PDLP Is Alicia a second-time player in Chapter 104?
Is Alicia a second-time player in Chapter 104?
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A sky where countless stars have fallen, a mirror reflecting the brilliance of countless stars.
Seele's footsteps broke the long-standing tranquility of the shallow water.
She looked up immediately, and the falling starlight suddenly froze, then continued to flow as before.
"...Argona, how beautiful it is."
Xi'er sighed and walked towards the area where Yun Fuyu was, sitting down next to him.
"Why haven't I seen you in my dreams these past few days? Is something urgent?"
Yun Fuyu was the first to ask a question.
Seele shook her head: "I don't know, but... it's most likely that Alicia blocked my senses."
After Alicia left, Seele's cell phone, which had been out of signal, regained signal, and the dream she hadn't experienced for two consecutive nights returned to normal.
In the end, it all turned out to be a play orchestrated by Alicia herself, simply to create an opportunity for her to build "trust" with Seele and then confide in each other.
Yun Fuyu pondered for a moment and said, "There's something I've been keeping quiet about, but I'll tell you today."
Seele glanced at him and smiled: "What a coincidence, I also have something to tell you. You go first."
Mutual concealment and tacit honesty—it's an old trope. As their relationship grows closer, they no longer care about the negative impact (distrust) of this concealment.
Yun Fuyu gazed at this hazy, light purple dreamscape: "In my memory, this dreamscape is the origin of Alicia, where the powers of all Herrschers converge and blend. This is the power of the Origin Herrscher."
However, the Primordial Herrscher is not entirely equivalent to Alicia. The ability to bring humanity to future Herrschers is a unique power belonging to Alicia. She returned everything she had to the Honkai, allowing future Herrschers to also have the opportunity to gain humanity and no longer be controlled by the Honkai.
At that time, she faced death with a smile, changing the world's predetermined fate with her hands that arranged the stars.
"The beginning, the end..."
Seele murmured the two words, finding it hard not to connect them.
"So, what I want to say is also related to this. Although Alicia is not here, she must have control over this primordial land, otherwise it is impossible to explain how she blocked my senses."
"and……"
Seele paused for a moment, then composed herself before saying, "From the story you told me, although we follow the same path, we may not necessarily be in the same area."
On the first evening, they were both in a city next to the Australian capital, which is also the biggest point of contention between the two stories.
You see, wherever Seele and Alicia went, they found beauty everywhere. There were kind truck drivers offering help, little boys delivering flowers, delicious snacks and friendly vendors, fun board games and cooperative random teammates…
But in Yunfuyu, there are alleyway rats trying to rob and assault people, crowds that fight over the slightest disagreement, dirty and chaotic streets, stinking ditches, sticky food streets, and a lingering, unpleasant odor...
Seele's eyes were strange: "At first, I wondered if I was trapped in some kind of illusion? But after we both came here, the flow of power and the existence of the oath told me that none of this was a dream. Unless Alicia is still tampering with me, but what reason would she have?"
"so……"
"So, don't you think that Alicia actually has a big problem?"
Before this, Yun Fuyu had some guesses about the world, but because of the existence of Alicia, he believed that this was the original world of the previous civilization and rejected other guesses.
But now, strange conflicts are increasing in their lives, and he still can't see Alicia. Even though there are reasonable reasons each time, as Möbius said when commenting on their pretense: too many coincidences, even the most reasonable reasons are just a cover-up.
"...Could she be a second-playthrough player?!"
Then she discovered that Yun Fuyu, a person who shouldn't exist, had been trying to find her, so she had been avoiding him? She discovered that Seele had escaped the Honkai, so she had been trying to spend time alone with Seele?
Seeing that Yun Fuyu's thoughts were getting caught up in this, Xi'er didn't say anything, but just looked at him with a gentle smile.
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Seele once had a strange dream, a dream called El Innis.
El Innis is both the convergence of all dreams and the peaceful refuge of the soul, and the embodiment of all beautiful and alluring concepts. It is the most beautiful thing in dreams, reality, soul, life... encompassing all concepts.
But at the end of that beautiful dream, a girl who looked exactly like Seele cried and begged Seele to wake up.
At first, Seele thought it was just a strange dream and that the voice that woke her up was actually Anise, so she didn't pay any attention to it.
But on the rooftop, Alicia unexpectedly revealed Seele's true identity.
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"Now, Seele, can you tell me your true identity?"
"A Herrscher?..."
"No, not a Herald."
"..."
"You and he are not from this world, are you?"
"In my memory, although the Herrscher of Death is very similar to you, she is not Seele. And her final fate was to die at the hands of Kevin, not to stand in front of me."
"..."
Yes, Seele is not the Herrscher of Death, but Seele.
When they fell into the Sea of Quanta, both Black Seele and Bronya mistook Seele for someone else. But they were both people who had traveled through countless world bubbles; how could they easily mistake one for the other?
Therefore, even without concrete evidence, Seele has now come to realize her true identity.
Seele is not actually a single being, but a consciousness that exists in relation to a certain "Seele" (the Seele of the present civilization) and is reflected in this world.
In other words, it was Seele who voluntarily stepped into this world, which led to the Seele that is now in front of everyone.
They are not similar flowers, nor are they isomorphic entities, but rather they are one consciousness, one person, who are essentially one.
It was Seele, crying and begging Seele to wake up...
Fortunately, Seele doesn't have any other memories yet; all that revolves in her mind is him and herself.
But she was afraid that if one day she really "woke up"... would she still be herself then?
Will all the experiences he shared with himself disappear when he wakes up from the dream?
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Therefore, he guessed that Alicia was a second-time player, so he decided to keep an eye on Alicia.
In her dream, Seele no longer cried, but looked at herself with joy, speaking in inaudible words.
Seele's time may be running out...
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As for Alicia, she must know something. Although Seele couldn't guess her secret, she already knew at least two things:
First, Alicia has a certain degree of control over this primordial land, but she has never used it. She only uses it to shield Yunxi and Xier from each other's senses when teasing Xier.
Secondly, Alicia may be a second-time player, but she didn't try to change the storyline and just went with the flow.