Chapter 445

The video continues.

【I hope you enjoy this land of freedom atop this scorched earth.】

The three continued forward,

and saw a puppet named Voice of the Past,

speaking to three other puppets.

【Look, their sentences have long ended; the company's jailers have been driven away.】

【Yet these prisoners remain slaves, for what imprisoned them was not external chains, but their own hearts.】

【Freedom exists everywhere—except in a weak soul.】

【It aids no one, only those who believe it exists.】

After Sunday's words fell,

the puppet named Voice of the Past,

began to deliver a grand proclamation.

【Prisoners! I command you to learn freedom, and teach your brothers—to fight for life!】

After the puppet finished speaking,

it suddenly launched an attack on the three.

Stelle: "What the hell?"

Stelle: "Whether you fight for life or for freedom, we don't care."

Stelle: "But why did this puppet just randomly start attacking us?"

March 7th: "We didn't even stop their freedom—why are they hitting us?"

Furina: "Hmm… maybe you three are playing the role of those who blocked their freedom in this play?"

Furina: "So to make it more immersive, they just attacked?"

Silver Wolf: "Got ambushed out of nowhere."

Silver Wolf: "Hilarious—this really is immersive."

Botio: "After all that talk, Sunday's just saying weaklings don't deserve freedom, right?"

Botio: "Hey, I agree with that view."

Botio: "The biggest obstacle to their freedom's already gone, yet these weaklings still act like submissive slaves."

Botio: "Damn it, they don't even have the courage to yearn for freedom—deserve to be slaves!"

Miss Sushang: "But you can't say it like that…"

Miss Sushang: "I think most people just grew numb from being locked up too long, and temporarily forgot the courage to long for freedom."

Miss Sushang: "I believe that with gentle guidance, we can awaken that courage they once had!"

Miss Sushang: "Just like this puppet demonstrates!"

Gui Nai Fen: "Wow, Sushang, you actually said something insightful!"

Gui Nai Fen: "Are you really the Sushang I know?"

Miss Sushang: "Xiao Xiao Guizi, do you think I won't slap you right now?!"

Stelle: "Yes, hit her hard—make her stop calling you dumb."

Miss Qingque: "What unmasked incitement…"

The video continues.

【Why do we have to fight just to watch a show?!】

March 7th stared at the attacking puppet,

and couldn't help crying out.

【I don't just want you to watch this play—I want you to help me complete it.】

Sunday explained.

Immediately,

the three began fighting the puppets.

After a brief exchange,

the puppet withdrew on its own,

ceasing its attack.

【No one can block your path anymore—you are free.】

The puppet raised a loud cry.

【Thus ends the first act.】

【Amidst blazing flames, the frontier prison gradually moves toward the place of exile.】

Sunday's voice followed closely.

【This is likely the founding history of Pinoconny.】

【With the help of outsiders, the prisoners finally achieved freedom and established a place of exile in the universe.】

【Yet compared to physical cages, Sunday seems more focused on expressing humanity's spiritual predicament.】

After watching the first act,

Himeko spoke from feeling.

【This play is too artsy for me—the only part I understood clearly was the fighting…】

【But finally, there's an exit—let's go!】

Stelle: "Tsk tsk tsk, March—so you're a brute after all."

Stelle: "All you know is fighting!"

Stelle: "Unlike me, I read through this play nice and easy."

March 7th: "Pfft!"

March 7th: "And you actually called me a brute."

March 7th: "Your bat and flame lance were practically sparking!"

March 7th: "How dare you say that?"

Silver Wolf: "The moment Stelle sees a fight coming, she's like a pervert spotting an absolute beauty."

Miss Qingque: "She's got a bit of a violent-gene in her."

Stelle: "Who's a violent freak?"

Stelle: "What I do is convince people with reason!"

Stelle: "Do you even know what 'convincing people with reason' means?"

Paimon: "We get it, we get it! Lumine and I also love convincing people with reason!"

Lumine: "Ahem... if you can throw hands, no need for extra chatter..."

Lumine: "When adventuring like this, it really does save some trouble..."

Stelle: "Truly my good sister—even this habit of ours is shockingly similar!"

Stelle: "Sister, I'm really looking forward to you coming more and more."

Stelle: "When the time comes, we'll convince people with reason together, hard-core style!"

Furina: "Calling beating people a lesson 'convincing them with reason.'"

Furina: "That really is a refreshingly unconventional way to put it..."

The video continues.

The three of them step into the exit frame,

arriving at the transitional space leading to the second play.

【He plucked a falling star to make a pen-tip, and drafted the symbols of sound and counting.】

【He gathered stardust into a river, designating good and righteousness as upstream, evil and unrighteousness as downstream.】

【From then on, all things received their own marks, and the people of the world came to know good and evil, benefit and harm.】

【This was the Third Day and the Fourth Day.】

Stelle: "Is this good-and-evil stuff really something Order made up?"

Stelle: "Before Order existed in this universe, was there really no such thing as good and evil?"

March 7th: "Uh... that's actually a really hard question to answer."

March 7th: "Mainly because the Aeon of Order does seem to have been born an awfully long time ago."