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"Do you have any soy sauce? I'll use both light and dark soy sauce!"

"Hurry up, Nymph, are the pastries and tea ready?"

"Don't panic, let me check my phone... What?! The rider is still on his way!!"

Looking at the bustling scene in the house, with people coming and going, Lu Ye fell silent.

For the first time.

This was the first time he felt that the house was actually quite small.

Seeing everyone busy at work, Lu Ye smiled slightly, then quietly left the living room and went to the balcony for some fresh air.

The moonlight was bright outside.

Before Lu Ye could even admire the moon, a tall figure in a purple trench coat appeared beside him.

"Wow, it's so lively inside!"

"Yeah, this is the most lively one yet, isn't it? I think I saw Jolyne too?"

"And her comrades who fought alongside her in prison, like Weather and the others, they've come too," Jotaro said. "They went out to buy cooking ingredients earlier, they should be back soon... Sorry, my 'Platinum Star Beyond Heaven' can't help you much."

"Ah...it's alright, Mr. Jotaro."

After that, Lu Ye also thought of Jotaro's "Star Platinum Beyond Heaven".

While it can replicate reality, it is limited to the world Jotaro inhabits.

"Anyway, thank you. Without you, I probably wouldn't have been able to defeat Dio," Jotaro said. "I asked that blond guy over there for details. I think his name is Astraea... Although my abilities can't help you, I heard that you'll be in some corner of a parallel world, right? I've already talked to the old man... It's Joseph Joestar. You two should have met. When that time comes, the SPW Foundation will also launch a worldwide search for you, which should be much more efficient."

"Thanks, but I would have contacted you on my own even if you hadn't asked me to." Lu Ye smiled.

“Well, there’s one more thing I want to tell you,” Jotaro said. “If you end up in our world, that’s fine, but if you end up in another world… well, as far as I know, the level of civilization and technology varies from world to world. If you get there, you have to be prepared, especially in the worst-case scenario.”

"The worst-case scenario?"

"In other words, places where no one can find you, and you can hardly find anyone else," Jotaro said. "Like the Danakil Desert, the harshest environment in the world... I'm sorry, it sounds a bit harsh, but what I'm telling you is that even with so many people, finding you in so many worlds is like finding a needle in a haystack. You need to be prepared; the higher your expectations, the greater your disappointment. But if you set a low expectation threshold from the beginning, then when bad things happen, you'll have enough mental strength to cope..."

“So you knew all this, Mr. Jotaro…” Lu Ye smiled.

"It's not hard to guess, because your so-called 'method' is too straightforward. The so-called repair refers to fixing the items. As for the things you collected in various parallel worlds, although we don't know what they are, the ultimate goal is probably not to repair them themselves, but the power contained within them."

“That’s right, I was originally one of these fragments…” Lu Ye thought for a moment, “How should I put it, I’m like a piece of chewing gum, made up of sugar and gum. The key to restoration is the sugar in the chewing gum, but without the sugar, the remaining gum is not very useful.”

Lu Ye has always relied on his own strength.

Xiao Bai's solution was actually to take Lu Ye and completely restore the Star Spirit, then separate him from the Star Spirit, leaving the power of the fragments to maintain the integrity of the Star Spirit.

It's like stripping the sugar out of chewing gum and throwing away the gum itself.

But in doing so, Lu Ye would lose his power.

Of course, he still has all the skills he has learned, but without the support of the Protoss power, they will be significantly reduced.

Jotaro knew that Lu Ye's power would decrease, which is why he told Lu Ye to prepare himself mentally.

Because Lu Ye's Stand is not one of the Celestial Spirit Fragments' powers, the Gray Age completely belongs to Lu Ye. As long as Lu Ye's mental strength is sufficient, the Stand's power can be fully utilized.

"Anyway, that's all I can do. The rest is up to you. Longing transcends time and gravity, that's undeniable for anyone... If we're lucky... we'll see each other again in two years."

After saying that, Jotaro left the balcony.

Lu Ye silently gazed at the moon again.

Lu Ye wondered if there was something wrong with his eyes, but he always felt that the moon in the sky had a phantom image, as if there was another moon superimposed on it.

"Lani?" Lu Ye asked, "Did you come to see me off too?"

The moon in the night sky was still dazzling.

Shortly after Jotaro left, Violet went to the balcony.

"Dinner is ready."

"Okay, let's go." Lu Ye took his hand.

A month after Lu Ye confessed to Violet that night, the farewell party began.

The farewell party was not held in the underground city where Bell and the others lived, but in the mansion where Lu Ye and the others lived.

There were many people present.

Needless to say, heretics.

Kuro and Wolf arrived early, and even Isshin Ashina came to the scene accompanied by Emma.

No one from the former Night Raid Squad or the Imperial Capital Garrison was left behind, and Lan, Najenda, and the others temporarily put aside their work.

Sakurai Tomoki, Chu Yuan, Mikako, and Morigata Eishiro also came; they all happened to be very free during their summer vacation.

In the world of the Ring of Law, a group of black-blade assassins, including Half-Wolf Blazer, Warrior Jar Alexander, Mariania, Millison, Tolina, and Grek, also came here. After all, they were free on the border, and hearing that there was a banquet, especially a farewell banquet for acquaintances, they naturally had no reason to refuse. Even Tops and Seren had slipped out of the magic academy.

Over the past month or so, people from different worlds have occasionally come over and met each other.

