He turned around and carefully examined the woman before him. She was clearly taller now, with a waterfall of pink hair cascading down her back and an exquisitely crafted pink-and-blue gown.
Her bearing was completely different from what he remembered.
"Could you tell me who you are first?"
"Huh? You don't recognize me anymore?"
Cyrene blinked her mature, captivating eyes, a gentle curve forming at the corners of her lips.
"It's me, Partner. Mimi, Cyrene... We went through so many journeys together..."
Her gaze passed over Yan Huan's shoulder toward the rustling wheat field behind him. A breeze swept through it, making the ears of wheat collide like golden waves.
"This scenery really hasn't changed at all."
"The homeland in our memories always stands still, but when we come back to ourselves, we find that fate has long since stolen away the time."
"Welcome to the path of [Genesis], Partner."
She spoke sincerely, her voice seeming to blend into the wind.
"Thirty million departures, thirty million farewells..."
"Those heavy [Remembrances] will become the soil from which a new world sprouts."
"And this time, we'll make it bloom into different flowers."
"Then why did you get taller?" Yan Huan looked her up and down, his tone full of pure curiosity.
"Did you eat crap like Dan Heng?"
"Huh? Mr. Dan Heng actually ate something like that?" Cyrene blinked, looking utterly astonished.
"But I certainly didn't."
"Perhaps Amphoreus's time finally began to flow, so I grew up~"
"Before you came, I kept wondering what sort of Amphoreus was being born beyond the curtain of Aedes Elysiae."
She smiled faintly, her eyes filled with anticipation.
"When I close my eyes, I can see scattered fragments. The companions who stood beside us have already rushed toward their respective fates."
"Some became the pillars of