Gallagher: "Not bad."
Gallagher: "At this time, the Family had indeed not yet arrived here."
Gallagher: "This is the predecessor of Penacony."
Gallagher: "It is precisely because this situation was already hopeless that Mikhail had no choice but to go to a distant place and invite the Family…"
March 7th: "Sigh, it sounds like it was all just a stopgap measure."
March 7th: "What if Senior Mikhail hadn't brought in the Family to suppress this scene?"
March 7th: "Would the Land of Exile have just been destroyed like that?"
Stelle: "Very likely."
Stelle: "When their strengths are evenly matched, neither is willing to submit to the other."
Stelle: "Who knows, maybe they would have fought until the end, got desperate, and ended up destroying each other."
Paimon: "Hmm… I really don't get it. Why does everyone in the world have to fight for power and profit?"
Paimon: "Isn't it nice to just live a good life?"
Lumine: "Paimon thinks this way because you aren't interested in these things and have no ambition."
Lumine: "But for some people, it's not like that at all…"
....
『 [ The leader of the Alfalfa Family sought to defect to the IPC, trading freedom for survival. ]
[ Yet, he was killed by his own eldest son in the name of righteousness, and the latter succeeded to the position of head. ]
Writing begins to appear next to the puppet.
You did not serve the old master
And know not of his power
Just as he can strip us of our freedom
He can also grant it to us 』
『 ....』
—✦Omniscient Viewer's Chat Lodge✦—
Stelle: "Good grief, even after the war was won, there were still fence-sitters."
Stelle: "The IPC caused the suffering in the first place, and yet there are still people who want to defect to them?"
Stelle: "How shameless can you be?"
March 7th: "The IPC's influence is too vast."
March 7th: "Understandably, some would want to continue relying on the IPC…"
March 7th: "I just didn't expect this person to be killed by his own eldest son for the sake of 'righteousness'."
March 7th: "What kind of cheesy movie plot is this?"
Furina de Fontaine: "Family turning against family, rivers of blood."
Furina de Fontaine: "Could Miss March 7th's prophecy also be predicting things from the past?"
Furina de Fontaine: "That's too incredible!!"
March 7th: "Uh, this…"
March 7th: "This must just be a coincidence, right??"
Hu Tao: "Speaking of which, what does it mean to 'trading freedom for survival'?"
Hu Tao: "Weren't they already free?"
Hu Tao: "What else was hindering their survival?"
Gallagher: "After gaining freedom, the second severe problem they faced was…"
Gallagher: "The living environment!"
Gallagher: "Don't look at Penacony now, with its luxury and bustling nightlife."
Gallagher: "But back when it was still the Land of Exile, the environment was as harsh as it could possibly be."
Gallagher: "And the people in the Land of Exile, having no backing to help them, found it extremely difficult to continue surviving in that environment."
Aventurine: "Before, there were the prison walls to protect them, so naturally, there was nothing to worry about."
Aventurine: "Now that they've left the prison walls, they can only find ways to build a new shelter themselves."
....
『 [ The Lampmoth Family endeavored to extend the silver rail left by the Express, only to be eradicated by the remnants of the Swarm, leaving nothing in the unforgiving Cosmos. ]
As the words fade, writing appears on the puppet.
Those who dance with bees
Are bound to fall victim to their stings
I have long foreseen my fate
And this moment is inevitable 』
『 ....』
—✦Omniscient Viewer's Chat Lodge✦—
Qingque: "Poor Lampmoth family, they ran into the hideous Swarm the moment they stepped out."
Qingque: "That is truly miserable beyond measure…"
Li Sushang: "It seems the Lampmoth family was a family that truly cared for the Land of Exile."
Li Sushang: "The previous Blackplum family seemed to be the same way."
March 7th: "And yet, these good families were the first to meet their doom."
March 7th: "SIGH… THIS WORLD… IT REALLY IS TOO UNFAIR!!!"
March 7th: "Why couldn't it have been those families with ulterior motives that disappeared instead?"
Stelle: "The good die young, and the wicked live for a thousand years."
Stelle: "It's time for the way of this world to change."
Stelle: "Brother Sunday, I suggest you stop trying to build some kind of Dreamland."
Stelle: "Just transform into an Aeon of Judgment and judge all the injustice in the world, and be done with it!"
Stelle: "Let those who truly deserve it go to hell; isn't that more practical than your ideals?"
