Although less than two full days had passed for Lin Ye inside the instance world, it felt like an eternity.
The Gourmet Sports Meet — four events. Brisk Walking and Hunting had devoured time and energy alike, dragging every minute out until it seemed to stretch on forever.
Returning to his apartment felt strangely disorienting, like stepping into a place slightly out of phase with reality.
But the familiar surroundings and a comforting scent gradually eased his mind back into this space — back into this world he called home.
He had fully escaped the instance world. He was back in reality now.
He could breathe easy. He could let his tightly wound nerves uncoil, at least for a while.
"Woof…"
John spotted Lin Ye the moment he stepped in and instinctively rose to his feet, mouth opening to bark —
But Lin Ye immediately pressed a finger to his lips in a shushing gesture.
John seemed to understand at once and snapped his mouth shut.
He sat down, but his enormous tail wagged furiously back and forth, sweeping the air in wide arcs, broadcasting every ounce of his barely contained excitement.
Lin Ye gestured for John to lie down. The German Shepherd obeyed immediately, dropping flat without a fuss.
Then Lin Ye swept his gaze around the room, his eyes finally coming to rest on the girl asleep in the bed.
At this moment —
The girl with long black hair lay on her side, eyes softly closed in deep sleep. With each quiet breath, her chest rose and fell in a gentle rhythm, and beneath her slightly rumpled clothing, a tantalizing glimpse of skin was exposed to the apartment air.
Lin Ye couldn't help but steal a second look.
In that moment, something unexpected stirred inside him — a warmth he could only describe as the feeling of home.
A woman waiting at home. It really did feel uncannily like having family.
The moment Lin Ye realized that, he blinked in mild surprise, then broke into a quiet smile.
"Didn't think I'd ever be the type to long for something like this."
He'd been single his whole life up to now. And yet this feeling had welled up out of nowhere. In a sense, maybe it was just him yearning for someone close — for family.
After being alone for so long, he'd started wanting a girl by his side after all.
Lin Ye glanced at the clock on the wall. The hands had already crept past midnight.
More than four hours had passed since he'd left. It was the dead of night now.
Lin Ye padded softly to the bedside and slowly crouched down, gazing at Senpai's delicate sleeping face. Her lashes were long and fine, trembling ever so faintly with each breath. Her lips were a natural, vivid red — the kind that made it impossible not to linger.
The subtle fragrance that belonged only to her drifted over in waves, teasing at his senses.
He finally closed his eyes and rubbed his temples.
He figured it must be the stress — having just pushed through a harrowing Strange instance game, the pressure had piled up. Otherwise, even if he admired Sakurajima Mai-senpai, he shouldn't be having certain kinds of thoughts.
Senpai was still sound asleep. Lin Ye had no intention of waking her. He reached over, pulled the blanket up, and drew it over her.
Rather than switching off the light, he went to the desk, picked up a different phone, then quietly slipped out of the apartment and headed downstairs.
He had promised Cold Frost.
So it was time to reach out to that girl.
But basic precautions were still in order.
Who could guarantee there wasn't even a trace of ill intent hiding somewhere in her heart?
The information she'd given him — he had no way to verify whether it was true or false. If true, it showed she trusted him. If false, then this whole thing could be an elaborate setup.
Though, honestly, Lin Ye thought the latter was unlikely.
The two Invitation Mission instances they'd been through together had both demonstrated the kind of person she was.
Beep…
Beep beep beep…
After dialing, the ringtone pulsed steadily.
Ten seconds passed. No answer.
Lin Ye's guard crept up involuntarily.
Click.
It connected.
"Hello?"
A woman's voice came from the other end of the line.
It was somewhat cool in tone —
Though clearly distinct from Cold Frost's voice.
Veteran players generally didn't just alter their appearance — they made fine adjustments to their voice as well, to prevent information leaks.
"…"
Lin Ye said nothing.
"Hello?"
"…"
"Hello, hello — if you don't say something, I'm hanging up."
"It's me."
A beat of silence from the cool-voiced girl.
Who?
But the very next second, her eyes went wide.
She hadn't expected Zero to contact her the instant he got back to reality. And seeing a call from an overseas number, she'd dismissed the possibility even further — she was fairly certain Zero had roots in Xia Country.
"Zero?"
"Yes. Miss Cold."
In that moment —
Both of them confirmed the other's identity.
