After Ryn and Seele left, a sharp scream echoed from Dark Seele's room.
"Ahhhh!"
In her room, Dark Seele was at one moment rolling on the floor, and the next, frantically banging her head against the wall, trying to make herself forget that socially fatal scene.
Then she was digging a big hole in the ground like a dog, wanting to bury herself so no one would ever know she existed.
If the previous Dark Seele was, in Ryn's words, a fresh, ripe red apple, delicious and tempting...
Then the current Dark Seele was probably an overgrown, steaming-white-vapor-emitting giant tomato...
"Ahhh!!! Why did they come into my room!! Why did I wake up right when they came!!!"
"No, no... I have to clean this up quickly...! It'll be bad if they come back!"
Dark Seele frantically took down all the beautiful photos of Seele on the wall and placed them in her secret treasure chest under the bed.
But when it came to putting away Ryn's photos, Dark Seele froze.
She seemed to have remembered something?
She frantically began to search the memories in the Stigmata Space, looking for knowledge she had learned before.
After a bit of searching, she found the book Mama Cocolia used to teach them about puberty and development back at the orphanage...
Dark Seele sat on the bed with the book, flipping through it page by page.
When she got to a certain page, Dark Seele began to compare the book's contents with the memories recorded in her Stigmata, following the book's instructions to trace her own body...
From her throat to her chest... then from her back to her buttocks... and then...
A few minutes later, Dark Seele, who had just calmed down a bit and was no longer a giant tomato, turned deathly pale and lay on the bed as if life had left her.
"Guh... just kill me."
What is this? Am I... impure now?
Sob sob sob... Seele, I've failed you!
No, wait, Seele is gone too!
Waaaaah— Dark Seele cried even more sorrowfully.
"Bastard! Bastard! Bastard!" Dark Seele muttered curse after curse, but searching her mind, she couldn't come up with any harsher words.
After she had cried enough, Dark Seele furiously tore the book to shreds, then stood up from the bed and gathered all of Ryn's soul energy that filled the room into her arms.
Faced with Ryn, who had taken advantage of her when she was vulnerable, Dark Seele's decision was...
To ruthlessly exploit the energy given by Ryn, then bide her time and grow stronger, and when her strength had increased enough to fight Ryn, she would take her revenge on him!
Dark Seele viciously grabbed a ball of Ryn's soul energy and stuffed it into her mouth. Although there was no real physical sensation, she still chewed on it forcefully, as if she were eating Ryn himself.
"I have to let that bastard know that Seele and I are not to be messed with!!"
"Huh, Ryn's soul energy, it tastes pretty good..."
"No, this is just some insignificant energy! You idiot, how could you think in your heart that Ryn might be not so bad?!"
"Mmm-hmm..."
"It's so boring waiting here to recover all alone... Should I re-watch what happened before? Or... see what Seele is doing?"
No sooner said than done. Dark Seele secretly sent out a sliver of consciousness to peek at what Seele was doing now.
She opened her eyes curiously, and three seconds later, she let out a shy cry and covered her eyes.
"Shameless! So shameless!! How dare he stay with Seele without wearing any clothes! Ahhh!"
Unfortunately, she only looked for a short time and didn't realize that Seele was also naked...
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In the real world's black hole cottage, Seele's body had also recovered a lot thanks to Dark Seele's rapid healing, much better than the paralyzing pain from before.
She began to tell Ryn what happened when she was with Kiana.
As she spoke, Seele would from time to time secretly open her eyes to peek at Ryn.
He was listening very intently, comparing what Seele was saying with the images he saw in Tianqi's time reversal, trying to find clues about the entity that attacked Kiana and Seele.
"The more I look at Brother Ryn, the more handsome he seems..."
Seele whispered to herself. She had already felt very close to Ryn and had a good impression of him. Now, for some reason, she felt an urge to just stay in Ryn's arms...
Speaking of which... I don't think I'm wearing any clothes! Ahh!
No, wait, why were both she and Brother Ryn naked!
And... and... the pain in certain parts of her body didn't feel the same as the pain of having her soul torn apart...
Could it be... could it be that Seele has already become an adult!
"Ngh... no, no, Seele is still little... no, wait, Seele isn't little... ahhh, what am I saying!"
Seele's thoughts became more and more chaotic, and she started flailing her little hands, muttering incoherently.
Ryn looked at Seele with some amusement. Although it was a bit inhuman, he had thought that Seele might be very angry, very furious when she realized what happened...
But Seele's current reaction... could it only be said that she was truly Seele?
"Silly girl, at a time like this, you should be cursing me out! Not getting yourself all confused!"
Ryn patted Seele's head, then leaned down and kissed her forehead.
"Ngh..."
This kiss from Ryn directly made Seele's eyes lose focus, her mind drifting off to who knows where...
What should we name our future child? Should I ask my other self to be the godmother? No, no... my other self and I share the same body, then my other self...
Seele came to a sudden realization. She looked at Ryn with a shocked expression, so agitated she could barely speak clearly.
"You, you, you... I, I, I... my other self?"
Ryn blinked and looked at Seele with some confusion. What was she saying? No, wait, why did I seem to understand what she meant instantly...
Ryn nodded, then imitated Seele's stutter.
"Mm-hmm... mm-hmm... mm-hmm..."
"Ahhhhh! This is so embarrassing!"
Seele covered her face, then pulled the blanket up, hiding her entire body underneath it.
Sob sob sob—
Mama Cocolia, Seele has become an adult...
So, next, should I ask Brother Ryn to go to Mama Cocolia and propose marriage?
If Mama Cocolia finds out that I've become an adult before getting married, will she scold me? Will she dislike Brother Ryn?
Nghhh— my mind is in such a mess!!
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After a while, Ryn lifted the blanket, letting out the dizzy and confused Seele who had been hiding her head and thinking wild thoughts, allowing her to get some air.
Seele clutched the blanket to her face, not knowing whether she should look at Ryn as she used to, or if she should adopt the gaze of a wife. She thought about it so much she even forgot how to look at things normally...
And so, in Ryn's eyes, he saw a blushing Seele, her red little face with dazed, unfocused eyes rapidly switching between a charmingly gentle expression and one of clear, foolish innocence.