White Line in the Rain

"Renee; Guewen's Notebook" itself wasn't expensive. It cost only 2,000 Memory Points, but its special function, "Anchoring Different Worlds' Time," was astonishingly costly: a full 60,000 Memory Points!

Sixty thousand Memory Points was an astronomical sum, but his SSS+ Scenario completion rating gave Xia Lun a 50% discount. Together, the two purchases would cost only 31,000 Memory Points, well within his expectations.

Nothing to think about. Buy it!

With a thought, Xia Lun completed the purchase.

[Memory Points decreased!]

[Anchoring the worlds' time. Estimated time to completion (relative to your frame of reference): please wait...]

[Once the time of the two worlds has been anchored, you will be able to manifest "Renee; Guewen's Notebook."]

[Note: Through your Attraction to that world, you have given this world the opportunity to anchor its time to that world. Thank you for your contribution.]

Reading the thanks in the note, Xia Lun had a vague sense that anchoring time was something of great benefit to the Real World. After a moment's thought, he turned his attention to the second thing he wanted to redeem.

The second item had an unusual name: [Flesh Planet's Gratitude]. Its category was [Evil Flesh Codex]!

In fact, it was the only redeemable entry in the [Evil Flesh Codex] category after this Scenario.

The Flesh Planet really is hard to kill. Guewen shattered its heart with that Beam Cannon ultimate, and it's still alive. Xia Lun made a grim joke to himself. A dead planet couldn't thank anyone or offer a gift, after all.

Unlike ordinary redemptions, [Flesh Planet's Gratitude] did not spend Memory Points to manifest an item or ability anew. Instead, the points briefly established a passage through which the Flesh Planet could exert influence across worlds.

It allowed him to choose one of three mutually