Boothill: "I Fudging agree!"
Boothill: "Your precious Dreamland or whatever, you want to accommodate everyone."
Boothill: "But in other words, why do those scumbags deserve to live in a paradise?"
Boothill: "The only place suitable for scumbags to live is hell!"
Boothill: "So, put away your saintly heart; not everyone is worth your pity."
Boothill: "Or is it… can you forgive the guy who used a stray bullet to pierce your sister's neck?"
Hu Tao: "Bad guys deserve to die!"
Hu Tao: "That seems to be an idea no one would deny."
Sunday: "…."
Sunday: "Judge all the injustice in the world?"
Sunday: "In my view, that is even more difficult than creating a dream."
Stelle: "Are you afraid of difficulty?"
Sunday: "Naturally not."
Sunday: "What you say makes sense."
Sunday: "I will attempt this path."
March 7th: "So… when it all comes down to it, isn't this still like the path of the Galaxy Rangers?"
March 7th: "Are you all asking Sunday to abandon Harmony and Order and embrace The Hunt??"
Sunday: "In my view, the Path is merely a tool to achieve one's ideals."
Sunday: "If Harmony and Order truly cannot realize my aspirations,"
Sunday: "Joining The Hunt is not entirely out of the question."
Qingque: "Sunday's concept of constantly changing factions reminds me of an unpleasant term from the Xianzhou…"
Guinaifen: "Are you trying to say, 'a servant with three masters'??"
Qingque: "Ahem… that's right."
Qingque: "If he really joins The Hunt, wouldn't he become a 'servant with three masters'?"
Silver Wolf: "Hahahaha."
Silver Wolf: "I have to say."
Silver Wolf: "That term really fits his persona perfectly."
Stelle: "The three-master servant Sunday?"
Stelle: "Pfft, forgive me, I couldn't help but burst out laughing."
Guinaifen: "Hey, I was just joking, don't misunderstand!"
Sunday: "….No matter."
Sunday: "I do not care how the world views me."
Sunday: "As long as I can realize the wish in my heart, what does it matter if I am a servant of three masters?"
Furina de Fontaine: "I suddenly feel that Mr. Sunday also has the potential to be a ruthless leader."
Furina de Fontaine: "He just needs to lower his moral standards a bit more."
Lumine: "If Mr. Sunday really lowered his moral standards, then he wouldn't be Sunday anymore…"
....
『 [ It was not until Gopher Wood led the Family to the Land of Exile and the five major families successively converted that Penacony was able to embrace its new name—the Land of Dreams. ]
The puppet begins to show writing.
As for me, I shall forge new bonds of Kinship
And liberate you from the clutches of death 』
『 ....』
—✦Omniscient Viewer's Chat Lodge✦—
Stelle: "So the representative sent by the Family back then was actually the Dreammaster?"
Stelle: "I guess Senior Mikhail didn't expect that the ones he invited weren't true Harmony, but remnants of Order?"
March 7th: "In that case, the dream of Penacony was never the dream of Harmony."
March 7th: "It had long been the dream of Order?"
Seele: "These guys are truly pitifully stupid."
Seele: "They didn't even know the Aeon they worshipped had been swapped out."
Dan Heng: "Actually, it wasn't exactly swapped out."
Dan Heng: "Harmony annexed Order."
Dan Heng: "In a sense, Harmony can also represent the meaning of Order."
Dan Heng: "So, if the Dreammaster were determined to hide it, it would indeed be very difficult to discover his abnormality."
....
『 [ Foreign guest, I ask you to help this house get rid of the poison of the hidden instigator. ]
After walking to the end, the three saw a puppet that called itself the Master of the New Beginning.
This puppet, as soon as it spoke, requested the three of them to help the five puppets kneeling on the ground.
[ Uh… help you? ]
[ What needs to be done? ]
March 7th was stunned for a moment, then she asked.
[ I hope they can all regain rational calm and no longer be controlled by hypocrisy. ]
The puppet said again.
[ It seems this second act tells the process of Penacony moving toward the Land of Dreams, and the arrival of the Family played an indispensable role in it. ]
Himeko said after pondering for a while.
[ But this 'Master of the New Beginning'….. why does it feel like not such a good thing? ] 』
『 ....』
—✦Omniscient Viewer's Chat Lodge✦—
Stelle: "Laughing to death. March, you're too blunt!"
Stelle: "But I like it!"
