In the following days, besides Rene's popularity.
What the parallel Earth discussed the most was Furina's personal story quest.
With the unlocking of the quest, everyone finally understood Furina's true side as a mortal.
Just as Focalors had hoped.
Furina possessed the strengths of a mortal, and likewise possessed the weaknesses of a mortal.
Tsundere, stubborn with her words, and easily soft-hearted.
However, these elements are basically not negative in the tags of the 2D world.
Furina's popularity surged to an unprecedented height.
So now, where is Mu Yang, the player who cares the most about popularity?
He was sitting in the Opera Epiclese, waiting for a performance — the climax segment of The Daughter of the Waters.
"Why hasn't it started yet? Could there be some problem backstage?"
The one who spoke was Navia. The young lady was always like this, caring about everyone's affairs.
"With Lumine and Furina there, it shouldn't be anything major," Clorinde said.
"It is said that Lady Furina's acting skills are one in ten thousand. What a pity that this time she is only acting as a director."
Mu Yang played dumb.
He couldn't just say directly that the reason the performance was delayed was because the lead actor's condition had worsened.
He deliberately spoke in a regretful tone so that when Furina came on stage later, he could show a slight surprise.
System: Just keep acting. Who loves acting more than you?
Mu Yang: Snow Leopard, shut up.
Because it hadn't started yet, the young lady began introducing Furina to Mu Yang.
When she was still the Hydro Archon, her performances were basically impossible to get tickets for.
In the past few hundred years in Fontaine, there had never been a star as dazzling as her.
Navia knew Furina's works like the back of her hand.
"It's starting."
Seeing someone walking toward the stage, Clorinde reminded them.
Mu Yang turned his gaze in the direction the person was coming from and said with 'slight surprise', "That is… Lady Furina?"
At that moment, the spotlight shone on her. It was indeed Furina.
The audience below cheered.
Although Furina was no longer the Hydro Archon.
Many Fontaine citizens believed that it was Furina who saved Fontaine, and only then chose to step down.
Therefore, they had no complaints against her.
As for the previous rhythm stirred up for the sake of the trial drama, that was pure nonsense.
Those comments had long been deleted clean.
"Is that Lady Furina?"
"I only heard that she was directing. How come she came on stage herself?"
"This ticket was so worth it!"
Furina went on stage and performed the climax part — Light Chain.
Her vivid performance and beautiful singing voice moved everyone present.
This was originally a fortunate coincidence.
The music drama The Daughter of the Waters, which had originally been aborted, finally got the chance to be performed on stage thanks to Lumine's intervention.
And with Furina's blessing, the opera achieved great success at the Opera Epiclese.
The female protagonist in the play, Clio, performed by Furina, decided to sacrifice herself to find the fresh water that humans rely on for survival, using her will to guide the water flow back.
According to the script, at the moment before she disappeared, she would receive a Vision descending from the sky.
But she would not reach out to catch it, instead letting it fall alone into the seabed.
In the formal stage performance just now, that Vision finally appeared at the end.
It was a real Vision, Furina's own Vision.
Visions usually appear in response to humanity's most fervent wishes.
And this Vision seemed more like a reward for her five hundred years of effort...
Backstage, Furina held the Vision in her hand. In the light reflected on its surface, she seemed to see her heart, which had been refilled through this performance.
Although the act of "performing" had brought her a lot of pain.
Making her unwilling to return to the stage again.
But she was undoubtedly the one who understood the brilliance and romance of this stage the most.
She was also the one most capable of giving guidance and support to the dreamers on stage.
The moment she received the Vision, the question that had troubled her for a very long time — "What should I do next?" —
seemed to have finally settled and gained a clear answer.
To look at the world again from the perspective of someone in the audience, and to create the best performances from the perspective of someone in the audience.
After this event, she discovered that as long as it was related to performance, participating as a behind-the-scenes supporter was also very interesting.
Furina made up her mind. Not only music drama performances, she could also expand her horizons...
But before that, The Daughter of the Waters had not yet concluded.
On stage, the troupe's actors, Lumine, Paimon, and Furina were all there.
The audience below cheered and applauded them.
"Lady Furina's acting skills have not regressed at all. She's truly amazing!"
"I just thought I had recognized the wrong person. The moment she opened her mouth to sing, I knew it was definitely her. Only she can sing so perfectly."
When the troupe announced the lead actor's name, they used the name of their late troupe leader.
The audience was puzzled, until the person announced a special thanks to Furina, and thunderous applause erupted below.
The people of Fontaine had not forgotten her...
Furina was a little surprised when her name was suddenly announced, because they had agreed not to credit her.
But she quickly took control of the situation and appeared very composed.
She also said many beautiful words.
However, she managed to dodge the autograph session.
After all, the main focus this time was still The Daughter of the Waters. It was a performance for the troupe leader who had been harmed by Vacher.
She did not want to put the cart before the horse.
After leaving the opera house, Mu Yang used the excuse that he had something to do later to bid farewell to Navia and Clorinde.
In reality, he followed Furina all the way, preparing to watch a show that was even more exciting than The Daughter of the Waters.
That was the Hydro Archon versus the local legend.
Although he didn't know what grudge Furina had with Fontaine's boxing champion, perhaps she had accidentally offended the other party before and got rebuked.
Anyway, the now-empowered Furina was coming to take revenge!
Furina, who had just obtained the Hydro Vision, had terrible control over her power.
The boxing champion did not indulge her. Seeing such an arrogant little brat, two punches were enough to make her behave.
In short, Furina, who possessed the Hydro Vision, ultimately could not gain any advantage from the boxing champion.
She dejectedly used her water escape to run back to her apartment...
Having returned defeated, Furina was unwilling to accept it. At night, she continued studying the Vision in her room.
Until she fell asleep and dreamed of an obscure book she had once read in Fontaine's library.
Then, Gentilhomme Usher, Surintendante Chevalmarin, and Mademoiselle Crabaletta came...
A great flood submerged her room.
Why only her room?
Because Mu Yang had prepared in advance, so the entire apartment was not endangered.
Two days later, Furina and the Salon members finally cleaned up the disaster-stricken room.
As soon as they opened the door, they received Mu Yang's "kind reminder."
"Pets are prohibited in the apartment, even if it is a lord."
At this moment, Mu Yang was holding a cup of tea, imagining Furina's wailing, and enjoying the beautiful morning.
"So, before the Fontaine Film Festival, how about going to Natlan?"