Tome World.
After ending his conversation with Freedom Queen, Yue Yang returned to Tome World and sat in meditation.
At first, Princess Cici, Yue Yu, and the others found nothing strange about it and continued their own training. No one knew how long passed before Drunken Cat, the first to finish training, had wanted to invite Classmate Yue Yang for a steamy bath together. Yet seeing that he was still quietly deep in thought, she decided not to disturb him. When Yue Yang was pondering certain experiments, he often spent an hour or two thinking, so it was not particularly unusual.
But after Drunken Cat finished bathing and was preparing to rest, she learned from Little Slave's muttering that Yue Yang had already been sitting there for five hours.
This... this had never happened before.
What had happened outside?
Why was he like this?
When Princess Cici and Yue Yu learned of it, they were equally stunned.
The three women hid outside the door, peering through the narrow crack as they whispered, "What do we do now? Should we go in and wake him?"
"If he is trying to Capture some kind of inspiration, waking him might make all his efforts come to nothing." Yue Yu shook her head slightly.
"The problem is, he has been spacing out for far too long." Princess Cici had never seen Yue Yang lost in thought like this.
"Perhaps he has reached the final critical moment of an exploration. We must believe in him." Of the three, Yue Yu trusted Yue Yang the most. She believed he was not merely staring blankly, but probing some profoundly mysterious truth.
"Then... let's wait a little longer!" Drunken Cat also felt that she should support him.
"You two wait. I overdid my training today—I'm exhausted." After thinking