Starting as a Magical Girl, I Alone Shall Rule for Eternity

Chongxu, Hogwarts.

Qingluan: "Silver Lotus, do you know when Jiang Si usually works out?"

Silver Lotus: "Jiang Si said he doesn't work out. Working out is such a waste of time. He said if he didn't work out, he could save a lot of time to do the things he wants to do, like working out and stuff..."

Thousand-Pinweed: "Now that's what I call getting to the essence of working out."

Inside the ancient academy, Prince sat in the grand lecture hall, but the ones seated below were not students at all.

Ruo Yun was still flipping through a stack of documents like a student catching up on homework. Silver Lotus and Thousand-Pinweed sat upright, and even Qingying and Iris were present. Qingying stared at Prince with a serious expression, while Iris beside her leaned on her shoulder, drool already beginning to drip.

Prince held her teacup, gazing at the magical girls whispering among themselves below, lost in thought for a long moment.

She never imagined that one day she would become a lecturer for these magical girls.

Even though all these people had been invited here by the same person.

After sweeping her gaze around, Prince found Iris extremely irritating for daring to doze off in her class. She let out a cold snort.

But Prince couldn't be bothered to deal with Iris.

That magical girl was way too troublesome.

"Chirp, Professor Itaen, regarding the content sent over by the Sect Master earlier, it's all been fully transmitted. Can you explain the relevant parts to us now?"

Only when Thousand-Pinweed below raised her hand to ask with great respect did Prince clear her throat and set down her teacup.

That's right, she was now a specially invited professor at Hogwarts.

The only professor of Hogwarts Curses, because she was the one person in all of Hogwarts—or even the entire Chongxu and New World—who best understood Mirror Kingdom machine code.

Thousand-Pinweed treated all the Mirror Kingdom code as curses, simply because this high school girl couldn't understand a single bit of it.

To her, anything she didn't understand was a curse.

A trait she inherited from her master, really.

After spending this much time with them, Prince had figured it out. The Azure Cloud Sect was basically one big idiot leading a bunch of little idiots.

The only problem was that these idiots had overpowered combat strength.

They'd straight-up flipped the entire world, making it irrelevant whether they were idiots or not.

"The system is still analyzing the later tens of millions of years of information, but the first ninety-nine thousand years of content that were transmitted earlier have all been fully parsed. There's way too much junk data, most of it patternless, making information selection a bit troublesome."

And all this information had been transmitted by one person.

Naturally, it was Jiang Si.

She had no idea what had happened on his end, but he had suddenly transmitted a massive amount of data simultaneously to Saint Hall, the Azure Cloud Sect in Beihai, and Chongxu's system. Even quite a few machines in the Mirror Kingdom were affected.

In the end, the Azure Cloud Sect took the lead, gathering everyone at Hogwarts to decode the vast data Jiang Si had sent.

The main person in charge was Prince. Of course, she hadn't taken on this task for Jiang Si's sake.

But because both Saint Hall and the Azure Cloud Sect had offered extremely generous compensation.

After steeling her emotions for a moment, Prince looked at the classroom. "White Fox."

That wooden-faced girl immediately walked in from outside the classroom.

Although this one had originally been Jiang Si's follower, later trailing behind Jiang Keke, and then even losing track of Keke before eventually returning to Prince's side as a useless magical girl.

But Prince really was short on living subordinates, and compared to those trash Alices, White Fox's stoic personality at least wasn't a headache. Naturally, Prince kept her around.

After giving her the position of teaching assistant, she now had some standing at Hogwarts.

She immediately walked behind Prince, unfolded the screen blackboard, and after powering it on, data cascaded down like a waterfall.

Then White Fox quickly began debugging—that's right, besides Prince herself, White Fox was the only one at Hogwarts who could handle this stuff.

Soon, all the data on the screen began to jump in an orderly fashion, turning into garbled code, then reorganizing.

Finally, images began to appear.

They were clearly Keke and Shion.

Ruo Yun asked, puzzled, "What's this?"

Thousand-Pinweed watched Keke approaching Shion from behind, her silent and stealthy demeanor, and furrowed her brows slightly. "Wait, she's not going to..."

Qingying: "Ambush her!"

Silver Lotus's face filled with horror: "Keke!"

