I'm in Honkai: Star Rail, and the Players are Going Feral Over Me!

Chapter 367 - 28 - Gently Awaken the Sleeping Heart

Welt had only learned about the memory restoration issue by chance, overhearing Fu Hua mention it herself at a gathering. Otherwise, he would never have known about this part of her story.

Of course, even if Welt hadn't thought of it, Wende would have stepped in to help her regardless. Fu Hua's memories were indeed crucial. Only by helping her remember again, by restoring those memories that had been burned away, could the path forward become much smoother.

As for following the original old path? Apologies, but the moment Wende first arrived in the Honkai world, the world had already been altered—albeit altered for the better overall.

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Fu Hua was puzzled when she walked into the infirmary. Her instincts told her something was wrong, but before she could react, Stelle, who had appeared behind her at some unknown moment, smacked her on the back of the head with a baseball bat.

Thwack!

Fu Hua collapsed to the ground without a sound.

"?"

"Um, actually, you didn't need to hit her..."

Tingyun said to Stelle with some embarrassment. How had she not noticed Stelle lurking there...

"Huh? Didn't you say we were helping the Class Rep recover her memories? Don't we have to put her to sleep first?"

Stelle scratched her head, realizing her actions might have been a bit presumptuous. Although she and March had been forced to experience life as students for a while, they had barely attended any classes. Still, she had a strong impression of this Class Rep Fu Hua!

But then again, why could Dan Heng be a teacher and she couldn't?!

Smack!

Wende slapped a hand over his own face. Should he not have called Stelle over in the first place?

"Sigh, fine. This actually makes it easier to work. I'm going in."

Phantylia, however, seemed completely unconcerned. Her entire body transformed into a cyan-yellow flame and merged into Fu Hua's body.

"Hmm... This isn't too difficult. But there's a curious little thing inside her body. It seems she can store memories, even her consciousness, in here? Truly astonishing. If the Xianzhou had something this good, they could probably cure the Mara-Struck condition for good."

Phantylia's voice emanated from Fu Hua's body. She seemed to have discovered something interesting, clicking her tongue in amazement as she spoke to the group.

"It's not hard to crack this thing. Let her sleep. When she awakens from the dream, she will have returned. However, for her, this dream will be very... very long. Even if only a single night passes in the outside world, she will need to stay in the dreamscape for... many years? Hundreds, thousands of years? It's impossible to say for sure. Even knowing this, do you still wish to awaken her memories?"

"..."

Welt fell silent. He had always held an attitude of respect for this warrior from the Previous Era, but this decision... was not his to make.

"It seems we have no other options. As it stands, we need a warrior like Fu Hua. With her complete, our progress will accelerate significantly," Joachim offered his opinion.

"There is actually another way," Phantylia proposed a different plan after a more detailed probe of Fu Hua's condition. "We could have her recall things slowly, playing fragments of major events within her dreamscape. That way, she might not have to experience those long years all over again."

This seemingly ordinary mortal possessed a depth of memory greater than most people Phantylia had ever encountered, its sheer weight comparable to that of some Emanators... It was hard to imagine such an existence could be found on this unremarkable planet.

Even though the lifespan of beings across the cosmos had been magnified to the point where a century was but an instant, due to the influence of certain existences, they would ultimately succumb to time...

Compared to a predetermined death, time... was always the thing long-life species feared most. They feared not knowing its breadth, feared not knowing how much of their own time was left.

And the woman before them... the length of her remembered time was simply too vast... so vast that a long-life species from the Xianzhou could fall into the Mara-Struck state twice over in that theoretical time. To make her relive all her memories again in a dream... frankly, Phantylia wasn't sure if she would go mad on the spot, or be targeted by something in this world and become an existence like the little girl next to Wende.

"In that case, let's use the second plan. If she were to experience it all completely again... I can't imagine the amount of willpower that would require."

Welt shook his head and chose the second option. If they didn't want the [Herrscher of Sentience] to appear so soon, or for the final moment to arrive so quickly, it was better to let her remember things gradually.

Although, the Herrscher of Sentience could also be an asset.

"Very well. I have already integrated the deeper memories from her brain into her dreamscape as fragments. She will slowly remember everything over the coming period."

Phantylia's form emerged from Fu Hua's body, circled Tingyun once, and then returned to her host.

Due to the [gift] from a certain existence, she was currently unable to remain separated from Tingyun for too long. It was a truly uncomfortable feeling.

"Then let's call it a day. I'll go call Kiana and the others to take Fu Hua back."

Joachim nodded, then took out his phone to call Kiana.

Seeing this, the others also left one after another, unaware that within Fu Hua's consciousness, a single black feather had suddenly appeared among a sky full of crimson feathers......

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At Schicksal Headquarters, Otto fell into deep thought as he looked over the report submitted to him. Anti-Entropy had been making major moves recently, not only removing Cocolia from her position as an Executor but also unearthing some rather thought-provoking things...

Coupled with the recent news from St. Freya, it seemed... the heavens were about to change.

But he was not in a hurry. Or rather, this was something he had already foreseen.

Something foreseen since the day the game Honkai: Star Rail began to spread like a virus...

The envoys of [The Trailblaze] would descend upon this world, a world on the verge of being riddled with scars, and they would bring hope. It was like believers praying for gods to send down angels to help them through a cataclysm...

However, when the [Honkai] became a minor trouble that could be easily solved, what then would be the real crisis they had to face? Was this world prepared to step onto a much vaster stage?

Clearly not. But this was an opportunity. If he missed this step, he would miss his last chance to possibly bring "her" back...

His vision was far more long-term than others, but as the Fool, his final goal remained unswerving.