角色故事•二（解锁条件：角色等级40）
少女微弱的意识徘徊于黑暗。
前方，是不见尽头的长夜，背后，似是近在咫尺的归途。
她向后退，那里是她熟悉的繁华花灯，故友在远方呼唤，等待自己重拾商人之业。黑雾自前方涌现，街市转瞬化作朽木死灰。
她向后退，星槎的甲板于脚下显现，她欲乘风而上，却见诡异的星体悬于天空，熟悉之人化作怪物，举刀相向。
她想如从前那般能言巧辩，此时却无法对着面前的怪形发出半分声响。
「只能向前去吧。」她同自己说道。
「但我如何向前？」她向自己发问。
「抬起你的手。」冷冷的声音从远方传来。
她低下头，看着贯穿于手掌的伤痕。手中捏着的仍是那把折扇，她记得它于火中成了灰白，但如今它就在那，就在自己手上。
黑雾再次向她席卷而来。
「向前去吧。」
她抬起手来，穿透掌心的伤痕亮起。那光穿透了黑暗，但也照亮了她自己。
「向前去吧。」
她举起扇子，那乘凉消遣的折扇如今却要冒出火来。
黑雾绵延不绝，但她愈是往前，光芒便愈盛。
「向前去吧。」
那冷冷的声音愈发清晰。
「不要回头。」
她向前奔去。
「这星海间万千世界，我还远远未看够呢……」
她的背后，五条绒尾在此刻彻底绽放，化作烈焰照亮了将她困住的漫漫长夜。
实验室。
少女的指尖微微颤动，一滴晶莹的泪从眼角滚落。
那位清冷的科学家望向舱内，表情终于有了些许变化。
「恭喜你『选择』这边的世界。」
Character Story: Part II
• Unlocked at Character Level 40
The young girl's fragile consciousness drifts through the darkness.
Ahead lies an endless night, while behind her, the path home feels just within reach.
She steps back into familiar ground, where bustling lanterns glow and the voices of old friends call to her from afar, urging her to return to her trade as a merchant. Before her, black mist creeps in, turning the once lively market instantly into rotting wood and dead ash.
She steps back again, and the deck of the starskiff appears beneath her feet. She longs to ride the wind upward, but a strange astral body looms in the sky, and the people she once knew become monsters, raising swords against one another.
She wishes to be as articulate as before, but now, facing monstrous forms before her, not a single sound escapes her lips.
"I'll just have to move forward," she whispers to herself.
"But how?" She asks herself.
"Raise your hand." A cold voice echoes from afar.
She lowers her gaze, eyes tracing the scar that pierces her palm. The fan still rests in her hand, though she remembers it turning ashen white in the fire. Yet here it is — whole again in her hand.
The black mist surges toward her once more.
"Go forward."
She lifts her hand, and the wound that pierces her palm begins to glow. The light cut through the darkness but also illuminates herself.
"Go forward."
She raises the fan — Once a source of leisurely comfort, the fan now threatens to burst forth with flames.
The black mist stretches endlessly, but the more she moves forward, the more the light intensifies.
"Go forward."
That cold voice is growing clearer.
"Don't look back."
She runs ahead.
"I haven't seen enough of the countless worlds in the starry seas..."
Behind her, five fluffy tails completely unfurl, igniting into fiery flames that cast light into the long night that ensnares her.
The laboratory.
The young girl's fingertips tremble slightly as a crystal-clear teardrop slips down the corner of her eye.
The aloof scientist peers into the cabin, and her expression shifts at long last.
"Congratulations on 'choosing' the world on this side."
