After finishing dinner and eavesdropping on the sounds outside for a while after returning to the cabin, Zeyan felt sleepy.
"It seems there's no gain today. Let's continue tomorrow... oh, I should say, let's continue in the next loop," Zeyan sighed helplessly, declaring today's failure.
At the same time, Yoimiya also returned to her cabin, stretching her limbs with some fatigue.
"There was actually no discovery today. Could this be the wrong way to solve the problem? But besides this, I really can't think of what else to do. Ahhh, why did I have to encounter such a thing?"
Yoimiya jumped onto the bed, buried her head in the pillow, and then rolled around on the bed with the pillow in her arms, feeling quite helpless.
Regardless, she would try the same method again tomorrow. Perhaps she had overlooked something today?
...
Fourth playthrough.
"...then I'll go back first. Goodbye, Miss Yoimiya."
"Then goodbye."
Zeyan and Yoimiya parted ways once more.
"Where exactly is the problem?" Yoimiya murmured, glancing at Zeyan's departing figure before looking away. "Anyway, it's not him."
"Where exactly is the problem?" Zeyan swept his gaze behind him as he walked around the corner of the deck. When it passed Yoimiya, he shook his head. "Anyway, it's not her."
...
Fifth playthrough.
"Strange, why isn't there anyone acting abnormally? Could my judgment be wrong? Is it not someone else causing the time loop, but myself? But if it's me, how should I solve this problem and complete the instance?"
Zeyan looked bewildered, unable to figure out the situation.
"Strange, why isn't there anyone acting abnormally? Could my judgment be wrong? Is it me causing the time loop? But I don't have such an ability, do I? And if it's me, how should I solve the problem?".
Yoimiya looked bewildered, unable to figure out the situation.
...
Sixth playthrough.
Today, Zeyan didn't plan to follow the previous pattern anymore. It was troublesome to keep doing the same things, and it would also make him look a bit foolish.
So, he didn't go out in the morning. He thought about what to do in the cabin before going out to understand the situation of each passenger on the ship.
At the same time, Yoimiya also didn't plan to follow the previous pattern anymore, but she was a bit at a loss for a moment, not knowing what to do. After all, she basically knew everyone on the ship, and she knew that these people had no memories of the time loop. Even if she told them about the time loop, it probably wouldn't be useful, right?
What should she do?
Yoimiya didn't know and stayed in the cabin all day, thinking for the entire day.
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Seventh playthrough.
Yoimiya felt that staying in the cabin all the time was useless and wouldn't solve anything, so she decided to go out for a casual stroll to see the situation.
As she walked, Yoimiya suddenly heard a voice in conversation.
"What's your name, little one? What are your hobbies? Tell Uncle all about it. Don't be afraid, Uncle is a good person."
A slightly familiar voice came from the distance.
Hearing the voice, Yoimiya perked up immediately. Because she had been doing the same things for the past few days, she was familiar with the behavior of each person on the ship and could confirm that no one had said these words before. This was an unusual phenomenon.
Yoimiya quickly ran towards the direction of the voice and saw a person crouching in front of a little girl, asking her all sorts of questions. The little girl looked at the person in front of her timidly, answering honestly.
However, the little girl was very sharp-eyed. She saw Yoimiya's arrival, and her eyes lit up immediately as she called out, "Big Sister Yoimiya, help! There's a strange uncle here asking me strange questions."
"Ayaka, don't be afraid, Big Sister Yoimiya is here!" Yoimiya quickly rushed over and picked up the little girl, then glared at the person who was crouching there. "You... eh? It's you?"
She looked at Zeyan in surprise, feeling very unexpected. Zeyan was someone she had confirmed to be normal, so why was he doing something completely different today?
Seeing Yoimiya rush over and look at him with strange eyes, Zeyan quickly stood up and explained, "Wait, don't misunderstand. I'm not some strange uncle with weird ideas about little girls. I just purely wanted to understand everyone on the ship... wait, that's not right. I haven't met you today, have I? Why do you look like you recognize me?"
Halfway through his words, Zeyan realized something and his gaze towards Yoimiya also became strange.
After the two looked at each other for a few moments, they seemed to understand something...
Yoimiya put down the little girl named Ayaka and said, "Ayaka, you go back to your parents first. Don't talk nonsense about what happened here, okay? Leave everything to Big Sister Yoimiya."
The little girl Ayaka nodded and left.
Only Zeyan and Yoimiya were left on the spot, both silent.
After a moment of silence, Yoimiya finally couldn't hold back and asked with her hands on her hips, "You know about the time loop problem, right? You must know, your behavior doesn't match what happened before!"
Zeyan didn't intend to hide it, and he couldn't hide it anyway. "That's right, it seems you've retained your memories too. But... but you didn't have any memories in the previous loops, did you?"
Zeyan looked at Yoimiya in confusion.
Loops?
Yoimiya heard this unfamiliar word but quickly understood its meaning and casually explained, "I thought pretending to act like on the first day might help me discover something, so I've been doing the same things for several days."
"...Oh, I see. What a coincidence, I thought so too, and that's what I did," Zeyan said speechlessly.
This explained why neither of them had noticed each other's problems at the beginning. They were both acting.
Thinking that they had both gone through several extra loops because of each other's acting, Zeyan vaguely felt a pain in his nether regions, and Yoimiya had a similar feeling.
"You, I don't even know what to say to you. If you had been more straightforward, I wouldn't have had to work so hard for so many loops," Yoimiya said helplessly, covering her forehead.
She knew that memorizing and reciting lines was very tiring.
Zeyan rolled his eyes. "You have the nerve to say that to me? Do you think I wasn't tired?"
For several days, he had been observing the outside through that small door gap and then pressing his ear against the wall to eavesdrop on the sounds outside. That feeling was also very exhausting, okay?
"You..." Yoimiya's remarkable chest rose and fell, but in the end, she didn't say anything and instead said, "Forget about those things. Since you're also one of us, then I'll be direct. Did you cause this time loop?"
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Every 300 Power Stones
2 Bonus chapter
Every 500 Power Stones
4 Bonus chapter.
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