"It's me, Olivia. Do you have time to talk to me?"

In the dim room, on the big soft bed near the windowsill, Olivia was curled up into a ball, hugging the quilt tightly in her arms. Her messy golden hair fell to the edge of the bed.

On an elegant wooden chair nearby hung the clothes she had changed out of last night. The strange thing was that the clothes were not the noble and gorgeous clothes she wore everyday, but lead-gray clothes similar to nightgown.

Hearing Louis' voice coming from the door, the bedding on the bed squirmed, and the curled up body slowly stretched out. A white and clean hand fumbled around, and a magical light rolled the night suit into the dimensional bag. After a moment, she slowly got up.

But just as the girl was about to stand up, the hand that supported her body slipped off the bed, and she instantly lost her balance and rolled to the ground wrapped in the quilt.

A muffled groan was heard.

Olivia covered her head and didn't say anything for a long time. Her silk nightgown was rolled up and hung on her body in a messy way. The loose right shoulder strap slipped off, revealing her slender back.

She was about to stand up, but accidentally stepped on her long blonde hair.

Then there was another mosquito-like cry.

It took her a long time to recover. She squatted on the ground, and the mage's mental power spread out, allowing her to easily sense the situation of the person outside the door.

She was a little anxious and a little guilty, but in the end she could only hug the quilt uneasily and curl up like a wounded little animal.

Lumi's nails, which were originally kept clean and tidy, were bitten to a point of being uneven. She looked outside the door hesitantly, not knowing how to respond to Louis.

"He probably doesn't know yet. Even if he has doubts in his heart, they are just doubts. Olivia, don't be afraid. You are the best!"

After she comforted herself repeatedly, she carefully said to the door: "What are you doing? I'm still sleeping."

The sound outside the door disappeared. After a moment, Louis's strange words rang out:

"Don't we know whether you want to sleep or not? Or do you want me to come into your room right now."

Olivia looked out the door hesitantly. For some reason, she felt that Louis was a little aggressive today.

"Give me 2..."

"Two minutes?"

"∑(Дノ)ノ20 minutes... Can you at least let me finish the basic washing and dressing?"

"Okay, just 20 minutes, come downstairs and we'll have a good chat."

Louis' voice was serious, which made Cygnet realize that he was serious.

In fact, for some unspeakable reasons, the little swan would always consciously avoid Louis during this period.

Under normal circumstances, as soon as Louis came back from outside, she would follow Sister Wang to check on the bad guy.

But now, I suddenly felt guilty.

Olivia had to admit that she regretted it now.

In the shadows, a figure slowly walked out and came to the little swan:

"He's gone downstairs."

"I know." Olivia looked up at the shadow impatiently and said, "I can know everything you can observe."

"Of course." The man in the shadows picked up the little swan, put her on the chair, and carefully combed her hair. "After all, I am a part of you."

A ray of sunlight poured through the gaps in the curtains into the dim room, illuminating the little swan who looked a little sleepy in front of the dressing table, and the girl behind the little swan who was helping her with her hair.

What was a little strange was that the girl had the same blonde hair and red eyes as the little swan. She looked after her lovely sister quietly, just like a pair of twins.

The little swan on the chair was swinging her hair back and forth. The girl was very patient and just carefully asked her to be quiet and then fixed her hair.

"Lumi will be back soon. If you really don't dare to see Louis, let her deal with Louis. With your timid look now, anyone can see that there is a problem."

Olivia's feet subconsciously shrank.

Lumi can protect her, but she can't protect Louis.

"I, I can't tell her that I made a mistake. I couldn't help Louis when she beat him."

The girl spat and said, "If you were worried about them fighting, you should have controlled yourself."

Olivia was silent for a moment and said, "Anyway, no one knows it was me. Bad guys are stupid in this regard. As long as I affect that guy's memory, he won't ask directly even if he has doubts."

"Okay, just do it yourself and wear your own clothes."

