[ "So, you are a performer…" ]
[ "No wonder your attire is so magnificent." ]
Kakavasha gazed at Aventurine's raiment, speaking with a smile.
[ "Actually, I am a… merchant." ]
[ "But I do indeed have a show to put on." ]
Aventurine offered a brief explanation.
[ "Are you like the men in black descending from the sky?" ]
[ "Yet, you are not clad in black." ]
Kakavasha asked, a hint of curiosity in his voice.
[ "Only ordinary staff are required to wear such uniforms. My position…" ]
[ "Is far above theirs." ]
Aventurine replied with a smile.
[ "How incredible. I hope that I, too, can grow up to be as dazzling an adult as you." ]
Kakavasha spoke with longing.
[ "You can." ]
[ "You will undoubtedly be better than me, more formidable than me." ]
Aventurine said, his tone filled with certainty. 』
『 ....』
—✦Omniscient Viewer's Chat Lodge✦—
Furina de Fontaine: "Taking a photo with one's past self… there is an indescribable romance to this scene."
Paimon: "Taking pictures again…"
Paimon: "It suddenly reminds me of that photo between Miss Hotaru and Miss Stelle…"
Paimon: "After taking a photo, isn't something bad about to happen again…?"
Lumine: "Sigh, this Kakavasha is merely an illusion birthed by the Harmony."
Lumine: "From the very beginning, the ending was already written, wasn't it?"
March 7th: "Taking photos is supposed to be a beautiful thing, but watching them do it… I just feel a lump in my throat."
Stelle: "It's not all terrible, right?"
Stelle: "In a way, isn't this a form of psychological solace for Aventurine?"
Hu Tao: "I suppose it makes up for a small regret from his childhood."
Hu Tao: "After all, the child he was back then didn't even know what he looked like…"
....
『 Kakavasha and Aventurine arrived together before the stage curtain.
[ "Behind this curtain lies the grand stage…" ]
[ "It is almost time to go on. Are you ready?" ]
[ "I wish your performance complete success." ]
Kakavasha's smile remained unchanged. He looked at Aventurine, offering his heartfelt blessing.
[ "Thank you." ]
Aventurine smiled in gratitude.
[ "You still look very nervous…" ]
[ "Then, let us press our palms together." ]
[ "If we have the Mother Goddess's blessing, you might feel a bit more at ease." ]
[ "Palm-pressing is a small ritual. We place our palms together and recite the prayer to Gaiathra, and She will bless us." ]
[ "If you don't know how, I can teach you." ]
Kakavasha sought to use this ritual to alleviate Aventurine's tension.
[ "It's alright. I know it." ]
[ "Of course I know it." ]
Aventurine nodded, his expression complex.
Then, the scene shifted.
Memories began to surface.
[ "We must part ways here, Kakavasha." ]
[ "The Katicans are coming." ]
Under a gloomy sky, Kakavasha's sister spoke to him, her face filled with reluctance.
[ "Why?" ]
[ "The Katicans have already stolen all our money, our food, and they killed Mom and Dad…" ]
[ "What more do they want?" ]
Kakavasha, his voice trembling with tears, asked his sister in confusion.
[ "The Katicans are bloodthirsty, cruel, and insatiable." ]
[ "They want everything, so they shall receive nothing." ]
[ "This is a ruse. A vengeance." ]
[ "Do you remember? Today is the day of the Kakava, and also your birthday." ]
[ "They know the Avgins will undoubtedly hold a festival on this day." ]
[ "Using the cover of this rain, they will come to destroy our caravans and seize everything they desire." ]
[ "But the Katicans do not know that this time, we will fight back. The men in black from the sky stand on our side." ]
[ "The Katicans have no chance of victory against them. They will surely pay the price for their arrogance." ]
[ "Without this rain, the Katicans would not act, and we would have no opportunity to maneuver." ]
[ "This is all the grace of the Mother Goddess. And you are Kakavasha; your good luck will bless your sister with success." ]
His sister explained the reasons to Kakavasha with a resolute face.
[ "But… but people will die! You will be in danger too…" ]
[ "How is this good luck?!" ]
[ "Why must you do this…" ]
Kakavasha could not comprehend his sister's words.
