The final outcome ended with Shiro's foolish choice to surrender; otherwise, her face would surely have turned into ramen.
"Are you really trying to ruin my face like this?"
Mikan rubbed her cheeks, protesting.
"How could that be possible? After all, you rely on that face to eat. It's not the face's fault. I would just turn around and leave."
Mikan's whole being shivered upon hearing that.
"Baka!"
"I haven't even hated you yet, and you already hate me?"
Mikan's portrayal in the original work was mostly calm and composed, but that was mostly because the main male character was gentle and somewhat useless, unlike Shiro, who was the type to directly break her defenses, just to push her to the point of snapping.
"Men don't rely on a handsome face, they rely on strength, alright? Why would a handsome man be a pampered face or a small dog?"
Mikan looked at him, full of confidence, and had to admit that what he said was completely correct. Then she quickly spoke in a tone of reluctant skepticism.
"I really want to know what your situation is like."
"Is your current appearance natural, or did you deliberately refine it?"
Shiro was taken aback when he heard that, slightly confused by her meaning.
"What do you mean by that? We grew up together, can't you tell?"
Mikan heard that and carefully observed Shiro's face, then slowly spoke.
"Normally, I would surely think that your face is just naturally like that, but aren't there plots in many novels where people pretend to be stupid to eat a tiger?"
"They deliberately make themselves ugly, and then surprise everyone and so on."
Mikan's words sounded quite reasonable as she spoke them.
Shiro immediately gave her a light tap on the head, without force, then explained in a helpless tone.
"Although what you say sounds just like something from a novel, I still have to say that I never did anything like that, nor do I want to."
"After all, how should I put it, a face is a face; there's no need to go for plastic surgery or something like that, and I'm too lazy to bother with it anyway."
"This is my face, do you understand?"
Shiro spoke in a very tired tone, and then her next words made Shiro almost explode.
"Just ordinary."
Shiro had to admit that she also had a talent for sharp words, but of course, truth is the most poisonous knife.
"Does my being ordinary eat your family's rice? So what if I'm ordinary? Don't you see what my fiancée is like, my destined one? The most popular idol in the universe! Even if I look ordinary, countless people envy me, alright?"
He broke, completely broke. Mikan knew very well that someone had just broken.
The two of them started arguing again, until one of them finally raised a white flag and surrendered.
"So, according to you, if in the future I have to find you in another world, I just need to go to that gal Yukino Yukinoshita, and she will pass the message for me."
"Yes, if there's anything, she should just deliver the message."
"After all, under normal circumstances, I won't be returning so quickly. I'll have to stay there for a few days, because it's a rare opportunity to travel, or rather, I can act there, so there's no need for too much expectation. In the worst case, it will only cause a little damage to their universe."
Mikan felt helpless listening to his shameless statement. To put it directly, he feared destroying his own home, so he went to someone else's house to make chaos.
She had to admit that, although these thoughts weren't good, somehow in her heart she agreed with them. After all, people are selfish, especially when it comes to the place of their survival. Since she couldn't stop him, she could only hope he wouldn't cause too much trouble.
"In short, my situation is roughly like that. Honestly, I've already told you everything that should be and shouldn't be told."
Mikan nodded after hearing Shiro, showing her satisfaction.
"Because of your honest behavior, I will reluctantly forgive you for previously hiding things and breaking your word."
Shiro knew what she meant: the past promise that he wouldn't hide important things from her. And this truly was a breach of promise. But Shiro said that he was helpless too; the previous situation was solely because he didn't want to drag her into it.
"I simply didn't want you to get involved in these messy matters."
"After all, for an ordinary person, it's very problematic to get involved in such things. And even if you had known about it, my plan was to tell you only after you finished high school and enrolled in college; I just wanted you to enjoy your high school life."
Mikan was surprised after hearing that, a little confused.
"So according to you, you didn't want me involved in these things, so why the sudden change? The idea of letting me touch them only in college."
Shiro looked at her confused expression and revealed his original plan.
"Lifespan, I'm talking about lifespan. According to my estimate, by the time I finish high school, my strength will reach a terrifying level. I mean, even without cultivation, I'll be able to freely travel to other worlds with my own abilities."
"And my current lifespan, living for hundreds of billions of years, is not difficult at all."
"That's the advantage of great power and evolution of life levels. Of course, not everyone who is strong can live that long. The rules of some worlds are very strange; they are obviously very powerful, but ten thousand years is the limit, unless they become immortals or something similar."
"Some worlds are terribly bad, where pushing a weapon weighing over a hundred thousand catties can tear space, and their gods can be killed by hidden weapons and martial skills, yet they still possess eternal life."
"Of course, that's digressing. What I want to say is that, according to my original plan, as soon as I become strong enough, I should find treasures that would allow you to step onto the path of excellence and evolve your life level. After all, I don't want to still be alive and young while you directly grow old and die."
After hearing Shiro's words, Mikan also understood his plan.
"This…"
Mikan clearly understood Shiro's thoughts, so at that moment she could say nothing in refusal, because she also didn't want to be separated from him in this way.
"And now?"
"Since you already know, and I have a Chat Group, I'll try to see if there's something that can help you soar to the heavens in one step."
"I tested your talent and it's not very good. I mean, the system of this world and the things I know aren't very suitable for you."
"That's why I plan to see if I can find something that would allow you rapid success."
After that, Mikan felt a little lost and sad, not expecting that the problem was actually with her.
"Of course, I don't think you're unsuitable for many systems; it's just that the ones I possess and can teach you simply aren't suitable for you."
Shiro was not lying; his legacy contained many things that could strengthen someone's power and break life level limits for refinement.
The problem was that this time it wasn't suitable, and he despised the bad systems of this world, like Onmyodo and the like.
Not to mention those that don't grant immortality. He even planned to later explore powerful worlds and, when finished, simply bring people there and let them cultivate there. As for the treasures needed to grow stronger, he would simply steal them.
After all, the law of heaven is the survival of the strongest.
And now, with the Chat Group, he had many ideas. If he couldn't find anything suitable, he could for now let her use super genes; after all, that also had a sufficiently long lifespan.
"Alright, this time I really have nothing left to hide from you. Don't ask anymore; you won't get anything else from me."
Shiro breathed a sigh of relief after saying that. After all, breaking promises and hiding these things had created pressure on him too, hadn't it?