After the train stopped shaking, the lights inside the carriage gradually came back on.
Everyone climbed up from the floor one after another. March shook her head, looking a little flustered.
"What happened? Stelle! Did you see it? That huge shadow just now?!"
After saying that, March suddenly froze in place. She stared at the scene outside the window in shock.
In her view, the starry sky outside the train had been coated in a dim red color, like blood slowly solidifying.
Chaotic glimmers confused the stars, shattered star fragments and meteors fell backward into the abyss, and a heavy, bleak, strange atmosphere quietly spread around, as though turning this stretch of space into a land of deathly silence.
March blinked and muttered, "Why does it look... like this outside the train? It's all red... What happened?"
"Maybe we fell into the third dimension." Stelle looked up at the sky with the attitude of someone who had seen through worldly matters.
March turned around and looked at Stelle in confusion.
"What are you talking about...? You don't expect me to understand that, right?"
After saying that, March looked around again. Seeing the slight confusion on Welt's face, she said in surprise, "Ahem, even Mr. Yang looks a little surprised. You don't see something like this very often..."
Dan Heng also walked over at this moment.
"The train's progress has been blocked. The disturbance just now caused a chain reaction... A spacecraft rear-ended the train."
"So it really was a traffic accident... Should this even be called a traffic accident?" Cirrus muttered to herself while listening to the conversation. But from the corner of her eye, she suddenly caught sight of a red figure.
Her gaze immediately locked onto it.
She was completely shocked.
"Who is that? When did he come aboard? How did he appear?"
As though hearing her thoughts, Nero also looked over.
"Isn't that Argenti? He got on pretty quickly. Pure Beauty Knights really are something."
"What? Trains can get rear-ended too?" March cried out after hearing Dan Heng's explanation.
Dan Heng said, "Other ships in this area also ran into the blockage and failed to control their speed in time. After the collision, two people came looking for the train."
At this point, Dan Heng frowned.
"Although we haven't spoken in detail yet, one of them looks and acts very much like the Pure Beauty Knight Nero once mentioned."
While Dan Heng was speaking, March and Stelle's eyes caught something floating past outside the window.
It was a large humanoid entity. Its dark red body matched the gloomy redshifted starry sky quite well.
It was a Flame from Beyond the Sky.
Combined with what Dan Heng had just said, the two of them already had a guess.
Back on Jarilo, Argenti had once introduced the power system of his ship to them during his free time, and even said that he had modified it together with Nero.
They hadn't expected that after returning to Jarilo, it had become one of Nero's Fragmentum factory products...
Their gazes moved past Dan Heng and toward the tall red figure in the distance.
'Isn't that Argenti?'
Although the train seemed to have run into some trouble, unexpectedly meeting an old friend still brought them some joy.
Everyone walked over, preparing to greet him, but then they heard Argenti enthusiastically praising one of the train's potted plants.
Nobody knew where the spotlight shining down on him or the romantic rose petals drifting through the air came from. After all, Argenti wasn't holding a spotlight or throwing petals around.
"Benevolent universe, an abnormal state on the other side."
"Blooming like colorful paint, you... are truly beautiful."
As they approached, everyone heard Argenti's voice, and also the violin music coming from nowhere.
If they didn't know what kind of person Argenti was, they would honestly find it strange at times. Didn't all these inexplicable special effects of the Pure Beauty Knight seem rather creepy to ordinary people?
At this moment, seeing Argenti praising the plant with all his might, Stelle and March couldn't help stopping in their tracks.
People liked being praised, but Pure Beauty Knights always praised you to the point of embarrassment.
After hearing his praise, you'd even start doubting yourself.
"Am I really that great?"
Nero, however, had no such concerns. He brought Argenti over while saying, "This is Argenti, a Pure Beauty Knight."
At that moment, a beam of light suddenly fell onto Cirrus.
"Huh?!"
The little spark spirit was startled by the sudden situation, and her entire flame shook violently.
Then she saw Argenti slowly turn around, his emerald eyes dotted with ruby red looking at her with sincerity and affection.
Argenti's warm gaze left Cirrus at a loss. Even though she was a Heliobus, she seemed helpless against a Pure Beauty Knight.
"What a beautiful lifeform. From the fallen spark of a star, the light of life has been ignited."
"You are a clean canvas, painted with brilliant colors by the brush of the soul."
Cirrus's large eye blinked frantically as she kept looking around.
'Who?'
'What is he talking about?'
'Is he... praising me?'
"Please allow me to introduce myself, my friend. My name is Argenti, from the Knights of Beauty. May I ask for your honored name?"
"Her name is Cirrus. She's a Heliobus." Nero's voice sounded from beside them.
Hearing the voice, Argenti blinked and immediately looked toward the young man.
The next moment, he dropped to one knee, one hand over his chest while gently lifting Nero's hand with the other. Closing his eyes, he lightly touched the back of the hand with his forehead.
"It has been a long time, Mister Nero. You remain as beautiful as ever, like a beacon upon the sea in endless night."
Nearby, March watched Argenti's heartfelt salute and turned to Stelle.
"I just realized something. Argenti is always polite, but don't you think he's more solemn and closer with Nero?"
Stelle blinked uncertainly, "Well, Nero's body is Idrila's body... As a Pure Beauty Knight, even if Argenti doesn't know the reason, maybe he can sense things ordinary people can't?"
"Speaking of which, standing together, these two are practically shining... Don't you think so, Cirrus?" March looked toward Cirrus beside her.
Cirrus didn't answer.
But March saw that the Heliobus had already tightly shut her large eye.
After a while, the special effects around Argenti and Nero seemed to disappear. No more spotlights shone down, no more rose petals drifted through the air, and the melodious violin music was gone.
Yet the two still seemed to be glowing.
They simply looked like they belonged to a completely different art style from everyone else around them.
After hesitating for a moment, Stelle finally asked the question that had been bothering her.
"Argenti, why do you even praise potted plants?"
Hearing this, Argenti smiled softly, "There is no falsehood in my words or actions. I believe its heart is as clear as a mirror."
The Stellaron baby stood frozen in place. She looked at the potted plant, then at Argenti. Her mouth opened, but in the end, she said nothing.
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