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Marisa changed out of her tattered clothes and into the pajamas Morichik had prepared for her. Exhausted, she quickly fell asleep, while Morichik took her torn clothes and went into another room to mend them.

"Mr. Morichika, you seem to have a real talent for taking care of people."

Li Cheng, who had witnessed the whole process, sat across the table and looked at Sen Jin, who was diligently mending clothes, and said.

“Because there are always these reckless brats who have turned out like this without me even realizing it, it’s a real headache for me,” Morichika sighed, glancing subconsciously at the room where Marisa was resting. “Especially this brat. I have some connection with her family, so I occasionally take care of her. But she doesn’t take care of herself at all, getting herself sick and injured several times. Because I’ve dealt with so many things like this for her, I’ve learned so many things that I was never interested in before.”

Perhaps because he was more relaxed, Mori Chika became a little more talkative. He chatted with Li Cheng, mostly about Marisa. Little by little, Mori Chika pieced together a side of the girl that Li Cheng didn't know.

Cheerful, optimistic, and easygoing. This is what Li Cheng knew about her after spending some time with her. But according to Mori, she was a reckless yet hardworking girl who had been training with all her might, constantly improving her strength through battles with powerful opponents—a down-to-earth and diligent person.

It's really hard to tell. I used to think she was the type who relied solely on talent, but it turns out she's a person who cultivates diligently.

Li Cheng felt somewhat ashamed of his previous one-sided viewpoint.

For Marisa, injuries caused by mistakes in her training and problems during her potion research were commonplace. Morichika, who had been taking care of her, was well aware of this. He could even clearly remember Marisa's tearful cries when she was first injured, her fear when she was near death, and how she still desperately pretended to be fine even when she was seriously injured, and would even joke with people to hide her pain.

“Mr. Li, don’t bring up these things I’m telling you in front of Marisa. She doesn’t like to show these things.”

At the end of the conversation, Morichika said to Li Cheng with a serious expression.

“I understand, but is it really okay for you to tell me so much? After all, we’ve only known each other for less than two days.”

Li Cheng nodded in agreement, but soon after, he asked the other party with some doubt. To this, Sen Jin simply smiled and shook his head, speaking casually.

“Marisa’s intuition is very accurate. The fact that she’s willing to team up with you proves that your strength and character are up to par, Mr. Li. I don’t need to be too wary of you. Besides, the reason I’m telling you all this is so that you can stop her from going on her next adventure. You should know that Marisa will definitely continue to explore the Gray Fog World. With her strong personality, she’s unlikely to give up on this incident.”

"But her current physical condition doesn't allow her to continue doing this, so as her partner in this operation, do you hope I can help persuade her to stop thinking about this and focus on recovering?"

"It's so good that you understand."

“Alright, I understand. I’ve seen people who are overly hardworking and competitive before. I’ll try to persuade her. If all else fails, I can knock her out and bring her back. That gray fog space is extremely dangerous, and it’s not something she can participate in in her current state.”

"Thank you so much, Mr. Li."

As they spoke, the previously dim sky slowly began to lighten. Li Cheng was somewhat surprised; he had actually chatted with Sen Jin all night. Then, suddenly, Li Cheng felt a fluctuation in the space. The next moment, he understood what this meant.

That gray fog space has stabilized again!

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Section 311, Chapter Twenty-One: The Brave and the Suspicious Points

The spatial tremors spread throughout this not-so-large fantasy world, and Li Cheng was certain that the gray mist space had stabilized once again.

But has this commotion really been this big?

"How could there be such a strong fluctuation?"

Sitting opposite Li Cheng, Mori Chika also felt the tremors in this space and looked up in surprise, muttering to himself. He put down Marisa's clothes, which were almost repaired, walked to the window and looked out. In the distance, he could see a large area of ​​the sky submerged in a grayish-white color, occupying at least a third of the entire sky of Gensokyo.

"Mr. Li, do you know what's going on here?"

Mori turned his head and asked Li Cheng, who had also come forward.

"It seems that the space itself is becoming increasingly unstable, which is why it has begun to spread and collapse," Li Cheng said somewhat uncertainly, based on his senses of the gray fog. "However, if we let it continue like this, it will definitely not work. The spreading spatial debris will probably cause devastating damage to the surrounding area."

It's important to understand that the total amount of remaining structures and land in that gray fog world was quite substantial. Even if only one-tenth of it was dispersed before the space collapsed, it would still destroy a large area of ​​land, not to mention the monsters and black mud that remained within it.

Marisa was probably still fast asleep. Considering her current physical condition, Li Cheng did not intend to wake her. After saying goodbye to Mori, he quickly ran towards the location of the gray mist space.

After watching Li Chengyuan leave, Mori rubbed his aching arms, yawned, and prepared to rest for a while to replenish his energy from not sleeping all night. But when he turned around, he frowned and looked at the low table in the middle of the room. The dress that he had just mended for Marisa, which should have been on it, was now gone.

"That idiot, he actually..."

He quickly ran back to the room where Marisa was resting. When Morichika opened the door, he found that the girl, who should have been fast asleep, was nowhere to be seen. The magic potion he had rescued from Marisa's room, and the spare magic broom he had prepared for her in advance, were also gone.

"Idiot, even in this situation, you still want to do something reckless."

Morichika covered his forehead and let out a long sigh.

The bedding was already ice-cold; she had probably already secretly gotten up while he was standing at the door talking to Li Cheng, or even before he had left the room. But thinking about it, it makes sense. With her strong-willed personality, she naturally couldn't accept being unable to participate in such an important matter because of an accident.

