An infinite journey starting from paradise

"My arm is a little numb."

Lin Shangren tried to move his arms, but instead found a soft, tender flesh and a warm armpit. Hehuan and Asoka hugged Lin Shangren's arms, one on each side. Asoka was respectful, holding only his forearms. Hehuan rested his head directly on the crook of Lin Shangren's arm.

Lin Shangren's legs naturally did not escape the shackles. Hoshino Terumi and Ikezawa Yuko actually crawled under the quilt, curled up their bodies, and clamped their legs on Lin Shangren's thighs, pushing Lin Shangren with their legs and buttocks respectively, while their heads were stretched between Lin Shangren, Hehuan and Xia.

Hoshino Teru was so beautiful that she was quite honest, just pressing her face against Hayashi Naoto's side, with her tongue sticking out as if she wanted to lick him. Ikezawa Yuko, who was facing away from Hayashi Naoto, was a bit too much. She held Hehuan's breasts with her lips and murmured incoherently: "Master... not only did you get down... you've also gotten bigger here."

Of course, the one who made Lin Shangren worry the least was Dongshi. She had been curled up on him like a kitten. When she sensed the change in Lin Shangren's heart rate and realized that he was about to wake up, she got up first and prepared breakfast for the whole family.

Lin Shangren, who had fully awakened, carefully used shadow control to pull his limbs out of the harem. He sat up and used his shadow-covered palms to wipe off the lipstick marks and small strawberries on his face and neck. He also actively used [Little Bird Healer] to heal and eliminate the bite marks and scratches on his body. For the sake of fun, Lin Shangren temporarily turned off his self-healing ability while they were entangled, and gladly accepted these small wounds with sweetness and love.

"It's time to finish up the remaining things."

Last night, in the fifteen minutes and thirty seconds before the battle began, Lin Shangren dealt with some slightly urgent matters.

The first one is of course Misaki Tokita. Naoto Hayashi found her in the real world, confiscated all her magic props and related knowledge, and interrogated her for more details about the "Mother Goddess", "Seed of Desire", and "Rokkaku Village and Kitayami Town".

Tokita Misaki knew very little about the Mother Goddess. Hayashi Naoto attempted the ritual Tokita Misaki used to connect with the Mother Goddess, but as expected, nothing happened. Hayashi Naoto could only confirm that this so-called Mother Goddess was somehow connected to Slaanesh—a fact proven by the low-profile version of the Curse of Corruption and the alchemical artifact from the Dark Bible.

She might be the Slaanesh from the future, battling the future Lin Shangren. Judging from the outcome this time, it seems that Lin Shangren has the upper hand.

Of course, these pieces of evidence may just be thrown out by her to mislead Lin Shangren, and her plan may be more than that.

But no matter what, when returning to the world of the Shell Girl and the Dark Bible, Lin Shangren needs to investigate the situation of the subspace and Slaanesh in that world in detail.

Then, Lin Shangren roughly inspected the situation in Rokukaku Village and collected the meteorite carrying the Seed of Desire that was collected by the Tokita family.

Because he'd promised Hehuan a thrilling trip for two, Lin Shangren didn't immediately kill the culprits in the village. Instead, he used the Yaxi Seal to control them. As for the drug trafficking network in the marijuana fields and Rokkaku Village, Lin Shangren planned to leave it to Nogami Saeko to clean up. She and her sister were already on their way to Hachinohe City; he couldn't let them go in vain.

As for the ninja clan Prajna that seemed to have mastered magic, Lin Shangren came up empty-handed, and the other party had already left.

"Ninja! How could a ninja not be here?! Namo San, how rude of you! Running away in the middle of a battle? Even Buddha would spit at you if he saw you!"

Lin Shangren had originally wanted to transform into "Northeastern Lin Ghost Master, Absolute Red Warmth, Angry Shadow, and Avoiding Master" and go to their house to challenge them. It seemed he would have to wait until the CD for the search spoon was ready tomorrow before paying them a friendly visit.

After completing all this in five minutes, Lin Shangren flew to Beiyejian Town. His first task was, of course, to check on the situation of the people in the town and collect the seeds of desire hidden in the town.

