Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

Aeons of time flooded consciousness, and in an instant I was swept into a raging and violent wave of all kinds of emotions.

As if falling in a sea of ​​people, countless strangers and familiar people pass by. Looking at the hustle and bustle of people, I didn't know where I was, forgot who I was, and didn't know where I was going.

My heart was empty, and a feeling of discomfort gradually emerged emotionally.

It seems that when I was very young, I was lost in the shopping mall, and I was worried and afraid, worried that I would become a vagrant from now on, and afraid of being scolded by my parents.

I wanted to ask for help, but the people passing by couldn't see their faces clearly, and their shapes were blurred under the pace of walking, turning into meaningless points and lines and passing backwards, as if everyone was a light that I couldn't grasp. I knelt down helplessly and hugged my immature body like a child. For some reason, there was a surge of sadness deep in my heart.

Although I can't tell the reason for the sadness, I'm simply wrapped up in this feeling. Gradually—the world began to lose temperature, color, and sound.

Has she experienced this feeling 1590 times?

Lost memory again and again, fell into the abyss of time, and watched people who couldn't see themselves pass by.

The world is full of people floating on the barrenness, from nothing to existence, from deserted to lively, from silent to noisy...

But she was the same as before, alone.

There is a lot of traffic, people are jostling shoulder to shoulder, and there is always a din of people, of course it is very lively.

It's just that none of this has anything to do with her - this is called "loneliness".

We who challenge the gods are the ones who are finally related to her every tens of thousands of years. That's why she was so strangely excited.

Lonely tears smudged the field of vision, and suddenly someone stopped in the endless stream of people. The familiar figure approached me step by step. I broke the tears in my eyes and looked up at the speechless girl in the rain. She didn't have an umbrella, just concealed under a hood. Let the rain hit her dark sweater, dripping from the hem to her bare toes.

She bowed under my gaze, her long, slender hair hanging down from the brim of her hat. I saw those ice-covered eyes unfolding an ice-breaking smile, then greeted her body temperature, and was embraced by her in a warm embrace.

"May I have your name?"

Crystal drops of water dripped down her plump cheeks. I don't know if it's rain or tears. It shattered as soon as it fell on my face.

Shattered the flickering light, and shattered the competing colors.

"Su... Ruo Yang."

She suddenly smiled, and put a little more force on my shoulders, her vision was buried in the darkness. But through her breathing, the colors spread out an incredible scroll, as if all kinds of paint cans were knocked over on the black cloth. There are sky blue, starlight silver, flame red, lemon orange, and lilac purple... for a while it was dazzling.

"My name is... Xia Qianyan."

As soon as the voice fell, the picture in front of me disappeared, and there was only a single curved door standing upright in the center of my field of vision. I don't know why there is a strange emotion in my heart, and with the heartbeat, it jumps to my throat, ready to move. As I approached the door without looking sideways, I accelerated my pace more and more, and at the same time stretched out my hand to hold the handle of the door.

"Squeak——"

Before he could use all his strength to push open the unusually huge white solid wood door, it pushed it inwards unhurriedly, and the scene on the other side was dyed in color in his vision.

"Tick-tick-"

The pendulum of the clock hanging on the wall swayed from side to side, as if deliberately reminding me of the eternity of time.

The brain is blank, but the heartbeat is getting faster and faster.

In the room, beside the black and white checkered wall, a silver-haired girl stood there quietly with her eyes closed, kicking the wall behind her playfully with her heels from time to time.

Listening carefully, the girl seemed to be humming a familiar melody.

"Ah—you are..."

Her name was stuck in my throat, but I just couldn't pronounce it. On the other hand, the girl heard the human voice, and opened her slightly closed eyes lightly, and the unknown and mysterious color in her deep eyes fell on me.

Without any verbal answer, I just saw her raised her right hand quietly, and her raised index finger landed on her cherry-colored lips.

