The nth time I met my puppet

(Just kidding you guys, who told you not to comment on my posts recently? Hehe, I’ll blast you~)

This time, her body did not turn into starlight and disappear. This was what scared Sanbing the most. In the past, her body would turn into starlight and disappear. Although he didn't know why, it also meant that they would have a chance to meet again.

And now, as Wan Nan herself said, there will be no next time.

The fact that her body did not dissipate is the best proof of this.

"Why...why didn't it disappear? Why do I still remember it?"

The scattered soldiers were completely panicked, terrified and at a loss, but there was nothing they could do.

Nashida was silent. The current development of the matter was far beyond the expectations of all of them. They knew nothing about the relationship between Wan Nan and San Bing from the beginning.

Sanbing held Wan Nan in his arms, feeling her gradually fading body temperature as he had done time and time again. The only difference was that she did not disappear again.

They will never meet again.

"Wannan..."

Paimon watched with a bitter taste in his mouth. Even Ying felt a little guilty for not being able to notice or stop it in time. Nashida, the goddess of wisdom, was also unaware of what was going on between them.

They all knew that Wan Nan was dead.

However, through the conversation between Wan Nan and San Bing, a glimmer of hope arose in their hearts.

Maybe... there is still hope?

Although they had actually been more in favor of Tinari's idea before, because Wan Nan's condition was indeed very similar to delusional disorder, after all, he was an existence that no one except her could see, so did he really exist?

But now, they can only hope for this.

"Skirmisher...do you know what that 007 is?"

Paimeng actually didn't want to have any contact with Sanbing, but she still asked this question for Wan Nan.

"…have no idea."

Sanbing was silent for a long time. He had no idea about the existence of 007. Wan Nan had never told him about it. All he knew was that Wan Nan left again and again and came back again.

Only then did he suddenly realize how little he knew about Wan Nan. Wan Nan seemed to have never mentioned her hometown, and he had never heard of the sister she mentioned.

It turned out that he thought he understood Wan Nan, but in fact, he knew nothing.

"Aren't you lovers? How could you not know?"

"She..." San Bing just opened his mouth and realized that he knew nothing about Wan Nan. Although they were in love and he clearly had so many common memories with her, he seemed so confused now. He paused and pursed his lips before continuing.

"She didn't tell me that, not once...not even once."

"All I know... is that she died over and over again and came back. I know nothing else."

"Does this kind of thing even exist in the world? It's a bit like reincarnation, but even if it's reincarnation, one shouldn't forget or have memories of past lives..."

Nashida pondered this matter. Many things were beyond her expectations. Even the God of Wisdom had never seen anything so unprecedented.

San Bing hugged Wan Nan tightly, his eyes lifeless. He knew she was just a cold corpse. But he refused to believe it, as if he wanted to convey his own warmth to her, begging her to open her eyes and look at him again.

"Every time she dies, her body will turn into starlight and dissipate. Everyone's memory of her will disappear in part. They will forget her name, her voice, her appearance, and will only remember that there was such a person in their lives."

"But... she is dead now, but she has not turned into starlight and disappeared, and I... have not forgotten her anymore."

He knew exactly what this meant.

San Bing's eyes were red, and he regretted it. He now believed what Wan Nan said, and from her perspective, he could see how ridiculous he was at that time.

So...what does his previous actions matter?

He hurt her, but she still caught him when he fell.

At that time, he clearly saw that Wan Nan seemed to be in a very bad mood, but he still mocked her.

When she was at her most vulnerable, he did not comfort or tolerate her, but instead hurt her heart once again.

That's why she was so angry at that time.

From Wan Nan's perspective, how innocent is she? She treated him sincerely from beginning to end. When she hated him, she hated him openly, and when she loved him, she hated him openly. She dared to love and hate him from beginning to end.

"Sorry…"

He owed her an apology, but she never heard it until her death, and now she can no longer hear it.

She doesn't need this apology anymore.

"Wannan... I'm sorry. I will help you find 007, but before that, we need to solve the problem of the World Tree..."

Nashida's eyes were filled with apology, but now was not the time to be sad. The crisis of the World Tree had not yet been resolved. She wanted to wait until this matter was resolved before she would have the energy to look for 007.

Nashida and Ying looked at each other and nodded.

Only Sanbing was left there, holding Wan Nan.

……

After the trouble with the World Tree was resolved, Nashida felt indescribable discomfort in her heart, but she didn't know why.