In the end, Lin Shangren only found a dark red pebble in the corner of the courtyard of Misaki Doll Workshop. It seemed that Wuguo had not picked it up in the real material world.

Lin Shangren quietly infiltrated the second floor of the puppet workshop in his quantum ghost form and checked on his "wife" and "eldest daughter," members of his "temporary family." They seemed well, at least sound asleep. Wuguo, for the first time in a long time, slept on the sofa with his daughter. Judging by their appearance, they must have been waiting for someone before going to sleep. Of course, the person they were waiting for was Lin Shangren and his daughter, whom Wuguo had been talking about in his sleep.

"Well...I'll be back tomorrow, soon."

Thinking of this, Lin Shangren went to the hospital to visit Reiko Mikami, Izumi Akasawa and Aya Ayano who were lying in the hospital beds. They were affected by the disaster, but their souls absorbed Lin Shangren's spiritual energy, and their bodies are now out of danger. They will be discharged from the hospital soon without having to "remain" for a long time.

"Don't really forget me in this dream."

Lin Shangren said in a low voice while looking at the sleeping Sanshin Reiko.

Although their time together wasn't long—only a few days, subjectively speaking—Lin Shangren really liked Sanshin Reiko, this contrasting, rather silly girl. Like the Dragonfly Witch Wilma, Sanshin Reiko was a bit of a ditzy person, but she was much more cheerful than Wilma, even temporarily replacing the System Girl and the Bat Girl as the main character.

Lin Shangren gently lifted the quilt of Sanshen Lianzi, wanting to put a ring that could summon him when in danger into Sanshen Lianzi's hand, but was surprised to find that the ring he gave to Sanshen Lianzi in the simulated dream was still on her ring finger.

After confirming that the ring was indeed crafted in his simulated dream, Lin Shangren thought with surprise, "Things simulated with psychic energy in the dream world can actually be brought into reality? If conditions permit, then wouldn't all my equipment be able to be infinitely replicated in the simulated dream?"

"Theoretically, that's the case. If you could completely control that dice, you could truly become like those creators, making your wishes come true, creating things at will, and bringing all worlds to life and destruction with a single thought. Of course, the prerequisite is that you have sufficient power." (??ω?)?

"It's just like playing a sandbox game, you can create your own world and have adventures in it. Like Steve the Cube Man. But, is it too early for me to think about this now?"

Apparently.

"learn."

Lin Shangren put away the ring and teleported to the hospital room of Akasawa Izumi and Ayano Aya. The two had been in a car accident the previous evening and had originally died on the spot, but their world had been overwritten, leaving them severely injured. After being pulled into a simulated dream world and accidentally communicating with Lin Shangren's spirit and body, their injuries had largely healed.

Walking to the bedside of Akazawa Izumi, Lin Shangren roughly checked her condition. At this time, Akazawa Izumi, who was lying on her side, turned over, and the quilt covering her body was pulled away, revealing the delicate body of the girl underneath.

A hospital ward, a beautiful, tsundere girl in red, a coma, bandages, the quilt accidentally lifted, and a man beside the bed who loses control and runs wild when his energy is low...

This scene is really suitable to pay tribute to the legendary hand-bath king Mr. Shinji Ikari.

But Hayashi Naoto obviously didn't do that. He just helped Akasawa Izumi cover the quilt, and then walked to Ayano Aya's bed.

Lin Shangren has not figured out what to do with these two girls who are only in a fleeting relationship. Just like the three sisters and mothers of the Shigusa family in the world of Shell Girl, the girls Futami Yuu, Songmiya Mikuri, Hinami Hanaren and Maris Stella... he wants to take responsibility but does not want to force anything.

But he has plenty of time. He can drive first and buy the ticket later. Everything will be fine after the adjustment period.

With this thought in mind, Lin Shangren left the hospital.

What he doesn't know is that the "love debts" he incurred in the world of Kara no Nakagawa will soon come back to haunt him. Of course, "soon" is relative to the timeline of Kara no Nakagawa. In short, love affairs like "My Sister Tenant," "The Girl President's Contract of Captivity," "The Hidden Rules and the Producer," and "The Principal Loves Me Again" are brewing brilliantly. (The main story will have to wait a long time, so I'll probably write a side story in advance if I have the chance.)

