For Fang Zheng, this was just an ordinary night.

After finishing the meeting with the top leaders of the Star Alliance, he returned to the Lightning, washed up, yawned, lay down on the bed, closed his eyes and fell asleep.

Then……

"puff!!!"

A sudden impact came from his body, and when Fang Zheng opened his eyes again, he saw two girls stepping on him.

"Oh, sorry."

One of the girls hurriedly apologized to him, while the other girl stared in front of her.

"Hurry up, we only have an hour!"

As she spoke, she grabbed the hand of the girl in front of her and prepared to leave. At the same time, Fang Zheng realized that he was not in the interior cabin of the Lightning, but a place that looked like a park. A tower under construction could be seen in the distance.

So, I am traveling through time as a spirit?

"Wait for me a moment."

Fang Zheng quickly jumped up and stood in front of the two girls. He could feel the breath of time on these two people, and he was sure that they were the reason why Fang Zheng's spirit appeared here.

"You guys want to leave after stepping on someone?"

Fang Zheng is not the kind of masochist who gets excited just because a girl looks at him like trash and scum while lifting her skirt to show him how fat she is. He also won't let them off just because the one stepping on him is a pretty girl instead of a fat woman. What a joke, he was sleeping soundly, and suddenly he was dragged to a place like this, and a beautiful girl fell from the sky and stepped on him. Just an apology is enough?

If it were a game, do you understand that the beautiful girls who fall from the sky and ride on the male protagonist are all willing to give themselves to him?

"You just walked away after stepping on someone? And I was sleeping in the room, so it must be you who showed up here. I can smell the scent of time on both of you... So you are time traveling? What do you want to do?"

"Why?!"

Hearing Fang Zheng's answer, the two girls were stunned for a moment, and then their faces immediately became nervous.

"What do you want?"

"Here's my question. What do you two want to do by manipulating time and involving me?"

"…What if we don't plan to answer you?"

Hearing this, one of the girls with short purple hair asked in a cold voice. Hearing her question, Fang Zheng raised his eyebrows and then snapped his fingers.

"Then don't go anywhere, just stay here obediently."

As Fang Zheng finished speaking, the next moment, the bodies of the two girls were fixed in place. Realizing this, their faces changed drastically. Then the leading girl looked at Fang Zheng again.

"Who are you?"

"As you can see, it's for the unlucky people who got dragged into your trouble, so are you going to tell me or not? I was planning to have a sweet dream in bed, but I didn't expect someone to step on my foot just as I closed my eyes, and when I opened my eyes, I found myself in a strange ghost place. If you don't explain it to me, don't blame me for being rude."

Fang Zheng is not the idiot protagonist in anime and games who gets into trouble for no reason and does whatever others say. Even if she is a beautiful girl, she can't step on her own body!

Of course, if you step on the face, from that angle you might even be able to see that you are getting fat, so it’s not a loss.

But now, Pang Chi didn't see it and was stepped on by two people. Fang Zheng suffered a huge loss.

“…”

In response to Fang Zheng's question, the two were silent for a moment, and then the purple-haired girl in the lead sighed.

"Well, I'll tell you."

Then, the purple-haired girl explained their situation to Fang Zheng. They were witches. The purple-haired girl was the "Lavender Witch" Estelle. She turned back time and came here to save her childhood sweetheart. In Estelle's timeline, her childhood sweetheart Serena's home was attacked by robbers at this time. Her parents were killed by the robbers, but Serena survived because she was out.

But after that, Selena was sent to live with her uncle, where she was abused by him. Then she killed her uncle, and then Selena, who awakened to the pleasure of killing, became a murderer.

So ten years later, Estelle caught Serena, who enjoyed killing people, and killed her with her own hands. The pain of killing her best friend was unbearable for Estelle. Finally, she thought of a way, which was to study the magic of reversing time and go back to that time ten years ago to prevent the tragedy from happening. In Estelle's view, if Serena's parents had not been killed by the robbers at that time, there would not be such a future.

"But in the future..."

"I know."

Fang Zheng had just opened his mouth when Estelle interrupted him.

"I know that even if I change the past, my future will not change. Selina can be saved in another future. But as long as I know that there is a possibility that she can be saved and live happily in another future, then I can let go of my obsession."

"You have a good attitude. If everyone who travels through time has your attitude, then many things won't be so troublesome."

After hearing Estelle's answer, Fang Zheng nodded, then snapped his fingers, releasing the two from their restraints.

"Okay, go ahead if you want to, but I have one condition. I want to go with you too... I've been dragged into this, and I also want to see how your plan will end."

“…”

"It doesn't matter if you don't want to take me with you. I will catch up by myself anyway."

"Then let us go."

