Happiness, or a Fatal Ailment
Last updated 2026-07-16
Happiness, or a Fatal Ailment is a sub-mission of Trailblaze Mission The Generative Grammar of Liquid Modernity in the chapter So Laughed the Masses.
Steps
- Investigate the giant flower
- Face Fulwish and refute her perspective
- Defeat Fulwish and stop her plan
- This is...
- Talk to Evanescia
- Defeat Fulwish again in the second battle
- Watch Sparxie's stream
- Team up with your companions and put an end to this farce
Dialogue
Investigate the giant flower
Mission DescriptionThe blossoms on the branch are not always a blessing of rebirth. Sometimes, they are but poisonous thorns in disguise.
Regaining her composure amidst lies and deception, she discovered it was all nothing more than a crude joke dedicated to the Fools.
Thus, from the ashes and despair, a flower of evil blooms.
- Sequence 21According to Fulwish, after the Herald of Death incident, she received care and support from many people around her. With everyone's encouragement, Fulwish regained her hope in life and considered herself the pride of Arcadia.
- (Approach mission target)
- Dan Heng: That giant flower...
- Blade: ...is the true owner of the mask.
- Fulwish: Haha... Hahaha...
What are you laughing at?- Haha... Hahaha...
- Fulwish: Life is short, why not smile more? We are all recipients of Aha's blessings.
- Fulwish: Seeing how ghastly everyone looks, let me tell one last joke.
- Fulwish: On that bloody evening fifteen years ago, a student covered her mouth and hid in a broom closet, watching as her friend was smeared across the blackboard like paint.
- Fulwish: After she was rescued, she couldn't go home. The adults brought her two small boxes. Her parents were inside.
- Fulwish: From then on, she lived inside a wardrobe, until a granny from the mutual aid society knocked on her door...
- Fulwish: "Child, you have to come out. There are so many others like you..."
- Fulwish: "We can help each other pick up the pieces, bit by bit."
- Fulwish: Did that child find a way out? Yes, and thank goodness.
- Fulwish: Every day, she received letters of encouragement filled with smiley faces. She returned to school, spending her days and nights with new friends.
- Fulwish: People held her hand and said, "Go get 'em! You're the pride of the arcadia."
- Fulwish: And I said, "That's right. I am the pride of the arcadia."
Face Fulwish and refute her perspective
- Sequence 22However, all of this was nothing more than an Elation show meticulously orchestrated by Seafeld TV for Fulwish. As the unwitting star, Fulwish set a new ratings record for the program Please Be Happy.
- Producer: Click! That's the one! The perfect "tearful smile"!
- Producer: Where are the cameras? What are you doing hiding in the back? Get in here! We need to capture every single detail!
- Teenage Girl: I don't... quite understand.
- Teenage Girl: I understand everyone wants to document happy moments for me, but...
- Teenage Girl: Why are there so many cameras?
- Cameraperson: ...Mr. Collier, you're getting too excited. You let the cat out of the bag.
- Producer: ...No big deal. We can edit it in post.
- Teenage Girl: Post? Edit? What are you talking about...
- Cameraperson: ...Fulwish, congratulations.
- Cameraperson: Just moments ago, you conquered every last viewer! Ratings for the elating show Please Be Happy just hit an all-time high.
- Producer: The investors made the call immediately and green-lit the budget for the next three seasons! Cast members, and especially you, Fulwish, great work! You are the pride of the arcadia!
- Teenage Girl: What... did you say?
- Teenage Girl: So... the people who helped me... Uncle August, Miss Bai... were they all actors?
- Teenage Girl: But I... my tears, they weren't fake at all...
- Producer: "The Inspirational Girl Who Survived the Herald of Death Tragedy." A one hundred percent true story. That's exactly the effect we're after.
- Cameraperson: Remember to look at the camera, superstar. Give us another smile!
- Sequence 23Upon learning the truth, Fulwish suffered an emotional breakdown and received her Fool's Mask. To destroy the Phantasmoon Games, she used Happiness Syntax on herself to activate the Shuhu cells within her body.
- Fulwish: That night, she locked herself in her room again.
- Fulwish: She turned away from every camera lens, hoping for just one person — anyone — to offer a sincere apology.
- Fulwish: But in the end, she received only a feather-light package. Guess what was inside?
- Ashveil: A Fool's Mask.
- Fulwish: Correct, but not quite. There was a note behind the mask, and it read...
- Fulwish: "The way you cried, you looked like a complete joke."
- That's no excuse for hurting the innocent.
- (Trailblazer): You want to demand an apology from the world of fifteen years ago? That doesn't give you the right to hurt innocent people.
- Fulwish: No. I'm trying to become the joke everyone expects me to be.
- So, you made yourself into the aggressor?
