Chapter 5: Don't Try to Reason with Babies

　　Even from the perspective of a Trailblazer, the grey-haired girl known by the single word "Star" was an extremely special being.

　　Her artificially created body, her body functions that could easily penetrate an anti-matter army, her battle experience, and her horrible personality that talked to everyone (NPCs) she met as if they were social terrorists.

　　... probably also has a "foul language (option)" that comes out without warning on certain occasions, which doesn't match her valiant face, and an enigmatic obsession with everything on the side of the road (interactables), including bins. and an enigmatic obsession with everything on the side of the road (interactive objects), including garbage cans.

　　During this not-so-long journey, both March 7 and Dan Heng had gained a deep understanding of Stelle's distinctive personality and style of behaviour, and were completely unable to comprehend why this guy had turned into such a handsome person with only his face and body to look at.

　　Of course, being unable to understand didn't mean that they couldn't communicate and get along with each other, and technically speaking, Stelle's strange personality didn't have any bad influence on their behaviour except for the occasional loss of face, plus from a companion's point of view, this guy was really a person that could be trusted and was quite easy to get along with, so March 7 and Dan Heng also let her go.

　　However, among those "peculiarities" that were different from and difficult to be understood by ordinary people, there was one "commonality" that the Pathfinder trio also shared.

　　--That was the "past".

　　Whether it was Dan Heng, March 7, or Stelle, in a sense, they were all people who had lost their past.

　　March 7 had no memory of her past, and even if she wanted to talk about it, she couldn't tell the truth.

　　Dan Heng, on the other hand, had always avoided the vidyadhara Blood Race, and was very secretive about his past.

　　Stelle was simply born not long ago, not to mention whether she remembers or not, even the so-called "past" whether it really exists, she also does not know.

　　After all, the reason why Stelle boarded the Astral express and became a member of the Trailblazers, and followed in the footsteps of Himeko and the others (Akivili) as they travelled around the universe, was not only to prevent the crisis and disaster that the Stellaron in her body might cause, but also, more importantly, to figure out who she really was.

　　Therefore, even though each of the three members of the Trailblazer team had their own distinctive personalities, they would still tolerate and respect each other's styles of behaviour during the journey, and they would understand each other from the bottom of their hearts only on the point of "losing their pasts".

　　It's like three wounded puppies licking each other's wounds, seeking healing and healing each other at the same time.

　　Therefore, when Stelle displayed an attitude of having known each other for a long time in front of the young shop manager, not only March 7, who was already often startled, but also the calm and collected Dan Heng couldn't help but show a somewhat confused expression.

　　After a short period of being stunned, March 7 brushed her body and stood up:

　　"Wait wait wait ... wait! Stelle, shopkeeper, you guys knew each other before?"

　　"Hm?"

　　The young shop manager and Stelle looked at March 7 in unison, then shook their heads in unison with their movements, denying in unison, "No, the shop manager/this Trailblazer-sama and I haven't known each other for a long time."

　　March 7 looked at the shopkeeper whose face was at ease, and then looked at Stelle whose expression was indifferent, and really didn't find any cracks in these two people's expressions, so she could only sit back in her seat sullenly and muttered in a low voice: "Obviously, they both said that they don't know each other ... Then what's with this weird tacit understanding of yours? What's going on?"

　　"Well, how can I describe it ..."

　　The young shop manager turned his gaze towards Stelle, and Stelle turned his gaze towards the shop manager.

　　The young handsome man and woman gazed into each other's eyes without avoiding each other in the speechless atmosphere, and the air seemed to have started to become ambiguous, as if Cupid's arrow of love had struck both of them at the same time --- but it did not.

　　-- Yet it didn't.

　　"This young lady, have you ever played that kind of RPG series with multiple titles?" The corner of the shopkeeper's mouth quirked up slightly, redirecting his own gaze in March 7th's direction.

　　"Huh?" The jump in that topic made March 7, whose brain was already not considered to be bright, a bit confused, "Series ...RPG?"

