"Huh?"
"Oh?"
Stelle and Nero both noticed the other's actions. After a brief moment of surprise, they looked at each other and then showed puzzled expressions.
"Eh?"
"Hmm?"
Even March 7th, July 3rd, and Mr. Yang were stunned by this disagreement.
Before this, not a single person had expected things to develop this way.
The knights standing nearby also watched this scene. They fell into slight thought, showing contemplative expressions.
"Nero, what are you talking about? March 7th is obviously the fake March, and July 3rd is the real March! When you disappeared, we were so worried. She was looking for you together with us the whole time!" Stelle said to Nero.
"Although I'm really happy to hear you say that, but..." Nero looked at Stelle.
"March really was with me the whole time. During that period you were talking about, the time when I supposedly disappeared, we were always inside the dreamscape and the layers between dreams."
Mr. Yang fell silent. The old problem had not been solved, but a new disagreement had appeared...
"Exactly, exactly! I was with Nero the whole time!" March 7th came to Nero's side. "When we got Silver Wolf's information and headed to the Dreamscape Hotel, we were scattered to different places in that dream!"
"Nero found me at that time. We originally planned to ride back on that Memory Zone Meme Nero had caught, but after we crashed through the ceiling, somehow we ended up in a white desert."
"Nero and I ran around there for a long time. We saw all kinds of strange sights and ran into a weird person who couldn't even speak clearly. After learning what was going on from that person, we finally returned to Penacony's dreamscape."
July 3rd decisively stood on Stelle's side, "You know that, Stelle. We were scattered to different places in the dreamscape. I ran around in there alone for a long time before I met Himeko. Then the two of us returned to reality together and waited for you."
"Himeko told you all of this herself. Could Himeko really lie to you?"
"And during everything that happened afterward, we were always doing our best to find Nero..."
Nero blinked and looked at Stelle and Mr. Yang.
Stelle and Mr. Yang nodded.
"Ah... This makes things a little troublesome." Nero lowered his eyes slightly, showing a somewhat troubled expression.
Judging from the current situation, although both sides had their own stories, everything both March 7th and July 3rd said seemed to be true. After all, Nero himself could testify for March 7th, while Stelle and Mr. Yang could testify for July 3rd.
"This is practically the True and False Monkey King... The level of trouble is exactly the same."
As Nero fell silent, the two Marches started arguing again. They kept describing what they had experienced during this period and even separately created Six-Phased Ice to prove that they were the real one...
While the two Marches were arguing, Stelle, Mr. Yang, and Nero, the three "judges," looked at one another.
The two people involved were arguing fiercely, but the three who needed to make the judgment remained calm at this moment and did not join the argument.
However, given the current situation, it really was difficult to determine which one was the real March.
After listening to the two Marches argue for a while longer, Nero suddenly spoke. "Also, Mr. Yang, Stelle. I feel that this matter... isn't actually that important, at least not right now. There's no need to immediately figure out which of the two is which."
"From what they've described, haven't they both been working hard for us this whole time? According to what Brother Aventurine and Mr. Yang told me before, Penacony is still caught up in a conspiracy right now. Having one more March means having one more person to help."
"In my opinion, why don't we just call them March and July for now? Compared to the danger we're facing right now, this is a smaller detail. We can wait until we return to the train and let the two of them decide for themselves."
Stelle and Mr. Yang listened, then gave Nero a helpless look.
Although what Nero said seemed quite reasonable, and he had even clearly distinguished which problems were more important and which were less important, wasn't the deeper meaning simply to leave things as they were?
'Would this really be okay?'
Although in a certain sense, he wasn't wrong. After all, both Marches really had been working hard.
The two hesitated.
Just as they were struggling with the decision, they heard Argenti's voice, "I think Nero is absolutely right. In the face of the crisis Penacony is currently facing, Miss March's problem is indeed not that urgent."
"Moreover, they are both truly working hard for all of you. I can feel it. The spirit of striving for one's companions is as dazzling as sunlight breaking through dark clouds."
"Every emotion is like a drop of water after the rain, reflecting a sparkling, sincere, and pure light, a thousand or ten thousand times more precious than gemstones."
"N... No... That's right... I can feel their emotions from the accounts of both Miss Marches, sob... Their concern and trust for their companions, it's truly so moving. I never thought... I would be able to see such a dazzling sight, sob sob sob..."
After Argenti spoke, Noe also joined in. From Stelle's shallow understanding of this knight lady, the other party seemed to be the sort of person whose tear ducts could collapse at any moment because of how emotional she was.
And then...
More knights joined in.
Stelle and Mr. Yang exchanged a glance. It was obvious that these knights shared the same opinion as Nero.
An unreliable idea arose in the minds of the two. Although it was very unscientific, the knights' intuition was mostly trustworthy. And although it made little sense, Nero's luck had always been very good.
Moreover, there really wasn't a better solution at the moment. The remaining judgment and deliberation could only proceed slowly, observing the situation one step at a time.
After weighing things over, the two felt that the "let-it-be plan" was unexpectedly not bad.
At least it was more acceptable than tying both Marches up and throwing them into the cold palace.
Thus, Nero, Mr. Yang, and Stelle did some work to calm March 7th and July 3rd down, letting the two temporarily call a truce.
Whatever they had to say could wait until Penacony's problems were over and they had returned to the train before discussing it.
After making some temporary progress on the question of the real and fake March, everyone once again began discussing the situation in the Dreamflux Reef.
After exchanging information, everyone discovered that within the information each person knew, there were always some obscure clues pointing toward the name "Gallagher."
As a security officer, Gallagher's name would occasionally appear in fragments of conversations among the residents of the Dreamflux Reef.
However, judging from the Family's reactions to a series of incidents before this, they knew very little, or even nothing at all, about the Dreamflux Reef.
This was clearly unreasonable.
And once there was a suspicious point, it meant there was a target.
Everyone immediately decided to find this security officer and question him. Of course, before officially taking action, they still had to contact Himeko, who had gone elsewhere to investigate...