The Knight's Long Journey (Continued)

'Why would I have such a thought...? How strange...'

'I must be crazy.' — The silver-haired knight maiden lowered her head, like a little quail soaked to the bone by the rain.

She followed the girl with a pitiful expression—out the door, through the corridors of the guild. Many of her fellow knights saw her actions and appearance along the way, but no one dared to say a word or do anything unusual—they all instinctively and consciously bowed to the Flame-haired maiden girl. Many of Liliana's colleagues even looked at the knight girl with envy.

It was as if following behind this Surtr's red-haired maiden was some kind of incredible honor.

'A strange feeling...' Liliana thought to herself. As she walked out of the society, the night breeze of Milan made her hair flutter lightly.

As she stepped outside, the sensation of the street beneath her feet blurred her thoughts.

This feeling... this street. These tall buildings... are they really the same ones I usually walk through?

The knight girl felt something was off, something was amiss—the patterns beneath her feet were so familiar, the atmosphere around her was just as it always had been. But why...?

"It feels so unfamiliar..." she said instinctively.

"That's right, being a stranger." The outsider, who called himself Surtr, looked around the streets of Milan. "This is a sign that you are different from ordinary people. It's a symbol that you are better than ordinary people, and that your luck is stronger. It's proof that you are the leading lady and not a background extra. You should be happy about it."

"The female lead...?" Liliana asked instinctively, expressing her confusion. "Why, why do you say that?"

The silver-haired knight maiden subconsciously thought of her deeply hidden hobby of writing novels.

'This... is this some kind of mockery? But why...'

The blush on the girl's face had just faded a little when it instantly returned.

"I didn't..." The girl instinctively covered her cheeks with her hands. "Besides, Erica looks more like..."

A vague premonition suddenly surfaced in her mind, and she subconsciously looked up at the other side of the street.

She saw her blonde best friend and nemesis appear at the end of the street amidst gasps from the crowd. They were panting and looked agitated.

"Lily! There's something wrong with this world—!" The first words spoken by the blonde girl who appeared at the end of the street moved her deeply.

Then Liliana uttered the second half of her sentence—

"... more like the female lead." The unspoken words stuck in her throat.

Then she saw the woman who called herself Surtr nod.

"You're right, she's definitely more like the heroine of this story than you are," the girl said, her gaze towards Erica filled with admiration. "Even though she wasn't chosen by Pandora as the medium to fulfill her promise, she used her talent, intellect, and luck to discover the flaw in the worldline shift—rushing to meet you immediately and even guessing that you and she were in the same situation. Ah... if I had stayed in this world longer, perhaps she would have been the only one I actively sought out."

The girl's words were obscure and difficult to understand. Although they seemed to be common Italy words, the silver-haired knight was completely baffled by their meaning when put together—she didn't know what this red-haired fellow was talking about. But she did hear the admiration in Surtr's words and felt a sudden surge of jealousy rising within her.

Jealousy... Why would I be jealous?

This guy probably wouldn't even reveal his real name—in the 21st century, there are at least a million Europe girls whose names are, or contain the Surtr. Saying his Surtr is as fake and absurd as a Chinese person saying their name is Xiaoming!

Liliana instinctively bit her lip.

At the same time, Erica's gaze also focused on Miss Surtr —she instinctively wanted to assume a defensive posture. However, before the blonde Knight Princess could do anything presumptuous, her body instincts stopped her in her tracks!

"You... you are?" Erica's expression shifted from wariness to doubt, and from doubt to wavering.

"Aren't you going to serve me, Erica?" Miss Surtr simply raised a hand on the same side to her.

The golden-haired knight instinctively stepped forward as she raised her hand, his clean, slender fingers gently and gracefully cradling the girl's hand, like a palace maid.

"It seems you have a strong impression of me." Miss Surtr's fingertips gently lifted the blond knight's chin. Her delicate fingers traced Erica's flushed cheeks and lips. "Do you remember me?"

"I'm so sorry, Your Majesty, I don't remember..." A mist welled up in the blonde girl's eyes. But it was unclear whether it stemmed from grievance or excitement.

"Then why do you call me Emperor?" The Flame-haired maiden blinked.

Then she saw Erica's lips slightly parted, and she tried to take Erica's finger into her mouth.

"Ooh!"—She flicked the guy's forehead lightly before Erica could succeed.

A very interesting interaction.

Liliana, who witnessed all of this, felt that her worldview and philosophy of life were spinning rapidly like a ball.

What is this? What's going on? What does it mean?

How could Erica Blantri, so proud, so supreme and self-loving... do such a thing?

The silver-haired knight's heart pounded with heat and turmoil—she didn't know what had gotten into her, but instinctively she wanted to walk to the other side of Miss Surtr and take her hand.

"Ugh..."—Then a similar flick on the forehead appeared.

"Two naughty little devils," Miss Surtr sighed helplessly. She continued forward, and the two Knight Princess of different colors followed behind her like newlywed brides, looking rather aggrieved.

—To think you're so clever.

She thought of it.

—Subconsciously aware of my power and influence, yet knowing they have no leverage compared to me, so even without remembering my identity, they still try to contact me, get close to me, and gain something from me?

—Tsk, this appearance... isn't much different from that Athena who said she wanted to sleep with me before she died. Damn it, is it really that hard to get close to a cute girl who truly cares about me?!

Even I have had the dream of waking up in the morning to find beautiful blonde and silver-haired girls sleeping on either side of me, wearing only black and white stockings!

—Damn it! Is there no way for pure love lovers and perverts to survive?!

It was obvious that waiting for these two to recall everything on their own was a troublesome and problematic option. And as this realization took hold of her mind, Miss Surtr's original leisurely mood for a final bit of fun before leaving vanished completely.

She raised her finger and flicked it. An invisible wave of vibration then spread from her fingertip to the two knightly girls, one in gold and one in silver.

"Remember everything, my knight. The promise we made before is now fulfilled."

The next moment, the tide of memories surged from the depths of the Twin Knights' minds amidst their exclamations!

They remembered, they remembered everything. Gods, God Slayer, world-destroying calamities, the Twilight Flame that blotted out the sun, and the fragmented moon. They recalled everything, remembered everything, and in knowing all of this, they understood why they had been told the truth.

The girls' faces shifted between pale and crimson—two pairs of eyes, now aware of the truth, turned sharply to the Flame-haired maiden. Their gazes were complex, a mixture of admiration, respect, astonishment, and disbelief.

"I promised to tell you the whole truth." Surtr first looked at Liliana.

"I once decided that you would be in charge of the Earth after I'm gone." Then, her gaze turned to Erica.

"Of course, my plan had a slight mishap. NE became TE, so that in this new era, Earth no longer needs a ruler, and you can achieve happiness even in ignorance. But..."

She shrugged apologetically.

"I have always been a person of my word. I promised the Monkey King that I would return the Sea-Calming Divine Needle, and I did it. I promised the Great Celestial Venerable that I would protect his people, and I did it. I promised Athena that I would grant them a new destiny, and now a starship is being built on the moon to travel to a foreign land, to be carried by these former Olympus gods. And when my promise to Pandora is fulfilled, the last two commissions I have left in this world will be the two of you."

"Consider it my whim... I'm sorry for making you bear secrets you didn't have to. If you need me to make tangible compensation, then I can still do things like bowing my head."