Date A Live: After Kurumi Devoured Me, I Moved Into Her Shadow

After transmigrating to the Date A Live world, Lin Zhao obtains a time-stop System.

The first time he uses it, Kurumi Tokisaki catches him. That night, a spirit bullet devours his “time of existence.”

He thinks he’s dead.

But when he wakes up, he finds himself reduced to a consciousness, parasitic inside one of Kurumi’s shadow clones.

He can see what she sees, hear what she hears, and even secretly control the clone’s actions.

And so

When Kurumi sends ten clones out on a mission, one of them is always slacking off.

When Kurumi sits alone on a rooftop late at night, one of her clones always quietly brings her a coat.

When Kurumi is in the bath...

“I wasn’t looking! My eyes were closed! ...Could you stop using the eyes of the clone I’m possessing?!”

“How interesting... There’s a disobedient little mouse inside me♪”

Kurumi discovers him.

But instead of destroying him, she offers him a deal

“You seem to know a lot of things you shouldn’t. Tell me the secret of the First Spirit, and I’ll let you keep living in my shadow.”

“Can we negotiate? I’ll trade you one piece of information for five minutes in a real body.”

“...What do you want to do when you have a body?”

“I want to tell you face-to-face that you deserve to be saved, and that you don’t have to bear everything alone.”

Silence.

For a long time.

“...Three minutes.”

To the idiot living in my shadow.