"Tartaglia: Arlecchino, you don't actually think the Aeon of Propagation can do anything more terrifying than making humans give birth to bugs, do you?
Arlecchino: Who knows? After all, it's an Aeon. I can't imagine what kind of authority it possesses.
Tartaglia: Humans giving birth to bugs or something like that is already exaggerated enough. I don't believe it has any more exaggerated authority.
Arlecchino: When the hospital scene was revealed before, we also thought it was impossible, but the fact is, humans can indeed give birth to insects due to the Aeon of Propagation's authority.
Tartaglia:...
Albedo: Indeed, given the Aeon of Propagation's ability to break reproductive isolation between different insect species, it's possible that similar situations could happen to humans.
Tartaglia: Humans breaking reproductive isolation... Ugh, that's too disgusting, don't even talk about it!
Paimon: That's disgusting, I'm going to throw up again.
Dehya: I hate Tayzzyronth even more, and I hate the Fatui's Doctor even more.
Yae Miko: Although it's disgusting, Albedo's concerns are not unfounded. I even think that Tayzzyronth's authority could cause even more terrifying things than what Albedo mentioned.
Kujou Sara: Just humans breaking reproductive isolation is already exaggerated enough; there shouldn't be anything more serious than that.
Kamisato Ayaka: I can't imagine anything more serious than that.
Kamisato Ayato: Don't think too much about these things, Ayaka.
Yae Miko: Nothing is set in stone, anything is possible. Let's keep watching.
[Herta: When the Aeon of Propagation was alive, its authority could even affect humans, so it's no wonder it was targeted by the Aeon of Order.]
[Ruan Mei: Given the Aeon of Order's attitude, it clearly wouldn't ignore the actions of Tayzzyronth.]
[Herta: The fall of the Aeon of Propagation should be inseparable from the Aeon of Order.]
[Herta: If we dig deeper, I wonder if we can see the scene of the Aeon of Propagation and the Aeon of Order, two now-vanished Aeons, clashing.]
"They're flying away, all of them."
The nurse staggered to the broken window, watching the dense swarm of flying insects in the sky, muttering.
Even though the number of flying insects in the sky had reached a terrifying figure,
flying insects were still constantly gathering from all directions.
Clearly, similar events were not only happening in the hospital where Takagi, Lisa, and others were.
"Are you alright?"
Lisa supported the somewhat shaky nurse and asked.
"I'm fine, in fact, seeing this scene makes me a little happy."
"You know, if they all fly away,"
"will things here return to normal afterwards?"
The nurse looked at Lisa expectantly and asked.
Lisa: "..."
She couldn't answer. If she could, she would want to affirm the nurse's thoughts.
But she didn't understand the situation here well enough,
so she naturally didn't know if the people who had been affected by the Aeon of Propagation's power could return to normal.
So, she could only look at Takagi for help.
However, before Takagi could answer, the nurse showed a desperate expression again.
"Return to normal, haha, how could things here return to normal?"
The nurse's body suddenly went limp as if she had thought of something.
If Lisa hadn't been supporting her, she would have been sitting on the ground by now.
"You should rest for a while longer."
Lisa looked around, helped her to an empty room, and had her sit on the hospital bed.
However, the nurse seemed to have lost her mind, continuously muttering things like "it won't recover."
Seeing this, Takagi raised his hand and placed it on her forehead.
As the healing power fell upon her, the nurse finally became a little more energetic.
"Although I don't know how you did it, thank you anyway."
The nurse gave a bitter smile and nodded to Takagi.
Takagi: "It's nothing, just a small favor."
At this moment, the Doctor asked curiously:
"Nurse, you kept saying that it couldn't be restored. Is there some hidden secret in all of this?"
The nurse nodded with a bitter smile and said:
"You are outsiders, so it's normal that you don't understand the situation here."
"This Mandalay Island is an isolated island on this large planet, Laplacian."
"It is isolated from the world due to ocean currents."
"Because of this, the people on the island resist their fear of loneliness and death by giving birth to life."
"There is almost nothing here except love and loneliness."
"I don't know if it's because of these things that disaster found us."
[Alhaitham: A place that advocates for the birth of life, would it be a coincidence for the Aeon of Propagation to find this place?]
[Kaveh: It always feels like fate. Could there be some mastermind behind all of this?]
