Chapter 297

March 7th: "Who else could it be, that genius?"

March 7th: "It has to be Penacony's dog!"

March 7th: "Mr. Gallagher!!!"

Gallagher: "What?"

Gallagher: "Not trendy enough? Or not fast enough?"

Gallagher: "Since we're in a dreamscape, naturally the vehicle shouldn't play by the rules."

Hu Tao: "What a fine 'shouldn't play by the rules.'"

Hu Tao: "But this method of yours... isn't it a bit, uh, something?"

Furina: "Such a terrifying monster — just seeing it would knock someone out cold!"

Furina: "And you actually use it as a vehicle!!"

Gallagher: "Is it really that scary?"

Gallagher: "I look at it every day and think it's actually pretty cute."

Topaz: "A fictional historian's aesthetic sense... is it perhaps a little different from normal people's?"

Aventurine: "Probably."

Aventurine: "Otherwise there's no explaining how he could find that thing cute."

Gallagher: "Ah, look at it long enough and you get used to it."

Himeko: "So, Mr. Gallagher — what exactly is your intention in pulling people into the Dreamscape Reef using this method?"

Robin: "That's exactly what I want to know!"

Robin: "Beyond the Family's sweet dreams, there's actually a place like this hidden away..."

Robin: "Does the Family truly not know about it?"

Gallagher: "Don't rush."

Gallagher: "Since the video's already played this far, I suppose it's almost time to reveal the answer."

Gallagher: "So just keep watching."

The video continues.

【The true dreamscape, the land of exile...】

【Before setting out, let me have another chat with everyone.】

After Stelle calmed herself down,

she decided to find Firefly and Welt for another talk.

【I'm sorry I couldn't tell you everything I know until now.】

Seeing Stelle walking toward her,

Firefly spoke first.

【Why didn't you reveal your true identity earlier?】

Stelle still couldn't let go of this question.

【There are two reasons. The first is the script — in the future Elio saw, the conflict between Sam and the Astral Express was unavoidable.】

【I tried to break the shackles of prophecy, but this is the best I could manage.】

【Besides that... it was my own selfish wish.】

【I wanted to travel with you as Firefly... not as Sam.】

Faced with this question,

Firefly answered sincerely.

【It's fine, I didn't take it to heart.】

Stelle accepted Firefly's explanation.

【... Thank you.】

Firefly smiled.

【The Stellaron Hunters... do they want the legacy too?】

Stelle asked, somewhat curious.

【Elio gave me only one instruction — to have the Astral Express chase the "Grand Legacy" together.】

【This means the Watchmaker's legacy is of extraordinary significance to the path of pioneering, and to you.】

【Before, Elio's scripts always revolved around a specific Stellaron.】

【But after you appeared, that rule no longer seemed to apply.】

【Perhaps he saw something impossible in the future too.】

Firefly explained in detail.

【So what exactly is Sam?】

Stelle couldn't quite let Sam go.

【Remember the medical bay I told you about?】

【That is Sam — the Glamoth Iron Cavalry of the Skydome Front, the Firefly IV Strategic Assault Armor.】

【It is the cradle of my life, the meaning of my birth into this world, and for a long time, it was how the world saw... the shape I was supposed to take.】

Ying: "Medical bay?!"

Ying: "This is the medical bay Miss Firefly mentioned earlier?!"

Ying: "I thought..."

Miss Qingque: "Thought it was a cold, big cover, lying inside unable to move at all, right?"

Qingque: "I think so too!"

Qingque: "Who would have thought this medical pod is actually a handsome mecha?!"

Bai Lu: "Oh no, the whole concept of a medical pod has been shattered inside my head!"

Stelle: "Um.... if I happen to get hurt someday!"

Stelle: "Please, you absolutely have to give me a medical pod like this, so I can recover in peace!"

Brother Dan Heng: "The Glamoth Iron Cavalry of the Celestial Warfront... as far as I know, they basically ceased to exist long ago."

Firefly: "That's right..... I am the only..... survivor....."

Furina: "The only survivor?"

Furina: "Suddenly I feel like..... this seems to be yet another tragedy?"

Welt: "According to rumor, the final fate of the Glamoth Empire was utterly tragic."

Welt: "So..... this really is a tragedy...."

Huang Quan: "Miss Firefly also carries a past she cannot bear to look back upon."

Huang Quan: "Therefore, she set out on a new journey, seeking only to find her own rebirth."

Firefly: "Mm..... that is also the main reason I joined the Stellaron Hunters."

Black Swan: "Sigh, with Miss Firefly added in, there are now three people with sorrowful pasts."

Nahida: "Miss Firefly, Mr. Topaz, and Miss Huang Quan, right?"

Sparkle: "Hehehe, worthy of the Festival's Star Penacony!"

Sparkle: "This really is lively!"

Sparkle: "To think it's gathered Glamoth Iron Cavalry from across the whole cosmos, the Euvan people, and also......"

Sparkle: "Oh right, Huang Quan, where are you from?"

Huang Quan: "......."

March 7th: "???"

March 7th: "What kind of hellish joke is that?!"

March 7th: "Miss Sparkle, can you please not talk so disgustingly!"

Stelle: "Looks like I still haven't spanked her butt!"

Stelle: "You just wait, sooner or later I'll make you wail like a baby!"

Paimon: "Miss Sparkle's way of talking really is, as always.... without any filter....."

The video continues.

【Mm, then let's chat up to here for now.】