Chapter 442

Furina: "Mm, I think so too."

The video continued.

【Why not start from the very beginning of heaven and earth—】

【Since the Twilight War, the firmament lay empty and the earth in chaos.】

【To teach all things of heaven and earth to become knowable, Order Taiyi was born.】

【That was the first day.】

Stelle: "Shit!"

Stelle: "I always thought that 'why not start from the creation of heaven and earth' line was just a meme."

Stelle: "But now... bro, you're serious?"

Stelle: "It's just telling a story, do you really need to drag it back that far?"

Silver Wolf: "If you don't drag it out far enough, how do you make the Order Aeon look impressive?"

Silver Wolf: "Listen to his next two lines—he's clearly blowing Taiyi up into some kind of savior god."

Miss Sushang: "It really pays to be cultured—even your bragging can sound so high-class."

Paimon: "Mm-hmm, indeed!"

Paimon: "If Paimon had that kind of cultural depth, I'd definitely be able to brag myself into a legendary great hero too!"

Lumine: "But Paimon, when you praise yourself, it's just plain self-praise."

Lumine: "The Order Aeon, though, should really be that powerful, right?"

The video continued.

Accompanied by Sunday's narration,

Stelle and her two companions began to lift the curtain,

stepping inside,

to experience three plays.

【He gathered nebulae to make a quill, and crafted a great zither with black and white keys.】

【Strike the white keys, the sun rises; strike the black keys, the moon rises.】

【Thus day and night came to be.】

【That was the second day.】

Miss Qingque: "This... isn't this a bit too much?"

Miss Qingque: "Speaking of which, our Luofu Xianzhou's old man, the Divine Bow, doesn't seem to have a myth this pretentious, does he?"

Diviner Fu Xuan: "Just artistic embellishment."

Diviner Fu Xuan: "Hardly counts as pretentious."

Diviner Fu Xuan: "What it's saying is that the Order Aeon set the rules for all things under heaven."

Diviner Fu Xuan: "And only because of that could order exist in the world."

Stelle: "I say, this is making it sound like some kind of creator god."

Stelle: "Setting rules for everything in the world."

Stelle: "Anyone who didn't know would think Taiyi was the creator of this universe."

Furina: "Is it possible that, precisely because of what the Order Aeon did..."

Furina: "in the end, that's why It fell to a dark hand?"

Furina: "After all, It isn't the only Aeon in the universe."

Furina: "The other Aeons wouldn't be willing to let the universe run solely by the Order Aeon's rules, would they?"

Hu Tao: "Feels like that's basically the reason."

The video continued.

【The puppets are all gathered around the picture frame—do they want us to go in?】

After walking to the end of the path,

March 7th saw several puppets kneeling toward the picture frame,

and seemed to understand something.

So,

the three of them began to step inside the picture frame.

【Prologue Play, Act One: "Ode to the Prisoner"】

Faintly,

a voice announcing the act rang out.

A moment later,

Stelle and her two companions arrived inside a mysterious space.

【Where on earth have we ended up?】

March 7th looked around,

a little bewildered.

【The atmosphere of this place... is very similar to Sunday's inner world.】

【Perhaps this so-called prologue play is a similar ability.】

【This play is called "Ode to the Prisoner," and combined with the surrounding atmosphere...】

【I'm afraid what's about to be performed is Penacony's past.】

Himeko said after analyzing with the Xileyi Society.

【The last few expeditions didn't end up in jail, I thought my luck had finally turned around!】

【But in the end, I still couldn't escape this tribulation......】

Star: "Goodness, this time we're stuck in a dream prison, right?"

Star: "Kinda trendy, actually."

March 7th: "Ahhhhh!"

March 7th: "Why is it that on almost every expedition, nine times out of ten we end up tangled up with something like a prison?"

March 7th: "Makes our Astral Express sound less like the famous Nameless and more like notorious interstellar pirates."

Furina: "From what you're saying..."

Furina: "On these expeditions, you often get thrown into prison?"

Brother Dan Heng: "Not exactly."

Brother Dan Heng: "It's just that during the process, the Nanmian Society are bound to arise."

Brother Dan Heng: "So we often get mistaken for wanted criminals."

Lumine: "Uh... actually... I've had this kind of experience many times too."

Lumine: "Honestly, that feeling is just awful!"

Paimon: "We clearly came with good intentions to help people, but ended up being treated as criminals with ulterior motives!"

Paimon: "Just thinking about this kind of thing makes Paimon annoyed!!"

Star: "If I remember correctly, the last time we almost ended up in jail was in Belobog, when Bronya was chasing us down to arrest us.!"

Sampo: "Hey ladies, this is where good old Sampo's contribution comes in!"

Sampo: "If it weren't for me, old Sampo, stepping in to save the day in time, you all really would've ended up in prison."

Sampo: "Once you're in there, you wouldn't get out without spending a few months inside!"

Bronya: "Ahem... it was all a Xiaowu Society."

Bronya: ". I want to thank everyone for not holding grudges and helping our Belobog so much."

March 7th: "We're the Nameless, how could we be petty?"

March 7th: "This little Xiaowu Society, we won't take it to heart!"

Star: "I took it to heart!"

Star: "Because during the final battle, I got stabbed hard by an ice spike!"

Star: "Goodness, that felt absolutely freezing cold!"

Star: "If it weren't for my extraordinary talent and my body being built differently from normal people, I would've been done for!!"

March 7th: "Hey, if you hadn't been stabbed like that, you wouldn't have gained the Power of Preservation, would you?"

March 7th: "So if you think about it carefully, it wasn't a loss!"