"Not necessarily."

Leon patted Miss Zhuangpo on the shoulder, signaling her to calm down, then glanced at Joshua, whose half face was ashen, and said calmly:

"Although in the future Joshua saw, you, me, and he were all sent to the gallows by the people of the Witch Kingdom, that doesn't mean we're really going to die..."

"We'll die! We definitely will!"

Before Leon could finish, Prince Freckles, curled up on the large bed in the room, shouted in desperation:

"I saw it with my own eyes, you! Me! And that peasant girl next to you, the three of us were hanging together on the gallows! Our tongues were sticking out!"

"It's okay, even when people aren't dead, they can still stick out their tongues."

"It's not the same thing!"

Joshua shouted, somewhat breaking down:

"You don't know what I saw! I...the look on your faces, it was absolutely the look of dead people! And the things I saw are the future that will definitely happen! We're doomed!"

"Calm down, time is not such an absolute thing."

Pointing to the chair in the room, signaling Miss Zhuangpo to sit over there, Leon, who had experienced "time" issues multiple times, explained calmly:

"To explain in words you can understand, time is like a horizontally growing tree. The past time is the relatively fixed trunk, which is mostly a single fixed line.

The future is like a lush canopy, extending countless different branches to the future, and the scene you saw is just one branch among countless others, currently the one with the highest probability."

"But I..."

"Have you forgotten? You already changed the future once."

Leon reminded:

"When the former queen secretly linked with the ministers, preparing to pull you in for one more fight, didn't you see her failure and proactively report her?

So we don't need to worry too much about these bad omens. After all, from the moment you jumped out of time and saw part of the future, this future has already changed, and there's a chance it can be altered."

"It's not the same! It's different this time!"

Facing Leon's explanation, Prince Freckles, with a severely swollen half face, shook his head desperately:

"I saw it dozens of times! The results were the same every time! Even if I make up my mind and jump from the upstairs to break my leg later, the future I see doesn't change. I'll still be hanged with you!"

"That's because your decision has a very small impact on this future."

Feeling a bit annoyed by Joshua's hysterical state, Leon walked over, dragged him off the big bed, and said with a frown:

"Just like whether or not you get involved or go to Veronica to report, the former queen's plan was never going to succeed, your power has too little effect on the result, and when your strength is insufficient, the changes you make have very limited impact on the outcome.

The situation over at the Witch Kingdom is particularly special, likely involving more than one Pillar God... you don't need to understand what a Pillar God is, just know that they're very difficult to deal with, and I'm not a match for them.

In short, if you want to change this future, someone with enough 'weight' must step in, otherwise even if you die here, someone will carry your corpse over to hang on the gallows... Do you understand?"

"No... no..."

"..."

What a total waste of breath!

Sighing in exasperation, Leon, looking at his brother-in-law who was clueless about abnormal objects, sensibly gave up further explanation and opted for a more direct approach... by raising his right hand towards Joshua.

"If you scream anymore, I'll test it a hundred times! Understand?"

"?!!!"

Hmph, seems a slap is still the most effective.

Seeing Prince Freckles startled by his words, quickly covering his left face and not daring to wail loudly anymore, Leon couldn't help but twitch his lips, then patiently asked:

"Besides all three of us being hanged, did you see anything else?"

"I... I saw many people watching nearby... men and women, even old people and children..."

"That's not what I want to hear."

Rubbing his brow with a bit of a headache, Leon prodded further:

"What I want to know is more special intelligence, preferably information we can use."

"Uh... what's considered special intelligence?"

"..."

Your brain... I really must have lost my mind before to rate your administrative ability at 7!

Sighing helplessly, Leon had to patiently explain:

"It's the exceptionally peculiar scenes, those that are clearly abnormal, and unforgettable... like a dog biting a person isn't useful news, but if someone bites a dog, that information is valuable."

"Oh..."

After nodding somewhat vaguely, Prince Freckles tried to recall, covering his face, hesitated and said:

"There might indeed be something like that... besides us three, there was another person hanging with us on the gallows, seemed to be sentenced to death with us.

But the people from the Witch Kingdom didn't seem to pay much attention to him. After hanging the three of us, they cheered and followed two others away, completely forgetting the man on the gallows."

Not paying much attention... left him forgotten... hmm... why does that sound familiar?

After hearing Joshua's description, Leon frowned and contemplated for a while, vaguely recalling something but unable to pinpoint exactly what it was.

Meanwhile, Miss Zhuangpo, after thinking along for a while, suddenly exclaimed, slapping her thigh to remind:

"I got it! That person! That person was there too!"

That person? Which person?

"That very person!"

Seeing Leon still puzzled, Miss Zhuangpo urged:

"The one from our branch... I forgot his name, but the one who joined our Virgin Branch with me after being selected by you!"

Oh right! There indeed is such a person!

With Miss Zhuangpo's reminder, Leon suddenly remembered. Before the Aquarius Director assumed their position, the director once put him in charge of recruitment for the Virgin Branch.

After receiving that stack of "resumes," Leon spent two days evaluating all the candidates, finally selecting the ever-present Miss Zhuangpo Layla, and another man whose presence was unimaginably low.

Unable to pinpoint his abnormal object, Leon couldn't gather enough information to activate Materialism, so he overlooked him too. Even after several days of joining the branch, Leon hadn't remembered to arrange an office for him.

And his name seemed to be Ma... Ma... something Mei?