Standing before the shopping center entrance, Hanadasaki Ame watched Yukinoshita Yukino's departing figure beneath the evening sun and quietly activated his simulation ability.
A wind rose from nowhere. The black ribbon tying back his braid came loose, and his cherry-pink hair spilled free, drifting in the air. The floating strands cut through the golden light of the sunset, fragmenting the scene of evening clouds into shattered pieces.
And within that broken world, blurred images of the future began to appear.
[You and Yukinoshita Yukino meet by chance, and both leave the encounter with a rather favorable impression of the other.]
[Influenced by you, Yukinoshita Yukino seriously reflects on herself. After conducting a certain amount of investigation, she decides to invest herself into your cause and persuades the Yukinoshita family to provide substantial support for your research.]
[Through her efforts, you successfully establish a cooperative relationship with the Yukinoshita family and gain a convenient channel for turning your research成果 into profitable, socially beneficial returns.]
[During your first year of high school, you complete the university foundational curriculum through self-study, then delve deeply into theoretical physics, electromagnetism, and neural engineering, and put forward a complete theory for blocking neuronal information transfer through magnetic spin technology.]
[Based on that theory, you develop a non-pharmaceutical anesthetic device for medical use, becoming famous in a single stroke and earning worldwide renown. The many academic papers you publish attract widespread attention across all fields, and numerous top experts in related disciplines begin contacting you for scholarly exchange.]
[In your second year of high school, after a confession, you and Yukinoshita Yukino smoothly become a couple. Nibutani Shinka withdraws in quiet heartbreak and ceases all contact with you.]
[During the second half of your second year, you complete your research into translating electromagnetic signals into biological signals, enabling precise interference with the brain by electromagnetic means. The only thing still preventing the arrival of virtual reality technology is the limitation of materials.]
[At the same time, Yukinoshita Yukino becomes pregnant and chooses to suspend her studies, giving birth to a son for you.]
[In your third year, you develop an ultra-microcrystalline alloy capable of perfectly conducting electromagnetic signals, and successfully produce compact sensory-substitution devices, allowing people disabled by nerve damage to hear the world again and see all things once more.]
[Yukinoshita Yukino becomes pregnant again and continues her leave from school.]
[You approach the electronics manufacturer Angus and propose a collaboration to develop a virtual reality machine. The two sides hit it off immediately.]
[Angus had already been preparing for this, with a dedicated research institute working in that direction. Through your joint efforts, a game called Sword Art Online soon comes into being!]
[Because of your intervention, every player-created character in the game receives one basic skill by default—Magnetic Field Rotation!]
[The moment Sword Art Online is released, it swiftly explodes in popularity across the globe. Countless players become magnetic-field powerhouses within it, displaying astonishing ingenuity and battling so fiercely that the servers crash over and over.]
[No one knows that part of those server crashes are your doing. In secret, you carry out a number of operations in an attempt to bring the power of the mind down into reality and make up the idealistic component that Magnetic Field Rotation still lacks.]
[After repeated attempts, you are forced to abandon this idea—an inspiration you derived from Shinjou Akane. The chaotic, ever-changing hearts of human beings cannot become the purest and strongest form of Magnetic Field Rotation.]
[After entering the University of Tokyo, you and Yukinoshita Yukino marry successfully, and you shift the main focus of your research onto Shinjou Akane.]
[You confirm that she has mastered the power of the mind, but it cannot be observed by any instrument or device. It can only be felt firsthand, and she is highly resistant to this line of research, causing your work to stagnate.]
[After long effort, in the fifth month following Yukinoshita Yukino's third pregnancy, you finally "persuade through bed" Shinjou Akane, and from her lips hear a new term—the Key of the Heart! The key that opens an entirely new realm!]
[You realize that you must pass through that narrow gate and reach the far shore of the mind. Only then can the magnetic field begin to rotate within the heart.]
[You carefully整理 all your years of exploration into the realm of the mind and summarize the pattern behind the appearance of the Key of the Heart.]
[It is not something that can be obtained through cultivation or training, nor can it be stolen. It is an aptitude belonging to a specific individual alone—an innate talent one is born with!]
[You soon determine that besides Shinjou Akane, both Nibutani Shinka and Yukinoshita Yukino also possess a Key of the Heart. But unlike Akane's, theirs are not highly active and cannot let the power from the far shore of the mind flow into reality to produce all manner of miracles. Their keys remain dormant.]
[While attempting to awaken Yukinoshita Yukino's Key of the Heart, you also try to discover a safe way of using Shinjou Akane's Key to reach the far shore of the mind.]
[At thirty years old, when Yukinoshita Yukino gives birth to your thirteenth child during her tenth pregnancy, her Key of the Heart still has not awakened. At last, unable to suppress your impulse any longer, you go to Shinjou Akane and ask her to open the gate to a new world for you.]
[You get your wish. Passing through the boundary between mind and world, you arrive in an entirely new domain.]
[Before your body and mind twist and collapse completely because of it, for the very first time you feel it—electric current, flowing within your body!]
[You are dead.]
Hanadasaki Ame lightly ran a hand through his wind-tossed pink hair and considered what this latest use of the simulation ability had gained him.
Just as before, after the simulation he had captured a portion of research knowledge. If he did this again, his research speed would only become faster.
But that was not what interested him most.
After a long, winding path, he had finally traced this world's supernatural power to its source—
the Key of the Heart!
The problem was that it was not something one could obtain for oneself.
It could only be borrowed.
The good news was that Keys of the Heart seemed to be fairly numerous. They were simply dormant.
In the first simulation, Nibutani Shinka had probably awakened hers. In this one, it remained unclear, but Hanadasaki Ame guessed she most likely had not—otherwise he would not have stayed fixated on Shinjou Akane the entire time.
Awakening the Key of the Heart seemed extremely difficult. One simulated subject had gone through ten pregnancies almost casually and still failed to activate hers.
No—
perhaps it was not so much difficult as it was fussy. The activation conditions were probably highly specific, which was why Shinjou Akane had awakened hers so easily, and why Nibutani Shinka in the first simulation had also activated hers without making any obvious show of it.
As for what those conditions actually were—even if he asked them, they likely would not be able to explain clearly. For them, it would simply feel natural.
Fortunately, he could continue simulating over and over, inching closer and closer to the truth.
This simulation had already told him one crucial thing:
as long as he reached that place—the far shore of the mind beyond the Key of the Heart—electric current would begin to flow inside him, and Magnetic Field Rotation would descend!
Whether that was something born from his own overwhelmingly powerful obsession, or whether the world itself genuinely contained the power of Magnetic Field Rotation, this was unquestionably the correct path!
Still, Hanadasaki Ame decided he ought to replicate the actions from the simulation as closely as possible. The institute would proceed normally, and Sword Art Online would have to be developed as well. He could not be sure which exact step had played a role in the eventual birth of Magnetic Field Rotation. If he skipped one and everything failed because of it, he would die of frustration!
As for Shinjou Akane, the best course for now was to remain still and gather enough information through further simulations before attempting to use her Key of the Heart to reach the far shore of the mind.
After all, in the simulation, that attempt had killed him on the spot.
It had to be treated with utmost caution.
After analyzing everything carefully for a long time and straightening out his thoughts, Hanadasaki Ame finally let out a long breath and turned to leave.
Yet even then, one small doubt still lingered in the back of his mind—
What exactly was going on with Yukinoshita Yukino!?
How on earth had she gotten pregnant with his child ten times!?
In the last simulation, when he married Nibutani Shinka, they had only had one child. That alone proved that he himself was highly restrained and by no means indulgent.
So the problem had to be on Yukinoshita Yukino's side!
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