"-Tura. Alone, don't you miss me?

How many years ago was that?

The subjective sense of time is already a mess, and old memories are as if it took Xia.

But if you say it by objective time standards, roughly a hundred years ago.

The story of when I was still living with my master, Tula Cleese.

'Behind these woods, all alone... You don't want to get married or anything...?

"Hihihi. A disciple who speaks like a mother."

And Tula, laughing so much, sat on my lap like a child, but the fruit of it.

I liked the time I was holding her little body loose and feeling its warmth.

'I'm not saying I've never thought about it at all. Elves aren't the marriageable age for most of their lives, and, you know, they do that once a year, right?

"Oh... yeah, that's it..."

'Bye. Emotional phase'

'What did you delude me for...!

"Hihihihihi!... Well, then, sometimes I think it might have been easier for my husband, but it stinks more than that. I have goosebumps especially when I wish I could have children. Alone is the best."

When Tula looks up at my face, she smiles unwillingly.

"Around asking you that on purpose, you seem to have a desire to marry."

That was unintentional.

As I was suddenly flanked from my blind spot, I disturbed my palpitations more than I had to.

"... that... I never even thought about it"

"You don't remember. The old lady may have fallen behind in sunshine."

At that time I gave my thoughts to myself before.

As a matter of fact, I didn't even think about marriage, but I was born and raised early, looking around for the [leading cause and effect] operator.

... Actually, I still have a tooth loss in my memory, and I don't know why I was looking for [a leading cause and effect].

'Bye!

Screaming with a flashing voice, Tula twisted her body close to me.

"What, are you marrying Noon first, Rachel?

'What...?

"Hihihi! Not a bad idea. I can't even have kids. It's fun."

'... neither of us are good at chores or anything. It just doubles the hassle'

"Whoa. Flirting. Wow."

Tura put it in a creepy way and tucked her little head into the narrow space of my chest.

"I thought I could do whatever I wanted with these breasts because of you."

'... you already have. When you take a bath or something...'

"Hihihi! If that's all I get in front of you, I'd like to touch it a little. It would be nice to make the baby suck. Oh, you're letting my husband smoke before then?

'... Huh! Toula, your uncle stinks......'

"You've never even seen your uncle. Hihihihihi! '

Toula touched his chest with a pebble.

"Non is right, so the baby will be in trouble no matter where he smokes. I can't raise a child."

'... I don't think so.'

I have no memory of it, and my baby is the same, because he looks after me so much.

She has the talent to raise people.

I was sure of it.

"If you can give a kid to Non... Hihihi. Yeah, well, Noon seems more limited to kids."

"I don't..."

"No one knows about the future. If that happens, think about it then. '

When Toula switches back and forth on my lap, she nods her face all the way to my chest.

"I'm starving. Rachel, can I smoke?

'... because I'm not answering'

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... I miss it, I dreamed.

Nothing makes me want to cry, warm dreams......

…………

A blurred vision reflected an unrecognizable ceiling.

Not a tree, not a stone.

I don't even know what it's made of, a top-notch ceiling.

I thought it was white, and it depicts a thin pink floral pattern.

"... where...?

When I woke up slowly, Gigi, I heard a noise.

What a soft bed......

It's fuzzy, and yet it seems to play.

Even in a castle, a bed like this is hard.

Look around.

White and bright, but I didn't see a light source.

No candlesticks, no lamps... Ah. Could that be it? A disc stuck to the ceiling emits white light.

Where the hell is this place?

Gently take your feet off the bed.

Barefoot soles touch seemingly brown wooden slab floors. But the planks I know are not so tight.

It was kind of creepy.

It feels like you've come to a place you shouldn't.

I'm... I'm here, okay?

There was only one entrance and exit door.

I walked away from my bed and approached its door.

The door handle is lever type. Carefully check if anything is planted, then grip with your hands and lower it.

It's not locked.

One breath, and then I pushed the door open behind me...

The wind blows through.

My hair is pulled big and my eyes narrow unexpectedly.

In the sight that spread, my brain hardened.

Nothing.

Instead of hallways, even the ground.

On the ground, not even the sky.

Beyond the door, it was an endless cavity.

"Ah......!?

The moment I try to fall back, I'm pulled out by the intense wind and sucked out the door.

Falling -!?

Though I thought so and reflexively prepared my spiritual art, it was unnecessary.

Without having to do anything, my body was floating in the universe fluffy.

……………………

I don't have a voice.

I can't keep up with the perception and even stop working my thoughts.

Still, the eyes have now forced the sight of this place into my head.

I thought it was an endless cavity. It was even a giant bookshelf tunnel there.

A cylindrically lined bookshelf stretches everywhere and everywhere.

No ceiling, no floor, just a walled bookshelf that is white and sumptuous.