[ "The Avgins repay their debts." ]
[ "The Mother Goddess is calling me. Mom and Dad are waiting for me. I must answer." ]
[ "But She has bestowed her luck upon you. She wants you to live." ]
[ "As long as you live, the blood of the Avgins will never run dry." ]
[ "So run, Kakavasha. Do not be afraid. Do not look back." ]
[ "Go to the other side of the mountain." ]
[ "The rain will accompany you. The rain will protect you." ]
[ "And we… shall meet again beneath the next aurora of Kakava(Start of Gaiathra Reincarnation's)…" ]
[ "May the Mother Goddess thrice close her eyes for you…" ]
[ "May your bloodline forever pulse…" ]
[ "May your journey be forever peaceful…" ]
[ "And may your schemes never be exposed." ]
[ "Goodbye, Kakavasha." ]
[ "....." ]
[ "Interastral Peace Broadcast Flash: The Spokesperson for the IPC Marketing Development Department confirms a small-scale rebellion has erupted in the unowned star system of Sigonia. The situation has been effectively brought under control—" ]
[ "The insurgents belong to a local clan known as the Katicans. This clan has long harbored grievances against the Corporation, causing severe negative impacts on the work of the Marketing Development Department in the region—" ]
[ "The clan launched a massive assault on the Avgin clan, currently under Corporation protection, resulting in 6, 728 deaths and 3, 452 missing persons. The wounded have been received by the medical relief organization, the Trauma Front—" ]
[ "The Spokesperson expressed deep condolences regarding this profound humanitarian disaster and delivered an important address to all interstellar citizens regarding the matter—" ]
[ "Finally, he stated: The giant hammer of Preservation shall fall for all life, regardless of life or death, race, or ideology, to defend the basic rights we are born with…" ]
[ "..." ] 』
『 ....』
—✦Omniscient Viewer's Chat Lodge✦—
Stelle: "I'm broken. This actually broke me!"
Stelle: "Preservation… is this the Company's Preservation?"
Stelle: "What exactly did the Corporation preserve?"
Stelle: "Could it be that in the eyes of the Corporation, Preservation simply means preserving their own profits?!"
Boothill: "What else?"
Boothill: "Did you only just figure that out?"
Boothill: "The IPC is nothing but a cancerous tumor of an organization, making black-hearted money under the guise of Preservation!"
Boothill: "To the Corporation, only things with value, things that can generate profit, are qualified to receive their so-called mother-fudging Preservation!"
Furina de Fontaine: "So… the Corporation deceived the Avgins?"
Furina de Fontaine: "They didn't intervene at all!"
Welt Yang: "It appears the Corporation was merely using the Avgins…"
Paimon: "What exactly is going on?"
Paimon: "Paimon is still a little dizzy."
Paimon: "Didn't the Corporation say they would help the Avgins?"
Paimon: "Why did they go back on their word?"
Paimon: "Also, since the Katicans are so bad, why did the Corporation let them commit crimes for so long?"
Dr. Veritas Ratio: "The matter is actually quite simple."
Dr. Veritas Ratio: "Although the Katicans repeatedly launched rebellions and disrupted the Corporation's operations,"
Dr. Veritas Ratio: "The Corporation, citing humanitarian reasons, could not move directly against them!"
Dr. Veritas Ratio: "Therefore, that bastard Oswaldo found a pretext. He used the conflict between the Avgins and the Katicans to find a legitimate reason for the Corporation to intervene."
Dr. Veritas Ratio: "So, from the very beginning, the Avgins were merely a pawn in his hand."
Dr. Veritas Ratio: "Once this pawn was broken by the Katicans, he naturally had a justifiable reason to annihilate the Katicans!"
Furina de Fontaine: "Then this Oswaldo character is simply too evil, isn't he?"
Furina de Fontaine: "That was the entire Avgin clan!"
Furina de Fontaine: "He didn't even blink before selling them out?"
Aventurine: "To Oswaldo, nothing matters more than profit."
Aventurine: "As long as profit is achieved, no amount of sacrifice is worth his concern."
Aventurine: "But I bet that one day, he will pay a heavy price!"
Dr. Veritas Ratio: "Within the Corporation, not everyone places profit above all else."
Dr. Veritas Ratio: "But the Marketing Development Department, under Oswaldo's leadership, sees only profit."
Dr. Veritas Ratio: "They have always focused solely on results, stopping at nothing to achieve them, devoid of any humanitarian baseline."
Dr. Veritas Ratio: "Oh, and as a side note, the reclamation operation of Penacony almost fell to Oswaldo as well."
Dr. Veritas Ratio: "Imagine that."
Dr. Veritas Ratio: "If the Marketing Development Department had truly intervened in Penacony, I cannot guarantee that a single person within this Sweet Dream would remain."
Hu Tao: "Not a single one… would remain?!"
Hu Tao: "That ruthless?!"
Diluc Ragnvindr: "It is not surprising."
Diluc Ragnvindr: "That spokesperson for the Marketing Development Department stated on the news that the wounded Avgins had been rescued by them."
Diluc Ragnvindr: "But… why is it that today, only Aventurine remains?"
Diluc Ragnvindr: "Furthermore, if they truly had any conscience, they would not have sold Aventurine, the sole survivor, as a slave."
Diluc Ragnvindr: "Squeezing out every last shred of negligible profit…"
Diluc Ragnvindr: "Hmph, they have long since lost any baseline. They are unworthy of being called human!"