- (Trailblazer): You want to demand an apology from the world of fifteen years ago? You're the one who's become the aggressor.
- Fulwish: How could that be? I merely turned people into actors in front of the lens... That is all.
- Fulwish: Gods are fools, mistaking malice for mirth. Mortals are shams, masking malice with mirth.
- Fulwish: So, my dear Supplicants, go ahead...
- Fulwish: "I know! You just want to turn me into a mindless monster too, don't you!?"
- ...What? Wait!
- Sunday: Don't engage her! The camera is on us...
- Dan Heng: Did she... implant Shuhu's cells into her own body?
- Fulwish: Viewers... I knew it! They're trying to frame me! Soon, I'll lose my mind.
- Fulwish: But I will never yield! For the first time in my life, I will speak words of Happiness to myself.
- Fulwish: O Laughter! I will spit... right in your smiling face!
- Fulwish: I want to see... When a mortal destroys the elating show you've been amusing yourself with...
- Fulwish: Will you still be able... to laugh?
Tooltip for 18px|link=ⓘ Sequence 24After putting on the Supplicant's mask, Fulwish transformed into the "Paramount Bliss Inverted: Illwish Archlotus." "O gods, let everyone never stop laughing! Is this as you wished?"- (Cutscene begins)
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- Fulwish: A gift from the Elation...
- Fulwish: I shall create a never-ending Phantasmoon Games—
- Fulwish: O gods, let everyone—
- Fulwish: Never stop laughing!
- Fulwish: Is this... as you wished?
- (Cutscene ends)
Defeat Fulwish and stop her plan
- (Begin battle against
Paramount Bliss Inverted: Illwish Archlotus ×1) -
- Fulwish: Supplicants from beyond the sky! If this game never ends...
- Fulwish: Will you ever find happiness?
- Sunday: She wants the game to go on forever, looping inside an undying deadlock...
- Dan Heng: Stay focused. Don't let Shuhu assimilate you.
- (Trailblazer): Even so, there are still people rooting for us...
- (Trailblazer): Must... find her weakness...
- Fulwish: Let us laugh... into eternity!
- Fulwish: The climax of the comedy... How could it be complete without you, The Protagonist?
- Fulwish: Come, receive this blessing!
- (Battle ends)
- Tooltip for 18px|link=ⓘ Sequence 25Fulwish's attack knocked you from the tower's peak, and as you fell, the snarling Phantasmoon opened its jaws and swallowed you whole.
- (Cutscene begins)
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- ???: That's it?
- ???: So weak...
- ???: Don't stop now! I haven't had my fill yet...
- ???: Kill her! Kill her! Kill her!
- (Cutscene ends)
- ...
This is...
- Sequence 26You found yourself in the Phantasmoon Courtyard under Evanescia's scrutinizing gaze. She noted that of her only three awakenings in the past millennium, two were because of the "exceptions" brought by the Nameless.
- Evanescia (?): Another Nameless.
- Evanescia (?): I have awakened only three times in a millennium. Two of those instances arose from the "exceptions" you brought.
- Sequence 27The Evanescia before you wasn't the one you knew. She was here to deliver punishment for Fulwish's transgression. By her hand, all Joy Ascendants would merge into one and would undergo a return to Yaoshi. But to save the innocent, you tried to convince Evanescia to let you defeat Fulwish head-on in the Phantasmoon Games using the people's Wishpower — even if bearing their wishes would change you. But that didn't matter. A journey was bound to change a person anyway. What matters is what I want people to see when they look at me.
- You're... Evanescia?
- Are you here to help?
- Evanescia (?): No. I have come to pass judgment.
- Evanescia (?): Fulwish's transgressions have been judged by the Phantasmoon. Now, I will return everything to its proper course.
- Its proper course...? What does that mean?
- Your tone is ice-cold. What are you planning...
- Evanescia (?): It is simple.
- Evanescia (?): By my hand, the Joy Ascendants will return to the embrace of the Master of Immortality. Even if Shuhu were to rise again, the outcome would be the same.
- They'll all die? That is absolutely unacceptable.
- The winner isn't decided. No referee needed yet.
- (Trailblazer): The contest between Fulwish and myself is still undecided. It's not time for the referee to step in yet. Besides...
- You're not Evanescia. Who are you?
- (Trailblazer): Dragging two hundred thousand innocent people to the grave... I can't accept that.
- Evanescia (?): Innocent?
- Evanescia (?): The "innocent people" you speak of are willingly offering up their Wishpower to the enemy, driving you into a corner.
- Evanescia (?): I can see it clearly. Their support for Fulwish, and their hostility toward you... it's all from the heart.
- (Trailblazer): ...
- (Trailblazer): So what if it's true? As long as there's still someone out there who has hope, I won't give up.
- Evanescia (?): Indeed. In Aha's games, right and wrong are of no consequence.
