"You're not a bad person? Lala, what's going on here?"
Mikan pointed to the floor above and without any hesitation began scolding him.
"You can be so ruthless and cruel to someone with that kind of personality, and then tell me you're not a bad person? Where do you get the nerve?"
"You yourself said that such an uncorrupted girl is practically extinct. Yet you had the courage to hurt her. Come on, give me an explanation. Tell me you're not a bad person."
Mikan had previously wondered what an alien princess might be like, but she never expected her to be such a pure and innocent person.
Of course, it wasn't that she was stupid; on the contrary, Mikan had heard that she was an inventor who had created a huge number of things that sounded like they came from fantasy. So, Lala's intelligence was extremely high; she was just naive, but not foolish.
Such a person was rare, maybe something seen once in a thousand years, and this guy had made her his fiancée. Why did it feel like a fresh flower stuck in cow dung?
Shiro didn't expect her to bring up this topic. Well, it made things less fun, didn't it? Alright, should he explain? She was using this to accuse him.
"Ahem, ahem, ahem. I can explain this. First, you have to understand that, when it comes to Lala, I don't feel even an ounce of guilt."
"Or rather, she was always meant to be mine."
Mikan was a little confused after hearing that.
"No, what does that even mean? Isn't that a little too confident?"
Mikan didn't know why, but she always felt that this guy had some mysterious self-assurance, which left her momentarily speechless.
"Mikan, I have something to tell you, but don't tell anyone else, okay? Otherwise, they'll think you're crazy."
Mikan froze when she heard Shiro's words. What did this guy want to say? Why did he look so serious?
"What do you want to say?"
"First, you have to understand that our world is actually made up of many different worlds."
Mikan's eyes filled with doubt after hearing that.
"What does that mean? I feel like I don't understand at all."
"That's something I only discovered after awakening my powers."
"For example, you, Lala, and I originally lived in one world—a world with very, very many aliens."
"As for Yui, I deliberately used my power to trace her past and saw that if the worlds hadn't merged, she would have lived in a completely ordinary world."
"I looked at the course of her life. If the worlds hadn't merged and she hadn't become our neighbor, and hadn't gotten involved with me, she would probably have gotten involved with Hachiman, that guy with the dead fish eyes. The main reason is that his dog would have been hit by a car on the way to school, and then he would have saved her, which is why he would end up in the hospital."
"And then, as you've seen countless times in novels and TV dramas, a youthful school romance would begin."
"Honestly, I was speechless when I saw that."
"I'm really impressed that someone so self-destructive could still have a youthful romance."
Mikan was completely shocked after hearing that.
"Are you sure you're not joking with me?"
"Why would I joke with you? Do you think I would lie to you?"
"Besides, I didn't want you to get involved in dangerous supernatural things; when have I ever lied to you about anything else?"
Mikan fell silent after hearing that and realized that it was indeed true. Although she was a little unhappy that he had broken his promise and lied to her, it was for her protection, so she could reluctantly forgive it.
"Moreover, our world is made up of many different groups of worlds."
"Of course, you don't have to worry about what they consist of; they're already merged anyway."
Mikan nodded. Since they were already merged, there was no point in talking about it, and she wasn't particularly interested in such things anyway.
"And Lala, even without the worlds merging, was one of the people who was meant for me. In other words, even if the worlds had merged and I had met her, I would have had no intention of letting her go."
Mikan's mouth twitched slightly after hearing that. She seriously suspected that this guy was trying to clear his name, and then looked at Shiro with a distrustful gaze.
"Are you sure you're not just trying to justify yourself? And 'one of the destined people'—how can you even have a harem in a world that isn't merged?"
"Emmm… under normal circumstances, no. The problem is that in her world, I saw that polygamy is legal in the universe, and that I just need to ascend to the throne and include Earth in my territory. Then that marriage law would be reasonable and legitimate. What's wrong with the king having a harem?"
Mikan was speechless. Isn't it completely normal for a king to have a harem?
"And that's not all; it mostly depends on love at first sight, or that our eyes meet and connect."
"And it must be mutual. If the other person doesn't like me or hates me at first sight, I won't force it."
Shiro said this very honestly. Of course, how likely it was to actually happen remained unclear.
"That's not right. According to what you said, Yui was supposed to get involved with Hikigaya-kun, but since the worlds merged and you are here, that connection disappeared. So why are you still involved with Lala?"
Mikan still didn't fully understand.
"Because of me!"
"If I hadn't regained my powers and learned many things, that scene might have really happened. But I regained my powers and all those various limitations can no longer bind me. To be clear, at the moment I regained my powers, many of the destiny lines of this world had already been cut."
"Or, more precisely, the destiny lines of the people I know had already been cut. Of course, mine are still mine. As for others, like Megumi, their destiny lines had already been cut."
"After all, at the moment I regained my powers, this world could no longer match me. As time goes by, to be direct, this world actually fears that I will be dissatisfied and destroy it."
Mikan didn't respond after hearing Shiro's words. Instead, she tried to digest the meaning of what he said and came to the conclusion: this guy's power was terrifying, so terrifying that even the world itself had to bow to him. What is his, is his, and what isn't his, is also his. This summary was probably quite accurate.
Just as Mikan wanted to speak again, Lala came out, wrapped in a towel.
"Shiro, I'm done bathing."
Lala, who was still steaming and had wet hair, approached Shiro directly. At that moment, her scent entered his nose.
"Shiro, what happened just now? It was so incredible! I was in the tub and suddenly the space became huge and very comfortable. What's the principle behind that?"
Lala looked at Shiro with a curious gaze. After all, she had never experienced anything like it before; it was so mysterious! And when she came out, she noticed that the structure of the house had changed, without her noticing anything at all.
"I slightly rearranged this place."
"Since you're here, that's one more person. I couldn't let you return to the spaceship parked on the roof. So I turned the second and third floors into rooms. You can choose where you'll stay."
"I also turned the bathing area into a large bathroom. As for the other rooms, they're still there, but since you were bathing, I simply moved you to another location."
Lala tilted her head after hearing that and asked a question.
"Did you directly rebuild the house, or did you open the space from the inside?"
Lala immediately hit the core of the question, because she hadn't seen it and therefore didn't know what was happening outside.
"I opened the space from the inside and connected them. What's wrong with that?"
"Wouldn't that cause problems? After all, such a method makes the space unstable and can be quite dangerous if something happens. Earlier, I used to make spatial storage devices, but they often failed."