Chapter 204

【So I believe the collapse of the sweet dream is inevitable.】

Combining all that was seen and heard along the way,

Huang Quan believed that today's Festival Star,

had long since become a mere shadow of its former self.

【Perhaps there is a way to change all this......】

Welt murmured for a while.

【Perhaps.】

【But if this is precisely the world people desire— if this is precisely why life chooses to sleep— should we still compel it to change?】

Huang Quan looked at Welt,

posing this question that seemed impossible to answer.

【.......】

【... Young Lady Huang Quan, let me share a story with you.】

【In my homeland, there was a man who, when the world faced an incurable wound, made a decision.】

【He wove together the dreams of all people, linking one dream to another, and bore them upon himself—thus creating a giant.....】

【A spiritual Adam.】

【From then on, the giant stood between heaven and earth, becoming the pillar sustaining the entire world.】

【And as the price, those who could not, would not move forward......】

【They would forever lose their future.】

【They slumbered in dreams free of suffering, spending their peaceful lives within the man's ideal realm.】

【And the spiritual Adam, because of these people's unwillingness to awaken, would grow utterly unbreakable.】

Welt spoke with deep gravity,

slowly recounting a tale unique to his homeland.

【But now you stand here, which means.... that man failed.】

Huang Quan spoke with feeling.

【Because people must always move toward the future.】

【Even if human weaknesses cause them to pause, when true stagnation arrives......】

【Humanity will always strive to save itself.】

【And that man.... he was never a failure.】

【Like every person in that world, he kept the possibilities of humanity etched in his heart.】

【His myth's sun-chaser flew toward the heavens, and met his final victory through his fall.】

【He soared high, only to reach the sun— a place no one had ever reached before.】

【He would melt from its heat, plunge into the sea, and after that.......】

【..... countless others would cross over his body, flying to even higher skies.】

Stelle: "Your uncle's homeland story?"

Stelle: "Sounds so grand!!"

Stelle: "This man—I call him a true hero!"

March 7th: "Spiritual Adam...."

March 7th: "This dwarfs the dream of Pinnacol by far...."

Zhong Li: "Mr. Welt used his homeland's tale to answer Young Lady Huang Quan's unanswerable question."

Zhong Li: "This answer may not be perfect, but it is the path toward the future."

Sunday: "I've learned much. Mr. Welt's story has deeply benefited me."

Sunday: "But I still wish to ask—if some have already severed all possibility of pursuing the future.... should we still awaken them?"

Sunday: "Even if it is cruel to them?"

Ying: "Hmm.... the future is important.... but the present matters too...."

Truth Physician: "This is a question without a correct answer...."

Truth Physician: "Because in every person's heart, the answer differs."

Truth Physician: "They differ due to their varied experiences, or their differing natures."

Truth Physician: "In short, their answers vary, yet none are wrong."

Goldsand: "Ultimately, if some choose to linger in sweet dreams, others choose to pursue infinite possibilities in the real world."

Goldsand: "These are merely personal choices—neither right nor wrong."

Goldsand: "We need not force our own beliefs onto others."

Goldsand: "Let them choose whatever life they love."

Goldsand: "It is their right. We, as bystanders, need only respect and bless them."

Stelle: "That makes sense."

Stelle: "The universe is so vast—it's impossible everyone wants to linger in dreams."

Stelle: "So if this is precisely what some people desire, we have no need to awaken them."

Stelle: "After all, some suffer terribly in reality—without dreams, must they suffer forever?"

Stelle: "That wouldn't be fair—it would feel like asking them why they don't eat meat."

March 7th: "That's true—we don't become addicted to the dreamscape because we already live comfortably in reality."

March 7th: "But some lack this privilege—dreams become their only spiritual reliance."

March 7th: "Just like Miss Firefly — in reality, she can only stay inside a cold, sterile medical pod."

March 7th: "Just staying alive every day must already be so exhausting, right?"

March 7th: "But inside the Dreamscape, she can run and jump, travel around, see the sights, eat delicious food...."

March 7th: "I think the Dreamscape gave her a reason to be reborn!"

Firefly: "Mm-hm.... I'm truly grateful to the Dreamscape World, because only in dreams can I briefly be a normal person again...."

Himeko: "Everything everyone has said makes sense."

Himeko: "The existence of the Dreamscape has its own logic — but the prerequisite is that people must choose it for themselves!"

Brother Dan Heng: "Exactly. What matters is a person's own will!"

Brother Dan Heng: "We ought to give people the right to choose."

Brother Dan Heng: "We should not privately shatter people's wish to slumber in dreams, but at the same time...."

Brother Dan Heng: "Nor should we forcibly imprison within the Dreamscape those who do not wish to lose themselves in it."

Furina: "So you see... the Penacony of today is actually still pretty nice."

Furina: "Those who want to enter, enter; those who don't, Nuonuo doesn't enter."

Furina: "Of course, it would be even better if someday that damned class divide could be done away with."

Sunday: "....."

Sunday: "I sincerely thank you all for your answers — they've truly benefited me greatly...."

Sunday: "A truly just world... is actually one where every person has the right to choose, isn't it...."

The video continues.

【.....】

【This story fits very well with the pioneering spirit of the Nameless.】

【Thank you, Mr. Welt.】

【I know what you want to confirm.】

【The universe holds countless worlds that are similar yet alien.】

【Within those worlds, there are also countless people who are similar yet alien.】

【I too once set out on a journey, encountering in different worlds old friends whose faces resembled those I knew, watching their fates trace paths that seemed strangely familiar.】

【So, I will tell you.......】

【Although not entirely the same, the story you have described.....】

【It overlaps with my own past.】

【And in that bottomless dream.......】

【..... I ended that man's life, alone.】