I want to just drift through life in Type-Moon.

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Hearing the other person call her name, Aozaki Touko was a little taken aback. She was certain that she didn't know the person in front of her. However, before she could ask, the other person looked away and said responsibly, "Sorry, I mistook you for someone else."

After saying that, Yue Zhengling lay down again and closed his eyes. "Please close the door and pretend you never found me. I'm playing a very important game of hide-and-seek with someone else."

After a pause, he added, "Please cover up any traces when you leave. I don't want that guy to notice anything amiss."

"Wait! You know me?" Aozaki Touko dropped her cigarette and quickly asked.

"Miss Orange, who are you talking to?" Gray looked at Orange, a sudden fear gripping her. As a magician, she was terrified of ghosts and the like.

Just now, watching Orange stand there and then talk to the empty cabinet, she wondered if there was something she was most afraid of there.

"Can't you see this person?" Orange turned slightly to the side and asked Grey, pointing at Yue Zhengling.

Grey shuddered and retreated to the vicinity of the exit, shaking her head violently. This action caused her hood to slip down, revealing her pale face.

Upon hearing Chengzi's words, Le Zhengling opened his eyes again. He was curious about Chengzi's companion, whom he hadn't seen before because Chengzi had blocked his view, but now he could see her clearly.

"Artoria?" Yue Zhengling stared at Gray with wide eyes. Orange turned her attention back to him after hearing his voice.

But before Orange could ask any further questions, Yad yelled, "Who are you! How do you know that name!"

Only then did Yue Zhengling notice the large scythe that the "Artoria" in the distance was holding, and her gray hair.

"Ah, I see. Sorry, I mistook you for someone else again." He then closed his eyes again and reached out to close the cabinet door.

"I don't know what you're here for, but please leave. And remember to clean up any traces of your coming in." A muffled voice came from inside the cabinet.

This time, even Grey heard it. She had already jumped up in fright when Yad asked the question before, and this time, she was so frightened that she ran outside and stuck her head out, trembling as she looked at Orange.

"Grey, didn't you see the person inside?" Orange looked at her companion outside the door with amusement, seemingly surprised that the other was so afraid of ghosts.

Grey shook her head violently.

"Don't worry, it's not a ghost—it's just using some strange magic to hide itself." Orange fiddled with her glasses. "Besides, your Mystic Code also noticed this, and it's already figured it out."

“No, I didn’t see through it. I just heard his words through the resonance of something.” As soon as Orange finished speaking, Yad denied her words.

"Can't you guys find somewhere else to talk? You're disturbing my rest!" The cabinet door was reopened, and Yue Zhengling looked at Chengzi with great dissatisfaction. "I'm at a crucial stage in my life right now, could you please leave?"

Upon hearing this, Chengzi gave Yue Zhengling a friendly smile. "Little sister, we have some questions for you. Also, if it's alright, could you come with us to the Clock Tower?"

Le Zheng looked at Chengzi with a disappointed expression, thinking: "I used to be able to tell, why can't I see it now? Aren't you supposed to get stronger as you grow? What's with your eyesight regressing?"

However, since they've come knocking on his door and their target is him, it's better to be upfront and get rid of them than to waste time on this topic.

Le Zhengling was afraid that Arthur would sense their presence and return here, and if things went wrong, things would fall apart.

"Let me make this clear first: I'm not going anywhere, but if you want to know anything, ask quickly, and then leave immediately, or Arthur might find me."

It was already very hard for Yue Zhengling to maintain the magic. He had anticipated that there would be other unexpected situations in places other than Avalon, but he did not expect that the expected duration of the magic might be shorter than the seven days he had set.

He originally intended to say ten days when the bet was made, but thankfully he reacted in time and changed it to seven days. This was because he had considered that he might not be able to maintain the situation for that long in the external environment, but he did not expect that he might not even last seven days.

"Wait, you mean Arthur? King Arthur?" Yad suddenly shouted.

"It is King Arthur, but not your sister Artoria. It's King Arthur from another world. They share the same past and legends; they are completely identical figures, yet they are not the same person. This Arthur is male! So, you damn siscon, shut up!"