"Tick-tack-"

The pendulum is still swinging. A clear and dignified voice sounded in the air.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time. Mine, the ruler."

——I opened my eyes suddenly as if I was awakened from a dream, but in a blink of an eye, I returned to the deserted dreamland, and the picture just now disappeared completely.

The sudden silence caused a tinnitus, his breathing became short of breath, and the muscles in his chest became sore. My body was floating in the air as if in a space without gravity. I clung to my clothes tightly as if I was greedy for air, tearing the blockage in the trachea through my skin.

The brain seems to have received an excessive amount of information in a short period of time, and even the brain seems to have pliers reaching deep to stir.

It hurts... the pain is unbearable, and the hot blood will rush out of the eye sockets at any time.

"Ahem—"

There was a violent cough with graininess next to me, and I cast my gaze without thinking—in fact, the movements of my whole body were extremely stiff, and time was rolling around in the blood like fluid——Lin Yu was in a state similar to mine , responding to my gaze hastily and confusedly.

"Did you see all of them too?"

The rambling words almost blurted out, Lin Yu was stunned for half a second in the face of my knowingly asked question, and swallowed with difficulty. He glanced away and looked around: the streets by the Star Sea were empty, leaving only the door of the tavern shaking alone.

The chime of the bell hanging on the edge of the door was the only sound in the silence. The evil spirits seemed to return to the sea of ​​stars, retreating peacefully to the far side of the sea.

Apart from Lin Yu and me, there is only (Xia) Qianyan who is half asleep and half awake in the air. The black and white cats are no longer there, and they should have returned to reality according to the original plan—they are more familiar with the Core Research Association than any of us. Without their guidance, it is difficult for criminals to figure out the escape route.

After confirming the situation of the four times, Lin Yu leaned in front of me, put his arms around my arm without saying a word, and the picture followed the flames in his eyes and flashed before my eyes.

——Personnel in white coats walked through the dazzlingly pure white corridor.

Through the polished glass, a medical recliner stands in the center of the room, with thick and smooth silver hair scattered on the indigo recliner, the girl lies quietly surrounded by large machines. The youthful version of me stared at her nervously, and seemed to be talking to her through the microphone.

When the ECG monitor was running, the "tick-tick" sound was like a pendulum swinging. As time went by, the bell sounded closer and closer to my ears.

Consciousness snapped back to reality. Panting sharply, I hurriedly grabbed Lin Yu's shoulders, using external support to drive away the dizziness in my head. The world seems to be spinning, and the heartbeat gradually calms down and returns to stillness. I slowed down my breathing, watched Lin Yu's urgent eyes, and gradually lowered my palm from his shoulder.

"... Indian myths and legends say that all living beings and even the universe are just a dream of Brahma."

"Brahma is...?"

I caught up with Lin Yu's gaze suspiciously, he bent his index finger and tapped his forehead, his eyebrows gradually furrowed unconsciously.

"In Hinduism, Brahma represents the god of creation, the ancestor of all things born at the beginning of creation..."

"You mean, it's very similar to Xia Qianyan's meaning in this world?"

Lin Yu rubbed his chin and turned around, wandering around anxiously, as flustered as he was in his thoughts.

"The reality we live in is just a dream of Xia Qianyan... Now Xia Qianyan is facing the choice of whether to return to "her reality". Whether she wakes up or not, all of us will undoubtedly die..." As if After noticing my changed expression, Lin Yu looked at me again and changed his words, "Or, disappeared into nothingness?"

"No, this statement is even scarier...? Why do you think so?"

"Think about it for yourself. Not long ago, the Creator told us with a relaxed face, "the end of the world will be 3 months away", and then we discovered in her memory that our world is actually higher than our civilization. The machine created by the "outside"... Because of the design of "RESET", our world will be terminated every tens of thousands of years, all traces of us and our existence will be eliminated, and everything will start again."

"I understand all of this..."

Just thinking about the existence of us being able to cut off the power at will to the upper world, there is an indescribable sense of emptiness in my heart, and my whole body is chilled with fear.