Thousand-Pinweed: "We're screwed..."

Prince: "Has Keke always been this brave?"

White Fox raised her hand: "I can vouch for that."

Ruo Yun asked again: "Wait, isn't she her disciple?"

Prince: "Looks like it's Black Keke."

Everyone snapped to attention just as Keke in the video was reduced to ashes by Shion the moment of the ambush.

Silver Lotus's expression immediately shifted from horror to indignation. "Serves her right!"

Ruo Yun: "That's a pretty good expression. Feels like I could sell it to Hyacinth for a decent price... But not being able to tell Keke from Black Keke? That's on you too."

Silver Lotus: "Of course I know..."

As they chatted, the images on the screen fell into a loop.

Keke kept ambushing, kept dying.

Qingluan couldn't help but raise her hand: "Miss Prince, is your machine broken? Why is it replaying nonstop?"

Thousand-Pinweed rested her chin on her hand, already looking impatient. "Is it buffering? Is Mirror Kingdom tech really this bad?"

White Fox patted the machine beside her, then looked at Prince. "Everything's normal."

Prince: "Fast forward."

Qingluan watched each cycle closely. "It seems like... Keke's ambush position and direction change each time?"

Thousand-Pinweed nodded. "Looks like it's not a replay or a buffer issue. Black Keke keeps resurrecting and trying to ambush Miss Shion..."

Ruo Yun reacted fastest. "It's a rewind."

"How does this Black Keke have Chilian's ability..."

Qingluan's expression soured. This ability reminded her of that witch Chilian from Jiangming City. A similar power had nearly doomed her and Iris.

Just thinking about those tentacle bugs crawling around in her ears made Qingluan feel like she was half-dead.

But it was fine, she had moved past it. Qingluan was a mature, calm, steady, alert, honest, indifferent, hardworking, nostalgic, brave, generous, resolute, cheerful, physically weak, yet iron-hearted magical girl...

Thousand-Pinweed suddenly yelled: "Forget all that useless stuff! Black Keke's ambush landed!"

Prince: "Sit down, Thousand-Pinweed. No standing up in class, even if you're the principal—"

"Keke! Keke! The best and the greatest!"

Before she could finish, White Fox shot up, pulling out cheer sticks from who-knows-where and cheering with a blank expression yet fervent enthusiasm.

Prince snatched the cheer sticks away and slammed White Fox's head down, subduing her in an instant.

"Ah." Qingying said softly, "Countered by Miss Shion."

Thousand-Pinweed: "Just managing to land an ambush is already incredible! That's Master we're talking about!"

Ruo Yun: "She hit the heart this time. Will it work?"

Thousand-Pinweed: "How could it possibly work!"

Silver Lotus curled her lip. "Dead save. Good riddance... And she actually yelled 'Big brother, save me!' Are you Keke to be yelling that? Shameless!"

Thousand-Pinweed: "So clever. How come this Black Keke seems smarter than Keke?"

Silver Lotus: "No way, not even close! She's just cunning and shameless, not smart at all!"

Ruo Yun: "'Bad stars are coming'? Since when does Keke know about astrology?"

Silver Lotus: "Know my ass. Keke said anyone who believes in that stuff is an idiot. Jiang Si hates it, so she doesn't believe it either."

White Fox: "Sure enough, not the same person."

Ruo Yun: "Mana Swap. So that's her trump card. Pretty impressive... Wait, why does it feel like swapping mana made no difference?"

Thousand-Pinweed immediately lifted her head high, a surge of pride bubbling up. "Hah, Master is no weakling who depends on mana. We cultivators... no, they cultivators have always been all-rounders. Mana and spiritual energy need to be refined, and the body needs tempering too. How could freshly stolen mana possibly compare to Master's thousand-times-tempered physical body!"

As she spoke, she twirled her magic wand, and mana danced through the classroom. Phantoms of Azure Cloud Sect ancestors' stories materialized.

Three assaults on Yunlan Sect, betrayal of Azure Cloud Sect, deadly battle with the Golden-Horn Giant Beast, desperate struggle against the Sith Lord, continent ascending to planet, desperate dance in a rainy-night internet cafe alley, the unavoidable tales of the Divine Seal Knight and the Demon Emperor...

