Has he walked out of the Reincarnation and returned to the ordinary world?
No, that's not right.
The dead cat's body was still attached to his consciousness. The moment he walked out that door and saw the peaceful, warm environment around him, Suke immediately felt an anomaly.
It wasn't arrogance on his part, but he dared to be certain that if this were truly the normal world, those few 'Haji-Immortals' on his farm would likely have teleported over instantly to refine this place.
Moreover, his backpack, which was still unusable, indicated that this place was still just a location reflected by the heart of the young girl named Seele.
This place...
Could it be the Cocolia Orphanage?
The dead cat that walked out the door quietly sized up the surroundings; the space behind the door was a utility room for storing sundries.
Although Suke hadn't personally been to the Cocolia Orphanage, inferring this conclusion wasn't difficult from the snowy, white scenery outside the window that was suspected to be the Siberian ice fields.
Creak—
"...Farmer Brother?"
The ajar door of the utility room was pushed open, and a figure familiar to Suke appeared before his eyes.
Sin Mal.
The young girl, combing twin high ponytails and maintaining an elegance akin to a noble, looked in surprise at the black cat on the ground.
Seeing this girl's figure, Suke was stunned.
Is this the Cocolia Orphanage from Houkai Gakuen 2?
A conjecture almost immediately popped into Suke's mind.
No, wait, that's not right...
But only a moment later, he discovered the flaws in his conjecture. First, if the girl before him was a manifestation of Seele's mental imagery Reincarnation, she absolutely wouldn't be wearing a noble dress in the orphanage.
Regardless of whether it was the timeline of Honkai Impact 3rd or Houkai Gakuen 2, the Sin Mal who met Seele during the orphanage period had cut off that head of silky hair, choosing to wear a mask named 'Violence' and play the role of a mischievous bad kid.
Moreover, her address for him...
Suke suddenly felt that Boss Mabel was somewhat untrustworthy.
He had ignored a fact: Boss Mabel's fundamental goal in telling him to relax was that she didn't want him to be in crisis, so the matter wouldn't implicate her.
As for the life and death of others?
The supreme god never cares about the life and death of ants. She wouldn't even bother discussing their value; spending one extra second thinking about them would be a waste of her precious emotions.
Perhaps in Mabel's eyes, most people other than him were expendable—including BB, and even Tsukishiro Yuki and the others.
As expected, he really shouldn't have trusted such a crazy, evil god!
"Meow~"
Seeing Sin, who was suspected to be similarly trapped in the Reincarnation, Suke wanted to say something, but the words turned into a burst of cat cries when they reached his mouth.
Suke: ...
Fine, this so-called Reincarnation is disgusting.
Before entering here, Suke had actually more or less figured out what Reincarnation was from the intelligence provided by Elysia, Mabel, and others.
If he had to say, it was equivalent to a challenge game with restricted items.
Everything about it is constructed based on the cognition of the generator of the Reincarnation. That is to say, contents outside the stage where the reincarnator is located will not exist.
For example, magic or spiritual power—as long as these are outside the reincarnator's mental cognition at the time, all such means will be ineffective.
The characters who appear are naturally the same; the Reincarnation will only feature those related to the psychological trauma.
Actually, Suke had asked Mabel if he could change the Reincarnation through abilities like mind manipulation, but the answer he got was very abstruse.
The range outward and inward are both infinite—this was Mabel's exact quote.
Reincarnation is a product directed inward, just like positive infinity and negative infinity.
It not only restricts the appearance of irrelevant people outside the reincarnator's cognition, but even if others enter, they can only forcibly play a certain role, and they cannot use powers outside the reincarnator's cognition.
If not for the support of his Stardew Valley traits, Suke wouldn't see any hope of breaking the Reincarnation.
This place wasn't designed with the intention of letting anyone clear the level!
"Farmer Brother... You are Farmer Brother, right?"
Sin crouched down. She straightened her skirt hem and carefully picked up the scarred black cat.