"...You think, after this "end of the world", the machine called the world will not restart its reincarnation. Because the "outside" cut off the power supply to this large machine, we who live in the cold machine will go to where?"

"Disappeared? I don't know, but we are like data to machines, right? Even if the power is cut off, the data is still preserved..."

"If the data is not processed, isn't it just a bunch of meaningless codes? I can't imagine now that the moment the machine is powered off, we may stop at a certain second forever, and we don't even realize what's going on with us. When all thoughts cease, isn't that more nothingness than nothingness?"

I was speechless suddenly, even this second might be locked in a still time, and the fear caused inexplicable anxiety.

"Then what if she chooses to wake up? According to "I over there", as long as she is willing to wake up, the machine will continue to operate, right?"

"Ah, there is no doubt that we will completely become the data of the experiment, and be treated as puppets that can be adjusted at will. We live in a cage that is bigger than the imprisonment of the Core Research Association, a laboratory called "World". Of course, there is also a "world" over there. Core Research Society, we still end up with the same name anyway."

——From the perspective of the "outside", our time can be adjusted arbitrarily, and even existence itself can be distorted. Just like the two-dimensional world in our eyes in the three-dimensional world, we can create it with a paintbrush, erase traces with an eraser, and play with the little man running on the paper tape with a Mobius tape.

In the final analysis, what kind of existence does "outsider" mean to us? Are they "people from the four-dimensional world"?

"No matter how you think about it... no matter whether Xia Qianyan chooses the former or the latter, this choice will be a devastating disaster for us, and our world has nowhere to escape—"

"Yeah, there's no escape for anyone."

The sudden sound was like a cold wind blowing across my cheeks, and I immediately shuddered and fell into an unspeakable panic. When I was about to turn around to deal with it, a pair of freezing cold hands pressed against my cheeks, just like the scene when I broke into the cracks of a dream. But the difference is that now I clearly know the identity of the other party.

I swallowed hard, squeezed out the rare courage and decided to negotiate with the other party.

"Hey, Xia Qianyan, you should be on the same front as us, right?"

"..."

No answer, no reaction. Those hands were motionless as if frozen. But the moment Lin Yu rushed up, he kicked him sharply against his chest and flew him a hundred meters away, almost pushing his skin away as if touching his internal organs, and fell to the abandoned thatched hut.

I called out Lin Yu's name almost instinctively, but my neck was fixed in place and I couldn't move. Qianyan's slightly heavier hand seemed to warn me not to resist.

"...You don't want the world you created yourself to be destroyed, do you? Cooperate with us, your creations, and the odds of winning are better than nothing..."

"That has nothing to do with me."

The cold voice interrupted my words unpredictably, and I heard the slight tremor in her voice in a daze, and the fingertips resting on her cheeks attracted a static-like touch.

"I only care about whether you can survive. So please stay here, I don't want to hurt you because of my negligence. Please..."

The girl behind her sobbed softly, and her words gradually became blurred. I suddenly widened my eyes, but I only felt that someone's head was leaning against my back, and the trembling came from time to time accompanied by her suppressed crying, and my heart throbbed like it was being torn apart.

"Qianyan..."

I couldn't help but raise my hand to hold her wrist, almost the moment the skin touched, the force on the cheek immediately weakened to negligible.

No wonder Lin Yu didn't notice her approach beforehand.

Because the person who controls this body is not Xia Qianyan, Xia Qianyan is still sleeping in the world of "one person with thousands of faces".

behind me.

is my dream maker.

"Please...don't go."

Her crying voice choked for a moment, her little hand passed through my arm coldly, pressed against my chest and hugged me tightly. I didn't feel any discomfort due to the moderate intensity. Instead, I felt unreasonably relieved at this moment. Only the heartbeat is accelerating.

"If you stay in this world, I can protect you."

"Why?"

