"Why hasn't doomsday been controlled?"
"That's easy to understand. Look, it's right here in my hand. It could hurt me at any time, but it hasn't."
"...You're far too naive," Maria said.
"Am I?" the young Shen Ye asked.
"Yes. Don't trust any being unless they've signed a perfect divine contract with you, like me," Maria said.
Shen Ye said nothing more.
In fact.
He didn't want to reveal the real reason.
-Good Duckie was a destruction primordial spirit, a being belonging to doomsday.
Ya Ya had already gone to the future.
That meant doomsday existed in the future era!
If doomsday really was controlled by those monsters outside-
Then.
The monsters had already achieved their wish!
-The thing they controlled had already reached the future!
But judging by what he had just observed-
The monsters were still monitoring one experimental site after another.
They knew nothing about doomsday!
The great ship shook violently, snapping Shen Ye out of his thoughts.
"Watch out! The two ships have separated!"
Maria shouted.
Shen Ye glanced back.
The Other Shore Great Ship was flung away, instantly passing through the world barrier and returning to the entropy-extinction era where it belonged.
His own ship remained in the Parallel World, continuing to fly forward.
"Let's go. We can't let them catch up again."
As Shen Ye spoke, he pressed a hand against the floor.
In an instant.
Lines of faint glowing text quietly appeared:
"You activated the trait 'Behind-the-Scenes Figure.'" "The current Other Shore Great Ship has been given a suitable prefix, gaining the complete trait:" "The faster Other Shore Great Ship."
Wind.
The great ship cleaved through the void, sending the howling wind spilling to either side.
"Are we accelerating?" Maria asked.
"Yes," Shen Ye shouted over the wind, which was too