The Traveler's words were another knife. The loops have been too many; each loop clears the memories, and each time memories need to be 'loaded' anew.
All sorts of memories mixed together gradually confuse the Traveler—she is almost unable to remember anymore.
But everyone doesn't want her to forget. Don't forget! Forgetting is the true 'death'!
At this time, the readers seem to understand another role of the prophetic book—it can record these stories in everyone's mind.
Even if the Traveler forgets, there will still be people who remember.
The Traveler in the story can't remember clearly because of the loops, but the readers still remember. Back then, what Dunyarzad said was:
["…There will always be regrettable things in life, but I know we live to leave no regrets, right?"]
Dunyarzad spoke! This is exactly what she said back then!
[Traveler: "! ?"]
Readers: "! ?"
She spoke? Has she recovered?
[Dunyarzad: "Hm? What's wrong, Traveler."]
No, she hasn't recovered. She's still that puppet, not Dunyarzad.
But what just happened? Why did she suddenly say this sentence?
No one knows why. Maybe it's just a coincidence, or maybe Nahida outside the city did something.
The readers don't know. Nahida at this time is desperately protecting Dunyarzad, trying to pull her consciousness back.
The readers only know that Dunyarzad in the book is gently gazing at the Traveler at this moment, no longer speaking.
But the Traveler was reminded by her. Yes, we live to leave no regrets—so let me watch that Dance of the God of Flowers in Dunyarzad's place.
Arriving at the Grand Bazaar, the Grand Sage is making things difficult for Nilou. Seeing this scene, the readers feel stifled with anger.
We were just angry at you, and you dare appear in front of us? Traveler, go! Slap him hard!!! If you slap him to death, it's on me!
The Traveler did not disappoint. She really stepped in to block, waving her small hand to shield Nilou behind her—very handsome!
Have to say, the Traveler really likes this action. Back when shielding Lucian behind her, it was the same action.
In the future, when protecting her disciple, it's still this action. True love.
[Paimon, worried: "Traveler, what are you suddenly doing? If you're caught by the Akademiya people, won't today be wasted?"]
Paimon's worry is not without reason, but the problem is that under the current emotions, everyone is already having a hard time calming down.
But what everyone didn't expect was that the Grand Sage froze upon seeing the Traveler appear.
Grand Sage.exe has stopped responding.
This old climber isn't in the dream at all. How could he participate in a dream that damages the body or even affects life?
If he had even a bit of the idea to share burdens with the people, he wouldn't be the Grand Sage.
The Traveler had already guessed this, so she didn't directly go up to slap him—slapping an AI is useless.
Back when fighting the Raiden Shogun, it wasn't slapping the Shogun but directly entering the Plane of Euthymia to slap Ei.
"Nilou" has disconnected.
Regarding the various sudden changes, Nilou fell into thought.
Nilou is thinking, but the Traveler discovers that behind the Grand Sage and his little followers, there are actually two pots of Padisarahs planted.
[Traveler: "Those two pots of flowers are!?"]
The Traveler still remembers that Nilou told her back then that Padisarahs had gone extinct!
The Padisarahs planted now shouldn't be purple-red, but these two pots are purple-red!
The readers are shocked. Masaka (could it be)!?
Some more rigorous readers even flip back to the very first loop in the book, and then they discover that in the illustration from that time, the Padisarahs already existed!
At that time, everyone's attention was fully drawn to the Grand Sage's filthiness; no one noticed the Padisarahs in the small corner.
Even readers with God's perspective didn't notice—let alone the parties involved.
No way around it; the Grand Sage is too hated, and few people recognize Padisarahs, plus they were placed in a small corner.
"Nilou" has reconnected.
[Nilou: "Ah, gorgeous purple-red… Isn't this the legendary true Padisarah? I didn't even realize myself… Could it be that Dunyarzad helped find them?"]
Case closed—this is the real Padisarah!
Few people recognize Padisarahs. The residents of the Grand Bazaar clearly don't have such high 'historical knowledge,' nor the desire to see this flower.
So among the people present, excluding the Traveler, only Nilou remains—the owner of the dream, found!
[Traveler: "Nilou, please close your eyes."]
["Imagine that the Grand Sage and the others aren't in front of you."]
Nilou finds the Traveler's sudden request a bit strange, but she obediently closes her eyes.
The illustration is a close-up of Nilou; the 'lens' is right up to her face. Can only say, beautiful girls are beautiful girls—even this close-up looks good.
Nilou closed her eyes—good opportunity!
I mean, good shameless opportunity!
No miscellaneous thoughts allowed. When Nilou opens her eyes again, the Grand Sage has already disappeared. She really is the main body of the dream.
The readers now know why the Grand Sage specifically came to find Nilou. He clearly looks down on Nilou, so why come? Turns out it was to 'cast the spell'?
Thinking carefully, everyone even figures out the reason for choosing Nilou.
First, Nilou and Dunyarzad are probably the ones who most want to complete the Sabzeruz Festival. Before it's completed, they themselves wouldn't want to wake from this day in the dream.
But Dunyarzad's body is too weak—if she were chosen, the dream would have shattered by now.
Nilou is different—as a Vision bearer, her constitution is strong, ultimate tank—probably others would be mostly dead, but she could continue dreaming.
Very clearly, good physical fitness is one reason Nilou was chosen.
Besides that, there should be another reason: Nilou is too naive and sweet; this silly girl is very easy to fool.
The Grand Sage probably thought Nilou was the 'dumbest' and wouldn't realize the dream's existence.
In fact, Nilou isn't dumb, but she is pure and kind. She couldn't imagine a person being bad to this extent, doing such things.
She doesn't think too badly of people, naturally doesn't think things too complicated.
But she isn't dumb, so at this moment, she realizes this is a dream.
[Nilou: "I... am dreaming, right?"]
She doesn't even need the Traveler's explanation; Nilou figures it out herself.
For Sumeru people, this can be said to be a very rare discovery. Being able to realize this, calling Nilou smart is no overstatement.
You know, for Sumeru people, 'not dreaming' is already subconscious deep in their bones; when encountering things, they subconsciously ignore the possibility of dreaming.
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Character Voice-Over · Nilou: About 'Sabzeruz Festival'
"So they chose me really because I'm dumb... Woo..."