Chapter Fifty-two What Happened After All

  "Alas, why is it still like this?" Jiǔ Mìng knocked on his own skull, and these 'forced' memories seemed to be teasing him, accumulating to a certain level, always seeming to be shrouded in a layer of gauze, unclear and troubling.

  "What's wrong, boss of this small shop?"

  Once again, they met, and she noticed that Kurenai's condition was not right. Yakumo Yukari's teasing had also subsided a lot. What made her curious was that after coming here, Kurenai looked at her with a somewhat strange gaze!

  Although he is now very strange with a gloomy aura all over him.

  "Huh? There are still 40 seconds... Little sister, come and sit with me for a bit." Dazed and feeling like his head was about to split open, Jiǔ Mìng glanced at the time and waved his hand at Yīyún Zǐ, who had suddenly arrived. To say nothing of anything else, Jiǔ Mìng even doubted his own willpower - he had actually managed to hold on for over a day!!

  Every two minutes, this day's prolonged time made him experience nearly a thousand times of such noise and chaos!!

  "Little store owner, do you know who you're joking with?"

  "Sorry, I've had some issues lately and my emotions are a bit unstable, don't hit me, okay?" He rubbed his brow and let out a long sigh, suddenly changing his tone, "If nothing's wrong, hurry up and leave, or else something might happen later."

  Curiosity got the better of the monster, and Jiǔ Mìng's kind reminder unexpectedly made her stay, and she even sat down beside Jiǔ Mìng, with only ten seconds left.

  The distance to Jiuming was getting closer, and Bachiyunzi could feel the abnormal state of Jiuming's current state more clearly. His entire soul body was in a state of intense turmoil, giving her a particularly strange feeling. Unfortunately, time was too short, and before she could see what it was, a noisy and chaotic feeling made Bachiyunzi's face change slightly.

  This... she felt her timeline on her body suddenly lengthened...

  "What's this?"

  After the noisy and chaotic feeling similar to that of Nine Lives passed, Yakumo Yukari, who was originally sitting, stood up. The furniture around her seemed to have been swept away, and was in disarray. The color of Nine Lives' soul body also became much more transparent.

  "Alright... now there's a minute of time, if you're not busy, go ahead and leave?" After taking a deep breath, Jiumeng felt that the vague memories had some more content added to them, which was directly caused by Yakumo Yukari's joining in, resulting in the gradually clear memories becoming blurry again.

  Good grief!

  Yakumo Yuko was taken aback, "In my impression, didn't you just make a move 'just now'?"

  "Huh? You remember? It's just that I find it a bit strange about my current weak state." Jiǔ Mìng waved his arm, which had become much more transparent.

  "Some places are a bit fuzzy, the flow of time was too fast just now, is that your experience?" For some reason, Yakumo Yukari didn't explain the detailed process, "Anyway, the shopkeeper's kind reminder to you, don't be so stubborn, even if you're very resilient, but the side effects of this experience you can't withstand for much longer."

  "If I'm not mistaken, the acceleration of time only occurs in a certain part of this place, and the overall time here hasn't changed. So after that kind of experience ends, there will be a discrepancy between the physical time you've experienced and the time in this place. The impact of this discrepancy will last until your own timeline and the timeline of this place are reconciled."

  "You should be lucky you're not human."

  Her explanation... well, it can be referred to as a side effect of someone's inherent time control.

  "Can't be immunized?"

  "Of course not, unless you have a special ability related to time that allows you to ignore this side effect. Otherwise, it's just your own strength that can ignore the pressure of time." Having experienced what just happened, Yakumo Yukari smiled lightly with a hint of mockery and said, "It seems that you, the young shopkeeper, possess neither of these qualities."

  "Nonsense... I've been through this nearly a thousand times already..." The belittled Nine Lives, dissatisfied, flipped out the surviving notebook from the shattered furniture on the ground. At the same time, the destroyed furniture quickly returned to normal.

  "Look at this, one character is written five times!" The characters are not large, but the few sheets of paper are filled with dense and neat handwriting.

  "Underestimated you." With a hint of surprise, Hachijou Amane briefly narrowed her eyes, as if waiting for something. "Commendable spirit... How reckless, no wonder I thought the shopkeeper was slightly stronger by just 'a little bit'. Time's up."

  After returning to normal again, the weakness of Jiuming had disappeared. In that abnormally accelerated time, he had recovered normally, but in Yakumo Yukari's eyes, even if Jiuming had recovered normally, the fluctuation degree of his soul body was once again severe, and the compression brought by two different time flow speeds caused very serious damage to him.

  Even if there is enough time to recover in that extreme acceleration environment, there will always be a little residual accumulation. The more the accumulation, the more it's like an internal injury. Once it erupts, one can only pray that they are dead again or their soul has scattered.

  But he himself seems not to have realized this serious problem yet.