In the middle of it, I float like dust...

"- Welcome to The Causal Library"

My ear, which cannot even be confused, but has just stopped thinking, is shaken by a familiar voice.

Turn around, there was a girl floating there.

A little girl with silver hair that shines brilliantly like a royal ornament, stretched out sluggishly under her knees.

In fine years, I don't know how to live for hundreds of years, but I can see it below the Jack and Elvis of today.

For a moment, I thought it was Toula.

It's called that silver hair, it's called an invincible grin that gives you a glimpse of room and confidence, because the look and atmosphere looked just like hers.

But no.

"I'll introduce myself again. Atashi is Teena Cleese - your well-acquainted Toula Cleese's, well, real daughter. Unique?"

The girl - Teena named herself floating, gently clapping her shoulders.

Along with that, long stretched sleeves shake loosely.

She was dressed unfamiliar.

It's like I've been forced to clothe a single blue fabric embroidered with brilliant red flowers by wrapping large bands around it...

There's so much room on the sleeve that it's odd, and it's also dressy when you just look at it, but it doesn't look like the kind of thing your lady would wear.

Some ethnic costume......?

"Isn't it beautiful?

Lifting her arms to show her long sleeves, Teena said.

"Japanese-style clothes are pretty cool that way (...). I'm having a crush. Especially yukata. Easy to use everyday."

"That way...? Wafuku...? Itching......?

"Oops. Even if Atashi uses unfamiliar language, you shouldn't go too deep - the people outside (...) know it right. That's enough."

Really, I didn't know what you were talking about.

Sounds like he's talking in a completely different language...

"You need a lot of explanations. Follow me. It's inconvenient to talk here, then."

Teena turns her back twirly.

Long silver hair and blue sleeves danced together and were so beautiful.

Following her as she flew to the bookshelf occupying the wall, I also followed it in the image of swimming through the universe.

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Through the door that appeared on the bookshelf, it was an odd room.

I just woke up. In the room, the atmosphere is similar.

Floors that look like trees but stick together.

Unknown wall of material.

White disc-shaped light source.

Teena knows on her own. When she walks in at the foot, it's in the middle of the room, hanging cloth (?) Put your foot in the table where something like

"Phew."

Wearing a hanging cloth to her shoulders to be swallowed by the table, Teena loosened her expression properly.

"Look, you're in, too, sister. Warm, huh?

Don't be alarmed. It's more of an impossible consultation. I've never seen anything like this hanging cloth and table merge.

I peered through the cloth, but Teena's barefoot was just moving her fingers creepily.

Imitate it, I'll put my foot in.

As soon as I did, the stiffness warmth stained my whole body from my feet, and the strength of my body naturally unraveled.

"... haha..."

"I knew winter was this. Once you find out, you can't let go anymore."

Teena takes the orange from the table tree vessel and starts peeling it with her fingers.

... This is definitely very warm, but it makes me very sleepy.

I did my gaze out the window so as to delude my drowsiness.

What you see is the space on the bookshelf just now.

It's called this odd table, it's called that bookshelf space, what the hell is this place...?

It's like a world in a dream......

"This is the cause-and-effect library." That's the right name for Atashi.

Teena said as she grabbed some orange white muscle on the face.

"People can see things differently. Some of them are in the ocean, some are in the big city. The old man in the open sea was still in the temple. It's just that you look like a library, and so does your sister."

"Took, did you...?

"Oh, to get away from that fucking stalker woman."

...... fucking stalker woman.

Oh, yeah.

I, by her - Girl X, was imprisoned in the world of fantasy.

When I decided to get out of there, a dragon knight with three faces attacked me - and there, Teena came.

"Girl x. You've given me another cheap name."

Carry the orange with the white muscle in your mouth.

"Girl's got balls, that woman. If I said it at my mental age, I'd jump a lot over Baba and be a Bakemon."

"You know about Girl X......!?

"I know. I don't know where he came from, the whole thing. But unfortunately I can't teach you that."

"... why...?

"Because cause and effect don't connect. Teaching it from Atashi becomes excessive interference with cause and effect. You're talking like this right now, 'cause it's a pretty roundabout, huh?

Cause and effect - I know the word.

It is a concept taught to me by an old master who entrusted me with [leading the way in cause and effect].

If you scratch it, you lie even higher in time and space, in the flow of the world itself.

"Hey sister. About Atashi - How far do you know about Teena Cleese?

Teena asked abruptly, eating also cucumber oranges.

I recall and answer.

"Uh... he was the only daughter of Tura, born about forty years ago... who, after working as a spiritual magician and taking the title of Nine Steps, almost stopped showing up..."

"So, what's your alias as Atashi's sorcerer?