What Lin Shangren had to do next was to kill, or rather, to kill the "dead"—even though he had confiscated all the Desire Seeds in Beiyem Town, this year's disaster had already begun, and even without the Desire Seeds, it wouldn't end early. Therefore, for the safety of the townspeople, Lin Shangren had to return this year's dead to the dead.

"There were two deceased, one teacher and one student."

The deceased hidden among the teachers is easy to identify. After all, there are only a few teachers teaching Class 3, Grade 3. By comparing the situations in the real material world with the simulated dream world, it is easy to determine who the deceased is: a simple logic game of matching tables with the number of people.

However, Lin Shangren didn't reason, but chose to cheat directly. After discovering that the items he gave to others in the simulated dream could also appear in the real material world, Lin Shangren went to the puppet workshop again. As expected, he found his right eye in the shadow of Mizaki Mingyi's pupil.

At the same time, he quietly took off Jian Qiming's dark green artificial eye. Lin Shangren was very curious about what was going on with Jian Qiming's eye and why it could see the so-called color of death.

Staring at the dark green artificial eye, Lin Shangren opened the Eye of Innocence: "Identification."

[Name: Puppet's Eye of Insight]

[Quality: Artistic Creation? Fine Craftsmanship? Epic Quality]

【Condition: Slightly worn】

【Producer: Kirika (Tokita Yukiyo)】

[Item Description: This is a prosthetic eye that a mother accidentally made for her daughter, who had lost one eye, using a piece of stone she accidentally found. This gift, filled with the mother's love for her daughter, could also easily lead the girl to see an ominous meaning.]

Wearing it will enhance the user's spiritual vision, allowing them to see traces of death and more existences beyond the material world.

[Note: "The puppet's eyes can always see something dangerous, those beings hidden under the deep starry sky, those things far more desperate than despair. Don't look directly at them, otherwise... they will be dangerous."]

"Pressing it into the eye socket reveals the deceased's identity, right? Um... what do you mean by something beyond the material world?"

Thinking, Lin Shangren removed his left eye and placed Jian Qiming's artificial eye into the bleeding eye socket. The dark green eyeball was instantly covered by Lin Shangren's flesh and blood. The optic nerve unexpectedly connected directly to the artificial eye made of unknown material. The visual signal was connected, and the image seen by the left eye was reflected in Lin Shangren's brain:

This is very different from the world he originally saw with his left eye. It is somewhere between the vision of ordinary eyes and Maxwell's demon - it can see the flow of psychic particles but also preserves the original image of what is seen.

Lin Shangren teleported outside the puppet workshop and looked up at the night sky. He thought he could really see something like the Old Ones, but in his eyes, the starry sky was still the starry sky, nothing different.

Then Lin Shangren randomly entered a house and fired a "Flame Fist" that combined the Igni Sign and the Hell Lightning at a man who was sleeping soundly.

Sure enough, when Lin Shangren swung his fist at the man with murderous intent, a kind of "colorful black" that was difficult to describe appeared on his face, and disappeared the moment Lin Shangren retracted his fist. It seemed that this was the so-called color of death.

After the experiment was completed, Lin Shangren once again covered the entire town with black shadows and began searching for potential "dead people".

The identities of the deceased are not difficult to guess: Yuya Mochizuki and Shoji Kubodera.

In this fixed, overwritten timeline, Kubodera Shoji died in a car accident last year and was resurrected this year as a deceased person. The Seed of Desire distorted and overwrote the memories of the people of Kitayami Town, changing their memories of Kubodera Shoji's death to his early retirement and travel. Because Reiko Mikami, the original homeroom teacher for Class 3, Grade 3, had been attacked and seriously injured a month earlier and was hospitalized, Kubodera Shoji was urgently rehired to fill Reiko's shoes.

He was also the deceased person who was supposed to appear this year.

