Thanks to Yang Yufeng’s analysis, Yueye temporarily escaped Wang Qian’s harassment.
After Zhang Yan’s death, the whole team sank into despair… Su Lin did everything she could to lift everyone’s spirits, but Zhang Yan’s death lingered like a nightmare, weighing on everyone’s hearts.
Time flew by. Before they knew it, two weeks had passed. During that time, it seemed the Goddess of Fortune had shown them a little favor: the journey had been peaceful, and they hadn’t run into any more danger.
The night was quiet. Aside from the calls of unknown creatures in the forest, everyone sat around the campfire in silence… After two weeks together, the team had clearly split into several smaller groups. People sat with those they knew better, talking quietly among themselves.
Strangely, Yueye’s delicate figure was nowhere to be seen among these little groups. It was as if she’d been left out… She sat alone in an inconspicuous corner, gazing at the stars with her ocean-blue eyes, lost in thought.
Yueye felt a little helpless for no apparent reason… The worry in her blue eyes seemed enough to make even the sky fret over her.
Stars dotted the sky. Though Yueye had gradually grown used to this body over the past two weeks, she still had plenty of questions. She could feel how much her personality had changed since coming to this world. Deep down, it seemed she was growing more and more distant from the team. Whether it was her teammates pulling away from her or her pulling away from them, both sides seemed to be deliberately keeping their distance…
Ever since Wang Qian had blamed her for Zhang Yan’s death for no reason, people on the team seemed to have been saying unkind things about her… After all, Yueye had been the one to order everyone to stop. And Yueye herself felt that her decision might have gotten Zhang Yan killed… So when people brought it up, she didn’t argue much.
Yueye didn’t have much to say about who should take the blame… She had no intention of pushing it onto anyone else. As long as she could face herself with a clear conscience, that was enough… No matter how harsh other people’s words were.
“Who am I…?” Yueye gazed up at the sky. That was what mattered to her now. She’d suddenly realized she no longer knew who she was… Maybe it was the dreams affecting her. She’d even had the feeling that the girl in her dreams was the real her. Sometimes, she even thought of her teammates as outsiders, just passersby in her life. There was no need to care too much… But her conscience, the core of who she was, told her that thinking that way was wrong.
【You can feel it, can’t you? You were never meant to be with them…】A voice suddenly rang in her ear, without warning.
“Who’s there…?” Yueye warily looked around.
【Who am I…?】
“You tell me. Who am I?” The hoarse, terrifying voice suddenly changed into the sweet, childish voice of a little girl… A cute, white-haired girl who looked just like a doll stepped out from between the trees. Yueye looked around, bewildered. It seemed she was the only one who could see the girl; her teammates didn’t react at all to what was happening.
“You don’t even recognize yourself anymore?” The little girl who’d emerged from the forest stared at Yueye, her eyes full of frustration…
“Myself…?” Yueye asked, puzzled. She sensed no hostility in the girl’s gaze… If anything, the girl seemed somewhat familiar.
“Does this look familiar at all…?” The little girl folded her arms, puffing out her cheeks in a sulk.
“You’re…!” Yueye remembered the white-haired, red-eyed little girl from her dream—the one who’d been scolded by a sister-like figure. This girl wasn’t as exquisitely beautiful as the one in the dream, but they did look somewhat alike.
“This is what you originally looked like… Looks like you really have forgotten everything, Master…” The little girl’s voice was full of reproach… like a child who’d been wronged.
“What do you mean, what I originally looked like…?” Yueye was stunned. She had no idea what the little girl was talking about.
“Well, it’s not exactly what you originally looked like. Your real appearance is so stunning that I can’t copy all the details… I just mean you originally looked more or less like me now.” The little girl explained this to Yueye with a perfectly serious expression. Her innocent eyes stirred something in Yueye’s heart…
“So you’re saying this is what I look like—but then who are you…?” Yueye felt completely confused. The logic of the girl’s words was all tangled up.
“Don’t rush me! Let me explain!”
“Ten thousand years ago, this body you created and are using now was thrown into this world along with me. I was ordered to wait for your return and then restore your memories, Master.” The little girl transformed into a silver-white sword, floating in the air.
“…” Yueye suddenly seemed to remember something. Could that blue egg in her dream… have been her? As for the sword, she had no memory of it at all…
But the moment she saw the silver-white sword, an uncontrollable sense of familiarity and affection welled up inside her… Like a family member she hadn’t seen in years, reunited with her at last. Yueye felt a joy that came straight from the heart.
“All right… I’ll go into your body for now. You’ll remember eventually… Just a warning: the memories from the few years you spent in that other world are only a drop in the ocean compared to your long life. Don’t get too attached to them… Come back and use me once you’ve recovered your memories. For now, my only duties are protecting you and restoring your memories! I’ll explain some things when the time is right. And I had no choice but to use your true appearance this time, Master… Please forgive me.” As it spoke, the silver-white sword slipped into Yueye’s body… without giving her a chance to react. She could tell that the sword still held her in great respect… and that it meant her no harm.
“I’m an egg?” Once she’d calmed down, Yueye shook her small head, her little mouth falling open… She stared at her pale hands in disbelief, unable to accept that she’d hatched from an egg…
If she hadn’t been able to sense a floating silver-white longsword in her sea of consciousness, she would’ve been sure she was dreaming…
“An egg?!… So I’m not human? Then what am I?” Her brow furrowed slightly. Thinking of the data in her system, she gazed at the stars and felt her troubles grow a little heavier.
After the little girl turned into a sword and entered her body, she fell silent and gave Yueye no answers… Still, what had happened tonight cleared up many of Yueye’s questions, like those about her eyes and physical abilities…
“How am I supposed to face my classmates…? What will they think of me now?” Realizing there was an eighty-percent chance she wasn’t human, Yueye couldn’t help asking herself…