"-" Dream Sage ". Know everything about the world as you dream, the only nine-stage magician with almost no combat ability"

This is also a famous story.

Even so, I found out after I was hired by the College of Spiritual Arts to visit Rainardia, the king's capital.

"You're a 'sage'. Mm-hmm. Well, that's a good way to call it a 'detective'. One way or another. I prefer that."

Teena Cleese is the # 3 book spirit possession (Roost) in the Spirit Sequence: The Razor of Shaky Dreams.

The spiritual art is [The Fantasy Traveler].

For the super-high sequence of spirits called third place, the technique is never highly regarded.

On the contrary, they even said it was generally a spiritual art of no use.

[Fantasy Traveler] has only one effect.

- "I can dream clearly".

Clear dreams are dreams that you are aware of as' this is a dream '. In some cases, they say they can act freely in their dreams.

If you mean to be free to see it, it certainly doesn't have any effect on reality, although you may be a little happy.

That's what they thought.

Not until Teena Cleese shows up.

Teena used her lucid dreams for purposes that no one had ever thought of before.

That was The Infinite Expansion of Thought Time.

Sleep time and the time in the dream world are not correlated, as you sometimes dream equivalent to one time in your life in just one night.

She took advantage of its nature.

Whatever you do in the world of your dreams doesn't affect reality - except when it comes to yourself.

Thoughts built up in dreams are not lost when you wake up.

So suppose, for example, you had a dream for ten years in an hour's sleep.

In this case, Teena is only an hour away in real time, and someone else can spend ten years finally coming up with the answers they need.

Fantasy is, that is, infinite.

Unlimited thought time, where dreams and illusions come true.

No matter how complex and far-reaching the mystery, it's the most powerful great sage of all time to solve it in just one sleep - that's the 'Dream Sage' Teena Cleese.

"It's a nine-step title, I didn't take it because I wanted it. He asked me to identify the killer because the assassination was rampant in the royal family, and I just lent him the idea that it was okay. In the end, some other spy was just making it look like a home riot. Fucking tough guy. It was a riddle solver. I didn't even have to dream about it."

"And then I stopped looking at records about you"

"That's right. And then a little bit, Atashi came out with the World Answer and got rid of it."

"... Gedatsu...?

"Oh. You seem to be able to talk about this. It doesn't seem to have much effect on cause and effect."

Teena reached for the second orange while

"Liberation. Or enlightenment. That is the goal to which the human soul should go. It was supposed to be awesome. Over time, Atashi used spiritual art to shortcut the path that should go hundreds and thousands of times over and over again.

That's what I have to say because the only way to say that the result is to become an impromptu Buddha, and whatever, Atashi got the right to go outside the causal system (...) "

"... causal system...?

"The causal system. The extent to which causes and consequences can be connected by edges."

Teena arranged two pieces of orange skin on the table.

"Suppose every piece of this skin is the world"

"The world... what exactly...?

"The extent to which you can travel if you walk or fly. Can you say space-time?

Between this world and the world, you can't come and go if you normally think. It's not physically connected. … but if these two are contained within one causal system, the story is different "

Teena took one orange after another, which had not yet been skinned, and lined it up to enclose the two skins.

Then, with the white orange muscle, pass the bridge between the skin and the skin.

"Sometimes causes and consequences cross the world to some kind of applause - I call this' edge '. For example, you know, when you say something that your sister knows about, don't let the Four Artifacts hit it."

I was hazy.

Four kinds of artifacts - the treasures of the three kingdoms of the Legion, supposedly brought from different realms (...) -

"You saw" Heavenly Sword Excalibur, "right? He has the power to smash the laws of physics even though it's not caused by spiritual art. It's heterogeneous. It's not supposed to be in that world - it's probably the lake maiden and they brought it into that world a long time ago.

Anyway, Atashi calls it the causal system for the extent to which such a cause and effect can occur. Conversely, on the outside of the causal system, where there was any edge, the causes and consequences did not cross. "

Teena stretched her white muscles outward from one side of the skin, but it was inhibited by a circularly-placed orange as a wall.

"In a rambling way. Ah, I wonder if 'the extent to which matter can move' feels like 'the world' and 'the extent to which cause and effect can connect' feels like 'causal systems'. The way you say 'cause and effect can connect' is a little accurate. Well, the pure truth sticks out of the ability to express language. I hope you don't mind my saying a few words."

"'The extent to which matter can move' is' the world '...... then you mean you can move between the world and the world if it's not matter?

"That's what happens. A representative example would be 'soul'. Souls come and go between the world and the world quite often - that is, the soul sees the blood flowing through the flesh named the causal system, so it flows all the time."

My soul is coming and going between the world and the world...

That was easy to imagine. You can't go to heaven while you're alive, but if you die and only your soul can go...