"I didn't think you'd contact me right away."
She couldn't help but voice it — it had caught her completely off guard, and how could she not be both startled and pleased? She'd already been calculating when Zero might reach out, tying it to how much he liked her. And now, it seemed, that liking was quite significant indeed.
A wave of warmth surged through the girl's chest. She couldn't stop the smile tugging at the corners of her lips.
"If I'd waited too long, you probably would've decided I was planning to back out on our agreement."
"Of course… not…"
Her voice carried a playful lilt. "I just would've assumed you'd forgotten we had one."
"Isn't that the same thing?"
"There's still a slight difference."
The girl insisted.
"When do you want to meet — should you come to me, or should I come to you?"
She didn't mind making the trip herself. The fact that Zero had reached out meant he wouldn't refuse a meeting in reality.
"I'll come to you. But I probably can't find the time in the near future —"
Making a trip to Xia Country wasn't something he could manage in a day or two. And if he was going to go, he ought to make it count — like reaching out to Brother Fa to make him honor their deal and hand over the agreed-upon Strange objects.
He wasn't in a rush, but that didn't mean he could put it off indefinitely.
Besides, he genuinely needed Strange objects right now. Kyou Fujibayashi needed them to improve her odds of survival.
"I'll wait for you. Just let me know before you come."
"Sure."
"Are you using this number?"
"I have it, but I don't use it much."
Lin Ye told her the situation with the number straight.
"Understood. If I can't reach you, I'll send a text to this number."
"That works."
Hearing Zero's answer, Cold Frost felt a tiny pang of disappointment and regret. She'd been hoping he'd proactively give her his main contact number — but his not doing so was within the range she could understand.
Players guarded their real-world identities closely.
She had dared to share hers because she trusted Zero. And while Zero did trust her, that trust hadn't yet deepened to the point where he'd open himself up completely.
But Cold Frost was confident. There would come a day when they trusted each other completely.
"What are you planning to do about the Nakiri situation?"
"Once I get the ingredients, I'll send some her way. Have her do the cooking then."
Since the golden-haired girl had given him a written promise, Lin Ye had no intention of letting it go to waste.
Erina Nakiri's cooking — he absolutely intended to enjoy it more than once.
Ten times, even. He wasn't about to let a single one slip by.
The only question was whether, after losing her memories, Erina Nakiri would still honor the agreement.
"When you go, remember to contact me. Take me along."
Cold Frost spoke plainly, without a shred of hesitation.
"If the opportunity arises."
"The opportunity will arise."
Cold Frost gave Lin Ye absolutely no room to waver.
In this moment, she understood clearly — she had to be proactive. Her position had to be firm. She couldn't give Lin Ye a chance to refuse.
The moment she second-guessed herself, hesitated, she'd let opportunities slip through her fingers for nothing.
In that instant, Cold Frost was decisiveness itself.
Lin Ye didn't refuse — which made the girl smile.
This was exactly how to handle Zero.
The more she interacted with him, the better she understood. In their personal relationship, she was actually better off playing the assertive one.
The call ended.
From start to finish, it had been about ten minutes.
Three minutes after the call ended, Cold Frost still hadn't fully surfaced from the emotional afterglow it had left her in.
"He called me this early…"
"He does trust me quite a bit."
"All that effort I put in across those two instances wasn't wasted."
...
She'd had a very rewarding haul from this Invitation Mission — three hundred Strange Coins, which was an enormous sum by any measure. But compared to what this one phone call with Zero had given her —
She felt that the joy three hundred Strange Coins brought her wasn't even close.
"When am I actually going to see him…"
She was genuinely curious about Zero in reality now.
A fabricated character could never quite capture that last intangible something.
"Knock knock knock…"
"Xiao Yu, it's late — are you still not in bed?"
From outside the door came a mature woman's voice.
Her mother.
"Going to sleep, already in bed, Mom."
"Don't stay up late. Get some rest."
"I know, Mother."
The footsteps retreated. The middle-aged woman walked away.
Cold Frost peeled off her outer layer and headed to the bathroom to shower.
Zero's call had interrupted her before she could do that — but after nearly two days in a Strange instance world, she was desperately craving a shower, something to loosen her limbs and wash away the tension.
Splash and rush…
The shower started.
On the other side of things —
After ending the call with Cold Frost, Lin Ye opened another contact.