Esdeath remembers that when Ames and Shizuka first came over, they would scream in surprise when they saw the heretics, but now the two of them can chop vegetables with the heretics.

During this time, everyone has become much more familiar with each other.

As the atmosphere reached its peak during dinner, everyone began to share stories about their world.

After all, for people from different worlds, hearing about what happens to people in other worlds is quite fascinating.

However, Violet and Luye are almost always present in the stories they tell.

The reason everyone is gathered here is because of Lu Ye and Violet; they are like a thread connecting everyone else.

The farewell party lasted until late at night.

"Drink, drink... I can still drink... slurp... slurp..."

Violet only put down her wine glass when even Alexander the Warrior Jar couldn't fill the jar with wine.

Looking at the crowd she had drunk, the girl suddenly felt an overwhelming sense of loneliness.

"I never expected... Alexander could drink so much."

“Yeah, at first he seemed pretty reluctant to admit it,” Violet said. “But Blazer kept saying he was going to get us all drunk, and he was the first one to fall asleep.”

The two tacitly left their seats and went to the top floor of the mansion.

The night was beautiful, with countless stars filling the sky.

“It’s so different from what I remember…” Violet suddenly sat down on the ground, hugging her knees, and murmured to herself.

"difference?"

"Why do wolves howl at the moon?" Violet suddenly asked.

“Hmm… probably so they can locate each other so the wolf pack can regroup and hunt?” Lu Ye said. “But there’s also the element of werewolf legend involved.”

“So that’s how it is.” Violet lay down, her voice forlorn. “I thought the wolf was happy.”

"Happy?"

"Now that I think about it, that was a lonely cry; it was calling for its companions."

Violet gazed at the starry sky and said, "Actually, I still have memories of the past, memories from before I met you. Back then, I would stay on the beach every night to watch the moon. Sometimes it rained, sometimes it was windy, sometimes I would hold a leftover rabbit... I don't know why I looked at it back then. Now that I think about it, I must have just looked up at it because the stars and moon were so beautiful. I always thought that night sky belonged only to me, because the other animals on the island didn't look at the moon. I felt they couldn't see something so beautiful, that beautiful night sky... it belonged only to me."

Lu Ye listened silently.

"Until later I met it. I've never told you that on the island where you met me, there was a wolf. I first met it in the jungle on the island. It was eating a sheep. It was very dark, but I could see its eyes and knew it was looking at me. Strangely, I didn't have any thoughts of eating it. I just silently watched it eat its fill and then carry away the leftover sheep."

"Later, when I was hungry, I thought about looking for it, but I couldn't find it. Just when I was about to give up, one night, it appeared. That was the first time I saw it clearly. It had a collar around its neck, was soaking wet, and was standing on the highest cliff on the island, looking up at the moon. Then it made a call. Unlike goats, rabbits, lizards, and brown bears, it was a loud and far-reaching call. The sea breeze carried its voice far away."

“I was surprised at the time that there were other animals besides me who could see the stars.” Violet smiled slightly. “I felt a little lost at that time because my only ‘treasure’ had been taken away.”

"and after?"

“Every night after that, I would see it standing there, looking at the starry sky, sharing my treasure. Sometimes it would call out, sometimes it wouldn’t. Without realizing it, I got used to its presence. I would always stare at it, and sometimes it would look back at me. Until one day, it never appeared again. No matter how I looked there, it was gone. That’s when I realized that the person who shared my treasure with me was gone, and the starry sky on the island once again became a treasure that belonged only to me… until… until you appeared.”

"The adorable artificial angel in my home, the older sister who always takes care of me and is cold on the outside but warm on the inside, and all sorts of friends with different personalities... Everything that the girl named Violet has is given to her by a person named Lu Ye."

Violet gazed up at the starry sky, her azure eyes sparkling with the stars.

"And that's all..."

"Ok?"

"Everything I possess. The starry sky on that island... is my secret, my treasure. No matter who I am or where I am, even if one day I have nothing left, it will be with me and will never leave me. This is all I can give you... This is what I, Violet, can give to Lu Ye."

Looking up at the sky, Lu Ye smiled softly: "No matter where I go, I will never leave my starry sky... Don't you feel it's a pity that you gave me such a precious treasure?"

“How could that be?” Violet looked at Lu Ye. “Wouldn’t putting one treasure into another make it even more precious? Speaking of which, do you know why I put a collar on you back in Leiden?”

"Isn't it because you want to stick close to me?"

Violet laughed, "It's because you're like that wolf, taking away my treasure without permission and becoming part of it. I thought that if I trapped you, you'd never leave. I'm a very cunning person; I won't let go of my treasure."

Are you that cunning?

"Of course, actually I have a lot of bad intentions, like having a lot of children for you so that you can't take care of them all."

"Haha."

"Then we must fulfill our promise from before, the promise we made in Leiden." Violet looked earnestly into Lu Ye's eyes, enunciating each word clearly, "Will you marry me?"

"Yes, it's an honor."

…………

A person's life is ultimately a long journey.

Whether it's the time spent, the things involved, the effort invested, or simply observing.

Everything seems to be simply summarized by the word "life".

But where does life end? Is the end of this journey just another beginning?

Only the girl confirmed it.

The endpoint that was initially determined is also the starting point.

On her journey, only reaching the end can represent a brand new beginning.

Throughout the long journey, the girl did not give up or have any doubts, but continued onward, carrying with her longing for someone.

Looking at the same night sky, feeling the same things.