"You really are a fussy person."
By accident, Trixie had actually blurted out her inner thoughts.
"...Are you here to pick a fight?"
"Trixie doesn't want to fight with you! Someone as stubborn as you, when you fight, you surely just talk on and on by yourself, completely ignoring how the other person is reacting, and then you just run off by yourself without listening to any explanations."
Trixie raised a finger, speaking with reason and evidence.
"Think about it, not only are you dying of grievances, but the other person definitely isn't feeling much better than you."
"You say she's aggrieved? You didn't see how high and mighty she was when she twisted all my efforts and value! She definitely never considered me a frien—"
"Take this!"
Trixie suddenly pulled a peanut butter cookie out of her pocket and stuffed it into Sunset Shimmer's mouth, interrupting her overly emotional narration.
This sudden feeding almost choked Sunset Shimmer, and who knows how long this peanut butter cookie had been in her pocket; it had gone stale and felt mushy in her mouth.
"Even the smartest people have moments where they speak without thinking, especially you'smart people' who consider yourselves superior. You know? We magicians love to fool people like you because, as far as magic is concerned, you are the easiest to fool."
Taking advantage of the gap while Sunset Shimmer couldn't speak, Trixie laid out her own logic for her.
"As everyone knows, so-called magic is about using blind spots to create illusions. Your situation is just two smart people, each with their own self-consistent logic; it's hard to say who is right or wrong, so neither of you can realize where your own problems lie."
"The Great and All-Powerful Trixie is not interested in how you hurt each other back then. Your problem now is that while you say you hate her, you are very reluctant to let go in your heart. Fortunately, I have a way to help you solve your trouble."
Trixie chose to skip the plot points that weren't important at the moment and pointed directly to the core of the problem.
"What way?"
"Just make a phone call, talk to her, and clear up the misunderstanding, isn't that enough?"
Hearing this, Sunset Shimmer rolled her eyes.
She had just thought Trixie was wise in a foolish way, but now she felt that was just a hallucination caused by her own muddled head.
She must have spent too much time with Trixie, causing her IQ to drop; she had actually felt a glimmer of expectation for Trixie's solution just now.
"Of course, considering your difficult personality, if you really had the guts to call back, you wouldn't be wearing a sour face all day."
As Trixie spoke, she reached out her hand toward Sunset Shimmer. Sunset Shimmer looked at her action, not understanding what she meant.
"It's rare for Trixie to graciously offer to help you, could you not be so dense? Fortunately, she is only your friend and not your girlfriend, otherwise, a person like you would be better off staying single."
Realizing that even to this day, there was still no rapport between her and Sunset Shimmer, Trixie's originally spirited face fell.
"Give me your phone, I'll call her for you."
Trixie thought that to be friends with a tsundere like Sunset Shimmer, the other person's temper, even if not a saint, would at least be like Fluttershy's. Telling her that Sunset Shimmer had actually been missing her secretly all along would probably make her so happy, and she might immediately rush over to ambush the tsundere.
In reality, Trixie's guess was pretty much spot on, but due to an information gap, her idea wouldn't be so easy to realize.
Sunset Shimmer gave Trixie a deep look, then turned her head away, unmoved.
"I deleted her number."
Where would she get Aurora's phone number? The only thing she had to contact Equestria right now was the diary she was holding in her arms, and she wasn't even sure if her message could cross worlds to reach Equestria.
"Sunset Shimmer, my grades in grammar class are average, can you tell me what the phrase 'you reap what you sow' means?"
Under Trixie's scornful gaze, how could Sunset Shimmer not hear that she was being sarcastic?
But she couldn't tell her that she was a pony from a magical world; they didn't have technological products like cell phones there, and even her own number had only just been activated a while ago.
Seeing Sunset Shimmer's aggrieved and sulky look after being mocked, Trixie felt secretly satisfied while also sensing something was wrong.
She knew that Sunset Shimmer was smart enough to rival the top students at Crystal Prep Academy; even if she had really deleted her sweetheart's contact information in a fit of anger, she probably would have memorized the phone number by heart long ago.
