[No.104]
[Black Swan]
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[Black Swan, a Memokeeper of the Garden of Recollection, one of the young lady's harem wives.]
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By this point, everyone's mental state was feeling a bit off.
But honestly!
After watching for so long, everyone had become somewhat immune to beautiful women.
Watching the compilation of character illustrations one after another, many viewers felt numb, their emotions flatlined, their hearts eerily calm.
All that shouting and carrying on?
No.
I'm way past being easily amazed.
It's a simple logic.
If a person marries just one, that's dedication.
If they marry two, that's playing both sides.
But if it's several, a dozen, or even tens, hundreds… well, that can't just be called being fickle anymore. Chaining ships together with iron cables—now that's some real skill right there.
Nothing to be jealous of; you just can't compete!
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[No.105]
[Sparkle]
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[Sparkle, a Masked Fool, one of the young lady's harem wives.]
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[No.106]
[Acheron]
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[Acheron, real name Raiden Bosenmori Mei, Guardian of the River of Forgetfulness, a follower of the Path of Nihility, one of the young lady's harem wives.]
"Another Mei." Kevin was already completely unfazed.
Sure enough! The young lady really likes his wife's face. He absolutely couldn't let her have her way!
Mei looked at Acheron…
She remembered seeing the titles in the side story earlier: Stelle was the Stellaron, the Aeon of Resolution, and Acheron, aka Raiden Mei, Guardian of the River of Forgetfulness, was the Aeon of Nihility.
But according to this introduction, Acheron initially wasn't an Aeon at all, and the Path of Nihility already existed, meaning there must have been an Aeon of Nihility already.
"Could it be… she replaced them?"
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[No.107]
[Robin]
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[Robin, a Harmonious Chorus Singer, the universe's number one songstress, one of the young lady's harem wives.]
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[No.108]
[Topaz]
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[Topaz, a member of the Interastral Peace Corporation, one of the Ten Stonehearts, the young lady's harem wife.]
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[No.109]
[Jade]
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[Jade, a member of the Interastral Peace Corporation, one of the Ten Stonehearts, the young lady's harem wife.]
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You could see it!
This second part of the side story was a full twice as long and packed with twice the content compared to the first part.
Not only did more beauties appear in this second part, but V-tuber Yuzu also introduced a lot more information than she did in the first part.
Thanks to this.
The entire main world's understanding of the next few worlds had been greatly refined.
Gotta to hand it to her.
Young lady Kiana's approach to building her harem was truly the 'cast a wide net' style.
Basically, just from the identities, statuses, and affiliated factions of her various wives, you could get a clear picture of the general layout and state of each respective world.
Even though many details were still unclear.
The overall impression was indeed becoming more and more complete.
This was good!
The compilation was indeed just about finished.
Miss Yuzu, still in her super-deformed, two-heads-tall, utterly moe form, reclaimed the entire screen from the bottom right corner and was already delivering her closing remarks.
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[Originally~]
[I, Yuzu, was thinking of making my next series a compilation about the young lady's various daughters.]
[They're all so adorable, whether it's Klee, Qiqi, Nahida... or Luna, Lilith, and so on and so forth...]
[But that probably wouldn't be good, right?]
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"Don't say that! There's nothing wrong with it, is there?!"
"We want to see!"
Many people were practically howling in protest.
But, same as always, the girl on the screen continued talking as if to herself, completely ignoring them.
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[After all, unlike most of the young lady's wives, who are widely known and celebrated figures, her children haven't been exposed to the public eye. They're all growing up in ordinary, normal lives.]
[If they were exposed, it would affect their lives, wouldn't it? Cause them trouble, right?]
[I'm just a video creator, and I won't do anything that lacks virtue!]
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Many people nodded slightly in agreement.
Those who had been clamoring moments before fell silent, a quiet pensiveness settling over them.
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[In any case!]
[My plan for the next series is this:]
[To do a detailed compilation of several important historical events from different worlds, or famous individuals.]
[I feel it'll be somewhat similar to the previous series compiling the young lady's wives from the Previous Era, right?]
[But this time, it'll lean more towards a casual chat style.]
[Please look forward to it!]
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Many viewers didn't quite understand what she meant.
But some, quicker on the uptake, quickly caught on.
That previous series, the one compiling Elysia, Mobius, and the others—the so-called wives of the young lady from the old calendar era.
Even though the content often felt like it went off on tangents.
And the amount of information varied in each episode.
The videos were still primarily historically popular science.
But if the main focus was casual chat, you'd really have to question how accurate it would be. It might even get pretty wild.
After all, anyone who's studied journalism knows, without a hook, who the hell would watch it?
The most compelling evidence was that Miss Yuzu had just offhandedly mentioned that those ancient texts, antiques, historical footage, or similar evidential materials wouldn't be shown in the future.
Since you guys don't watch them anyway.
"Don't!"
"Who said we don't watch them?!"
"..."
A lot of that information was very useful.
Even if it was just from unofficial histories.
Well, there goes that.
Truth mixed with fiction, fiction masquerading as truth.
From now on, we'd all have to rely on our own judgment.
And besides, apart from waiting for events to actually happen in the future to verify things, it seemed no one could really say for sure what was true or false.
Heck, even if you wanted to wait for the future to confirm something, you might not be able to, because the sky-screen exposures showed the original timeline.
But now?
Things had already veered way off course.
Not that this was a bad thing.
The current worldlines were all better than the original timeline.
Who wouldn't be happy about that?
But then again.
First, young lady Kiana had been exposed much earlier than in the original timeline.
Originally, it wasn't until the later stages that the young lady's identity as the Herrscher of Finality was revealed.
Now? It was way too early.
And originally, the young lady developed her power quietly on her own.
Now? Everyone had put her on a pedestal. Wasn't this the ultimate head start?
Humanity always liked to go all-in.
So let's gamble!
If the young lady can retain her sanity at the moment of the Finality, we win!
If she can't? We're done for!
But we can still look forward to the future exposures.
Even if the future is different now, everyone hopes that on this point, it will surely be the same, that she will definitely succeed!
That's the current mindset of the whole world!
Secondly.
Just a few days after that compilation ended.
Space agencies around the world finally started relaying some exciting news.
"We've found Jyahnar!"
"A Honkai beast that huge, waking up in the Alpha Centauri Star System—it's definitely that planetary-level Honkai beast!"
"Fish! Such a big fish!"
See?
This was another major change.
After all, in the original worldline, the Sky Screen videos had stated that Jyahnar appeared in the later part of the Previous Era, and only during the Current Era did she become involved with the young lady.
The timing was so much earlier now!
We're set!
Don't ask me what we're set for.
We're just set, and that's enough!
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