Chapter 624

"Little March 7th, is something on your mind?"

Himeko noticed the melancholy in March 7th.

"It's just this strange feeling."

"Although I've had it at the past few stops too, this time it's especially strong."

March 7th said hesitantly.

"Why not say it out? Maybe everyone is thinking the same thing?"

Welt encouraged.

".... I can't help but think, whether it's Mr. Mikhail, or Mr. Tieernan, or Ms. Lazarina, their lives were all very long, they must have gone through so, so many stories...."

"They were young once too, stumbling and bickering just like us."

"Companions, rivals, journeys, adventures, all the sad and happy memories...."

"Every day we're used to, they experienced just the same."

"But all those things.... have already passed."

Stelle: "Wuwuwu, March, what are you saying? Stop, say another word and I'll cry for you!"

March 7th: "Eh, the me in the video was just sighing a little, why are you crying?"

Paimon: "Mm... because what Young Lady March 7th said is a little sad."

Paimon: "If every beautiful journey, every beautiful memory, in the end must vanish, must become a buried past...."

Paimon: "Then.... then that really is a very regrettable thing!"

Hu Tao: "Eiya, look on the bright side."

Hu Tao: "Isn't everyone's life just like this?"

Hu Tao: "Cherish the present well, that's stronger than anything!"

Lumine: "Young Lady March is finding, on those nameless guests, a reflection of their own future."

Lumine: "So she's suddenly a little sentimental."

Lumine: "I can understand."

Lumine: "If it were me, after going through so much, I would feel melancholy too."

Huang Quan: "Seeing this, Stelle, I want to ask you one more thing — since your journey began, you have built unbreakable bonds with many people and many things."

Huang Quan: "May I ask, would you feel fear at losing all of this?"

Stelle: "I think... the answer to that question is pretty obvious."

Stelle: "Bonds aren't something you can just sever and cast aside lightly."

Stelle: "If I weren't afraid, that would mean I don't care about these bonds at all."

Stelle: "So saying I'm not afraid at all would definitely be a lie."

Stelle: "Take the taciturn Brother Dan Heng — even he, when he thinks that the Trailblazers will one day have to part, can't help feeling uneasy."

Black Swan: "Hehe, this is only human nature..."

Black Swan: "Precisely because of these deep bonds, you can burst forth with a brilliant light of miracles."

Huang Quan: "Mm, I agree with what you said."

Huang Quan: "No one would truly not fear this, because it's not something you can casually cast aside."

Stelle: "Alright, don't let March's sentimentality spread through the livestream room."

Stelle: "Reasonably speaking, our story has only just begun — we're still a long way from so-called becoming the past!"

Stelle: "If it really won't do, we'll put in some effort and pull in a few more people to be nameless guests."

Stelle: "As the saying goes, many hands make light work!"

Stelle: "Back then, three nameless guests could save an entire world of Penacony."

Stelle: "And now, us five nameless guests not only saved Penacony again, we even took down a super-spec Emanator hard!"

Stelle: "By that logic, if our nameless-guest group grew by another twenty or thirty people, what then? Wouldn't we be able to beat up an Aeon hard?"

Silver Wolf: "?"

Silver Wolf: "Stelle, you're really a little genius."

Silver Wolf: "You sure know how to extrapolate."

The video continues.

【Time takes everything away; cherish the present.】

Stelle looked at March 7th,

and couldn't help saying.

"I know, but what I find hard to let go of..... is the present itself."

"Let me put it with an analogy and it'll be easier to understand: like when you're reading a book, if the characters inside keep running into setbacks, and in the end meet a conclusion full of regret, our feelings will always get a little complicated, right?"

March 7th gave Stelle an analogy.

"No matter what, this is hard to accept."

Stelle agreed with March 7th's words.

"Because we've seen every little bit of their lives, we'll think these people are special."

"So even if it's not that realistic, even if there are unreasonable parts, we still hope that when the ending comes, this story can close圆满ly."

"But...."

Topaz: "But reality is reality."

Topaz: "It won't, because of any factor, pity your suffering and give you a perfect ending."

Topaz: "In the end, all living beings are equal before fate."

Stelle: "When all is said and done, it's really because of the lingering unwillingness to let go."

Stelle: "Indeed, the world is full of stories of regret."

Stelle: "Having seen these stories, we correspondingly give rise to many feelings of lingering unwillingness."

Stelle: "Take this trip to Penacony, for example—it looks like a perfect conclusion."

Stelle: "But in reality?"

Stelle: "It isn't truly perfect, only relatively so."

Stelle: "Is it because we don't want to let it become truly perfect?"

Stelle: "No, we very much want the ending to be completely perfect, but we can't do it, and we don't have the ability to do it."

Stelle: "So... sometimes, we can only passively let go a little, and not think about so much."

Stelle: "Otherwise, the world in our eyes would be filled with regret everywhere."

General Feixiao: "Mm, you see things very clearly."

General Feixiao: "If you ask me, as long as you all do your best to achieve 5.4, that's enough."

General Feixiao: "After all, in this world, where is there a truly perfect ending?"

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "There is one—in the dream of The One."

General Feixiao: "??? Jiaoqiu, don't you think it's rather inappropriate to jump in and pick up my thread at a time like this?"

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "There's nothing inappropriate about it, is there? I merely stated a fact—absolutely not to refute you, General! (sneaky laugh. jpg)"

The video continues.

【But what if they... and we... aren't actually all that special?】

【When Mr. Mikhail sat in this chair, day after day, waiting for the Astral Express to arrive, what was going through his mind?】

【If, at the very end of his life, he could still firmly say that he had never once regretted...】

【Then now, this feeling of regret in our hearts..... what is it, after all?】

March 7th watched Mikhail pour out the迷茫 he had felt throughout his journey,

the bewilderment that had arisen along the way.

【I think each and every one of us is searching for the answer to this question.】

【The galaxy is vast, life is small, and the footsteps of pioneering never cease—but on the scale of the universe, an ordinary person can only walk a short distance in an entire lifetime.】

【But even such an extremely short stretch of road, when connected to one another, can link countless worlds together.】

【Every person who left a sleeper on the silver rails—the universe may not remember them, but we will.】

【As long as we still remember, their stories have not yet ended.】

【And what Mr. Mikhail left for us is precisely the answer he gave in the face of this question.】

【It may not be perfect, but it allowed a weathered old Nameless, at the end of his life, to smile with release.】