"..."

Is your focus... a bit off?

Faced with Leon's strange question, the Grand Witch King nodded with some astonishment.

"That's one way to understand it, but they are scattered throughout the entire Secret Magic City, and unless they reveal themselves, they are no different from ordinary people, so... um..."

At this point, the Grand Witch King couldn't help but bend over in pain, her face turning deathly pale, and she trembled uncontrollably, almost falling off her chair.

Seeing her as if she might "depart" at any moment, Leon quickly stopped pondering his "banquet" plan and asked with concern in his eyes:

"What happened to you? Do you need help?"

"No... it's nothing, probably just the cost of revealing the future."

Gesturing that she was fine, the Grand Witch King sat up with difficulty and explained with a bitter smile:

"Whether it's us or those who wield the power of time, we can mostly only observe the future ourselves and cannot directly reveal future events. At most, we can do something on the sidelines to shift the future toward a certain branch.

If we reveal a lot of the future to others, and it accumulates to a degree that could cause change, the originally fixed future will be disrupted. Many possible futures would completely disappear, becoming merely memories of the past.

The past is 'dead' time. The more these remnants of time accumulate in our memories, the weaker our connection with the authority of [time] becomes, and we suffer significant harm as a result.

I must have revealed too much of the future to you just now, causing a massive 'death' of futures that piled up in my memory and soul, which led to a backlash from the power of time."

"I see."

Nodding with understanding, Leon helped the Grand Witch King sit properly, and then thoughtfully asked:

"Your Majesty, when you revealed the information and caused many futures to perish, did you also create new futures?"

"Are you asking if there's a more perfect choice after I leaked the future?"

Seeing through Leon's thoughts at a glance, the Grand Witch King shook her head and said:

"Creating new branches of the future isn't that simple. Apart from needing the information I disclosed to you, leading you to make some attempts you wouldn't normally do, it also requires... oh no!"

At this point, as if sensing something suddenly, the Grand Witch King abruptly grabbed Leon's arm, urgently urging:

"Do it now! The Narration of Nonexistence is counterattacking! It's trying to pull me back!"

"I..."

"Quick! It will be too late otherwise!"

"Sorry."

Taking a deep breath, Leon gently freed himself from the Grand Witch King's arm, then spoke with shimmering eyes:

"I feel your suggestion isn't suitable. Why don't we go with my method instead?"

?!!!

No, haven't I explained the situation clearly? Even if you and Catherine succeed, the cost will be unimaginably high! Why are you still insisting on that method?

"Don't worry."

Calming the somewhat emotional Grand Witch King, Leon looked into her eyes and said:

"I feel the future should have already changed, at least there should be some new possibilities… Aren't you able to see the future? Then why not take a look now and see if the future is still the same as what you saw before?"

The direction of the future has changed? Are you sure?

The Grand Witch King was slightly taken aback, then subconsciously followed Leon's suggestion, placing a hand on her restless heart.

"Thump!"

With the Grand Witch King's action, the increasingly rapid heartbeat suddenly calmed down. That heavy sound, like a muffled thunder drum, seemed to strike the river of time like a stone, instantly creating a large ripple.

At this moment, it was as if the entire world fell into stagnation with the heartbeat, the invisible ripples centering around the Grand Witch King, passing through the sleeping Cat Princess, through Leon whose eyes were slightly excited, across a crow reforming in the air, and spreading throughout the Secret Magic City.

"Thump thump!"

The heavy heartbeat sounded again, as chaotic and complex light and shadow poured out from the sleeping Cat Princess, spreading broadly along the intertwined branches, stretching into the distant future.

Meanwhile, a wave of light and shadow, more complex than the Cat Princess by a hundredfold, exploded from behind Leon, overwhelming the sky, devouring all the light and shadow flowing from the Cat Princess, and forcefully displacing them towards a completely unknown direction.

After combining with Leon's "Tree of Light and Shadow," the chaotic light shadow flowing out from the Cat Princess suddenly became more blurred, but the accompanying "voices" abruptly amplified.

'No no no! This won't work!'

Waving her hands in panic, the light-shadow Cat Princess shook her head desperately within the light-shadow Leon, saying:

'If I agree to do this, how will others see me? How will I live?'

"???"

What do they do in the future?

Before the stunned Grand Witch King could take a closer look, a wave of chaotic light and shadow rushed in like a river, forcefully pushing the original future fragments aside and constantly forming all new vague images.

'Don't go too far! I am the True God, not a pig! At least... ah!'

'Insane! The Lionheart Prince is insane! Princess Catherine is insane too!'

'Help! I'm human! I really am human!'

'Do you think you have won? You just... no! Don't open your mouth!'

'Run! Run fast!!!'

After a stream of incomprehensible light and shadow, a familiar black crow wailed helplessly in the sky:

'Crazy! You crazy person! You...'

"You've already lost!"

The voice, consisting of vastly different emotions but the same tone, abruptly rang in the Grand Witch King's ear, noisily interrupting her gaze into the future.

With a somewhat bewildered look, the Grand Witch King lifted her head to see the crow that Leon had just shot, reconstituted from the smoke, its malicious eyes glaring fixedly at the skyward Leon, continually circling while shouting gleefully:

"She no longer has the strength to activate the power of the Grand Heart again; you have missed your last chance! Food God, you are done for!"

"Uh-huh, you're right."

Casually responding, Leon gazed at the increasingly endearing crow in the sky and, after a moment of deliberation, raised his hand sincerely giving it a thumbs up, sincerely praising:

"With such an outstanding Pillar God like you, your Slaughter King Association will certainly flourish in the future!"