"Hey, we definitely need to inform them, but that doesn't stop us from peeking! We'll just take a quick look and leave. Who would know what we did?"
"No, no, no, if you're going, go by yourself. I'm certainly not going!"
Chiharu shook her small head like a rattle drum. Seeing this, Yui clicked her tongue regretfully. It seemed she would have to go alone.
"Hmph, coward."
With that, Yui quietly snuck towards the studio by herself, while Chiharu thought for a moment and then left.
Anyway, she had already warned her. If the other person was exposed and fired, it had nothing to do with her.
Chiharu informed the others of the message and then went to the laundry room to wash clothes. Out of sight, out of mind. She was afraid she wouldn't be able to resist her curiosity and would follow Yui to the studio.
At this moment in the studio, Shiki had already drawn all the acupoints and meridians on the front of her arm—no, to be precise, the inner side.
The meridians and acupoints formed a complex circuit diagram on the paper. Ayaka, looking over, felt dizzy. She couldn't imagine how Shiki had memorized them and reran them on paper.
Ayaka shook her head and found a chair to sit down. But looking at the continuous movement of the pen and the gradually increasing meridian map on the paper, she unexpectedly fell asleep.
She only felt her eyelids getting heavier and heavier, finally closing completely, leaving only a steady breathing sound.
The studio became even quieter. Besides the two people's breathing, there was only the rustling sound of the pen continuously rubbing against the paper.
At this time, even a slight sound would become exceptionally noticeable. Yui in the corridor also understood this and lowered her breathing to the minimum.
Nothing dramatic happened, like a sound appearing due to an accident. After seeing that the two were genuinely just drawing, Yui left the study.
After all, she was just curious and didn't want to actually lose her job.
Only after moving away from the studio did Yui realize that the clothes on her back were soaked with cold sweat, and her heart was pounding, perhaps because she had held her breath for too long.
"Phew~ Oh my goodness, that was too exciting."
Yui let out a long breath, her legs feeling a bit weak. After a simple adjustment, she found a place to slack off.
...
In the studio, while both were unconcerned with the outside world, specks of starlight gathered in mid-air.
Finally, a woman with a face identical to Shiki appeared in the studio.
However, her hair was very long, thick black hair falling directly to her calves, and the kimono she wore was a gorgeous uchikake.
"If one knows it's a dream, why wake?"
As if with emotion or a sigh, Shiki transformed into starlight and vanished, as if she had never been there.
Her existence would not be recorded by this world. She did nothing, for a very simple reason.
Unqualified.
Even though she was just a consciousness now, the Ley Lines could not record this omniscient and omnipotent existence.
Even time was like this, after all, time was created by her.
"Sweet dreams, child."
The moment the words fell, a sweet smile appeared on Ayaka's serene sleeping face, as if she had dreamed of something good.
In her dream, Ayaka saw her parents for the first time in a long while. Their family lived in a place called Earth.
There, technology was highly advanced. An empire named Tian unified the world, and the people lived in peace and contentment, without war.
Ayaka lived an extraordinary life as an ordinary girl. Of course, she also met her destined one.
Shiki.
A contradictory girl with a dual personality. After a long period of getting along, Ayaka was already able to keenly discern which personality was in control of the body.
And then, they got married.
She was twenty-one that year, Shiki was twenty-three.
The empire allowed same-sex marriage because, with highly advanced biotechnology, same-sex couples could also have children.
A year later, they had a child named Ryougi Mina, an infant cultivated from a combination of their genes, conceived and delivered by Ayaka.
There was no difference from a normal child; the body was very healthy, only lacking a father.
She inherited the white hair of the Kamisato Clan, while her pupils were brown, like Shiki's, and she had no dual personality.
The child grew up healthy, while Shiki, due to her dual personality, obtained doctoral degrees in multiple fields and was included in the empire's key training targets.
Time flowed on like this. Shiki became a well-known scientist throughout the empire, while she became a great calligrapher, every one of her works becoming a coveted collection item for the powerful.
However, people eventually die. Decades later, both were old and frail. Ayaka's face was no longer as smooth as when she was young, and Shiki's hair had lost its original blackness.
With children and grandchildren filling their homes and having retired successfully, the two of them lived a beautiful and happy life.
"Shiki, hold me…"
"Okay…"
The two embraced each other, and finally, they lost their breath in each other's arms.
"Mmm… What is this…?"
Ayaka awoke from her dream. The clock on the wall had just pointed to six o'clock, but she felt as if a very long time had passed.
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