She turned around in astonishment.
There was Kiana, battered and disheveled, reaching out to her through the smoke and dust.
"Kiana? Why are you here?"
Fu Hua's pupils contracted sharply. If the seal broke, the consequences would be unthinkable.
Instinctively, she reached out her fingertips to touch that familiar figure.
But her mission held her like shackles, forcing her hand to stop in midair.
The girl opposite her paid no attention to that hesitation.
Her fingers clamped around Fu Hua's forearm like iron pincers.
That brute force dragged her straight out of the dark depths of her heart.
"Then we'll crush her again."
Kiana gritted her teeth, her tone fierce. "Trying to slip away right under my nose? Dream on!"
The instant their palms met.
The surrounding falsehood crumbled, and the illusions vanished like smoke.
The sky cleared once more, and majestic Mount Taixu came into view.
The image froze, and several lines of stark text appeared.
"The sun and moon turn, the seas change."
"Partings become routine, despair sinks into the bones."
"Time has long since lost its meaning."
"Surviving through endless cycles for one thing alone-her mission."
The camera pulled back.
That lonely figure trudged on alone.
School, the Moth of the Previous Era, Fog City, Schicksal, St. Freya...
Her footprints spanned the long river of time.
Only here did the gears of fate begin to turn in reverse.
The final frame.
Dressed in her St. Freya uniform, Fu Hua put those glasses back on.
The CG ended.
Sister Zhou sat frozen in place, her shaken heart unable to settle.
This main story arc was extremely long, with its dramatic tension pushed to the limit.
Lehoyo had poured so much care into "Fu Hua."
Laying out her past, sculpting her soul, completing the puzzle of her life.
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