"Quick, quick... Put it back!!" Firefly noticed the people staring and hurriedly grabbed Yan Huan's arm.
"Tch... No appreciation for art."
Yan Huan snapped his fingers, and the Dragon Venerable Toilet turned back into the Clock Kid Statue.
But a moment later, a fellow with a clock for a head stepped out of the statue and glared at Yan Huan.
"Hey, hey, hey... What's your problem?"
"Isn't my statue good-looking? Why'd you turn it into a toilet?"
Yan Huan blinked at the clock-headed fellow, momentarily dazed.
Then he looked at the statue. The fellow was the spitting image of Clock Kid.
When Yan Huan kept staring at the statue without a word, Firefly continued her introduction:
"Clock Kid comes from Penacony's longest-running and most famous cartoon. It follows Clock Kid and his friends on their adventures in Dreamville. It's passed ten thousand episodes by now."
Firefly turned to Yan Huan.
"But did you know? They say Clock Kid was modeled after the famous Clockmaker."
"The Clockmaker?" Yan Huan looked over the cursing Clock Kid before him and said disdainfully,
"Is he famous?"
Firefly looked surprised.
"You don't know?"
"He was a legendary tycoon in Penacony's history, the founder of its dream world—the man who made dreams a reality."
"People have all sorts of theories about where the Clockmaker came from."
"Some say he was a traveling merchant from beyond the stars. Others say he was a prisoner on the prison planet. Some even say the Clockmaker was just a symbol, and no such person ever existed..."
Yan Huan nodded slightly and mused,
"My guess is the Clockmaker was one of The Nameless."
"One of The Nameless? Why do you say that?" Firefly asked, puzzled.
How could Penacony's Clockmaker possibly be connected to The Nameless of the Star Rail Express?
"Because