『 On the stage, Robin continued her speech.
[ And the return of this beautiful dream to its proper track would not have been possible without the aid of the Trailblaze. ]
[ If not for the members of the Astral Express, this Charmony Festival would not have proceeded so smoothly— ]
[ Therefore, with the unanimous agreement of the Five Families, the Penacony branch will present a gift to all the Nameless on behalf of every Family member across the cosmos— ] 』
『 ....』
—✦Omniscient Viewer's Chat Lodge✦—
Stelle: "YES, YES, YES!!"
Stelle: "YOU'RE TOO POLITE, WAY TOO POLITE!!"
Stelle: "What exactly is the gift?"
Stelle: "BRING IT OUT QUICKLY!! (rubbing hands in anticipation.jpg)"
Qingque: "My guess is another five percent of the shares."
Hu Tao: "I think so too."
Furina de Fontaine: "But wouldn't that lack a bit of novelty?"
Furina de Fontaine: "Is it possible that this time, the gift is something completely different?"
March 7th: "I agree with Miss Furina's view."
March 7th: "I also feel that this gift should be something very out of the ordinary."
Paimon: "Whatever the gift is, it's bound to be extremely precious."
Paimon: "I'm a bit curious, how did Miss Robin manage to secure this gift?"
Venti: "Perhaps… this gift wasn't that hard to secure?"
Venti: "Because the Penacony Family also wants to use this to win over the Astral Express."
Venti: "After all, the Express Crew participated in the entire affair, which is basically a massive scandal for the Family."
Venti: "To prevent the Express Crew from speaking out, they'd have to pay a little hush money, wouldn't they?"
Himeko: "Indeed, they do have such intentions."
Himeko: "Even though we never had any plans to publicize the matter."
Stelle: "Oho, hearing it put that way, this actually counts as leverage!"
Stelle: "It might come in handy in the future."
....
『 [ Oh, oh, oh… Is the big one coming! ]
Hearing that Robin was about to give a gift to the Astral Express, March 7th's face lit up with immense anticipation!
[ —We wish to transfer the ownership of the Radiant Feldspar to the Astral Express! ]
[ Please accept this humble token of our gratitude." ]
[ Let us give our applause and cheers to the brave and fearless Nameless!! ]
As Robin finished speaking, the guests at the venue immediately began shouting the names of the Nameless! 』
『 ....』
—✦Omniscient Viewer's Chat Lodge✦—
Stelle: "Holy crap!"
Stelle: "The gift Robin mentioned…"
Stelle: "Is this a luxury airship?!"
Stelle: "Good grief, I definitely didn't see that coming!"
March 7th: "This is the Radiant Feldspar, one of the symbols of Penacony!"
March 7th: "They're just giving it away like that?"
March 7th: "Isn't that a bit too generous?"
Jade: "Heh, that old man Alfalfa is certainly willing to part with it."
Topaz: "To him, it's just a piece of merchandise. There's no question of being willing or unwilling."
Topaz: "As long as it can be used to exchange for greater interests, he will naturally give it away without hesitation."
Qingque: "OH-HO-HO!!"
Qingque: "In that case, the Radiant Feldspar is now the private property of the Astral Express!"
Qingque: "Stelle, we are best buddies, soulmates, and besties!"
Qingque: "You wouldn't lock me out, would you?"
Qingque: "Would you, would you?!"
Stelle: "Come on in!"
Stelle: "Everyone can come in!"
Stelle: "FEEL FREE TO DROP BY!!"
Guinaifen: "AWESOME!!"
Guinaifen: "I KNEW STELLE WAS THE MOST LOYAL!"
March 7th: "Don't get ahead of yourselves, everyone!"
March 7th: "This is a video, not reality!"
March 7th: "The Radiant Feldspar isn't ours right now."
Li Sushang: "Ah… so it's just a false alarm."
Stelle: "Uh…"
Stelle: "Judging by the current situation, do we still have a chance to obtain this luxury airship?"
Welt Yang: "Hard to say. The development of events has already begun to change."
Welt Yang: "How the future will unfold… has become an unknown."
Stelle: "Waaah, I don't care, I want the luxury airship!!"
Stelle: "Whatever, the me in the video has it, so that means the current me has it!"
Stelle: "Yeah, thinking about it this way makes me feel much better!"
March 7th: "Poor kid, already resorting to self-consolation."
....
『 [ Now, I propose a toast— ]
[ To the Trailblaze, to the Harmony, to the future of Penacony and the cosmos, and to the generous head of the Alfalfa Family, Mr. Oti Alfalfa— ]
[ —Cheers! ] 』
『 ....』
—✦Omniscient Viewer's Chat Lodge✦—
Paimon: "CHEERS!!"
Paimon: "MAY PENACONY BECOME BETTER AND BETTER!!"
Hu Tao: "Well said, Paimon!"
Hu Tao: "May the Family never forget their original intentions and always walk upon the path of Harmony!!"
Furina de Fontaine: "Then I wish the Express Crew a smooth and successful trailblazing journey, always!"