　　"Well, it should be a little easier for people to understand if you use that example as an analogy." The shopkeeper raised a finger, "RPGs, also commonly known as role-playing games, usually, RPGs belonging to the same series share a common worldview, putting aside the constant iteration of gameplay, they differ only in the stories depicted and the characters played, right?"

　　"That's true ... but why are you suddenly mentioning this?" March 7's head was full of questions.

　　"Nothing, it's just that I thought that using this example as a metaphor should make it clearer for you to understand the relationship between me and this Pathfinder lady." The shopkeeper spread his hands, "To put it simply, although we are not related to each other, and we are not even the kind of 'parallel worlds homunculi' that you are familiar with, for some reason we can be considered as different 'actionable characters' in the Unified Series! ' ..."

　　"Operable characters that can be ... operable?" There were more question marks on March 7's head.

　　Stelle nodded thoughtfully, "I see... ... I would have that strange sense of trust in the shop manager, so it's not because the shop manager used some consciousness aspect to hypnotise me, but because there's still this layer of relationship between the shop manager and me."

　　Dan Heng and March 7's looked at the young shopkeeper at the same time, the sight in their eyes unusually piercing.

　　The shopkeeper's expression froze at once.

　　Feeling March 7th and Dan Heng's line of sight, as well as the coldness and anger that ran out from the kitchen room all at once, the young shop manager wiped away his cold sweat and gritted his teeth as he glared at the expressionless and unselfconscious Stelle:

　　"Wait, why do you think I hypnotised you? What kind of image do I have in your eyes, anyway? I don't seem to have done anything bad to you, do I?"

　　Stelle blinked her eyes and justified her tone as if she was saying something that was taken for granted, "A red-haired sex fiend who goes around messing with girls and then craves my body, a standard light novel protagonist."

　　Without a word, March 7 and Dan Heng stood up and stood next to Stelle, one on the left and one on the right.

　　"Aiya, why didn't you tell us when you met something like this!" March 7th came up to Stelle's ear, her expression a little anxious and a little depressed, "I should have known better than to bring you to this shop."

　　Dan Heng didn't say anything, just silently stood beside Stelle, wordlessly expressing his position.

　　"Hm? Why?" Stelle cocked her own head, looking at March 7th with a slightly bewildered expression.

　　"What for?!!! Oops piss me off, you're at least a cute beauty queen, can you be a little self-protective!"

　　"But I don't hate the shop manager, I also like this shop, why can't I come here?" Stelle's expression grew more and more bewildered.

　　"..." March 7th choked a little at Stelle's pure words.

　　Danheng closed his own eyes and covered his forehead, letting out a long sigh before sitting back into his seat once more.

　　He didn't want to get involved in the shit between these two.

　　The trailblazers of the Stelle Train were obligated to take care of each other, but amongst the contents of those cares were not things of personal feelings.

　　March 7 looked at Dan Heng, who was sitting back down, and then at Stelle, whose bewilderment on her face was growing, and only felt a wave of utter powerlessness welling up from deep within.

　　Seeing that the crisis on this side seemed to have been lifted, the young shop manager twitched the corner of his mouth, he felt the coldness that kept coming out from the kitchen room and was getting more and more prevalent, and let out a dry laugh, "I'm very happy that you can say that you don't dislike me to your own companion clearly, it's just that, can you make it clear to the people on my side that the two of us are innocent of anything between the two of us. "

　　If I don't make it clear, I'll be killed--a look with such deep meaning appeared in the shopkeeper's eyes without saying a word.

　　Then, in the middle of the shopkeeper's eyes that were tinged with anticipation-

　　"Why?"

　　In a malice-free tone.

　　"According to you, the two of us, shouldn't we be the two closest people in this world?"

　　From Stelle's mouth, the most vicious words for a man with a wife were uttered.

　　Uh-oh.

　　The two breaths that suddenly appeared behind him caused the young shopkeeper to tremblingly turn his head back.

　　He looked at luna and Gong Ming who were full of smiles, and on his face, a peaceful smile appeared.

　　Finished.