……

In the middle of the small bedroom, the low table was filled with exquisite dishes, the richness of which clearly showed that they had been carefully prepared.

“It’s my turn to entertain Xia Zhi this time, so I have to prepare well.”

As Kato Megumi spoke, she placed the steaming red bean soup from the pot in front of him.

As soon as Xia Zhi heard it, he knew she was talking about the last time he went to Xueno’s house.

The other meaning of this statement is obviously that she doesn’t want to lose that time… I didn’t see her react at all before, but I didn’t expect that she cares so much about it.

Xia Zhi asked curiously, “Were you angry last time?”

Kato Hui shook her head slightly

“After all, Yukino and the others worked hard to entertain us. Wouldn’t it be too willful if we were still angry?”

The girl answered and paused for a moment.

“It’s just…” Her voice lowered a little: “I am a little concerned in my heart.”

Faced with such a frank girl, Xia Zhi couldn’t help but chuckle, which earned her a dissatisfied look as she puffed up her cheeks.

She is also cute when she is angry. ………

After thinking for a while, Xia Zhi looked at her and said, “Close your eyes.”

“What’s wrong?” Kato Megumi was a little confused.

“Okay, close it first.”

Under the boy’s urging, Kato Megumi closed her eyes gently, feeling a little nervous and a little bit of anticipation in her heart.

However, what she expected did not happen. After waiting for a while, Xia Zhi’s voice came to her ears: “You can open your eyes now.”

Kato Megumi opened her eyes with some disappointment, only to see a small package in front of her.

“This is……?”

“This is a gift from Xia Zhi to you.” Xia Zhi replied.

After unwrapping the package, there was a lunch box filled with simple but beautifully prepared dishes. Considering the shelf life of the ingredients, it was obvious that they were prepared just today.

“Sister Natsuori, why are you giving me this?” Kato Megumi was a little confused.

this……

Xia Zhi turned his eyes away slightly.

You can’t say that it was a “reconciliation” gift she prepared for him, right? Strictly speaking, he and Hui didn’t break up at that time.

By the way, that girl Xia Zhi actually packed it in her own lunch box.

The girl seemed to realize this, looked somewhat happy, and did not ask any further questions.

“Ah~”

She picked up a small piece of cherry shrimp ball and handed it to Xia Zhi’s mouth.

Why does this scene seem familiar?

No need to feed it like this, right?

“Haven’t we done this before when we were pretending to be a couple?”

Kato Megumi tilted her head slightly and said as if it was a matter of course:

“Now that I’m the heroine of Summer Solstice, we’re closer than before, right?”

“It’s okay to do something more intimate, isn’t it normal to feed each other during meals?”

…Why does it feel like Hui has become more aggressive after the relationship was made clear?

Xia Zhi thought so.

…….

Chapter 1435: Xia Zhi is the male protagonist of the galgame series?

By the time the two of them finished their dinner, it was almost nine o’clock in the evening.

The advantage of eating so slowly is that you can slowly enjoy the dinner that the girl personally prepared and fed you. By the end of the meal, even most of the lunch box that Xia Zhi prepared for Hui was fed into her stomach.

I’m sorry, Xia Zhi, only half of your feelings have been conveyed to me.

Xia Zhi apologized in his heart.

But since the original purpose has been achieved, it’s not a waste.

Next, it’s time to get down to business.

I have an idea that needs to be verified a little bit.

Stopping Kato Hui who was about to clean up the mess, Xia Zhi looked at her and asked:

“Can you close your eyes again?”

“what happened?”

Kato Megumi was a little confused, but she closed her eyes again obediently.

The next moment, she felt herself being tapped lightly on the forehead.

“Woo!”

The girl let out a small cry of pain and subconsciously opened her eyes again. What she saw was a package wrapped in insulation cloth that looked very familiar.

“……what?”

She blinked and shifted her gaze to the low table in front of her. The sumptuous dishes on it had all returned to the state they were in before the meal, as if the memory of their previous meal had never happened.

It seems like I have returned to the time when I last closed my eyes?

She took out her cell phone and took a look. The time displayed on it confirmed her guess.

“Time travel?”

A guess arose in Kato Hui’s mind.

It sounded a little surreal, but if he was a teenager, she wouldn’t be surprised that he could do such a thing.

