The Progenitor was taken aback for a moment, his expression somewhat helpless.
"You're giving the 'false god' a name again."
"Yeah, it just feels like something's missing without a name."
Angel Mika replied with a smile, spreading his arms.
Angel Mika's actions felt a bit strange to Mika, who was standing nearby. He looked at Yuichiro and asked,
"Yu-chan, don't you think this Angel Mika's actions are a lot like yours when you're happy? Like... the silly part."
Luke was somewhat surprised by Mika's observational skills, but he didn't voice his agreement.
Upon hearing this, Krul began comparing the Yuichiro in her memory with the Angel Mika before her.
Well, what do you know!
Krul did indeed see a shadow of Yuichiro in Angel Mika.
Yuichiro was somewhat uncertain.
"Seems like it, huh? But I'm not silly, am I? Though it does kind of resemble me."
Mika didn't argue with Yuichiro about the accuracy of the established fact. He refocused his attention on Angel Mika, hoping to glean more information.
After thinking for a moment, Krul turned to Luke and asked,
"Could it be that this Angel Mika is actually Yuichiro?"
Luke wasn't surprised Krul would think that; Mika's question naturally led thoughts in that direction.
"That possibility can't be ruled out. But if Angel Mika is Yuichiro, then who would Mika be?"
Krul shook her head, indicating she didn't know.
Currently, they knew very little, but that didn't mean Krul didn't have her own suspicions.
Staring at the one-eyed black sphere "Yu," Krul pondered something.
Angel Mika hugged "Yu" into his arms, squeezing it from a sphere into an oval shape.
However, "Yu" showed no reaction to this, and no emotion could be seen in its single eye.
"'Yu,' huh? But I still don't recommend giving it a name."
The Progenitor sighed and began saying something incomprehensible.
"Once it has a name, it will develop a 'heart,' and that is a curse placed upon it."
Mika looked puzzled.
"But isn't giving a name an expression of love?"
The Progenitor shook his head with a bitter smile.
"No, it's a curse. With a 'heart' comes worry."
Luke looked completely baffled; even he found these words somewhat vague and hard to grasp. He asked Krul,
"Is this some special concept related to 'false gods'?"
Krul shot Luke a sidelong glance.
You're asking me? Who am I supposed to ask?
"In all my long life, this is the first time I've seen such a creature. I don't know either, but it sounds like it might be similar to giving a soul to an empty shell?"
Luke, Yuichiro, and Mika all nodded, finding Krul's explanation quite reasonable.
After hearing the Progenitor's words, Angel Mika's confusion didn't lessen by half; instead, it increased significantly.
"Then why did you give me the name Mikael?"
The Progenitor answered very naturally.
"Naturally, to curse you."
"You're lying!"
Angel Mika hugged the Progenitor, a look of happiness on his face as he laughed.
"Father obviously named me because he loves me."
The Progenitor looked into Angel Mika's eyes and didn't answer.
Angel Mika pressed on. In his view, his father was just a tsundere.
"Right~? Father, that's definitely it, right?"
This scene naturally fell into the eyes of the "Four-Person Spectator Group."
Yuichiro found it somewhat novel.
"What's going on there? It's like a puppy."
Mika also spoke up.
"But I wouldn't act like that, so..."
Yuichiro quickly interjected.
"I wouldn't act like that either!"
Mika looked at Yuichiro and smiled.
"But I think Yu-chan has a side like that."
Yuichiro was very surprised.
"Huh?! Are you serious?"
Krul, standing to the side, glanced at Luke and remarked offhandedly,
"Being told something harsh but still shamelessly sticking close... reminds me of a certain someone."
Luke: Can't hear you, can't hear you.
Yuichiro, however, had a sudden look of enlightenment and pointed at Luke.
"Then maybe this is *your* memory?!"
The other three were dumbfounded, looking at Yuichiro strangely.
Luke was utterly speechless.
"I haven't lost my memory. I'm a proper human-turned-Vampire."
Yuichiro still felt his train of thought wasn't wrong and stubbornly insisted,
"What if you lost your memory before you could remember anything?"