"What I just said about the 'Four Artifacts' is a proxy closer to conception than matter, so it flows into other worlds as well.

It's not a substance. It's a mistake here. It's not a substance with a particular form, so it can look and function differently than it did in other worlds - and sometimes, ultimately, it doesn't exist as an object in the original world. The only thing that was inherited or legendary is the concept… only 'meaning' drifts into another world, resulting in a form later on - some patterns like that. Isn't that funny?

There is no movement of matter. Even so, general (...) kake (...) is (...) total (...) yes (...) and (...) ru (...).

Hihihi! So, ma (...) eh (...) ku (...) to (...) different (...) worlds (...) from (...) minutes (...) of (...) from (...) ku (...) know (...) ru (...) raw (...) kiki (...) things (...) or (...) way (...) utensils (...), sentence (...) conversion (...) but (...) ah (...) ah (...) and (...) but (...), nah (...), nah (...) and (...) no (...) from (...) nah (...)

"Concepts only... Moving just meaning... Sharing between worlds..."

Though it's hard to understand...... maybe what Teena is trying to say is that even if I went to another world for example, there might be people living there as I know them, and they might have a culture as I know them. Nothing is different because it's different. Because it's contained within the same causal system - and is that what you mean?

"... but even if it's just a concept, you can't go outside the causal system..."

"You spin your head fast, sister. Exactly. - Yes, sir."

Teena slapped a ton of fingers outside the orange wall.

"'The World's Answer' - Anyone who gets to what should be called the 'Truth' and completes (...) life gets the right to get out of it. One of them, Atashi."

"Well... what the hell is going to happen?

"Right...... By analogy, I feel like I've gone from character to reader."

Teena explored the sleeves of her gorgeous ethnic costume in a mess and took out a book.

Hundreds of sheets of paper of such beautiful material as you have never seen.

I couldn't read the letter in the title, but the cover had a painting. Probably...... girl?

Teena turns the book around.

"Just like this. Be in a full bystander position. So you can go back as long as you want."

Pepper Pepper, and let me put a few pages back.

"It's possible to go to another world altogether."

I took another book out of my sleeve and turned the cover.

"... kind of like God..."

"I guess it's close in the sense of being superior. But God does miracles and blessings to humans on something, right? In contrast, the Atasis can do nothing. I'm just watching it this way.

For example, trying to freshen up a mother with a death flag in her bin, or something like that, is not possible at all. "

As if I had said something thoughtful, the person laughed so loudly that I was also lost in mystery.

Liberation - a person who turned from a character to a reader.

You can't interfere with cause and effect because you're tired of being a reader and not an author.

"... that...?

Then I found myself.

"Then how can you help me...? And yes, I'm sure even then..."

That was the first time I time-leaved.

When I fought Samizina to protect Jack and Azerea, there was a voice that advised me.

Now I know - that was Teena.

"Oh well..."

Teena returns the arranged oranges to a pale wooden vessel.

"As you can see. Atashi is temporarily relinquishing his right to relief. to interfere with cause and effect."

"Huh...? That's..."

"At first I was gonna watch you shut up, huh? Not even when that fucking baba gets skewered.

But I'm here to stop.

That woman did too much.

That's why I decided to interfere, knowing the great anomaly. Luckily, that lady - Samizina gave me a mouthful of other nine-step magicians, so the "fourth nine-step magician" - dusty "edge" became giddy effective. I'm glad I made it back. "

Placing the last one properly at the top of the orange, Teena turns her gaze outside the window.

"This' causal library 'hits the boundaries within and outside the causal system. Outside the world, its also the most endless. She's no longer hyperspace, but yes, we can't find her here."

"... to be honest, though I still can't keep up with my understanding... but wasn't that a very important decision for you...? How can you do this for me as a stranger..."

"No stranger. Bye."

Teena carved a reliable grin and stared at me.

"Atashi, the Atashi have been watching over you. When you guys met, when Jack killed Phil, when you stood up to that woman by yourself... all the time, the Atashi watched.

Look at Jack's cock you were just a kid, and he was turning his face bright red. 'Cause you know, Atashi, right?

"Become...!

I almost forgot myself!

My face is rapidly getting hot.

"Hihihi!

And Tina grinned mean.

That face really looks a lot like Tula's.

"........................................................."

I don't know, tears are zero, my vision is distorted......

"... well... I... wasn't alone..."

"Yes. I'm not alone - I can't touch a finger. Even the events on the other side of the cause and effect have made Atashi think of you as if you were my business. That's why I thought about it. I'm sorry I'm just looking at you already."

"... ugh..."

Because of my relaxation, my consciousness was sumptuous.

My eyelids are heavy...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

"Sleep, Sister Rachel - in your dreams, I'll show you how to beat that woman"