Shining Girl looked at Cheng Yu in disbelief.
"You want me to become king?"
Cheng Yu raised his brow, despite having no eyebrows, and said,
"That's right. How could a follower of mine be presentable without ever having been a king?"
Shining Girl hesitated. In Myriad Heavens, each player only had three lives per version. Once those were gone, they could only wait for the next version.
What she was weighing now was how to answer this tyrant without losing a life. As a player-and a survival-first player at that-Shining Girl certainly wouldn't let one of her lives go to waste.
After a little thought, she decided to trust her judgment. This tyrant was somewhat different from the one in the legends. Her gaze firmed as she looked at Cheng Yu and said,
"I do!"
Cheng Yu smiled and said,
"Very good. Then just wait to put on the Crown."
Shining Girl froze, then plucked up her courage to ask,
"May I ask, Your Majesty, why you want to make me king?"
Cheng Yu gave a mysterious smile. He decided it was time to start building his persona. Rather than answer Shining Girl's question directly, he said in a quiet, haunting voice,
"Everything has a lifespan. People have lifespans, and so do worlds. This world...
Its lifespan has reached its end. Naturally, a ruler of my choosing must take the stage to bring down the curtain on it."
Shining Girl felt her scalp prickle. There was an awful lot packed into this tyrant's words. The world's lifespan? Is that something you get to decide?
While Shining Girl was deep in thought, she happened to catch sight of Cheng Yu out of the corner of her eye. The tyrant was watching her with an unfathomable gaze. She swallowed with difficulty and