"What the... In the end, only her personality has returned to its former state, but her memories haven't fully recovered."
After returning to the base and running a series of checks on Penglaiji Ryn, Yiselian sighed helplessly.
Her memories hadn't returned, but her eighth-grade syndrome... it would have been better if this chuuni personality hadn't come back!
"It's not just that... I always feel like my body doesn't quite belong to me. I have no real sense of my own state... Everything is so blurry and indistinct, as if I shouldn't exist in this world at all..."
Penglaiji Ryn flexed her wrists and said to everyone with a smile:
"But I don't hate the current me, nor do I hate this place. Although it's a desolate and shattered world, everything here seems to be calling out to me, waiting for me to save it."
"You truly are an incredible person. A Savior... perhaps that's really what you are," Bronya remarked with a light sigh, then turned to look at Ryn, who had been deep in thought the entire way.
"Ryn? Is something wrong? You've seemed preoccupied with something this whole time."
"Hmm... how should I put it?"
Ryn thought for a moment, organized his words, and then said to Bronya and Penglaiji Ryn:
"Everyone should understand by now that the people of this world are not living beings in the conventional sense.
Kiana's Stigmata memories provided the 'soul templates' for the beings of this world, Sirin's Herrscher Core provided the space and energy, and Penglaiji Ryn's Stigmata brought it all together, using herself as a vessel to create this incomplete world.
When Kiana and Sirin said the outcome couldn't be changed, they meant that this world would eventually head towards destruction... But what if we reverse that outcome, rewrite this fate of certain doom..."
Bronya looked at Ryn excitedly and asked with agitation, "Ryn, are you saying?"
"Yes... The reason this world is destined for ruin is because it's merely a Stigmata Space that reflects Penglaiji Ryn's life state. If we were to make it independent from Penglaiji Ryn's body, what would the outcome be then?"
"It's theoretically feasible... But Ryn, do you have a specific method, or a theoretical framework?"
Yiselian asked, simultaneously activating her link with Femirins, preparing to input Ryn's proposed plan into a data model for Femirins to verify its feasibility.
Ryn spread his hands and shook his head regretfully.
"I have some ideas, but there are too many prerequisites that can't be met. However, Yiselian, since you entered this place by having Femirins analyze Penglaiji Ryn's Stigmata Space... can you have Femirins first sever this Stigmata world from Penglaiji Ryn's Stigmata Space, separating it into an independent space?"
"That's a bit difficult. We know too little about the Stigmata that have been passed down through bloodlines since ancient times. Severing a Stigmata Space... the unpredictability is too high. But I'll have Femirins give it a try..."
"If you succeed, be sure to notify me immediately."
"Understood."
After bidding farewell to Yiselian and the others, Ryn went to an empty place by himself.
Ryn planted the Star Sword into the ground, channeling the Honkai energy from his body into the earth through the sword.
Wherever the Honkai energy spread, the aura of that place changed in an instant, its very existence rewritten by Ryn.
But soon, the area covered by Ryn's Honkai energy was swallowed and assimilated by the uncovered area, reverting to its original state. Just like that time on the deck of the Hyperion, he had failed...
"Tsk... It's still a bit too difficult on my own."
"What are you doing?"
Sin Mal's figure appeared not far from Ryn, her Eyes of Sin watching him with great interest.
"I just saw the very form of existence of the ground you covered with Honkai energy change!"
"Yeah, I'm trying to use my power to rewrite this area into a truly existing world... but as you can see, I failed."
"Tsk, you've really got too much time on your hands..."
Sin Mal grumbled under her breath, then sat down on a nearby bench, boredly tossing a pebble she had picked up from the ground.
"By the way, why are you here? Why did you suddenly disappear after we finished fighting Sirin?"
"Do I need to explain my whereabouts to you?"
"Tsk... You're hiding from Bronya, aren't you?"
"None of your business!" Exposed in a single sentence by Ryn, an enraged Sin Mal shouted angrily. "Don't you dare tell anyone!"
"Alright, alright, you're the loud one, you call the shots."
Ryn covered his ears and distanced himself from Sin Mal. If this girl got angry and decided to get physical, Ryn wanted to be far enough away to avoid getting blood on him.
It seemed that Sin Mal still held some resentment towards Bronya for killing her. Sin Mal liked Bronya and Seele, but now she probably only likes Seele, right?
"Oh right, I just noticed... Sin Mal, did you go and strip someone's clothes again?! Before, you were an exhibitionist with just a few strips of cloth, and now you're all bundled up. What are you trying to do?!"
Hearing Ryn's question, Sin Mal shot him a disgusted glare, crossed her arms, and ran to a distance to yell at him.
"Don't you know what kind of image you have in my eyes? Slaanesh, Greed, Sloth, a mind full of lewd thoughts, a wriggling maggot! What if you have indecent designs on me!! I may be a psycho, but I'm not an idiot. If you were to force yourself on me, I wouldn't be able to resist!"
"Damn it, it must be the author's lewd mind influencing me. Besides, you ugly thing, you can look down on yourself, but don't you dare underestimate my kinks! Wait a minute... your body?"
Ryn's tone suddenly became serious. He flashed to Sin Mal's side and pulled her collar aside slightly.
When Sin Mal had been flailing her arms in anger just now, Ryn had noticed deep Honkai energy erosion marks on her neck, hidden by her clothes.
Flipping open her collar, it was just as he thought... Underneath the layers of clothing, Sin Mal's body was already covered in the marks of Honkai erosion.
"Get away!"
Upon realizing that Ryn had discovered the Honkai marks on her body, the clock in Sin Mal's eye began to turn, instantly stopping time.
Just as Sin Mal was about to escape, she found that Ryn was completely unaffected by the time stop. Instead, he was looking at her with an excited expression.
"Time stop... Time stop! That's right, there's still time stop!" Ryn suddenly thought of a way to rewrite this world.
If he could stop time, and then continuously accumulate the power of his Virtual-to-Real Conversion during the time stop, and finally unleash it the moment the time stop ends. It would be enough to overwhelm the speed at which the world devours the conversion energy, successfully rewriting the world into a real one.
"Ahem... Sin Mal, I need your help with something big! I might have to drain you dry."
Ryn rubbed his hands together, looking at Sin Mal with eager eyes. His own ability was just a time slow, not a true time stop, but Sin Mal's was a genuine time stop!
Sin Mal instantly felt a chill run down her spine. The usually insane her was now a little flustered.
Ryn's gaze at that moment was a bit terrifying, like a big bad wolf that had found a tender little white rabbit... And when she thought about his image in her Eyes of Sin...
What should I do? Is this person, who is practically the embodiment of the Seven Deadly Sins, going to make a move on me? I can't beat him, and I can't resist!
Sin Mal clenched her fists, the clock-hand dagger in her hand was almost bent out of shape from her grip. Finally, Sin Mal closed her eyes, spread her arms, and assumed a posture of 'do as you please'.
"For Seele's sake, I absolutely cannot die here! Come on! I will remember this humiliation, and one day, I will definitely kill you!"
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Ryn's joyful expression instantly became one of utter clarity. He looked at Sin Mal as if she were an idiot.
"You moron, did you misunderstand something? Although I'm not a good person from the perspective of your Eyes of Sin, it's not that outrageous, is it?!"