Chapter 628

Stelle: "Strange, I keep feeling like this conversation... seems a little off somehow."

March 7th: "This is the first time I've seen Young Lady Huang Quan smile so happily."

March 7th: "The way she smiles is really, really pretty!"

March 7th: "Hey, you should smile more from now on."

Huang Quan: "As a Self-Annihilator, my emotions have always been quite numb."

Huang Quan: "Sorrow, joy, melancholy—feelings like these do not exist for me."

Huang Quan: "Most of the time, all I possess is a stillness like dead water."

Huang Quan: "Yet in my conversation with Stelle, I actually smiled, contrary to my usual self."

Huang Quan: "It seems that at that moment, I was touched by something inexplicable."

Welt: "From my perspective... this conversation seems to be hinting at something."

Welt: "For some reason, I can't shake the feeling that it might be related to my homeland."

Welt: "But in my homeland, there really is no one too similar to Stelle."

Welt: "Could it be my imagination?"

Firefly: "I don't think it's your imagination. Right now, the conversation between them seems to transcend the boundaries of time and space, producing a strange resonance."

Firefly: "Perhaps in some unknown spacetime, two people similar to them were once good companions to each other..."

The video continues.

【... A long time ago, I was just like you—I had irreplaceable companions.】

【We too once set out on a journey, doing everything we could at every crucial moment to make the right choices.】

【Unfortunately, we never got the right outcome, but this scene here...】

【always makes me feel that they have never truly left.】

【In this universe, there are countless worlds that are similar yet different, and countless people who are similar yet different.】

【I too once walked alone, encountering old friends on unfamiliar planets, seeing their figures overlap with my past.】

【In your eyes, what does this sense of déjà vu mean?】

Huang Quan, as if sensing something, spoke these words to Stelle.

【Perhaps, it is longing for someone.】

Stelle thought for a moment and answered.

【Attachment, yearning, longing... they may all be right, but none of them are complete.】

【I think it is not something external, but something that comes from within us—a feeling that crosses over from some moment in the past...】

【It may be warm and joyful, or it may be painful and sorrowful. Whenever we look back at the past, we always find that all that's left behind are these small yet unforgettable moments, and certain things within them that remain eternal and unchanging....】

【That is a summary of a part of our lives, the epitome of everything between you and me in that stretch of time... the proof of the journey we've taken.】

【From it we see ourselves, and then... we come to exist.】