It's time to improve the strength of the infinite world

Chapter 72: The Soil Where the Lostbelt Emerged
He rubbed his forehead with a headache.

Touka Takanashi pushed open the door of the ward and walked in.

The air was filled with the smell of disinfectant. A middle school girl with a blindfold was lying quietly on the white hospital bed. She looked like she was sleeping soundly, almost snoring, and there was no expression of pain on her face.

Coming to the bedside and looking at her carefully, Tohka Takanashi even felt that her sister's expression looked like she was having a happy dream.

I don’t know what surprising thing I saw before I fell asleep...

Or after falling asleep, I dreamed of something surprising...

Anyway, the corners of the girl's mouth were obviously slightly upturned, as if she was smiling happily, just like some kind of staunch believer who finally realized the faith she had always believed in, and was filled with joy and happiness from the bottom of her heart.

"..."

"..."

"Three years..."

Tohka Takanashi was silent for a moment, and finally sighed.

She gently pulled the chair next to her, ready to sit down next to the bed, but it didn't move after she pulled it once. She looked over in confusion and subconsciously pulled it again, and this time it moved.

Although she felt a little strange, she didn't think too much about it. She just sat down on the chair and took out her cell phone to check the time.

Xia Zhi calmly gave up his seat, walked to the side, and observed the sisters thoughtfully.

From Miss Shihua's sigh just now, he keenly grasped the crucial time - three years! She said it has been three years...

No matter what he was saying, it must be related to the Master this time. Whether it was that the Master's condition had lasted for three years, or something happened three years ago that the Master couldn't let go of...

The timing that fits perfectly——

I have been denying reality and the world as it is now since three years ago.

It can be said to be a late stage of Chuunibyou, but in fact it can also be seen as an extremely firm self-belief.

Xia Zhi initially concluded that this was the reason why the Master was chosen this time. After all, the divergence between reality and the anomaly was indeed three years ago, when his "landing capsule" landed along with the meteorite split from the comet.

Under some inexplicable law...

Time, which should have been moving linearly, seemed to be tied into a knot...

In just this three-year span, we have experienced two historical events...

"It doesn't seem to be a coincidence..." Pinching his chin, he carefully looked at the middle school girl on the bed, thinking about what to do next, and habitually formulated a number of plans to prescribe the right remedy.

But soon, Xia Zhi directly denied them.

Maybe it doesn't need to be that complicated, and that would probably just be superfluous...

After all, if this Rikka Takanashi is herself a seriously ill patient, then there is no need to use any rhetoric to convince her. She will believe it herself and make up a series of ups and downs, heroic and magical realist stories in her mind.

They seek self-worth in fantasy, become addicted to the virtual world and cannot extricate themselves, and think they are "special beings"...

That's it.

However, this time, she is no longer just suffering from a simple chuunibyou syndrome, but is serious about it.

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Maybe it's because I'm really too tired...

This time, the Master slept until noon of the next day before waking up slightly.

Her eyelashes trembled slightly, and Rikka Takanashi opened her eyes drowsily. She took a look at the layout of the ward. Although she didn't see it clearly and her brain couldn't react, the hazy sleepiness made her fall asleep again.

This is how it should be...

But just before he fell asleep again, he caught a glimpse of the figure next to him out of the corner of his eye...

In an instant, it seemed as if all her sleepiness disappeared. She suddenly opened her eyes wide, sat up with a start, turned her head abruptly, and stared at the person beside the bed with surprise and joy.

The momentum of that neck twisting was too intense.

So much so that Xia Zhi's eyes twitched slightly as he watched, fearing that the master would break his cervical vertebrae.

"..." "..."

There was a strange silence, and the air seemed to be frozen.

"You're awake, Master..." The young man spoke first. He pointed to the table next to him and said, "Eat something first. Your sister sent it over. You weren't awake at that time, but it's insulated, so it's still hot."

"..."

"..."

no respond.

The Chuunibyou girl stared at him blankly, not even glancing at the table next to her. Then, she suddenly spoke -

"In compliance with the blood covenant, I summoned you here...right?"

"That's right, Master... With your ritual and power, you have indeed successfully summoned me out. However, in this era, the planet's atmosphere seems to no longer have enough spiritual energy, and we are now very short of magic power..."

The young man nodded calmly. Although this was completely the other party's radio communication, it did not prevent him from communicating with the other party.

Even when it comes to dealing with chuunibyou, he also has plenty of experience.

Whether it is to strike and correct from a realistic perspective, or to appease and talk therapy according to the other party's words, or to simply blend in and exchange embarrassing second-year lines with the other party without difficulty...

He has sufficient practical experience and can adopt any one of them, depending on the actual needs.

"Eh-eh——"

Perhaps because she had never had a serious conversation on such a radio channel, Takanashi Rikka was a little unprepared for a moment, but she reacted immediately and also had a serious expression on her face:

"Is that so? Then how should we replenish our mana?"

"Let's eat first. Adequate nutrition is essential... The nature of magic is easy to understand. The human body is the source of magic, and the world is the source of magic. It is actually the vitality of the human being and the vitality of the planet..."

Xia Zhi pointed to the table next to him and said, "As long as Master is healthy and full of energy, you will naturally be able to create more magic power."

Regardless of whether it is true or not, let’s just take our theory over first.

For those who suffer from severe chuunibyou, changing the way of saying it can make it easier for them to accept it, so why not do it?

"Oh, I see... Well, I mean, I haven't been back to the invisible boundary for too long, and I've forgotten a lot of common sense..."

The girl quickly got serious, stretched out her hand to the food on the table next to her, and defended herself seriously. She had her own settings, but in the face of the real "uncommon sense", she would subconsciously follow the other party's settings to explain.

but……

Seeing this existence that subverts all common sense in front of her, talking to her seriously... no, telling her the truth about the world, and calling her "Master", Rikka felt a sense of relief and secret joy.

It’s all true!

Not dreaming!
Miracles and magic... they all exist!!
Her tense heartstrings slowly relaxed, because she was really scared just now, worried that the other party would deny such a fact, worried that all this might just be her excessive delusion, for example, the other party might actually be just her sister's friend or something...

It was just that I had become so paranoid that I couldn't tell reality from reality, which was why I had such an illusion. I thought I was the one who summoned the other person last night, and watched him show an incredible figure in the light...

She was aware of this, at least before this, although she had always been unwilling to face reality and insisted on looking at the world with the cognition and perspective of the second-year syndrome.

But in the final analysis, her subconscious mind actually understood it vaguely.

Until that moment just now!
"Don't eat too fast, be careful not to choke..." Xia Zhi looked at her and her obedient attitude, quickly started to eat, and gave her some advice. At the same time, he also took the opportunity to ask: "Master, how much do you know about the incident three years ago?"

"..."

"..."

"three years ago……"

Her movements froze noticeably, and the chuunibyou girl raised her head blankly and looked at him straight.

She also didn't expect that the other party would directly ask about this sensitive time point.

"Yes, I noticed the divergence point three years ago. It should be the news in the newspaper, about the comet that appears once in a thousand years, the meteorite incident in Itomori Town..."

Xia Zhi pretended not to know and reached out to pick up a newspaper beside him.

"With that point in time as the divergence point, multiple histories have emerged from three years ago to now... and because of this incident, the soil for the emergence of the Lostbelt was created, allowing something that would not have appeared before to take root and sprout."

(End of this chapter)