"Big my foot! What kind of magic is this?"
After her "talent show," Koizumi Akako had regained her composure, trying to calm her wildly beating heart and disheveled hair. She looked at Hanyu Nan, with visible black lines appearing on her forehead, and her fists clenched.
She discovered that, apart from possessing an enormous and irrationally terrifying amount of energy, this guy was completely ignorant of systematic, subtle magical knowledge that required the coordination of knowledge and rituals.
It was all about brute force! An overwhelming power of energy!
"you…"
Hongzi took a deep breath and suppressed the urge to curse.
She pointed at him, her finger trembling slightly: "This isn't magic! This is cheating! This is hacking! This is thuggery! How can you just brute force it with energy like that?! Magic is art! It's ritual! It's the resonance of knowledge and the rules of the world! It's not about brute force creating miracles!"
Yuzuru spread his hands, looking innocent and aggrieved: "What cheating? I'll sue you for defamation! I've been a model student since I was a child, excelling in all aspects of morality, intelligence, physical education, aesthetics, and labor. I never cheat!"
At the same time, he silently called out in his mind: 'System, quick, give me some buffs, some magic-related items or knowledge, to subdue this girl!'
system:"……"
And you still say you can't cheat!
Koizumi Akako was still fuming and complaining: "Where did you come from, you freak? My previous divination showed that your fate line was unclear, but it seemed to have some connection with that lost land in the East... Did you receive some kind of inheritance left behind there? Otherwise, your cheat-like cultivation speed and brute force methods are simply inexplicable!"
East?
Yuzuru Nanami had a sudden thought.
This question had always been on his mind.
When he first arrived in this world, he discovered that the familiar continent was not on the map at all; instead, there was a blank ocean.
He asked casually, a hint of seriousness in his voice: "Do you know... that there was once a continent in this world, next door? A place called Shenzhou or something similar?"
Upon hearing this, Koizumi Akako's face immediately lit up with pride; she had finally encountered something she was good at.
Rarely able to regain some ground and a sense of superiority in front of Yuzuru Nanagi, the witch slightly raised her chin and snorted: "Hmph! Do you think our thousand-year-old Crimson Magic is just for show? Of course it's recorded in our ancient texts, even if it's just scattered fragments!"
She composed herself and spoke in the tone of someone recounting ancient legends: "About two thousand years ago, there was indeed an incredibly vast and powerful continent in the east of the world, known as 'Shenzhou,' 'Zhendan,' or 'Chixian.' According to legend, the origins of most of the world's ancient cultivation systems, whether it be our magic, Western divine power, or even more ancient witchcraft, can be traced back to that land."
"However, around two thousand years ago, the world's spiritual energy began to gradually decline and dry up."
According to the most secret historical records, the Eastern Divine Continent was then ruled by a powerful alliance called the "Hundred Schools of Thought." They seemed to foresee the coming of the Dharma-ending Age and, gathering the power of the entire continent, were secretly carrying out a massive plan...
Hongzi's voice became low and mysterious: "Then, one day, without warning... the entire Divine Continent, along with the billions of living beings, the glorious civilization, and all the cultivators on it... vanished from this world in an instant. Not sunk, but completely disappeared, including space and matter."
"According to the scattered records left by those sinners who were exiled to these 'edge islands' where we are now for various reasons, they believed that the 'Hundred Schools of Thought' led the people of China to ascend to a new, spiritually vibrant, and higher world... and never returned."
More than two thousand years ago... during the late Zhou and Warring States periods... the Hundred Schools of Thought... and the entire world ascended to heaven...
Yuzuru listened quietly, each word like a hammer blow to his heart.
An indescribable, profound sadness slowly washed over me like a tide, instantly drowning out the slight pleasure and playful thoughts I had just experienced from successfully showing off.
home......
Even this strange, ambiguous homeland in another world has been completely abandoned.
He can never go back.
There isn't even a place to pay respects.
The melancholy of "losing one's homeland" and the immense sense of loneliness became incredibly clear and heavy at this moment. He seemed to have become an eternal wanderer in endless time and space, a rootless duckweed, unable to find a place to return to.
He lowered his head slightly and remained silent.
The aura around him became visibly subdued, ethereal, and lonely.
It was as if there was an invisible membrane separating them from everything around them.
After Koizumi Akako finished recounting that secret, she was about to take the opportunity to ask Hanyu Nanasu if he had really obtained some kind of treasured inheritance left behind in the East, and if he could show it to her so she could "open her eyes" and "study it out".
Before she could even utter a word, her keen witch's intuition suddenly sensed an extremely intense and indescribable overwhelming sadness, spreading out from Hanyu Nanami like a tangible tide.
She instinctively looked at Yuzuru Nan in astonishment, only to see him fall into a deep silence, his head down, his expression unreadable, but the aura around him had become incredibly ethereal and lonely.
What made her even more uneasy was...
From this young man, who has always been strong, confident, and even somewhat cynical, there is an aura of alienation emanating from him, a sense of "leaving," "going away," and "not belonging here."
And it's getting more and more intense, more and more real!
Leaving? Where is he going?
Koizumi Akako felt a sudden, inexplicable unease, as if something extremely important, something that anchored the world, was loosening and about to be lost.
She even had the illusion that the space around her was slightly distorted because of his sadness.
The silent weeping of the gods stirred sorrow in the world.
"quack--!"
On the studio roof, the previously quiet crows seemed to sense some extreme fear. Suddenly, they all started to scatter, flying and crashing around in terror, letting out shrill screams as they desperately tried to escape the space, as if some great horror was about to befall them!
Animals are most sensitive to disasters and unknown dangers.
Koizumi Akako herself felt a chilling fear originating from the deepest part of her soul; her witch's intuition was frantically warning her!
She had a clear premonition that if Yuzuru continued in this state, if that sense of "leaving" really reached its peak... it might lead to unimaginable, catastrophic consequences!
"Hey! Yuzuru!"
Forget about her witch's pride and decorum, she abruptly stood up, her voice tinged with a panic and urgency she herself didn't realize, "You... what's wrong with you? Wake up! Stop spacing out! Snap out of it!"
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