Uneasy daily life

The scene is a bit like changing channels on a TV; you shake a crystal ball, and the channel and scene change.

“Shoko Makinohara is four years younger than me, and Kaede Azusagawa is two years younger than me. Adding Kaede Azusagawa from the dark room to the mix makes it possible for Azusagawa’s mother to give birth to twins,” Bai Ying said smugly. “Reincarnation, isn’t that amazing?”

“I’ve never voted for her, so I don’t know.” Toyohama Kazuka pointed to Koga Tomoe in the crystal ball, “but she looked like she was feeling unwell and wanted to vomit.”

"Hold on! Mini Chef! You still have a chance! You'll find the perfect timeline!"

The white figure cheered loudly while spinning the crystal ball back and forth.

"Would that change what happened?" Yukinoshita Haruno asked with interest. "Then could we make Yukino-chan a double portion?"

Bai Ying said in surprise, "I was reincarnated into Auntie's belly? That's a bit too incestuous, don't you think? Yukino-chan."

"#!" Yukino Yukinoshita frowned, managing to suppress her anger. "You can do something like that? Koga's puberty syndrome..."

"Her puberty syndrome is not about turning back time, but about foreseeing the future."

Bai Ying tossed the crystal ball around vigorously, explaining casually, "Laplace's demon, a hypothetical creature in physics, can precisely grasp the movement of all the particles that make up the world. Mastering all movement means knowing everything that will happen—but Chef Mini is different. She constantly observes the future, allowing time to divide into possibilities. If she is not satisfied, she will subconsciously discard that possibility. To those who are aware of it, it appears as if time is flowing backward."

"From the moment her puberty syndrome erupted, time stopped in a sense. The world just accompanied her as she tried and explored possibilities. Strictly speaking, she couldn't turn back time, but rather she was rehearsing the future. Killer Queen blew the world back to the time before I was born, that's turning back time."

"Thanks to the Killer Queen for turning back time, as long as we keep using the Deadly Chef Mini to roll the numbers and select a few fates to determine, we can solve the problem of Azusagawa Kaede and Makinohara Shoko."

After explaining the principle, Bai Ying rolled the crystal ball around on the ground, and the observed future scenes changed continuously.

Most of them were born to Azusagawa Kaede and Makinohara Shoko, but sometimes dangerous situations would arise during childbirth. Shirakage used Koga Tomoe's abilities to constantly fine-tune various possibilities.

Yukino Yukinoshita pursed her lips, frowned as she pondered something, and drifted off into a daze, looking rather sullen.

Yukinoshita asked in surprise, "Wouldn't that mean Yukino-chan would get more nutrition when she was born?"

“You…” Feng Bin and Hua couldn’t help but twitch their eyes and complain, “It’s a good thing you’re not my sister, otherwise I would be fighting with you all the time.”

"The closer you are to someone, the more you like to tease them. Does Haruno still have the habits of an elementary school boy?"

Mai Sakurajima shook her head slightly, then suddenly asked, "Yukino, what are you thinking about?"

Yukino Yukinoshita didn't seem to care about her sister's earlier comment about being all talk and no action. She said somewhat sullenly, "Even things that have already happened can be changed so easily... I'm not saying we shouldn't help with Makinohara and Azusagawa's affairs, but I just feel a little uneasy."

"What's wrong with that?" Feng Bin and Hua held the back of their heads, somewhat puzzled. "Are you being difficult again?"

"..." Yukino Yukinoshita said coldly, "Then let's make a slight change here to improve your relationship with your family. You won't run away from home to meet Sakurajima-senpai, and you won't meet Haku-kun. Everything that happened between you will be null and void. You'll embark on a different path in life, and you won't have to share a boyfriend with other girls. Can you accept something like this?"

"?" Feng Bin and Hua glared at each other. "Why didn't you recognize that scoundrel and go down a different path in life?"

"?" Yukino Yukinoshita took a deep breath. "I wasn't talking about that kind of thing—it seems you can't accept it either, can you? Your life up to this point has been manipulated at will, your self can be molded from one form to another, it's as if... everything is fake, can be painted over at will, there's nothing worth believing in or striving for."

Yukino lowered her head and said in a muffled voice, "I don't like this feeling."

The group looked at each other, and couldn't help but feel strange.

"Ugh—this is so annoying! Yukinoshita always likes to pick a fight!" Toyohama Kazuka scratched her head in vain, then turned and shouted, "You bastard, you tell me what's going on!"

"what?"

The white figure, engrossed in rolling the ball, looked up blankly and asked in surprise, "What's there to say? Possibility is just possibility, it's not like everything can be done—Deadly Chef Mini has reversed time so many times, but she still hasn't made Azusagawa Sakuta fall in love with her."

Inside the crystal ball, Tomoe Koga seemed to be having a nightmare, like a fresh fish whose head had been cut off, but whose tail was still twitching.

Yukino Yukinoshita shook her head slightly, looking somewhat irritated: "That's not what I meant..."