Hu Tao: "Hahaha, Miss March 7th is truly genuine!"
Hu Tao: "She says whatever is on her mind, never vague."
Furina de Fontaine: "Miss March 7th is absolutely right. This newcomer, just thinking of themselves as the master, is, of course, not a good thing."
March 7th: "Ahem… with my bluntness, will I easily get beaten up when I go out in the future?"
Stelle: "Who would dare beat you up? Do you think our Express crew is just for show?"
Stelle: "Don't be afraid, keep it up, we have to ruthlessly tear off the fig leaves of these people!"
....
『 [ This is perhaps the content Sunday hid under the literary context—Harmony changed Penacony, but the method was no different from the jailers of the past. ]
Himeko explained.
[ Looks like we've got to help those guys kneeling down over there calm down a bit, right? ] 』
『 ....』
—✦Omniscient Viewer's Chat Lodge✦—
Stelle: "Got it, it's my turn to step up! Clockwork, activate! Hehe, this time I can use it without any burden."
Stelle: "Anyway, it's just fiddling with some puppets."
Furina de Fontaine: "I think ever since we knew that the substantive principle of Clockwork is actually the power of Trailblaze, there hasn't been any burden, right?"
Furina de Fontaine: "After all, this is not some evil art, but a helping hand to push people forward."
Hu Tao: "That's right, this is not the brainwashing evil art of Harmony, nor the curse of Order, this is the upright power of the Trailblaze!"
Paimon: "As expected, everyone likes the power of the Trailblaze more."
Lumine: "Mostly because the philosophy of the Trailblaze is truly great…"
Nahida: "Or rather, it is greatness mixed with the ordinary."
Nahida: "This is what can resonate with so many people."
....
『 Since the kneeling puppets needed to be calmed down, only Stelle could step up to use Clockwork. And so, Stelle walked up to the performer puppet and began to try to talk.
[ If the master does not return, I am free. ]
[ But without the master's guidance, for whom should I sing? ] 』
『 ....』
—✦Omniscient Viewer's Chat Lodge✦—
Boothill: "Dammit, this servility is really deeply rooted!"
Boothill: "When a person lives, can they only live for some crappy master?"
Boothill: "Looks like I still underestimated this place."
Boothill: "Their ability to brainwash is clearly also top-notch."
Dan Heng: "The IPC forged not only physical prisons for the prisoners, but also prisons in their hearts."
Stelle: "No wonder even Senior Mikhail was helpless and found it tricky."
Stelle: "For people like this, if you don't find a faction better at brainwashing, you won't find a way to change them."
March 7th: "Fighting fire with fire, huh?"
March 7th: "Let the Family, who are good at brainwashing, give these people another round of brainwashing?"
Silver Wolf: "Sounds just like formatting a program…"
....
『 Stelle used Clockwork on the puppet, making it calm down.
[ I shall sing for my new master, just as THEIR noble voice once resonated throughout the Cosmos. ] 』
『 ....』
—✦Omniscient Viewer's Chat Lodge✦—
Stelle: "Uh... After calming down, his thought is to change to a new master and continue singing?"
Stelle: "Unbelievable, he really has been kneeling for so long that he can't get back up."
Qingque: "This time it's different."
Qingque: "On the surface, he has already stood up."
Qingque: "But in his heart, he has knelt."
March 7th: "Sigh… if they want to kneel, let them kneel."
March 7th: "We can't persuade them, whatever!"
March 7th: "I think I can now feel some of the helplessness Senior Mikhail felt back then..."
....
『 [ Master! You will eventually return! And I will watch forever, until you reward me for my loyalty! ]
After making the performer puppet stand up, Stelle came to the puppet named Accountant. 』
『 ....』
—✦Omniscient Viewer's Chat Lodge✦—
Boothill: "This one is an even heavier-weight good dog!"
Boothill: "Dammit, even if it's just a puppet stand-in, this pious and humble face makes me feel sick."
Boothill: "Spineless coward…"
Stelle: "Looks just like the IPC's dogs watching for the IPC's return."
Stelle: "Too vivid."
Hanabi: "Hehe~ they are even waiting for a reward."
Hanabi: "But the reward for a little puppy can only be a big bone~"
Paimon: "Why can't it be a piece of meat?"
Lumine: "Because… that's the IPC…."
Lumine: "How could the IPC possibly share meat with a guard dog?"
Lumine: "A bone should be good enough… I guess."
....