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Meiyi: "..."
She stared silently at the fairy Ellie, her thoughts unknown.
"Fairy Airi!"
"What's wrong? Why are you staring at me so intently... Are you captivated by me again?"
Meiyi: "..."
After a slight silence, Mei chuckled and shook her head: "No, it's nothing."
Fairy Airi: "Hmm, let's keep going. There's still a long way to go before we reach the finish line."
This conversation actually reveals what Mei discovered.
Unfortunately, Mei has become a riddle-maker again, leaving players somewhat confused.
……
Then, the fairy Airi led Mei to the next memory.
The girl embarked on a journey with no end, and in the time that followed, she traveled through cities, mountains, villages, and wilderness...
She encountered many things and met many people.
She first met Paddo at a closed train station, where she was tricked out of an apple...
The frail girl (Pado): "...Why are you following me?"
Alicia: "Huh? But you just said that if I gave you that apple, you would give me an orange..."
The thin girl said, "I was just kidding. I don't have any oranges at all. You've been fooled."
"Sigh, consider it a lesson... This is the only way for people here to survive."
Alicia: "Oh..."
It seemed that Alicia had learned her lesson, and she gave a thoughtful "Oh".
But suddenly, she pulled out two candies from her bosom.
"I have two more candies, you can have them too! Here, one for each of us!"
The frail girl: "You..."
Alicia's innocence and kindness dealt a blow to Pado's conscience.
"……Thanks"
……
She once listened to a melodious, hymn-like a cappella singing in the ruins of a church.
I was once awestruck by the heavenly voices on stage in a magnificent theater.
……
She once walked through the lush campus, observing children of similar age through the fence.
I also once wept bitterly in a rain-soaked alleyway, amidst the city's nighttime solitude.
……
She had seen Qianjie tied to a pillar and bled, and she had also seen Hua as a child in Shenzhou.
She was also mistaken for Sakura, the assassin of the Poisonous Chrysalis, because of her pink hair.
...Without exception, all of these memories are related to heroes.
Is it the wonder of fate, or... are the memories associated with these heroes treasures that Alicia has carefully kept hidden away?
The players have no idea.
But they were certain that Alicia's true experiences could not be fully summarized in just a few words.
……
The girl's footprints are all over the world.
Each near miss gradually sculpted her soul into shape.
She has received kindness from strangers, and has been warmed, moved, and encouraged by them.
They have also suffered from unwarranted malice, being deceived, exploited, and betrayed by them.
Like day and night, the good and evil of the world divide her journey in two, one side being light, the other shadow.
At this point, she still couldn't understand why such contradictory things could coexist in people's hearts.
But she believed that the glittering lights she saw must really exist.
She returned to that hillside and gazed once more at the brightly lit city lights in the distance.
"So... the Earth is round!"
"The world has no end."
"Just like the book says, Paradise really doesn't exist..."
"In that case..."
"If amusement parks don't exist, then I'll create one myself!"
"It has to be a really, really beautiful amusement park!"
……
Finally, she returned to where she started.
"Traveling the world, for a Herrscher to do that is incredibly bold!"
After seeing these memories, even the fairy Ellie couldn't help but sigh.
"So, she really doesn't know her own identity? Even the fairy Ellie from the Kingdom of Celestial Music was somewhat shocked~"
“Perhaps…she is also searching for the answer to this question…” Mei took a deep breath.
While reviewing these memories, she seemed to sense the loneliness hidden beneath Alicia's innocent and adorable exterior...
"The long journey is to find someone similar to herself, or a place that can answer her questions, or perhaps... a companion to travel with her along the way."
……
These memories are all of Alicia's own perception of herself.
Perhaps feeling that this understanding was not comprehensive enough, the fairy Ellie took Mei to find other heroes' opinions on Elise.
This time, Mei relived Alicia from the perspective of the heroes.
These memories are from when Alicia joined the Firemoth and interacted with the heroes as their colleagues.
Everyone sees Alicia differently, yet there seems to be no difference between them.
In these memories, she was always smiling, like a happy fairy, never sad.
Just looking at her like this brings joy and comfort.
Even with her boundless way of interacting with others, it's still impossible not to dislike her.
Even the stubborn Mebius secretly harbors feelings of "liking" for Alicia.
……
"What a chaotic memory..."
After seeing these beautiful memories, Mei's mood improved considerably.
Although Alicia has always claimed that she has never changed, Mei can still see her slowly growing from naivety to maturity through the long passage of time.
Hmm... she's getting more and more skilled at that flirtatious way of speaking.
A person's entire life is so fragmented, complex, yet long.
But a person's essence will not change.
Alicia's feelings for everyone are genuine.
"So, even if no one knows she's a Herrscher, even if in that rational era, Herrschers were destined to be enemies of humanity... she must be special, right?"
"So, her ending must also be happy and heartwarming... right?"
As she said this, a look of anticipation seemed to flicker in the fairy Ellie's eyes.
Meiyi: "..."
Is that kind of ending... considered heartwarming?
She didn't know how to comment, so she simply changed the subject and ignored the answer.
"...Speaking of which..."
"It seems like one very important person is missing from those memories—"
Eden
"I think...we might find the answer to this question in the memories she left behind."