The girl's body gradually became illusory, and a ray of sunlight passed through her body. Before disappearing, the girl looked at Olivia calmly and said, "Don't forget, I am the reflection of your memory. I can't affect you, but my thoughts also represent some thoughts deep in your heart."

"Okay, stop talking." Olivia suddenly became a little anxious. "I'll get dressed and go see him. That won't happen again."

She paused and added, "Some of them are also related to the out-of-control clones of the Shadow Kingdom."

"Heh." The girl said nothing more. Her body turned into a wisp of green smoke and merged into the little swan's body.

When she raised her eyes again, there was a hint of bookishness on her face.

She pinched her brows and said, "Has 005 gone crazy recently? You've read so many literary works. Do you want to be an artistic girl?"

But she wasn't annoying either.

She's used to it.

The lazy time clone is the lazy authority she uses most often.

It's just a time clone, and there will always be some price to pay when it is separated.

That is the "belief" that supports the time clone.

This belief must be something you already have and it must be relatively strong.

For example, a certain clone that is now almost completely out of control.

What she carries is the sum of Olivia's desire to protect her father, her sister, her empire, and her strong desire to survive.

Therefore, the clone will follow her beliefs, constantly explore the possibility of salvation, and work hard to become stronger.

The same is true for 005.

She carries her own desire for knowledge, so every time she splits herself, she will work hard to learn everything she wants to learn.

But Olivia didn't expect that she actually liked being an artistic girl.

Thinking of this, she suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

Am I such a little girl? But another voice came from my heart: "Olivia, Olivia, don't you know whether you are childish or not?"

The little swan suddenly felt annoyed.

She is so childish and it's not what she wanted to choose.

If you want to quickly accumulate strength and become stronger, you must disperse your time clones and take charge of various different things.

As the belief was cut, the memories that made up the belief were also extracted.

Before retrieving her time clone, her memories were fragmented.

——For a moment, she even forgot that she had cut the time clone.

So Olivia felt that it was unreasonable to call her childish.

A person's world view, outlook on life and values ​​are shaped by her past experiences.

The more memories you have, the greater the impact.

It would be strange if she could still maintain the temperament of an adult with her incomplete memory.

Fortunately, except for the first time she released the "Black Swan" that year, when it lost control because she had not set the "recycling keyword", her clones would set goals and rules for them at other times.

After following the rules and completing the goal, the time clone will automatically dissipate and return to the body with everything she controls.

Thinking of this, her nose almost turned up.

You never expected that, Louis, I'm very smart and you can't see through me so easily.

When she was just reborn, the person she was most wary of was the future prince who would deceive the country.

The succubus bloodline may not be that useful in purely improving combat power, but when it comes to socializing, it’s a dimensionality reduction attack.

Racial talent instincts allow the owners of succubus blood to more or less feel the emotions of others, which means that by properly using racial talents, they can move freely in social occasions and control the right to speak in the aristocratic social circle.

However, the essence of the Abyss Succubi is chaotic, and their nature dictates that they can only use this talent for feeling emotions to drain their enemies.

Only those hybrids who have escaped the influence of the abyss can exert this power more effectively.

Among these mixed-race children, Huoguo is the most dangerous one.

Considering her knowledge of Huoguo's greedy and almost insane character, she was unwilling to let him know her actions even if he would be her ally in the future.

But she couldn't always be on guard against Huoguo's emotional perception.

So long before she officially met Huoguo, she had transformed her "beliefs" into clones and sent them out one by one.

In this way, the memory will also pass away along with the belief.

The less memory she has, the closer she is to the mentality of a "child".

No matter how powerful Huoguo is, he can't see the whole picture from her.

——But who would have thought that this country is not the same country that is confused.

It was a confusing country that was beyond her understanding.

At first, due to lack of experience, I was unable to detect his abnormality in time. I just felt that he had become different.

Later, the two sides had more and more contacts and their ideas changed.

Especially during the time when Louis proposed the Great River Project, the 001 time clone returned. With more memories, she quickly determined that there was a problem with the Kingdom of Huo.

