Chapter 178

Miss Qingque: "Are there really such people?"

Miss Sushang: "The forest is big, and there are all kinds of weeds. The universe is so big, maybe there are such people?"

Guinaifen: "Weeds? Shangshang, it should be birds!"

Miss Sushang: "Cough, cough... sorry, I suddenly got them mixed up."

Hu Tao: "In short, Mr. Sunday cannot define everyone's understanding of happiness."

Sunday: "This is actually just an analogy I made."

Sunday: "In fact, in the happy home I envision, everyone can find their own happy life."

Sunday: "Even if it's a great demon who takes pleasure in killing, they can also reap this kind of happiness."

Sunday: "And their happiness will not be built on the misfortune of others."

Nahida: "It really was as Paimon said..."

Nahida: "The paradise Mr. Sunday wants to build, simply put, is the different fantasy worlds in everyone's heart..."

Nahida: "Essentially, they are all... fake!"

Mona: "A fake world like flowers in a mirror and the moon in the water; I cannot see the meaning of such a world existing."

Stelle: "Forgive my bluntness, but this kind of world feels unrelated to Order and closer to Nihility."

Stelle: "If you really do this, I'm afraid you'll attract Nihility."

Stelle: "By then, let alone Penacony, the entire galaxy will be finished."

Huang Quan: "Those who gaze into Nihility will inevitably be swallowed by His shadow..."

The video continues.

【Then... what is the price for all this?】

Firefly asked after a moment of silence.

【The price is insignificant; it is just a permanent martyrdom that belongs to me personally.】

【If one must maintain this paradise for the masses, there must be one person who falls into lonely sobriety until the end of the universe.】

Sunday turned his back,

and said slowly.

【Sobriety... in other words, that paradise is still a dream.】

【Stepping into the paradise means giving up reality, right?】

Firefly asked back.

【This is not giving up, but transcending.】

【Flesh and blood are weak. If matter is the root of spiritual suffering, then we should overcome it.】

Sunday replied.

【But in such happiness, people have never overcome suffering, and have forever lost the opportunity to overcome suffering.】

【To put it another way... this is escapism.】

Firefly did not agree with Sunday's statement.

【You can think so, but escapism is not shameful.】

【On the contrary, everyone has the seed of escapism in their heart.】

【Doesn't Miss Firefly think so too? Why does life fall into slumber? Because people are afraid of waking up from the dream.】

【But this does not conflict with a great cause.】

【Only by admitting this can we understand the weakness of human nature, and then tolerate it, and then protect it.】

Stelle: "Good grief, in a daze, I even saw holy light radiating from behind Brother Seven-Rest's head!"

Stelle: "Amazing, this is simply a universe-defying great saint."

Stelle: "I just don't understand, why are you being so selfless?"

Stelle: "Are you just bored with nothing to do?"

March 7th: "Sacrificing oneself alone to build a paradise."

March 7th: "You really are ruthless to yourself!"

March 7th: "The problem is, even if your wish is fulfilled, can you really endure that boundless loneliness?"

Furina: "I think... if it really gets to that point, he'll probably gradually doubt life himself."

Furina: "Thinking his existence has no meaning, and then go to embrace Nihility."

Hu Tao: "If there is only one sober person in the universe, then whoever it is, they would feel that living has no meaning, right?"

Aventurine: "This mental illness is too severe."

Aventurine: "Compared to him, my mental state is simply too healthy."

The video continues.

【I... acknowledge that you are a natural leader.】

【You are full of pessimism about humanity, yet you still hold a heart of negation and grant equal compassion to all living beings.】

【But I am different from you; I live for myself.】

【In my view, people making choices for themselves is a matter of course, and it is also their inherent right.】

【Perhaps escapism is the nature of the weak, but who is weak... should not be defined by others.】

【Could it be that in your eyes, I should also be classified as weak?】

Firefly questioned.

【...】

Sunday was silent.

【I don't think so.】

Firefly added.

【Since Miss Firefly has already stated her point of view, the Astral Express will naturally give our answer as well.】

【It's up to you, Stelle. Just as Mr. Mikhail instructed, tell him our choice—】

Stelle: "What? What did Mr. Mikhail instruct us?"

Stelle: "Why don't I remember watching this video?"

March 7th: "Of course you don't remember."

March 7th: "Because we haven't watched this video at all!"

Furina: "Watching until now, I almost forgot about this Clockmaker Mikhail."

Furina: "I remember... he seemed to have left a Dream Bubble for everyone on the Express?"

Furina: "But there was nothing inside."

Hu Tao: "It's not that there was nothing inside, but that we didn't know how to see it."

Hu Tao: "Speaking of which, didn't Miss Himeko go to find a way?"

Hu Tao: "In the end, what happened wasn't shown in the video; it just skipped over it."

Guinaifen: "Family, don't be anxious. I guess it will be broadcast next, right?"

Silver Wolf: "The atmosphere has been built up to this point; it would be impolite not to broadcast it."

Stelle: "Then let's see what the senior Nameless Mikhail left for us!"

Stelle: "I have a small expectation, hoping it's a super treasure that can turn me into an Emanator directly!"

Stelle: "Then I could walk sideways in the universe!"

Miss Qingque: "Keep dreaming!"

Miss Qingque: "If the Clockmaker had such a treasure, wouldn't he have turned into an Emanator long ago and saved Penacony?"

Stelle: "Maybe he didn't have a way to use these treasures, and only I can use them?"

March 7th: "Alright, stop thinking about these irrelevant things."

March 7th: "If you ask me, what the Clockmaker left for us is likely not something material at all."

Welt: "Correct, my thoughts are the same as March's."

The video continues.

The scene shifts,

arriving at the Reverie Hotel not long ago.