Smooth Sailing

The violet-eyed woman broke into a smile.

"It was me." Her beautiful eyes shifted as she teased, "I thought you really didn't remember anything."

"..."

Gilan was shocked.

He had never imagined that what he had said to Lemei in the film had actually affected reality.

That influence had not only crossed centuries of time, but also the boundary between illusion and reality.

It was utterly incredible...

Gilan suddenly thought of something, and his pupils contracted.

That's it! It was because of "Iridescence"!

He remembered that after advancing to a Long-Lived One, "Iridescence" had shown unusual activity twice within the True Film Reel.

And on both occasions, in Silver Bottle and Legend of the Undefeated... Lemei Nicola and Tessel Eugene had both been bathed in descending multicolored light caused by "Iridescence" at the end of the films.

So "Iridescence" altered secret history?!

Gilan found it inconceivable.

No, that wasn't it... It only changed people in the past, not the events that happened in the past. It merely allowed the influence my appearance had on certain people to persist until today.

But even so, such an irrational alteration should have been easily noticed by others...

Gilan still remembered that, when he had been very weak, "Iridescence" had already begun displaying its miraculous qualities.

For instance, in the film, he had taken the Loserxiu Spirit Board. As a result, that crucial item had completely vanished from all the master tapes of the Human Will film series.

This had forced Miss Hera Nibal, the "Script Supervisor Assistant," a February Apostle working behind the scenes, to intervene and correct the plot, returning everything to its proper course.

Having understood all this, Gilan could not help but shudder.

Because that meant...

Clark Smith, the February Director known as the "Director," had actually known of his