Mochizuki Yuya's situation is more complicated. His resurrection wasn't caused by the disaster caused by Tokita Misaki's wish. Instead, he was a pawn deliberately resurrected by Tokita Misaki, so that after the start of the school year, he would spread the tape, which Tokita had manipulated using the same method used by "Spider" (a Zoo Organization assassin and hypnotist who can hypnotize with sound waves and stroboscopic patterns), to the students. This would sow discord among the students and cause widespread bloodshed to fuel the Seed of Desire.

The same trick Tokita Misaki has used many times between 1986 and now, causing many tragic battle royale events. This is also one of the revelations given to her by the Mother Goddess.

According to Tokita Misaki, the Mother Goddess gave her three "divine revelations": the first was in 1973, when the Mother Goddess told her the true method of using the Seed of Desire in a dream; the second was in 1983, a week before Kiriko gave birth, when the Mother Goddess ordered her to sacrifice Kiriko's daughter to her, and then gave her those alchemical sex toys; the third time was in 1986, when the Mother Goddess guided her to find the tape left by Matsunaga Katsumi, asked her to reprocess the tape, and guided her to cause the "Battle Royale" incident of that year.

As for the relationship between the Mother Goddess, Halley's Comet and Pandora, Lin Shangren has not yet found out. Perhaps he has to start with the "winery" that controls his broken arm.

After dispatching Yuya Mochizuki and Shoji Kubodera, there were still about two minutes left until the end of the fifteen-minute period. Hayashi Naoto used this time to attempt to fuse Mizaki Mei's prosthetic eye with his own left eye using the [Furnace of One Hundred Aspects Wedge]. The result pleased Hayashi Naoto greatly, and he believed Mizaki Mei would appreciate the new eye.

After returning the prosthetic eye to Jian Qiming, Lin Shangren returned to Qixing Entertainment Co., Ltd.

I'd like to call you a master of time management.

"Thanks for the compliment. Well, we should be leaving now."

Chapter 355: Unlimited Blade Works' Younger Brother

With the System Girl's world time stopped, Lin Shangren had plenty of time, but he also had a lot of things to deal with: find out the origins of the Mother Goddess, determine the origin of his broken arm that the winery had, find out the truth about Pandora and what the ancient ruins guards had hidden... It was too complicated to describe in a few words.

However, these things are not urgent. Even though the so-called Mother Goddess has been secretly thinking about Lin Shangren's Jill and Gou Zi, judging from the results this time, Lin Shangren has the upper hand: he unlocked a new form that is basically controllable, saved many lives that would have died miserably and "established a family", and more importantly, Lin Shangren gained knowledge about the magic of this world and this magical dark red pebble.

[Name: Seed of Desire]

【quality:? ? ? 】

【state:? ? ? 】

[Item Description: ■■ A crystal of blood, imbued with incredible power. After infusing it with sufficient psychic energy, it can be used to overwrite the possibilities arising from the development of various worlds onto the current worldline through textual description, regardless of cause and effect. The higher the energy level of the world and the target being overwritten, the more psychic energy is required.]

At the same time, it is also a good soul container. When there is sufficient spiritual energy and there is no need to decompose the soul into spiritual energy for replenishment, it can store the soul that retains consciousness.

[Note 1: Although it cannot turn "impossible" into "possible", it can turn "possible" into "possible".]

[Note 2: It will constantly absorb soul energy from the outside. Even if it is not used, it will subtly cause tragedies such as accidents and murders to absorb souls.]

"The strange stone that He Huan saw at the Yi Yuan family crime scene should be something like this, right?"

Lin Shangren placed a dark red seed of desire on the table.

“The Yiyuan family suffered a series of misfortunes, and their family was eventually destroyed because of this thing.

This thing is hidden not only in the Isono family mansion, but also in the entire Beika Town and even in the entire world. That is why the crime rate in this world is so high.

Judging from this alone, this stuff is like the electrum mixed into Gotham City's buildings. DC's Dark Metal, right? (The Dark Metal incident is one of DC Comics' most infamous incidents. I won't go into the details here, so those interested can learn more about it.)