[Faruzan: Tayzzyronth, why are there so many unsolved mysteries surrounding it?]
The nurse took a deep breath and continued to speak amidst everyone's surprise:
"The people on Mandalay Island have a ritual."
"Islanders draw colorful wings on the shoulders of their family photos."
"These gushing colorful flames symbolize the birth of life."
"Can you imagine, when that creature, half-human and half-insect, swept across this island,"
"everyone whose photo had such colorful wings immediately became pregnant with life."
"Even some people hadn't even had time to mate with their loved ones."
"Naturally, these new lives were not human, but the insects that flew into the sky."
At this point, the nurse couldn't help but cover her face and cry.
Clearly, speaking these words had already broken her mental defenses.
Now, she needed a good cry and release.
[Paimon: You're kidding, right? Just drawing a symbol of reproduction on a photo can make the person in the photo pregnant with bugs?]
[Paimon: This, this is too exaggerated.]
[Rosaria: Indeed, even though I feel that the Aeon of Propagation's authority is not limited to what was mentioned before, what this nurse is saying now is truly hard to believe.]
[Navia: Taking a photo and drawing a symbol of reproduction on it can make you pregnant with bugs... I feel like I might be afraid to face the camera in the future.]
[Dori: Indeed, I don't dare let anyone take pictures of me now.]
[Charlotte: No way, isn't that a blow to the journalism profession?]
[Lyney: There's nothing we can do about it. The power of the Aeon of Propagation is simply too exaggerated.
I even think that drawing a symbol representing propagation on a man's body could make him conceive a bug.]
[Tartaglia: That's... a bit scary.]
[Zhongli: As expected, Aeons are deities that represent concepts. The concept represented by the Aeon of Propagation has achieved this point.]
[Neuvillette: Perhaps when the Aeon of Propagation passes by, as long as there is a creature with the thought of propagation in its heart, it will give birth to a bug.]
[Venti: That's truly an efficient yet terrifying way of reproduction!]
...
"The symbol you mentioned, is it this kind of symbol?"
Suddenly, Dottore took out a photo and asked the nurse.
The person in the photo was none other than the nurse herself.
"You, where did you get that?"
The nurse looked at the photo and said in horror.
Especially after seeing the half-drawn wing symbol on her shoulder in the photo.
"I found it in the lounge earlier."
"If the other half of this symbol is completed, will you be able to..."
Before Dottore's words were finished, Lisa snatched the photo from his hand and stuffed it into the nurse's hand.
Although she was also very curious about the power related to the Aeon of Propagation that the nurse mentioned.
But she didn't want to see the nurse also conceive a bug.
Even though she knew the nurse was just a life simulated in the Simulated Universe.
The nurse clutched the photo tightly, but still explained to Dottore:
"It's this symbol. Once the other half of the wing is completed, it will be a complete life symbol."
Hearing this, Dottore indeed showed an interested expression.
"If you are interested in this, Dottore."
"How about I take a photo of you here?"
"Let's see if you can give birth to a bug?"
"You're so interested in propagation, you must also be very interested in whether men can give birth to bugs, right?"
Lisa said with a smile.
"Right! There happens to be a camera here."
"Want to give it a try, Dottore?"
Signora picked up the camera placed on the table nearby and said to Dottore with interest.
"Testing... It seems like I could gather some good data."
Dottore rested his chin on one hand, muttering to himself and thinking for a moment before looking at Signora with a smile.
"Take a picture of me, Signora."
Dottore said.
"Are you serious?"
Signora's expression froze, looking at Dottore in surprise.
Nahida, Cloud Retainer, Himeko, and the others also looked at Dottore in astonishment.
Dottore didn't say much, directly reached out and took the camera from Signora's hand, and took a picture of himself.
Because it was an instant print photo, Dottore quickly got the physical photo in his hand.
Then, he found a pen and began drawing the wing symbolizing life on his shoulder in the photo based on his previous memory.
[Dehya: No way, this guy is actually serious?!]
[Tartaglia: Dottore, this man, is pretty ruthless towards himself.]
[Scaramouche: I wouldn't be so sure. He's currently in the Simulated Universe, so he won't actually die.
He probably wants to use the immortal nature of the Simulated Universe to understand the Aeon of Propagation as much as possible.]