I responded softly to Qianyan's raving. She raised her head, her forehead was pressed against my neck, her hair brushed against her skin but her heart was itching.

"Remember when you called me out before, I was often unhappy."

"...So you know it yourself."

"I didn't mean to kill you. Because I also have things I'm busy with."

It was rare for Qianyan to defend seriously, this tone of expecting me to believe her made her seem a little more genuine and cute at this time.

But recalling it, Qian Yan seemed to come and leave in a hurry every time.

"Then, what are you up to?"

Finally, he uttered the question that had been pent up in his heart for a long time. This time Qianyan is no longer like before, avoiding everything.

"Since I was born, I have been restraining my other self from letting her out. But she often runs out in the form of a spirit body. The annihilation flower in your sister's body is the seed she secretly planted for a while. So I have to keep an eye on her 24/7 to keep her from messing up the world."

"So... I didn't expect you to be the god who protects the order of the world?"

"……if not."

Realizing that she was asking for my opinion, I quickly thought about it and replied plausibly:

"I thought you were the sabotage type."

"Do you want to die?"

The touch of the skin on the neck suddenly disappeared, and the cold gaze came directly from behind.

"Um, I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about that, Xia Qianyan."

"...My name is Xia Qianyan."

"Huh? Huh?" I was confused for a moment, "No, so I'm talking about another Xia Qianyan."

"Who are you talking about?"

"It's that Qianyan who claimed to be the creator some time ago."

"oh……"

Finally came back round.

But I don't know why Qianyan suddenly didn't speak. After a few seconds of silence, she leaned her head against me again.

"If it wasn't for the influence of the domination war, she wouldn't have run out for no reason. This is my negligence, but I have the confidence to surpass her. As long as I keep her locked in my heart from now on, I won't I'll hurt you again. So... please stay."

"But as long as the 'outside' cuts off the power, this place will—"

"I'll find a way. Another thing I'm busy with during this time is to make the gap between the dreams into a world that is isolated from the outside world and not at the mercy of any outside human beings." Qianyan interrupted me coldly, adding some strength to her hands He hugged me tightly, "It's only one step away. It doesn't matter if you have to humble yourself to people from the 'outside'. I'll do it."

My heart seemed to be hit by a bullet, and Qianyan's trembling hands on my chest made me breathless. I never thought that Qianyan, who is always condescending, would come up with such a compromise plan with the outside world. This is harder to accept than disappearing into nothingness. I have never felt so powerless.

"So... what's the point?"

Qianyan's shoulders trembled slightly, I pulled her arm away against her shaking, and turned around despite her previous objections, she hurriedly pulled up her hood to cover her eyes, but her eyes were still red from crying. It was all there before my eyes. It's just that even if I can't bear it anymore, I can't just sit idly by her decision.

"Even if you humble yourself to the 'outsiders', the world will still end in three months. The beings and everything you created will return to zero again, and this time you won't have the chance to start over. It's just me and you in the end What's the point of surviving?"

"...No, I didn't compromise with them. They won't give up their decades of achievements easily, so I just need to instigate them to leave a machine that can continue to operate, which can support this small world. I have let They're talking about it."

Qianyan defended in a low voice, but her eyes that were a little dodged were fixed on me. The tone seemed to be begging, without the previous arrogance. The strength in my body seemed to be lost bit by bit because of this, and the sense of powerlessness spread throughout my body.

"Tch...then you might as well wake up from your dream!" I clenched my right hand, as if I wanted to smash some invisible shackles, and finally slapped myself hard on the chest. I stared into her tear-wet eyes, "At least there is a vast world waiting for you—"

"But you can't go there, and I can't give up 157.68 million years."

"There is another me over there, you can go find him."

"That's why I said that it is impossible for me to give up my world to others! Isn't it giving up the you here if I go to find you over there?"

