Bronya naturally wouldn't give in. She resisted the pull of gravity.
She hesitated, her steps unsteady, her head held high.
"In your eyes, Bronya sees only fear and cowardice."
"Cowardice? You're kidding! I'm stronger than anyone!" Welt sneered.
But Bronya didn't care at all. She continued.
"You're not strong at all. Bronya has seen many stronger people."
"Even when disaster strikes, she faces it with courage..."
"Even when despair overwhelms the sky, she fights with her will..."
"She's only human. Bronya knows her confusion, her bewilderment, the pain and sorrow she's experienced along the way..."
"But Bronya also knows that no matter how far she travels, she will always uphold her responsibilities..."
Bronya recalled the dazzling figure in her memory, a hint of sadness in her eyes. But her words didn't stop.
"...She's still the hero who protects hope!"
Welt, confused by what she was saying, coldly retorted, "I don't know what you're talking about!"
"Of course you don't. You're just a complete bastard."
Bronya sneered, her tone calm, yet filled with resoluteness.
"Bronya is different from you, and will never become like you!"
At the end, she glared at Welt with utter conviction.
"...You don't deserve the name 'Welt' at all."
"Shut up! You know nothing about Welt... or me!"
Welt was completely broken by what Bronya had said, and, in a state of exasperation, he shouted.
"Star of Eden, tear her apart!"
The circling Star of Eden didn't respond, but instead fell silently.
Amidst the childish whisper... Bronya had mastered the power of the Star of Eden.
"Bronya knows... much more than you do."
Responding to Welt's final words, she held the incredibly heavy Star of Eden in her hands.
"The Star of Eden... 0th Power—Liberation!"
The burst of light marked the end of the image.
No one knew what the outcome would be.
But, judging by Bronya's subsequent success as the Herrscher of Reason, it was at least not a bad one.
With everyone feeling heavy-hearted and unsure what to say, the reward box for solving this puzzle fell from the sky, slamming heavily to the ground.
This time, it didn't hit Fu Hua... though it did get very close.
The appearance of the Homu Box brought everyone's attention back.
The Anti-Entropy team exchanged glances before handing the question over to the person who had answered it, Einstein, who had never opened a box before.
Einstein's luck wasn't bad; it was a golden light.
But...
She looked at the box that appeared after opening it, somewhat bewildered.
"Perhaps it's something like the ELF Supply Box?"
Hearing Theresa's suggestion, Einstein instantly remembered the box that had previously revealed Water's Edge and Tesla Zero.
Perhaps this was the same box.
Tesla, standing nearby, frowned as she gazed at the box Einstein had opened. She felt a sense of familiarity, as if she had seen it somewhere before, but her memory was too vague to place it.
Einstein didn't know this; she simply assumed it was an ELF, so she opened it again.
The moment she opened it, Einstein's expression froze.
It wasn't because there was anything shocking inside.
She was shocked because...
There's nothing here!!!
Einstein stood up, looking at the empty box with a look of astonishment.
Hey, hey, hey, what's going on? She put so much effort into opening a box, and you just give me an empty one?!
This damned Q&A platform... could it be that they've learned something from some unscrupulous game manufacturer back in Shenzhou?
Just as Einstein was furious, Tesla tugged at her shoulder.
"Hey, hey, hey, Mophead, does this box look familiar to you?"
Hearing Tesla's words, Einstein instantly calmed down. She squinted her eyes and took a look at the box's exterior.
And you know what, she actually felt a sense of familiarity.
Then, a figure flashed in her mind, and she instantly remembered it.
"...Isn't this her box?!"
Realizing where she'd seen this box before, Einstein was a little surprised.
Tesla folded her arms and glanced at Einstein. "Well, I went to see that woman when she was doing that experiment, but it wasn't very interesting. After all, I'm in applied technology... Mophead, you're more into her field, right?"
Einstein and Tesla were talking here and there. St. Freya was naturally bewildered, so it's general brain, Mei directly intervened.
"Who are you talking about?"
It wasn't something to be kept secret, so Tesla was quite open about it.
"Well... it was a former colleague of ours. You should have met her before."
Seeing St. Freya's puzzlement, she sighed.
"She was the one who came to the rescue in the part where Bronya became the Herrscher of Reason and went to fight Kevin together."
"Her name should be quite well-known to the outside world."
"Erwin Reanna Schrödinger—a leading figure in quantum mechanics."
"I heard from Mophead that Mei seems to be doing well in quantum mechanics, right? You should have heard of her name."
Mei nodded. Although quantum mechanics was only a part of her initial research, she was undoubtedly a rising star in quantum mechanics and naturally recognized this somewhat famous veteran.
Actually... even if it wasn't quantum mechanics... the name Schrödinger was widely known around the world. Even Kiana had heard of it.
Upon learning that the rescuer was Schrödinger, she couldn't help but be surprised.
"So that person is the infamous cat abuser, Schrödinger?"
During her wanderings, she had the opportunity to learn about Schrödinger's cat, a classic quantum mechanics story.
Of course... with Kiana's limited learning ability, she had no idea what it was all about. She simply assumed that Schrödinger had nothing better to do and was just having fun persecuting an innocent cat.
Kiana actually liked cats, so she wasn't particularly fond of this cat abuser.
"Pfft... cat abuser?"
Hearing this term, the usually serious Einstein couldn't help but smile and whispered.
"Indeed, the story Reanna is spreading about is probably about the experiment known as Schrödinger's cat, right?"
"Could this box be..."
Mei listened to this, looked at the box, and guessed something.
Einstein nodded. "...Yes, that's right. This is exactly the box that Reanna used in her experiment."
"But that's not quite right."
"Because Schrödinger's cat is actually just a hypothesis."
She refuted the rumors in the name of the cat abuser.
"Reanna certainly wouldn't have used a real cat for her experiment back then. Such an operation wouldn't make sense in the macroscopic world."
"This box was just a random metaphor Schrodinger used when she came to her conclusions."
Tesla knew all this, but precisely because she knew it, she quipped, "It's just an ordinary box, okay... at most, it's a little more durable and sturdy."
Einstein's expression froze.
Yeah, all that talk...
What does it have to do with opening a useless box?!