Multiversal Friendship System-Chapter 161 - 160: Please Give Me More Embarrassing Memories!

Seeing Kurumi's message, Souta was a little surprised.

Souta: "Wait, there are restrictions like this?"

Souta: "And when you say 'the past occupied by the system,' do you mean the past after we obtained the system phone?"

Tokisaki Kurumi: "Yes. I once tried to go back to the two months we lived together in my world, but I failed. Then I asked the system, and its answer was that it maintains uniqueness—it only exists in one instance at a time. So if I try to return to a past where it already exists, I get rejected."

Souta: "Uh... Why were you trying to go back to those two months?"

Tokisaki Kurumi: "Please don't mind it."

Souta: "Was there something you needed to do in the past?"

Tokisaki Kurumi: "Please don't mind it."

Souta: "You weren't trying to find the past version of me, were you?"

Tokisaki Kurumi: "Please don't mind it!"

Souta: "..."

What exactly did Kurumi want to do back then?

Souta remembered that during those two months, he had just obtained the Cure-All Elixir. Other than that, he was just an ordinary person... Did Kurumi have some unfinished business with the past version of him?

Could it be that she regretted living together for over two months without anything happening, so she wanted to go back and make something happen?

Souta: "Then what about the future? Why can't we go there either?"

Tokisaki Kurumi: "The system's answer is that for beings who haven't transcended time, the future has infinite possibilities. This could easily cause conflicts with the system's uniqueness, so time travel to the future is blocked."

Souta: "..."

Souta hadn't expected the system to be so strict.

Before, he was able to time travel, but now that he had the system phone, he couldn't anymore?

He quickly put on his "finding loopholes" mindset.

Souta: "I remember last time, during the mission in the Date A Live world, you, me, and Shiroyasha traveled to five years in the past. If I travel to a point slightly earlier than that and just wait for time to naturally pass, wouldn't I still end up meeting my past self?"

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Tokisaki Kurumi: "..."

At this moment, Kurumi got a taste of what the system must go through all the time.

Souta's question really stumped her!

Not because it was difficult, but because... it was just annoying!

Good thing the system had no emotions. Otherwise, if it had to deal with Souta poking at loopholes like this all the time, it might one day just snap and erase him.

Tokisaki Kurumi: "Wait a sec, I'll ask the system again."

Souta: "No need, I'll ask myself. If you ask, then you'd have to relay the answer to me anyway—it's a hassle."

After sending the message, Souta directly posed his question to the system.

Soon, he received a response:

[No. The host will be expelled from that timeline and forcibly returned to their original timeline.]

Alright, looks like the system had already patched this loophole.

Souta: "I just asked. The system said no. Looks like meeting a different version of myself is impossible after all."

Tokisaki Kurumi: "Not entirely impossible. You can't go to the future, but you can still meet your past self from before you had the system phone. For example, Souta, you're about to meet the me from five years ago. Are you excited? The me from five years ago might have a lot of... 'training' potential, you know~?"

Souta: "..."

Tokisaki Kurumi: "The me from five years ago was very innocent. If you tricked her just a little, she might throw herself into your arms. Thinking about it like that... I'm actually kind of looking forward to seeing what kind of memories I'll gain when I return to my own timeline. Will I have memories of being forcibly pinned down and ravished?"

Souta: "..."

After teasing him for a while, Kurumi finally let Souta go.

Souta sighed. He'd definitely get back at her for this someday.

Hopefully, when that time came, Kurumi wouldn't complain about weak knees.

Now that everything was ready, Souta wasted no more time. He took out the Bullet of Twelfth and prepared to travel through time.

To be honest, he was quite curious about what exactly happened five years ago.

How should he put it? The fate of Tobiichi Origami had already changed the moment Kurumi received the system's invitation.

But there was a logical contradiction here.

By the time Kurumi received the invitation, the event where Origami killed her own parents five years ago had already happened.

Otherwise, the Origami of the present wouldn't even exist.

In this scenario, if Kurumi simply refused to intervene and didn't help future Origami complete the time loop, then the logical chain would break.

To put it simply:

Origami's time travel is the cause.

The past events from five years ago are the effect.

But now, the effect had appeared before the cause.

If Kurumi refused to help Origami time travel, then the cause wouldn't exist.

So what would happen to the effect, which had already been recorded in history?

Souta thought that it wouldn't just disappear.

After all, it had existed for five years—it's a solid historical event. You can't just erase it like that.

So would the Date A Live world's system automatically fill in the missing cause to maintain stability?

"What will happen...?"

Souta's eyes gleamed with curiosity. He pressed the Bullet of Twelfth against himself.

In an instant, he traveled three years into the past.

Since one Bullet of Twelfth didn't store enough time, he had to travel twice.

For his second jump, Souta, driven by scientific curiosity, deliberately aimed for the period five years ago when he, Kurumi, and Shiroyasha had all existed.

As a result, he felt a powerful repelling force push him back to his original time.

"..." Souta took out his system phone, checked it, and sighed.

"As expected, it doesn't work. And instead of sending me back three years, it forcibly returned me to my normal time. What a waste of item cards."

Looks like the system's authority really couldn't be challenged.

Souta set aside his disappointment, recalled the date when Origami's parents died, and prepared to time travel again.

Fortunately, that date wasn't within the time period he had just been expelled from.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to go at all.

Soon, after two successful jumps, he arrived in Tengu City five years ago.

Night instantly turned into day.

The season also changed—it was now the peak of summer.

Souta looked up into the distance. The sun hung low in the western sky, about to set.

The city's layout was slightly different from what he remembered five years later.

The summer heat didn't bother him. He quickly observed his surroundings and confirmed his location.

"I remember the fire happened in Nankou District..."

Souta recalled the information he had obtained by using divine power in the present.

He had no idea where Nankou District was.

Just as he was about to ask a passerby for directions, the sky suddenly turned bright red!

A massive surge of spirit energy erupted about five kilometers ahead.

It was about the same level as the energy surge when Miku became a Spirit.

"Well... I guess I don't need to ask for directions anymore."

Souta looked toward the center of the energy outburst.

There, among the neatly arranged buildings, a massive pillar of fire shot up into the sky.

Shortly after, it exploded, scattering flames everywhere.

A sea of fire engulfed the city.

Souta guessed that Kotori Itsuka had just transformed into the Spirit of Flames.

Without hesitation, he used divine power to teleport directly to the scene.