—✦Omniscient Viewer's Chat Lodge✦—
Xiangling: "My god, what kind of speech is this?"
Xiangling: "He is the Warhead of the Borisin, yet he casually says he wants his own race to perish??"
Boothill: "Son of a nice lady, what a colossal, mind-boggling piece of work."
Paimon: "They came all this way to rescue him, even risking their lives."
Paimon: "And this is the appreciation they get in return…"
Paimon: "I wonder how those Borisin would feel if they heard this."
Lumine: "My guess is they'd just think Hoolay is right."
Furina de Fontaine: "Hoolay's way of thinking is clearly different from normal people."
Furina de Fontaine: "What he worships is the ancient wolf creed."
Furina de Fontaine: "He doesn't seem to care about anything else at all."
Stelle: "Hoolay really wants to turn General Feixiao and make her the Warhead of the Borisin."
Stelle: "To be fair, his idea really shocked me."
Stelle: "But then again, if General Feixiao agreed to become the Borisin Warhead, wouldn't she be able to easily wipe them all out in one fell swoop?"
Dan Heng: "…."
Dan Heng: "Wishful thinking."
Dan Heng: "The Borisin worship the Warhead, but that doesn't mean they are brainless fools."
Dan Heng: "If General Feixiao did that, there's a very high probability they wouldn't accept this new Warhead."
March 7th: "I get all that, but why is Hoolay turning into General Feixiao's appearance right now?"
Welt Yang: "To usurp her place."
Welt Yang: "It seems this is Hoolay's real plan!"
Robin: "Usurp her place?!"
Robin: "Could it be…"
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『 [ And I, a prisoner locked away for seven hundred years, a war criminal who couldn't even beg for a glorious death in battle, would only become a puppet at the mercy of others once I return to the pack. ]
[ I will never accept such a fate! ]
[ To the truly strong, Foxian or Borisin is merely a name. The truly strong decide their own path. ]
[ I will forge a brand-new path for myself and hand the power to decide the pack's fate to you—the former Borisin war-slave, the future Lord of the Foxians. ]
[ Your healer, Jiaoqiu, who served you so loyally, is willing to die just to cure your Moonrage. ]
[ I told him, the cure lies in my hands. ]
[ With just a nod of your head, you will instantly wake from this mad nightmare brought by the crimson moon, and your body will be completely renewed. ]
[ From then on, madness will no longer plague you, doubt will be nothing but dust easily swept from your heart, and fear will cease to exist. ]
Hoolay presented Feixiao with another path.
[ So this is the path you've prepared for me… to become another you? ]
Feixiao looked at Hoolay with an unreadable expression.
[ Indeed. After all, you and I are so alike. ]
[ We are both monsters born for war, and destined to die in war. ]
Hoolay nodded.
[ ….I don't need to spell out my answer, do I? ]
[ I refuse. ]
Faced with this question, Feixiao answered without a single moment of hesitation.
[ I told you, Foxian or Borisin is just a name. ]
[ You can be whoever you want to be. ]
[ You can do whatever you want to do. ]
[ Accept all of this, and the Borisin will submit to you. ]
[ Destroy them, leave them without graves, or civilize them to become vassals of the Xianzhou… whatever pleases you. ]
[ Your name will be engraved in the annals of the Xianzhou, or in the registry of its greatest enemies. It is entirely up to you. ] 』
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—✦Omniscient Viewer's Chat Lodge✦—
Mualani: "Eh?"
Mualani: "Why do I feel like Hoolay really doesn't care about the Borisin race at all?"
Mualani: "He's actually tempting General Feixiao by suggesting she civilize the Borisin to become Xianzhou vassals?"
Kinich: "Perhaps he's only saying this to break down General Feixiao's mental defenses."
Kinich: "General Feixiao has an iron will, so it's hard for Hoolay to achieve his goal."
Kinich: "That's why he's wasting so many words."
Qingque: "As everyone knows, there's no such thing as a free lunch."
Qingque: "Hoolay makes it sound nice, but it's absolutely sweet talk!"
Feixiao: "Hoolay indeed doesn't understand me."
Feixiao: "Otherwise, he shouldn't have started by saying these things to me… which sound like complete nonsense to my ears!"
Feixiao: "I just find him noisy."
Jiaoqiu: "Then, what should we do when dealing with a noisy fly?"
Yunli: "What else?"
Yunli: "Of course, smash it to death with Old Iron!"
Jiaoqiu: "Exactly!"
Jiaoqiu: "General, smash this fly to death, and you will welcome true peace!"
Feixiao: "Ha, then I'll have to put some back into it!"
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『 [ You don't understand, Hoolay. You don't understand at all what it is that I want. ]
[ When I was just a child, I stained my hands with blood for the first time, in order to escape the whips and shackles of the wolf masters.]
