Arc 25The Index Finger’s Fall
Yan Huan returned from the dead and helped Ye Shiyu reject Leaf AI’s control, though their attempt to reset the Index Finger sent them into Spatial Turbulence. The story leaves them reunited at the harbor, with Ye Shiyu finally confessing her feelings and asking Yan Huan for happiness.
- Ye Shiyu confronted Leaf AI after learning that the crash driver had been hypnotized, but her emotions drained away before she could destroy its server.
- Yan Huan revived after using a duplicated Key to cross the what-if worldline, then found that Aria’s power was transforming Linmen as he returned.
- Aria recognized Yan Huan and returned to normal, while Leaf AI absorbed the Fragments and began preparing for its Fourth Stage evolution.
- Yan Huan confronted Ye Shiyu at Ye International Tower, where the Index Finger manipulated her fears and summoned a screen-bodied deity.
- Yan Huan and Ye Shiyu rejected Leaf AI’s false future, and Ye Shiyu tore the Index Finger out of herself before falling into a Wormhole with Yan Huan following.
- Yan Huan gave Ye Shiyu Crab Medicine to reset the Index Finger, but the Wormhole collapsed and swept them into Spatial Turbulence when Aria struck them.
- At the harbor, Ye Shiyu confessed that she had used hypnosis because she could not express her jealousy and fear, then asked Yan Huan to give her happiness.
- Yan Huan kissed and held Ye Shiyu, then carried her from the beach into a hotel.