"If there were a Yukino Yukinoshita who could bravely face the bullying from her classmates, resolutely stick to her own path, loudly say no to her mother, deny her mother's arrangements for her, sincerely express her dreams and aspirations for the future, and face her inferiority to her older sister..." the white-clad figure began in a deep voice, "brave, sincere, decisive, honest, never quarrelsome, upright, and perfectly solve any problem—would that Yukino Yukinoshita still be Yukino Yukinoshita?"

Yukino Yukinoshita frowned slightly and said in a cold tone, "I'm really sorry that I don't have those strengths."

Bai Ying pointed and said, "Look! You've already started to act up!"

Yukino Yukinoshita was taken aback, her gaze shifting involuntarily, and she instinctively retorted, "I...I didn't!"

"You already have it, don't you?" ×3!

Toyohama and Hana rolled their eyes, Sakurajima Mai smiled politely, and Yukinoshita Haruno added insult to injury with a grin.

Yukino Yukinoshita clenched her fists, a surge of anger rising within her. She took a deep breath and retorted sharply, "Don't you have any?! Those memories you still remember have been replaced by someone else, those troubles you had been resolved by another version of yourself, all those things that happened have vanished... Before, you couldn't remember anything that happened either, right? After regaining your memories, didn't you feel any confusion or fear?"

"Everything can be changed at will, everything can be replaced by something else, like a puppet being arranged to perform all the stories—I don't want to be Yukino Yukinoshita in anyone's eyes, nor do I want to become another Yukino Yukinoshita!"

Her resounding words echoed as Yukino Yukinoshita, panting softly, turned to look at the white figure, unable to contain herself: "White-kun, what will happen when we go back? Will we forget everything and start over? If we forget everything, whether it's the birth of Azusagawa Kaede or Makinohara Shoko's heart condition being cured, these will all be factors that cause change, and will inevitably affect us, who should have known them... If we remember everything and start over... what about the others?"

"Mother, Father, Grandfather, Hikigaya-kun, Yui-hama, and so on..."

Yukino Yukinoshita felt lost and afraid: "How should I face them? Should I try to pretend and manipulate their impressions of me? Or should I start a new story and life on my own and put the past behind me—my mother who reconciled with me that day is gone, my father who took me to the company to play games is gone, my grandfather who was tricked by Haku into wielding knives and sticks is gone, Yuihama who always pounced on me so familiarly is gone, it's like... they are gone, and there are only some people who look like them and have the same names."

"When I think of that scene, I can't help but feel all alone. Even you all here seem like shadows that could disappear at any moment."

"Can I, you, and all of you just take this for granted?"

Yukino Yukinoshita spoke softly, her tone becoming increasingly sorrowful.

Yukinoshita Haruno, unusually, didn't tease her sister, but instead scratched her head, showing some empathy.

Mai Sakurajima pursed her lips and sighed softly, "No wonder the hater said that Yoshikage Kira is an arrogant guy... Only someone who is extremely selfish and arrogant, who despises everyone except himself, who doesn't care about relationships with others and is incapable of having any connection with others, would do something like reversing time."

They left behind a huge mess when they died.

Feng Bin and Hua thought for a moment, then became increasingly irritated: "Ugh—now that you think about it, you're right... This is so annoying! After you said that, I don't know what to do anymore! Damn it! Think of something!"

"Yes, I have."

Bai Ying smiled and looked at everyone.

Believe in miracles.

"Our destinies are now intertwined."

The statement, without any beginning or end, and without any arguments or proof, left the others momentarily stunned.

"Hiccup? So you're a believer after all?"

Ling appeared out of nowhere, her legs bent and hooked around a floating lamp cane, hanging upside down above. Her long, azure hair cascaded down like a waterfall, giving her a somewhat ghostly appearance.

In addition, she always has a gourd of wine in her hand, so she's a female alcoholic.

Yukino Yukinoshita then remembered the other person—this psychic who created dreams, even managed to escape the world of time reversal, and had helped them. She couldn't help but ask, "What are your thoughts on this, Miss?"

The female drunkard opened her mouth with a flourish, poured wine from her gourd, and recited in a grand and majestic manner.

"A thousand autumns pass in a flash in a dream, while the mountains and rivers outside the dream are desolate and lonely. Having drunk the heavens and earth and swallowed the sun and moon, where in this world is there not me?"

The crisp liquor was poured straight into the female drunkard's nose.

With a cough that escaped her throat, the female drunkard twitched twice and fell heavily to the ground with a thud. Before anyone could offer any words of comfort or concern, she rolled over on the spot and let out a burp.

"This is truly a superhuman," Toyohama Kazuka remarked. "Not only is he a riddle teller, but he also does strange things."

"Oh dear, why bother distinguishing between dreams and reality?" Ling said with a chuckle. "No matter how clearly you distinguish between dreams and reality, you still can't see yourself clearly. If you can see yourself clearly, why bother about whether it's real or fake, or whether it's a dream or reality?"

Yukino Yukinoshita shook her head slightly, her bright eyes looking at the white figure: "Since you've said so, then I believe you—I believe you, I believe me."