"What a crafty..."
She had almost been fooled by Sunset Shimmer; to find an excuse for her own avoidance, she really could make up any reason.
Having calmed down, Trixie knew that just by chatting dryly with her here, it was impossible for Sunset Shimmer to clear her thoughts in one night.
After all, thinking back on the conversation, Sunset Shimmer had said almost nothing; Trixie had figured it out entirely through her own intelligence, and she had guessed most of it correctly.
"As expected of me!"
Trixie curled the corner of her mouth, feeling that she was still too great and omnipotent. If a stubborn person like Sunset Shimmer hadn't met her, how would she be getting by?
The school gate at night was particularly desolate; after all, almost all the students were partying in the gymnasium, and only kind-hearted Trixie would be here keeping the unsociable Sunset Shimmer company in the cold wind.
Fortunately, the weather wasn't that cold yet, otherwise, no matter how good-hearted Trixie was, she wouldn't be willing to stay here.
"Although you look pitiful in your aggrieved state, I still have to remind you of one thing. Since it's a fight, you definitely aren't the only one who got hurt."
Trixie paused, tentatively glancing at Sunset Shimmer's reaction, then continued.
"I don't know the specifics of your situation, but since you don't want to just let it go from the bottom of your heart, then give each other a chance. Maybe the other person had some unspeakable difficulty? But you just stated your opinion and walked away, showing no mercy; isn't that also a knife stuck in her heart?"
Although Sunset Shimmer is smart, she seems truly simple; at least her feelings and thoughts are mostly written directly on her face.
Watching Sunset Shimmer's expression gradually become stunned, Trixie's eye twitched. If she had guessed even this correctly, then she had to say that Sunset Shimmer's move was truly ruthless.
However, Trixie was here to counsel Sunset Shimmer and make her cheerful, not to turn her from grievance to guilt, or to jump from one kind of internal friction to another.
So, Trixie suddenly changed the subject.
"Look on the bright side; perhaps this isn't entirely a bad thing."
"What do you mean by that?"
"If you had never lost her, how would you know how important she is to you?"
"..."
Sunset Shimmer wanted to retort, but stopped herself. She seemed unable to find the words to respond to this sentence for a moment, and Trixie didn't give her the chance to negate her.
"By the way, you aren't planning on sitting here all night, are you? How about going back to the gymnasium to eat something first?"
Looking at the neon lights shining through the gymnasium windows, Trixie felt even more that the two of them sitting here being stubborn was simply too stupid.
"Uh... you go back first, I still need to... ponder the content of the letter."
Struck to the soul by Trixie's words just now, Sunset Shimmer was still a bit dazed. She subconsciously refused Trixie's invitation, while opening her notebook to show a sense of busyness, indicating she had other things to do.
"Paper letters? You're quite traditional."
In this day and age where everyone has a cell phone, a method of communication like Sunset Shimmer's handwritten letters is quite rare.
"Then don't take too long, otherwise I'll have to call Rainbow Dash and the others to come over and 'invite' you."
Trixie stood up, brushed off her skirt, gave Sunset Shimmer a few words of advice, and left. Words reached here; the rest depended on Sunset Shimmer's own realization.
And not long after Trixie left, the diary emitted a magical glow, and handwriting belonging to Princess Celestia appeared on the blank page.
It seems that even across worlds, the diary can still convey messages to each other.
However, after seeing the content of Princess Celestia's message, Sunset Shimmer showed a look of surprise.
The good news is that judging from the wording, Princess Celestia's mood is stable; at least her running away didn't completely enrage The Grand Princess.
The bad news is that although only two months have passed here, several years have already passed in Equestria.
Although Sunset Shimmer knew that the time flow between the two worlds was vastly different, the actual gap still exceeded her expectations.
This truly feels like a lifetime away.
In the moment Sunset Shimmer was stunned, Celestia continued to write.
Although Sunset Shimmer hadn't mentioned a word, no one knows a daughter better than a mother; Celestia still wrote the things Sunset Shimmer hadn't asked about into the diary.
"Have time to come back and take a look; she misses you very much."
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