Chapter 62 Little Iori
"My dear, no matter in the past, present or future, I will always like and love you deeply."

Now, the only person Amamiya Iori can see is Shimizu Mi!
As if to engrave Shimizu Mi deeply into her memory, Amamiya Iori had been staring at his face since just now.

Under such a gaze, Shimizu felt that the atmosphere between the two was gradually heating up, and Amamiya Iori's eyes were filled with deep love.

And an impulse surged in Shimizumi's heart, he wanted to kiss Amamiya Iori!
He immediately noticed the abnormality—his body was breaking free from control!

When Qing Shuijian realized this, his heart sank suddenly.

He is "out of control"!

The "out of control" Shimizu Ken directly and forcefully hugged Amamiya Iori's slender waist, slowly lowered his head, and gently approached her face.

The distance between them gradually shortened, and Shimizu's heartbeat accelerated, as if it was about to jump out of his chest. And Amamiya Iori's cheeks flushed slightly after feeling Shimizu's close breath.

Qing Shuijian's scalp tingled, and he understood in an instant that the existence of "personality" would indeed bind Amamiya Iori like shackles, making her feel depressed, desperate, and suffocated...

This is a restriction for her, preventing her from developing her ideas freely in her own world.

However, now she has broken free from these constraints and is in her own world of heart.

This means that she can finally realize her wish here and get everything she wants!
At this time, Shimizu Ken was "out of control" and his eyes could not leave Amamiya Iori. Their lips gradually approached each other, so close that they could hear each other's breathing clearly, as if they could feel each other's breath lingering between their lips.

But just when he was about to kiss Amemiya Iori, Amemiya Iori's lips suddenly disappeared from his sight.

This was because Shimizu pushed her away at the critical moment.

Just now, when the two were almost touching each other's lips, Shimizu felt a feeling.

There was only one place, only somewhere that hurt.

A sharp and intense pain came from his side abdomen. This sudden severe pain instantly penetrated Qingshuijian's body, stimulating his brain and waking him up suddenly from the edge of losing control.

His body seemed to be awakened by the pain and regained control.

Shimizu frowned in pain, and Amamiya Iori, who saw this scene, showed a surprised expression, but soon, a look of sudden realization appeared on her face.

At the same time, Amamiya Iori's body began to gradually become illusory and transparent, and finally dissipated into the air like mist.

Qingshui saw that the surrounding environment had changed unconsciously from the corner of his eye.

Then he suddenly realized that he was back to the park entrance where he started.

At first he thought he was teleported back to the real world after clearing the level.

However, when his eyes fell on the man on the swing, he immediately realized his mistake.

The person sitting on the swing was still Amamiya Iori.

But this is not the Amamiya Iori that Shimizu Mi is familiar with.

The Amamiya Iori sitting on the swing in front of him looked exactly the same as when Shimizu first saw her!
She was swinging gently on the swing and still looked like the elementary school student when we first met. Neither her height nor her looks had changed or grown at all.

At this time, it was still drizzling, and the surrounding scene gradually became as illusory as an afterimage. The ground beneath his feet began to crack with Amamiya Iori as the center. Those cracks kept expanding like living things, quickly swallowing up everything around them. The whole world seemed to be on the brink of collapse and could completely disintegrate at any time.

Qingshuijian could feel the wind pressure and power on his face increasing, as if an invisible force was squeezing him.

This world is heading towards the end of collapse!
[Countdown to World Collapse: 12:26]

The countdown continues!
As Amamiya Iori breaks free from the constraints of her character, the world that has been binding her will no longer exist.

If that’s the case, then who is the little girl in front of him… The answer gradually emerged in Qing Shuijian’s mind.

This little girl is the truest and purest self-will in Amamiya Iori's heart.

It was she who had been resisting the "personality" imposed on her since she was a child and sticking to her own heart.

If her little will collapsed and disappeared here along with this world, Amamiya Iori outside would probably also completely lose her will and continue to be influenced by the "personalities" that were imposed on her.

Qing Shuijian would never allow this to happen, he had to take her away.

"Iori!"

Feeling the unstable tremor under his feet, Shimizu took a deep breath, struggled to step across the cracked ground, crossed the seemingly short distance, and came to the side of Amamiya Iori.

However, just as Shimizu was about to touch her, his body slammed into an invisible barrier.

This barrier was like a transparent wall and was not a solid entity that he could see with his naked eyes.

Colorless, shapeless, and intangible, it is like a transparent membrane that separates him and Amamiya Iori.

Qingshuijian stretched out his hand and tried to touch the wall.

However, when his fingers glided through the air, he felt a subtle resistance, as if he was touching the water surface, or as if he was touching the air, and then was bounced back by some strange force.

This indescribable feeling was unbelievable to him.

"This is……"

Looking at the little girl swaying on the swing in the wind and rain, Qingshui suddenly came to his senses.

This wall was built by the young Amamiya Iori himself to isolate himself from the outside world.

It is precisely because of the construction of this wall of heart that no one can enter that Amamiya Iori has been able to protect her own little world in this park for many years without being eroded by her "personality".

Moreover, I'm afraid that ever since they parted that evening, Amamiya Iori has been waiting for Shimizu Mi to come back in her heart. She has not taken a single step forward, so she is like this now, without any growth, and still looks like that elementary school student.

The cracks in the ground spread more wildly, and Qingshuijian felt the ground beneath his feet begin to shake violently.

If he doesn't hurry up, he might lose even this last foothold.

[Countdown to World Collapse: 9:16]

With little time left, Qingshuijian immediately took practical action.

He punched the invisible wall, but the space in front of him rippled like a lake, and the wall was not damaged at all.

But the movement here successfully attracted the attention of Amamiya Iori. She stopped swinging on the swing and looked over here.

"Qing... Qingshui-kun?!"

Amemiya Iori stared at the tall and thin figure in front of him. The familiar face no longer had the childishness of the past, but was replaced by calmness and maturity.

Although they had not seen each other for many years, she could still clearly recognize that the person in front of her was the one she had been waiting for - Shimizu Jian.

His eyes were still so gentle, shining like a cloudless sky, making people feel a deep peace and warmth.

Amamiya Iori bit her lip lightly, trying to suppress her inner excitement: "Shimizu-kun! Is it Shimizu-kun?! I knew you would come!"

(End of this chapter)