Being discovered by Orange was already making him very unhappy, and now even the personality of the Holy Lance couldn't understand why it heard his voice. Yue Zhengling couldn't help but start to doubt whether his magic had worked at all.

“You know me—” Yad was about to continue asking, but the impatient Yue Zhengling had already spoken first.

"I don't know anything and I don't want to talk to you. Please shut up. I'll only give you three more questions, and it depends on whether I want to answer them or not. So get out of here after you've asked them!"

The atmosphere instantly froze, but Le Zhengling ignored it and looked at Chengzi. "Please ask your questions as soon as possible. I've been thinking, since you've all found this place, I think it would be better if I spent some time and effort to move you to another location."

Orange looked down at Le Zhengling, whose face seemed to say "I'm impatient," and kept thinking about what she should ask him. Her biggest question right now was that this person seemed to know her, but didn't seem to want to explain.

Looking at this strange stranger, Orange, as if possessed, reached out and gently placed her hand on his chest.

"Huh?" This was the questioning sound from Yue Zhengling.

"Huh!" This was Aozaki Touko's surprised exclamation.

The moment Orange pressed her hand against Yue Zhengling's chest, a beam of starlight appeared there, and then the light enveloped the entire room, shining into Grey as well.

The three (or four?) people's gazes shifted in an instant, and then they saw the Earth, from a perspective looking down from space.

This Earth was not the blue planet they knew, but was covered by yellow sand, sealed inside a glass sphere, becoming something no different from a snow globe. A dark figure, whose appearance was indistinct, held this sphere in both hands.

Then the four of them turned their attention back to the original room, where Grey saw Le Zhengling's appearance.

This was the most exquisite existence she had ever seen in her life. In terms of pure beauty, although she could not compare to the Golden Princess and the Silver Princess she had seen, putting aside the fact that this person had not yet grown up, the strange temperament she possessed alone made up for the difference.

The Golden Princess and the Silver Princess are the magical achievements of magicians who pursue "beauty." They can approach the level of magic through "beauty." Aozaki Touko was one of the parties involved in that incident. It was because of the incident recorded by her master as "Twin Towers of Izuru" that she met Aozaki Touko.

Back then, everyone who saw the true face of the Twin Towers Izeluma was captivated by their beauty, and Aozaki Touko was no exception.

When Orange looked at Yue Zhengling again after her vision returned, she was shocked as much as when she saw Huang Jinji.

At that moment, she stared directly at the face of the Golden Princess from a distance of about ten meters without warning. She was so shocked by the "absolute beauty" that she was unable to use any magic above the Open Rank for half a day. Her mind was occupied by the Golden Princess's appearance for half a day, and she was unable to concentrate. Even when she tried to perform a high-difficulty magic trick, she failed.

But now, when Yue Zhengling looked at her with those crimson eyes, her thoughts instantly stopped.

Just then, Orange's vision changed again, this time for only a brief moment. When she came to her senses again, she couldn't help but hug Le Zhengling to her chest.

He was initially stunned when he was hit with a face wash, then struggled to get up. Although it felt great, the sudden happiness made him a little flustered, and he also felt that Orange's behavior was too strange—unsolicited kindness must have ulterior motives!

"Don't move, let me hold you for a while, Lingjun." Orange suddenly whispered in his ear.

These words were like a thunderclap, shattering all of Yue Zhengling's thoughts.

Why! Why! Why! Why!

Why does Aozaki Touko know my name?

Now, with only this problem on his mind, Yue Zhengling gave up struggling, his gaze vacant as if he were a broken doll.

He was reminded of a terrible conjecture, one he had never considered before.

The average person's living radius is about 50 kilometers. Many people have never even tried leaving their province, let alone going abroad. So, if you are currently in the UK, it is about 160,000 kilometers away from Japan, which takes about 11 hours by plane.

He has no way of confirming whether this is the world he was born into, and he doesn't believe it is his own world.

But now, Aozaki Touko suddenly called out his name.

