Traveled through time at the same time, but both clones were beautiful girls

"Ichinose Honami, are you angry?"

A look of confusion flashed in the eyes of the girl with long pink hair.

She looked around blankly, seeing her mother's expression frozen between sternness and sorrow, the convenience store owner's awkward and somewhat impatient look, and the various expressions of onlookers watching the spectacle.

The fan that had been buzzing incessantly in the store stopped.

The small TV screen was frozen on a performance by a famous band, and no sound could be heard.

She then realized what was happening.

However, the absurdity before my eyes seemed to be another dream.

"you……"

She wasn't sure if it was her imagination, but looking at the boy who seemed frozen in time, she cautiously asked, "Are you a deity?"

"You can think so."

"A god?"

But why would a deity appear before him?

Or is it a hallucination caused by psychological stress?

The girl's eyes were unfocused. Thinking about the question the god had asked her earlier, she couldn't help but smile bitterly: "To be honest, I was angry. I know my mother meant well. She wants me to be an upright person. She always says that."

Adam nodded in agreement.

Girls like Ichinose, who come from impoverished families and are especially beautiful, are easily led astray during the special stage of adolescence.

The phrase "be an upright person" sounds ordinary.

However, every single mother who invests such expectations in her children has paid a heavy price in terms of effort and hardship.

This strong vision will make Ichinose even stronger in the future.

However, this was too heavy a burden for Ichinose at this time.

"I really shouldn't have stolen it, and I should have returned the hair clip, but isn't what Mom did going too far?"

Honami Ichinose wiped away her tears: "Can the gods understand?"

"I understand. She could have been more tactful, for example, by returning the item when there were fewer people at the convenience store. There was no need for you to make a dogeza (a traditional Chinese gesture of prostration) when she asked you to apologize. That's what you're angry about."

"Right? You think so too, Your Majesty?"

Perhaps they felt like they were dreaming, or perhaps they were hallucinating due to excessive stress, to the point that they saw so-called gods.

Ichinose no longer suppressed her emotions.

Her sweet face, which resembled Kikyo Kushida's, was filled with grievance.

“I am a very sensible child. From childhood to adulthood, I have always thought about my mother and this family.”

"But, but I also wish that sometimes, Mom could think about me a little more."

After venting for a bit, the girl sighed dejectedly, "It's no use talking about this now. It's not far from school, and my classmates will probably all know about it tomorrow. What will they think of me?"

As she was talking, Ichinose, who was originally in a dogeza (a traditional Chinese kneeling posture) position, changed to a cute duck-like sitting position, looking a little disheartened.

"Then what do you want to do?"

"I want to find a secluded place to hide away, a place where even my mom can't find me."

Adam neither agreed nor disagreed with her naive idea.

He remembered that in the original story, although Ichinose was forgiven by the shopkeeper, she was left with a deep psychological shadow. After returning home, she locked herself in her room for more than half a year until she enrolled in Advanced Nurturing High School.

He naturally wouldn't let things develop that way.

Now that he has encountered Ichinose Honami, the fictional character he loved in his past life, he will not let her go, whether it is a chance encounter or just a "chance meeting".

"Would you like to start over?"

"Doing it again means...?"

"It means exactly what it says. Go back to that crucial point where you chose whether to steal or not, and you can make a new choice."

"Is this a game? The boys in my class seem to have mentioned it before, something like some awful 'yuzu visual game'?"

Good heavens, there are such awful people in your class!

Adam smiled and said, "It's not wrong to call it a game. In people's minds, someone like me is a high and mighty, omnipotent god. The whole world is naturally a game box containing infinite wonders and infinite possibilities."

He held out his hands.

There is a red candy in one hand and a blue candy in the other.

Even now that he's certain he won't let Ichinose off the hook, Adam still wants to cause some trouble. He can't suppress the urge to recreate a famous movie scene!

"You eat the blue candy, and the story ends here. Your fate will continue to flow into the distance, and nothing will change."

The girl's gaze gradually shifted to the other side.

"You eat the red candy, you stay in Wonderland, and I'll show you just how deep the rabbit hole really is."

The girl understood the subtext.

She swallowed hard, then slowly raised her small hand: "So, what is the price for staying in Wonderland?"

"cost?"

Adam pretended to think for a while before deciding: "The price is that from now on you will be my lover, and from now on, Ichinose Honami will belong to me, body and soul, forever."

lover?

Look at the appearance of the gods.

Looking at Adam's perfect face, she complained helplessly, "You've covered all the benefits, but what about the price?"

She was indeed hallucinating due to excessive stress.

Chapter Thirty-Six: I Just Craved Your Body

"Hey, the gods have taken a liking to us."

