Chapter 228: The One Who Inherited the Clockmaker

Himeko: "The Masked Fool, the Nameless Guest, the Fictional Historian, the Mourning Performer, the Vanguard Commander......"

Himeko: "Come to think of it, did that war really gather so many factions?"

Stelle: "When people go to war, what are the Masked Fool and the Fictional Historian even doing there?"

Huahuo: "What else could the Fool possibly do~?"

Huahuo: "Of course, they go to watch the rivers of blood for entertainment."

March 7th: "Then what about the Fictional Historian?"

March 7th: "Could it be they go to spread rumors and disrupt morale?"

Brother Dan Heng: "Hmm... the likelihood is high."

Keqing: "I must say, your universe's factions are truly strange."

Keqing: "There are those who specifically come to watch the drama, and those who specifically fabricate rumors and stories....."

Wind: "Ehehe, this kind of universe is the only one worth having!"

Paimon: "I think I get it now."

Paimon: "Of all these complex factions, the only one suited for me and Lumine is probably the Nameless Guest."

Lumine: "Hmm.... Exploration and travel... are indeed quite similar."

Stelle: "That's right! The Nameless Guest are legendary heroes known throughout the universe!"

Stelle: "Travel with us, and you won't go wrong!"

Pam: "The Train Captain welcomes all passengers, Pam!"

Paimon: "Hehe, we'll definitely board that train one day!"

Paimon: "Isn't that right, Lumine?"

Lumine: "Yes, once our journey in Teyvat ends, we'll search the starry sea for the trail of the Star Rail!"

March 7th: "Ha, then we'll be waiting with bated breath."

The video continues.

【Thirteen?!】

【It's impossible to believe!】

March 7th heard this and wore an expression of utter disbelief.

【Hannuunu liberated the frontier prison, but left before witnessing peace.】

【Scarce resources, hostile external forces, fractured prison districts.....】

【Asdena's future remained perilous.】

【Until the Historical Clockmaker extended an olive branch to the family, attempting to turn this prison into a star of lavish gatherings.......】

【Punokoni finally acquired its current name and stepped onto the stage facing the stars.】

Galahad casually skipped over the question of his age,

and continued introducing the three to that past history.

【That's why he was called the Father of Punokoni.】

Himeko suddenly understood.

【But you just said the Clockmaker was a traitor to the family?】

【You also said you were his companion, so you too.......】

March 7th asked hesitantly.

【I am not his companion—I am one of his many children.】

【But I am indeed a traitor—not to the family, but to... Mikhail.】

Galahad spoke with shocking words.

【..... What did you do?】

Himeko frowned and asked.

【I did nothing.... That was the greatest betrayal.】

【Like you, I once had close companions.】

【We poured our hearts into Punokoni, yet the "Oak Lineage"..... betrayed us.】

【Mikhail grew old and could no longer protect his children.】

【We left the family to find our own paths—and became traitors to Harmony.....】

【Though the true traitor was someone else.】

【They still praised the Clockmaker's name publicly, but secretly nailed him to the pillar of shame.】

【Even so, we still hoped to clear his name.】

【As long as we could expose the true traitor, the mastermind behind it all, Punokoni's Harmony could return to the right path.......】

【...... But we lost.】

【After a long passage of time, the dreamland had been too deeply affected......】

【Under endless relentless pursuit, I gave up..... like a stray dog.】

【The family readmitted me, gave me the post of Peacekeeper—ostensibly forgiveness, actually punishment.】

【From then on, I severed all ties with my companions... and my past.】

【And Mikhail.......】

【..... I heard he died in a forgotten corner, somewhere no one could find.】

【I understood: from this moment on, the Punokoni of old could never return.】

Galahad's voice grew bleak.

Hu Tao: "Uh... this part of the story, I didn't quite follow."

Hu Tao: "But it seems... that Mikhail was truly framed?"

Hu Tao: "And this matter seems to have coincidentally something to do with the Oak family?"

March 7th: "Could it really be as Miss Fuyuna guessed?"

Stelle: "This feels almost certainly right?"

Stelle: "The Father of Pneumonia now lies dead in a corner no one cares about."

Stelle: "And the Oak family has become the publicly recognized highest governing family of Pneumonia?"

Fuyuna: "So all of this was actually Sunday Mr.'s scheme?"

Redbird: "No, it's impossible!"

Redbird: "My brother would never do such a thing!"

Sunday: "Don't let Mr. Gallagher's words mislead you."

Sunday: "His words contain hardly a single truth."

Miss Qingque: "What? Isn't Mr. Gallagher one of your family?"

Sunday: "Of course not—the family never accepted him!"

Xi'er: Then he's still one of the Clockmaker's people?

Xi'er: "No wonder he speaks for the Clockmaker."

Shanhu Gong Xin Hai: "Mr. Gallagher is lying too..."

Shanhu Gong Xin Hai: "If so, then the Clockmaker's faction seems to be hiding ulterior motives as well."

Stelle: "Every single one of them is full of lies—not a single truth!"

Stelle: "They're even worse than Fireworks, that fake Fool!"