In the silent parallel world, darkness spread across the sky, and sunlight failed to break through the clouds.

The Hound of Tindalos appeared, sniffing around the body of Bai Lan lying on the ground. Dissatisfied, it left the parallel world.

This one wasn’t edible.

Saiki followed closely, arriving in this world. To his surprise, he couldn’t catch up to the Hound of Tindalos. He noted a crucial point: the dog’s speed in the same world’s timeline is predictable. It takes a day to traverse a hundred-million-year timeline, but when traveling to other worlds, the dog can ignore temporal differences and directly lock onto the space-time and its target.

This discovery was significant.

It meant that walking the dog had to be done within the same world’s timeline; crossing worlds would result in getting bitten by the dog.

Saiki stood on the battlefield, where the noise had vanished, leaving an oppressive silence reminiscent of a post-apocalyptic world.

**This world is finished.**

The pink-haired high school student removed his limiter hairpin, unleashing his telepathic ability.

He scanned the entire world for any signs of life, but found none. Everyone had perished for some reason. Coldly accepting this brutal reality, he approached the body of the white-haired youth, his fingers touching the unique gemstone ring on the fresh corpse.

He activated his psychometry ability.

By touching an object, he could read the residual thoughts attached to it.

After a few seconds…

He saw what Bai Lan had done, and in a moment of lost control, crushed the gemstone ring. Quickly withdrawing his hand, he wiped it as if he had touched something dirty.

**Ah, a world-destroying megalomaniac who wants to become a god.**

Unconcerned with the rarity of cube of seven, Saiki took a few steps away and picked up the mask on the ground.

The blood-stained human face mask caught his attention.

**Whose face is this?**

Saiki activated his psychometry again. His usually cold expression froze as he unexpectedly saw the mask’s owner. His steadfast rationality wavered slightly.

**…**

**…Can humans really look like this?**

**I thought that constantly using X-ray vision to see skeletons had desensitized me to concepts of beauty and ugliness, but I was wrong. I do have those concepts.**

**Thank you, face, for making me realize that life can be this difficult.**

Through the mask, Saiki saw Hyakki’s past. Jukai had left thoughts and memories in the mask while sculpting it. This weathered man had poured his heart and soul into restoring the face of this incomplete child, simply to compensate for what Hyakki had “lost” and to help him live a good life.

Furthermore, he witnessed the interactions between Hyakki and Dazai, absorbing the purest expressions of human affection. Hyakki’s inner calls to “Dororo” were all preserved in the mask.

Saiki’s gaze softened.

Because there are so many beautiful things between humans, he was born without the joy of ordinary people. He voluntarily wore the suppressor to prevent losing emotions and the baseline of humanity.

“Time goes back.”

After the cooldown time for temporal traversal passed, Saiki grabbed the mask and took it away directly. Before leaving, he casually reversed the parallel timeline back seven years. The world on the brink of destruction instantly regained its vitality, but Bai Lan, whose soul had scattered, missed the chance to be revived seven years ago.

Saiki thought no one in the entire world knew about the time reversal, quietly performing a good deed anonymously. However, among those who were revived, there was a girl resembling a rainbow, possessing some ability to observe parallel timelines.

Yuni, with a girl’s appearance, held the orange pacifier hanging from her chest and closed her eyes in gratitude.

**Thank you, unnamed divine being.**

**And…**

**Mr. Hyakki, I wish you a speedy recovery, freedom from curses, and eternal happiness with your loved ones.**

In this world, strange people and strange things happen every day. Don’t easily give up hope; you never know when things might turn around, when there might be a sudden turn for the better, and the world starts a new chapter.

…

**Beep—!**

**The system has recorded a small portion of merit for saving the world. Since no energy fluctuations of a demon were detected, the main storyline task has encountered a BUG and automatically unlocked for one minute.**

**System self-checking… Self-check complete…**

【System update in progress… Update failed… Temporal signal to host disconnected…】

【Unable to contact the Time Travel Department…】

【System note…】

【According to the Time Travel Department’s intern rules, a significant reward will be given for discovering a bug. Interns are requested to expedite the defeat of the demon god, activate the task completion button, and return to the Time Travel Department headquarters.】

【The rewards are as follows. Please choose one (three options available).】

【One, Enhance clairvoyance, achieve stronger psychic scanning intensity.】

【Two, Strengthen the body, double physical fitness, reaching the maximum limit of human capability in this world.】

【Three, Spatial teleportation, lock onto the “skin” organ, and teleport the second Demon god from the original work to your location.】

【Choosing option three, initiating teleportation…】

【Teleportation failed.】

In the middle of the night, still recovering from his injuries, Hyakki cautiously climbed out of bed, careful not to disturb “Dororo,” and placed them against his hip…