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I started the AQ, what a start!! The beginning is so good!
And it looks like they really did allow us to quit when we want to! I’m just at the beginning, so I hope it’s not going to change, but so far, there were a lot of “breaks” where it was possible to leave the AQ. I will try to progress a little bit, maybe not every day, but several times a week if I can. So I can finish during the patch without burn out.
Also the title… 身土坏空，五蕴识转. I know all the characters, I have no idea what it means.

Made some progress today. It’s funny that there’s a storm in the novel, and we have heavy rain here irl.

I finished chapter 3 and I’m halfway through!
There was a passage that contained medical explanations, I did not understand everything that was said, but enough to follow, so it’s fine.

… At double pity… It was a complete disaster… double pity, lost to Dehya and only got Prune C1… Nicole, why??
I love her, her animations are so beautiful! Given that I haven’t pre-farm, building her will take some time, but she will mainly go in Xiao, Kinich and Lyney’s team I think, and I might also try melt Ganyu, though this would mean redo her build.
Also, I’m someone who never explores with the compass (except for the limited Summer maps), but now that I have Nicole, I feel like using it.

I only got C1 Prune despite going double pity on Nicole’s banner. I’m glad to have her, though I don’t know if I’m really going to build and play her. because I have no idea which teams she would fit in. I’m going to build Nicole first in any case.

I started the third story, 宗像與鋼筆事件, and I absolutely love the beginning. It’s written under the pen name 中田永一, and I believe it’s the pen name the author used mostly for romance? (I’m not entirely sure). I thought the story would differ completely and be an entirely different style, but so far it feels similar to the previous one, 山羊座的友人, with a similar setting and topic (school bullying).

Chapter 3 is so great!! I wish I could read more today, but I don’t have time and I’m super tired.
And, I was able to change the font again! I don’t why it didn’t work last time, but this time it let me change the font for the main text, not just the letters and other stuff that have a different font.
I hate fonts that have horizontal strokes lighter and thinner than vertical strokes, especially if it’s so thin it’s barely visible. And minus point if they have serif (or the equivalent of serif).
But now I could choose the 華康青花黑體 font, same weight for all strokes, super uniform, nice thick black strokes without those decorative little triangles at the end of horizontal strokes. Simple and easy to read, I love it, it’s perfect!

I might have added too many words today… It’s so easy to add words with my new system compared to Anki, but I don’t have a cap of new words per day, maybe I should add that… At the same time, it’s so easy to review words now, and I see them multiple times in different contexts, so flashcards are much easier to go through. But 30 new words today already is a lot.
Though to be fair, they are not all strictly speaking new words, some are words I don’t know that well and I’m afraid I might forget them if I don’t add them to my flashcards (so for example, words that were in Anki but for which I often hit “again” or “hard”.)

,,, I’m not sure I loved Nicole’s demo trailer all that much…
Still looking forward to tomorrow I’ll just pull one copy, no weapon. I recently decided to not pre-farm for new characters because I find it fun to build them slowly, actually farm their materials with them and see the performance increase. So nothing is ready for her, I don’t even know what materials she needs
I’m looking forward to exploring with Nicole, I still need to unlock the compasses of the new regions though (I think her ability only works if we already have the compass?)

Qin, from the prologue was also a roommate from medical school, and now the beginning of chapter 3 mentions two other roommates, so they were at least 4. I thought it was a lot already, but now the narrator mentions they actually were 6 in a room.. that’s a lot!

I finished 山羊座的友人, this short story was absolutely fantastic. The author has such a talent to make us care deeply for the characters.
But this story really amazed me, because I thought it would mostly be focused on characters, but it turns into a real mystery where clues lead to deductions which then lead to an unexpected ending. It’s really an amazing short story!

Only a few pages today, I’m really sleepy and tired. And the weather is so hot already, I can’t stand it anymore and it’s just May…
The passage I read also described characters enduring Southern Taiwan’s hot weather, so I could easily relate.

The story took an unexpected turn to say the least!

I finished working on Corvus’ voicelines. I’ll do Rubuska next. I’m working my way in reverse given that the audio of the recent characters is not available on the wiki yet. I don’t know exactly when they will be, maybe when the character becomes standard? I only do characters I have.
I guess I should also study Corvus’ kit… R1999 character kits are such a pain to read and fully understand.