After thinking for a while, Peggy·Carter decided not to pay attention to how many women Kino had, because it had nothing to do with her.
"Do they love you?"
"Love!" Kino said firmly.
"So confident?"
"Oh, maybe the beginning was not beautiful, but I believe... as the bond grows little by little, they will love me." Kino did not hesitate.
Peggy·Carter Actually want to hit him. Are you just entertaining yourself? But forget it...
"Since they love you, it doesn't make any difference even if you contract them in, right? In the end, it just adds some points to their "love"." Peggy·Carter said.
"This is the difference between men and women. As long as the contract is completed, they will be affected. More or less, but there will always be some. What I want is them as they are... with complete selves, not... like a "familiar" existence. I would rather watch them die than want them to be like this with me."
"And..."
Saying that, Kino fell silent.
In fact, what is mentioned below is his real worry and fear.
"I'm worried they will betray me!"
"Uh... aren't you sure they love you?" Peggy·Carter was puzzled.
"Yes! I am sure! If we are just ordinary people, I am sure that they can accompany me throughout this life. After a few decades, I can guarantee that they will not leave me, but... what if they also have a lifespan as long as mine? Before time travel, I had a life span of ten thousand years, but now... I am not sure anymore."
He is not sure how long Kino, who became "Phoenix's Child", will live. But what is certain is that even if he dies, he will be resurrected again.
Maybe--his life span is "endless" now!
Even if he has a life span of ten thousand years, he will worry that the empress and the others will not be able to bear the long time and feel monotonous, lonely, and irritable... and thus leave him.
What should he do then?
Kill?
I've loved you, it's impossible, I can't let go!
Can you let them leave?
Being cuckolded, haha, the macho Kino cannot accept this even more!
It was because of this that he did not dare to make a contract with the empress and the others. He would rather watch the empress and them remain beautiful, reach the end, and live happily through this life, rather than see... the final separation of the couple and turn into enemies!
Time is a butcher's knife, it can destroy all good things.
Even if Kino has the ability to control "time", he cannot escape the backlash of "time" on him.
What if as time goes by, they gradually feel monotonous and lonely and want to find a "new life"? Kino It is impossible to imprison them in books, nor to let them fall into eternal sleep. That would be very cruel.
And if some people can't stand the long time and want to commit suicide, what should Kino do? Watch them die, or give them a ride? In that case, what's the difference between not contracting and watching them leave...?
No!
Time can destroy all beautiful things, and even Kino is not sure of preserving this "beauty" forever, so he dare not do so, let alone tell the empress and others about these things.
Seemingly understanding something, Peggy·Carter shook his head. "You are thinking too much. In a mortal life, this marriage cannot last until death. Basically everyone has had several boyfriends, girlfriends, and several marriages. Is it because they are afraid of breaking up and don't fall in love or get married?"
Kino glanced at Peggy·Carter: "I know what you want to say, but I am not a mortal, and I am not them, I am just myself."
After speaking, he sighed.
"Let's not talk about the butcher's knife of time. This is a matter of the future. I am just panicking because of uncertainty. As far as the important things at hand are concerned, what I am worried about is that... they will lose their "self-emotional personality". What I want is a real living person, not everyone is as passionate as Galina·Dubois."
"They have their own characters and their own emotions! I worry that after being affected, they will lose their original characters. If it is just to deepen the "love", I will not have any hesitation, but the point is not..."
During One Piece World, he tried to bring it up several times, but in the end he suppressed it.
He didn't want to watch the cold and proud empress turn into the "female"-like Kalifa!
"Do you know... Jennifer Lawrence in Odd Jobs Shop?"
"I know." Peggy·Carter nodded.
"She was sent by Magneto to investigate me, but I killed her. I took away her ability, and she wanted to kill me. Do you think she wants to kill me now? No, she didn't fall in love with me, but she became my loyal subordinate. She will basically not disobey my orders."
"..."
"Look at Galina·Dubois. When we first met, we were passers-by and no one knew each other. But after the contract, she became my woman, passionate. She would do whatever I asked her to do, and she would never say no. Even if I wanted to do something in public, she would not refuse, of course... I won't do it."
Peggy·Carter rolled his eyes.
"If someone wants to kill me, she will stand by my side without my giving orders at all. She only has me in her heart, and is all about me!"
"But she can't die either. This is also the price of "Headless Horseman". If you want to gain unprecedented superpowers, you have to bear this price."
"Of course, she still maintains her self-awareness and judgment. She just thinks about me wholeheartedly when she is with me."
"This is the cruel passive effect of "Book of Kino". I don't want them to lose themselves and become strangers that I... don't know. In that case, it would be better to kill me."
"As for the long time? It's really because these contractors have self-awareness and judgment, and they will also have a betrayal mentality. It's just that in that case, I will kill them on the spot, but my lovers... are not my subordinates."
"I can actually make a deep contract. In this way, their potential betrayal will be eliminated, and even... But in that case... they will be no different from dolls! Oh, there are differences, but don't just walk, talk and eat, and the other is just a dead thing."
Peggy·Carter sighed deeply. It turns out that having endless lifespan and powerful abilities is not necessarily a good thing.
"I just want to ask you one thing!"
"What's the matter?"
"Do you want them to stay with you forever?"
"That's natural."
Kino said directly without thinking. He had always thought about it. The only thing he was worried about was that their previous "love" could not withstand the erosion of time.
"In this case, what else do you have to worry about? Think about the future tense in the future. You China have an old saying - there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain. Now this "car" has not reached the mountain yet, why are you worried about it in advance? Since you want to go back, then... you must have found a way to completely eradicate the passive influence, right?"
Ding!
"Buzz--"
Kino's brain was buzzing and going blank.
Peggy·Carter's casual words actually awakened him and unraveled the worries that had been lingering on him for decades.
It turns out--he was just blinding his eyesight with a leaf.
"Ahahahaha, hahahaha - I'm so happy, it's like this... Haha, thank you! - Wow -" Kino hugged Peggy·Carter excitedly and threw it on the boat.