[Jing Liuli's Memory Fragment: City Park, Late Summer Afternoon]
The late summer wind carried the scent of grass and sunshine, making the plane tree leaves in the park rustle.
Little Liuli held a rapidly melting cotton candy and ran happily across the lawn, like a little rabbit.
"Daddy, look, my cotton candy is trying to fly away!"
Her eyes curved into crescent moons from smiling, and she hadn't even noticed the sticky sugar threads of the cotton candy on the corner of her mouth, clearly having a wonderful time.
Not far from Little Liuli, a middle-aged man in a plaid shirt watched everything with a mixture of helplessness and doting affection.
In his hand, he held a newly bought ice cream, and slung over his shoulder was Little Liuli's favorite light purple backpack.
Not wanting Little Liuli to run too far, the middle-aged man quickly walked over to her side, crouched down, and meticulously wiped the sugar residue from her face with a tissue, reminding her, "Liuli, slow down, don't fall."
Hearing her father's words, the innocent Little Liuli acted as if she hadn't heard him. As soon as her father finished wiping her mouth, she immediately chased after a butterfly in a distant flowerbed.
However, her little legs were running a bit too fast, causing her not to notice a discarded watermelon rind someone had left on the grass.
Whoosh!
Little Liuli stepped on the watermelon rind, instantly losing her balance and tumbling straight toward the grass in front of her.
She closed her eyes in fright, her small hands tightly clutching the cotton candy, her heart filled with the panic of "the cotton candy is going to be ruined."
But the expected pain never arrived. Instead, it felt like she had fallen into a soft cloud. A warm, invisible force held up her body, gently placing her onto the grass.
Although she wasn't hurt, her cotton candy did fall onto the grass and was coated with a layer of dirt.
Little Liuli looked at the dirty cotton candy, her mouth curled down, and tears streamed down like broken pearls. She burst into tears with a wail—
"Waaah!!! My cotton candy c-can't be eaten anymore..."
Hearing his daughter cry, the middle-aged man quickly ran over and hugged her, gently patting her back.
"Don't cry, don't cry. Daddy will buy you another one, even bigger than this one, okay?"
The middle-aged man spoke while pulling a tissue from his pocket, carefully wiping away Little Liuli's tears and dirt, and brushing the grass clippings from her skirt.
Only then did he manage to soothe this little crybaby.
Afterward, the middle-aged man held her hand and walked towards the concession stand at the park entrance.
The movie screen lingered on this heartwarming father-daughter scene for a moment, then shifted, turning to the intersection outside the park fence.
At that moment, the pedestrian light was green, but a small boy with short, silver-white hair did not cross the road with the flow of people. Instead, he stopped and looked into the park through the fence.
That was Tendo when he was young. His black eyes, which hadn't yet undergone the Star Core surgery, lacked the liveliness of a child his age, instead holding a profound depth far beyond his years.
He watched Little Liuli, who was being led away by her father on the grass. As if watching something intriguing, he murmured, "So, there are others besides me who can unconsciously use this power?"
The moment Little Tendo finished speaking, Little Liuli, who was being led by her father in the park, seemed to sense something. She suddenly turned her head to look in the direction of the road.
But just then, the pedestrian light turned red, and traffic surged onto the road.
This blocked her view and concealed Tendo, who was waiting at the crosswalk.
An interesting little Easter egg was the sight of two small figures peering out the car window of the first private car that drove by.
The young Chen Xing had not yet developed her future coldness and maturity. She was excitedly pointing at the cotton candy stall in the park and talking to her younger brother, Chen Kong, completely unaware of Tendo by the roadside.
When the traffic passed and the green light returned, Little Liuli had already been taken by her father to buy new cotton candy. Only the dirt-covered cotton candy remained on the grass.
Tendo withdrew his gaze, crossed the street as if nothing had happened, and walked in the direction of his home with his backpack. His small figure quickly disappeared into the crowd at the end of the street.
Although Tendo's words were cryptic, for the dimensional audience who had watched two seasons of Stars, they immediately understood why Tendo said this.
They clearly remembered that the most important reasons why Liuli, the little lazybones, could rank NO.3 among the monster-filled Children of the Stars were two-fold: First, she, like Tendo, was one of the few with max-level congenital Star Energy.
Second, she was also one of the few among the Children of the Stars whose Star Energy control precision reached 'S+'.
'S-rank' represents the limit, and 'S+' represents surpassing the limit.
Little Liuli's innate, absolute control over Star Energy allowed her to treat it as a part of her body.
Using it was as simple as breathing; it required no conscious thought.
It was precisely this method of Star Energy control, which was virtually linked to her 'subconscious,' that made her the most promising 'Dream Mirror Star Envoy' in the history of the Children of the Stars and even the entire New Federation.
After all, not everyone could turn the use of Star Energy into their 'instinct' like she could.
The Dream World is like a 'mirror': reality is outside the mirror, and the dream is inside the mirror.
Most people can only perceive their self outside the mirror. Only someone like Jing Liuli can dominate the self behind the mirror.
Watching the backs of Little Tendo and Little Liuli as they each headed home in the scene.
The comments on the dimensional screen became lively again.
'Tendo was so perceptive even as a child! He saw right away that Liuli was using Star Energy. What monstrous observation skills!'
'I'm starting to understand the Stars production team's pattern. Every time these memory arcs appear, they are supplementing and perfecting the character settings for the Children of the Stars!'
'Chen Xing's memory arc highlighted her 'battle talent' and 'intuition.' Tendo's memory arc highlighted his 'overclocked computation' and 'Tendo Cells.' Judging by this, Liuli's memory arc is highlighting her exaggerated 'Star Energy control.''
'To be able to subconsciously use Star Energy to protect herself when in danger? Liuli's talent truly makes her a born Dream Mirror Star Envoy.'
'I'm suddenly curious about what NO.5 Ye Shenrin's ability is. That emotionless girl ranks even higher than NO.7 Jeremiah.'
'If I remember correctly, she appeared twice in the first season. Once, she teamed up with Chen Xing and Chen Kong for the final assessment, and another time, during the year-end fireworks, she teamed up with Chen Xing and others to destroy the last Star Monument.'
'The publicly available information states that Ye Shenrin's fighting style is similar to a ninja's, advocating for efficiency above all else. Perhaps this very philosophy of hers is related to some inherent talent.'
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