Feixiao shook her head, sinking into a distant memory.
At the same time, the scene shifts.
[ Neergul, don't stop, keep running...! ]
[ I can't run anymore… Saran, are they catching up? ]
In the pitch-black night, two petite Foxian girls
Were running through a dense, thorny forest.
Their faces were filled with panic and anxiety, looking back frequently as they fled.
[ They're still there, don't stop! ]
[ Neergul, look up, look at the light in the sky! ]
[ That's a 'shooting star'! It's shining down on us! If we just tell it our wish, we can have our freedom! ]
[ We will all be able to escape! We'll win our freedom and then share it with our koolur brothers and sisters! ]
[ So, you have to run, quickly! We can do it, we can escape! ]
From the dense darkness behind comes the fierce howls of wolves and the cries of wild beasts.
[ Neergul! Run with me! ] 』
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—✦Omniscient Viewer's Chat Lodge✦—
March 7th: "Is this… General Feixiao's memory?"
March 7th: "We finally get to see some of General Feixiao's past!"
Feixiao: "Tsk…"
Feixiao: "I didn't expect to see this scene again after all these years…"
Yanqing: "At that time, General Feixiao was just a war-slave fleeing in panic under the Borisin."
Yanqing: "Yet now, she has become an invincible General!"
Yanqing: "Truly a role model for our generation!"
Lumine: "I can faintly hear the terrifying wolf howls coming from behind…"
Lumine: "It really is a suffocating feeling…"
Paimon: "So!! Did General Feixiao and her companion… manage to escape in the end?!"
Hu Tao: "Are you silly, Paimon? General Feixiao is a General now. Guess if she succeeded?"
Fu Xuan: "That… that shooting star in the sky is…"
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『 [ We ran and ran, using all our strength, not knowing where each of us was heading. ]
[ I escaped the pack's pursuit and met a flying woman… a Cloud Knight. ]
Feixiao spoke slowly, recalling the scene from back then.
[ I assume you kept your promise. ]
Having heard Feixiao's story, Hoolay couldn't help but speak.
[ Unfortunately, when I led her back in order to free my koolur companions, there was nothing left there but a bottomless pit. ]
A look of sorrow appeared on Feixiao's face.
[ The light of the Devilish Archer... A star of calamity that strikes the ground and leaves only devastation in its wake. ] 』
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—✦Omniscient Viewer's Chat Lodge✦—
Amber: "What does that mean?"
Amber: "Who destroyed the koolur that General Feixiao spoke of?"
Feixiao: "Mm…"
Feixiao: "To be precise… they were already destroyed right after I escaped."
Furina de Fontaine: "The light of the Devilish Archer??"
Fu Xuan: "That shooting star in the sky just now… wasn't actually a shooting star."
Fu Xuan: "It was the arrow of light used by the Reignbow Arbiter to eradicate the Abominations of Abundance."
Lumine: "What?!"
Lumine: "It was actually the arrow of the Aeon of Hunt?!"
Lumine: "That means the koolur were completely wiped out by that single strike?!"
Feixiao: "That is correct…"
Paimon: "Ah, this…"
Paimon: "The Aeon of Hunt is… so… uh… direct?"
Welt Yang: "The Aeon of Hunt is just like that."
Welt Yang: "Constantly roaming the universe, erasing the plagues of Abundance everywhere."
Welt Yang: "But THEIR actions are also extremely direct."
Welt Yang: "Just as you've seen."
Welt Yang: "So, even the innocent among them are often caught in the crossfire."
Hu Tao: "This is really hard to judge…"
Stelle: "I'm used to it."
Stelle: "Aeons are just like that."
Stelle: "Never mind which Aeon, and never mind if they're from our own faction."
Stelle: "Actually, the distance between them and mortals is still very, very vast."
Stelle: "They possess only divinity, not emotion."
Xilonen: "But why do I feel like… the Aeon of Hunt still held back?"
Xilonen: "Otherwise, could any planet really withstand His arrow of light?"
Mualani: "True, if an Aeon wanted to destroy a planet, it should be effortless, right?"
Qingque: "So, from this perspective, is it still our fault for being too weak as mortals?"
Qingque: "Even though the Reignbow's arrow was made as weak and slow as possible."
Qingque: "We still couldn't dodge it?"
Feixiao: "That is indeed the case."
Feixiao: "That's why I have always strived to be faster!"
Feixiao: "As long as I can be faster than the Reignbow's arrow!"
Feixiao: "Then I can save more innocent people!"
Jiaoqiu: "Yes, you did it. And you did it well!"