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[Kaveh: Indeed, if I were in his position, I might make the same decis... Never mind, it's a bit disgusting.]
[Azar: Dottore's will as a scholar is recognized by my Grand Sage of Sumeru.]
[Rosaria: A bit troublesome! Dottore bears the Path of Propagation. If he perceives more about the Aeon of Propagation through this experiment, he might go even further on the Path of Propagation.]
[Yae Miko: It seems that when Dottore returns, we need to pay more attention to the Fatui's Dottore.]
...
"No, don't draw anymore."
"If you give birth to a bug with your body structure, you will die!"
"Stop quickly!"
The nurse looked at Dottore's actions and finally reacted.
She screamed, trying to stop Dottore.
However, at this moment, Dottore had already completed the drawing.
Immediately after, a strange energy descended upon Dottore's body.
Dottore's belly instantly grew larger, then even larger, and then it actually burst open directly.
Under everyone's gaze, a giant insect flew out from the bloody flesh, flying towards the swarm of bugs in the sky outside the window.
Seeing this scene, the nurse's eyes rolled back, and she fainted from fright.
"So that's how it is. Even men can give birth to insects because of the rune of propagation?"
"Hmm... It seems it's not just that, but also because my mind was thinking about propagation?"
"And this Path Power from the [Propagation] Path... is really interesting, hehe, hahaha."
Dottore covered his forehead and laughed heartily.
As if he didn't care at all that a large opening had burst in his belly.
"You guy are too disgusting, aren't you?"
"Is your head really a human head?"
Signora frowned tightly, looking at Dottore with disgust and asking.
"Hehe, of course it's a human head."
Dottore turned around with a smile and looked at Signora.
Only then did everyone realize that the wound on Dottore's belly had already mostly healed.
"Is it the strong vitality from the Path of Propagation?"
Nahida muttered.
"No wonder this guy dared to do such a thing."
"So he calculated that even after doing what he did just now, he wouldn't exit the Simulated Universe."
Cloud Retainer said.
At this moment, March 7th quietly came over to Takagi and carefully tugged at Takagi's sleeve.
"Hey, Takagi, isn't this passenger of yours a bit too strange?"
"A normal person wouldn't do something like that, right?"
March 7th said in a low voice, while looking at Dottore with some distaste.
"That guy's head is indeed different from ordinary people."
"You saw it, what normal person would make their own slice clones?"
Takagi shrugged and looked back at Dottore.
"But I think, he probably has to leave the Simulated Universe temporarily."
Takagi muttered.
"Leave?"
"Wait, what's going on?"
March 7th looked at Dottore strangely, only to see that Dottore's body had actually started to gradually turn into a cocoon.
Dottore also noticed the anomaly, his brows furrowed as he looked at Takagi with a puzzled expression.
He tried to speak, but found that he could only make chirping sounds like an insect.
Immediately after, Dottore was completely enveloped by the cocoon.
Meanwhile, outside the Simulated Universe.
Dottore's body suddenly opened its eyes, looking around with a hint of surprise.
"This is... Herta's Office?"
Dottore muttered softly.
"That's right! This is indeed Herta's Office."
"Congratulations, you successfully died."
"Of course, it's not a true death."
Herta's voice came over, drawing Dottore's gaze.
"My body turned into an insect?"
"But why did this suddenly happen?"
"Wait, that feeling just now... could it be because of my Path?"
Dottore said in surprise, looking at the projection screen of the Simulated Universe in front of Ms. Herta.
On the screen, an insect's antenna was tearing open the cocoon, revealing its form from within.
"Looks like you have some self-awareness."
"You should be glad that what happened just now occurred in the Simulated Universe."
"Otherwise, you would have already turned into a mindless insect."
"However, your actions did provide me with some interesting data."
Herta said.
"It is my honor to be able to help Ms. Herta."
Dottore said with a smile.
"Alright, stand aside and don't disturb me while I observe the data."
Herta waved her hand at Dottore, then refocused her attention on Takagi and the others.
Dottore didn't get angry, he quietly retreated to the side, his mind pondering everything he had perceived when he turned into an insect in the Simulated Universe.
That feeling just now, could it be that the Aeon of Propagation ignited the Path Power of my Path of Propagation?
Dottore thought in his heart, his brows slightly furrowed.