What caught everyone's attention about Aranara was the butterfly bow on its head—a blue butterfly bow, the same as on Rana's head.
Readers also noticed that Aranara calls humans "Nara something something."
For example, Lumine is Nara Lumine, Paimon is Nara Paimon, Rana is called "Nara Rana."
This awkwardness truly made Iron Tongue Tian sweat—storytelling for so long, finally the test for me has come, huh?
If I've sinned, let the Lord punish me—don't make me read these damn names!
Setting aside Iron Tongue Tian's despair, others discovered something: this "Nara" seems to mean "human"?
The golden-haired Nara that Rana mentioned before... could it really be Lumine's brother?
In the story, Aranara told the Traveler that to save Rana, she needs to go to "Vanarana" to get the "Bija."
Entering "Vanarana" requires the "Melody of the Great Dream."
This string of terms made readers' heads a bit dizzy—good thing it's a novel; places not understood can be reread.
Anyway, readers at least understood one thing: Rana can still be saved!
If she can be saved, then it's still a heartwarming and pleasant story!
After understanding, everyone felt saving Rana isn't hard—just go to "Vanarana," right?
And this "Bija" can treat people affected by the Withering—such a good thing, why not get a few more?
At worst, the Traveler takes ten; Aranara reports a hundred.
Whether more can be gotten is uncertain—the Traveler has to go see first.
To enter "Vanarana," singing is needed. The Traveler's music level is a bit "pain for kin, joy for foes," so she plans to use an instrument to complete the task.
Back to Vimara Village to borrow an instrument from Grandpa Amurta—Grandpa Amurta really has one, a token from a wandering bard years ago.
[Paimon: "Mm! We'll return it to you, Grandpa Amurta! Thank you!"]
She says they'll return it, but in reality, things borrowed by the Traveler are like those borrowed by Jackie Chan—basically borrowed but never returned.
After borrowing the instrument, the Traveler sets off—into the water!
Boarding a small boat and rowing along the river, this trip feels relaxed and pleasant.
The illustrations in the book are even more beautiful—like the opening of a fairy tale; the scenery is much more dreamy.
Albedo: It's filters—I added filters.
This feeling is quite nice—anyway, now that readers know Rana can be saved, they're quite relaxed; looking at the scenery feels like they've toured too.
Believe in the Traveler—as long as there's salvation, she'll definitely save; just treat it as already saved, future salvation.
Everyone now is very leisurely, so they have the mood to listen to Paimon's analysis; Paimon begins her analysis.
After analyzing for half a day, Paimon's conclusion is surprisingly that Aranara kidnapped the kids—it lured them into the forest; as for sending the kids home...
[Paimon: "Aranara punches the kids flying, flying them to the village. Because Aranara's punch is very strong, they get shocked and remember nothing..."]
Lumine: "..."
Lumine looked speechlessly at Paimon beside her—too embarrassing for this "owner"! School! Must send you to school!
Today must make you study properly at the Akademiya—even if you learn nothing, learning to cook two dishes for me would be fine.
Can only say there's an idiot—I won't say who, but she's white, floats, has a halo on her head, money in her shoes.
Fortunately, Paimon in the story isn't completely stupid—after saying her analysis, she couldn't hold it in herself and overturned the conclusion.
Paimon's new conclusion: Aranara is the one protecting the children; just don't know why make them forget.
This conclusion is much more normal—also the analysis result of most readers.
Soon the small boat rowed near "Vanarana"—ashore!
Entering "Vanarana," everywhere are round houses; plants aren't big trees but look more like huge "lotus leaves."
Walking here gives the feeling like one has shrunk—like in Lilliput, senses novel, as if becoming the protagonist of a fairy tale.
Only, no one in the houses; even stranger, clearly no one but the houses are brightly lit.
Each house has a flower lamp—brightness astonishing.
This is good stuff—many merchants saw business opportunities.
As room lighting, this flower lamp is beautiful, space-saving, no energy consumption—this thing is too magical; can bring some back?
Unfortunately no—can't go and dismantle the little Aranara's homes, right?
The Traveler explores in "Vanarana," walking deeper to see a "wooden door," planning to play the Melody of the Great Dream here.
And at a high place the Traveler didn't notice, a cabbage leaf secretly peeks out.
The Traveler didn't notice, but it's drawn in Lucian's book—after all, the Traveler is just the main perspective, not omniscient; readers' perspective is broader.
Although the Traveler in the story didn't find Aranara and didn't notice the cabbage leaf up high, she could feel the gazes around.
Feeling gazes isn't some magical ability—Iron Tongue Tian now feels it very much.
The Lord's gaze is a bit too hot—hot enough to overshadow others' gazes; he can feel the Lord's expectation for him.
But Iron Tongue Tian looked at the content behind the book and couldn't help swallowing.
In this life, have you ever risked your life for someone?
It's time to repay the Lord's grace! Absolutely won't fail the name of Iron Tongue! Bearing the name of Iron Tongue, I can't lose!
In fact, if given more preparation time, Iron Tongue Tian believes he could smoothly explain all the awkward words in the book.
The problem is, for hype, he always stories immediately—basically scans once on the spot, then reads while speaking—all technique, no emotion.
So encountering this now is karma—still time to play the emotion card?
Compared to Iron Tongue Tian's suffering, the Traveler is much more at ease—anyway, she has the Mouth of God; what's to worry about.
Take out the instrument, play the Melody of the Great Dream, collect Seeds of Phantasms to offer, play the Melody of the Great Dream a second time.
Although played twice, what tune the Melody of the Great Dream actually is—readers still don't know; this well protects Aranara from harassment.
The Doctor is the one who feels it's a pity—he's full of curiosity about Aranara.
If he knew what the Melody of the Great Dream sounds like, maybe he could catch one or two for research.
Unfortunately impossible—if really curious, can go to "Vanarana" and sing "The sky doesn't rain, the sky doesn't wind, the sky has the sun~"—maybe lure something out.