Aboard the Astral Express in reality, inside the Driver's Cabin.
March 7th stared at the Express's array of gauges, feeling overwhelmed. She glanced around. Right now, the only other person awake in the entire Driver's Cabin was Little Fish, and he didn't look like he knew how to drive the Express either.
Although Jiang Yu hadn't told March 7th his true purpose, they had already come to the Driver's Cabin. Her intuition told her that Little Fish might be planning to take the Express for a little spin.
"Um... Little Fish... didn't you say you wanted to find Pom-Pom? Why are we here...? Pom-Pom's sleeping in the Observation Car right now..."
Suddenly sensing that something was wrong, March 7th looked at the boy studying the Express's instrument panel, her voice growing increasingly alarmed.
"Do you really need to ask? Of course we're here to drive. That was the plan all along. As for why I wanted to find Pom-Pom, we don't normally get a chance to come in here without Pom-Pom, do we?" As Jiang Yu spoke, he reached out and grabbed a control lever by instinct. "Anyway, Pom-Pom's in the Dream of Taiyi right now and can't answer, so let's take that as permission. We're doing this to save people, after all. How could our kind, adorable Conductor blame us?~"
"Do we really have to go this far?" March 7th's mouth twitched. "Little Fish, do you actually know how to operate this?"
"We just need to get the Express moving. Black Cleave will help us stop it afterward," Jiang Yu said.
"Huh?" March 7th was dumbfounded.
Jiang Yu continued as though he hadn't noticed the change in her expression at all:
"From the changes Fuli showed us just now, I'm fairly certain that the authority of Beauty is mixed