But when Himeko's story reached the messages carrying their feelings across eight light-years, March 7th fell silent.
There was no helping it. Little March was a very sensitive girl, and the story itself had gradually moved her.
"That... with time and space separating them by so much, a message would take eight years to arrive. Anyone's feelings would change, wouldn't they?"
"Maybe Lin Feng, who was still on Blue Star, had already gotten married..."
Biting her rosy lip lightly, March 7th knitted her brows and voiced her heartfelt thoughts.
"He hadn't. Lin Feng on Earth had been waiting for news from Himeko all along."
"With nothing left for her to protect, the girl piloting the Trailblazer Mech floated silently in the Sea of Stars, surrounded by nothing but endless darkness and loneliness..."
Himeko continued her gentle narration, retelling the story Lin Feng had told her in her own words.
Suddenly, March 7th seemed a little dazed. Deep sorrow and bewilderment surfaced in her beautiful eyes.
Floating silently in the boundless Sea of Stars, facing nothing but endless solitude-she truly understood that feeling.
If the Astral Express had not passed by and rescued her from the Six-Phased Ice, would she have met the same end as the girl in the story?
At that thought, March 7th felt a little relieved that she had lost all her memories when she woke again.
If she really could remember the past, just thinking of that boundless solitude would surely have driven her to a breakdown...
"What happened at the end? Did those lovers, separated by the distant reaches of the universe, really still have a chance to reunite?"
Already caught up in the story, March 7th clenched both fists tightly. Her face was full of anticipation, tinged with sorrow and puzzlement.
It was such