian appear in the Inner Academy?" A trace of confusion flashed through Xiao Yu's eyes. "According to the original plot, she should have gone to the Izumo Empire. Then the reason I wrote this down wasn't to remind myself that Xiao Yi Xian was in the Inner Academy.