The Traveler has been hit, but this time it's not coma, because Paimon is also there; perhaps they were dragged into an illusion together.
Everyone is familiar with this; wasn't the previous island story exactly this situation?
Wait! Island!? Encountering this situation again in Sumeru, does that mean this ability comes from Sumeru? It's the Dendro God!
Because the book has no sound, even though everyone has seen the 'Happy Birthday' PV and heard Nahida's voice, they didn't immediately connect it to the mysterious female voice in the book.
Now, they finally fully react; it seems from entering Sumeru, it's been constantly emphasizing dreams!
Faced with this situation, the Traveler is also quite experienced; leave it to old Lumine to scout ahead.
The Traveler follows the vines forward, entering the plant interior; here the space is huge, emerald plants paired with verdant water flows—even the surrounding flowers seem to glow, quite dreamlike.
As a result, with the Traveler's continued deepening, the scene changes; vegetation disappears, as if in some room, the decorations look like an Inazuma house.
An Inazuma house appears in Sumeru's dream?
Walking further, the scene changes back to the plant interior, but this time it seems inside a mushroom, the scene all turned yellowish.
This back-and-forth switching has the readers completely confused; the previous dreams were someone's state of mind, still traceable—this time, what's the situation?
The scenery inside the plants still has a very Sumeru style, but why is there an Inazuma house interspersed in the middle?
Why not a Sumeru house? Is the Inazuma house about to expire, so hurry to use it?
Just puzzled, another page turn—the illustration turns into the Inazuma side's house again.
Outside the house's terrace, blooming cherry blossoms can be seen—quite beautiful; the rock garden scenery also has distinct Inazuma characteristics.
As the Traveler observes, the beautiful scene before her eyes actually turns into a 'canvas,' from a real scene into a flat painting.
Although still beautiful, it's really inexplicable; the readers completely can't figure out what's going on.
It was Sumeru before, why intersperse Inazuma in the middle? What's the relation between these two? This time is it the Traveler's dream?
Can't understand, fundamentally can't understand; this dream is really like a dream—chaotic, completely illogical.
Rarely has the Traveler eaten mushrooms too? Or that little cucumber has mushroom abilities; even without eating, one glance and you're hit?
If saying this is the Traveler's state of mind, it's still reasonable; after all, she's been everywhere, so big spans in dream scenes aren't impossible.
But then, not appearing Mondstadt and Liyue is very strange; with the Traveler's experiences, it wouldn't just be Sumeru and Inazuma switching back and forth.
At this time, the readers can't understand, because how would they know this situation appears because of Scaramouche.
This illusion is a bit like communicating with a 'god'; theoretically, a dream venue with vegetation appearing is normal.
The reason Inazuma houses also appear is because Scaramouche's memories are influencing here.
Those houses are places Scaramouche once went to; that house is precisely his 'Shoukan Pavilion.'
Although the Traveler's resistance control isn't good, her willpower is overly strong; completely immune to these mind-influencing things.
Therefore, during this process, the Traveler will feel even more inexplicable, because she isn't affected.
For Haypasia, it's different; this has a big impact on her, which is also why in the future she'll become a Scaramouche believer.
During her first communication with the 'god,' errors already appeared.
In the story, the unaffected Traveler continues exploring; she returns to the plant interior again, this time encountering a deepwater Abyss apostle.
Enemies meeting particularly red-eyed, the Traveler goes up and fights.
But strangely, this guy simply can't be killed; he jabbers a bunch of words, roughly 'your brother has already abandoned you,' 'you won't find your brother.'
'You'll die here,' 'you can't do anything' and such.
This is exactly what Lumine worries about; in Lumine's heart, she's still very afraid of being abandoned by her brother.
So Lumine anxiously questions, but before she can finish speaking, she opens her eyes and is back in the cave; everything just now seems like a dream—waking up, still very moved for a long time.
[At this time, Paimon comes back and says: "Lumine, what to do? We looked everywhere outside and didn't see any trace of Haypasia."]
Familiar swallows returning! So Paimon just arrived? That means the time of the hallucination was actually even earlier!
So the Paimon in the dream was all illusion! This is truly a terrifying and realistic dream.
So, 'since when did you get the illusion that I wasn't using Mirror Flower Water Moon?'
Everyone thought the Traveler reunited with Paimon before both got hit by the illusion; unexpectedly, it was actually earlier.
Then isn't that when the little cucumber disappeared? He did it? His ability is also related to dreams? Then what's his relation to the Dendro God?
The readers' hearts are full of doubts; only Nahida is watching very happily.
From the perspective of knowing everything, watching the story—Nahida understands Lucian's joy.
Looking at the puzzled appearances of those around her, their various reactions eager to know the truth, their sincere eyes seeking answers—Nahida seems to know why Lucian didn't tell her the truth.
Fortunately, the readers can endure; anyway, reading the prophecy book is like this—originally from not understanding to gradually understanding; Shikikan will tell us everything.
Continue reading; the Traveler plans to wake the dreaming Haypasia, but discovers the brought bento box has at some point fallen to the ground, food scattered all over.
This is even worse than letting Paimon hold it; half less is better than all on the ground—this is muddy ground.
But no matter, Haypasia didn't see it, right? Didn't see, then pretend it didn't happen.
Anyway, when feeding her, she won't know again; not clean or dirty, eat without getting sick—come on, brothers! Clean and hygienic!
Alright, the Traveler doesn't do this; after waking Haypasia, she feeds her the fruits by the bedside, which also restores some strength.
["Mm... who? Is it Tighnari... ah!"]
Tighnari didn't come, but the Traveler brought Tighnari's bento, and Tighnari's letter.
["Haypasia, don't worry; it's Tighnari who sent us to deliver food to you. Look, this is the letter he wrote to you," Paimon.]
Haypasia: Gave me the letter, then where's the food?
Don't mention the pot that's not boiling; the food has already turned into spring mud to nourish the earth.
The Haypasia in the story still thought the food the Traveler brought was those fruits.
Actually not; the Traveler is also curious how she starved to fainting when there was food to eat, so Paimon helps explain:
["These fruits weren't brought by us; they were already here when we came in earlier."]
The mouth of the gods voices everyone's doubts; these fruits were clearly always here—how did you starve to fainting?
Could it be you don't eat fruits?
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Character Voice Line · Citlali: About the Prophecy Book
"Who says I don't like it? I clearly like this kind of adventure story a lot! Don't tell me you think I only read romance novels!"
"What I don't like is him always cutting off at strange places!!"