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By delving into the other me's memories, I could experience everything she had been through firsthand, feeling what she, Mi Xue, and the Proxy had experienced in the virtual reality SpiCa had constructed.
Perhaps it was that very experience that had inspired Mi Xue to create this vast virtual reality encompassing all life...
"I" woke up in bed, with a soundly sleeping Ceruno beside me, though her hair was short and her demeanor was different.
She was a Ceruno from another future, a witch who did not exist in this timeline.
She was the Proxy.
So this was that virtual reality?
Though SpiCa had told me about it, I hadn't expected it to feel so real. It was in this space that she and the Proxy had "tamed" the newborn great will.
"Mommy! Daddy!"
Just as that thought crossed my mind, a little dark-skinned, white-haired girl burst through the doorway.
Unlike the teenage Mi Xue I had met before, the little girl before me looked much younger. I wasn't even sure she was ten, but "I" opened my arms and caught her as she flung herself at me.
The little girl nuzzled against "me," clamoring, "Let's keep simulating creation today! Mi Xue wants to become a creator who makes everyone happy!"
With all that commotion, the Proxy obviously couldn't keep sleeping peacefully.
"Ugh, so noisy."
She rubbed her eyes and sat up, then took Mi Xue from "my" arms and...
Bit her little cheek.
"Mommy, save me! Daddy's going to eat me!!"
"I" remained unmoved, getting up and going into the bathroom to wash.
For the first time in ages, I saw my dark-skinned self in the mirror.
Honestly, once I got used to it, this appearance was quite pleasing. But passively experiencing all this felt unpleasant, as