That is to say, when I think about it now, it is not so much relying on the bond, but rather relying on the reasoning ability I have accumulated.
"Come to think of it, the reason my intuition is so accurate is actually...?"
"Well, it might seem a bit harsh to state the truth, but that seems to be the case. Those intuitions are just fragments of memory—the same goes for everyone else's. The future is called the future simply because it hasn't arrived yet—but the future exists simultaneously with the present and the past, so the sounds you occasionally hear can be understood as threads of consciousness—"
The system explained quietly, "I was created relying on this awareness of the future and the past. Because of my unique background, I yearn for the future while clinging to the past, leaving me with no real sense of the present. Someone more sensitive to reality would likely die from the pain of having the electrodes inserted into their brains. However, given my brain's circuitry, my first reaction was that this would lead to a better future."
When Chu Shangli was young, he could often see various intuitions——
That wasn't the life I'd lived my first time through—even though some things weren't necessarily inevitable due to different circumstances—I still felt the afterimage—
It's the residue and debris from the past.
Or rather - from the future.
So, has my brain also been plugged with electrodes? What would that feel like for me?
Is it pain, sadness, or indifference?
Since all she had were fragments, the core part that had to be exchanged for favorability was just a black shadow.
Chu Shangli bit his lips, leaving teeth marks on them.
"Master, do you need me to temporarily delete this part of your memory before continuing in the flower shed? If you are in your current mental state, you might be exposed, right?"
Chu Shangli couldn't say that he wasn't worried about this trouble at all—
However, now that I have discovered that I have more time, there is no need to worry about being exposed.
"really……"
"Do you want to delete it?"
"No, I mean - rather than communicating directly between us, it would be better to pause time, right?"
The system responded with a voice that was not surprising. "Hmm, I knew it would be a choice between this and memory deletion. After all, my master seems to have never canceled 'time pause' even once so far. Is it a matter of spiritual habit? Or a fixed mindset? I can't really explain it - but, anyway -"
The system snapped its fingers and rang in my ears. "Although I've tried my best to prove that it's unwise not to use [Time Stop], to be honest, I'm actually a little scared—"
"Fear?"
"Hmm..." The system paused, then replied, "Because I've never tried it before—and I might even crash—it's like saying a refrigerator has the ability to cool and make ice, but if you've never used it and only read about it in the manual, then doing it really takes a lot of courage, doesn't it?"
"This metaphor...are you thinking of yourself as a refrigerator?"
"No, rather than thinking of myself as a refrigerator, it's more like I've developed a similar understanding with machines. In a sense, the system is actually a machine, right?"
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