The others in the group probably knew about his emotional experiences too. Aside from Wong and Luffy, the rest were no better off than him.
Ye Fan closed Battle Through the Heavens with an amused smile. He had not expected Xiao Yan to be such an expert at flirting.
He did not care about privacy or anything like that.
In fact, sending those stories privately would have been pointless. Once the others visited another world someday, they would naturally see the relevant information.
Even if Su Lin did not post them in the group, Ye Fan would look up everyone else's stories online when he went to Su Lin's world.
Baidu—who did not know how to use it?
So he had not asked Su Lin to send them privately. Instead, he had generously let everyone see them.
Other than a few details, their major experiences were still largely the same for now.
He cast a contemptuous glance at the big black dog beside him.
And despite already becoming an emperor, he had still been schemed against by this fellow, ending up with amnesia, getting married, and having children—all for the Innate Saint Physique Dao Embryo.
Ye Fan could only call him impressive.
You had been obsessing over that Innate Saint Physique Dao Embryo all day. How many years had it been now?
The Black Emperor felt a chill run down his spine when he noticed Ye Fan's gaze.
"Woof! What are you plotting, brat?!"
When he went to the Earth in Su Lin's world, he would first head to Yulin and buy two pounds of dog meat. He spent all day blackening people, only to be blackened by a black dog.
"Nothing." Ye Fan grinned, flashing his pearly white teeth. He simply stopped paying attention to the damned dog and turned his focus back to the Chat Group.
Han Li: "Speaking of which, I wonder how Brother Luffy's older brother is doing now? @Monkey D. Luffy"
After watching the ending of A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality, Han Li saw the group becoming active and decided to join the conversation.
Luffy: "Oh! Su Lin went back to that time with me earlier and saved Ace and Uncle Whitebeard!"
Ye Fan: "Could I visit your worlds sometime too?"
Aside from similar Earths, it was impossible for him not to want to visit other worlds. He was exhausted from constantly scheming and fighting against aristocratic families, sacred lands, and princes of other races.
Especially after reading about his future experiences in the novel.
Knowing about his future achievements in advance certainly made him happy, but it also brought worry.
The novel had helped him understand some things he had been unable to figure out before, but knots had also formed in his heart.
They were not things he should have been worrying about at this point in time, yet he could not stop himself from thinking about them.
The Black Emperor eyed Ye Fan suspiciously. This guy had been acting strangely these past two days.
Could he have gone mad from cultivation?
Did the broken Saint Physique cultivation path have side effects?
Luffy: "Welcome! I'll call you all next time we have a feast."
Han Li thought about it. Since the Chat Group explicitly forbade members from harming or plundering one another, there was no harm in taking this opportunity to see other worlds.
Of course, he would first need to learn about the experiences of the others in the group.
Han Li: "Then I shall gladly accept."
Luffy asked, "What does Li Man's sentence mean?"
Su Lin: "It means he's willing to come over."
Luffy: "So troublesome."
After all, it was a little difficult to make Luffy understand such phrasing.
Xiao Yan: "Excellent, excellent."
Xiao Yan planned to visit other worlds after the three-year agreement with the Misty Cloud Sect.
If possible, there was no harm in going after awakening his teacher.
Having learned about his future, he felt extremely grateful toward Venerable Yao, his teacher from the past.
His teacher was absolutely worthy of trust. He was willing to share this opportunity to visit other worlds with him.
Shirou Emiya: "Excuse me, everyone. Sorry to interrupt, but may I ask whether the things in this are truly events that will happen in the future?"
The pole-vault protagonist—no, Shirou Emiya—had been stabbed by the guy in the blue bodysuit the previous night. He woke groggily in the school building and returned home with a red gemstone pendant.
Then the bodysuit-wearing person had broken into his home and attacked him.
Fortunately, he had summoned a blonde female knight named Saber, who drove back the spearman.
Just then, his schoolmate Rin Tohsaka arrived outside his door.
When he woke up, he found himself in a burning wasteland.
There had probably been a massive fire.
The streets he was used to seeing had become ruins, like the remnants of a battlefield from a movie.
...Amid all this, Shirou Emiya found it incredibly strange that he alone remained completely unharmed.
He did not know how many times he had dreamed the same dream.
This was the site of the fire from ten years ago.
If things like parents and a home all disappeared, then a child would have nothing left.
So everything other than his body had disappeared.
To put it simply, Shirou Emiya had thought something very simple.
That was, in exchange for allowing his body to survive.
The part of him that was his heart had already died.
Shirou Emiya had a familiar dream.
On a familiar morning, he was awakened in the storeroom by his junior named Sakura.
He worked out, then casually rinsed himself off.
After breakfast, he packed his schoolbag as usual and headed to school.
He helped the student council with repairs, then studied after lunch break.
That evening, Shinji asked him to help clean the archery club.
The main reason he agreed was that he had once been a member of the archery club himself.
After trying the stance for drawing a bow, Shirou Emiya shook his head and put away the cleaning tools.
It was time to go home.
After leaving the archery club, Shirou Emiya walked across the schoolyard. A gust of wind swept past, and the cold froze his cheeks stiff.
"Ha—."
White mist lingered in his exhaled breath.
Fuyuki's winters were not usually that cold. Even at night, only today was exceptionally freezing.
In air so cold that even his fingertips seemed about to freeze, Shirou Emiya hunched over and endured it, wanting to get home as quickly as possible.
Ding—
He seemed to have heard something.
It was probably an illusion.
He looked up at the sky. Dark clouds filled it, and without a moon that night, the campus appeared even darker.
Crackle—
Was it not an illusion?
Shirou Emiya had indeed heard some kind of sound.
It was coming from the other side of the campus.
Driven by curiosity, he approached the source of the noise.
Bang—
The sound grew clearer.
It sounded like metal striking metal.
Are people fighting with weapons?
I must be overthinking this.
At first, Shirou Emiya thought it was an illusion. After all, how could he hear something like that at school in the middle of the night?
Until he saw a scene that nearly froze his consciousness.
A red-clad man and a blue-clad man.
They were dressed unlike modern people, armed with strange weapons, and just as he had imagined, they were really hacking at each other.
It was incomprehensible. His eyes could not keep up with their movements.
Their actions were so unreal that Shirou Emiya stood there in a daze, staring foolishly.
The sound of metal clashing rang out without end. Sparks flew everywhere, forcibly making Shirou Emiya understand that the two were trying to kill each other.
At that moment, Shirou Emiya understood.
That was not speed and strength a human should possess.
As a novice Magician, he should not get involved with something like this.
At the edge of that battlefield overflowing with killing intent,
Shirou Emiya broke free of his fear and tried to carefully take a step away from the area.
Could those murderers they talked about on TV be them?
Just as his consciousness finally moved his body and he took a step,
"Who's there!"
The blue-clad man shouted sharply.
He could not even let his gaze meet those two. In that first instant, Shirou Emiya's desire to survive made him break into a rapid run.
(End of Chapter)