At the Divination Commission on the Xianzhou Luofu, Chu Mu saw Kafka again.
Long time no see.
Long time no see.
Those words should have passed between them, but at that moment, neither could say them aloud.
Kafka greeted Chu Mu in her own way.
The moment Chu Mu saw Kafka, an impulse surged through him to smash the shackles on her wrists and take her away.
But Kafka's gentle greeting seemed to bring him back to his senses.
He understood that those shackles were not his to break. He could not ruin Kafka's script.
Besides, could those shackles alone really hold Kafka?
The woman stood here now not because Fu Xuan had captured her, but because she had let Fu Xuan bring her here.
Why Fu Xuan? Why here?
Fu Xuan was the Head of the Divination Commission, and this was the Divination Commission.
Fu Xuan would use the Matrix of Prescience to interrogate Kafka.
As one of the Divination Commission's extraordinary arts, the Matrix of Prescience could reconstruct the past and divine the future. At first glance, that seemed utterly mystical, but in reality, its results were based on vast quantities of calculations.
Thus, in Kafka's interrogation, the Matrix of Prescience's role was to process the information contained within Kafka herself and relay the portions concerning the Xianzhou to Fu Xuan.
When that happened, Fu Xuan would learn why the Stellaron Hunters had come to the Xianzhou.
Unlike the Matrix of Prescience, however, Elio's ability was not based on calculation, but on seeing.
When that madman who could see fate wrote his script, there was no way he could have overlooked the Matrix of Prescience.
Yet he had not chosen to avoid it. Instead, he had arranged for Kafka of the Stellaron Hunters to willingly fall into Fu