Prince slammed both hands on the table. "Thousand-Pinweed! No casting magic in class!"

White Fox: "Black Keke's state is off."

Qingluan: "Why did she suddenly get so reckless? Wasn't she being pretty cautious before?"

Thousand-Pinweed: "Not everyone can pull off the Cautious Cultivation style. Those who stick to it too long all become psychological wrecks. They can't resist wanting to pull something big. Getting Master's mana and holding back from going head-to-head? That's practically a god among men."

White Fox: "Makes sense."

Silver Lotus: "Where did this Black Keke get so many negative-effect spells? And she swapped away so many of Shion's spells too! So infuriating!"

Ruo Yun: "Wait, how many spells does your master actually have? How can she not run out of them?"

Qingluan: "Sky-Imprisoning Finger, Fire Lotus, Swift Wind Step, Critical Strike, Clone Puppet, Absolute Zero, Blue Silver Entanglement, Guanyin's Tears, Bodhi Blood, Seven Bans and Seven Curses, Dark Word Nine Techniques, Arc Sword Energy, Primordial Moon Qi Blade... That's already dozens, more than my card types."

Ruo Yun: "Just how many more does she know..."

Thousand-Pinweed: "Master's just like that. She'll learn anything as long as it's fun and useful. Heh, the Sect Master knows every spell in Azure Cloud Sect. In fact, if even the Sect Master looks down on something, then everyone else really needs to reflect and work harder."

Prince: "Another dead save. Doesn't look like there's much to see..."

White Fox: "Wait, the Beast of Eternity!"

"Holy crap, why does the Beast of Eternity look exactly like me? Hmm, could I be the Beast of Eternity..."

Iris lifted her head, rubbing her bleary eyes and wiping drool.

Qingluan handed her a tissue. "Why are you awake?"

Iris: "With you guys being this loud, of course I'd wake up. I can't believe you were secretly watching videos without me, and it's one starring Keke and Shion..."

Qingluan elbowed Iris in the stomach. "Can you not say weird stuff?"

Silver Lotus: "Hey hey hey! What's this now!"

Prince: "Ninety-nine thousand cycles of information bombarding the brain... I see. So the junk data was created by polluting through the Beast of Eternity's power. No wonder it was so hard to process. Understandable that Shion would crash."

Thousand-Pinweed: "Understand my ass! Master definitely did not crash!"

Iris: "Wait, isn't this really strange? The Beast of Eternity used my image. I'm saying, this is clearly a violation of my portrait rights, and you won't even let me watch, which is obstructing my right to defend myself, also illegal... The Beast of Eternity using my image must be because it recognized me as the strongest magical girl, got scared of me, and borrowed my appearance to intimidate others!"

Iris got excited all at once. "I knew it! I'm the strongest! After seeing Keke and Shion's abilities, the Beast of Eternity still thought I was the strongest! That's real strength right there. Go back and see what the Beast of Eternity said..."

Qingluan: "Forget that. Black Keke is really something else. She actually managed to wound Shion and even made Miss Shion lose consciousness..."

Ruo Yun: "Way stronger than I imagined. Is this really Black Keke? Who else could push Shion this far?"

White Fox: "Impressive. Respect."

Prince: "Not bad indeed."

Silver Lotus: "Hmph. She's just a tiny bit impressive."

Iris: "Wait, what about that Beast of Eternity..."

Qingluan: "Forget your Beast of Eternity!"

Prince: "Looks like this is where it ends. But with all the shockwaves from Shion and the Beast of Eternity's battle outside, it's pretty obvious she failed in the end. Let's check out the thirty-million-year content first."

But what played on the screen was Silver Lotus ignoring Keke and having a close, affectionate interaction with Black Keke.

And even joining Black Keke in driving Keke away...

Silver Lotus: "Wait, what is this!"

Seeing her own indifferent attitude and Keke's hurt expression,

Silver Lotus wanted to crawl into the screen and slap her past self twice!

Prince said with an air of nonchalance: "Oh, I accidentally played the wrong one. I've recorded all your actions in the Disaster Control Bureau not recognizing Keke and bullying little sister Keke. After all, this kind of thing can't just be smoothed over with an apology. It needs to be properly documented."

