Teresa only Felt that her brain was in a mess, like a lump being stirred fiercely by a wooden stick.
After an unknown amount of time, this feeling finally subsided. Then, countless images emerged before Teresa's eyes, various scenes flashing by, finally stopping at a scene where she was confronting a beautiful young girl.
"Who is that?" Teresa's heart was full of doubt and confusion. Was this her memory? Who was she?
For a moment, Teresa Felt inexplicably irritable.
"You are Teresa."
Suddenly, a gentle voice spoke in Teresa's heart. The gentle voice seemed to have magic; Teresa's irritable emotions dissipated without a trace in an instant.
"Is my name Teresa?" Teresa murmured softly.
"Yes, your name is Teresa." The gentle voice appeared once more.
"Are those my memories? Who is the woman in that image?" Teresa asked hurriedly.
"You are your memories; you only need to merge with them," a gentle voice said.
"Is that so?" Teresa nodded. "What should I do?"
"Just relax and accept the memories," the gentle voice said.
"I'm ready." Teresa smiled, and then she felt something awakening in her brain, carrying a sense of familiarity. Were those her memories?
"Finally done." Fujino wiped the non-existent sweat from her forehead and then looked at Teresa, who was sitting before her with her eyes closed.
Teresa was already dead. When the world will had previously bestowed its theory upon Teresa, Fujino had mercilessly punched and obliterated her, destroying her physical body entirely, but Fujino had preserved her soul. The Teresa before her was a new body that Fujino had recast for her.
However, because Fujino had not tended to Teresa's soul since collecting it so long ago, she only realized today upon taking it out that Teresa's soul had become somewhat chaotic. It was nothing serious, though—just memory confusion. The cause of this memory confusion was that the world will's previous bestowal had granted Teresa power far beyond her own limits, causing damage to her soul. Because it had been stored in the system space where time was frozen, the damage to Teresa's soul had not worsened.
"It's about time now." Fujino stepped forward and placed one hand on Teresa's forehead, and a green light emanated from her hand, spreading over Teresa's entire body.
Teresa slowly opened her eyes, and Fujino removed her hand from Teresa's forehead.
"Fujino." Teresa's gaze met Fujino's face, her tone extremely gentle.
"Teresa, you're finally awake." Fujino also revealed a gentle smile.
Fujino reached out to help Teresa up and sat beside her, gently stroking Teresa's Red Hair with one hand. Teresa leaned on Fujino's shoulder, her eyes filled with attachment toward Fujino.
It seems the impact is quite significant, Fujino thought to herself. She had indeed tampered with Teresa's memory. Fujino hadn't touched the general memories; after all, Teresa would encounter familiar people later, and if she had altered the main memories, there was a high probability of being discovered. Therefore, Fujino hadn't touched Teresa's prior memories. What Fujino had altered were the memories of the time when Teresa was deceived by the world will to come find her, as well as the memories during the years Teresa had been missing. Fujino had inserted some memories into this broken timeline, which was the reason for Teresa's attachment to Fujino.
"Teresa, I'll have to trouble you later, okay?"
"As long as it is Fujino's request, there is no problem," Teresa said with a smile, greedily enjoying the special fragrance emanating from Fujino.
Looking at Teresa in her arms, Fujino felt that she might have altered things a bit too much, but this was also fine.
"Eh! It's actually Teresa!" Upon learning that the help Fujino had given her was actually a knight, and that this knight was the long-confirmed-dead Teresa, Emilia couldn't have been more shocked.
"Stay calm, Lia." Fujino patted Emilia on the shoulder, indicating it was just a small matter. It was worth noting that Fujino had originally wanted to summon someone from another world to be Emilia's knight, but later, due to other reasons, she abandoned that idea and chose Teresa instead.
One could imagine the massive stir it would cause when someone confirmed dead for many years reappeared before everyone.
"But is it really okay for Sister Teresa to be my knight?" Emilia looked at Teresa, who had been staying by Fujino's side.
"It's fine." Teresa shook her head, walked in front of Emilia, took her hand, and knelt on one knee.
This was a knight's etiquette. This was the first time Fujino had seen it; back in the Type-Moon World, they hadn't played this game of etiquette with her.
After performing the etiquette, Teresa had pledged her service to Emilia as her master, becoming Emilia's knight.
"Alright, let's prepare. We depart tomorrow to participate in the Royal Selection," Fujino said.
"Is it tomorrow? Time really flies," Emilia said.
"Yes, Emilia, you're about to become queen soon," Fujino smiled, walked over to Emilia, hugged her, and planted a firm kiss on her delicate cheek.
"Fujino!" Emilia's face turned bright red immediately. Although Emilia's personality had changed, the tendency to blush when shy hadn't changed much. She would just have to train her well after Emilia became queen.
"Fujino, I want one too!" Teresa also leaned in, pointing to her own cheek as she spoke to Fujino.
Fujino didn't hesitate and immediately kissed Teresa's cheek. Seeing Teresa's slightly reddened cheeks, she felt very happy as well.
"My Lady, I want one too!" Echidna didn't know where she had run from, but she came excitedly before Fujino, imitating Teresa by pointing to her own cheek.
"You've actually grasped a sliver of spatial power." Fujino looked at Echidna with some surprise. Others might not know how Echidna had appeared here without anyone noticing, but how could Fujino not sense it? Echidna had used spatial power, which was why she hadn't been discovered by Emilia and Teresa. But to Fujino, the traces of Echidna using space were far too obvious, like someone turning on a flashlight in the shadows.
"I'm amazing, right!" Echidna said proudly. To study spatial power, she had been working tirelessly for the past few days.
"To have grasped a trace of space in just a few days is indeed very impressive." Fujino nodded. Echidna's performance at this moment indeed exceeded her previous expectations.
Looking at Echidna's cheek, Fujino gave a light kiss.
It must be said that a Witch's thoughts are different from ordinary people. Regarding the fact that Fujino liked women, the Witch Echidna was very excited. To Echidna, this was an unknown territory, and she even suggested wanting to try it out with Fujino, but Fujino did not agree to it.
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