Chapter 234: The Haunted House Is Terrifying, But With Senior Here, the Haunted House Isn't Terrifying

"But... if you want to know, I can also unseal it."

Amber's gaze was clear, without the previous riddle-like evasion, nor any feigned ignorance or confusion. She simply allowed the cherry-haired girl to observe her, as if leaving the decision entirely to her.

"..."

The cherry-haired girl merely lowered her head, took another sip of black tea, and gently shook her head.

Amber was stunned for a moment, then whispered, "Thank you."

She then spoke seriously once more: "I know Phoenix has already said this... but I still want to remind you again."

"After you go out, be careful of that Director."

"The reason I originally infiltrated L Corp and joined this project was precisely to track down that person's trail."

"I just didn't expect to fall into a trap instead."

"That person... can even change their appearance and identity, and might not even be the true body."

The cherry-haired girl nodded without saying a single word, reaching out to tuck the small booklet, still warm with body heat and a faint fragrance, into her bosom. Suddenly, she heard Amber speak again.

"Ah—right."

Amber smiled at her with a charming, cunning expression: "I've created some new dishes again."

"Would you like to try them?"

"Mm."

............

At dusk.

The twilight brushed against the windowsill and spilled into the room, dyeing the apartment in a rich layer of orange-gold.

"Dad, Mom, I'm full!"

The girl with wine-red hair stood up, took the hand of the cherry-haired girl beside her, and then clattered up the stairs with light footsteps, leaving behind Su Jingyan, who looked somewhat helpless at the dinner table, and Mogong Ma, who exchanged a glance with a gratified expression.

The two of them walked hand in hand into Su Fang's bedroom.

It was still that room full of girlish charm, still that photo wall covered with countless pictures, as if nothing had ever changed.

The familiar furnishings reflected in those cherry blossom-colored pupils, causing the cherry-haired girl to unconsciously look around the room.

Su Fang rubbed her cheek against her slender neck, wine-red and sakura-red hair intertwining and brushing against each other, her words carrying joy and sweet coyness:

"Hehe, Senior finally gets to sleep here tonight."

Her grip was firm: "Speaking of which, it's been several days since we last slept together! Senior should be sleeping with me!"

Lin Guang: "......"

—After driving away the Abyss and restoring peace to Utopia, she had been spending these days playing around with everyone, either being snatched back and forth on the girls' beds or simply sleeping together with everyone.

It seemed like it really had been several days since she last slept with Su Fang, but was it really normal to say that so directly?

But it was true.

Without realizing it, this place had become as familiar to her as her own home.

Thinking about it carefully, almost every first day of her cycles had actually been spent here with Su Fang. One could say this was Lin Guang's Anchor Point in this world of cycles.

At this moment, Su Fang's emerald-green eyes looked at the slightly dazed cherry-haired girl and suddenly let out a giggle.

Lin Guang tilted her head.

"...?"

But the girl before her didn't explain why she was laughing. Instead, she pulled her over to sit at the desk.

"Hehe. Oh right, Senior! Today isn't just about staying at my house!"

She reached out and pointed at the thick photo album placed on the table.

"Earlier, didn't I ask Senior to use your Domain to recreate all the photos I'd taken?"

Lin Guang nodded.

"This is already done! I picked out all the duplicates! Only the best ones are left!"

Saying this, she suddenly couldn't help but reach out and pinch Lin Guang's face: "Speaking of which, Senior is the Goddess now... You didn't secretly peek at the contents beforehand, did you? That would ruin the surprise!"

The cherry-haired girl looked somewhat helpless and nodded again.

The next moment, Su Fang excitedly reached out and flipped open the album's black leather cover.

The first page that met their eyes was a group photo.

In the photo, five girls were showing radiant smiles of various expressions, standing in front of that stone that symbolized the boundary marker.

And the cherry-haired girl stood in the very center, her smile as gentle as a new crescent moon, yet breathtakingly beautiful.

Su Fang said softly, "Actually, we take one every time."

"But I don't know why, out of over seventy shots, only the first one taken has the most feeling, so this is also the first photo in the album."

"Besides, the first time is the most commemorative... Senior can take a look at what's written on the back of the photo."

Hearing this, Lin Guang reached out and flipped it over, revealing the back of the photo.

What met her eyes was a line of elegant handwritten blue characters.

【First exploration of the Outer Realm with Senior Mengmengxiang.】

Su Fang smiled with charming cunning: "All the photos after this one are like this."

Lin Guang began flipping through this truly hefty album page by page.

And so, memories came rushing in.

There was no fixed order.

There were photos of them standing before the massive glass wall of the aquarium, with Tang Keren holding up a silver gem pendant, smiling with charming delight.

There were photos of them wearing various swimsuits on the beach, the contrast in their figures glaringly obvious—the flat were flat to death, the busty were busty to death.

There were also photos of them eating cake in a dessert shop, wearing blissful expressions.

These were the footprints the girls had left in Kazenari Town over these past days since the world returned to peace, as well as group photos taken with everyone under various circumstances in past cycles.

But group photos only took up part of the album.

In reality, most of the photos in the frame featured only two people, or just one person.

Her and Su Fang, or just her alone.

Those were close-up two-person shots taken at various times, or photos Lin Guang didn't even know when she had been captured.

【On the Kanamubi Bridge with Senior, the sunlight made Senior's hair look so beautiful.】

【Went to the library with Senior, tried having Senior wear rimless glasses, giving off a literary girl vibe.】

【Went to the clothing store and had Senior try on over a dozen outfits, all of them super gorgeous, like a doll.】

【Went to the haunted house with Senior. The haunted house is terrifying, but with Senior here, the haunted house isn't terrifying.】

Lin Guang flipped to another page.

The next photo was of her back.

The cherry-haired girl stood atop the mountain, the wind lifting her long hair, and before her lay the setting sun about to sink into the sea, along with Kazenari Town.

"......"

Even she didn't know when this one had been taken as a candid shot.

Lin Guang gazed at this photo seriously.

It was a very unfamiliar feeling—secretly watching herself through someone else's perspective, and so the things that had happened in the past were presented before her eyes from another angle.

So this was what it meant—that every move she made mattered so much in another person's world. Just as she had unknowingly occupied the girl's world through countless cycles, she had likewise unknowingly merged into her own world as well.