Qianyan suddenly bent her knees and hit my abdomen, I was caught off guard and bent down along with her force. She grabbed my collar tightly to prevent me from standing up straight, to make up for the gap caused by my height. The hood fell precariously to her shoulders, tiny flakes of light shone on her hair, and the soft silver hair slanted down to her legs.

"Hey. Su Luoyang, I am the creator of this world, and you are my most proud creation."

The moment the hair fell down, the end of the hair was knotted by a clock-shaped hair tie, and the pointer loomed around the end of her erect hair.

"It doesn't matter if only the two of us are the only survivors... We can create a new world here. Although it is much smaller than before, this time we can break through the curse of reincarnation and go to a more distant future. I... ...I will not stand still, I will do my best to be the dream maker in your mind."

"Varied……!?"

I couldn't restrain the panic in my heart, my heartbeat jumped around in disbelief, and ran to the eardrum to beat as much as I could.

dream Maker.

For the Dominator, the image closest to the ideal object of love.

Doing my best to become the dreamer in my mind, doesn't it mean to really want to be the person I like?

lovers.

Looking at Qian Yan's lowered eyebrows and lowered eyes, tightly clutching the hem of her clothes, I couldn't hold back the throbbing in my heart for a moment, and my whole body became hot. There was a red cloud on her cheeks, and she raised her face and mustered up the courage to meet my gaze.

"So... please stay here."

Like the apples of Eden. Those frozen eyes were so hot at the moment, the clock on the tail of the hair was spinning.

But what I choose next determines not only myself, but also the fate of the world. It's like holding a remote control with major differences in the world, with your fingertips walking between the A and B keys.

No matter how to choose, how to choose. The world seemed to not know what to do, and suddenly thought that everyone living in this world actually has the right to choose. As a result, it simply gave it a go, randomly locked the target among the world, and threw the remote control to the world. he.

Young man, you see that life is so shoddy and reality is so unattainable. Might as well be as simple as a game, use the A and B keys to decide the future of the world.

—I heard Fate whispering in my ear thus. Destiny is not an all-knowing and omnipotent god, nor a giant baby with infinite power, but an old man who regards everything as insignificant.

But no matter how insignificant my choice may be to the gods, I cannot make a decision lightly.

Because as the ruler, I know the meaning of the three words "dream maker" better than anyone else, so I know the meaning of Qianyan giving me the decision-making power better than anyone else.

Fate is whispering, the world is waiting. And Xia Qianyan was looking forward to it.

It turned out that the invisible gods and the gods standing in front of me existed together, conflicting and coexisting like a spear and a shield.

No one is better than the other, no one belongs to whom. They just made the same decision with different considerations, putting major branches on the A and B keys under my fingertips.

I only have one chance. This time the world will not reincarnate, and fate will no longer lock the future. Therefore, I only have one last chance, and even if I regret it, I can't wait until the next "RESET".

With the remote control of the future, press your final decision.

The answer that will determine the future is about to be spoken, at such a moment——

"...Su Luoyang, no one should be responsible for deciding the fate of the world, and neither should you."

——Lin Yu's calm but unignorable voice was like a basin of ice water pouring down from the top of my head.

Someone stopped the fingertips that pressed the buttons, and suddenly shattered my fantasy of choosing one.

I returned to reality in a daze, and wanted to turn around to trace the source of the sound, but my body was still tightly held by Qianyan and I couldn't move, so I had to turn my eyes to look beside me.

At this moment, I stared at it in disbelief, and the two people not far away supported each other and approached us. The light from the red sky slipped in through the gap between their shoulders, making their hair golden.

"Lin Yu... and the tea cat?"

The girl who heard someone say her name put her cat ears back together, her eyes still fell on me lazily, and she only smiled halfway as a greeting after a long absence.

"Human, you have no right to interfere with our affairs."

Qianyan let go of my collar and glanced sideways at this nosy young man. The blush on her cheeks disappeared without a trace, only a pair of icy pupils stared at the other party, exuding a blatant killing intent.

