Chapter 160

【I often forget certain things, so rather than relying on memory, I'm more accustomed to capturing things through feeling.】

【So......】

【I know who is inside that cold armor.】

Huang Quan looked at Sam,

her tone inexplicable.

【.......】

Huang Quan's words,

left Sam silent once again.

【So, willing to take off the armor and talk?】

Huang Quan said sincerely.

【The time is not yet right.】

【I don't need help, but I can give you a piece of advice — it would be better for both of us this way.】

【If your goal is the Watchmaker's legacy, then investigate the family.】

【They not only concealed the existence of death, but also buried the past and truth of the dream.】

Sam shared some intelligence with Huang Quan.

【I'm already doing that.】

Huang Quan nodded.

【—And.....】

【The Astral Express is not your enemy!】

Sam added.

【I know that too.......】

【I just never thought I'd hear it from your mouth.】

【What next?】

【Stelle was taken away by the Black Swan. Are you going to go find her?】

Huang Quan asked.

【There's no need for that......】

【It won't hurt to tell you — Elio gave me only one instruction........】

【Let the Astral Express chase the grand legacy together!】

【I tried to end this matter in a simpler, more direct way.】

【But as you can see, the result is me standing here confronting you.】

【I failed.】

【The script cannot be defied.】

Sam's tone carried a hint of regret.

【So-called impossibilities are merely things that have not yet arrived.........】

【..... enough.】

【Before we part, may I ask you one more question?】

【Does your script contain any part about me?】

【I want to know — in the future seen by fate, what kind of footnote have I left behind?】

Huang Quan suddenly asked an inexplicable question.

【Unfortunately, not a single word.】

Sam said bluntly.

【.... Not surprising.】

Huang Quan had long anticipated this result,

and after a slight nod,

she turned and left.

【Wait—】

【I won't.】

Sam suddenly called out to Huang Quan,

uttering three words.

【What?】

Huang Quan didn't understand.

【Your original question.......】

【Whether you still dream, and dream of those who died because of you.】

【I won't. Never.】

【I was born without the function of dreaming.】

【I live for the cold reality, and for a single point of light, I burn..... burning ceaselessly, until I turn to dead ash.】

【So, I envy you.】

Sam's electronic synthesized voice sounded,

tinged with a touch of low heaviness.

【Is that so......】

【Then you are already living in the waking world.】

Huang Quan left behind two final words,

then silently departed.

Furina: "Huh?"

Furina: "After Miss Xing and Miss Black Swan left, they're actually not fighting anymore?"

Eula: "Watching them fight so fiercely earlier, I thought it would at least end with one of them dead."

Eula: "But in the end, these two just stopped fighting whenever they felt like it."

Lumine: "Because Miss Huang Quan saw through it — Sam's only goal was to drive her and Miss Black Swan away from Miss Xing."

Lumine: "Looking at it that way... Sam seems to have been deliberately protecting Miss Xing?"

Venti: "That's not wrong, actually."

Venti: "After all, Miss Huang Quan's identity is mysterious — she's suspected to be an Emanator."

Venti: "And Miss Black Swan has her own designs on Miss Xing."

Venti: "Those two staying by Miss Xing's side would indeed pose a great risk to her."

Collei: "But isn't Sam a member of the Stellaron Hunters?"

Collei: "Why would he help Miss Xing?"

Silver Wolf: "What's so strange about that?"

Silver Wolf: "Who says the Stellaron Hunters have to fight the Astral Express crew to the death?"

Nahida: "Actually... I'm more curious about what this 'script' actually is."

Nahida: "From what Sam said, all of his actions were actually carried out according to the script."

Nahida: "And that Elio — to think he's actually called a slave of fate..."

Nahida: "Is there some hidden meaning to this?"

Dr. Ratio: "Elio, the leader of the Stellaron Hunters, is quite renowned throughout the galaxy."

Dr. Ratio: "But he himself is extremely mysterious, rarely showing himself."

Dr. Ratio: "All that's known is that he seems to possess the ability to see through the future, and has been trying to change certain things through some kind of script..."

Zhong Li: "Mm... sounds like a very mysterious figure."

Raiden: "A slave of fate... yet wanting to change fate?"

Raiden: "Can that truly be done?"

Black Swan: "Hehe, on that point, I'm afraid no one can give a definitive answer."

Black Swan: "But to borrow a line from that Duke of the Underworld..."

Black Swan: "So-called impossibilities are merely things that have not yet come to pass."