Honami Ichinose smiled sweetly.

Seeing her goofy smile, Adam raised an eyebrow: "I'm not kidding."

"Alright, alright, after all, the god is a boy, so it's normal for him to be attracted to a beautiful girl like me, right? Ah, please forgive me for praising myself, but it's okay to praise myself in a fantasy."

Honami Ichinose has confirmed it; it was all an illusion.

She stood up and stretched, revealing a beautiful curve that would make girls her age grit their teeth in envy.

The girl stepped forward and carefully examined the boy god she had imagined.

"It's so beautiful, so perfect! It's the god I've imagined!"

She even pinched Adam's cheek without hesitation, making the silly, chuckle-like sound a girl might make when secretly reading shoujo manga.

"..."

Adam felt the soft, warm hands of a girl kneading his cheek, and his eyebrows rose even higher.

I hope she'll still be this arrogant later.

Seeing his unwavering expression, Ichinose reluctantly withdrew his hand and readily picked up the red candy and ate it.

The candy tastes sweet.

"Listen to the cosmic light of all things! Time, flow backward!"

In order to impress women and show off, Adam reversed the timeline of this planet.

Different worlds have different rules and different sizes. In some worlds, it is easy to go back in time, while in others it is very difficult.

For example, in the world of sorcery, if the young chief god Adam wanted to suppress the world's will and forcibly rewind time, he would have to use the world's origin within the chief god's space.

That would be extremely difficult and not worth the effort.

But this ordinary, everyday world is much easier.

He didn't even need to expend his own essence; he could do it entirely with his own power.

An unfathomable power was imbued with the rules of time; a radiant divinity, invisible to the mortal world, gently stirred the planet's rotation, causing it and all its inhabitants to irresistibly return to that ordinary night just a few days prior.

"This……"

Masumi Kamuro, who had always been a nobody, stared blankly at all of this.

It was as if a scene from a myth had stepped out of the book and was presented to her and Ichinose Honami up close.

The world is rewinding at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Everything is rapidly moving backward.

The sun rises from the western horizon, and the sky full of stars gradually transforms into a blaze of color, finally disappearing into the fiery clouds of the evening.

The lights in the convenience store went out and came on again, then went out again, and the figures of people coming and going were so blurry that their faces were almost impossible to see, as if the rewind button had been pressed.

From morning to late at night, from afternoon to early morning.

The world changes and refreshes rapidly like a kaleidoscope. After a few flashes of light, everything returns to the moment when Honami Ichinose walked into the convenience store.

It was an ordinary evening, around eight o'clock.

Having just experienced an argument between her mother and sister, Honami Ichinose left the hospital in a daze and walked weakly into the convenience store.

Her initial reason for coming here was to inquire about whether she could find work.

The girl knew it was probably impossible because the rule that "junior high school students cannot work" was a social rule that had to be followed. Ichinose Honami did not intend to break the rule, but wanted to find a way to work around it, such as lying about her age.

"welcome."

After glancing at her, the shop owner at the counter returned his gaze to the television.

"Well, I..."

A warm and friendly smile spread across the girl's face.

At the same time, her gaze fell upon the hair clips casually placed on the shelf.

Those were hair clips that my sister had mentioned many times. They weren't expensive, but after our mother was hospitalized, our already impoverished family was even more strapped for cash. Plus, she was going to high school next year, so it was impossible for her to have extra money to buy these things.

However, when she thought of her sister's utterly disappointed eyes and tears, she couldn't just ignore it.

A dark thought suddenly sprouted!

At the same time.

The fleeting passage of time has replaced the lingering shadows here.

She opened her eyes as if waking from a dream, and found in a daze that her mother was not there, and there were no longer any onlookers around.

The darkness and neon lights reminded her that it was nighttime.

"Guest? Guest, what's wrong?"

The convenience store owner in front of her frowned at her, his brows furrowed with impatience.

"what……"

Honami Ichinose stared blankly at the scene.

Following her memory of its location, she turned her gaze and saw the hair clip on the shelf, the hair clip she would probably never forget for the rest of her life.

"Well, it's okay."

Ichinose's mind was completely blank. After managing to brush off the shopkeeper, she staggered out of the convenience store, glancing back at the calendar hanging on the wall before leaving.

The calendar clearly shows today's date.

"It was the day my mother collapsed from exhaustion and was hospitalized."

The girl murmured to herself, "Am I dreaming about the future a few days from now? Or is it... a deity?"

"Are you calling me?"

The boy, who was idling outside the shop, responded and gave her a slightly malicious look: "You're very bold, Ichinose."

Honami Ichinose fully regained consciousness.