Silver Lotus: "I'm sorry, I was wrong, please delete it... Silver Lotus kowtows to you."

It wasn't about embarrassment or shame.

But seeing herself betray Keke's trust and reliance made Silver Lotus so miserable she couldn't lift her head.

She wanted to die...

Hammering her own thigh in regret over and over, Silver Lotus couldn't hold back tears.

I'm sorry, Keke, really sorry...

Prince smirked coldly, leaned back in her seat, and plopped her blue-stockinged feet onto the podium. "It's not to me you need to apologize. It's to Keke. And Peony, An Shiyu, and the others. All of them. Anyone who dares bully Keke, I, Itaen, will never forgive!"

Qingying: "Stop talking. Do you want Silver Lotus to die of guilt?"

Prince: "She'd better."

Ruo Yun: "...Good thing I'm in Chongxu."

Thousand-Pinweed: "You're not that close to Keke either."

Iris: "Keke is also my nemesis! I will never forget her!"

Qingluan: "You have too many nemeses!"

Seeing Silver Lotus was half-dead, about to bury her head in the ground, Prince finally had White Fox adjust the screen.

The content of three million cycles began to play.

White Fox: "It's each lifetime's cycle..."

Prince: "So she actually was a decent person?"

Qingying: "She died saving magical girls..."

Just as everyone was feeling both shocked and a bit awkward.

Silver Lotus jumped up: "Good riddance!"

Ruo Yun: "This one is completely twisted already."

Qingying: "Ah, another death saving Beihai..."

Silver Lotus: "Good riddance!"

Iris: "Alright, alright, Silver Lotus. Stop grinding your teeth. It's not cute at all."

Silver Lotus: "Good riddance, good riddance, good riddance, good riddance..."

As the fast-forwarding continued, Silver Lotus, who had been constantly shouting "good riddance" at Black Keke, suddenly choked.

Because on the screen, Black Keke was holding the dead Silver Lotus, crying her heart out in utter despair.

Clutching Silver Lotus tightly like some precious treasure, she kept begging her not to leave her, not to die.

"I will definitely save you, Yiyi. I will definitely save you!"

In the heavy rain, Black Keke, drenched completely, cried and swore an oath.

Everyone turned to look at Silver Lotus.

Silver Lotus's aggressive expression also shifted into something awkward.

Like someone being choked by the neck, feeling suffocated.

If you're going to be bad, be bad all the way! Why be so good to me!

Frustrated, she watched the screen showing Black Keke constantly vowing to save her, valuing her immensely.

Silver Lotus felt a lump in her throat.

In the end, could she only blame herself?

Qingying: "Actually, she's kind of Keke too, right?"

Silver Lotus subconsciously retorted: "No way!"

Then Black Keke's crying voice came through, and the pink magical girl's heart was stirred. Still, she reluctantly turned her head away. "Not the same person. But... she's still kind of Keke."

Seeing Silver Lotus's awkwardness, Iris immediately hugged her. "Don't be mad. Maybe Black Keke just wanted to get closer to you, which is why she tried to replace Keke's identity."

"Then... even more unacceptable." Silver Lotus said angrily. "If she'd just asked nicely, I wouldn't have rejected her. Why did she have to do something like this, hurting Keke? Even though... even though she was really good to me... I can't just forgive her easily..."

Silver Lotus looked at her own corpse, and at Black Keke crying beside it like a fountain of tears. Finally, she let out a sigh.

Her voice carried a hint of sadness. "No one's going to commemorate my seventh-day memorial now..."

Iris: "......"

Qingluan: "......"

Thousand-Pinweed: "......"

Ruo Yun: "......"

Prince just kept fast-forwarding. After countless cycles, scenes of Keke and Keke meeting and clashing continued.

"Every cycle, there are two Kekes."

Prince watched as each cycle saw the two Kekes meet.

The original Keke kept killing the new Keke that appeared in each cycle.

Until one cycle.

The new Keke killed Keke back.

"I'm different. I'll save everyone in this life. I don't need your cycles, and I don't need you to restart!"

The newborn Keke still carried the sharp edge of a magical girl.

Until the great disaster descended, and everything was destroyed before her eyes.

Standing among the ruins and the corpses of her loved ones, the newborn Keke.

