Stelle's question sounded a little like she was looking for trouble.
"An Emanator probably wouldn't be that bored." Himeko shook her head. "But I looked through the Express's travel records. An Aeon once disguised themselves as an ordinary person and hid aboard the Express for over a year, until they finally found an opportunity to blow up half the train and an entire planet."
After a pause, she smiled and said:
"I shared that information with Herta to help her improve the Simulated Universe project. I hoped her virtual Aeons would be a little more faithful to the originals."
"A little too faithful, actually." Stelle nodded. "They even knew they were virtual."
"Aha?" Chu Mu asked.
"Who else could it be?" Himeko sighed. "For Aha, the Aeon of Elation, having fun matters more than anything. Perhaps they only wanted to play a prank on Akivili, but they ended up killing countless Nameless. Akivili must have been furious with them."
After a pause, Himeko added wistfully:
"Beings like Aeons have lost even the most basic reverence for life. Even if they were human before ascending, they become indifferent afterward. Take The Hunt, for example. When destroying the Denizens of Abundance, they often disregard the consequences. Sometimes, before the Xianzhou soldiers have even had time to withdraw from the front lines, The Hunt has already fired an arrow.
"Aeons as close to humanity as Akivili are truly rare. Sadly, by the time I took charge of the Astral Express, that great deity had long since fallen. How fortunate it would have been to follow them in blazing trails through unknown worlds."
As she spoke, she looked at Chu Mu and Stelle.
"So you don't really need to worry. Akivili isn't with the Astral Express Crew anymore, so Aha won't come back to