Unfortunately, that was not the case.
That was not a world that could be wholly defined as "the future."
It was a place where they did not know which worldline it was on, what timeline it belonged to, whether Moerae existed, whether there were threats, or whether it might be destroyed the next second...
It looked like the future world's future world.
That was the proper way to put it.
It was far too dangerous and troublesome...
Naturally, Lantian Zhu and the others had no objections to that. They had no longing for the future era, either.
But Yaochuan Guang was different...
"Mmgh!"
Yaochuan Guang grumbled as she sat on the sofa, watching Cong Yu fiddle with the Hourglass in preparation for going to the future. Her cheeks puffed up in anger.
She looked just like a pufferfish.
...Damn, a pufferfish dog.
Lantian Zhu mocked her internally, then approached expressionlessly and pressed both index fingers against Yaochuan Guang's cheeks.
Then she pushed inward.
"Puh-puh-puh-puh—"
The air in Yaochuan Guang's mouth came out in little [puh-puh—] bursts.
Yet she still looked puffy with anger.
However, under Cong Yu's head-patting assault, the expression on Yaochuan Guang's face gradually softened.
Lantian Zhu: "..."
Xiao Cui: "..."
Red: "..."
Chi You: "..."
Alya: "..."
Under everyone's silent gaze, Cong Yu withdrew his hand and waved to them. "Well then, see you in seven hours."
Since the Hourglass had a seven-hour countdown, as long as Cong Yu did not use Faith Power to speed up or slow down its passage, he would return from the future seven hours later... provided nothing unexpected happened.
"Oh, right. I'll turn on the Live-Streaming Spell and send you messages too... though I don't know whether you'll be able to receive them."
As he said that, when the inverted Hourglass