Slowly turned into the worn-out Keke.

And began a new cycle.

In those tens of millions of cycles, that was how it went—one new Keke replacing the worn-out Keke, eventually becoming the worn-out Keke themselves.

Rebirth, replacement, cycle.

Silver Lotus watched quietly. Eventually, she stood up and walked toward the classroom door.

"I will never let Keke become like that!"

...

"Take my cycle power?"

Keke looked at Black Keke, who had invited her, and just slapped her across the face.

Black Keke clutched her cheek, tears welling up as she looked at her. "Why are you just like Big Brother..."

"You owe me this!"

Keke said with a hardened heart. "And don't you dare call him Big Brother!"

In the distance, the battle between the Beast of Eternity and Shion seemed to be reaching its conclusion.

The Beast of Eternity, summoned by Black Keke, finally fell together with Shion deep into the End Land.

Keke was about to chase after them when she saw Jiang Si standing not far away, watching the two of them quietly.

So she stopped.

For Keke, running after Teacher Shion was only because she sensed her brother's presence.

Now that she saw her brother hadn't been dragged into Shion's battle, she naturally felt relieved.

Turning around, she looked at Black Keke again and shook her head, refusing coldly. "I don't need your cycle power."

"You're different. You'll save everyone in this life. You don't need my cycles, and you don't need me to restart... right?" Black Keke said, as if she'd said this countless times before. "Every Keke said that. I used to say it too."

Countless mocking sounds rose from beneath their feet, wave after wave.

Keke looked down. All the corpses seemed to be trembling slightly, laughing at her.

"Roar!"

The distant roar of the Beast of Eternity's fierce battle pressed in, and all the corpses suddenly fell silent.

Keke lowered her head and reached out to touch those corpses.

The memories of death flooded back into her mind again, but this time Keke no longer found it difficult. Instead, she calmly accepted that pain and despair.

"You've worked hard."

Black Keke's expression turned slightly unnatural. "What do you mean?"

"Aren't you tired?"

Black Keke paused for a moment, then said, "Oh, first time someone's asked me that. Of course I'm tired. But it's all worth it. I got important intel on the Magic Kingdom this time. I also collected a lot of data on Shion. I can't do anything to her yet, but later on, I'll have an easier time finding abilities that can counter her..."

Keke crouched down and looked at her quietly.

The corpses beneath her feet all grabbed onto Keke, seeming to want to drag her into the abyss.

But Keke remained unmoving, like a mountain.

"I saw it all. When you used my Personal Reality and transformed to replace me, I see your experiences, your past too. Replacement goes both ways, right?"

After all, Personal Realities were shared, and magical girls only had one miracle.

Memories flowed through the shared Personal Reality, showing her countless experiences.

That loneliness and helplessness, that fear of knowing the future alone, that anxiety of giving your all only to achieve nothing.

These days, Keke hadn't been doing nothing or knowing nothing. She had already seen it all.

That's why Keke said:

"Even though I don't want to criticize, always thinking 'next time, next time,' feeling like there's always another chance, makes it hard to give your all in this one, doesn't it? You'd think, 'Whatever, there's still a chance, so it's okay if I mess up this time.'"

Black Keke shrugged. "Actually, it's not always like that. Sometimes I give my all and still end up failing..."

This one really was different somehow.

There was something different about her, and it was making Black Keke irritated.

After all, they were ultimately the same person.

So whether it was handing things off to the next Keke or moving forward herself, it was all the same.

As long as you had the corresponding power and memories, everyone would do the exact same things.

"Dad and Mom died. Don't you want to see them again?" Black Keke asked. "The perfect world I want—Dad and Mom are there, and Big Brother too, of course. A happy life. Don't you want that?"

"I am Keke, and also Magical Girl Ruri. I only believe in the miracles I create myself."

"Haha. You stopped being that a long time ago. There are no miracles. Listen, Keke. No miracles!" Black Keke said fiercely. "Stop talking in your dreams. Be realistic! Don't hope for miracles. Use your own..."

She stopped mid-sentence.

Because in front of her, Keke's pitch-black Magical Outfit began oozing tiny streams of crimson lava.

It seeped out of the Magical Outfit drop by drop, then flowed, spreading across Keke's entire body!

