Chapter 331: Yulie (3)
... The spell—Mana Beam—deployed inside the painting prison with the purpose of reconnoitering the world outside the painting prison, manifested in a slightly different way than Sylvia expected.
Sylvia merely thought of a consciousness connection to put Yulie’s current consciousness into Arlos’s puppet, but Yulie’s diary, used as a medium, caused an overreaction.
To be precise, the memory, mana, and a certain obsession contained in the diary resonated with the spell. That was Yulie—before her memory was rewound—remaining in the diary and contained in Arlos’s puppet, perhaps as part of Epherene’s arrangement.
Therefore, Sylvia was now watching that situation through a crystal orb—the scene of Yulie, who had not yet managed a proper farewell, meeting Deculein and confessing her identity.
“It is complex,” Arlos said.
Next to Arlos, Carla also nodded.
Sylvia turned to look at Yulie, who said nothing and merely looked with wide-open eyes at her former self reflected in the crystal orb.
Sylvia found it concerning, for a decade of time was not something one could easily comprehend through mere indirect experience.
“Yulie, you are free to go and train,” Sylvia said.
“It is fine,” Yulie replied, looking at Sylvia and smiling as if she understood the concern.
Yulie turned her eyes back to the crystal orb once more, and a blue image formed in her white eyes.
“I wish to retrieve the decade of time that has passed.”