Only then did Chen Ran withdraw his hand and turn to look at the planetary model of Terra (Sea Creatures Worldline).
"I remember that time inside the planetary model flows differently from reality. How long has that Little Rabbit been playing in there?"
As he thought this, Chen Ran saw a beam of light rise from the planetary model of Terra (Sea Creatures Worldline), like a teammate's marker.
... ... ...
... ...
Three days.
For Amiya, who could fly, three days had been enough time to travel across the entire planet.
With Demon King Rabbit's combat power, one of the very strongest, no fool would dare provoke her.
Under those circumstances, Amiya had traveled without obstruction, taking in the planet's current state and its future development in full.
Then—
"Did Lord God... forget about me?"
After circling the planet and returning to her starting point, Amiya raised her little head and looked toward the sky. "Lord God said He would come pick me up later, but it's already been three days..."
"The flow of time in the god's abode differs from ours. When I went to pay respects to that god back then, it felt as though only a short while had passed. Yet when I returned, they told me several days had already gone by."
Savior Kal'tsit appeared beside Amiya once more.
However, unlike the shock she had displayed during their first meeting, Savior Kal'tsit now wore a somewhat complicated expression.
Over the past three days, Amiya had not mentioned what exactly had happened in Demon King Rabbit's Worldline.
But Demon King Rabbit's excessively cold attitude was plain to see. Anyone could guess part of the story.
Savior Kal'tsit had wanted to ease the tension, but one of the abilities of the black crown atop Demon King Rabbit's head was mind-reading.
So Amiya, who knew perfectly well what Savior Kal'tsit was thinking, had maintained an aloof attitude from beginning to end.
Besides... three days was too short, and Amiya could fly. Even if Savior Kal'tsit had wanted to accompany Amiya on her journey around the planet, she simply could not.
Thus, Savior Kal'tsit had no choice but to give up. Now, standing beside Amiya, she said, "But I do have a way to draw the god's gaze."
As she spoke, Savior Kal'tsit swung the 'Holy Sword' in her hand. When it began chanting, "Hakimi Hakimi Hakimi~," Amiya looked over with a subtle expression.
"Phew... don't mind it." Kal'tsit explained darkly, "That is Lord God's strange sense of humor. You can also consider it a necessary prayer."
Then Savior Kal'tsit fiercely drove the 'Holy Sword' into the ground beneath her feet.
Accompanied by a "meow," a brilliant yet warm light shot straight into the heavens.
Before long, an enormous hand that blocked out the sky reached down from beyond the clouds.
"Ah... Lord God really did come to pick me up."
Amiya's rabbit ears twitched as she looked at Savior Kal'tsit. "Thanks, Doctor Kal'tsit."
This time, Amiya's happiness and delight came from the bottom of her heart.
Kal'tsit naturally noticed this and could only sigh softly.
I can't save this child, Amiya... so I hope Lord God will treat her well.
With that blessing in her heart, Kal'tsit watched as Amiya gently floated up and stepped onto the palm of that hand—
"Oh, right, Doctor Kal'tsit."
Amiya turned back with a light smile. "I don't know if it was a blessing from the god or something... but I can actually understand what the 'Holy Sword' in your hand was chanting. Pfft... sorry, Doctor Kal'tsit, I really couldn't hold it in..."
Kal'tsit: "... ..."
I take back what I just said.
I hope Lord God spanks this brat.
Demon King Rabbit's Fatherly Love Completion Plan
"How was it? Did you have fun?"
Chen Ran withdrew his hand from the planetary model and looked at the Little Rabbit standing in his palm. As if asking casually, he said, "Did you experience motherly love?"
His tone sounded far too much like a father picking his daughter up from school and asking what she had learned that day, whether she had gotten along well with the other children.
That left Amiya with a subtle expression.
But upon hearing him ask whether she had experienced this so-called motherly love...
The little expression of heartfelt joy on Amiya's face immediately became respectful.
"In reply to Lord God, thanks to Your grace, I have traveled through the entirety of this story and witnessed their ending. I have gained some understanding."
"Damn, you really didn't mention that Savior Cat even once, huh?" Chen Ran found that amusing.
Amiya: "... ..."
"Fine, don't mention her, then." Chen Ran closed his hand around Amiya and turned toward the table. "So, Little Rabbit, have you thought it over? The method I suggested—having the Sea Creatures gun down all those Terrans—do you think it'll work?"
"Um..."
Amiya floated up from Chen Ran's palm and lightly landed on the tabletop.
Amiya could tell that the being before her had only asked casually.
That slightly perfunctory tone meant this being did not actually care whether those Terrans lived or died.
Perhaps, in Amiya's eyes, they were living, breathing people.
But in the eyes of this deity, the planet Terra was merely a Pretty Glass Beads, and those people were nothing more than dust coating that glass bead.
If it looked pretty, it would be kept. If it looked dirty, the glass bead would be washed and rinsed.
As for what would happen to the dust in the end? He did not care.
As long as the glass bead became pretty, wasn't that enough?
Thus, Amiya had no choice but to choose her words carefully. "Well... in reply to Lord God, I have not thought it through yet. Please give me a little more time."
"Oh, then take your time."
Chen Ran truly did not care.
Because Demon King Rabbit's Worldline and the Sea Creatures' apocalyptic Worldline were basically in the same situation: nearly everyone was dead.
For someone like Chen Ran, who liked collecting dolls, once he had grabbed Demon King Rabbit, there was practically no one left to grab from this planetary model.