Silver Wolf: "Huh?"
Silver Wolf: "Are you guys getting too into this?"
Silver Wolf: "Why are you acting as excited as if you're actually at the venue?"
March 7th: "The broadcast screen is right before our eyes. The experience is almost indistinguishable from being there in person!"
March 7th: "Combined with the lively atmosphere of the venue and Miss Robin's enthusiastic hosting."
March 7th: "I couldn't help but raise my glass just now!"
Stelle: "Say no more, March, clink glasses!"
Stelle: "Cheers to a better tomorrow for Penacony!!"
Lumine: "YAY!! CHEERS!!"
Robin: "This scene… is truly wonderful."
Robin: "It's just a pity… that something is ultimately missing."
Sunday: "Nothing is missing."
Sunday: "Because I can see it now."
Qingque: "Tsk, tsk, tsk…"
....
『 [ Ohohoho… ]
[ To make such a decision, this little bird's capability is not inferior to her brother's! ]
Inside a VIP room, the old man Oti looked at the situation at the venue and showed a meaningful smile. 』
『 ....』
—✦Omniscient Viewer's Chat Lodge✦—
Paimon: "HE APPEARED!!"
Paimon: "That classic villainous smile!"
Paimon: "This Mr. Oti's smile looks rather sinister!"
Lumine: "Perhaps… he feels some threat from Miss Robin?"
Lumine: "Afraid that Miss Robin might threaten his position in the future…"
March 7th: "He said Miss Robin's capability is not inferior to Sunday's!"
March 7th: "This can be interpreted as him being wary of Miss Robin, right?"
Aventurine: "Wary might be an understatement."
Aventurine: "But clearly, he has already regarded Robin as a potential subject of attention."
Robin: "Sigh… I have no intention of vying for power or profit with Mr. Alfalfa."
Robin: "I didn't expect him to still harbor wariness toward me."
Stelle: "You can only blame yourself and Sunday for being too outstanding."
Stelle: "Making this old guy feel uneasy."
Stelle: "The Dreammaster suppressed him and Sunday for so many years, and now he finally has a chance to rise."
Stelle: "Naturally, he won't tolerate another Sunday emerging."
Qingque: "So Sunday, do you see?"
Qingque: "If you fall, your sister will have absolutely no one to protect her!"
Qingque: "I really don't understand how you could make such a choice."
Hu Tao: "Perhaps Mr. Sunday never thought he would lose?"
Aventurine: "There's no such thing as a guaranteed win in this world."
Aventurine: "With his resolve, it's impossible he didn't consider this point."
Zhongli: "It was simply a matter of the arrow being on the string, forced to fly."
Zhongli: "After all, behind it all was the push from the Dreammaster."
Zhongli: "He had long since lost any way to turn back."
Welt Yang: "But now, that path has appeared."
Welt Yang: "Presumably, Mr. Sunday can now make a truly clear-headed choice."
Sunday: "I will."
Sunday: "My sister's path is already more brilliant than mine."
Sunday: "Assisting her to keep walking down it is perhaps what I should do most."
Stelle: "My, for you to think so clearly, it really isn't easy!"
....
『 The scene returned to the venue. At this moment, everyone was cheering with joy, and Stelle was no exception!
However, right at this moment, a strange ripple enveloped the venue, causing Stelle's pupils to shrink suddenly.
[ A happy ending… right? ]
[ But little gray-hair, did you forget someone? ]
A teasing voice rang out in Stelle's ear.
Then, Stelle saw Hanabi's figure appear beside her, and right before her eyes, Hanabi pressed an exquisitely strange button!
[ I've placed a bomb on this ship. ]
[ I'll give you ten minutes—go find it quickly, okay? ] 』
『 ....』
—✦Omniscient Viewer's Chat Lodge✦—
Stelle: "WHAT THE HELL!!"
Stelle: "NO WAY?!!"
Stelle: "Director Hanabi, you're playing for real?!"
Hanabi: "No way, no way~"
Hanabi: "Little gray-hair, you didn't actually think I was just joking, did you~"
March 7th: "Hanabi, how can you be like this?"
March 7th: "Everyone is clearly celebrating, and you actually come out to make trouble!"
March 7th: "And such… A MASSIVE DISASTER AT THAT!!"
Hanabi: "Is it that surprising?"
Hanabi: "Have you all forgotten my identity?"
Hanabi: "I'm a Fool, after all~"
Hanabi: "A Fool who acts with no bottom line."
Hanabi: "Heehee, little pink-hair, you should be happy."
Hanabi: "After all… the bloodbath scene you mentioned… I'm about to complete it for you~"
Hanabi: "Heeheehee~"
Furina de Fontaine: "…"
Furina de Fontaine: "So this is the true nature of a Fool?"
Furina de Fontaine: "For the sake of amusement, they can even disregard hundreds of thousands of lives."
Furina de Fontaine: "I didn't expect… the crisis of Penacony is actually not over yet."
