"That won't happen, right..."
Hearing the words about not being able to come back, Hyacine scratched her face and asked somewhat hesitantly.
"But what if?" Hong Guoguo pressed urgently, her cat tail thumping the sofa uneasily. "What if you really can't come back when the time comes?"
"This..."
Hyacine didn't know how to reply to her for a moment.
Because to her, whether she could return or not didn't actually have much of an impact; after all, these bodies shared a single consciousness.
However, since this was her secret, it was essentially impossible for her to tell anyone else.
But from Hong Guoguo's perspective, Hyacine was suddenly going to another world, and there was no way to get a definite answer on whether she could return.
In that case... what was the difference between that and simply disappearing?
Hyacine sighed, then stroked her head and slowly comforted her.
"It's okay. Even if I'm not here, isn't Sister Cipher still here?"
"Sister Cipher and I can communicate through a special method. You can ask Sister Cipher about my situation when the time comes."
"...Okay."
After receiving this promise, although Hong Guoguo was still reluctant, she stopped questioning and just lowered her head, her voice sounding a bit muffled.
"Then... Sister Hyacine, have a safe journey..."
"Mhm, I will~"
After saying that, Hyacine gave a gentle smile in return, then turned around and softly closed the door of the clinic.
Hong Guoguo chased after her to the window, her gaze tightly locked onto that receding figure until it disappeared at the end of the street corner.
The clinic suddenly became quiet, and a sense of loss surged up like a tide.
She subconsciously took out her terminal, wanting to send a message to Lu Zhaoran to vent a little.
But after waiting a while, she received no reply.
"Sister Zhaoran is still busy too..."
Hong Guoguo pursed her lips, collapsed onto the sofa somewhat gloomily, buried her face in a soft throw pillow, and emptied her mind.
Knock, knock, knock...
Just then, a burst of clear knocking sounds abruptly rang out, breaking the silence of the clinic.
"Hmm?" The originally listless Hong Guoguo instantly pricked up her ears and snapped her head up, a spark of hope suddenly lighting up her dim eyes. "Could it be Sister Hyacine... changed her mind?"
The thought made her heart race. She immediately bounced up, dashed to the door, and pulled it open with uncontrollable joy—
"Sister Hya... cine?"
The cheerful call came to a dead stop the moment she saw the figures outside the door, her voice filled with bewilderment and disappointment.
Standing outside the door was not the returning Hyacine, but two strange men.
...
"Hyacine has healing abilities, plus her own strength isn't low; she can both heal and fight. Moreover, she has Little Ica, a pegasus symbolizing purity and holiness, by her side. Having her head to a western fantasy magic-type isekai is simply perfect."
Standing in front of the Spirit Tide, Cipher rubbed her chin and muttered to herself.
"And with this, I feel like this Spirit Tide traversal probably won't have any issues."
As she spoke, something resembling a beacon appeared in her hand.
Localized Anchor (purple item)
"Turbulence during spatial traversal is always a headache?"
Herta felt the same way; she had already had her new skirt messed up for the third time due to unstable jumping.
To completely solve this matter, this genius created something called a Localized Anchor in less than one system hour.
The use of this item lay in the fact that it could forcibly make a small area of space around the user extremely stable amidst violent space-time distortions.
Consequently, this item was jokingly called a spatial iron by Herta.
Effect: Activate the Localized Anchor before performing any form of spatial jump or teleportation. It will automatically generate a stable miniature spatial field during the teleportation process to envelop and protect the user.
This field can effectively resist common jump accidents such as spatial tearing, coordinate deviation, and temporal disorder, greatly improving the safety and stability of the teleportation, ensuring that the user and small items carried on their person arrive at the target coordinates unscathed.
This was a purple item that Cerydra had obtained from a ten-pull while resting, and four of them had been given at once.
Could it be because she had four characters, so four were given directly?
Whatever, it wasn't a one-time item anyway; I could use it even if only one was given.
I'll wait here for Hyacine for a bit; otherwise, if I leave now, that group of soldiers below will require Hyacine to do more clearing.
Thinking of this, Cipher continued scrolling through her phone on the sofa. In her nearby surroundings, without anyone noticing when, several dozen more soldiers had been added—the ones who had come as reinforcements only to end up lying on the ground at light speed.
As for why she didn't just use godspeed or teleport over to bring Hyacine here...
She was mainly a bit curious to see exactly how many soldiers this group of people could send as reinforcements during this time; it was already approaching a hundred.
...
"Truly bad taste." At the same time, Hyacine, who was waiting at the train station for the train to Sop City, clearly perceived Cipher's thoughts and couldn't help but complain in her heart.
Even though they all shared one consciousness, sometimes this kind of situation where the left and right brain fought—like me complaining about myself—really did occur.
"Ding-dong. The train has arrived at Chaos Capital. The next stop is: Sop City."
"Passengers who need to travel, please have your tickets ready and board the train. The train will depart in five minutes."
"Oh? Looks like it's here."
Hearing the broadcast announcement, Hyacine stood up, preparing to walk toward the train.
"Clatter, clatter, clatter—!"
And then, a string of extremely hurried footsteps approached from far to near, accompanied by a familiar cry tinged with a sob that directly broke through the noise of the platform and entered her ears.
"Sister Hyacine! Wait for me!"
"Eh? Hong Guoguo's voice?"
Hyacine instantly recognized the owner of the voice and turned her head in surprise.
Sure enough, the person coming was Hong Guoguo herself.
"Hong Guoguo?"
Seeing this, Hyacine walked forward quickly to meet her, directly supporting the girl whose face was flushed, and asked with a deep frown:
"Why did you suddenly run here? Did something happen?"
When Hong Guoguo ran in front of Hyacine, she directly grabbed Hyacine's sleeve tightly, tears welling up in her red eyes, her voice trembling slightly:
"Sister Hyacine... I beg you... take me into the Spirit Tide with you, okay? Don't leave me alone..."