In no time, a fiery red Magical Outfit, crystal clear like glass, appeared on Keke's body.

"Reality is, miracles have always been by my side, Keke."

In the distance, Shion's sword energy suddenly sliced through the continent of the End Land.

A massive chasm cut the End Land in half, and countless corpses tumbled into the abyss!

Black Keke's mouth twitched—whether from the earth-shattering scene before her or from being addressed by name.

She took a deep breath and said seriously, "You can't create a perfect world in this cycle."

The fiery red mana followed into the abyss, forming a giant net that caught and wrapped up all the Keke corpses.

"That's not it."

Keke responded softly to Black Keke:

"That's not it. It's not that I want to create a perfect world in this life. It's that I want to live and die together with everyone in this life. It's okay if we fail. It's okay if it's not perfect. Because this is Keke's world, and only Keke's."

"Never seeing Dad and Mom again? This kind of broken, garbage world—you can tolerate that? Their deaths are your fault. Because you didn't accomplish anything. Because you could have done something. You have to take responsibility for everyone's life and death. Anyone who dies is your fault, you know? You killed Dad and Mom!"

"I know."

Keke pulled all the corpses back, then filled the chasm with lava. "So I'll work hard. Work harder. Accept what I can and can't do. That's how you grow up a little, Keke."

Her tone was light and casual, yet it pressed down on Black Keke almost suffocating her.

Even facing Shion, she hadn't felt this much pressure.

But facing the real Keke, Black Keke felt so small she might be crushed with a single press.

Instinctively, she curled in on herself, trying to protect herself, as if she were naked before the other Keke.

An indescribable shame and resentment.

"You don't understand at all..."

"Isn't it the world that only belonged to you, in the very beginning, that you miss?"

The soft question was deafening. Black Keke, struck speechless, had her face twist for a moment.

But soon, as if drained, she slowly went limp.

So ferocious, yet so fragile!

Keke remained calm, reached out, and took Black Keke's hand. "You're not me, and I won't be you. But you can try to connect with this world alongside me. Start over."

She pulled Black Keke up.

"Start over. First, learn to love yourself! After all, Keke's favorite person has always been herself, right?"

Looking at the pitiful girl standing alone, unmoving, Keke still reached out and patted her head.

Like a mother.

Black Keke just slapped her hand away. "Calling yourself so selfish. You've got some nerve."

"After all, Keke has always been selfish since she was little. That's the truth."

"And Big Brother? Where does he rank?"

"Big Brother ranks second right now. He can only surpass Keke after he apologizes."

Black Keke let out a laugh. "You and I are this different, all because of him?"

"Of course. All of this was taught to me by my brother. You don't have a brother, so it's understandable that you don't get it. Take it slow."

"What's this? Suddenly bragging about your brother..."

Sniffling, Black Keke looked at Keke. "Are you saying that if I had a brother, I'd turn out like you?"

"I don't know."

"Then give Jiang Si to me. Let me experience what it's like to be a little sister protected and taught by her big brother..."

"I'll kill you."

Black Keke carefully pushed Keke's magic wand away. "Just kidding, just kidding."

"Anyway, that's how it is. I'm going to give it my all here. You can keep your cycle power for yourself."

Black Keke suddenly laughed bitterly. "Actually, this thing is just survival by any means. Everyone dies, and you're the only one left. You go to the next world, look at friends you barely know, and try to save them... Maybe it's just psychological comfort. But this is the only way I know how to live. I've come this far. This is how I have to live."

"I know." Keke said gently. "Big Brother said, don't judge other people's ways of living. As long as you're not lost, then you're right. No one can blame you or change you. Of course, if you get in someone's way and get beaten to death, you can't complain either."

"What the hell has our Big Brother been teaching you?"

"He's my big brother."

"He's our big brother."

"He's my big brother!"

Strangled and shaken by the neck, Black Keke had no choice but to raise her hands in surrender. "Yours, yours. Your big brother is right. No matter what you or your big brother say, my thoughts won't change. This life is just another link in my cycle. I'm going to find a perfect world... Of course, I'm not in a hurry now."

Black Keke lay on the ground, watching the sky as Shion and the Beast of Eternity's battle gradually subsided.

No one knew who had won or lost, but clearly, neither monster was too badly affected.

