“She doesn’t live with me in this time and space.”

Jasmine replied.

“I haven’t seen her for two years.”

The “two years” she mentioned here undoubtedly refers to her original experience in this time and space.

In other words… in the original world’s trajectory, Jasmine and Takashima Yuna never had any contact with each other again after that night?

They had such a good relationship before, and the girl also had a special identity as “Takashima Yuna’s shrine maiden”

If you think about it carefully, Jasmine’s personality doesn’t seem like someone who would take the initiative to get in touch with these things.

If I weren’t here, she would probably have followed her original path and never had much interaction with heroes and gods in her life, right?

Xia Zhi thought to himself and fell into deep thought.

Is my arrival a good thing or a bad thing for her?

“It’s late, Master Xiazhi, please go to bed… I’ve already made the bed.”

The girl’s words brought Xia Zhi back to his senses and he was stunned for a moment.

At first he was a little worried that he might not have a bed to sleep in after his sudden arrival, and he might have to borrow a set of bedding from the girl. Unexpectedly, the bed had already been made.

Xia Zhi couldn’t help but recall that the girl’s surprise when she saw him before was not fake… She couldn’t have expected that he would come back today.

In other words, has she actually been preparing to welcome his return?

Coming to the familiar room that belonged to him, Xia Zhi looked at the furnishings inside, which were exactly the same as in his memory. After thinking for a while, he looked at the girl and asked

“In this time and space, did you originally live here?”

“…”

Jasmine didn’t answer, but involuntarily turned her eyes away, with a faint blush on her cheeks.

That’s it…

Xia Zhi felt that he had already got the answer.

Seeing that he did not ask any further questions, Jasmine breathed a sigh of relief and quietly loosened her hands that were clutching the hem of her skirt.

After saying hello to the boy, she prepared to go back to her room to rest.

“Master Xiazhi…”

Before leaving, she turned around and looked at Xia Zhi in the room. After taking a deep breath, she smiled and said:

“……Welcome back.”

…….

Chapter 1045: Ms. Hyuga’s appearance is always unexpected

The next morning, Xia Zhi got up very early on purpose.

When he walked out of the room, he saw that Miss Miko had gotten up early and was preparing breakfast in the kitchen.

Being a student is hard work.

Xia Zhi sighed in his heart, his eyes fell on the girl’s school uniform, which was different from his previous impression, and he tilted his head slightly.

“…You transferred to another school?”

Jasmine glanced at him and replied, “I’m going to high school.”

Xia Zhi then realized that two years had passed and the girl who was about the same age as Xia Zhi had already gone to school.

In other words, she is now in the same grade as me?

Summer solstice brings interest immediately

“Do you need my help with your homework?”

A look of doubt appeared in the girl’s eyes. Although she didn’t say anything, the expression on her face revealed her thoughts.

What? I have a lot of experience in this area. Xia Zhi has asked me for guidance many times before!

Xia Zhi thought angrily.

…Although I’m not very clear about the final tutoring effect.

Speaking of which, Xia Zhi recalled that he seemed to have not cared about Xia Zhi’s studies for a long time.

Jasmine didn’t have time for tutoring so early in the morning, so after sitting down to have breakfast with Xia Zhi, she said hello and prepared to go out for school.

“It’s cold outside, remember to bring your coat.”

“Got it~”

The girl paused for a moment, walked to the clothes rack nearby, and took her coat.

You finally forgot it, didn’t you?

Xia Zhi held the steaming hot milk in his hand, watched the girl’s back as she disappeared behind the door, and thought to himself.

“Mr. Xia Zhi, you are like a father.”

Tokisaki Kurumi exclaimed.

“At least call him brother, right?”

Xia Zhi complained that he didn’t want to have another daughter

“Ah, I know. It’s because the eldest brother is like a father, right?”

…It’s not that, it’s just that I often remind Xia Zhi like this.

Moreover, if we talk about “daughter”… in this attribute, Kurumi is actually closer to Jasmine?

My thoughts on the summer solstice start to run wild as usual.

“…”

“what happened?”

Seeing that the young man suddenly became distracted for no apparent reason, Tokisaki Kurumi asked in confusion.

“fine.”

Shaking his head and putting these messy thoughts aside, Xia Zhi left home after having a simple breakfast.

However, he did not choose to go directly to Xixian, but first came to a special place that he had not been to for a long time.

At the edge of the world, standing on the towering wall surrounding the four countries, the sea breeze blowing in my face has a slight fishy smell, and the sun shines on my body.

If you don’t know it in advance, it would be hard for a normal person to believe that all this is fake, right?

Looking at the blue sky and sea that were replaced by an illusory scene, Xia Zhi took a deep breath and tried to reach out to the barrier in front of him…

……

“how do you feel?”

