However, compared to Kaimee's ramblings, what actually concerned the Astral Express crew more was the Lady Razalina that Kaimee had mentioned.
Mr. Yang used his skill at talking to adults to smoothly bring up the topic, and began discussing this lady with Kaimee.
Unfortunately, the information they got in the end was not pleasant. Lady Razalina had been a great scholar, but she had already passed away long ago.
Razalina, one of the three people that dear Conductor Pom-Pom had mentioned, a Nameless who had once gotten off the train, was one of the things the Astral Express crew needed to investigate in Penacony.
More importantly, they wanted to help Pom-Pom find out about the current circumstances of these senior Nameless.
However, this kind of news would probably make Pom-Pom sad.
Nero raised his head and looked thoughtfully at the huge hole.
Then he spoke to Kaimee. "If you're worried about the problem of the huge hole swallowing the Dreamflux Reef, perhaps I can solve it."
The twitchy female scholar turned her head and looked at Nero in surprise. "You like Memetic Dynamics too?"
Nero shook his head. "Uh... not really."
"Then how are you going to solve this problem?" Kaimee asked. "You should know that even a Memokeeper from the Garden of Recollection would have a hard time solving this enormous hole. And judging from what you said just now, you clearly can't come up with any scientific solution either."
Nero blinked. "Mm... I think I can do it. And controlling Memoria isn't that difficult... Maybe those Memokeepers just didn't learn enough when they were in school."
"Huh?" Kaimee froze.
"Anyway, in order to preserve the strange sight of Dreamflux Reef, I'll refrain from directly cutting off the flow of Memoria for now."
"I'll construct a path for the Memoria to flow along while ensuring that the total amount of Memoria on both sides remains balanced."
"But normally, the Memoria separating dreams from each other will maintain this balance on its own. Could it be that the two dreams are too close to each other?"
As Nero muttered to himself, he stretched out his hand toward the huge hole.
Although he didn't know much about Memetic Dynamics, he still felt that he was quite authoritative in this area. After all, he had only recently run back from the turbulent flow of Memoria with March.
"It can't be because someone's causing trouble on the other side and preparing something bad... right?", As he spoke, Nero began manipulating the Memoria.
When it came to this huge hole, he genuinely felt that his power could change the way it operated. Although it was only intuition, his intuition was always quite accurate.
And just as Nero suddenly had the idea of adjusting the flow of Memoria in the huge hole of Dreamflux Reef, a spaceship was parked in an inconspicuous corner outside the Asdana system.
Inside the spaceship, an ape frowned. On the screen in front of it, red warnings kept popping up.
[Warning! Unable to perform any control operations! Warning! Unable to perform any control operations! Warning! Unable to perform any control operations!]
"Th... this... what's going on? What exactly happened inside Penacony!"
The ape began operating frantically, controlling and adjusting its remote equipment. However, none of its actions had any effect, and nothing about the current situation changed.
As someone who followed the Origin Doctor, the current situation and this sudden accident were driving it crazy.
"Da... damn it... what happened to my remote robot? What exactly happened? Why did that huge hole suddenly become active at a time like this?"
"If this keeps up, what am I supposed to do about my research topic? What am I supposed to do about my studies? What am I supposed to do about my experiment? I haven't even released my memetic virus yet!"
However, no matter how frantic it became, it couldn't change the situation.
Nero's sudden idea had completely disrupted the plan it had been preparing... or rather, directly destroyed it.
All the preparations it had currently set up in Penacony were accidentally swept into the huge hole's new Memoria flow path during Nero's operation.
Everything inside had now become like points walking along a Mobius strip, as if they had fallen under the effects of Golden Experience Requiem... They had already become trash in the flow of Memoria.
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After Nero casually fiddled with the huge hole in Dreamflux Reef, the Astral Express crew continued onward, leaving only Kaimee standing there in a daze.
Neither the members of the Astral Express crew nor the members of the Knights seemed to have any doubts about what Nero had said or what he had done.
After continuing to follow Misha, everyone found Himeko before they found Robin.
At this moment, Himeko was talking with a strong man wearing blue clothes and with blond hair. She seemed to have learned quite a lot of things as well.
"...I see. I really didn't expect to complete the remaining information here."
"Hehe... To put it in Mr. Gallagher's catchphrase, I suppose it's fate playing tricks on us." The blond man smiled.
"Himeko!" March 7th immediately called out when she saw the familiar fiery-red hair and back.
"Himeko!" July 3rd, meanwhile, kept pace with March.
These two were practically mirror images of each other. Their appearances, behavior, abilities, and even ways of thinking all seemed to be the same, as if the other self in the mirror had simply walked out.
Himeko turned around, her expression somewhat puzzled. Looking at the people and the two March 7ths in front of her, her gaze slowly fell on Mr. Yang.
Mr. Yang gave a bitter smile and explained the matter of March and July to Himeko.
Himeko had quite a strong ability to accept things, and quickly accepted this explanation. Then she introduced the blond man to the others.
The man's name was Mikhail, and he was one of the people in charge of Dreamflux Reef.
Mikhail greeted everyone seriously. "All of you Nameless, and... everyone from the Knights, it's a pleasure to meet you."
This wasn't Mikhail's first time meeting members of the Knights. At some point, a large number of Knights of Beauty had suddenly appeared in Dreamflux Reef.
At first, Mikhail and the others had been somewhat wary, but the Knights of Beauty had a good reputation, after all. And after observing them, they discovered that the knights indeed wouldn't do anything to damage Dreamflux Reef.
They seemed to be... looking for someone in Dreamflux Reef, and during the process of looking for someone, they often helped the residents of Dreamflux Reef as well.
Although they really liked preaching their faith to other people, and sometimes their behavior was rather strange, there was no doubt that the knights were good people.
Because of the Knights' large-scale search for someone in Dreamflux Reef, Mikhail didn't find it strange that the Knights would encounter the Astral Express crew.
What he found strange at this moment was why the members of the Knights were traveling together with the Astral Express crew... Could it be... that the people the knights were looking for were actually the Nameless?
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