Could it be that she didn't recognize him at the beginning? That makes sense, since they only met briefly back then, and more than thirty years have passed since then, so everything makes sense.

Thinking of this, Yue Zhengling pushed Chengzi away blankly and went to the window under her complicated gaze.

Looking at the post-apocalyptic scenery outside the window, Yue Zhengling hadn't felt anything before because it didn't concern him, but now that he had discovered the truth, the scenery looked different.

For no apparent reason, a crack appeared in his heart, which had been isolated from the world, and a tear slid down his cheek.

Chapter 121 Aozaki Touko's Memory Link

——————The world where Yue Zhengling's body resides——————

Today is the weekend, and Orange, as usual, came to the Kanbushi City General Hospital again. Ever since she received something incredible from a friend who lived in this hospital half a year ago, she would come here whenever she had free time.

Pushing open the familiar hospital room door, Orange placed the white lilies she was holding on the bedside table and took out the wildflowers that hadn't yet withered from the vase.

"Honestly, I've told Qingzi so many times not to just pick some flowers from the roadside and replace them, but she just won't listen." Looking at the bunch of colorful, different-sized, and unidentifiable flowers in her hand, Chengzi hesitated for a moment before throwing them into the trash can.

She added some water to the vase and then placed the white lilies she had bought inside. Orange walked to the window, pulled back the curtains, and opened the window, letting the early summer sunlight and refreshing breeze into the previously slightly chilly room.

After doing all this, Orange moved one of her usual chairs from the wall near the door and quietly placed it next to the hospital bed.

There are five chairs in total. The orange one is hers, the blue one is Aoko's, and the black one is Kuonji Yuzu's.

Orange sat quietly in the chair with her legs crossed, staring intently at the "Sleeping Beauty" on the hospital bed.

Although she had only met him once and exchanged a few words with him, she now harbored complicated feelings for him because of their encounter six months ago.

If someone suddenly wrote down your future life story and let you know it, you'll definitely feel incredibly conflicted about that person.

"Speaking of which, I should thank you." Orange reached out and gently brushed the hair behind Le Zhengling's ear. "If it weren't for what you did, I might have really ended up like that, going down many wrong paths before I could reconcile with Qingzi."

For Orange, even knowing what will happen in the future, her reaction is only "Oh, so this kind of thing can happen."

As an extremely self-centered person, Aozaki Touko is not swayed by things that haven't happened yet, and neither is her silly little sister.

Both sisters have exceptionally strong hearts. Although Aoko seemed to waver for a moment, she quickly returned to her usual carefree self.

But it would be a lie to say that she harbored no resentment. At least, after translating the manuscript left by this person, her first thought was to come here immediately and kill him.

However, when she tried to take action, looking at the person lying in the hospital bed, she suddenly lost all motivation.

She stood in that room for a whole day, filled with hatred, but eventually gave up her desire for revenge. The reason wasn't complicated; she simply felt it was pointless.

If the person you hate doesn't know you hate them, then that hatred loses its meaning. For no reason at all, Orange remembered this sentence from the book he lent her (?).

All her anger vanished, and she became like she is now, able to sit calmly beside him, looking at him with a sense of relief.

The smile on her face, understated yet warm, shimmered with a beautiful and dazzling brilliance like crystal.

Time passed second by second. When Orange woke up from her memories, the sunlight was shining on their faces, and the curtains, swaying in the breeze, were like a mischievous child, gently caressing Orange's back.

Le Zhengling, who was covered tightly by the quilt, already had sweat on his forehead.

"Oh no, no!" Seeing this, Orange immediately stood up, went to the bathroom, fetched a basin of water, wrung out a towel, and began to wipe him down.

Judging from her practiced movements, this wasn't the first or second time she'd done it.

After wiping his face, Chengzi uncovered the blanket and pressed the button on the side of the bed. The upper part of the bed slowly tilted. Once she felt that was enough, Chengzi let go and quickly unbuttoned Yue Zhengling's hospital gown. She then supported his shoulders and began to wipe his body.