Haruno's.
He thought about it for a moment, then decided to send a message.
In less than a minute —
His phone buzzed. An incoming call.
It was Haruno.
It was the middle of the night, but Haruno was still awake.
"Beep."
Lin Ye accepted it.
"Welcome back, safe and sound."
The very first words were drenched in that warm, homey feeling.
Lin Ye felt a brief stir of something in his chest, then smoothed it over. "Thanks."
"Lin-kun, you're incredible — cleared another one."
"Luck."
"Luck is a form of ability too."
Every instance Lin Ye successfully cleared was proof of his strength.
The more Strange Game instances he cleared, the stronger he got — and the broader the scope of what the two of them could accomplish together.
"Thanks for the kind words."
"Tomorrow I'll arrange a big dinner to celebrate your safe return."
Haruno had apparently clocked his love of food and was zeroing in on that angle.
But when a meal was brought to his door, what reason was there to refuse?
"Sure."
"Mm — the main course is me, by the way~"
In that moment, Haruno's slightly flustered voice came through.
Lin Ye: "…"
He'd been thinking too much, as always.
This woman never changed.
"Is Lin-kun's heart pounding? Big sis will wear your favorite black stockings~ Oh, and should I put on the Sobu High uniform too? With some makeup, I can look eighty or ninety percent like Yukino~ And in certain respects, I'm even better than Yukino, you know."
At that, an image surfaced unbidden in Lin Ye's mind — Haruno in the Sobu High uniform, her legs sheathed in black stockings, irresistibly alluring.
"I don't have a thing for black stockings."
"Ha, and you expect me to believe a Yukinoshita would fall for that line."
Haruno thought for a moment, then continued, "And come to think of it, I won't be keeping the Yukinoshita name for long anyway — I'll be taking the name Lin, won't I? What do you think, Lin-kun~"
That was about as direct as a hint could get.
Lin Ye felt not a single ripple of emotion.
Of all the people who could tempt him, Haruno was the one he could face with a perfectly still heart.
Their relationship had been built entirely on the bedrock of naked self-interest.
When Haruno dangled temptation at him, his dominant read was that she was still operating in service of the family's interests.
To all of it, Lin Ye had only one response: refusal.
If he truly just wanted to satisfy personal desires, there were plenty of girls around him. Girls far better suited for it than Haruno — far less complicated, without a fraction of the trouble she came with.
In his past life, he'd had absolutely no luck with women. But this life was different. There was no shortage of girls around him who held feelings for him.
"Alright, jokes aside."
"That wasn't a joke. I'm serious."
"Nothing else? Then I'm hanging up."
He'd only picked up because she'd been the one to call.
"There is something!"
One line stopped Lin Ye's hand before it could end the call.
"Let's talk about our future together…"
"I'm hanging up."
"Wait, wait — there really is something. The thing you asked me to handle — I'm nearly done with it."
Lin Ye's memory stirred.
Haruno seemed to sense the confusion on his end, so she explained, "The grand stage you arranged. I know you just got back, but Lin-kun, your memory really is getting a bit shaky. I think I need to come over and give you some personal attention — a private treatment to help you unwind in body and mind."
"No thanks."
Lin Ye turned that down in an instant.
"Heartbreaking. I literally just did something for Lin-kun."
"What about the other thing?"
"The other thing?"
Haruno blinked, expression puzzled. "What other thing? Is there something else?"
"Asuna Yuuki."
"Ahh! So Lin-kun found that little romantic rival of mine!"
She let out a sound of dawning realization. "I was worried that once you found her, you'd stop wanting me and my sister."
So you're saying you didn't look?
That was the thought passing through Lin Ye's head.
"Joking, joking. I did look. Give me a little more time — I'll have good news for you. It's not like I've done nothing lately; I've been managing the trending follow-up coverage you needed. I'm still a person — my time and energy have limits."
"Fine. Just don't forget."
"Forget anyone's business before Lin-kun's? Never. Lin-kun is the most, most, most important man in my world."
Anyone else hearing that would probably be swept off their feet.
"I can rest easy now that I know Lin-kun is back safe. I'm exhausted."
This woman — had she really just been sitting there waiting for his message the whole time?
Nothing else would explain how, at this hour, she'd clocked his message the second it arrived and called back immediately.
"Get some rest."