"Even if there are no memories, then everything experienced is erased... Just like when I see the house where Bai Jun lives, I still can't help but feel sad. The true feelings will not be changed or buried. If you have to say what counts as a miracle, then I believe this is a miracle."

Yukino thought for a moment and said, "Hmm... I also want to experience that feeling of miracle again, and feel my own emotions."

“A miracle…” Mai Sakurajima murmured. “Thinking about everything that has happened so far, I can’t help but start to believe. My fear and anxiety about change seem to have vanished as a result. The feeling of liking someone is really incredible.”

Toyohama Kazuka: "Me...me too!"

"Then get ready to go."

After rolling the opening, the white figure threw the crystal ball into the phantom-like fragment. He looked around and found Angelina squatting beside him.

He strode over, raised his hand and poked the scalp on the other person's head, which was exposed by the double ponytail hairstyle: "Call, call! It's too long for the team members, it's time to set off!"

Angelina remained motionless, immersed in the sorrow of being bombarded with various boomerang-like blows.

I was so stupid, really. I thought that if I showed them a written agreement, they would run away in shame and defeat. I never expected that not only would they deny it, but they would also unite to launch a brutal and inhumane series of attacks against the creditor. Where is the law? Where is fairness? Where is the sweet deal?

"If you stay here, you'll be like a ghost in a dream, neither dead nor alive. There are no snacks here."

"?!"

Angelina snapped back to her senses, looked around but didn't see any snacks, so she snorted and turned her head away, hugging her legs and ignoring the white figure, her round cheeks puffing out in anger.

At this point, they still haven't explained our relationship, and they're just joining in their jeers...

Damn it! I'm ignoring you!

"Let's go, you idiot who's lowering the average IQ!"

"You're the idiot—"

Angelina was about to turn around and yell back when she suddenly felt a familiar sensation of being lifted into the air. She looked up and saw the face of the white figure.

"Come on—!"

The white figure scooped the other person up in a princess carry and rushed towards the emerging reality scene.

"well--?!"

Angelina gasped, wanting to say something but unsure what to say. She blinked, feeling a mix of confusion and shyness. Before she could process her feelings, she suddenly noticed the white figure running slower and slower, growing shorter, its brows furrowing more deeply, its face contorting with rage, panting heavily as if exhausted.

This is... a despicable frame-up!

"#!"

Angelina exclaimed, "I've already lost weight! I'm not heavy at all! This joke is so cheesy, it's time to change it!"

"Whoa whoa whoa whoa—! A man will never be flattened by the person he likes! Charge!"

"I think you want to be flattened! Flattened like a cookie, I'll just—"

Before Angelina could finish her indignant rant, she disappeared into the blurry scene along with the white figure.

The remaining four people looked at each other.

“Angelina…” Mai Sakurajima said strangely, “She seems rather slow-witted.”

Yukino Yukinoshita said casually, "Even though that jerk used a substitute as an answer, she still didn't realize it and was still playing with those few pieces of paper."

"Let's go, let's go." Toyohama Kazuka took a step, muttering to herself, "Speaking of which, when I left, I was still preparing for the performance with everyone in the team... Damn it, I almost forgot what I was supposed to be doing! Kira Yoshikage really knows how to cause trouble!"

"Without the trouble he caused, resolving the issues between Azusagawa Kaede and Makinohara Shoko wouldn't have been so easy."

Yukino Yukinoshita let out a soft breath, took a step forward, and walked ahead.

What will happen next is something that is impossible to say for sure.

So just believe it.

If I had to say I believe in something...

I believe that everything we have accomplished so far is not something that can be erased or altered.

I believe that the feelings between us, who have been through everything together, cannot be forgotten or changed.

I believe that whether we forget everything or remember everything, we will meet and love each other.

Because wasn't it like this from the very beginning?

I don't know you, you don't know me, we don't like each other, and nothing has ever happened between us.

We simply met, went through a series of unforgettable yet indescribable events, and our hearts began to stir, drawing our bodies closer, as we tasted indescribable emotions such as joy, sorrow, and happiness.

This is a miracle in itself.

I believe in miracles, I believe in our story, and that's why I feel no more hesitation or fear.

The group disappeared into the dream, and the dream's scenes blurred and changed.

"As long as you believe, you can do anything. That's what youth feels like."

Black Light's laughter rang out.

Ling shook the gourd, and only a single drop of clear wine managed to gather, hanging stubbornly on the gourd's mouth for a few seconds before dripping onto his outstretched tongue.

"Oh no, the wine's all gone..."

Ling Youran closed her eyes and smacked her lips, savoring the taste.

"This dream is quite interesting."

written request for leave

My mind is swirling between literature, action (just kidding), romance, and character relationships, and I can't seem to switch between them all. I feel like my writing is still lacking something; it doesn't delve deeper into the relationships between the characters, and there are some parts I'm not entirely satisfied with. But I don't know how to write something better. My head is throbbing…

My mind is completely blank; I just can't muster any inspiration. I need to spend a whole day thinking about how to wrap up the last chapter of this volume, how to resolve each emotional scene, and how to switch back to a happy, everyday state of mind.