Myriad Realms Gatekeeper

The cramped Solitary Confinement Room.

The girl sat on the wire bed, motionless.

Yet in midair, dark shadows wandered back and forth.

"Why don't you just kill me?"

the girl asked.

The shadows emitted overlapping voices, "Our Dharma Aspects are tied up fighting the king species, so we can't kill you directly."

"How could you possibly not overcome the weakened state of the king species?" Shen Ye asked.

"Anyway, we are tied up, so we can only deal with you in the way we are doing now," the shadows said.

Shen Ye chuckled, saying nothing.

They were too eager.

Without the Demon of Terror here, they showed their true nature, craving revenge.

Revenge.

This was his opportunity.

Shen Ye stood up from the bed, filled a tin can with water, walked to the closed iron door, and splashed all the water on the ground.

Water.

It seeped through the cracks of the door, flowing outward.

He activated "Existence in Mirror" directly, entered the water, passed through the door, and emerged from the water that had spread to the other side.

It was night by then.

Shen Ye found the teaching building without much effort.

He searched specifically for the teachers' offices.

One by one.

Soon, he saw through the window glass the Ferris wheel set up in the corner of an office.

Entering the glass, he emerged on the other side and walked straight up to the Ferris wheel, picking it up.

Her movements were so gentle.

Even the shadows hovering in midair held their breath.

Shen Ye lifted the Ferris wheel, gently inscribing a line of small characters on its base:

"In memory of the past, for wishes, for all beautiful things."

"—Personally crafted by Lancy."

After the inscription, she put the Ferris wheel back, tiptoed out of the office, and then returned to the Solitary Confinement Room.

Done.

The deed was complete.

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Shen Ye rubbed his hands together and was about to act when he found the entire Solitary Confinement Room illuminated by sunlight.

He froze and looked up.

It was already daytime.

A dark shadow flew down from midair, saying:

"We've fast-forwarded time."

After speaking, it flew back up.

Shen Ye: "..."

You're all too eager, aren't you?

Can't you wait and let me rest for a while?

Click.

The lock moved.

The iron door opened, and several powerful, black-robed women filed in.

"Lancy, the whole matter has been investigated clearly."

"It was you who stole someone else's things, which sparked the brawl, and then you even hit the teacher, truly unforgivable," a woman holding a folder said sternly.

"That was my Ferris wheel," Lancy spoke.

"The investigation showed it was theirs," the woman said.

"But I carved words under the base of the Ferris wheel. If they smoothed out the inscription, there would still be marks," Lancy said.

The women looked at each other.

No one had expected this turn of events.

If... they had really made a mistake...

The several women looked toward the dignified-looking woman standing in the center.

"What do you think, principal?"

"You go there personally, bring that Ferris wheel over here, and let no one touch it,"

"Yes."

A woman went to carry out the order.

After a short while,

she came back, carrying the Ferris wheel in her hands.

The female principal gestured with her hand.

The Ferris wheel slowly levitated, revealing the two lines of hidden characters under the base:

"In memory of the past, for wishes, for all beautiful things."

"—Personally crafted by Lancy."

The people were speechless.

If this item truly belonged to those few female students, why would they carve these words on the Ferris wheel?

Lancy had been confined, and couldn't have gone out to do this specifically.

So it must be her property.

The female principal looked meaningfully at Shen Ye and turned to walk outside.

"Release Lancy from confinement, and put those four girls in," she ordered.

The crowd bowed their heads in agreement.

Shen Ye suddenly called out loudly:

"Principal, you've forgotten about Miss Bella, it was all her idea."

"She wouldn't target a student like you specifically," the principal said briskly.

"But what if those students offered her benefits? Principal, it's entirely possible; please investigate," Shen Ye said.

Before his words fell,

everything around them disappeared.

Time flashed forward again.

"—Hey, I haven't enjoyed myself yet, why are you changing the time again!" Shen Ye couldn't help but protest.

The shadows paid her no heed, they just chanted Spells in midair, bringing everything back to a certain moment in history.

The little girl had grown taller, now about eight or nine years old.

However, the battlefield was surrounded by corpses.

The roar of Techniques was continuous.

Thick smoke billowed.

Large Mobile Armored Suits ran swiftly, charging towards the human positions where a single strike could kill dozens of people.

The girl was momentarily stunned.

How had it suddenly come to this?

What had happened?

A shadow suddenly descended, whispering in her ear:

"Apart from losing one's parents, no other despair compares to this moment."

"On this day, machines betrayed humanity."

"At this age, my strength was comparable to yours, but I couldn't hold on the battlefield, was defeated by them, captured, modified, and then used to kill humans."

"Later, I killed countless people."

"—Baxter, your strength also isn't enough to change any of this; in fact, you could say that, like me, you can only face this helplessness and despair."

With that, the dark figure exploded into countless shadows, continuing with a million overlapping voices:

"We do not wish to recall all of this pain!"

"But, in light of what you've done earlier—"

"We reluctantly made everything reappear as reality."