Luke mentally rolled his eyes at Yuichiro.
Do I have to tell you I'm actually a transmigrator?
To prevent Yuichiro from straying too far off track, Mika explained to him,
"Yu-chan, this is a memory I'm projecting using your Sea of Consciousness as a medium for a curse technique. Even if it were my memory, it couldn't possibly be Luke's memory. Besides, Luke has always lived in Shibuya with his father. My memories start from the orphanage. Your memories of your parents are only from the few months before entering the orphanage. There's no way Luke could have memories from that far back."
"Ah, okay. But I still don't think I'd act like Angel Mika does!"
Mika's mention made Luke unconsciously recall his own experiences since arriving in this world.
His father died not long after he was born. After that, he lived with his mother, waiting for the main storyline. When the Vampires attacked Shibuya, he was captured by Krul, and his mother... wait, what did his mother look like?
Luke suddenly felt a bit dizzy.
Krul quickly noticed Luke's abnormality, frowned, and stepped forward to ask.
"What's wrong with you?"
Luke held his head and shook it, then asked Mika,
"Mika, do you remember my mother?"
Mika was taken aback, thought carefully for a moment, frowned, and answered,
"Huh? That's strange, I can't remember..."
"It's nothing, I was just asking."
Luke's expression was complicated. Not only couldn't he remember his mother, but others couldn't either. That was a problem.
He wasn't a local. In theory, his memories shouldn't have any issues, as the worldline shouldn't have included his existence. But now, there was a problem with his memories concerning his mother.
Luke silently made a mental note of this matter. Now was clearly not a good time to resolve it.
Although Luke stopped asking, Mika found it strange that he had lost the memory of Luke's mother.
Could he have lost other memories during his time at the Hyakuya Orphanage?
However, before he could ponder deeply, another situation arose with Angel Mika... the Heavenly Dao Space of the Main World.
"Ah, this candidate failed the task of outsmarting Lelouch in 'Code Geass' and even got brainwashed by Lelouch into committing suicide. So tragic."
"Yikes, this one failed to escape in 'Angels of Death' and got barbecued by the priest."
"This one is the dumbest! With the power of Karasuma Tenma, he acted all high and mighty like he was the best in the world, and got killed by Sekkyou Yuto."
"Sigh, these guys either try to match wits with the pinnacle of intelligence or get too arrogant with high combat power and end up killed instead. And here I was, playing mother to them when they first entered."
A light screen floated before the Golden finger. With a wave of its hand, the images on it changed into a list.
game mode: 2/1
heavenly dao mode: 29 people
"Now there are still two doing tasks to become official Heavenly Dao Agents. Pity for those who chose heavenly dao mode."
It turned out Luke wasn't the only one chosen by the Golden finger back then; there were quite a few other lucky individuals.
However, there were differences even among the lucky ones. Those who chose game mode during the initial world selection would receive tasks to become official Heavenly Dao Agents. While heavenly dao mode offered omnipotence, you couldn't die at all, so how could you exit to change modes? You could only stay in that world forever.
Out of the ten who initially chose game mode, only two hadn't failed yet. The task difficulty was set based on the combat power and abilities they filled in at the start.
"Ding. Candidate Number Three has failed."
"Hmm? Let me see. Huh~ The task was to romance more Spirits than Itsuka Shidou. Let me check the progress... Wow, a pure love story, focusing solely on romancing Tokisaki Kurumi, and hasn't succeeded..."
"In that case, only Number Nine is left. What's the progress? What?! Spends all day teasing Krul, the sin keys come to him on their own... This guy is really interesting, my favorite episode!"
..."Ah-choo! Who's cursing me?"
Luke rubbed his nose, feeling strange. Could he still sneeze in his current state?
For some reason, after this sneeze, the mental note he had just made also vanished, and he was completely unaware of it.
Krul wasn't surprised by this.
"It's normal for people to curse you behind your back."
"Enough already, Krul-chan! You've been causing irreversible damage to my reputation lately!"
Krul played her counter card—the silent treatment.
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