Time in a collapsing world

"Have we... gone a little long?"

On the corridor, "Li" stopped, looked at Sakura who was walking in front and stopped almost at the same time as him, and asked.

"Li" didn't turn his head, but he could feel that Mebius behind him also stopped. After walking for so long, he finally realized that something was wrong.

"Why don't you keep walking?"

Mebius's cold voice came from behind.

"Li, stop dawdling, or we will be late soon."

Sakura turned around, looked at "Li" and said calmly.

"..."

"Li" leaned her back against the wall to avoid a sudden attack by the two men, and then slammed the wall behind her, causing ripples, as if it hit some kind of special membrane.

Another punch, this time a big hole was made in the film, but "Li" did not feel relaxed because of this, because behind the big hole were dense silver chains, which were entangled and intertwined like a swarm of worms in a worm's nest. squirming.

And it didn't take long for the big hole to be completely repaired by an inexplicable spiritual power.

"Li", who communicated with the Eighth Herrscher's memories, knew very well that this power came from the female human dressed in a nun's costume.

He was locked up in the spiritual world, just like the real Li before.

At the same time that "Li" understood, the bodies of "Mebius" and "Sakura" also disappeared, replaced by two humanoid bodies made of chains.

Sure enough, these two people are also fake.

"Li" tried to inform Herrscher about the situation on his side, but the channel of communication between them seemed to be intercepted by this spiritual power, and he also wanted to use this information to find out the location of the Eighth Herrscher's body. , and this scared "Li" so much that she didn't dare to act rashly again.

It doesn't matter if he dies, since He is just a fabricated consciousness anyway, and can be "resurrected" by the hands of the Eighth Herrscher, but if the Eighth Herrscher dies, then He is really dead. .

No, we can't let this group of humans get more information from us.

Thinking of this, "Li" suddenly stabbed his neck with one hand. He wanted to commit suicide, but someone would not let him do so.

The silver chains wrapped around his limbs, blocked his mouth, and even mentally temporarily blocked his thoughts, allowing him to experience the feeling of being manipulated by a being whose mental power was far higher than his own.

Since then, "Li", who had not yet begun to contribute to the Eighth Herrscher, was completely captured.

……

"Then, I turn off the lights~?"

At Kevin's birthday party, Alicia's brisk voice sounded, and then the lights went out, leaving only the flame of the candle flickering in the room.

"It's time to blow out the candles, Kevin, don't forget to make a wish. No matter what your wish is, it will definitely come true, and I will definitely make it come true~?"

"...Alicia, you stole the line. This was originally Mei's line."

"Huh? Is that so? Is that what it says in the script I gave you, Sakura?"

"Um……"

"Alicia, I feel like you haven't even written down your script." Li laughed.

"How, how is that possible? This is a script I wrote myself. I must have memorized it all!"

"Kosmo, you can stop playing for a while. There is no need to pursue playing the entire song."

Hen patted Kosmo's shoulder and said.

"..."

Kosmo stopped playing silently. Sure enough, he didn't play well, and he couldn't stand it anymore.

Kevin looked at this scene, smiled helplessly, leaned down, and blew out all the candles on the cake.

Immediately afterwards, everyone applauded him again, celebrating his annual birthday.

The lights come on.

"Destobia, these cakes of yours are not cut neatly." Li compared the size of each cake, "Also, why are the ones given to me so small? Is it a secret operation on your part?"

"There's no way. It's okay to hit people with telekinesis. This kind of delicate work of dividing the cake equally is quite difficult for me... As for why the smallest one is given to you? Huh, just think of it as my secret operation. .”

"Li, do you want it? I can give you some more~?" Alicia handed Li the small piece of cake she had taken a bite of on her fork.

"Forget it……"

"What a pity... But I didn't expect that our dear Dr. Mebius would still come here~? I thought you would just wrap a gift, but I didn't expect..." Alicia put the cake on the fork in mouth, and then looked at Mebius who was poking his piece of cake with a fork boredly.

"I didn't want to come over at first, but what happened...it's not a big deal if I stop by." Mebius yawned, wanting to sleep.

"Oh, you are just worried about Li's condition. Don't worry, he won't break through Aponnia's restraints so easily~?"

"……whispering sound."

With his mind broken, Mebius tsked lightly and looked at Li who smiled sneer after hearing their conversation, "You too, it's so embarrassing to be controlled so easily."

Li lowered her head to eat the cake, pretending not to hear.

"He's very spiritual."

Aponya first defended Li, and then told what he had discovered before, "It's not just Li, I'm afraid there are more people in the Fire Chasing Moth who are controlled by him now."

This was the case for Nier last time, and Aponya had already told Mei about this matter, so maybe Nier is now imprisoned in the Fire Chaser Moth's prison, right?

Sakura nodded silently. She had seen Aponya's power before, so she also understood a little about the horror of the spiritual system.

"……what are you guys saying?"

Kevin didn't understand what these people meant. It sounded like something happened without him knowing?

"Oh, Kevin, I haven't told you yet, the Eighth Herrscher has appeared."

May answered Kevin's questions.

"!!!"

Kevin was so startled that he stood up suddenly, but looking at Mei's calm look, he slowly sat down again, "When did it happen?"

"Just yesterday, Li was controlled. As for the exact time when the Eighth Herrscher appeared, and his current location... we don't know these yet. He has some way of evading detection. The only clue currently is that he was A certain spiritual consciousness controlled by Aponia."

"That……"

Kevin looked at the uneaten cake in front of him. The Eighth Herrscher appeared. Why did they still have the energy to hold this birthday party for themselves?

Seemingly seeing through Kevin's thoughts, Mei smiled helplessly: "The location of the Eighth Herrscher is unknown, and the monitors have not found anything. Moreover, his ability is to control consciousness. Even some fusion warriors may not be able to avoid it, so we cannot rush it. Manpower was dispatched to conduct a large-scale search, not to mention that there were his spies inside the Fire Chaser Moth."