Perhaps they felt that it was pointless to argue with Fang Zheng, or perhaps they were worried about wasting time, so the two girls didn't say much. Instead, they just picked up the brooms, sat on them, and left. They didn't ask Fang Zheng to follow them, but in turn this was equivalent to a challenge of "if you can catch up, try it."

Of course Fang Zheng doesn't care about this.

So, the two witches flew in the sky, and Fang Zheng followed them quietly. Although the two witches deliberately chose a very difficult route, it was not difficult for Fang Zheng.

However, at this moment, the purple-haired witch suddenly stopped moving, then she turned around and fell down, hugging a little girl on the street below tightly in her arms.

"Selena!"

"Hey? Hey hey??"

On the other side, the girl with long blue hair was held in Estelle's arms, with a look of surprise on her face.

"Big sister, who are you?"

“Woo… woo…”

However, Estelle just held the girl in her arms and cried bitterly.

"I'm sorry, I couldn't save you. I'm really, really sorry!!"

That should be what she always wanted to say to her childhood sweetheart, but never said it.

"Is this the persuasion of some new religion?"

"Oh, sorry, actually I'm from the future..."

"Hey? Hey?"

Selena seemed quite confused by Estelle's words. She took a few steps back and then quickly lowered her head.

“Excuse me!!!”

With these words the girl hurried away, while Estelle sat there, closing her eyes and whispering.

"Stare at me, Serena."

"That girl is the friend you want to save?"

At this time, Fang Zheng also came to Estelle's side, looked at the girl's back and asked, and Estelle nodded.

"That's right."

"Um……"

Fang Zheng touched his chin and stared at the girl's back.

"You said before that this girl was abused by her uncle, and then she killed him, awakening to the joy of killing and becoming a murderer. Is that right?"

"Yes."

"So she was living a happy life before this?"

"What's wrong?"

Hearing Fang Zheng's question, Estelle looked at him in confusion.

"That girl showed signs of being abused, and it was a long-term abuse."

Fang Zheng spoke calmly. He had taken care of so many cursed children and encountered many abused children, so Fang Zheng could tell at a glance that although the girl named Selina looked normal on the surface, she was actually not normal.

"When you hugged her, she had a momentary reflex, probably because your hug hurt her. Also, her posture seemed subtly inconsistent, and what you said... Never mind."

Fang Zheng waved his hand.

"What are you going to do next?"

"I plan to take her parents away from home, and then let my companion stay. If there are robbers coming to the door, she will be responsible for stopping them. I will protect Selena's parents."

"Oh...by the way, has the robber who attacked Serena's family been caught?"

"No...why do you ask?"

"Then I advise you to be careful."

Facing Estelle's question, Fang Zheng smiled slightly.

"Maybe the robber doesn't even exist."

"……?"

In the end, Estelle came as planned and took Selena's parents away, while Fang Zheng and another witch stayed in the alley, waiting for the robbers to come.

"Why did you just say that robbers don't exist?"

At this time, the witch also looked at Fang Zheng curiously and asked. She had short silver-gray hair, a black witch hat, and a cloak.

"Who are you……"

"My name is Irena, the Gray Witch Irena."

"Hello, Miss Irena. My name is Fang Zheng."

Fang Zheng nodded at Irena, then glanced at her hands.

"Are you and Miss Estelle a couple?"

"Eh? Why do you say that?"

"Because you're wearing the same style of ring, aren't you?"

As he spoke, Fang Zheng pointed his finger at Irena, who was stunned for a moment before she reacted.

"No, this is just a tool to transfer magic power! Because it takes a lot of magic power to reverse time and travel to the past, that's why Miss Estelle needs my help."

"I see."

"By the way, you haven't told me yet why you say that robbers don't exist?"

"Just now, out of curiosity, I scanned the girl."

As Fang Zheng spoke, he opened his personal terminal and displayed Selina's personal information.

"This is?"

"Selina's physical condition shows that she has many old injuries... This means that she has been subjected to violence. And here... Do you understand?"

"... What does it mean to be in a state of trauma?"

"To put it simply, this girl was raped."

Fang Zheng turned off his personal terminal and looked at Irena.

"And more than once, so you understand what I mean?"

"So what you're saying is..."

Hearing this, Irena was stunned.

"That robber... didn't exist at all. It was Selina who killed her parents. And her parents have been abusing her? They even..."

"It's just inference, no evidence."

Fang Zheng shrugged.

"So we just have to wait and see. If the robbers really show up, then I'm just talking nonsense. If the robbers don't show up..."

However, before Fang Zheng finished his words, suddenly, a dazzling light came out from the ring that Irena was wearing, connecting a line leading to the depths of the alley.

"…Well, it looks like we have a good show to watch."

Looking at the light, Fang Zheng shrugged his shoulders, while Irena said nothing and ran over quickly with gritted teeth.