Ch 178 : The condition for Aether and Lumine to retain their memories
"Xianyun, you are my master, and I'm the nimble dog from the mountains…"
Amid the stunned expressions of everyone else in the room, Lumine suddenly said this bizarre and abstract line to Xianyun.
Looking at the Xianyun in front of her—now radiating eerie power—Lumine was overwhelmed, her mind in turmoil, unable to calm down for a long while…
Just a moment ago, an inexplicable memory had appeared in her mind out of nowhere…
The eerified "Xianyun" had attempted to summon wind and rain to force Neuvillette into eerification, but Neuvillette had easily countered it…
After that, "Xianyun" somehow summoned violent winds and yellow sand to obscure the sunny sky, successfully causing Neuvillette to undergo eerification…
And Neuvillette's power after becoming Eerie was beyond anyone's imagination…
Everything was so vivid, so real…
Had she just experienced a death rewind?
From her brother's memories, Lumine already knew that he seemed to possess the ability to rewind time upon death under certain conditions…
And now, through her own death rewind, she realized that Su Yuan might also have a similar power…
However, there was a fundamental difference between them…
She and her brother could retain their memories from before death, but they were unable to tell anyone about it—if they tried, some sort of interference or censorship would trigger, causing whatever they wanted to say or express to turn into completely irrelevant and nonsensical words…
As for Su Yuan, it was as if he had no memory at all—every time, he would first look at the palm of his left hand, as if it were covered in information…
But sometimes, even when her brother hadn't experienced a death rewind, Su Yuan would still look at his left palm and somehow gain completely new intel…
That's why, at the time, Lumine was truly curious—if her brother possessed the ability to rewind upon death, then could she have the same ability too?
And if so, did activating it require some sort of condition?
Also, there clearly weren't any words written in Su Yuan's palm—so what exactly was he seeing?
Or was there a specific condition that had to be met in order to see the writing?
So, Lumine conducted two experiments…
In the first one, following the original plan, Lumine deliberately acted very aggressive and showed Su Yuan her cruel side, adamantly refusing to allow him to perform a death rewind…
She wanted to see when Su Yuan would finally hit his breaking point…
Because only when pushed to their limits does a person reveal their true nature.
And once Su Yuan reached that limit—Lumine would personally end his life…
Drawing from her brother's memories and her own deductions, Lumine made a bold hypothesis:
the ability to rewind death didn't belong to her—it belonged to Su Yuan.
It's just that under certain special circumstances, she and her brother were able to retain their previous memories…
After the first experiment ended, time rewound back to the road leading to Wanmin Restaurant.
Lumine clearly noticed Su Yuan's subtle action of looking at the palm of his left hand—so she inferred that he had just completed a death rewind.
But she herself had no memory of anything from before…
Lumine had prepared a variety of different phrases, each representing a different meaning…
But what she never expected was that Su Yuan would say that line to her…
During the second time, Lumine followed Su Yuan's instructions and advice, and when faced with a sudden crisis and overwhelming Eerie forces, she didn't choose to run—but instead chose to fight to the death…
As for her goal?
It was to die before Su Yuan did.
Because in Aether's past memories, whenever he retained his memories after a death rewind, it was always when he had died before Su Yuan...
Especially that time when they faced the Eerie-possessed "Wriothesley."
At that moment, Su Yuan hadn't completely stopped breathing yet—but in the next instant, Aether was struck down by "Wriothesley"...
And yet, during that rewind, Aether managed to retain his memories.
So, Lumine boldly theorized that—at least for her and her brother—if they wanted to retain their memories in a death rewind, the condition was that they had to die before Su Yuan.
And now, everything was proving her theory correct.
Just now, Su Yuan looked at the palm of his left hand, then firmly stated that "Cloud Retainer" had already been corrupted by the Eerie.
And now he was running toward the entrance, likely to stop Neuvillette ahead of time—preventing him from meeting with "Cloud Retainer."
Lumine stared at the entrance of Wanmin Restaurant.
Although this person's name and appearance weren't the same as the one she had known before…
His personality—and that strange, indescribable pull about him—was still so familiar.
Could this Su Yuan now… really be the same person she had once known?
At the entrance of Wanmin Restaurant, Su Yuan didn't have to wait long before a surge of water came rushing toward him.
Then, from within that stream of water, the figures of Neuvillette and Furina materialized.
"Huh? Su Yuan, did you know we were coming? You're actually here at the door waiting to greet us!"
Furina sounded pleasantly surprised, but quickly answered her own question:
"Haha, I totally forgot—your intel has always been sharp. Knowing exactly when we'd arrive isn't strange at all for someone like you..."
"Su Yuan, what's going on inside the building? I sensed a special kind of power. While it does feel ominous, it doesn't seem to be Eerie energy," Neuvillette said seriously, glancing first at Su Yuan, then toward the interior of Wanmin Restaurant.
"That's not Eerie energy—it's Abyssal power," Su Yuan replied, looking at Neuvillette.
"And the one using the Abyssal power right now… is Lumine, the sister Aether has been searching for all this time."
"But for now, there's no need to worry—she's currently our ally. She's using that Abyssal power to suppress the Eerie-possessed Cloud Retainer."
"The details can wait. Neuvillette, for now, you and Furina need to leave this place immediately!"
"I'm afraid someone may summon strong winds and swirling sand to create a sandstorm, which could trigger your Eerie transformation!"
"Your condition for becoming Eerie-affected isn't rain—it's any weather that isn't clear!"
Seeing the serious look on Su Yuan's face, Neuvillette realized the gravity of the situation.
He gave a nod and replied, "Understood."
Then, together with Furina, Neuvillette transformed into a surge of flowing water and vanished in an instant.
Su Yuan thought to himself, There shouldn't be any major problems now…
The most unstable and potentially dangerous factor—Neuvillette—has left the area...
Now, I can finally take a moment to breathe, regroup with the others, and go over all the new intel we've just uncovered...
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