Zongman: Complete Guide to Characters

Dawn gradually broke, and the pale blue sky was still dotted with dim stars.

Yeyue lazily got up from the bed and looked at the alarm clock. It was still early.

Speaking of which, I had a very strange and embarrassing dream.

The me in the story overslept and simply didn't go to school. I went to the west of Aoba Castle with Ling to kill the witch. As a result, I seemed to be accidentally tricked, and I don't remember anything after that.

Strange dream.

Yeyue shook her head and opened her phone to check the date just in case.

The day I went out with Kageyama Tobio and established a connection with Rei was Monday, which was yesterday.

The phone calendar shows that today is Tuesday.

Well, that's fine.

Yeyue stretched lazily, what a refreshing day!

But what happened in the dream should serve as a reminder for me. Don't leave Ling and Kanna and wander around without knowing how you died.

Moreover, you can't just play around with the abilities borrowed from Ling. It would be very dangerous if you overuse your abilities outside and consume too much energy and fall asleep.

"morning!"

When Yeyue arrived on the first floor, Shenna and Ling were already in the living room.

"Yeah~ It's really early~ Yue-chan!"

The exquisite face was like that of a god, looking back at her with a sweet and brilliant smile.

Yue...chan?

Subconsciously, he checked Kanna's impression of him - 0% as always.

Yeyue's eyes flickered slightly.

Forget it, who cares? As long as Kana likes it.

Sitting upright on the sofa in the living room, Ling silently withdrew his secret observation.

Yeyue also glanced curiously at A Ling who was staying quietly in the corner. The TV was not turned on. What was that guy doing?

"It's time to eat. Yue-chan~Zero-chan~Please."

"Thanks for your hard work."

"Are you going to school today?"

"Yes."

Yeyue nodded.

Today is Tuesday, so of course I have to go to school.

A Ling ate his meal in silence.

Yeyue and "Shinai" were chatting and laughing beside him, but Ling stayed under the eaves reluctantly, feeling uncomfortable all over.

"I'm full, and I've brought my lunch box. Ling and I are leaving for school."

"Well, walk slowly~"

Close the door and walk some distance away from Ling.

Ye Yue slowly let out a breath, his face darkened, his red eyes flashing with panic, "How scary!"

"That's definitely not Kanna!"

Ah Ling turned his head away and nodded slightly. So you found it!

"What happened to that guy?"

Did something happen to Kanna? Or does Kanna actually have a split personality?

Yeyue grabbed A Ling and asked.

"Kanna, I'm going out. Let her be my replacement for now."

Ah Ling said it word by word, and she had no intention of hiding anything. Since Yeyue asked, they would tell it.

Yeyue nodded hesitantly, "So what is this Shennai now?"

Ah Ling stopped walking, his icy eyes were covered with a layer of shadow, and he looked at Yeyue with resentment, "She is, the Kanna you imagined."

"……what?"

Yeyue’s little head was full of doubts.

A Ling continued to say dimly, "Kanna received the gift from Yue and was very happy. Because, Kanna has no way to invent another self."

What does it have to do with her?

Yeyue sorted out the clues. In other words, what happened yesterday was true.

And the real Kanna caught back the "Kanna" that she imagined in the witch's barrier?

If what she dreamed about was real, then what was the reason for this strange time? Wasn't it just Tuesday morning?

Where am I now? Still in the witch's barrier?

and also--

Yeyue looked vaguely at A Ling who seemed to be standing beside him without any abnormality.

Who is this person? Is it the real Ling?

Or is it some disguised A Ling like the fake Kanna? But if it is a disguised A Ling, why would he tell himself the truth?

Although she was so alert in her heart, the connection with Ling himself was indeed directed at the person in front of her. She patted Ling on the shoulder and said, "Tell me something I don't know."

Ah Ling, who was barely controlling his body, was stunned for a moment, looking at her in confusion, "Look for yourself."

"..."

What to see? How to see? Through what? Connection?

"Connection also has this ability."

"Ah."

Ling was not on guard against Yeyue, and she soon discovered that she could view all of Ling's memories through the connection. However, Yeyue only took a glance and then backed out, thinking that this was too much of an invasion of privacy.

But at least it is certain that the person in front of him is indeed Ling himself.

"...This is not a good thing. I won't look at Rei's memories, and Rei can't look at mine either, okay?"