The instant Sin touched the black cat's body, Suke felt his originally dead cat body actually undergo a change. In the girl's cognition, it became plump and healthy, and its fur changed from withered to sleek and shiny.
What was the reason for this?
Everything in the mental image world is always based on idealism.
Suke couldn't help but think of the observer principle. Perhaps its state was also related to other people in the Reincarnation who possessed self-will.
It could only be called good news amidst the bad—as long as Sin, who had met him, was here, he didn't seem to have to worry about this state where he wobbled just taking two steps.
"How did you become like this, Farmer Brother?"
"Sin has lived here for a long time. I thought Farmer Brother wouldn't come back to visit Sin..."
Sin stroked the cat's fur in her hands, her words carrying both doubt and a bit of happiness.
She had very few friends. Before Suke and Bronya appeared, the only one she could call a friend was the Junimo Starfruit.
And although Suke from another world became her new friend, he also took Starfruit away.
Even though he left Bronya by her side, that emptiness of finding it hard to adapt to darkness after seeing the light could not be filled—since returning from Spirit's Eve, Sin had been depressed.
Unexpectedly, after so long, she could finally meet him again—although she didn't know why her Farmer Brother had turned into a cat.
Suke had no choice but to lift his cat paw and attempt to write on the back of Sin's hand.
There was no need to worry about language barriers, because the moment Suke obtained the Farm System, all his written expressions would be understood by the other party as intelligible words, and vice versa.
Just like a language MOD in Minecraft.
"Brother, you're asking... how long Sin has been here?"
"Sin listened to Brother, and has been living in this orphanage with Bronya for a very long time now."
Sin was somewhat confused. After all, coming to live in this orphanage was Suke's idea; he initially hoped she could make new friends here and gradually walk out of the shadows of the past.
"Have... you... noticed... any... abnormalities?"
Sin looked at the characters the cat paw scribbled on the back of her hand and thought for a moment.
"Sin's life here has always been moving between two points, rarely talking to anyone other than Bronya..."
"If you want to talk about abnormalities... there are indeed some. It's Bronya recently; she's become a bit strange."
"She suddenly became on very bad terms with Sin, to the point Sin somewhat doesn't recognize her."
"Do you know what's going on, Brother?"
As expected.
Hearing Sin's answer, Suke had a rough idea in his heart.
In the impression of Seele, who followed the original plot, Sin should be terrifying, a person who would always bully her.
And Bronya would protect her, and her relationship with Sin wouldn't be good either.
So...
"Whoa, where did the kitten come from? So cute~!"
"Did you raise this? Even though Mama Cocolia doesn't allow us to raise cats..."
A cheerful girl's voice came over. This was a pink-haired girl who appeared quite lively, stars twinkling in her eyes.
"Idiot Rosaliya, come back quickly."
"Did you forget being [bullied] by Sin before... mph."
Beside the pink-haired girl, a blue-haired girl grabbed her arm, looking at Sin Mal with eyes full of apprehension.
Their ages were both slightly younger than Sin, and their identities were vividly portrayed—Rosaliya Olenyeva, Liliya Olenyeva.
Suke naturally recognized this pair of Olenyeva sisters. It was also after seeing them that Suke confirmed which timeline this orphanage used as a template.
"Wait, Rosaliya."
"I remember there's also a kitten in Elder Sister Seele's room. That was one Mama Cocolia specially allowed her to raise..."
Liliya looked at Sin with guard, but more so with an imperceptible disgust, as if this girl named Sin Mal had a feud with them.
"You guy, you didn't steal the pet raised by Seele, did you?"
"Oh yeah, there seems to be such a thing..."
Liliya questioned Sin, and Rosaliya beside her, whose reaction was always a beat slow, also realized and hurriedly took half a step back.
Under their words, the other children passing by in the orphanage also cast their gazes over. The looks directed at Sin were all disgust mixed with a trace of fear.
"..."
Sin did not respond to these people's gazes. She just silently hugged Suke, who was a cat, and straightened the hem of her noble dress.
She turned to return to her bedroom. After all, only there could she think about things in peace, rather than enduring the nonsense of these mentally deranged fellows.