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『 [ In the years that followed, my Cloud Knight comrades and I chased the trail of that light countless times, and watched it fall countless times… ]
[ Gradually I came to understand. That light was not some shooting star that carried wishes and aspirations. Each Lux Arrow meant that countless lives in a helpless world were about to be obliterated. ]
[ I prayed to the God of the Skybow that I would never have to witness one of these 'shooting stars' fall again. ]
[ But... THEY ignored my prayers.]
Feixiao continued.
[ That's right, THEY never answer us. THEY just let us loose in this world to massacre each other. That is why the fierce battle between us has raged to this day. ]
[ If the bloodless, tearless, high-and-mighty deities do not listen to mortal prayers, then we must fight for our own desires! ]
[ Do you understand now, Saran… you and I have far more in common than you think. ] 』
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—✦Omniscient Viewer's Chat Lodge✦—
Boothill: "Fight for our own desires??"
Boothill: "Son of a nice lady, how can this guy be so shameless?"
Boothill: "Invading, harming, and enslaving others is his desire, is it?"
Boothill: "Muddle-fudger, I really want to love him to death!"
Stelle: "General Feixiao's former name was Saran."
Stelle: "Nice, I learned a secret that ordinary people wouldn't know."
March 7th: "Just how long is Hoolay going to keep rambling on?"
March 7th: "If he keeps this up, I feel like the three of us outside are already resting in peace."
Yunli: "I almost forgot we are still struggling to hold on outside."
Yunli: "General, you'd better hack Hoolay to death quickly!"
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『 [ You are a beast born for war, and destined to die in war! ]
Hoolay gave his evaluation of Feixiao.
[ …Perhaps. ]
[ So, what is it that you yearn for, Hoolay? Why is it that you fight? ]
After a moment of silence, Feixiao asked back.
[ I fight so that I can turn the stars above into a great wilderness for the borisin to roam. ] 』
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—✦Omniscient Viewer's Chat Lodge✦—
Stelle: "Oh boy!"
Stelle: "He really dares to say it!"
Stelle: "He actually dreams of enslaving the entire universe?"
Stelle: "I don't even know what to say!"
Furina de Fontaine: "Speechless."
Furina de Fontaine: "He says it with such self-righteousness."
Furina de Fontaine: "Without even trying to hide it."
Lumine: "Actually, it's quite good."
Lumine: "Thoroughly and directly evil."
Lumine: "Much better than those hypocritical villains."
March 7th: "Killing a villain like Hoolay really leaves absolutely no psychological burden."
March 7th: "The only bad thing is, he's a bit too strong."
Aventurine: "I can only say, thank goodness the Aeon of Abundance isn't that domineering."
Aventurine: "Otherwise, with the nature of these Denizens of Abundance, who knows how many pasture planets would exist in the universe."
Topaz: "In a way, they are even more detestable than the Swarm!"
Topaz: "After all, those damn bugs only consume out of instinct."
Topaz: "But they treat innocent people as livestock, slaughtering them at will."
Topaz: "They are even worse than the Antimatter Legion!"
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『 [ And you, Saran? ]
Hoolay asked Feixiao.
[ I fight so that one day, I will never have to witness another 'shooting star' falling to the ground... So that just one more person can live and return to the Yaoqing alongside me.]
Feixiao spoke her desire.
[ You would resist becoming the person you were supposed to be, lower yourself from a free wolf to a domesticated fox just for... the sake of one person? ]
[ Then have it your way! I will use your fear and doubt as my nourishment. I will seize you and devour you! I will replace you and... become 'Feixiao'! ] 』
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—✦Omniscient Viewer's Chat Lodge✦—
Bronya Rand: "In Hoolay's eyes, General Feixiao, who has emotional bonds, is a domesticated fox."
Bronya Rand: "As expected, from the very beginning, Hoolay and General Feixiao were never on the same path."
Li Sushang: "Perhaps General Feixiao really does have a Borisin lineage comparable to Hoolay's."
Li Sushang: "But General Feixiao is General Feixiao!"
Li Sushang: "She is our General of the Yaoqing, a hero of the Alliance!"
Li Sushang: "She could never become someone like Hoolay!"
Stelle: "Seeing that he can't fool General Feixiao, he still couldn't help but make his move!"
Stelle: "Replace General Feixiao?"
Stelle: "What a joke!"
Stelle: "As if he's worthy!"
March 7th: "Cough, although I don't believe Hoolay can win either."
March 7th: "But credit where credit is due."
March 7th: "For Hoolay to be like this, he must be relying on that bizarre crimson moon heart."
March 7th: "And that thing is inside General Feixiao's body right now…"
March 7th: "I'm really a bit worried about whether General Feixiao will be alright."
Venti: "No doubts, no regrets, invincible!"
Venti: "With such conviction… I really can't think of any reason for General Feixiao to lose to Hoolay!"
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