Chapter 50

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Two cars slowly stopped in front of the gate. Through the car window, Lin Yifan was stunned by the scene before him.

This courtyard, from the ancient stone buildings of the Middle Ages to the grand architecture of the Age of Exploration in the 17th and 18th centuries, had it all!

Lin Yifan didn't know how big the place was, but it was at least as large as ten football fields. Different styles of buildings were distributed across several areas, with a neoclassical Western-style mansion in the center.

Gardens, landscapes, and fountains—Lin Yifan suddenly felt like a country bumpkin entering the city. City people really know how to live.

Saya, standing beside him, pursed her lips and said, "That's the result of generations of the Takashima family's hard work, of course, not just these buildings."

The car stopped in front of the mansion. Takashima Soichiro got out and walked to the gate, glancing sideways at Lin Yifan, "Please, come in."

Lin Yifan got out of the car. Saya, standing beside him, was about to go with him when she heard Soichiro say, "Saya, go back and change your clothes."

The other servants didn't understand, but Lin Yifan and Saya's hearts sank. This terrifying father was too perceptive of his daughter's unusual behavior.

"But..." Saya blushed, a bit worried about Lin Yifan being taken in.

"Step back, this is a matter between men." Soichiro's sword scabbard struck the stone bricks, and a katana appeared in his hand.

Pulling Saya's hand away, Lin Yifan followed Soichiro in large strides. If he really wanted to kill him, a simple finger movement would suffice. There was no need to make such a big show in front of dozens of servants.

Saya watched Lin Yifan's back as a breeze blew, and she had to press down her short skirt, awkwardly walking back to her room.

Lin Yifan followed Soichiro, who held a sword scabbard and led him through the corridor.

Looking at the Western-style decorations in the room, but then Soichiro pushed open a door and led Lin Yifan into a Japanese-style room.

Soichiro sat cross-legged on a tatami mat, placing the sword aside, "Please, this place is more relaxing. Western style is indeed pleasing to the eye, but I prefer the simplicity here."

Lin Yifan glanced around the room and cautiously sat opposite Soichiro.

The two were silent, with Soichiro's eyes fixed on Lin Yifan for a long time without speaking.

"Hey, don't scare the young man." A mature woman's seductive laugh, Saya's mother, Takashima Yuriko, came in with two cups of tea.

Lin Yifan stared at Yuriko, feigning calm, "Thank you, Auntie."

"No problem, Saya has caused you trouble. I won't stay long, please enjoy your tea."

Wearing a purple evening gown, she exuded a maternal glow typical of a Japanese woman. It was clear that Saya's beauty largely came from Yuriko. If Saya looked like the gorilla-like Soichiro... the image was too beautiful to imagine.

After serving the tea, Yuriko didn't stay long, knowing her husband wanted to talk to Lin Yifan about something important, something unusual.

Lin Yifan took a small sip of the hot tea, but Soichiro still looked like a wooden statue. Unable to hold back, Lin Yifan spoke first, "Mr. Takashima, what do you want from me? If it's about your daughter, I can clearly tell you, nothing happened between us."

At this moment, Soichiro suddenly stood up, and Lin Yifan instinctively reached for the gun in his backpack.

"Young man, there's no need for weapons. I know what you're hiding in your backpack, but I don't intend to have you arrested."

Soichiro's words left Lin Yifan stunned, his expression stiffening, "I... I don't understand what you mean."

"Then let me tell you something I know. You are not from this world."

As soon as he said this, Lin Yifan pulled out his gun and pointed it at Soichiro, staring at him intently, "Who are you? Are you an Arbiter using a disguise!?"

Facing the gun pointed at him, Soichiro remained unmoved, took a sip of the hot tea, and said something that left Lin Yifan baffled, "I don't want Saya to go through it again."

"What?"

"I don't want Saya to go through it again. That child has repeated the same cycle countless times."

Lin Yifan's face tightened. Was Soichiro talking about reincarnation?

"I don't quite understand what you mean."

Soichiro put down the teacup and tapped his temples with two fingers, "The soul is trapped in this world. Tragedies happen over and over again, until everything resets and starts anew. My memory, however, was accidentally preserved during a battle with a reincarnator."

Lin Yifan gradually lowered his gun, his brows furrowed.

This wasn't a simple infinite world, so it couldn't be viewed with a fixed mindset.

Lin Yifan still remembered the three con artists who squatted in his prison, living off the money they swindled from reincarnators.

Since there were people in the first cycle who knew about reincarnators, Soichiro might be the only one here whose memory wasn't completely erased.

"What do you want?"

Lin Yifan wasn't sure what Soichiro wanted him to do. Was it to stop the zombie virus outbreak? That was impossible.

Soichiro picked up a telescope and gestured for Lin Yifan to come over.

Following him out of the room, they came to a window.

"Look at this, and you'll understand."

Soichiro handed the telescope to Lin Yifan and pointed to the distant street.

Lin Yifan didn't look, because the place with the flames was where the battle had just taken place. He already understood.

Meeting Soichiro's car on the road wasn't a coincidence. From this building on the hill, with a telescope, he could clearly see the street where he had just captured the reincarnator. Soichiro must have seen everything!

Wait!? He was seen, but not eliminated?

"Huh, wait, I have a question!" Lin Yifan slapped his head, deep in thought.

Suddenly, Lin Yifan realized that his thinking was still trapped, assuming it was a fixed infinite world.

Mission! Except for the initial trial mission, the current mission didn't say that being discovered would result in elimination.

In other words, he could openly capture people without fear of being seen by the characters in the story!

"Boy? My request is simple, take Saya away from this world, please!" Soichiro bowed deeply to Lin Yifan, very sincerely.

"This..."

Seeing Soichiro, who was always stern, bowing to him, Lin Yifan was momentarily stunned. In the story, he stayed behind to cover the others, his fate unknown.

He was a ruthless man, capable of beheading his own brother, who had turned into a zombie, to show others what to do.

Seeing Lin Yifan unmoved, Soichiro suddenly knelt on both knees, "Please! Take her away, no matter what the future holds, let Saya escape this cursed cycle! I don't know when my memory will be erased again. Maybe after you leave, I'll become just a common man!"

At that moment, Saya, dressed in a white dress and black Gothic skirt, appeared in the corridor.

When Saya saw her always stern father kneeling to Lin Yifan, she was utterly shocked!

"Please!" Soichiro said again.

Saya stepped out from the corner, covering her mouth, looking at Soichiro in shock, "Dad!?"

"Boy, please! Saya is in your hands. I've seen many like you, but you're different. You don't have their recklessness, so I choose you, and I can only trust you."

Saya, standing beside him, had no idea what her father was talking about. Her father, who always acted with authority, was actually begging Lin Yifan?

"Dad! What are you saying, it sounds like no one wants me. Dad, stop kneeling! We're not like that, get up, get up!" Saya grabbed Soichiro's hand, but the towering man was like a mountain.

Finally, unable to drag him, Saya pushed Lin Yifan down as well, making the two men kneel face to face, which was better than shortening Lin Yifan's life.

"Promise me, boy!" Soichiro growled through gritted teeth.

Lin Yifan hesitated for a long time. Taking Saya wasn't difficult, but this scene was too unexpected.

A character from the story was actually asking him to take his daughter away from this endless cycle.

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