[Inside [Rainbow Talent: Ten Gates].]
[You found Zero again and fiercely thrust out the Strange Clown Mask.]
[You stared at them with a dark expression, questioning them with the Great Dao's Voice:]
["Have you fucking lost your mind?!"]
["You actually dared to scheme against me?"]
[You truly could not understand any of this. If someone had manipulated and influenced you, it could only have been Zero.]
[Either this Strange Clown Mask or the ability [Past Shadow] they had given you during the Second Group Mission could have been responsible!]
[They had to be the one influencing you, but to what end?]
[Had [Purple Talent: I Am the Chess Player] really activated because this was a chess game targeting Past Li Ping as a piece?]
[But you had [Golden Talent: Future Letter] and [Rainbow Talent: Ten Gates].]
[Zero was even contained within the first gate. Were they not afraid that your true body outside would notice them influencing you like this?]
[Or... did they have another purpose?!]
[Still, what puzzled you most was how "gentle" Zero's influence on you had been.]
[Aside from increasing your trust in Zero, it had done nothing else.]
[It was nothing like Past Li Ping's influence on the Simulated Clone in the [Second Future Simulation], which had practically turned the clone into an idiot!]
[The fact that you could now detect the influence without relying on [Purple Talent: I Am the Chess Player] was proof enough.]
[It was as though... Zero's aim had never been to influence you. Or perhaps they had already achieved their goal, so they did not care even if you noticed!]
[Just what... was this bastard plotting?!]
[That was also why you were willing to come here and question them face-to-face:]
["What exactly are you after?"]
["Destroying Past Li Ping, or something