"Oh."

Ah Ling tried hard to walk side by side with Yeyue, fearing that he would accidentally leak out his extra strength.

"And what about this time travel back in time?"

Yeyue took out her cell phone, turned on the screen and showed it to A Ling, asking her to check the time on the phone.

"..." Being close to Yeyue, while answering her questions, A Ling had to try to control the strength and speed to avoid accidentally hurting her. He pinched his brows with some difficulty.

"I didn't go back to the past, Shen Na, I'm planning."

"What do you mean?"

"Kanna needs to build her own home. That's why we are in this situation now."

Ah Ling stretched out her fair, slender finger and pointed at her cell phone.

Nothing has changed.

Yeyue suddenly stopped, her eyes widened in disbelief, and when she looked again, the time displayed on her phone was clearly a little after 3 p.m. on Tuesday.

She suppressed the shock on her face and was about to say something, but out of the corner of her eye she vaguely noticed that the second hand of the clock on her phone was moving forward at an abnormally slow pace.

When I looked again, everything returned to normal and time went back to morning.

She frowned and looked at the girl in white.

Rei has been acting strange since a while ago. It's not that he has a weird personality like "Kanna", but this guy seems to be trying hard to do normal things.

"A Ling, what have you been doing since just now?"

"I'm trying to keep up with the triple-speed phantom time."

"?"

Ling in front of him seemed to be exerting a lot of effort to control his steps. His body was a little stiff.

"……what is going on?"

"Kanna created an illusion of the past that covers the entire Miyagi Prefecture. The time in the illusion is this morning, and it flows at three times the speed of normal time. At 7 o'clock tonight, it will be unified with the outside world and return to normal."

A Ling accidentally stepped on a piece of the ground and her cold expression revealed some helplessness.

“The illusion is driven by everyone’s perception, so when everyone is deceived into thinking it is Tuesday morning, then the time in the illusion is now Tuesday morning. Everything will proceed as planned.”

"Using illusions as the medium and the emotions of sentient beings as the fuel, illusions become reality."

She didn't care about the broken ground, and looked up at Yeyue expressionlessly, "Using the will of all living beings as a bridge, we will restart today and return to the starting point."

His pupils trembled constantly, and Yeyue felt a fear beyond his cognition.

If she remembered correctly, Kanna's magical girl's solidified ability was "emotional perception".

It is reasonable to develop one's own abilities to the extent of creating illusions and transforming other people's emotions into one's own strength.

But what's going on now?

What does it mean to make illusions come true?

With just a few words from Ling, Yeyue had roughly outlined the map drawn by Shenna, but it was too hard to believe.

Maybe Kanna doesn't have the ability to truly reverse time, but she created a pseudo-time reversal that covers an area.

She created an illusion of what happened early this morning, and the people affected were likely to be in the same situation as herself that morning, so even if they felt a subtle sense of familiarity, they would not think too much about it.

This emotion provides the fuel to maintain this illusion. This world is created by the will of all living beings, and at the same time, all living beings' cognition of this world also affects this illusory world to a certain extent.

But what is Kanna's reason for doing this?

Also, since Ling said that the time in the illusion progresses at three times the speed, why do I feel nothing, just like usual?

Fantasy becomes reality...

Could this also be the ability to turn illusions into reality?

Yeyue glanced behind her and saw that the ground that A Ling had accidentally damaged just now had returned to normal.

This is probably the physical manifestation of the illusion becoming reality. No one would think that the ground could be crushed by one foot.

Since we believe that such a thing will not happen, there will naturally be a force to repair the traces left by these "abnormal" behaviors.

Yeyue tried to mobilize A Ling's power, but A Ling in front of him didn't react much and seemed to have gradually adapted to moving at three times the speed.

He applied the power to his eyes and looked up at the sky. Sure enough, the sun had already moved to the west. Ling, who looked normal when he didn't use his power, now seemed to be pressed on the speed-up button and was walking forward rapidly.

Yeyue opened her mouth wide and hurried to catch up, but there was no way she could move at three times the speed like Ling and still remain calm as usual.

I had no choice but to cancel the power brought by the connection. Then an unknown force instantly enveloped me, as if this illusion had swallowed me up and turned me into one of the living beings in the illusion again.

Pursing her lips, Yeyue followed A Ling's pace again.

The world returned to its seemingly peaceful early morning scene.