Stelle froze. After thinking back for a moment, she remembered that before Stellar Rail FES was held, Pearl seemed to have given her a gold coin identical to Aventurine's chip.
"That was a locator!?"
"Just her usual style. I'm already used to it, and you'd better get used to it fast too." Undying Path spread his hands.
Just as she was about to take out that tracker, a distant, ethereal female voice suddenly rang beside Stelle's ear—
Acheron...! Acheron...!
Stelle: "—!!!"
The girl whipped her head around and looked toward the Abyss spiraling in the distance like a colossal maw.
"Hm!?"
When she looked back again, she was shocked to discover that at some point, she had actually walked a long way toward that gigantic mouth of the Abyss, while March 7th, Undying Path, and the others had been left behind by her.
"What the hell? Am I possessed!?"
Come, look this way, slowly walk over here...
Yes, right at the end of this road. Come, I am calling you...
That bewitching female whisper continued.
"Kind of familiar... very familiar, even twelve-out-of-ten familiar!" Stelle frowned, scratching her hair as countless memories flashed back through her mind. At last, she slapped her forehead. "I remember now. Back when I helped Herta test the Simulated Universe, the first time I met the simulated Aeon of Voracity, it seemed pretty much like this?"
Come, Acheron, come here...
Listening to that nonstop yammering, Stelle got angry.
"Hey! The reason I've made it this far, cutting through every scheme and battlefield, is because I'm rebellious to the bone!"
"You want me to go over? Then I'm absolutely not going over!"
She turned her head, spun around, aimed her butt at that giant mouth of the Abyss, and stuck it out.
Stelle even looked back at