"I will. Lin-kun, you get some rest too — and don't go fooling around with other girls. I'd be very worried."
"…"
Haruno could always be counted on for a little "surprise."
"Hahahaha, if Lin-kun were the type to mess around, me and Yukino would have been in your bed long ago. How would we still be un-eaten by now!"
So Haruno did genuinely trust Lin Ye's character.
This guy simply wasn't the type to play with women.
Though she was equally curious what he'd look like once he finally did take that step.
Not just curious — she actively wanted to be the one to personally usher Lin Ye up the stairs to adulthood.
"Good night, good night — I'm really hanging up this time."
"Good night."
The call ended — but Lin Ye almost immediately received a message.
A photo.
Haruno in her pajamas, showcasing a figure that could only be described as dangerously eye-catching.
Her figure really was something else. Leagues ahead of Yukino's in that regard.
Lin Ye closed the photo and opened his messaging app, then sent a quick "safe return" text to Kyou Fujibayashi.
No reply came.
Kyou Fujibayashi had probably already gone to sleep.
Lin Ye headed back upstairs to the apartment.
"Welcome back."
The moment he opened the door and stepped inside, Lin Ye heard a familiar, gentle girl's voice.
Sakurajima Mai-senpai was already awake.
She watched Lin Ye's figure step through the doorway, and a faint smile surfaced on her exquisite face.
In that instant, the weight she'd been carrying lifted.
The few hours she'd spent alone had been pure torment — an internal war of anxiety and dread. Every time the thought crossed her mind that Lin Ye might not come back, the unease and distress swelled sharper and stronger.
She'd consciously tried to pull herself back from it, but it hadn't worked. In the end, she'd just lain down on the bed, hoping sleep would make the time pass faster.
Hoping that when she woke, she'd see Lin Ye had returned.
But this time, she'd woken to an empty room — though the extra clothing left behind caught her eye. She realized the odds of Lin Ye having come back were high; he'd probably just stepped out temporarily.
So she'd waited in the room.
"Senpai — did I wake you?"
The girl with long black hair shook her head. "No, I woke up on my own."
Waking up on your own at this hour wasn't very convincing.
Even if it were truly a natural waking, most people would just roll over and go back to sleep — not sit up and wait.
Lin Ye understood. He thought about it and decided not to call her out on the little lie.
"Get some rest."
"I'm not sleepy."
Sakurajima Mai shook her head. "I don't feel tired at all right now."
"Then you'd like to…"
"Walk with me for a bit?"
Even though Lin Ye's return had dissolved her worry, the prolonged anxiety had left her mood in a poor state. She wanted to go out, get some air, clear her head.
She wanted Lin Ye's company.
"Sure. We can take John for a walk while we're at it."
Lin Ye agreed without a second thought.
"Woof woof woof."
John perked up immediately at the word.
He'd been cooped up in this small room and was long past sick of it. The prospect of going outside filled him with nothing but pure, unbridled joy.
Shortly after —
Sakurajima Mai had gotten fully dressed, slipped on her outdoor shoes, and the two of them — along with John — stepped out of the apartment together.
A man, a woman, and a German Shepherd, walking beneath the glow of the streetlights.
The evening air was chilly, and a cool breeze drifted through in steady waves.
Sakurajima Mai had misjudged the temperature outside. She tucked her hands in slightly —
But in no time, she felt something settle over her shoulders from behind.
Lin Ye's jacket.
"Thank you."
She turned her head slightly, gratitude in her eyes, and drew the draped jacket snugly around herself with both hands.
Just that single thin layer was enough to hold back the night's chill and keep the warmth inside her heart.
Compared to being alone, she found she did prefer having someone beside her after all.
Being forgotten and overlooked by the whole world — she was ready for that to end.
She had only ever wanted to keep a lower profile, to not be the center of too much attention. But what she'd gotten instead was an existence so faint it was nearly zero — with no one in the world able to perceive her, save for Lin Ye.
If Lin Ye ever disappeared for good —
There would be no one left in this world who remembered her. No one to talk to her, ever again.
"Was it dangerous? What you were doing before?"
She asked quietly.
Thinking back to what had happened at Chiba Park, she figured Lin Ye's experience this time hadn't been any easier.
"Dangerous, yes. But I'm fine. I'm pretty capable, you know — Senpai doesn't need to worry about me even a little."