"Sorry, Farmer Brother, let you see something laughable."
Sin smiled faintly and was about to leave holding the black cat.
But unexpectedly, this turn brought her face to face with a familiar figure that had arrived in front of her.
Bronya Zaychik.
At this moment, she was looking at Sin Mal with a cold gaze, her line of sight sweeping over the black cat in Sin's hands.
"Return Seele's thing to her."
Bronya said expressionlessly:
"If you still want to attract my attention by bullying Seele, then Bronya advises you to give up that thought as soon as possible."
"Bronya already knows all your plans. No matter what you do, Bronya will not acknowledge you."
"The fact that Bronya hates you will not change because of anything."
"Never."
Bronya murmured, that expressionless face carrying a hint of gnashing teeth. Little did she know that Suke in Sin's arms was a bit confused.
Suke: ?
No, what is this silly child saying?
If he remembered correctly, aren't these The Great King Hiro's lines? Why did you copy her lines?
But although Sin has pink hair, she isn't that Pink Puppy who doesn't fight back when hit or scolded.
If Sin really gets angry, no one can hold her back. Especially this Houkai Gakuen 2 version. If following the combat power settings of Houkai Gakuen, Bronya comparing herself to Sin is truly doomed!
But it was also from here that Suke roughly determined the current situation of this Cocolia Orphanage.
"...Sin has said many times, Sin doesn't understand what you are saying."
"If there's nothing else, please leave. Sin wants to return to her room."
Sin wanted to bypass Bronya to return to her room, but unexpectedly, Bronya blocked her path:
"Put down the thing belonging to Seele before leaving."
"Otherwise Bronya will... Guh-wu!"
Bronya, who blocked Sin, just wanted to say something, but in the next instant, the black cat in Sin's arms suddenly pounced out!
It pounced onto Bronya's face, causing the girl whose vision was obscured to lose her balance and sit awkwardly on the ground with a thud.
And in the next instant, the black cat leaped again, running towards the distance along the corridor!
"You..."
"It ran away on its own. This counts as Sin returning it to you, right?"
"If there is nothing else, don't come to disturb Sin again."
"Because Sin hates you just as much, Bronya."
Bronya, sitting on the ground with a flushed face, wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Sin's emotionless words.
She glanced at the corner where the black cat had disappeared, then leisurely lifted her skirt hem and headed in that direction—that was the direction of her bedroom. She naturally understood Suke's hint.
Although she was still a bit unhappy in her heart.
"You... you..."
Bronya's face turned red then white as she sat on the ground.
"Sister Bronya, are you okay..."
"Bronya is fine..."
After standing up with the support of Rosaliya and Liliya, Bronya took a deep look in the direction Sin Mal had left. Her heart held both surprise and a certain determination.
She knew things wouldn't be that smooth.
Although she didn't know why Sin Mal, the culprit from the past who made her feel incredibly disgusted and could even be said to have caused Seele's disappearance, had become like this now, her goal had long been determined.
She wanted to save Seele, from the moment she arrived in this past that had already become bygone.
'Is it because of the butterfly effect...'
Bronya was a bit irritable. At this time, she wanted to stay in the Company to continue developing her new game, but this sudden "rebirth" left her no choice.
Just like a full-dive game; clearly she knew she was in a game, but as long as she didn't achieve the goal, she couldn't wake up.
Because this goal was told to her personally by "Seele." This game that only she could clear, a game that neither Kiana nor Raiden Mei could clear.
If the clear failed, their entire world would face a crisis.
'Bronya has grown up and is an adult. Although she shouldn't bicker with a child, after years of tempering, Bronya's heart has become very cold.'
'So, Sin, don't blame Bronya.'
The girl stood up from the ground with unknown plans and patted the dust off her body.
Although the increase in age made her heart, which was once a ruthless mercenary's, become soft again, to make a move against an "enemy" with whom she originally had a feud, Bronya could still overcome that psychological hurdle.
Moreover, this was under the premise of saving the world once again.
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