"Simulation complete. Would you like to restart this day?"
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"Simulation complete. Would you like to restart this day?"
...
"Simulation complete. Would you like to restart this day?"
EVA's icy voice echoed overhead as she silently observed everything.
Bai Youyou once again arrived at the depths of the Spiral Court. The tree-shaped giant computer rippled with a faint blue glow; every time she looped, the machine would grow a new dendrite, and on the TV screen at the end of that dendrite played the experience of that iteration.
Without exception, whether or not she followed the prompts on that day, "Sylvie" would appear—perhaps in an ordinary café, perhaps on the border of Oasis, or even in the reality after she escaped Oasis.
Guiding her here, step by step.
No matter how many times she looped, the ending would never change. She would always end up in this room.