The casual ease in Lin Ye's tone only deepened Sakurajima Mai's concern. She felt like he was putting on a front — acting like it was nothing so she wouldn't worry.
"Not even a little worried — wouldn't that make me a negligent Senpai?"
The rhetorical question drew a startled look from Lin Ye.
"Then… does Senpai want to comfort me?"
"I'm not the one who put you in danger. Why should I be comforting you?"
"Senpai, you're my one and only senpai, you know."
"Sobu High has so many upperclassmen girls — and not a single one is your senpai?"
Sakurajima Mai wasn't buying it for a second.
"It's just that none of them have a relationship as close as the one I have with Senpai."
That made Sakurajima Mai's cheeks color faintly.
"Our relationship is perfectly ordinary."
"Ordinary? We've shared a bed."
"…"
Sakurajima Mai opened her mouth to fire back — but found no ground to stand on.
"Ordinary. Our relationship is ordinary."
"Then… looks like I'll have to find a way to make our relationship a little more intimate."
Lin Ye suddenly leaned in, making Sakurajima Mai instinctively recoil — but her foot came down wrong on a loose patch of gravel, her balance tilted, and she began to fall.
"Ah—"
She let out an involuntary yelp.
But before she could hit the ground, a pair of large hands grabbed hold of her firmly.
"Senpai, even if you can't stand me, that seems a bit extreme."
Lin Ye sighed, his tone dripping with exaggerated dejection.
The look on his face sent Sakurajima Mai's thoughts spiraling into a flustered mess. She rushed to explain, "I don't dislike you —"
She genuinely didn't.
"You suddenly moved toward me and I got startled. My reaction was completely normal."
"I thought Senpai hated me — that's why you weren't giving me the slightest chance to get close. After all, subconscious reactions don't lie."
"I was just surprised. Don't overthink it."
Sakurajima Mai stressed the point.
Her biggest worry was exactly that — Lin Ye reading too much into it and thinking she disliked him.
But dislike him? She couldn't dislike the one person who had taken her in, the only one in the world who could see and talk to her.
John trotted along ahead of them, his big tail swaying. He turned to look back at the two humans every so often, tongue lolling out, watching them with that half-understanding, half-oblivious air of his as he ambled onward.
"When I'm not around, at least John can keep you company."
"…"
Those words made Sakurajima Mai's stomach drop. Was Lin Ye leaving again?
"You have another mission?"
"No, I just thought — John can still see Senpai. He can still interact with you."
Lin Ye continued, "And soon, John won't even be necessary. You'll be back to normal before long — the groundwork is basically all laid."
"What are you planning to do?"
Lin Ye made a shushing gesture.
"That's a secret."
"You need to hide it even from me?"
"Especially from you, Senpai. Precisely because it's you. Once you know, the effect won't work the way it needs to — and if it fails, who do we blame? Me, or you?"
That left Sakurajima Mai with nothing to say.
If the plan failed because she'd found out about it in advance, the one who stood to lose the most was herself.
"Alright. I won't ask."
Sakurajima Mai could not bear another failure.
"Senpai."
"Mm?"
"I'm confident it'll work."
"Mm. I believe you."
Once again, she chose to trust Lin Ye.
The sincerity in the long-black-haired girl's eyes hit Lin Ye like a weight, and the pressure inside him surged.
He was going to have to live up to the trust and hope Sakurajima Mai had placed in him.
If he failed again, it would only be one failure to him — but to Sakurajima Mai, it would be a blow that might crush whatever remained of her belief that she could ever return to normal.
And Senpai's current state was one where confidence — that purely internal, human sense of self-belief — actually mattered. The moment she lost even the will to believe she could recover, returning to normal would become next to impossible for her.
"Then trust me completely, Senpai. If I fail again this time, I'll take responsibility — I'll take care of Senpai for the rest of my life."
Sakurajima Mai's face went red instantly.
"You know, that doesn't sound too bad, Senpai~ Why don't we just skip trying altogether — give up outright — and I'll work hard, earn a billion dollars, and Senpai can stay with me forever."
"…"
Sakurajima Mai gave him a flat look. "Jokes aside — I want you to give this everything you have. Getting me back to normal. That's your promise to me."
"Got it."
Lin Ye gave a firm nod.