- Evanescia (?): So you must understand: Everyone you save today could just as easily turn around and spit on someone else — or perhaps even you — tomorrow.
- Evanescia (?): On the Path of Elation, humor and cruelty hold equal strength. Fulwish bested you because she granted all living beings the right to "mockery."
- Evanescia (?): Mocking you, her, even themselves. Mocking everything disappointing about this arcadia. As you can see, people have chosen the "masks" she offered.
- Evanescia (?): To think a mere game could change the world... That is nothing but a fantasy.
- I'm not arrogant enough to think that.
- People will take off their masks on their own.
- I'm not listening to all these riddles.
- (Trailblazer): I only believe one thing: People are disappointed in the world because they want it to get better.
- (Trailblazer): And I can show them... that someone will always step up.
- Evanescia (?): You don't even have a decent mask.
- Evanescia (?): But... You seem to be hiding an interesting ace up your sleeve.
- Evanescia (?): If you allow that Wishpower to surge into you unchecked, you'll end up just like Fulwish... tainted by it, losing your sense of self.
- Evanescia (?): And how can you be certain that you won't be changed by the Elation?
- (Trailblazer): ...
- (Trailblazer): It doesn't matter. A journey is supposed to change a person.
- I've seen the general who doesn't disappoint
- (Trailblazer): Not everything needs a reason...
- (Trailblazer): Since we're already here, we might as well give it our all.
- And the genius who leads the stars
- (Trailblazer): I don't need to give an answer. I just need to keep moving forward.
- (Trailblazer): Those who gaze upon my back will find the answer on their own.
- The crystal flower that embraces the world
- (Trailblazer): Even if the world isn't kind to us, that's okay.
- (Trailblazer): As long as I don't forget, there will always be someone to remember the meaning of a "smile."
- The watcher of the river of forgetting
- (Trailblazer): Even if it is meaningless, I must still do all that I can...
- (Trailblazer): Because the decision isn't mine to make... It belongs to the people watching me.
- And the sun destined to rise
- (Trailblazer): ...There is no need to question your heart, no need to crave victory.
- (Trailblazer): All I know is that Fulwish's actions... fill me with rage!
- (Trailblazer): It doesn't matter who I used to be.
- (Trailblazer): What matters is what I want people to see when they look at me.
Talk to Evanescia
- Step DescriptionPink-haired fox?
What's she doing here?
Wait a sec, she looks different from before...
- Step DescriptionWell, she is clearly no ordinary high school girl.
Talk to her and think of a way to thwart Fulwish's scheme.
- Sequence 28Evanescia thought you were overly arrogant, but this had also earned you Aha's favor. Evanescia agreed to give you three more minutes. She asked you to defeat Fulwish in the manner befitting of a Supplicant.
- Evanescia (?): You know something? You're far more arrogant than you realize.
- Evanescia (?): But if you aren't mad enough, how could you ever earn THEIR favor?
- Evanescia (?): It seems...
- Evanescia (?): Even in the darkness, there's a light that still shines for you.
- (Trailblazer): ...The glow sticks from Star Rail FEST?
- Give me three more minutes.
- Check back in three minutes.
- Evanescia (?): Why three minutes?
- (Trailblazer): Because three minutes is all you need to believe in the light.
- Evanescia (?): Childish. Using glow sticks as weapons... That's certainly a first.
- Evanescia (?): Then, the pact is sealed.
- Evanescia (?): Phantasmoon above and sacred tree below, witness this oath at this moment. As constant as I am, as certain as your ascent, let it be never forsworn—
- Evanescia: You're up, "protagonist."
- Tooltip for 18px|link=ⓘ Sequence 29The people's Wishpower surged into you, causing the Raccoon Mask you once wore to crack and fall apart. With the Stellaron within your body as a vessel, you absorbed it all and recast the mask. "The hero makes a dazzling entrance!"
- (Cutscene begins)
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- ???: You got this!
- (Trailblazer): No matter what kind of wish...
- (Trailblazer): I'll accept it... and I'll change it...
- (Trailblazer): With the "self" beneath the mask, I'll show them—
- (Trailblazer): The hero makes a dazzling entrance!
- (Cutscene ends)
Defeat Fulwish again in the second battle
- Step DescriptionBet you did not expect this, I am back!
No one has the right to stop everyone from "continuing" the story!
In three minutes, let us "erase" that "period" from the script.
- (Begin battle against Paramount Bliss Inverted: Illwish Archlotus ×1)
- (The Trailblazer in your team switches to the path of Elation)
- Fulwish: Back on stage? That was quick...
- Fulwish: Just who exactly is the undying monster here!?
- (Use Elation Trailblazer's Ultimate)
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- Ashveil: Where'd you pop up from, (kid?/
little lady?) - Dan Heng: Your wound... are you alright?
