Chapter 48

The video continues.

Stelle and Firefly walked very fast,

and soon returned to the main city of the Golden Hour.

"Speaking of which, to return to reality, do I have to go to the hotel..."

"...Strange, where did everyone go?"

Stelle walked on the street, but suddenly found,

there was not even a shadow of a person around.

This made her immediately notice something wrong,

and her expression began to become vigilant.

"Hmm? Sampo? Is that guy playing tricks?"

Stelle and Firefly investigated on the road,

but suddenly saw Sampo's figure.

"We meet again, dear..."

"Sigh, it seems you didn't take my advice to heart at all..."

"What a pity, is that girl so fascinating to you?"

"Heh, you are really... too blind!"

Sampo saw the arrival of the two,

and his expression began to become indifferent.

No longer the enthusiastic look before.

"Be careful!"

"Now I can be sure that this friend of yours has a problem!"

Stelle wanted to step forward to question,

but was pulled by Firefly,

and then protected behind her.

"Oh my, it seems this brave lady wants to protect you, why?"

"Are you two that close?"

Sampo saw this scene, and a playful smile appeared on his face.

"Stop talking nonsense!"

Firefly shouted.

"I like your character so much, dear."

"I admit, you are different from that little gray hair, your nose is still quite sensitive."

"But even so, you are behind the main force."

"Haven't you discovered it yet—the secret behind this sweet dream that the Family is hiding."

"And as for you—the pioneer who saved the snow world..."

"Sigh, how much water did that guy Sampo mix into the story of Belobog?"

"Forget it, it's my problem to believe his words..."

"Heh... I am really, really disappointed in you!!"

After Sampo finished these words,

the scene around Firefly and Stelle changed drastically.

Red goldfish like ghosts,

began to dance gracefully beside the two.

Dreamlike pink light spots wandered in the void.

Making Stelle and Firefly feel dizzy.

And Sampo at this moment,

emitted strange red light in his eyes,

and his posture began to become very different.

"Heh, sorry.."

"Please, in the real dream..."

The strange Sampo began to walk toward Stelle and Firefly step by step.

"—Take a nap."

Sampo walked to Stelle,

and flicked his finger at Stelle's forehead,

immediately, Stelle's thinking began to condense,

and her consciousness began to dissipate.

And in the moment of consciousness,

she saw Sampo turn into a strange girl.

That girl.

It was Sparkle!

Stelle: "Hehe, the big bad wolf finally stopped pretending and showed its wolf tail!"

March 7th: "Sparkle laughed so strangely at the end, what exactly are you planning?!"

Sparkle: "Didn't I say it in the video~"

Sparkle: "Just let them take a nap in the real dream~"

Welt: "The real... dream?"

Furina: "But aren't they in a dream now?"

Ganyu: "Could it be... a dream within a dream?"

Paimon: "Oh my, I don't understand, I don't understand at all. This is too complicated!"

Lumine: "I feel that if I and Paimon came here, we would be played until we couldn't find north."

Amber: "I don't know if you noticed."

Amber: "Sparkle finally called out Sampo's name."

Collei: "Could it be.... could it be that they know each other?"

Stelle: "More than knowing... listening to Sparkle's tone, they are clearly from the same family!"

Dan Heng: "Sampo, you are indeed a member of the Masked Fools!"

Seele: "Sampo is actually a Masked Fool?!"

Seele: "This bastard, he hid so deep!"

Gepard: "Actually a Masked Fool who is good at disguising. No wonder I couldn't catch him."

Sampo: "Brothers and sisters, I admit, I am a Masked Fool, that's right!"

Sampo: "But I am different from that guy Sparkle! I have a conscience!"

Sampo: "I usually just look for some small fun and have fun. I won't plan anything out of the ordinary at all."

Sparkle: "Sampo, do you believe this yourself."

Sparkle: "A Masked Fool actually says he has a conscience... hahahahaha... Aeon of Elation is above, this makes my stomach hurt from laughing."

Sampo: "Why don't you believe it? I, Sampo, am a person with a conscience!"

Sampo: "Also, I kindly told you a story, and you turned around and used my identity to cheat!"

Sampo: "You betrayed me!!"

Sparkle: "Please, I am a Fool, and you are also a Fool. Between Fools, what betrayal is there?"

Stelle: "Alright, alright, you two stop singing double acts here."

Stelle: "Anyway, neither of you is a good thing."

Sparkle: "Of course I am not a thing, because I am a person, hee hee~"

Sampo: "That sister, how can I say, I also helped you in Belobog, you can't kill me with one pole just because I am a Fool, right?"

March 7th: "Uh... what you said is also true. Our train group is not that unreasonable."

Stelle: "Fine, then let's look at your subsequent performance."

Aventurine: "Everyone... you seem to have got the focus wrong."

Aventurine: "Shouldn't we look at what the Family is hiding in the so-called sweet dream now?"

Dr. Ratio: "This gambler is right, it seems to be the time to reveal the truth next, we should watch it carefully."

Robin: "This.. what is going on.."

Sunday: "...Believe in the Family!"

The video continues.

"Hmm.. where is this.. place?"

"I returned to the hotel?"

"No, it feels.. the atmosphere is a bit like the scenery when I first entered the dream..."

Stelle woke up in a strange hotel room.

When she woke up, there was no one else around.

Stelle pondered for a while,

and prepared to take out her phone to notify everyone first.

However, she sent two messages in a row,

but found that they couldn't be sent at all.

"Can't contact them..."

Stelle shook her head helplessly.

Then she could only investigate in this strange room.

"God.. this is too strange..."

The room was full of strange scenes,

making Stelle feel cold in her heart.

"...Firefly?"

Stelle began to walk out of the room,

and then found Firefly's figure at the door.

"Ah.... Stelle!"

"You are really here..."

Firefly was very excited to see Stelle.

"Are we already dead..."

Stelle asked.

"I... don't know."

"Anyway, we must still be in a dream, not anywhere else, and certainly not reality.... there is the touch of Memetic substance in the air, I won't recognize it wrong."

"But this place is very different from the sweet dream I know, claustrophobic... quiet... uneasy... and these floating words, you can see them too, right?"

"Penacony under the Family's governance cannot have such a place. So, is it a dream bubble....?"

"No, it's not right—remember, before we passed out, your friend said this..."

"The real dream..."

Firefly shook her head, and then analyzed a few words.

"He is not my friend."

Stelle retorted.

"I should have doubted him earlier... sorry."

"Anyway, the Family must have hidden something, about the truth of the dream..."

"And, you also noticed when you woke up, the clocks and ticking sounds all around..."

"Intuition tells me that the secret hidden here is probably also related to that mysterious Clockmaker."

"If it points to the Clockmaker's legacy—it is related to everyone currently in Penacony...."

"Let's go, Stelle... whether it is to find out the truth or leave here, we have to set off."

Firefly's expression became more and more solemn,

and then she began to pull Stelle to act.

They observed the surroundings,

and finally chose a direction to go.

"Can't pass here, let's go around from the corridor next to it."

At the end of a road with no road,

Firefly observed around, and said to Stelle.

Stelle nodded, and immediately walked to the door on the left, opening it,

inside was a staircase leading down.

The two looked at each other,

and began to walk down the stairs.

And on the way,

strange words popped out from time to time.

"Huh? This is also a dead end.."

"Look at the construction of the room, don't you want us to go around from the wall?"

After coming down from the stairs,

they found that there was still no road ahead.

And Firefly at this time,