Himeko: "Seen in this light, the Corporation's final statement is truly ironic."
March 7th: "After doing something like that, they have the nerve to mention Preservation?"
March 7th: "I feel like if Qlipoth knew about this, He'd probably smash the Marketing Development Department out of existence with one hammer strike!"
Dan Heng: "Oswaldo was never a believer in Preservation to begin with."
Dan Heng: "On the contrary, he was formerly a Nameless!"
Stelle: "I spit on that! Such scum deserves to be called a Nameless?!"
Stelle: "Say no more, I have a premonition!"
Stelle: "Our Astral Express crew will definitely run into this piece of trash in the future!"
Stelle: "When that happens, watch me smash his dog head in with my bat!"
Stelle: "Oh, no! I'm going to stab him to death directly with the flaming lance that symbolizes Preservation!"
Boothill: "Then you'd better hurry up."
Boothill: "Otherwise, who knows, maybe one day that precious darling will get loved to death by my gun!!"
Xiangling: "Sigh… Kakavasha is so pitiful."
Xiangling: "Kakavasha's sister is also heartbreaking…"
Xiangling: "They just wanted to live their lives properly!"
Xiangling: "Why are there always bad people bullying them!"
Sunday: "This is the exploitation of the weak by the strong."
Sunday: "In this tragedy, the Avgins were the weak, and the Katicans were also the weak. Only the Corporation can be counted as the true strong."
Sunday: "The Katicans had no power to oppose the Corporation, so they swung their blades at those even weaker!"
Sunday: "Alas… this is the eternal tone of the universe."
Sunday: "If this point is not changed, tragedies will only continue to play out."
Amber: "Then, how can we change all of this?"
Robin: "Support the weak with strength!"
Robin: "Only in this way do we have a chance to change everything!"
Madam Herta: "The philosophy of the Harmony, is it?"
Madam Herta: "But forgive my bluntness, that is merely a drop in the bucket."
Robin: "Even if it is a drop in the bucket, we have reasons why we must do it!"
Stelle: "Well said!"
Stelle: "No matter what, this evil act of bullying the weak must be punished!"
Stelle: "Otherwise, it will only fuel the arrogance of the perpetrators!"
Collei: "But… for weak people, even if they want to resist, it's useless, right…"
Dan Heng: "That is why there is a need for those stronger than the oppressors to uphold justice for the weak."
Dan Heng: "The Galaxy Rangers are precisely such an organization."
Dan Heng: "And they are, without a doubt, great!"
Boothill: "Heh, hearing you say that, brother Dan Heng, I feel like everything we Galaxy Rangers do is mother-fudging worth it!"
Boothill: "If the scale of fairness in this world only tilts toward the strong, then let us Galaxy Rangers add some weight for the weak!"
Boothill: "Maybe it's insignificant, but it works, baby!!"
Raiden Ei: "Hmm… since it works, then that is sufficient."
Nahida: "Yes, it is sufficient…"
....
『 [ "Kakavasha?" ]
[ "..." ]
[ "….Goodbye." ]
Aventurine awoke from his memories.
Opening his eyes once more, kakavasha's figure had vanished alongside the power of the Harmony.
Aventurine was henceforth no longer under any influence.
[ "Alright then—the actor has taken his place, the show is about to begin." ]
[ "This performance is dedicated to you. I hope it leaves you with an unforgettable memory…" ]
[ "…..Kakavasha." ]
Aventurine gazed at the curtain.
Composing himself, he bade a final farewell to his past self.
[ "By the way, before you go, I have a rather personal question." ]
[ "Do you… truly wish to destroy this world with your own hands?" ]
Suddenly, the final words spoken by Sunday surfaced in Aventurine's mind.
[ "Hypothetically—and this is just a hypothesis—if I had a probability of rolling this result every time I cast the dice…" ]
[ "Then I would be very willing to make a bet." ] 』
『 ....』
—✦Omniscient Viewer's Chat Lodge✦—
Stelle: "Aventurine has said goodbye to his past self."
Stelle: "And he has shaken off the influence of the Harmony."
Stelle: "Next is his grand performance!"
Furina de Fontaine: "But will this truly be Aventurine's final… curtain call?"
March 7th: "I hope not… his life is still long, it hasn't reached the point where he must bow out."
Hanabi: "Eh, look at you guys. We're about to reach the most exciting part, aren't you the least bit excited?"
Hanabi: "The grandest performance, the grandest death!"
Hanabi: "Judging by the Little Peacock's last sentence, maybe he really is going to destroy the world~"
Hanabi: "So, everyone in the dream is going to be buried with him~"
Hu Tao: "Ah this… surely… surely not?!"
Hanabi: "Hehe, who can say~"
....