Just as March 7th was about to charge ahead alone, Fu Xuan's voice suddenly sounded in her ear.
"March, can you hear me?"
"Huh? Diviner Fu, you're back?!"
March 7th looked around at once, but Fu Xuan was nowhere to be seen.
Fu Xuan continued:
"I'm increasingly certain your memories have been tampered with... I just don't know where the interference is coming from."
"I—I know that now, too. It's not just my memories from before I boarded the Express. Our recent memories have been messed with as well."
"So, Fu Xuan, are you okay?"
Fu Xuan's voice sounded in March 7th's ear again:
"I'm fine. I never actually entered the Grand Void Array. What accompanied you before was only a projection."
"Now I can't even manifest a projection, and my vision is obscured. You truly are on your own."
"I... I understand."
March 7th steeled herself and walked forward alone.
The cabin, empty just moments ago, suddenly filled with figures.
"Huh, there are people here."
As before, March 7th went up to them one by one to talk.
She started on the left side of the cabin, where Arlan stood with several of his subordinates.
When Arlan saw March 7th approach, he said:
"March 7th, even if you look back, all you'll find is a chaotic, ever-changing past."
"You are the only child of Diamond World Adryphos, its last princess. The moment Nanook ascended, that star burned into a black, blazing hell."
"Your parents sent you, still an infant, aboard a cold ship in despair. Then, with hope, they watched you vanish into the raging waves of the vast sea of stars."
"You were found and raised by nobodies."
"You are the only Savior..."
"???"
Seeing Arlan tell her all this with a straight face, March 7th nearly died