In the DC Comics universe, Gotham City's rise to prominence as a crime capital of the Jedi is due to the influence of electrum laced within its buildings. The electrum itself was a trap set by Barbatos, the Dark Multiverse's evil god, to create Batman and ultimately transform him into a portal for his invasion of the multiverse. However, it also inadvertently gave rise to the precious artifact, Wei Yixiao, the Bat Who Laughs.

And the Mother Goddess's conspiracy against Lin Shangren seems to be the same.

"Turning the psychic energy collected by all the Desire Seeds in this world into pink, and then injecting it all into my soul, allowing me to abandon all boundaries and restrictions on myself... A numerical monster with unlimited potential and constant evolution and growth, coupled with this unreasonable conceptual and rule-based ability... I think it's pretty cool."

Lin Shangren thought so.

"Just like Papetua and Barbatos secretly and gradually guided Batman to incorporate the five special metals into his body, is that Mother Goddess guiding me to bring all kinds of beauties into my harem? Like beauties of various races and the ten most famous sex organs?"

「Huh? What the hell? (?˙ー˙?)」

"For example, different women or their special instruments actually possess different special powers. The Mother Goddess planned to have me have relationships with these special women, eventually gathering them in my harem, and allowing the magic power in their bodies to converge on me. This would then lead to a special effect, like opening a door to the multiverse or destroying the world...

At the moment, it’s not impossible.”

Lin Shangren closed his eyes and recalled the times when he lost control in this world: his first time with Eri Kisaki in an Italian restaurant, the mother-daughter bowl and foursome at the seaside hot spring bath, and the threesome with Izumi Akazawa and Aya Ayano in a simulated dream.

Obviously, due to the information gap, Lin Shangren mixed up Dongzi and Hehuan's secret "Lin Shangren harem expansion plan" with the Mother Goddess's calculations against him.

However, the two events are not completely unrelated; in fact, they are closely related. I will not discuss the details for now.

"If that's the case, it's not bad."

[Tsk tsk tsk… So you need to be more careful and think twice before taking off your pants from now on? (?ω?)]

"Well... hehe."

Lin Shangren laughed awkwardly and changed the subject: "Are you ready? I have to go back to Dongzi and the others."

Bring Shirasaki Misan to this world?

"Not only are they still here, there are others as well. Besides, I have to go back there for a few days. I have a few things to take care of."

Answering Ashrose's question, Lin Shangren put the Seed of Desire back into the system backpack, blocking its connection with reality.

This time, Lin Shangren planned to carefully examine the young woman named Chihara Yukiko. Her ability to carry the souls of the deceased with her, as well as the several incidents involving her, were very similar to the Seed of Desire, suggesting a possible connection between the two. Furthermore, he also wanted to investigate the situation regarding Slaanesh and the Warp.

[Understood. Who are you bringing back this time? ( 'ω' )]

"I'm fine on my own. Wouldn't having too many people be a burden to you?"

[Hey, I'm not that tired actually. Let's go, then? ?ω?]

"Don't do anything weird this time."

[Relax~ Then… Entropy growth has stagnated, time has stopped, and we're off! (≧▽≦)]

……

The world of Kara no Gyou, the residence of Chihara Fuyumi and Chihara Yukiko, a mother and daughter.

Time began to flow again, and Chihara Fuyumi, who was standing in front of the mirror, also started to move again.

"Which dress should I wear?"

Looking at his graceful self in the floor-length mirror, Mao Yuandong fell into deep thought.

She was thinking about which clothes to change into to meet an important person, an important person who would decide her daughter's "future", the principal of Yingyu Girls' Academy, Lin Shangren.

Tomorrow afternoon is Chihara Yukiko's admission interview. To be honest, Chihara Fuyumi doesn't have much confidence in her daughter. In her opinion, although Yukiko looks demure and elegant, like a daughter of a wealthy family, she is actually just an honest, clumsy, and somewhat introverted girl, with a poor tongue and poor social skills.

Yukiko's grades were only average, and she had no special talents. Furthermore, her mother and daughter were not financially well off. It was difficult for Yukiko to enroll in Sakuraha College, a private aristocratic girls' school.

The child's personal ability is not strong enough and the family's financial situation is not good enough. If Mao Yuandongjian wants his daughter to be successfully enrolled in school, he can only find a way to use his connections.