AnnouncementSo, today a chapter that pys after the st in the list.So, as agreed upon, Chiaki stands in front of my door again the next day.

  The day itself was rather nice. While I really would've loved to get some real rest in the form of sleep, my inability in this regard crossed out that option. Therefore, I couldn't do much else but doze off a bit. However, the sense of normality I had the next day made up for this. We ate together as usual and had one of our normal family talks. It really helped a lot for me to act as if yesterday just didn't happen.Though, I suppose the pnned trip to my dream shouldn't be that bad either.

  "Alright, Chiaki. Let's get to my room and get this over with." (I)

  To be honest, while I understand her reasoning and even would wish to try making up, as I'm not a fan of having bad blood with anyone, the fact that Chiaki stabbed me with a huge sword and completely obliterated my form in this world makes me a bit displeased with her. Therefore, I can't help but be a bit snappy in her direction. You know, if not for the fact that Chiaki has a right to meet her patron goddess who now resides inside me, I probably would have opted to get out of each other's sight for the time being. At least for long enough until this irritation won't st anymore when I look at her. Mainly, because I might say something I could regret in this current mood.

  Before we are literally going to vanish in my room, I tend to Mum and Dad.

  "Ehm, Chiaki and I are going into my room. We might stay quite a while. You, you don't need to call us." (I)

  Ehm, why is Dad looking like that?

  "Uh, you see... I'm not sure if-" (Chr)

  Promptly Mum covers his mouth and speaks to us.

  "Sure! Have fun you two. All day if you want." (S)

  What's that supposed to mean?!

  On the other hand, I seriously want to get away from here before they expin it to me in detail.Yet before we get out, Mum closes in on Chiaki. She whispers her next word, but my supernatural senses work well enough to perceive every single word.

  "Chiaki, I like you. I think it's good that Iori has you by her side, or she would just hole herself up somewhere. So I want you to know that if you ever make Iori unhappy, then you'll have to answer to me. Understood?" (S)

  M-Mum? Your eyes are bck. I'm getting slightly concerned.

  Even Chiaki doesn't manage to give one of her usual answers. Instead, she nods with a downcast look, grabs my arm, and drags me to my room. Seems like I'm considered the lesser evil here.

  "Okay, I'm now very much in the mood to switch dimensions. Can we do that now?" (C)

  "Ehm, sure." (I)

  Well, if she wants now then I don't have to feel bad about sucking her in. Literally, as I open up a hole that is dragging her in.Thus, I now have her body and can transport her as I please. In accordance with her request, I choose the holy site I prepared for Soraja to pce her temple on.

  Once I materialize in the area, I conduct an old tradition of mine and stand stunned, having trouble believing in what I'm seeing. I got us two right on top of Soraja's mountain. From here, one can see all the surrounding area. Soraja's mountain lies on an isnd, where vast fields thrive in white coloring, different from the rest of my world. This is kinda still the case. If not for many of the pnts having grown a lot. Yet far more extreme is the all-encompassing foliage and pnt life all around the isnd. Now it's as if this area marks the one oasis inside a ndscape dominated by pnts in all colors. And if I say this, I mean all colors. Yellow, pink, blue, orange, there seems to be no limit. Especially, as this seems to extend seriously far. That goddess really has to answer me here.

  Also, are those people who are tending the fields? Yeah, my eyes I grow in this area tell me just this. Seems like the pnts in the area are getting tended to. Does that mean Soraja has devotees?

  "Wow! Look at this! Did Soraja do this? If she did, she really made something out of this pce!" (C)

  Of course, Chiaki finds this great.But I need to grant her that the area truly has more visual postcard appeal than the barren pins from before.Nonetheless, I demand answers.

  I walk up to the entrance. While doing so, I already notice that she also raised things in the decoration department. A lot of mps and posts were pced along the path and stripes of golden fabric adorn the gaps between.Gratefully, my authority in my very own dream, despite the changes, is still absolute, so I can just command the doors to Soraja's temple to open.

  "I hope you can ask your patron goddess what the hell is going on here." (I)

  "Sure. But personally, I like it." (C)

  Yeah, it has aesthetical value. Still, I'd like to know how this could go so overboard.

  We enter the temple, and I find that here as well, things have changed. I remember how before it was a simple entrance hall. Soraja created it to show off but obviously didn't have the leeway back then to focus much on the inner decorations. Aside from huge ornaments, there was nothing. This clearly has changed now. The entrance is filled at every single spot with paintings, sculptures, intrinsic works of pottery, and smithing. I didn't even know one could find such things in this world. I mean, it's only a small vilge.

  Promptly, I find Chiaki calling out next to me.

  "Soraja! Heeellllo!" (C)

  Her voice echoes in the rge hall, and before it even completely rings out, another set of huge wooden doors in front of us swings open, and with a gust of wind, golden light fills every nook and cranny of the room, much to the chagrin of my personal miasma field. Through the light moves a figure with clear purpose towards Chiaki, and subsequently wraps her up in an embrace.

  "MY INTIMATE!!!" (So)

  Wow, someone was really needy here.

  "Ehm, hi?" (C)

  She refuses to let go.

  "You know, isn't this a little excessive?" (I)

  At this, her gaze abruptly snaps to me.

  "You! Do you have any idea what you did to me?!" (So)

  "Obviously not!" (I)

  What is it now again?

  "Of course! Why would I ever expect that you would have the slightest notion about the things that matter?!" (So)

  "Could you please stop shouting at me and just expin what's the problem?" (I)

  "So it's true. You completely forgot about me in your very own world. Leaving me isoted during all this time." (So)

  "What do you mean 'all this time'? Our st visit was only a few days ago?!" (I)

  "See, and this is the issue. It wasn't. Not even close. Given the current physical state of my intimate, it's obvious that you have time dition going in your dream." (So)

  Time dition? I know something like this happened before, but I distinctly remember that back when I realized this, I certainly turned it off.

  "This can't be. I stopped the time dition back then." (I)

  "Objectively, you didn't. Or rather you restarted it again. Or how would you expin the state of this world?" (So)

  How would I know?! Strange things happen! Though, I have to agree that her version is more likely.

  "How can this be? I swear I did!" (I)

  "Sure. Then how about this. How many times did you wish since you 'stopped' the effect for time to run faster?" (S)

  Huh?

  "What do you mean? What's that question about?" (I)

  "I'm going with the most likely assumption. As deeply as you're connected to your world, it's not a far stretch to think that your thoughts would influence this realm. For this reason, whenever you wish for time to run faster like you might do when being even the slightest bit bored, time would run faster. Just not for you, but the world whose very ws you control." (So)

  That, that makes sense.

  Damn! I reset the time dition only to repeatedly press fast-forward on the remote!

  "Oh shit!" (I)

  "So... How long ago has our st visit now been, exactly?" (C)

  At this, Soraja makes an, in my opinion intentional, dramatic pause, before saying with deliberate gravity:

  "No less than sixty earthen years." (So)