Radiant Stilllight stepped forward. "Tuner, let me use the Spear of Definition-"
"No need."
Lin Ye stood before her, looking into her vacant eyes.
Then he made one star on his cloak light up.
That star was one of three hundred and seventy million. It represented a civilization she had saved, a civilization that had quietly remembered her name as she composed the Song of Return.
The instant that star lit up, Harmonic Leaping Note's eyes grew wet.
She did not know what it was, but she felt something.
Then came the second, the third, the hundredth, the ten-thousandth-
Three hundred and seventy million stars lit up at once.
There was no sound. But as each star lit up, it sent out an exceedingly faint ripple-each civilization she had saved was calling her name through its own way of existing.
Harmonic Leaping Note's eyes began to focus.
She heard them.
Three hundred and seventy million voices rang out deep within her consciousness-
[Harmonic Leaping Note...]
She closed her eyes.
Tears slid down her cheeks.
When she opened her eyes again, all the bonds of the Thirty-Threefold Fate Harmonics resumed functioning at once! They shone more brilliantly than before! Each layer of harmonics trembled at an entirely new frequency-the new imprints that three hundred and seventy million civilizations had left upon her.
She looked at Lin Ye and smiled.
"I almost forgot. I am Harmonic Leaping Note. I am the one who composed the Song of Return for them."
Lin Ye nodded.
"As long as you remember."
He turned and continued forward.
Harmonic Leaping Note watched his retreating figure, then the three hundred and seventy million stars still shining on his cloak, and suddenly understood-
What he had just done was not awaken her himself.
He had let all the civilizations