As she finished wiping the back and turned to wipe the front, the door was pushed open forcefully, and a panting Aoko stood in front of it, glaring at her fiercely.

"Oh my, isn't this my silly little sister? You got out of school so early today?" Orange continued with what she was doing, completely unfazed, without even glancing at Aoko.

"Sister!" Aoko strode into the room, her voice barely audible as she asked, "What are you doing?"

Judging from the strands of hair stuck to Aoko's face with sweat and her rapidly heaving chest, she had obviously rushed here after school.

"As you can see, we're helping Lingjun cleanse his body," Orange said with an unusually calm expression.

"Aren't these things handled by the special care nurses? Why don't you just press the call button?" Aoko shouted, pointing to the blue button on the wall.

"I'm worried that Lingjun might catch a cold." Orange looked at Qingzi with a mischievous smile. "Besides, why are you so nervous? I'm not going to do anything weird."

Aoko was taken aback by her words. She first glanced quickly at Le Zhengling's bare upper body, then guiltily turned her already red face away.

Seeing this, Orange shook her head with amusement, "Don't worry, I treat him like my own younger brother, so don't get the wrong idea."

"Who's thinking dirty thoughts!" Qingzi's face turned even redder. Finally, she forced herself to sit down next to Chengzi, suppressing her embarrassment, and watched her sister's every move intently.

She looked as if she were facing a formidable enemy, as if she would transform into a righteous hero to save the oppressed if Orange did anything unusual.

Orange had obviously seen through Aoko's naive little thoughts, but she had no intention of exposing them now. The timing wasn't right, and besides, she hadn't planned for a falling out with Aoko before she left the Aozaki family.

It's fine to tease her occasionally, but if you bring up certain things, she's really afraid that, like Yue Zhengling said, she'll break ties with Aoko when she finds out she can't inherit the Aozaki family's magic.

"Sister, when do you think Ling-chan will wake up?" Qingzi asked anxiously, resting her chin on her hands as she looked at Le Zhengling, who was fast asleep with her eyes closed.

Orange paused for a moment, about to answer, but accidentally pressed down on the necklace hanging on Yue Zhengling's chest. Then starlight filled the hospital gown, but it came and went quickly. When the starlight disappeared, Qingzi thought that it was just an illusion.

But when she looked at the orange that was still there, she knew that what she had just seen was definitely not an illusion.

"Sister, what just happened?"

Chengzi didn't answer, but instead moved her hand away, looking at the pendant hanging on Yue Zhengling's chest with a complicated expression.

This thing was originally in the bedside table drawer, but someone put it back on for Yue Zhengling, and once it was on, it could never be taken off.

For safety reasons, Orange had also examined the item, but she concluded that it was just an ordinary ornament. However, she wasn't stupid; the clasp couldn't be unlocked, and the chain couldn't be cut with scissors. How could it be an ordinary item?

But because they had no other choice, Orange and Pearl let the thing hang on Yue Zhengling's body. As a result, they never expected that this ordinary-looking ring, which seemed to have nothing special about it, would have such an ability.

Just now, when she touched this circle, her gaze switched with that of another version of herself.

She saw Yue Zhengling hidden in the wardrobe, and in that brief moment, she also synchronized part of her memories with her own in that world, learning that Yue Zhengling in another world was a soul.

At that moment, as clever as she was, she guessed why he, with such a healthy body, had not woken up—because his soul was not here at all.

"It seems the plan needs to be moved up," Orange said, looking at the circle with a worried expression.

Aoko looked at her sister in surprise, not understanding what she was trying to say.

"What do you mean by 'early'?"

Orange snapped out of her daze, turned to look at Aoko, and shook her head slightly.

She put down the towel, helped Yue Zhengling get dressed, emptied the water from the basin, washed her hands, and then stood by the window.

"Sister!" Qingzi walked up to her and called out angrily, clearly still bothered by what had just happened.

Orange sighed softly and pulled Qingzi into her arms. "Qingzi, I originally wanted to stay a year after Grandpa stripped me of my inheritance rights, and then teach you some things carefully before leaving. It seems that won't work. I'm going directly to London."