"Well... I really shouldn't get involved in your affairs. I should thank you for throwing me out of town and attracting my little stray cat to meet me."

The tea cat glanced at Lin Yu suspiciously, put away its smile and tilted its head, its pursed mouth turned into a triangle shape.

"I'm not in the mood to deal with you. Since my unintentional actions allow you to reunite with your lover as you wish, can you not hinder us in return?"

"Ah, of course. But the future of the world is not up to the two of you. Letting a young man bear such a heavy choice alone... is not only unfair to the unknowing world, but also unfair to the young man himself. Since it is with everyone I don’t think anyone will sit idly by when they see things that are personally relevant to them—”

Before Lin Yu could finish speaking, Qian Yan's figure flashed in front of Lin Yu almost instantly. Standing beside her, I didn't have time to catch her movement, she had already swung her fist hard at Lin Yu's chest. I hurriedly called out Qianyan's name to stop her, but the blow was barely blocked by the tea cat next to me with a side elbow.

The two of them stood in a stalemate for a moment, and Qianyan's cold gaze swept towards the lazy tea cat with disdain.

"I recognize your aptitude, but I don't like to beat the same opponent twice."

"Hey... What if the last battle wasn't over? I didn't fall down, and I didn't say I surrendered."

While speaking, the laziness in Tea Mao's eyes disappeared and turned into a fighting intent, and suddenly with a burst of force, it knocked away Qianyan's one-inch fist and pushed her away two steps.

"Tea cat..."

Lin Yu showed a somewhat disturbed expression, but he didn't say anything in front of Qian Yan. But the tea cat just showed a signature smile, signaling Lin Yu not to worry, then turned around and returned to the cold color in his eyes, and took a step forward to put on a fighting stance.

Despite this, the scars left by the knife wound on her clothes are visible to the naked eye, and the exposed skin is even more scarred. The blood stains are particularly bright against the contrast of her skin tone.

"Bluffing is useless to me." Qianyan coldly looked away from the tea cat, and clenched her right hand into a fist again, "I'll give you one last chance. If you don't want to die, take your long-lost lover away."

But for some reason, the tea cat turned its gaze to me, and dropped the unspeakable words in a few words.

"The 14th Domination War. The victory is divided. The reward for victory. The truth and reality. Free will."

After all -

Tea Mao pulled out the long sword from her side out of thin air, and used the blade of the sword in front of her hand. Qian Yan let out a sigh of displeasure, and her figure approached the tea cat like an arrow flying off the string, and flew up a leg to slam the tea cat's side, but collided with the sword she swung.

The two stepped on the mid-air as pedals and jumped up to a high place. The speed was as fast as a shooting star and they kept going upwards. They disappeared in just a few seconds.

Compared with us, it is a completely two-level battle.

It is impossible to stop Qianyan, and it is even more impossible to get involved in the battle between them. I clutched my hair anxiously, trying to use the pain of pulling to clear my mind.

I could only start with the words that the tea cat seemed to suggest. The moment I thought of this, I met Lin Yu's eyes and suddenly understood what the other party meant.

"Looks like we're thinking the same thing."

"Stop talking nonsense. Since the tea cat doesn't choose to speak out, it means that she doesn't want to be heard by "people who shouldn't know certain things"."

Lin Yu analyzed impatiently. After all, the person who is fighting Qianyan now is the tea cat, and among them, Qianyan will obviously win.

Besides, Qianyan doesn't seem to plan to save the life of the tea cat, so we have to find the answer before they win or lose.

"Of course there is no need to hide from you and me, the only candidate is Qianyan."

"The question is whether the tea cat is wary of Qianyan, the "dream maker", or Xia Qianyan, who is asleep now, but is likely to retrieve this part of memory through memory sharing afterwards?"

The direction of Lin Yu's speculation made me think of another answer. I met his gaze and expressed my thoughts while suppressing the chill behind my back.

"In other words, they are 'outsiders' who observe this world but cannot control it at this stage."

