"—Vmm!"
A metallic vibration rang in his ears.
Zheng Qing sat in the Dean of the Edge Academy's office, giving a subtle look toward the front side—toward where the "Vortex" was located. At the very edge of his sight, beyond the void, countless fine threads suddenly tightened; one end stretched into the deeps of the Starry Sky, toward a future of endless possibilities, while the other contracted back into the past, to the moment Vortex Brigette was swallowed by the silver pocket watch.
At the instant he saw those threads,
Zheng Qing realized they were the manifest image of the Vortex's causal lines—just like those few Ancient Ones in the deeps of the Starry Sky had appeared before him in female form, these causal lines too had embodied themselves according to his cognition, in a shape he could accept.
As those fine threads tightened, two scenes appeared before Zheng Qing.