After experiencing so much with Xia Zhi, my psychological acceptance of this kind of things has also increased a lot.

“Yes… or maybe not.”

Xia Zhi gave a general answer, shook his head, and then asked her:

“Can you still eat?”

Kato Megumi shook her head slightly. Although the time had gone back to more than an hour ago, her body still retained the feeling of fullness from just now. She definitely couldn’t eat another meal.

Xia Zhi nodded thoughtfully: “It seems that the ability of the “Universe Simulator” is still in effect.”

what is that?

The girl tilted her head in confusion, only to see the boy take out a small piece of cake from somewhere and hand it to her.

“As for dessert, you should still be able to eat it, right?” Xia Zhi blinked and asked her.

After all, there is a saying that dessert is a girl’s second stomach.

“It’s my turn to feed Hui this time, huh? Ah~”

Although she was already very full, looking at the boy who handed the dessert to her mouth, Kato Megumi felt that she should still be able to eat more.

With a faint blush on her cheeks, the girl slightly opened her pink little mouth and accepted the food he fed her.

This cute gesture of shyness and submissiveness made Xia Zhi very excited.

He felt that he knew why the girl was so happy to feed him just now. This was indeed a very pleasant thing for both body and mind.

Fortunately, we have sufficient supplies.

“How’s Cookie feeling?”

“I can’t eat anymore.”

“Ah~”

“Xiazhi is really…”

The two of them stayed like this until after ten o’clock, and the food on the table was basically untouched.

After eating, Kato Megumi didn’t want to talk any more. She just leaned on the boy’s shoulder and sat quietly on the ground next to the bed. The quiet atmosphere around her made her feel safe again.

As time passed, she began to feel sleepy and couldn’t help but yawn slightly.

“All right.”

Just when Kato Megumi was drowsy, the boy’s voice brought her back to consciousness.

She opened her eyes, only to see that the food on the table was back to the mess it had been left behind.

Are we…back?

Kato Megumi blinked in surprise.

She now understood why Xia Zhi answered “yes and no” just now.

In the “previous timeline”, they finished their meal at around nine in the evening, but in “this timeline”, they hadn’t touched the food on the table since around seven. If it was just a simple time travel, dinner should still be in good condition when they returned to nine o’clock.

This situation cannot be explained by a simple time jump.

The girl had a vague guess

“parallel world?”

“It’s not that kind of thing.”

Xia Zhi shook his head and denied her guess.

Although they appear somewhat similar in form, they are fundamentally different.

The most important evidence is…

“When we left, the future on the other side completely stopped and disappeared.”

Xia Zhi said this.

If they are normal, independent parallel worlds, the passage of time on both sides should not be affected at all, right?

“Gone?” Kato Megumi seemed a little confused.

“It means it’s gone.” Xia Zhi explained.

This explanation is even more difficult to understand.

Faced with the girl’s confusion, Xia Zhi thought for a moment and gave a simple example:

“Has Hui ever played galgame?”

Kato Hui nodded slightly: “I know a little bit about it.”

Xia Zhi used this example to make a simple analogy: “Just like when we play galgames, we always open many save files, right? When we are in one of the save files, the plots and progress of the other save files will naturally stagnate and will not move forward… It’s something like that.”

If you never touch it, the save process will always stop at that point and will not move forward until the game is deleted.

This is what Xia Zhi meant by “disappeared” just now.

That is not a normal world with an independent timeline. It can only be regarded as an archive of information attached to a certain time and space node in this world.

Only when the “player” chooses that save file, the time and space it represents will have meaning. The save file abandoned by the “player” will naturally not move forward on its own.

Therefore, although Hui subconsciously regarded the timeline after dinner as the “main timeline”, in fact, if Xia Zhi had not chosen to come back here just now, or if he went back to the previous save and stayed there, the timeline of “having dinner” here would also become a “branch” save.

Under this mechanism, strictly speaking, there is no so-called “main line”, or rather, the timeline chosen by the “player” is the real main line.

As for who the “players” are in this process…

The answer is self-evident.

This is the extra ability I discovered before Xia Zhi, after coming to this world.

“What we did just now was jumping between different save files.” He finally explained to the girl.

Kato Megumi nodded thoughtfully, as if she finally understood what he meant.