After hypnosis, Yuanlina and Tong Yingying both had strong physical strength, but Sakuragi Hitomi’s body was weak. Without the modifier, hypnosis could only be used as a human camera.

"Kill her, hurry, kill her..."

Beside her, in Alvira’s phone, the Winged Lion, transformed from the index finger, was spinning anxiously, continuously urging Alvira to take action.

Upon hearing this, Alvira nodded, a ghostly flicker in her eyes, and continued manipulating Tong Yingying to speak,

"Bai Yi, I’m now lifting your hypnosis, returning your pocket watch to you..."

"!?"

Upon hearing this, Yan Huan squinted, while Bai Yi was shocked, staring at Tong Yingying in disbelief.

Inside the car, the Winged Lion, transformed from the index finger, also had a terrified expression.

It quickly looked towards Alvira, questioning,

"What are you doing, you..."

However, just as it turned its head, Alvira grabbed the phone with one hand, coldly looking at the Winged Lion inside,

"You think I’m a fool?

"The ability to travel through time belongs to Bai Yi. She could take me to the timeline where Aria is still attached to me, so why kill her?

"You want me to use my ability to kill her, but your promises are just empty words. You think I would believe you?"

The index finger widened its eyes, realizing it had acted rashly and exposed a flaw,

"You... you... you can’t do this! You don’t know what will happen if you continue to let her be! Also, the modifier can only be activated by the host’s desires, if you forcefully control her..."

But Alvira remained expressionless, clutching the phone tightly in her hand until cracks appeared, and she coldly said,

"I don’t care. I only want to live happily with Aria and Yan Huan!"

"Crack!!"

In an instant, the phone’s screen shattered.

By the beach, Alvira’s sedan came to a stop.

Alvira immediately got out of the car with a cold face, heading towards Bai Yi.

"A... Aunt?"

Bai Yi was still looking at the pocket watch in her hand, full of shock. Hearing the car door opening behind her, she turned her head, seeing Alvira walking towards her expressionlessly.

Seeing Alvira, Yan Huan warned her,

"Don’t call her Aunt; she’s the index finger’s host for this ’if’ line! Be careful!"

"Huh? Why is it her again... she’s not in my league; dealing with me is like dealing with a fish in a barrel..."

Seeing Alvira as the host once more, Bai Yi was about to move when Tong Yingying’s knife was already against her neck.

She didn’t dare to move, her eyes spinning with ideas.

She planned to escape using Indifference.

Thinking so, Bai Yi’s fingers slowly approached the clock hand.

However, when she truly intended to act, she suddenly realized her fingers couldn’t move.

It felt as if her fingers bore a thousand-pound burden...

Wha...

What...

"Bai Yi... you can traverse to other timelines, can’t you?"

In front of her, Alvira had already crouched down slowly.

She gently reached out to grasp Bai Yi’s shoulder, her eyes shimmering with a ghostly purple gaze at Bai Yi.

That look...

Like she wanted to devour Bai Yi completely, as if she were now the only hope.

"?!"

Upon hearing this, Bai Yi widened her eyes, immediately realizing she had misspoken earlier.

She apologized in her mind to Yan Huan,

"I... I’ll never call you useless again, I’m sorry..."

"What’s the use of saying that now?! Can you activate the modifier?"

"The finger... it won’t move..."

Yan Huan took a deep breath but before he could speak, Alvira’s expression suddenly turned fierce,

"Stop messing around! Tell me, can you do it!"

"Buzz!"

Under the gaze of those ghostly purple eyes, Bai Yi’s throat seemed to lose control as she began to speak,

"I... can..."

"Take me there, now! Take me to that timeline where, you said, Aria clings to me!"

"..."

Bai Yi was startled by the red-eyed Alvira before her. She tried desperately to control her body but at this moment, her hand couldn’t be stopped from reaching to adjust the clock hand backward,

"Alright..."

She watched helplessly as her fingers reversed the clock hand, activating the power named "time acceleration".

"Snap!"

Seeing this, Alvira’s eyes lit up with madness as she grabbed Bai Yi, evidently aware that only by touching her could she accelerate alongside her during "time acceleration".

Simultaneously, her gaze flickered slightly, signaling Tong Yingying to retract the knife.

However...

Alvira didn’t know: there weren’t enough accelerations!

Seeing Tong Yingying retract her knife, and Alvira’s attention entirely on the pocket watch and Bai Yi, Yan Huan instantly realized her opportunity had arrived.

"Roar!!"

Yan Huan immediately manifested, with a flowerlike fireball aimed at Alvira.

"Cat?"

"Yan Ye!!"

"Drip drip... tap tap..."

Just as Bai Yi’s fingers touched the pocket watch, the watch seemed to sense something...

As the clock hand moved, the originally pleasant sound of dripping clockwork suddenly became sinister.

Like the "croak croak" sound of a toad.

Soon, the clock hand on the pocket watch suddenly began spinning wildly.

"Boom!!" 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

An invisible wave suddenly fired out like a nuclear explosion, sending everyone except Bai Yi and Alvira flying away.

"Meow?!"

Yan Huan, shocked, was blown into the sea with the fireball in her mouth, while Tong Yingying, Yuanlina, and Sakuragi Hitomi were also flung far away.