As for what happened afterward, everyone knows.
During the negotiations, the Astral Express crew refused to compromise and agreed to a showdown with Sunday at the Penacony Grand Theater.
It is worth mentioning that in this layer of the dream, whose depth was the sky, Stelle said during the negotiations, "What is Trailblaze?"
"It is following the unfinished road of those who came before us and traveling even farther... Penacony in Mikhail's dream absolutely does not belong to Order!"
Such cool words.
It even stirred up the Harmony and drew a hurried glance from Xipe.
However, the one flaw was that the latter half of those words actually did not sound quite so righteous, because the starting point was Penacony in Mikhail's dream.
But it didn't matter. After all, we were Nameless too, weren't we?
And everyone knew that the Nameless came to do good deeds.
Now, back to the present.
The members of the Astral Express had already begun exploring the Penacony Grand Theater.
There was not a living person to be seen anywhere in the entire theater. The silence was so deep that they could almost hear their own heartbeats, while strange-looking puppets and phantoms stood or lay scattered everywhere.
"Good grief, that scared me!" March looked at the puppets unhappily. "Why are there so many... puppets at the ticket booth?"
Nero stood to the side, looking over the puppets. Suddenly, he spoke. "Hmm... It would be nice if these puppets could move."
As soon as he said this, March's little face instantly went pale.
"N-Nero, what are you talking about?! What do you mean, if these puppets could move..."
Before March could finish, Stelle suddenly pointed behind her with a shocked expression and said in a panicked and frightened voice, "M-March... behind you..."
"Ah!!!"
March jumped straight up in fright, letting out a scream at an extremely high pitch.
The girl almost immediately turned around to look, only to find that there was nothing behind her. When she turned back around, she saw the disdainful expression on Stelle's face.
"Hey! You... how... how can you deliberately scare people at a time like this!" March glared angrily at Stelle and stomped her foot, then turned back to Nero and scolded him. "And you too, Nero. You're always learning from other people and scaring people!"
"Scaring people? I didn't." Nero looked at March with an innocent expression.
"How did you not? Didn't you say you wanted these puppets to be able to move?"
"I did." Nero nodded. "There are so many puppets. If they could move and be used for labor, the factory's efficiency would shoot up. Wouldn't that make them something as good as the Dreammaster?!"
March looked at the excited expression on the young man's face. "..."
'S-So he was thinking about factory labor...? Just what do you think the Dreammaster is? What do you mean by something as good as him? Even though he's an enemy, I suddenly feel like the Dreammaster is so pitiful!'
The group continued forward for a while, still without seeing a single person. March couldn't help muttering, "I have a strange feeling. Did we come to the wrong place?"
Himeko shook her head. "There shouldn't be a second grand theater in this dream."
"Then is Sunday messing with us? We agreed to settle things on the stage, so why is everyone gone?"
However, the instant March's voice fell, Sunday's voice rang out, "Sorry to have kept you waiting, Miss March 7th."
March's entire body immediately shuddered. Then she hunched her head down and anxiously looked around. "That scared me! Wh-Where are you talking from?"
"I am waiting behind the curtain. Before the ceremony begins, following an ancient tradition of Asdana, I would like to invite you all to watch three plays before the curtain."
"History is a mirror. It reflects the most fundamental appearance of the universe. We can also use this opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the history of Penacony and the Aeons."
"And the outline of the future will naturally reveal itself within it."
"Why don't we begin with the creation of heaven and earth..."
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