Chapter 357

The thrush's tone also grew stern.

【Alright, alright~ I'm leaving now.】

【But, Miss Thrush, I still urge you to think carefully again.......】

【...... Can those who live in dreams truly escape suffering and attain true happiness?】

【Hehe, I've done everything I needed to do; now I just wait for the fireworks.】

【I'll give you the last two gifts.】

【If the Harmony Festival still unfortunately takes place........ be sure to use them at the performance site, and don't lose them.】

【Boom— it'll be thrilling!】

Navia: "Huh..... Did they really hand out bomb buttons to the family's decision-makers?"

Navia: "So this is just a joke, right?"

March 7th: "Pfft, we never believed she actually sent real bombs."

March 7th: "After all, wouldn't doing something like this require stealth?"

Hua Huo: "Hehe, you just don't get it."

Hua Huo: "I'm a Fool, after all."

Hua Huo: "Who knows..... maybe I have some special tricks up my sleeve~"

Stelle: "Damn, if the Harmony Festival really blows up and turns into a bloodbath, that'd be the biggest joke of all."

Stelle: "I hope no one gets hurt!"

Hu Tao: "Since it's all just a dream anyway, even if it really exploded, what's the harm?"

Ying: "It might not be a pleasant experience, but it probably won't kill anyone."

Amber: "Miss Hua Huo is subtly hinting at Miss Thrush again."

Amber: "Her tone makes it sound like she knows everything."

Paimon: "Knowing everything— I'm really curious how she pulls it off."

Hua Huo: "Hehe, didn't I already say so~"

Hua Huo: "I'm actually the mastermind!"

Hua Huo: "So isn't it normal that I know these things?"

Stelle: "Hua Director, who'd believe you saying that?"

Stelle: "We're not fools."

March 7th: "Exactly."

March 7th: "You're clearly just here in Piconne to cause trouble and have fun."

March 7th: "Why bother playing the mastermind?"

Hua Huo: "Sigh, in this day and age, when someone tells the truth, no one believes them— it's just..... so entertaining~"

Botero: "Damn, such a sweet little girl, always talking about fun, always speaking in that sarcastic tone."

Botero: "The God of Fun really does a number on people...."

Furina: "I acknowledge the aggression in Miss Hua Huo's words."

Furina: "Conversely, I also acknowledge Mr. Sandgold's defense."

Wind: "Hehe, Mr. Sandgold didn't break a single defense against Miss Hua Huo the whole time."

Wind: "Looking back at Sunday's defense, though, it was still a bit lacking."

Sandgold: "That's..... I do believe in the Preservation."

Sandgold: "How could a Harmonist like him compare to me in defense?"

Stelle: "Then doesn't that make me, who bears both Preservation and Destruction, completely invincible in offense and defense?"

Stelle: "Tsk tsk tsk, later on, I'll find someone to spar with."

Silver Wolf: "You?"

Silver Wolf: "Just don't get yelled at to tears..."

Stelle: "Who dares yell at me?"

Stelle: "Just see me holding my stick— that's all it takes!"

Miss Qingque: "So online you can't win, so you go beat them up in real life, huh?"

Miss Qingque: "You really know how to avoid getting wronged......."

The video continues.

【Far away, the caw of a raven echoes...... It seems the Dream Master is about to arrive.】

Suddenly, Sunday heard several cries,

and immediately realized,

that the Dream Master was coming.

So he took Thrush with him,

and walked quickly toward them.

【This place is perfect. Let's wait here for the Dream Master.】

Sunday brought Thrush to an open area.

【Hmm.】

【By the way, brother, I heard you no longer touch sweets at all.】

【You used to always fight me for dessert after meals.........】

【Somehow, since I left, many things have changed.】

【What exactly happened?】

The Robin felt her brother had, without her noticing,

become somewhat unfamiliar.

【Even in a sweet dream, someone must remain awake.】

Sunday replied gently.

【But that person should not be you, nor should it be any specific individual.】

【Brother, you've taken on too much.】

【The paradise we promised each other....... shouldn't be like this.】

【Pinoconny is merely a dream.】

【It cannot erase the worries and pain of reality, nor bring true happiness.......】

【All it can do is provide people a place to escape reality—and nothing more.】

The Robin felt her brother now bore burdens he should never have carried.

【Do you remember the old man just now?】

【Without this dream, he might have already fallen into irredeemable despair.】

Sunday used the old man from just now as an example.

【Indeed.......】

【But even without Pinoconny, he might have chosen another life.】

【As far as I know, the Boshixue Society has long been promoting corresponding rehabilitation therapies.】

【Though that life would have been far more ordinary and difficult, now, in his coma, he receives the terminal comfort of a sweet dream—his ending....... is already sealed.】

【Does Pinoconny give these people a future—or steal it from them?】

Compared to reality,

the Robin ultimately could not accept the illusory sweet dream.

【Before that, you must understand....... not everyone can reach a future.】

【For a person, the future is like the sky is to a bird.】

【People mistakenly believe flight is a bird's nature because they have never seen the birds that fell to their deaths.】

【Do you remember the Harmony Pigeon we adopted as children?】

【How did we treat it?】

Sunday asked the Robin.

【We raised it carefully in a cage, feeding it and changing its water daily, grooming its feathers, and later.......】

【When I decided to leave Pinoconny, I opened the cage door and let it return to the sky.】