"I'll be watching. To see just how far you can go. And I'm really looking forward to seeing if you can still hold onto that mindset when you're in despair. When you regret it, I'll reappear before you, laugh in your face, and then."

Black Keke said softly: "We'll go to the next cycle together."

"Then watch closely."

"Sigh, I was going to say don't be stubborn..." Black Keke let out a helpless sigh. "Alright, I'll take a rest now. Watch your show, you damn, Keke."

Watching Black Keke disappear like sand, Keke was stunned for a moment.

Then she quickly realized the other girl had just fled.

After all, as long as her Personal Reality still existed, Black Keke, who depended on it for existence, wouldn't truly disappear.

Over there, Jiang Si was already walking over step by step. An Shiyu trotted up beside him, whispering something. Jiang Si nodded, saying something in return.

A blush spread across Little An's face, and then she laughed happily.

Keke scratched her head in frustration.

Little An was great. Yiyi was great too. Who knew what Big Brother was thinking? But Keke definitely had choice paralysis...

Still, no matter what, Big Brother had to get together with Yiyi first.

"Keke."

"Big Brother..."

Keke thought for a moment, then immediately decided she couldn't just melt back into her relationship with her brother that easily. "What happened last time isn't that simple to just move past. Big Brother... Jiang Si! You, you abandoned me, and you recognized Black Keke as your sister! That was really terrible! Do you have any idea how worried and scared I was? I was really afraid I wouldn't be able to come back. That no one would recognize me. That everyone would hate me."

Then Keke said seriously: "If you don't apologize, I, I won't forgive you. I will never forgive you, got it? Never!"

"I'm sorry."

Keke, who had been planning to use the chance to blow up and blame Jiang Si more, was stunned.

Her mouth opened, but no words came out.

She never thought her brother would apologize to her so easily...

An Shiyu hurried over, tugging at her. "Your brother... he didn't mean it like that. Don't be mad, Keke."

Keke could only reluctantly turn her head away, trying to keep her voice from melting at her brother's single apology. "Fine, fine. Since you apologized, I'll drop it for now. But I'm not done with you."

Jiang Si just nodded, reached out, and patted Keke's head, then asked gently, "Did you get it? The cycle power?"

Keke wrinkled her nose. Having her brother pat her head actually made her really happy, but she absolutely couldn't show it right now. So she just wrinkled her nose, acting like she was still mad and in a bad mood.

"No. I don't want that kind of thing."

Seeing Jiang Si's expression change.

An Shiyu quickly pulled Keke behind her, shielding her. "Cycle power isn't suitable for Keke..."

"Do you have any idea how much time and energy I spent to get that cycle power?" Jiang Si pointed at Keke twice in the air. "Such a good opportunity..."

"I just don't need it." Keke finally couldn't hold back from retorting. "I don't want to end up like that! Die and be done with it! I don't want to turn into some ghostly freak hopping into the next cycle, meddling in other people's relationships!"

"You don't have to use it, but you can't not have it."

"I won't use it, and I don't want to have it! I'm never touching it, period!"

"You—"

"Are you trying to drive me away again?"

Seeing Keke's eyes reddening as she spoke, An Shiyu helplessly tugged at her. "Alright, your brother doesn't mean that. Calm down. Stop talking."

An Shiyu then looked at Jiang Si with a pleading expression. "Keke doesn't like it, so don't force it, okay? Please respect Keke's wishes?"

Looking at the stubborn Keke, Jiang Si could only sigh.

After all this fighting, aside from the intel gained from Black Keke, a better understanding of the Time Dao Fruit's use, and acquiring a portion of Eternal Reincarnation and the Beast of Eternity's body and power...

He'd gotten almost nothing.

The most important cycle power wasn't obtained, meaning all this time was basically wasted.

But with An Shiyu present, he couldn't just scold Keke openly either. He couldn't embarrass the kid in front of her friends.

Jiang Si could only swallow his anger and say coldly:

"Pack up. You're coming with me to the Magic Kingdom."

"Huh?" Keke wiped the tears threatening to fall and asked, "What are we going to the Magic Kingdom for..."

"Dad and Mom are there."

Jiang Si flicked his sleeves and headed toward Shion first.

"I'm taking you to see them."