Nonomi looked at the screen before her, falling into a long silence. After a while, she slowly exhaled and softly said,
"Although I didn't think before… that the actual experience of the game's story would be vastly different from watching a streamer play or watching recorded clips."
"But I don't think that way anymore."
"I strongly recommend everyone to experience Yuto's Story Quest and Furina's Story Quest for themselves."
"Although as of now… the continuity between these two quests hasn't been fully revealed, this doesn't hinder the continued understanding of the emotional crafting of this entire Story Quest."
After saying this, Nonomi nodded slightly, then turned her gaze to the bullet comments on the screen, and… fell into contemplation.
"Did these guys used to have such sensitive emotions? Or is it… that this Story Quest truly did an excellent job of stirring emotions?"
Nonomi tilted her head, then watched the continuously scrolling bullet comments on the screen without blinking, as if trying to observe something.
"Vasher!!! I want to kill you a thousand times! And! It's! Not! Enough!"
"Is the Sword Demon coming with his ultimate? Come on! Give this hero an Italian cannon to help him slay demons!"
"Hello, my name is Li Yunlong, VW50. Tonight, I'll blow up Vasher on Mount Thousand Buddha."
"Searching for young women as test subjects based on specific personality tags… it's really hard to imagine how much they've done…"
"Originally thought it would be a classic lewd development, but it turned out to be the least classic cyclical development… circling back to that beast Vasher."
"For the first time ever, the evil done by the villain who died in Version 4.0 is still haunting me in Version 4.2. What kind of cyber ghost is this…"
"It's hard to imagine how many people Vasher and his hounds killed over these twenty-plus years…"
"Arghhh!!! I want to skin Vasher alive, rip out his tendons, dig out his heart, dismember him, and slice him into a thousand pieces!!!"
"My goodness, a succubus from the late Ming Dynasty in Northwest China."
...
The bullet comments in the live stream were uniformly expressing their emotions.
Some were aggressive, some sorrowful, others humorous or playing on memes. While the ways of expressing emotion differed, fundamentally… they were the same.
Yuto's Story Quest stirred these individuals' emotions regarding work, while Furina's Story Quest stirred the deepest good intentions within people's hearts.
Thinking of this, Nonomi slightly pursed her lips, then said:
"I see your emotional reactions are quite good, so why don't you go online and experience it yourselves? I can't be the only one who gets—"
"Cough cough cough, no, no, I should say… 'I can't be the only one feeling this way right now'."
With that, Nonomi nodded again, as if affirming her own statement.
As soon as she said this, the atmosphere in the live stream immediately changed.
"Your Yan Kingdom map is a bit too short, isn't it? The dagger is revealed before the scroll is even unrolled?"
"You say it's for a better gaming experience for us, but it's actually just so we can empathize with you better, right?"
"You, all you ever think about is yourself."
"What? Are you also going to play in a band for a lifetime with that lore-diving UP streamer next door? Do you also have a live house left to you by an older sister?"
"Still going, still going, please tone it down."
"Even if you didn't say it, I would play it, but now I don't plan to. I'll just watch you suffer alone (yellow bean, tongue sticking out diagonally.jpg)."
"Tsk tsk tsk, looks like everyone's aggression is still good. Next, Ye Zhi should be added to the defeat CG package."
Watching the bullet comments gradually return to abstraction, Nonomi's mouth twitched involuntarily, then she softly sighed and continued:
"You guys are truly surprising… one second you're condemning Vasher with such sentimentality, the next you're playing abstract games. This speed of changing faces… tsk tsk tsk."
Nonomi clicked her tongue meaningfully, then moved her gaze from the bullet comment display and refocused on the story content she had just absorbed, falling into deep thought.
"Yuto, to some extent, possesses the ability to foresee the future and can wield power from the Abyss. In a sense…"
"He might truly be able to make up for many people's regrets, at least it seems that way for now."
Thinking of this, Nonomi slightly turned to look at the small blackboard on the wall, which depicted the Fontaine quest relationships, and once again fell into thought.
"The original people of Fontaine, to put it simply, were humans created using the power of the primordial sea water, and after being dissolved… their consciousness returned to the Primordial Sea."
"Now, Neuvillette has re-mastered the ancient dragon authority, and mobilizing the power within the Primordial Sea is a legitimate action."
"Due to the shattering of the Divine Throne, the water element authority has completely broken free from the Celestia's control. Based on previous circumstances… the heavenly principles might truly be in a deep slumber…"
Nonomi stroked her smooth chin, coming to a somewhat… shocking conclusion in her mind.
"If all the above holds true, then Yuto and Neuvillette might truly have the ability to pull consciousness out of the Primordial Sea."
"Whether they can resurrect them is unknown, but being able to say a few words should be achievable…"
Thinking of this, Nonomi refocused her gaze on the screen before her, cleared her throat, and then confidently said:
"Alright, alright, let's put aside the Yan Kingdom map for now, I have a very new and bold theory. I wonder if any of you are interested in hearing it?"
"Although I don't intend to use any flags to proclaim my correctness on this matter, in a sense… this is a speculation."
"A speculation about Neuvillette's upcoming Story Quest."
"You can think about it: since Yuto emphasized his regrets, and also emphasized matters concerning the Primordial Sea, then…"
"Is there a possibility, and I mean a possibility, that Yuto and Neuvillette are planning something truly remarkable?"
"Like, reactivating and reusing the power within the Primordial Sea, and then using the power of the Abyss to make up for his own and other victims' regrets?"
"At least… it could bring some solace to those who were hurt by the Serial Disappearance of Young Girls, and at least it could improve Yuto's state of 'knowing the future but not daring to act rashly'."
"After all, as he said in the Version 4.1 Archon Quest, no one can forgive the abuser on behalf of the victim."
"He… has always been that gentle Assistant Administrator, and that has never changed."
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