After returning from outside the barrier, the voice of Tokisaki Kurumi reconnected in her mind.

“Just as I thought.”

Xia Zhi breathed a sigh of relief and replied.

He came here to verify an idea.

In the real universe, whether it is the conformal cyclic cosmology based on the conformal symmetry hypothesis, the Poincare regression based on probability, or the latest theory of cosmic inflation, they all imply that there is some form of cycle in the universe in time.

The cycle here is not “reincarnation”, but an overlap of the starting point and the end point to some extent… or closure.

But the world today is different.

In the world three hundred years later, Xia Zhi had been outside the barrier before.

But the sacred tree at that time merely formed a barrier, cutting off the two ends of time and space, and could be completely stripped off and hidden at any time. In essence, it did not completely deviate from the original timeline.

Just like a piece of cut rope, it still remains in its original position, and it seems as if it still maintains some form of connection, which is why it was still harassed by the gods outside the barrier.

Today, this completely separated space and time has become an existence similar to an independent world, with a clear end in time.

Time and space are originally one. Since time is not closed, theoretically speaking, space is naturally not closed either.

This is a definite world that is finite and bounded in space and time.

Then it is obvious that the “end point” of this space is the boundary of the four-dimensional barrier unfolded by the sacred tree.

In other words, this is the edge of the world, which has the same properties as the edge of the universe to some extent.

With the help of this special miniature world model, people can easily study the deep theories of the universe. If a scientist who has done research in this area could come here, he would probably be very happy, right?

But unfortunately, Xia Zhi was not very interested in research in this area.

Then another question arises, what is outside the world?

Recalling the scene he had just “seen” outside the world, Xia Zhi couldn’t help but think of the “true” vacuum when he created his own universe before filling the infinite energy box as the initial energy.

Space and time rely on the existence of matter. The realm without space and time is essentially equivalent to a “true” vacuum with nothing in it in terms of physics.

“You are worthy of being God, as you can enter and exit such an area freely.” Tokisaki Kurumi exclaimed.

“It’s okay to praise me a few more times.”

Xia Zhi replied, but in his heart he was also somewhat impressed by this time elf lady.

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…In fact, the more he understood the nature of the four-dimensional barrier, the more he could appreciate the magic of what Shenshu and Tokisaki Kurumi had done.

Xia Zhi couldn’t help but recall the last singularity. It was not until several hours after he arrived at that singularity that he met Yokote Mari, Takashima Yuna and others who came from “outside the barrier”.

According to normal understanding, since the edge of the barrier is the boundary of the world, then the girls “outside the barrier” should not be able to enter this world through such conventional means.

This is the magical and counterintuitive part of this barrier. What it strips away is not just a piece of “space” or “world”, but an entire four-dimensional space-time that includes the subsequent “history”.

Because when that period of history is stripped away, the girls existed in that time and space, so at the time when they should exist, they will definitely exist.

It sounds like they will appear out of thin air when the time comes, but for the original world, everything except themselves in this period of time also “exists out of thin air”, right?

…… …….. …

Similarly, although it has not completely broken away from the timeline, for the world that has been selected by the four-dimensional barrier to cover the past, present and future three hundred years later, it will inevitably face its destined disappearance at the predetermined end, and there is no possibility of escape.

At this moment in Xia Zhi, he can better understand what Kuang San said at the beginning, that even if the gods were destroyed, it would be useless and that there is no future.

It is truly amazing that you can accomplish things that are no different from “abnormal” with just the power of “normality”, Miss Tokisaki Kurumi.

“Yeah, it’s okay to praise me a few more times~”

Tokisaki Kurumi responded with the same words as the boy just now.

Xia Zhi couldn’t help but worry that she might become a bad girl after staying with him for too long.

He thought to himself and breathed a sigh of relief.

Okay, things here are over for now… Next, it’s time to go to Xixian.

Just as he was thinking this, he suddenly heard a roar coming from behind him.

Then, a helicopter slowly rose from under the high wall.

That is……

Looking at the purple-haired girl standing at the open door of the helicopter, Xia Zhi was slightly stunned.

The hem of her skirt fluttered in the airflow of the rotating wings. Kamisato Hinata held the cabin door with one hand, tucked her wind-blown hair behind her ears, and looked at the familiar figure on the high wall with a happy smile on her face.

“Mr. Xia Zhi, long time no see~”

And

She glanced at the “ground” below, with a hint of hesitation on her face.

“Can you pick me up? I don’t dare to jump down…”

Summer Solstice:…

I just thought the girl’s appearance was quite stunning. At least she should last for five seconds.

……Several.