Rather than concern himself with this planetary model, he might as well make a few more by hand and see if he could roll a Terra from a normal Worldline.
"Phew... thank You for Your understanding." Amiya breathed a sigh of relief. "To be honest, the Sea Creatures' apocalyptic Worldline really did exceed my expectations."
Seeing Chen Ran generously hand the authority to decide her home planet's fate to her, Amiya relaxed and naturally found the leisure to inspect her surroundings.
After all, there seemed to be several things here that she had not seen before.
"I originally thought the remaining survivors would continue arguing endlessly. After all, you see, the Sea Creatures—the greatest threat—have already ascended into the stars, haven't they?"
"Without any threat remaining, why are those survivors still able to coexist peacefully?"
"Is it because, after the population dwindled so drastically, the land is now vast and sparsely populated? There is plenty of territory to seize, so they no longer need to point their guns at their companions over trivial gains?"
Or was it...
Amiya raised her head and stole a glance at Chen Ran.
Was it because, although the Sea Creatures were gone, an even greater threat had appeared?
If the Sea Creatures could still be resisted or held back, then before this being—like a Creator God or Maker—there was nothing to do but lie down and await death.
So under such circumstances, were those survivors only speaking kindly because death was near?
But Amiya definitely did not dare say such things aloud.
Whether a being like this was good or evil did not matter. Once you had seen Him treat a planet like a glass bead to play with, there was only one mode you could enter: praise and flattery.
Even if someone praised Him too quietly, that would be disrespecting their own life.
"So... I need to observe a little longer and see whether this case can be replicated on my home planet."
After patching up her earlier excuse, Amiya continued, "If it can be replicated successfully, then Lord God, Your—mm? What is this...?"
As she spoke, Amiya repeatedly glanced at the cardboard box beside her.
In the end, unable to restrain herself any longer, Amiya asked the question.
She could not help it. There was a Rhodes Island employee uniform, a lace collar, a white undershirt, a plaid skirt, black thigh-high stockings, and little leather shoes.
Demon King Rabbit had traveled through countless Worldlines, so she naturally knew that the outfit in the box was the classic outfit worn by Amiya in other Worldlines.
Even the seemingly useless little rings inside were familiar to her. These were thigh rings, these were ankle rings, this was a collar, these were rings worn on the hands...
"What are you looking at?" Chen Ran noticed Amiya's little movements and asked.
"This outfit..." Amiya raised a small hand and pointed at it.
"Oh, this? What do you think? Pretty accurate, right?" Chen Ran reached out, took the tiny outfit—smaller than his palm—from the cardboard box, and placed it before Amiya. "I had it custom-made for you."
"Eh... for me?"
Amiya froze at those words.
Because she had just thought that perhaps another Amiya from a different Worldline, stripped of all her clothes, had also been captured here.
She had not expected it to be for her.
"Of course." Chen Ran went to take more clothes from the other cardboard boxes. "I remember that in your Demon King Rabbit Worldline, you never joined Rhodes Island and never met the Doctor or Kal'tsit. So here, consider it making up for your regrets."
Put simply, whatever the other Little Rabbits had, this Demon King Rabbit should have too. If she did not have it, he would make it for her.
Amiya naturally noticed Chen Ran's goodwill.
Thus, she stared blankly as Chen Ran pulled out one tiny Reporter Rabbit outfit after another from the cardboard boxes: a Delivery Rabbit outfit, a Tree-Planting Rabbit outfit, a Space Rabbit outfit, and—
"Oh, right, there's this one too—your birthday outfit, Little Rabbit."
Chen Ran placed all the outfits before Amiya and said, "All right, Little Rabbit, try them on?"
"... ..."
Amiya pursed her lips, showing a trace of bewilderment for the first time. In the end, all she could manage was a dry, "Thank You... Lord God..."
"What are you thanking me for?" Chen Ran waved it off carelessly. "There are these too. Don't forget to put them on."
As he spoke, Amiya watched Lord God arrange black pantyhose, white thigh-high stockings, and pure cotton ankle socks before her one by one.
Amiya: "?"
Heart of the Corrupted Skadi: Wash Food Before Eating It
Amiya went from being touched and at a loss at first, to looking utterly baffled, then to taking a step back with a complicated expression as she stared at the black and white stockings.
Amiya vaguely remembered Savior Kal'tsit once earnestly telling her—
That the deity before her was difficult to judge as good or evil, but He was definitely not a proper god.
At the time, Amiya had thought that such a being was on the level of a Creator God or Maker. Naturally, right and wrong, morality and ethics would differ from those of humans. What was strange about that?
—But after all this, this was the kind of improper she had meant?
"Why are you backing away?"
As though he had not noticed at all, Chen Ran stuffed the stockings into Amiya's hands with a puzzled look. "Amiya from normal Worldlines has ten illustrations in total: six with black stockings and one with white stockings. That's a seventy percent share. But when it comes to you, Demon King Rabbit, you're bare-legged. The essence of Amiya is gone. Hurry up and change so I can see."
"Uh..."
Amiya immediately blushed at those words.
Apparently realizing that she had misunderstood and let her thoughts run wild, Amiya awkwardly accepted the stockings and turned to float into the little castle in the distance.
"You didn't even take the clothes. Why are you running so fast, Little Rabbit? Are you planning to come out wearing only stockings for me to see?"
When Amiya reached back out to accept the clothes and shut the little castle's door—
The puzzlement vanished from Chen Ran's face, replaced by a raised brow.
"Right... unlike Amiya from normal Worldlines, I remember Demon King Rabbit seems to have already become an adult, hasn't she?"
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