Chapter 196: The exile land that preceded Penacony, the seven families killing each other!

Stelle: "Eh?"

Stelle: "The three Nameless predecessors tried to spread the Trailblazing spirit, but it was to no avail?"

Stelle: "Does it mean that these victorious people put shackles on themselves?"

Stelle: "What kind of operation is this?"

March 7th: "Could it be... because the prisoners were imprisoned for too long."

March 7th: "So they don't know how to live freely anymore?"

Furina: "Having just gained freedom, it made these prisoners feel uncomfortable instead."

Furina: "This is really ironic..."

Hu Tao: "No way..."

Hu Tao: "Then this victory was in vain?"

Lumine: "It shouldn't be everyone."

Lumine: "Otherwise there wouldn't be the Penacony of today."

The video continues.

【Asdana was swept by war again, this time the enemy came from within.】

【Prisoners are prisoners until they die, only knowing how to fight for freedom, not how to live for freedom.】

After Sunday finished explaining,

the puppet began to show words.

【We should build another cage.】

【Not in this world, but in people's hearts.】

【As long as we don't make them free...】

【They will never be displaced.】

Miss Qingque: "Good stuff."

Miss Qingque: "After being free, they started infighting?"

Miss Qingque: "This is too classic."

Miss Qingque: "It really looks like they have nothing better to do..."

Welt: "After the external troubles were solved, internal contradictions began to be triggered."

Welt: "Human nature is like this... I don't find it surprising."

Welt: "And, compared to fighting for freedom before,"

Welt: "This kind of internal trouble is actually the hardest to solve."

Himeko: "Human nature is complex and changeable."

Himeko: "After driving away the IPC, some of these prisoners also developed the idea of being masters of other prisoners..."

Hu Tao: "So, this is the cause of the civil war?"

Hu Tao: "Some people who once fought side by side now want to imitate the IPC's way and dominate these people's freedom again?"

Hu Tao: "Sigh... they are really greedy..."

Stelle: "I think these people are even smarter than the IPC."

Stelle: "These people are thinking of building a cage in the hearts of these prisoners."

Stelle: "Let their freedom be fundamentally imprisoned."

Stelle: "And not just physically imprisoned."

March 7th: "Tsk tsk tsk, this behavior is much more vicious than the IPC."

March 7th: "As expected, the most ruthless ones are still your own people."

The video continues.

【I hope you like this—land of freedom on scorched earth.】

The three continued to walk forward,

and saw a puppet named "Voice of the Past,"

talking to three other puppets.

【Look, their sentences have long ended, and the IPC's jailers have been expelled.】

【But these prisoners are still slaves, because what imprisons them is not external things, but their hearts.】

【Freedom exists everywhere, except in weak souls.】

【It cannot help anyone, it can only help those who believe it exists.】

After Sunday's words fell,

the puppet named "Voice of the Past,"

began to issue a magnificent declaration.

【Prisoners! I command you to learn freedom, and teach your brothers—fight to live!】

After the puppet finished speaking,

it actually started attacking the three of them directly.

Stelle: "What the heck?"

Stelle: "We can't control whether you want to fight to live or fight for freedom."

Stelle: "But what does it mean for this puppet to suddenly start attacking us?"

March 7th: "We aren't the ones who hindered their freedom, why hit us?"

Furina: "Uh... I guess in this play, you are playing the role of those who hindered their freedom, right?"

Furina: "So to be more immersive, they took action?"

Silver Wolf: "About to get beaten up when caught off guard."

Silver Wolf: "Laughing, this is indeed quite immersive."

Boothill: "After saying so much, isn't Sunday just trying to express that weaklings don't deserve freedom?"

Boothill: "Heh, I agree with this point."

Boothill: "Clearly the biggest factor hindering their freedom has been solved, but these weaklings still can't change that submissive slave look."

Boothill: "Holy mother of, they don't even have the courage to yearn for freedom, they deserve to be slaves!"

Miss Sushang: "Can't say it like that..."

Miss Sushang: "I think most people were just locked up for too long and became numb, so they temporarily forgot the courage to yearn for freedom."

Miss Sushang: "I believe that as long as someone guides them slowly, they can definitely awaken the courage they once had!"

Miss Sushang: "Look, just like this puppet is showing!"

Guinaifen: "Wow, Shangshang, you can actually say such insightful things!"

Guinaifen: "Are you still the Shangshang I know?"

Miss Sushang: "Little Gui, believe it or not, I'll go and slap you right now!!"

Stelle: "Right, slap her hard, let her stop saying you're silly."

Miss Qingque: "What undisguised fanning of flames..."

The video continues.

【Why do we have to fight just to watch a play!】

March 7th looked at the attacking puppet,

and couldn't help but exclaim.

【Because I don't just want you to enjoy this play, I also hope you... help me complete it.】

Sunday explained.

Immediately,

the three began to fight with the puppets.

And after circling for a while,

the puppet retreated on its own,

and stopped attacking the three.

【No one can block your path anymore, you are free.】

The puppet shouted.

【This is the end of Act I.】

【In the raging war, the frontier prison gradually moved towards the land of exile.】

Sunday's voice followed.

【This is probably the history of Penacony's construction.】

【With the help of outsiders, the prisoners finally moved towards freedom and established a land of exile in the universe.】

【Just compared to the physical cage, Sunday seems to focus more on expressing people's spiritual plight.】

Himeko felt something after watching the first play,

and spoke her mind.

【This drama is a bit too literary for me, the easiest part to understand is the fighting...】

【But we've finally reached the exit, let's go quickly!】

Stelle: "Tsk tsk tsk, March, so you're a brute."

Stelle: "Only knowing how to fight!"

Stelle: "Unlike me, I understood this play easily."

March 7th: "I spit on that!"

March 7th: "You actually called me a brute."

March 7th: "Your baseball bat and fire spear were almost swinging sparks!"

March 7th: "Do you have the nerve to say that?"

Silver Wolf: "Stelle looks at a fight like a lecher looking at a peerless beauty."

Miss Qingque: "There's somewhat of a violent maniac gene."

Stelle: "Who's a violent maniac?"

Stelle: "I call this convincing people with reason!"

Stelle: "Do you understand what convincing people with reason means?"

Paimon: "Understand, understand, Lumine and I also like to convince people with reason!!"

Lumine: "Cough cough... if you can use your hands, don't talk too much..."

Lumine: "When adventuring, it's indeed easier to do it this way..."

Stelle: "As expected of my good sister, even this habit is surprisingly similar!"

Stelle: "Sister, I'm looking forward to you coming more and more."

Stelle: "When the time comes, let's convince people with reason together!"

Furina: "Calling teaching people a lesson 'convincing people with reason'."

Furina: "That's really a fresh and refined way of saying it..."

The video continues.

The three entered the exit picture frame,

and arrived in the transition space leading to the second play.

【It plucked stardust to make a pen tip, and drafted symbols for pronunciation and counting.】

【It made stardust converge into a river, pointing out that good and righteousness are in the upper reaches, and evil and unrighteousness are in the lower reaches.】

【All things have since received their own marks, and the world has since been able to know good and evil and interests.】

【This is the third day and the fourth day.】

Stelle: "Is good and evil really set by Order?"

Stelle: "Before this universe had order, wasn't there so-called good and evil?"

March 7th: "Uh... this question is really hard to answer."

March 7th: "Mainly because the birth time of the Aeon of Order seems to be indeed very ancient."