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Chapter 783: So, Where's the Seventh Leaf?
Chapter 783: So, Where's the Seventh Leaf?
Am I really such a scumbag?
Upon hearing the Red-Haired Director's words, Leon's mind went blank as if an 800-millimeter cannon shell had been fired into it, shattering all his thoughts and logic.
Police Officer Isa? Amien, my senior at the bureau? Amy Miss from Char Department Store? And... even Anna?
This can't be right... How did I get involved with them? I could understand Isa, we were quite close, but the others? This... this...
"These leaves only record one of countless 'possibilities' for the future. But if you follow those choices, there's a good chance the corresponding situations will occur."
After explaining, the Red-Haired Director poured himself a cup of strong tea and continued with a calm expression:
"Don't worry about it. You might be a bit of a flirt, easily smitten, soft-hearted and unable to refuse, not knowing how to keep your distance, enjoying the company of women, a bit of a pervert who's too embarrassed to admit it...
These are all hypothetical situations, and your moral compass isn't that bad. After marriage, you will indeed take the initiative to be faithful, although there might be occasional lapses. But overall, you won't do anything too terrible... Well, at least in these futures, you didn't do anything too outrageous."
"..."
But... I feel like there's more to what you're saying.
Leon's mouth twitched, and he reached for the third leaf on the table, only to see yet another completely different future.
After taking over the Lionheart Duke's position, he took on the Lane family's arms company due to financial difficulties. This led to frequent interactions with the police officer's father, who was the Minister of National Defense. The minister, having lost family in the National Defense War six years ago, held a deep grudge against the Northern Kingdom. With the princess's support, they marched north during the late spring chill, attempting to create a nation they believed in through military might...
This... it doesn't seem impossible.
As the brown leaf veins in his palm withered, Leon recalled the plausible scenarios and took a deep breath. He then ran his hand over the remaining leaves.
The brown leaf veins rapidly extended and withered, and Leon's mind was filled with three completely different future memories.
Unlike the path of becoming an arms tycoon and colluding with the Minister of National Defense to whip half the world into submission, the other marriage routes seemed relatively harmonious.
First was the wealthy Amy Miss. If he had accepted her invitation to dinner, he would have been introduced to the Scale Gold Church of the Wealth Goddess through Char Department Store. He would have infiltrated the church and become a high-ranking priest.
Then, through industrial development and financial games, he would have spent his nights as a purification officer and his days wielding wads of cash and industrial goods, even buying out the Golden Town of Morana Kingdom.
Finally, he would have swallowed up the Three Holy Spirit Line of the Scale Gold Church, upgrading the Holy Spirit Emblem to its highest level. He would have used his wealth to overpower the Wealth Goddess and ascend to her position, attempting to change the world with money.
The route involving Amien, his senior, was more abstract.
If, on the day the director got drunk, Leon hadn't taken the drunk director to the second-floor reception room but instead tried to hand her over to another female senior, patiently searching on the first floor, he would have discovered someone in Amien's office.
Once he brought her out from the basement, he would have been influenced by her to discover the special use of anomalies and, with the help of a badge's strange ability, developed a naughty technique that could instantly grow taste buds in others' intestines.
And then, the senior with a peculiar sense of humor, Amien, would take the initiative to approach me out of curiosity, and we would form a fixed partnership, researching and going on missions together.
After a period of "development," the task partnership between myself and her would become renowned throughout all divisions for our ruthless methods, feared by all. Eventually, we would become the infamous Defecation Duo in the surrounding four major, nine minor, and thirteen realms, causing all hostile forces to tremble at our name.
As for Anna in the end...
This route's memory is exceptionally blurry, and the future is almost entirely unclear, leaving me to rely on my own experiences to make educated guesses. I vaguely recognize some past contexts.
If my fake identity as the Lionheart Duke is exposed, and the Aquarius Director, disguised as a senior investigator, confirms me as the murderer of Ryan Blood Night, I will face punishment from the Purification Bureau.
To protect herself, Anna will contact the Purification Bureau through Senior Emma, confessing to the director about the photo of the Warm Home and revealing the Aquarius Director's anomaly.
To safeguard herself and investigate the Aquarius Director's intentions, the director will brainstorm and suggest that Anna, who is next in line after her, inherit the Lionheart Duke's position, backed by a letter of understanding from the kingdom.
Once the "victim's family" expresses understanding, the director will insist on delaying my execution through the Bull Director until the Aquarius Director's plot is exposed. When I am released by the bureau, Anna, overwhelmed with relief, will embrace me, and the future becomes unclear again.
...
This is...
After witnessing six different futures in a short time, observing five distinct lives from an outsider's perspective, each with vastly different experiences and developments, Leon is overwhelmed with mixed emotions.
Although these futures differ significantly from what he knows, based on his understanding of his character, he realizes that he might genuinely make the choices depicted in the leaf memories if faced with such situations.
Despite the blurred quality of these memories, almost unrecognizable, they feel real to Leon, as if other versions of himself had chosen different paths.
Moreover, each of these six distinct futures... Hmm? Wait a moment! Leon frowned as he recalled the specific instructions regarding the Memory Remnant.
"Why are there only six leaves? Shouldn't there be seven?"
Are you kidding me with your abilities? You can even figure out this detail?
Hearing Leon's question, the Red-Haired Director's spine shivered slightly, and she calmly lied, "The last leaf is Felicia's. After you bring her back from the Corlock Kingdom and become neighbors, your relationship gradually deepens, and then..."
"..."
I don't believe you!
Sighing in disbelief at the director's obvious lie, Leon insisted, "So, where's the leaf? Let me see the seventh leaf."
"The seventh leaf wasn't fully recorded because the Pisces Director passed out from my beating," she explained.
"You're lying!"
"Fine, the last leaf was damaged by me. You... Hey? You're taking out the wine to... You're pouring my wine on the ground! You... You're ruthless! I'll give you the leaf; is that not enough?"
(End of Chapter)
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