Paimon: "No, Paimon doesn't want to see a bloodbath!"
Paimon: "It's fine, it'll definitely be fine!"
Paimon: "This is a dream, it definitely won't blow anyone to death!"
....
『 After saying those words, Hanabi instantly disappeared.
Stelle turned her head sharply, but found nothing.
March 7th, beside her, seeing Stelle's abnormal behavior, she was suddenly startled.
[ When was this stuffed into my hand…?! ]
[ And so many bombs… DON'T RESOLVE THE FORESHADOWING AT A TIME LIKE THIS!! ]
[ I definitely won't make it alone, let me create a group chat to tell everyone first. ]
Stelle snapped back to her senses and realized that a map had somehow appeared in her hand. After a brief daze, she hurriedly took out her phone to inform everyone through a group chat.
⚠︎, Messages 1111111
" /Stelle: Something's happened, friends! "
" /Stelle: There's an Imaginary Neutron Bomb on the ship! "
" /March 7th: ? "
" /Welt Yang: What's going on? "
" /Stelle: It's all thanks to that Masked Fool "
⚠︎, From Where to View Fireworks has joined the group chat
" /From Where to View Fireworks: Let Hanabi-sama explain it herself then~ "
" /From Where to View Fireworks: (sticker.jpg) "
" /Stelle: ??? I didn't invite you to the group! "
" /From Where to View Fireworks: Hanabi-sama always makes an uninvited entrance. "
" /From Where to View Fireworks: Alright, let's talk business! "
" /From Where to View Fireworks: Is everyone very surprised? Even though Hanabi-sama's buttons were all recovered… why did the bomb countdown still start? "
" /From Where to View Fireworks: Actually, this is all thanks to our brave Bloodhounds! Thanks to their hard work in collecting the buttons, Hanabi-sama was able to press them one by one~ "
" /From Where to View Fireworks: It really took Hanabi-sama a lot of effort… Pressing through a whopping hundred thousandbuttons, she spent a whole 48 system hours on it! "
" /From Where to View Fireworks: (I'm crying, I'm faking it.jpg) "
" /March 7th: ….. "
" /Dan Heng: ….. "
" /Boothill: What the fridge is wrong with you??? "
" /Argenti: Do not be crass, my silver cowboy! "
" /Stelle: All the other things you could've done with this level of patience... " 』
『 ....』
—✦Omniscient Viewer's Chat Lodge✦—
Amber: "How many?!"
Amber: "A hundred thousand buttons… pressed for a full 48 system hours???"
Amber: "Wouldn't that literally break her fingers from exhaustion?"
Mona: "An ordinary person might, but she is clearly no ordinary person."
Mona: "In a venue with so many people just now, Miss Hanabi appeared but was only noticed by Miss Stelle."
Mona: "Clearly, the abilities Miss Hanabi possesses are also far from simple."
Silver Wolf: "The strength of the Aeon of Elation is not weak, and the Fools under THEM are no pushovers either."
( Are you speaking for yourself? The Emanator of Elation?)
Silver Wolf: "After all, as you know, without strength, you'd only be treated as the joke itself."
Stelle: "I mean, is there really a need for this?"
Stelle: "Do you have a grudge against Penacony?"
Stelle: "To actually go through such a tedious task just to activate all these bombs?"
Hanabi: "Didn't I say it before?"
Hanabi: "How could Hanabi-sama personally do such a boring thing?"
Hanabi: "That would be looking down on Hanabi-sama way too much!"
Paimon: "Suddenly noticed a blind spot. Miss Hanabi's group name is so strange."
Paimon: "What does 'From Where to View Fireworks' mean?"
Yoimiya: "That name is profound!"
Yoimiya: "Indeed… From Where to View Fireworks to get the best effect?"
Hanabi: "Hehe, from the sky, of course!"
Kirara: "From the sky? What a strange way to watch."
Lumine: "Ahem, is this getting off-topic?"
Lumine: "This is a moment of life and death for Penacony!"
Qingque: "Is it really that serious?"
Qingque: "Can this bomb even be compared to Miss Acheron's slash?"
Dr. Veritas Ratio: "An Imaginary Neutron Bomb… is a weapon of mass destruction."
Dr. Veritas Ratio: "A single one can obliterate an entire dreamscape."
Qingque: "Ah…"
Qingque: "Then we really do have to take it seriously!"
....
『 The group chat went on.
" /From Where to View Fireworks: "Thanks for the compliment! It's mainly because Hanabi-sama has good luck." "
" /From Where to View Fireworks: "Although I don't know why, 16, 537 esteemed Dreamchasers actively offered to help Hanabi-sama share the burden… Indeed, girls who like to smile are always the ones with decent luck~" "
" /From Where to View Fireworks: "Anyway, the bombs Hanabi-sama planted on the cruise ship are hidden inside 999 dolls." "
" /From Where to View Fireworks: "You sharp-eyed folks will surely find where the real bomb is hidden—wish you luck!" "
⚠︎, From Where to View Fireworks left the group chat 』
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