The real world.
Chen Li had just left the instance dungeon and returned to the familiar space.
"Hah—!"
A tiny pink fist, whistling through the air, punched toward Chen Li's stomach.
Chen Li reacted quickly, reaching out to gently catch the harmless little fist before pulling the little thing, who was still waving its fists with a wronged expression, into his arms.
It was Mimi.
Chen Li looked around but found no obvious changes after the Wish List's fulfilled-world alteration.
But Firefly had indeed vanished.
Apparently, Firefly's wish had quietly been fulfilled.
"All right, all right, don't be mad. I brought you something nice." Seeing Mimi's aggrieved, teary-eyed look in his arms, Chen Li began coaxing her.
As he spoke, Chen Li produced, as if performing a magic trick, the memory Light Cone fragment he had "extorted" from the Aeon of Remembrance.
Actually, the moment Chen Li entered the instance dungeon and felt that his head was empty, he remembered that he had forgotten to bring Mimi in with him.
The reason he had chosen to kill the Aeon of Remembrance last was to get something nice for Mimi as an apology.
"Mimi!"
At the sight of the memory fragment, Mimi's eyes lit up. She instantly forgot her anger, flew up, cupped Chen Li's face in her hands, and rubbed her face against his.
Just as Chen Li had soothed Mimi and was rubbing his hands together, preparing to settle accounts with Aha, the Aeon of Joy outside the instance dungeon...
"Ding!"
A golden mission panel suddenly appeared before Chen Li's eyes.
[Special Mission Triggered]
Mission Description: [Fate Night: Prelude]—Answer that perfectionist's "mistaken" summoning.
Mission Objective: Please descend at 10 PM tonight upon Firefly's secret base near Origami University, formerly an abandoned warehouse.
Current Status: Summoning Circle completed. Final chant