"We just saved the world didn't we?"

"But why...I seem to be crying?"

But the answer to this question could never be found, and eventually no one bothered about it anymore.

Nashida held a funeral for Wannan and preserved her body in an ice coffin.

Tinari felt an indescribable regret in his heart. He really... shouldn't have agreed. Even if she would blame him, at least a life was saved. As a doctor, he felt extremely guilty.

But what shocked him even more was that the false god San Bing also attended the funeral, even as Wan Nan's lover.

Sanbing didn't care about other people's eyes, he only cared about Wannan.

But in fact, he still couldn't understand it. Wan Nan said that his future was her past. He didn't really understand what he meant. Can time... flow backwards?

This was something he had never imagined.

Ying and Nashida couldn't help but sigh as they watched this scene. If they had known this would happen, why did they do it in the first place?

If the scattered soldiers had not injured Wan Nan first, Wan Nan would have been injured at most when he went to pick him up, but he would not have died.

They clearly loved each other, but because of some unspoken misunderstandings, they ended up in the current situation.

"I never thought someone like San Bing would be Wan Nan's lover. San Bing is so arrogant and domineering, but Wan Nan gives me the impression of being elegant and gentle. How did these two completely different people get together?!"

Paimon still found it a little hard to believe when he thought about it. How could these two personalities get together? And who could stand Sanbing's temper? Would they really not fight?

Well, it turns out that a fight is going to happen.

After all, look, aren't they fighting now?

But now that Wan Nan is dead, San Bing seems really sad.

But he was so unscrupulous when he hurt her at that time. Wasn't it because he believed that she would come back?

But now he won't come back.

Nashida shook her head and began to search for information about Kong and 007 in the World Tree. The information Kong left in the World Tree was very strange. Logically, he should be an Adventer, and there should be no record of him in the World Tree, but there was.

As for 007, she did not find any relevant information in the World Tree, but she was not surprised. Nashida changed her strategy and began to look for Wan Nan's records in the World Tree.

As a result... although there was some, only the one from Wan Nan's current life was found, and from the perspective of the World Tree, it was very strange, because the first half of his life could not be found, and the person seemed to have suddenly appeared, but everyone around him thought it was reasonable.

Nashida fell into deep thought, and then began to look for every other life of Wan Nan. Of course, it was impossible to find him directly, so Nashida found him through the scattered soldiers.

Wan Nan appeared again and again in Sanbing's life, so it was much easier to find Wan Nan through Sanbing, so Nashida saw a lot through Sanbing's perspective.

But it is not limited to Sanbing's perspective, because she only needs to find every life of Wan Nan through Sanbing, and she can see the true picture of things through Wan Nan's perspective and the perspective of others.

And she finally found information about 007 in the little mute's life.

To a certain extent, she was skeptical about some of Wan Nan's words before his death, because the timeline should be smooth, but after finding the news about 007, she suddenly believed it.

Because the name "Sanbing" had not yet appeared when Wan Nan said it, and what she said about the future did match up.

After seeing all this, Nashida felt it necessary to let Skirmisher see it too, as he should not be completely ignorant.

So she reached a cooperation with Sanbing, and Sanbing helped Ying to find information inside the World Tree.

And she had already prepared the answer to the truth, waiting for Sanbing to discover it all himself.

Paimon was obviously very wary of Sanbing. After all, Sanbing even dared to attack his own lover. In addition, Wannan was also a friend to Paimon, so Paimon seemed to dislike Sanbing even more because of this.

"Don't look at me like that. This cooperation is beneficial to both you and me."

"Humph, who knows if you will lie to us."

"No need. I also want to find out the truth of the matter now."

He still wanted to confirm what Wan Nan said again, not because he didn't believe it, but because he just wanted to know the original story of it all. There were too few words Wan Nan could say before he died, and he wanted to get more useful information.

He also wanted to find out something about Wan Nan's past, such as... her hometown.

However, before that, according to the content of the cooperation, he needs to find out about Sora and the Adventers first, but unfortunately there is no relevant information in the World Tree.

So, Sanbing also began to look for information about Wannan.

Starting from the earliest timeline, he remembered that they all said that Wan Nan was a new resident who moved to Ta'esha, but no one knew anything about what happened before Wan Nan moved to Ta'esha.

She never said this.

But when the scattered soldiers began to look for what happened before Wan Nan moved to Talingsha, there was nothing, just like there was no record of the descenders, a complete blank.