  "I said, you don't have to come with me like this, do you?" Jiǔ Mìng rubbed his temples, and the memories of that abnormal period of time became a bit more blurry again.

  "Hmph, little shopkeeper, I was actually trying to help you get rid of the source of this matter." This time, Yakumo Yukari stared at her palm in a daze, and a small crack appeared on the tip of her sharp fingernails.

  "Nonsense, you clearly intended to get rid of all of them... Ah? I'm going, you're staying here and actually planning on doing something like that?" Jiǔ Mìng said subconsciously, a bit of hazy memory suddenly clearing up.

  "I'm a youkai, isn't killing and eating people just normal? That little girl named Hakurei Reimu is not ordinary." Saying so, the one sitting next to Kurenai Gouki, Yakumo Yukari stood up. "I'm getting a bit bored, if things keep going like this... You'll die! You should have a way to leave this place, want to come to my house as a guest? It's been ages since an outsider has visited."

  "I still have unfinished appointments, next time then." Jiǔ Mìng shook his head and left the mysterious store to temporarily hide. He wasn't without thoughts about it.

  "Go with those humans!?" Yakumo Yukari's eyes revealed a few strands of killing intent, "Forget it! Next time I see you, I hope you're still alive!"

  "It's strange when you think about it." Jiǔ Mìng knocked his own head, if every time he spent a long time in that abnormally accelerated environment, the accumulated memories should be many, but he found that the increase in his own fuzzy memory accumulation was... very slow!

  It seems...the repetitive parts haven't accumulated yet.

  Honestly, I just want to get out of here and find a place to have a good sleep!!

  Even if he doesn't feel much fatigue now, Yakumo Yukari's warning made Kaito very concerned that if this continues, he will die?

  "Damn it, once I've figured out that unclear part of my memory, I'll find a way to go to her world... and see what kind of anomaly occurred!!"

  Without external interference, even though those vague memories are slowly increasing, the originally stagnant blurry parts gradually become clear. However, this part of the cleared-up memory makes Jiǔ Mìng very disappointed, it's completely just nonsense about daily life!

  What's the experience of going to the swimming pool, participating in the Bon Festival, catching cicadas and so on... What is this that can make his vague memories deepen so much? It's clear that this kind of communication has been repeated many times during that endless 'time anomaly' phase.

  Outside of that is the increasingly isolated Nagato Yuki.

  It's been more than three days since I was able to recall things so clearly, and overall it's been almost five days now.

  "If this goes on, I'll probably really die...?" Looking at his palm, Jiǔ Mìng vaguely saw a few small gray "gases" slowly dissipating from it, roughly similar to the process of one's soul flying away. Recalling that gradually deepening memory, he felt it wasn't worth it!!!

  It's all for some parents' trivial and idle memories!

  Thinking of the one who left the deepest impression on me, that delicate figure becoming increasingly lonely... "Sigh..."

  He let out a long sigh, and the Nine Lives rubbed his temples, as a slow-moving gray "gas" emanated from his body, making him feel irritable. However, time was up again.

  This time, Jiǔ Mìng found a note, and this pattern seems different from last time, alas.

  Jiǔ Mìng picked up the note and took a look, his face suddenly turned dark. This was left by Xī Huì, but this content...

  "Thanks for your persistence in accompanying me, you're in a dangerous state, please temporarily leave this vortex..."

  "It would be great if the remaining vague memories could also be clear." Shaking his head, Jiǔ Mìng put away the note, whirlpool?

  If he wants to leave, it's simple, just temporarily leave the mysterious store and there should be no problem.

  It's just like this, there's always a feeling of being irresponsible, but if it goes on like this... I'm afraid I'll really be done for!

  The dispersal speed of the soul body was imperceptibly faster by a thread, what about those high-energy crystals?

  It had already turned into a pile of powder two days ago, it's simply brutal.

  It's quite unbelievable for me to have persisted for so long, but I'm also approaching my limit.

  "It can't go on like this, otherwise I'll end up getting dragged down! Nine Lives rubbed his face hard, psyched himself up and stood up abruptly. Kneeling down without knowing what's going on was too humiliating, he had to get to the bottom of this!"

  Let's go into her world and figure out what kind of thing Haruhi Suzumiya is up to! If something happens, it's already happened, don't come crying to me!

  Relying on clarifying that vague memory to figure out the whole thing, nine lives are no longer hopeful. This is simply a dead cycle, each time new vague memories emerge, and when the previous part of the vague memory is clarified, it's unknown how many more will be added later, this endless cycle, he really wants to die unjustly!

  It's better to take the initiative to break through than to passively wait, directly get to the bottom of this matter and cut off this dead cycle. Thinking about it now, my previous actions were really stupid! Anyway, let's just consider it a special kind of training, he really did become stronger because of it.