At that time, she simply thought that this was a lucky person who traveled through time like her.

But when the two sides confronted each other, she knew that the man was not the Zhenhuoguo she was afraid of.

Olivia sat on the chair, tilted her head, circling her fingers on the table, and her eyes gradually became hazy.

In her previous life, before she died, she briefly took back all her time clones and restored them to their complete form.

She understood at that moment that Huoguo was not her enemy, and he had even been helping Sister Wang for a long time.

The fact that he, as a close guard, failed to protect Sister Wang was a thorn in her heart.

She didn't complain about being locked up in the palace.

But if you expect her to identify with this person, that would be a bit troublesome.

After all, he was even once so affected by his sin that he could not control his words and actions.

It was fine during the period when he became emperor. At that time, he seemed to have made up his mind and was able to suppress his great sin - greed to a certain extent.

It's considered promising.

But the early period of the confused country was really a time bomb.

If you are not careful, you may get into trouble.

But...what if it wasn't that foolish man, but someone more trustworthy? "Louis, Louis, you are such a bad guy."

The little swan murmured.

After recovering the 003 time clone, she regained the ability to control the time clone.

It was also at that time that she learned a lot of things that she didn't know before.

For example, his encounter with the black swan.

For example, the agreement between the two to protect Sister Wang.

For example, from the perspective of the Black Swan, Louis encountered a crisis in order to protect Sister Wang.

…

Those were things she didn't understand before.

She was grateful then.

I am grateful that Louis is trying so hard to protect Sister Wang.

But gradually, she felt as if she was going schizophrenic.

The night Louis came to her dormitory to seek the inheritance from Master Yufeng, he pulled out her window, and after getting the inheritance, he laughed at her for "not being able to afford A", which made her so angry that she planned to find some papaya milk to replenish her body.

This was just a very ordinary thing.

But after the Black Swan clone obtained this part of his memory, he felt ashamed and embarrassed.

I didn't feel anything at first, but after reading the black swan's shy and embarrassing memories, I suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

Black Swan disguised herself to meet Louis, but was exposed because she didn't bring sister Lumi. On the night when the two finally spoke frankly to each other, Black Swan didn't feel anything about hiding in Louis' room and being discovered by William.

But the little swan who read the black swan's memory felt that his brain was about to burn out.

Black Swan clone, Li Zai Gan the God and Demon! Do you know how much misunderstanding this will cause to others? "Maybe it was from that time that my thoughts became less clean."

Shame was like a crack in her heart, and she couldn't tell the truth, so the crack gradually widened.

Especially... during the battle in the Kingdom of Shadows, she stood in the perspective of the Black Swan and saw with her own eyes that Louis was almost going crazy and saved her with serious injuries. The complex emotions in her heart at that time were like a volcano that had been accumulated for a long time, erupting in an instant.

The interference she had intentionally caused to him in the early stages because she didn't understand him, transcended time and became like nails that pierced her.

Although Louis handled those things well, he still felt guilty.

Then a long-forgotten thought popped up again.

"It was my plan to get him away from Sister Wang that pushed the distance between him and Sister Wang."

So somehow, she actually blamed herself for what she did at that time.

So silly and cute.

If she said she didn't have any thoughts in her mind, she wouldn't have been so shameless to deny it.

After spending so much time with the bad guy, I really feel comfortable around him.

It seems like there is one more trustworthy person to rely on.

It had been a long time since she had been able to safely hand things over to someone else.

Is it guilt?

I don't understand.

Do you like it?

Not sure either.

But it's certainly not jealousy.

Because that was the lover of her beloved Beatrice, who took on everything in the empire when Beatrice was most confused.

After learning that the materials to lift her cursed body required treasures from the Mermaid Kingdom, Beatrice exchanged her favorite things for the materials to lift the curse.

How could she bear to hurt Beatrice?

So for a while, she took the initiative to avoid Louis.

Until that day...

(End of this chapter)