Within the Chaos Hall, after hearing Furina's words and sensing her guilty emotions, Roman immediately understood what was going on and smiled as he coaxed her:
"That's right, Furina. You're Fontaine's Hydro Archon, the queen of all waters, all lands, all people, and all laws. A mere Seal naturally isn't worth a Hydro Archon like you taking action personally."
"Of course."
Furina proudly raised her head.
Watching this, Hinata blinked and secretly thought:
Furina, had she forgotten that Roman and I could sense her inner emotions?
Couldn't she tell Roman was sweet-talking her to placate her?
"Ta-da!"
Just then, the negative emotions in Furina's heart had mostly dissipated. Smiling, she pulled out a small cake from somewhere unremarkable and said, "This is today's afternoon tea dessert. Let's eat it together."
"Sure, sure, sure." Hinata's eyes lit up. "I haven't tried Fontaine cuisine yet."
As soon as she spoke, Hinata took a kunai from her ninja tool pouch and slashed at the little cake several times. In an instant, it was divided into three portions.
The three of them each picked up a portion and tasted it.
Then Hinata, whose cheeks were puffed out and mouth completely stuffed, gave her verdict: "It's pretty good, but there's too little of it. I finished it in one bite!"
After swallowing his cake in one mouthful, Roman gave his own evaluation. "Indeed. There's too little of it. It was gone in one bite."
"I only had one small cake on me... but just because I don't have any more on me doesn't mean my summons don't!" Furina clapped her hands as she spoke.
"Mademoiselle Seelie, Madame Chevalmarin, Lord Uther, serve afternoon tea for me and my guests."
The three little ones swiftly got to work, pulling out a huge pile of green grape tiramisu cakes, matcha tiramisu cakes, bayberry tiramisu cakes, strawberry cheesecake tiramisu cakes... all stacked into a small mountain atop the Table of Destiny.
At the same time, Furina's voice rang through the Chaos Hall:
"Ever since the Soul Synchronization seven years ago, I've gained a big-eater talent like Hinata's. So... the afternoon tea cakes prepared for me by Palais Mermonia naturally weren't limited to just one. I simply didn't carry these cakes around with me. I kept them with my three elemental summoned creatures instead."
"Sure, sure, sure."
Hinata's eyes shone as she looked at the many different cakes on the table. "With so many of them, there's definitely enough for the three of us to feast on!"
Roman nodded as well. "We never had the chance to try cakes like these in Naruto World. After all, Naruto World is still in the era of ninja wars. Noodles are the common food there, and cake-making techniques haven't developed yet."
"It's fine." Furina patted her unremarkable chest. "Once seven days pass over there for you, seven years will have passed in Teyvat. I'll definitely prepare even more little cakes for you to eat."
Hinata said, "Sure, sure, sure."
Roman said, "Then it's a promise. Pinky swear—no changing it for a hundred years!"
Furina said reproachfully, "Are you an elementary school student?"
Though she said that, Furina still reached out and pinky-swore separately with Roman and Hinata.
As a promise and a hope for the future...
Just then, Roman, who was eating a little cake, suddenly thought of something. He turned to Furina and asked, "By the way, after you left the Chaos Hall last time, did you speak with your other self—Mirror Me... Focalors?"
Furina said excitedly, "Yes, of course I did. I'm the embodiment of her humanity. At first, she trusted me very much and believed that among the myriad worlds, there really was a supreme hall that could help resolve Fontaine's problems.
"She waited for me for seven days. During those seven days, I talked to her about many, many things."
After saying that, Furina sighed. "But unfortunately, the Chaos Hall still didn't appear after seven days. At that point, my other self—Focalors—became disappointed and thought I had been lying."
"Then I desperately begged my other self to believe me... My other self gave me one year to enter the Chaos Hall again and find proof that it existed.
"But unfortunately, a year passed, and the Chaos Hall still hadn't appeared. By then, my other self had completely stopped believing me and only kept telling me to carry out the plan of playing the Hydro Archon!
"And at that time, I also thought that journey to the Chaos Hall had merely been a dream. So I played the part for seven years, until now, seven years later, when I came here again and finally confirmed... that everything from seven years ago wasn't a dream!
"The Chaos Hall truly exists!
"This means I can borrow the power of the myriad worlds, borrow the power of everyone in the Chaos Hall, and change Fontaine's fate!
"In the future more than four hundred and eighty years from now, my other self won't need to take her own life, nor will she need to shatter the Hydro Archon's Divine Throne and return the Authority of the Dragon Sovereigns to Neuvillette in order to save every human transformed from an Oceanid in Fontaine!"
Hearing this, Roman stroked his chin and summed it up. "So this time, you're planning to find evidence of the Chaos Temple's existence and bring it back to Teyvat? To prove it to your other self?"
"That's right."
Furina nodded with a serious, resolute expression.
Roman shook his head at that.
"You probably won't be able to bring anything from the Chaos Temple back with you.
"I tried it last time. I kept holding onto a chair, wanting to swipe one of the Chaos Temple's chairs, but in the end, I went back empty-handed."
"Can't bring it back?"
A trace of disappointment flashed through Furina's eyes.
Seeing this, Hinata spoke up:
"Not being able to bring items back doesn't mean you can't bring your strength back!
"For us, we only need to undergo deep Soul Resonance to rapidly increase our strength!
"Roman and I confirmed this over the seven days in Naruto World."
"Oh?" Furina perked up and asked the two of them, "Then how much have your strengths improved compared to seven days ago?"
Hinata said, "During the seven days after returning to Naruto World, Roman and I were practically together the entire time. It directly caused both of our strengths to undergo a qualitative transformation!
"For example, I originally only had the Chakra reserves of an ordinary Genin, but now I've surpassed one Kakashi."
Furina was slightly stunned. "Surpassed one Kakashi? Does that mean you've exceeded Konoha Jonin Kakashi's Chakra reserves?"
"That's right."
Hinata nodded slightly. "My Chakra has reached, and even surpassed, the level of an ordinary Jonin. Besides that, the proficiency of many of my ninjutsu is automatically soaring, and even my hand seal speed is skyrocketing!
"Beyond all that, the ocular power of my Byakugan is also increasing explosively. My intuition tells me it won't be long before it enters Awakening."
"Awakening? Tenseigan Awakening?"
"Correct."
Hearing this, Furina revealed a hint of envy. "According to Original Naruto, Tenseigan Awakening happens three times in total. As long as you endure those three awakenings, Hinata, you'll be able to directly obtain the Tenseigan.
"Then, once you activate Tenseigan Chakra Mode, your strength will leap forward instantly. You'll surpass Kage-level experts and perhaps even Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju, reaching the Six Paths level."
Hinata smiled at that. "Honestly, my rate of growth is still ordinary. After seven days of Soul Resonance, Roman's rate of growth is what's truly outrageous."
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