Back in the guest room, Morichika raised an eyebrow, noticing that most of the medicine he had prepared for Marisa had already been drunk. Before leaving, she had actually drunk all the medicine he had prepared—what was this? Was she trying to reassure him? Ha, he wouldn't worry about a human like her who was courting death. He had already done everything he could, and if she insisted on taking risks, that was none of his business.

"Tch, going to rest."

Muttering to himself, Mori turned and went back to his bedroom, but his face was contorted with worry.

I just hope she doesn't actually do anything stupid.

……

At the same time, amidst the dilapidated ruins shrouded in gray fog.

Inside the dusty room, Zi pulled open a nearly completely rusted door and stepped inside. Before her stretched rows of electronic database machines, their black chassis, now covered in a thick layer of gray, arranged throughout the enormous room.

Behind Zi, Huo followed listlessly, glancing around casually before yawning and leaving the house. He leaned against the wall and closed his eyes to rest.

"After going through all that trouble to stay in here, all we did was look for this bunch of broken machines?"

Huo complained somewhat unhappily.

Zi ignored the disaster and simply activated the power of her realm to put the damaged machines in front of her back into operation.

The reason why Li Cheng did not receive Zi's communication during this break was because she relied on the power of her realm to forcibly leave herself in this gray mist world and did not return to the outside world.

Such a tactic obviously requires a huge expenditure of energy. If it weren't for the support of another powerful Transcendent, Zi probably wouldn't have dared to take such a risk. At this moment, all her energy was focused on restoring and repairing the database in the room. It took her several hours, until fine beads of sweat appeared on her forehead. Finally, with a mechanical "ding," the database in the room started operating again.

"It actually managed to be restored successfully. You have to understand that these things have been stagnant for hundreds or thousands of years, and they've even been affected by spatial turbulence. Hmph, I guess the power of realm is just too cheating?"

Huo stood at the door, looking at the databases where even the power had been restored, and sneered. Zi ignored her reaction and walked straight to one of the databases, opening the control panel and starting to search.

Huo stood behind Zi, watching her search through a series of complex documents, unsure of what she was trying to find. After waiting a few minutes and seeing that Zi didn't stop, Huo guessed that she might take a considerable amount of time, so he yawned and left the house to rest outside, while also keeping an eye out for any potential enemies that might appear.

Meanwhile, inside the room, Zi's fingers lightly swiped across the screen, passing through one document after another.

Special Sciences, Supernatural Abilities Bureau, Group Six, Kiritsugu Emiya, Ryougi Shiki, Rin Tohsaka... and Li Cheng.

"Really... that similar?"

It was clearly from another world, a relic of a parallel universe, yet it possessed the exact same national structure, the exact same organizations, and the exact same people. The similarity was so striking, almost like a mirror image, that Zi began to feel suspicious.

She opened the information for the sixth group and began to review the records of each action in detail.

The same, almost identical, past records, exactly as Li Cheng had told her, and exactly as she had seen in Li Cheng's memories. It wasn't until after an operation involving the skinning of a juvenile antisocial organization that Zi finally saw something different.

"I see. So, these subsequent records mean there are no more records of us meeting?"

Zi closed her eyes, no longer looking at the record of the man who had been depressed and unable to recover, and who was eventually killed by someone she had once saved during an operation.

So, is this the point of divergence between the two parallel worlds?

No, that's not right at all!

One's own existence is itself a disruptive force. The world that has never encountered oneself is the normal course of development. But if that's the case, wouldn't the two worlds be exactly the same? If they are truly parallel worlds, then there should be differences between them. However, based on this record, no distinction can be found.

Or is it that my own time travel is the reason for the formation of parallel worlds?

"Things are really getting more and more complicated."

She withdrew her demonic power to maintain it, watching as the database shut down again due to the power outage, and gradually returned to its initial dilapidated state without the support of her realm's power. Zi sighed softly, turned and left without the slightest regret.

"Did you find anything?"

The trouble lies outside, ask.

"Hmph, you could say we found it, but you could also say we didn't."

Zi answered casually.

"Hmph, whatever. Anyway, I'm only here to have a fight."

Two figures left the half-collapsed building one after the other. On the nearly damaged "Supernatural Abilities Bureau Headquarters" sign, a silent shadowy figure watched the two figures gradually disappear into the distance.

Zi stopped and turned around abruptly, but saw no one.

Is it just my imagination?

Zi narrowed her eyes.

Given her own level of ability, how could she possibly have such a misconception? Did she think all her years of experience were just picked up off the street?

"It seems there are quite a few interesting guys hiding in this place."

With a soft chuckle, Zi turned her head to look at one side of the gray mist, where a series of violent spatial tremors were emanating.

Has Cheng already entered? Then it's time to go and greet him.

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Section 312, Chapter Twenty-Two: Encounter

Li Cheng is currently in a slightly bad mood.

He frowned, staring intently at the person in front of him with a scrutinizing gaze, almost without blinking. The sharp light in his eyes was almost tangible; no one could remain unmoved under such scrutiny.

"Um, sir, doesn't it hurt if you don't blink?"

Well, this guy seems to be one of those rather special cases.

“Miss Kirisame,” Li Cheng sighed, using a formal address, and asked very seriously, “Why are you here again?”

Standing in front of Li Cheng, Marisa, whose face was still slightly weak, rubbed her head and gave an embarrassed smile.

"Hehe, after all, it's a rare super-large-scale mutation. It would be a real shame to miss it just because I'm a patient."

"Do you really think you can keep exploring this place in your current physical condition? You know what kind of monsters exist here, right? If you get injured again, what will Mori think? You know he didn't sleep all night to sew your clothes."