Lord of Mysteries: The Outer God is Me

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Anyway, Lin Ruo would never admit that he was being played by fate. He was happily setting up his grand plan when he was unexpectedly cut into countless pieces by a Transcendent and died, only to then transmigrate to the world of "Lord of the Mysteries."

That's too embarrassing!

Images of his tragically awful death in his previous life flashed through his mind, but Lin Ruo's expression didn't change in the slightest.

He looked at Klein and said, "If you're going to ask me if I performed some strange ritual like you, or obtained some strange item like Roselle, that led to my transmigration, then the answer is no."

Klein frowned slightly, but he wasn't too surprised. After all, there were only three known transmigrators. He transmigrated because of a ritual, Roselle because of that mysterious silver amulet. The reasons for transmigration were different for everyone, so it's normal that Lin Ruo just fell asleep and transmigrated.

But that means there's no commonality at all… Klein thought, tapping his fingers lightly on the edge of the long bronze table. He asked again, "Lin Ruo, do you remember what year it was before you transmigrated?"

"Um, this… huh?" Lin Ruo was originally planning to brush off the question because he wasn't sure when Klein and the others were taken to the Sefirah Castle or when the disaster happened, but he suddenly froze.

Because he realized he really didn't remember what year he transmigrated.

The memories of his previous life were so clear. He could even recite the novels he had read word for word, but when it came to anything related to time, it suddenly became blurry.

Just like Lin Ruo didn't remember how he transmigrated, only that he seemed to have fallen asleep, the year of his transmigration should have been a simple, clear question, but when he tried to recall it, Lin Ruo found that he couldn't remember it at all.

Rather, anything related to the time before his transmigration was very vague in his memory.

Lin Ruo still remembered many things, but if you asked him to recall when those things happened, Lin Ruo strangely couldn't remember anything. At most, he could arrange the events of his previous life in chronological order.

And what was even stranger was that before today, before hearing Klein's question, Lin Ruo had never even noticed this.

"What exactly is this…?" Lin Ruo pursed his lips, realizing once again that his memory was really messed up.

Before, he had only clearly forgotten the memories before being bound to Klein, but now, wow, even the memories before transmigration were problematic.

Lin Ruo felt numb all over.

And now he actually suspected that there might be other problems with his memory. After all, memory problems are different from others. Even if he tried to self-check, he might not be able to find the problem.

No, he couldn't be so decisive.

Maybe the problem wasn't with his memory, but with the world?

The cleverly thinking Lin Ruo instantly thought of another possibility. After all, he had transmigrated twice now. He had transmigrated to the Bungo Stray Dogs world and the Lord of the Mysteries world. He had abilities and had taken potions. Although Lin Ruo had never been exposed to any extraordinary powers in his own world before transmigration, that didn't necessarily mean that his previous world didn't have any extraordinary powers.

Maybe his previous world was similar to the Detective Conan world, trapped in a certain timeline?

Although the possibility was very small, Lin Ruo felt that he still couldn't directly deny this possibility.

Of course, compared to the possibility that the time in his previous world itself was problematic, Lin Ruo himself knew that it was more likely that there was a problem with his memory.

After all, his memory problems weren't a new thing.

Alas, life is not easy, kitty sighs!

Thinking of this, Lin Ruo couldn't help but sigh.

"Lin Ruo, what's wrong?" Klein, who had been watching Lin Ruo, asked with some confusion and concern.

He was really confused. After all, from his perspective, Lin Ruo suddenly said "huh" while talking, then his expression became very interesting, and finally he suddenly sighed, with a face full of "it's too hard." Who wouldn't be curious?

"I suddenly realized there's a problem with my memory… I don't remember when I transmigrated," Lin Ruo said truthfully.

His memory was acting up again?

Klein was stunned and didn't know what to say.

Lin Ruo then looked at him and said, "Klein, are you suddenly asking this because you're thinking about going home again?"

"Yes." Klein nodded. Seeing that Lin Ruo changed the subject, he knew that he probably didn't want to talk more about what was wrong with his memory, so he simply said, "I want to go home. That's always been my goal."

But you can't go home anymore…

Lin Ruo sighed inwardly, looked at Klein, and after considering it, said, "Klein, have you ever thought that maybe you can never go home?"

Lin Ruo didn't know whether he should tell Klein the truth about transmigration.

On the one hand, he understood that this was something Klein would eventually know, and that a short pain was better than a long one. Rather than letting Klein continue to hold onto the expectation of being able to go home and then ultimately despair, it might be better to extinguish that hope sooner.

On the other hand, Lin Ruo was worried that directly extinguishing his hope would cause Klein to have some problems due to the great shock. After all, he knew how much Klein wanted to go home. If he really told him the truth directly, the blow to Klein might be devastating.

So, after considering a compromise, Lin Ruo felt that it would be better to test the waters and lay the groundwork first.

Klein's heart skipped a beat. He frowned, looked at Lin Ruo, and his tone could even be described as eager, "Why do you say that, Lin Ruo? Do you know something?"

"Alas…" Lin Ruo sighed and said, "Klein, you know, I've been transmigrated for a very, very long time… Although I've lost many memories now, I also want to go home, but I'm still here."

"Emperor Roselle also wanted to go home. He was also always looking for a way back, but he ultimately died in this world… You need to know, Roselle died as the Black Emperor. He was already a God when he died, a Sequence 0, but he still didn't go back."

"Doesn't that explain everything?" Lin Ruo looked at Klein, looking directly into those eyes shrouded in gray fog, without flinching or avoiding, and said, "Klein, maybe there's no way to go home at all."

"Letting go of the past and accepting the present might be the best thing for you."

"I know this is cruel… but people always have to look forward. And…" Lin Ruo paused, looked at Klein, and continued, "Don't you have family and friends in this world? You still have Benson, Melissa, me, Leonard, Dunn, and the others. Why not try to accept this world and put down roots in this world?"

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