[The pink-haired girl turned around, huffing proudly with her nose in the air: "To resolve the Stellaron crisis, the first step is to clarify one question: what exactly is the core of the problem? We generally believe that once the key to the problem is grasped, everything else will fall into place."]
["The consequences of the Stellaron nurturing the Ambrosial Arbor were unforeseeable to all. As the ancients said, fortune hides within misfortune, and misfortune conceals fortune. The way of heaven is constant. In this present moment where fortune and misfortune cannot be divined, only this seat—with its vast divine abilities—can save the Luofu from the fire and flood!"]
["Fu Xuan"'s speech left little March somewhat dazed. At that moment, the real Fu Xuan beside her let out a long sigh, her tone rather aggrieved: "It seems that in your heart, this seat is nothing but someone who delivers long-winded speeches and spouts nothing but nonsense."]
[March 7th scratched her head guiltily and gave an awkward laugh: "H-How could that be! In my mind, the Master Diviner is incredibly powerful! Hehe."]
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Dragon Raja.
Inside the dispatch center, Su Enxi was lounging with her legs crossed, slowly opening a bag of potato chips while intently watching the two adorable pink-haired girls on the light screen.
"To be honest, I can't stand this Master Diviner Fu Xuan's way of speaking either. The most important thing in communication is efficiency. Those obscure and archaic phrases she uses—probably only top-tier Chinese literature majors can tune into the same wavelength."
Su Enxi slowly placed a potato chip into her mouth. "But considering she scores a nine or even ten out of ten in cuteness, I still really like her."
"Tsk tsk, Potato Chip Girl, are you sure you're not just into her ability to predict the future?" Mai Sakatoku gave a knowing smile. "If this little girl were really by our side, you'd probably want her to calculate every upcoming lottery number in the world, right?"
"…In your mouth, I sound even more black-hearted than the boss." Su Enxi eyed Fu Xuan's petite and adorable figure before changing the subject. "Say, do you think Lu Mingfei would like this type?"
"No way." Mai Sakatoku said decisively. "Have you forgotten? Right now he has an impeccable beauty sitting beside him in every way—figure, appearance, everything." She glanced at Fu Xuan's almost non-existent chest. "With his personality… he'd probably prefer Uesugi Erii, right?"
With Nono as a reference point… it wasn't hard to guess what type of girl Lu Mingfei liked.
"Even so…" Su Enxi gave a playful laugh. "But if you tossed a dakimakura with Fu Xuan printed on it into his room at night, who knows what weird things he might do to that pillow."
——
["Although this segment of experience has clearly been distorted, the materials that constitute it come from your own memories—they cannot lie." Fu Xuan suddenly lowered her voice, gritting her teeth in resentment. "…In other words, deep in your subconscious, you think the things this seat says are about as comprehensible as a tongue twister."]
["Ehehe…" March 7th gave an awkward laugh. "It's mainly because, usually when I listen to the Master Diviner's profound lectures, I really don't understand much…"]
[This wasn't the time to get petty. Fu Xuan told March 7th to shoot an arrow at the nearby "Fu Xuan" and eliminate the distorted version. Fortunately, this Fu Xuan didn't resist much and was easily dealt with throughout.]
[But as March 7th looked around at Stelle, Uncle Yang, Jing Yuan, and the others, she said somewhat timidly: "I won't have to fight each and every one of them, right…? The Master Diviner is one thing, but I probably really can't beat General Jing Yuan…"]
["Hey! What do you mean 'the Master Diviner is one thing'?" Fu Xuan's temples throbbed with anger.]
[But the priority right now was the matter at hand. Even though Fu Xuan was fuming, she could only have March 7th continue searching for the sources of distortion.]
[March spoke one by one with the familiar faces in the square, but strangely, whether it was Uncle Yang, Stelle, or General Jing Yuan… at the end of every conversation, they all urged March not to recall the past.]
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One-Punch Man.
"Strange… Why is everyone telling March not to remember?"
Inside the Hero Association headquarters, Child Emperor looked at the light screen in confusion as the figures gradually dispersed by March 7th. According to Fu Xuan, all these materials depended entirely on March 7th's memories—including every word they spoke.
Drive Knight beside him said calmly: "Perhaps this means March 7th's past conceals a major secret—one so massive that merely knowing it would be enough to destroy her current life."
"Forgetting is not necessarily a bad thing. Curiosity about the past is the most terrifying force. Although March 7th has forgotten her past, her brain has still formed a protective mechanism, constantly dissuading her."
"Drive Knight, you're making it sound way too scary."
Child Emperor gave him a sullen glance. Although he himself had been startled by this scene from March 7th's memories, he didn't think her search for the past would be as dire as Drive Knight described.
He remembered there were people from the Garden of Recollection aboard the Express—followers of the Memory Aeon Fuli. Surely they possessed methods to restore memories. Wouldn't asking them clear everything up?
——
[After eliminating the shadow of General Jing Yuan, an unfamiliar metal object suddenly appeared.]
[While she was puzzled, March 7th explained from the side: "I know this one! This is a heater from Belobog! Um… wait, why would a Belobog heater appear in the medical market?"]
[Fu Xuan deduced that this was a foreign object from another segment of March's experiences mixing in—which also proved that the Matrix of Prescience Ultima had successfully traced back another part of her past.]
[To enter this segment, she had to touch the red-hot heater. Little March was worrying whether her delicate skin would turn golden and crispy when Fu Xuan suddenly grabbed her hand and firmly pressed it down.]
["Eek eek eek—don't pull my hand… Hot hot hot hot hot hot!"]
[Amid little March's pained cries, the scene abruptly shifted again. The two arrived inside Goethe Hotel.]
[This time was the same: March 7th needed to find the source of interference and make the foreign object reveal itself. But before setting out, Fu Xuan's tone suddenly changed. She asked gravely: "By the way, Miss March, there is one more thing I must clarify. Is it possible that you have experienced some immense pain in the past?"]
[March was curious why Fu Xuan would ask this. Fu Xuan, brows tightly furrowed, explained that in the Luofu memories just now, everyone had urged her [not to continue remembering]. This resembled words her subconscious was telling herself—but it could not be ruled out that someone had planted a suggestion in her mind through external means.]
[March 7th naturally had no recollection, but the thought that an outsider might have tampered with her memories only strengthened her resolve to keep exploring.]
[She spoke one by one with Seele, Bronya, and the others here. Just like the figures in the Xianzhou memories, they too spared no effort in dissuading March 7th from continuing to remember.]
["Why is everyone in your memories trying to stop you from remembering… Things are getting stranger and stranger…" Even the well-traveled Fu Xuan now vaguely sensed that the matter might not be so simple.]