Compared to the method the original male lead had used, this time he was running a full-scale livestream with a massive lineup of content creators — enough to pull in at least a million viewers.
Compared to the original's reach — a few hundred students at a high school — his plan was on an entirely different scale.
If even that failed —
Lin Ye would turn to even more media outlets, layer on more exposure, more reach, more heat.
As long as the name "Sakurajima Mai" was called back into the hearts and minds of enough people, her existence would resurface.
"Don't forget your promise to me, Senpai."
"The bunny girl outfit with black stockings. I won't forget."
That was her promise to Lin Ye — if he made good on his, she would honor hers.
And truth be told, in Sakurajima Mai's heart, even if Lin Ye ultimately failed, even if he didn't succeed — she still might consider putting on that bunny girl outfit in black stockings for him. A small way to repay everything he'd done for her all this time.
These past days, she'd been on the receiving end of Lin Ye's efforts over and over.
The least she could do was indulge this one "student" of hers in some of his fantasies and expectations.
As a senpai, what she could do for him was honestly too little — too little by far.
"Woof woof woof!"
John barked.
Lin Ye looked up. Ahead, a cluster of stray dogs.
Faced with John the German Shepherd, the strays had the numbers but not the nerve. When they caught sight of Lin Ye, they sensed danger and turned to flee, scattering quickly into the dark.
Sakurajima Mai felt, for a moment, that her past self had been just like those homeless strays —
"Hah…"
She shook her head, pushing herself free from the pull of that darker current.
"Let's head back."
She was ready to go home.
The walk had done what it needed to — her mood had recovered considerably.
That night —
Two people, one on the bed and one on the floor.
"Good night."
"Good night."
Lin Ye closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep.
The next day.
May 9th. Thursday.
He woke to a familiar ceiling, and his sluggish mind began to turn.
Lin Ye fell into a brief, confused daze.
Why on earth had he decided to sleep on the floor?
Someone was in the bed.
Flash.
Flash, flash.
Like a slideshow, scenes flickered and shifted.
On the otherwise empty bed —
A girl with long black hair suddenly appeared.
Her features were blurred, impossible to make out clearly.
Lin Ye strained his eyes, wracking his brain to recall the name.
He knew her. This was definitely a girl he knew.
But why… why couldn't he suddenly remember her name?
"Ying…"
Ying what?
This feeling — this experience — he'd had it two days ago as well.
It was… Senpai.
"Sakurajima Mai-senpai."
The instant the name left his lips, a girl's silhouette appeared before his eyes.
The girl with long black hair was waving her hand back and forth, as if checking whether Lin Ye could see her.
"Senpai — what are you doing?"
Lin Ye's voice came out a little grumpy.
"Nothing. You just looked a little dazed. I thought I should check on you."
"Waving at me is not exactly an effective method of waking someone up."
"Then what would Student Lin suggest?"
"Obviously the best method would be…"
He pointed at his own cheek. "Senpai's kiss. I'd be wide awake at the very first second."
"Heh."
The girl with long black hair gave a dismissive scoff. "You just want to take advantage of me."
"If Senpai kissed me, wouldn't that be you taking advantage of me?"
Lin Ye tossed the question back without missing a beat.
Sakurajima Mai refused to fall for that.
"In your next life."
"So Senpai is already making plans to meet me in our next life — unexpectedly romantic."
She decided she was done trying to win an argument with him.
"I'm hungry."
"Yes, yes, yes — I'll go wash up and go buy breakfast. What would Senpai like today?"
"Egg sandwich."
"Got it."
After agreeing, Lin Ye headed to wash up.
Thinking back over his mornings since all of this began —
He was fairly certain the degree to which he was being affected was growing more severe.
If it kept up, he might end up in a state of total forgetting — completely unable to recall Sakurajima Mai at all.
The next two days were going to have to be all-nighters.
These two days, he needed Haruno to continue stoking the online buzz and building up momentum.
There was only one shot at this.
If it failed, the odds of succeeding on the next attempt would plummet.
And as Lin Ye headed out, Sakurajima Mai watched his retreating figure —
She had confirmed one thing.
"You're starting to forget me too, aren't you?"
Alone in the apartment room, wave after wave of strange, hollow loneliness washed over her.
If even Lin Ye forgot her —
There would be no one left in the whole world who remembered her.
Then she truly would have disappeared from this world.
She didn't want to disappear.
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