角色故事•二（解鎖條件：角色等級40）
少女微弱的意識徘徊於黑暗。
前方，是不見盡頭的長夜，背後，似是近在咫尺的歸途。
她向後退，那裏是她熟悉的繁華花燈，故友在遠方呼喚，等待自己重拾商人之業。黑霧自前方湧現，街市轉瞬化作朽木死灰。
她向後退，星槎的甲板於腳下顯現，她欲乘風而上，卻見詭異的星體懸於天空，熟悉之人化作怪物，舉刀相向。
她想如從前那般能言巧辯，此時卻無法對着面前的怪形發出半分聲響。
「只能向前去吧。」她同自己說道。
「但我如何向前？」她向自己發問。
「抬起你的手。」冷冷的聲音從遠方傳來。
她低下頭，看着貫穿於手掌的傷痕。手中捏着的仍是那把摺扇，她記得它於火中成了灰白，但如今它就在那，就在自己手上。
黑霧再次向她席捲而來。
「向前去吧。」
她抬起手來，穿透掌心的傷痕亮起。那光穿透了黑暗，但也照亮了她自己。
「向前去吧。」
她舉起扇子，那乘涼消遣的摺扇如今卻要冒出火來。
黑霧綿延不絕，但她愈是往前，光芒便愈盛。
「向前去吧。」
那冷冷的聲音愈發清晰。
「不要回頭。」
她向前奔去。
「這星海間萬千世界，我還遠遠未看夠呢……」
她的背後，五條絨尾在此刻徹底綻放，化作烈焰照亮了將她困住的漫漫長夜。
實驗室。
少女的指尖微微顫動，一滴晶瑩的淚從眼角滾落。
那位清冷的科學家望向艙內，表情終於有了些許變化。
「恭喜你『選擇』這邊的世界。」
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."