After finishing speaking, Lin Yu and I were silent for half a second, but the intense voice in our ears did not allow us any time to hesitate, so we had to temporarily put this question aside.

"Let's get down to business! The outcome of the 14th Domination War has been decided, and the winner should be rewarded for victory...or the reward for victory has been realized. The first three words are nothing more than that."

"The key lies in the meaning of 'reconciliation of reality' and 'free will'." I rubbed my chin back and forth, and said in a daze, "and who is the winner?"

Again the air fell into a hot, uneasy silence, but this time both were silent considering the answer to the question.

The sound of fierce collision of swords seems to be like a ticking pointer at this time, reminding us of the time that is still flowing when we think.

So in this world that seems to be in slow motion——

"...The winner of this battle is you, Su Luoyang."

—— Lin Yu suddenly broke the silence between us, and stared at mine with complicated eyes.

"Why do you say that?"

"First of all, at the end of the play we performed in front of Xia Qianyan, your dominance ability was even better. In other words, you slightly overwhelmed me and survived the last second. Secondly, when Tea Mao said these words, it was She said it in your eyes. As an observer, she should be able to find out who the winner of the war is through some means.”

"Why didn't she just tell you directly?"

"...After I was beaten down by your dream maker, I passed out. When I woke up, I saw the tea cat guarding the side, but she pulled me up before I had time to catch up with her."

It's a reminiscence, but I think Lin Yu's idea is something like "the kiss of reunion".

"What are you mumbling about...?"

"It's okay. Let's get back to business... Since I am the winner, are the 'consistency of reality' and 'free will' hints at the rewards for victory?"

Lin Yu couldn't help frowning, biting his thumbnail, his anxious thoughts were self-evident in his eyes. I also lowered my eyes, and my eyes fell on my palm, the focus was blurred by the sound of bones colliding with each other, and I suddenly thought of the battle situation where the black cat was unilaterally overwhelmed by Su Huilin, and my own speculation shortly after that suddenly sounded in my ears— —

[Gods who can manipulate the gap between reality and dreams cannot manipulate personal dreams at will. This is the only hope I have now. 】

The Creator has no control over my dreams.

In an instant, I linked this conjecture with "free will", so my thoughts followed this unfounded conjecture and went back to the past that was a long time ago.

[The body that resists the gods is to regain the dominance of my dreams. Because my dreams may be the only weapon that can work against her. Therefore, what I have to do now is still to drive away those dream stealers. 】

[The only taboo of the Creator is that he cannot interfere with the "spiritual world" of human beings, just like Charte cannot control the will of the residents in his dream, and the children of the Violet City in my dream have free will, analogous to that , the Creator has no power to change our will. 】

I suddenly raised my eyes to look at Qianyan, who was moving at high speed like a shooting star in the sky, and the words of the Creator almost reached my ears through time not long ago.

[Can't you understand? If you go too far beyond my control—for example, shutting me out of your dreams, then you are undoubtedly a rebellious child who needs to be corrected, and you should not treat me for you There is no resistance to arranged fate. 】

is that so? Is that so?

【We can still walk, we can reach out the window to touch the distant sea, and we can jump off this train. 】

——The answer to the original question has already been found by my past self. I quickly looked at Lin Yu who was beside me, but unexpectedly his gaze was also looking back at me.

We stared at each other for a moment, and then with our mutual acquiescence, I gave my answer first.

"The so-called "free will" is a will that no one can control, such as our dreams."

"I understand...that's the way we fought against the Creator before, using the black mist of the black cat to create a space that she can't control."

"Yes." I hurriedly nodded and agreed, "The madman of the dream, or the past rulers told us that after winning the domination war, we will have the power to "dominate reality", but this is not what the Creator himself meant."

Not long ago she said—

All the rules that govern the war are of our own making, so I have reason to suspect that the rewards for winning are also determined by the participants' own wishes.

"Simply speaking, the real outcome of dominating a war is actually 'free will'."