This villain, please exercise some restraint.

[Can you help me...?]

The white-haired boy murmured to himself. He was smiling, and the curve of his mouth looked unusually gentle, and even that smile seemed to reach his eyes.

【Thank you so much, Wheel of Fortune. 】

[I heard that you have a strong insight into emotions, so why not take a look at what kind of emotion I am in now.]

The boy lowered his head and looked at the small, short girl. His eyes paused on the teddy bear in the girl's arms, and then he gently looked away.

The girl was stunned for a moment, then bit her lower lip, but soon she released one of the hands holding the teddy bear, and her outstretched index finger touched the warm palm of the boy in front of her.

Just touch and leave.

She lowered her head in panic, and when she raised it again, her face was full of confusion.

[Why is it like this... Why are you smiling, but... I feel a deep sadness from you. The sadness is so strong, so strong... I am almost infected.]

[Brother Temperance, you... you are not smiling, are you? ]

The white-haired boy was still smiling, and his smile was still very gentle and sincere.

He ultimately didn't give any answers.

At the end, Shi Si saw the white-haired boy smiling and speaking to the girl.

[Wheel of Fortune, please help me take away these emotions. I don’t want to experience sadness anymore. ]

Shi Si blinked, and the scene in front of him changed. The white-haired "Wheel of Fortune" had taken away his little hand.

She blinked and gave a playful smile.

"Brother Shi Si, this candy...isn't it super sweet?"

Shi Si was distracted for a moment, but it was only for a moment. Soon, he raised his lips and revealed a faint smile, but the smile did not reach his eyes.

"It's very sweet."

"Thank you, Wheel of Fortune."

"But you're right. Regarding the proposal of 'the world', I have absolutely no reason to refuse it, right?"

……

World Palace.

When the Wheel of Fortune led the white-haired boy to appear silently in the hall, the World smiled as expected.

But his smile soon turned bitter because he thought of something.

"Shi Si, I'm glad you made the right choice."

"I don't need to settle the past. No matter how they view you, as the 'world', I think it is necessary for me to express my thoughts and my...attitude."

The blond young man who was sitting in the hall appeared in front of the white-haired boy the next moment. But for some reason, even though there was not much difference in height between the two of them, when standing opposite each other, the white-haired boy looked particularly thin.

Shi Si's dark eyes looked at the blond young man in front of him. His hair was as dazzling as the sun but not scorching. Instead, it had a gentle color. When he stood there, it seemed that any existence would become dull and dim.

The smile at the corner of his lips seemed gentle and pure, so pure... as if he was just smiling without any other thoughts.

At this moment, the 'world' was standing in front of him, looking at him with a smile, like a... gentle, cheerful and kind brother.

His exceptionally steady temperament, slightly deep voice, and non-aggressive gaze made him seem like a loving...father.

These strange thoughts flashed through Shi Si's mind, but soon... disappeared.

"Shi Si, I hope you can believe me. Even though you don't know me very well now, and even though in your impression I may just be a strange person who has quarreled with you and is a little arrogant, from now on, I will be your strong backer, and I hope to put aside all past grudges with you and face what will happen in the future together."

"At the same time, I hope you can realize one thing, that is--"

"World" paused here.

The "Wheel of Fortune" looked up and accurately captured the fleeting gloom on the face of "The World", but then the smile on the corner of the young man's lips became gentle and bright again, as if the smile just now was just an illusion.

But the Wheel of Fortune knew that she was not wrong. If she was wrong once, she could be wrong twice, but what about three or four times? Ever since she brought the extremely embarrassed Jiezhi... no, Shi Si here, the World had shown this expression too many times.

This was something she had never seen before.

"Shi Si, I hope you remember that the world cannot exist without 'the world'."

The white-haired boy was stunned for a moment when he heard this. He looked at the world, then at the young man in front of him, and found that the young man's expression seemed to be full of solemnity.

"Are you saying that the world...can't live without you?"

He asked bluntly. He didn't quite understand what the guy in front of him meant by saying this to him.

Want to show his own indispensability? Really... it seems a little funny.

The blond young man smiled, stretched out his hand, and patted the shoulder of the white-haired boy in front of him. "Looking at it now, I think you understand what this sentence means."

And the moment the fingertips and palms of "the world" touched the white-haired young man, a familiar feeling made Shi Si's thoughts seem to return to a moment in his memory that did not exist.

Shi Si opened his eyes and saw a blond young man playing the piano in front of him. He looked very much like "The World", but not quite, because "The World" seemed to be smiling all the time, while the blond young man in front of him, although with the same face, had a blank expression. His fingertips danced on the strings, and the music he played seemed particularly dull, making people feel inexplicably depressed when they heard it.

He looked around and found that this seemed to be a very large performance venue. The seats were packed, but the audience looked like puppets who had lost their souls, with dull eyes staring into the void.

In the front row of the stage, Shi Si saw several audience members who were dressed strangely but inexplicably exquisitely. There were both men and women among them, but without exception, they all had very beautiful looks.

Compared with the ordinary people around them, especially the thin and ordinary-looking boy sitting next to these handsome men and beautiful women, these people are so beautiful that they don't look like real people.

Shi Si lowered his head. Under his feet was a bright red tablecloth. Just like last time, he left this body and looked at this slightly weird...stage again from the perspective of a bystander.

A short boy with white hair was standing next to the piano played by the blond young man. He blinked his eyes from time to time, but his whole body was unable to move.

Soon, the blond young man finished his song and the place fell into silence. After a few breaths, the thin young man with an ordinary face who was sitting next to the beautiful humans stood up and applauded with a smile on his lips.

The sound of palms colliding seemed particularly crisp in the conference hall where it was so quiet that even a pin drop could be heard.

The thin boy walked forward, all the way to the center of the stage, in front of the blond young man sitting next to the piano.

He seemed to be the only one present who was not affected.

Shi Si looked around again and realized this.

"The world is indeed the world. Even the music played is so beautiful... Look... the audience is mesmerized by it!"

"What a masterpiece, world."

The young man sighed, but his roundabout way of emphasizing things made people feel uncomfortable and... weird.