- (Trailblazer): I'm good. Actually, I've never been better!
- Ashveil: Where'd you pop up from, (kid?/
- (After Multitudes Support takes action)
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- (Trailblazer): Do you hear that, Fulwish? The voices calling for me to defeat you...
- (After Elation Trailblazer's turn)
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- (Trailblazer): This one is for Skott!
- (Trailblazer): And this one's for Cinderborne and the Daybreak Squadron!
- (Trailblazer): And this one! This is for everyone you've tormented!
- Fulwish: Using the Stellaron to siphon the people's Wishpower?
- Fulwish: That's the Cancer of All Worlds for you! Using one disaster to snuff out another!
- Fulwish: Hahaha... Skott? Who? Who are all these people!?
- Fulwish: Laugh! Laugh! LAUGH!
- Fulwish: Descend into a blissful hell!
- (Battle ends)
- Tooltip for 18px|link=ⓘ Sequence 30Fulwish lashed out with her branches in a sudden attack, and Ashveil seized the opening to counter. With your companions fighting alongside you, you leapt into the air and delivered the fatal blow against Fulwish.
- (Cutscene plays)
- Sequence 31Fulwish fell still, but Planarcadia's conversion to the Abundance hadn't stopped, and the situation was on the verge of spiraling out of control. Just as everyone was at their wits' end, Nihilux's voice came through the broadcast.
- Fulwish: I'm sorry, my dear viewers...
- Fulwish: In the end... I still couldn't protect this arcadia...
- (Trailblazer): The people have made their choice. You've lost.
- (Trailblazer): You don't know what their "wishes" are.
- Fulwish: ...
- Fulwish: I don't know. And I don't care.
- Fulwish: So slow... It would only take the Herald of Death an instant to kill me...
- Fulwish: But it took Planarcadia fifteen whole years...
- Sunday: ...She's dead.
- Blade: The one responsible for all this... and yet she gets to just drift away into death.
- Ashveil: Left us with a massive headache to boot.
- Ashveil: You haven't forgotten, have you? The real crisis is only just beginning.
- Dan Heng: If the Abundance transformations continue, this whole world will be reduced to a demonic star...
- Silver Wolf: It's worse than that. The moment Fulwish died, the internet went into a total meltdown.
- Silver Wolf: She was planning to go for broke from the very start. She didn't leave us any way out.
- ...
- Sunday: The situation is already spiraling out of control. At this rate, it's only a matter of time before a third and fourth wave of disasters hit...
- Blade: That's enough.
- ???: "Um, I know this is sudden—"
- ???: But all eyes on me, please!
Watch Sparxie's stream
- Step DescriptionSparxie? She is still streaming at a moment like this?
Some people just love to watch the world burn.
Wait a second, the person appearing on the stream is actually Cinderborne from the Daybreak Squadron!?
- Sequence 32In Sparxie's livestream, Cinderborne encouraged the public to take action and join the rescue efforts, while Nihilux told everyone to pull themselves together in the face of disaster. Otherwise, she'd draw their cowardly faces into her comics. The people of Planarcadia hadn't given up on saving themselves.
- Cinderborne: "I am... Cinderborne of the Daybreak Squadron. I'm currently borrowing Miss Sparxie's livestream channel."
- Cinderborne: "Everyone, please, listen to me! It's not time to despair just yet!"
- Cinderborne: "All this time, Fulwish has been deceiving everyone and rigging the game. It was the Nameless who stopped her, and even now, they're still trying to stop the disaster from spreading..."
- Cinderborne: "We can't just sit around waiting to be saved! Supplicants aren't the only ones capable of miracles. We can rely on ourselves to make our wishes come true!"
- Cinderborne: "I'm assisting with the rescue efforts in Seafeld City! To anyone who can hear my voice, please, take action immediately..."
- Cinderborne: "Keep your phone lines open and conserve your battery! Tell your friends and family, tell everyone around you... there is still hope!"
- Cinderborne: "The Daybreak Warriors are with you! All rescue forces are en route to Seafeld City!"
- Cinderborne: "And— Blurry, would you like to say a few words as well?"
- Nihilux: "Hi! Hello everyone, I'm the author of Fluffy Across the Blue, Blurry_QR_Colt."
- Nihilux: "So, pull yourselves together! Or else I'm totally drawing your scaredy-cat faces into the comic!"
- Nihilux: "Speaking of comics, The Fluffy's latest update, 'Audience with the Divine! The Planarcadia Volume,' is complete! The release date is set for..."
- Nihilux: "...Uh, who are you?"
- Zhongshan: "I'm your attending physician! What did you promise me when you were discharged!?"
- Sparxie: "What a thoroughly entertaining comedy sketch! Well then, chat, that's a wrap for tonight! Byeee—"
Team up with your companions and put an end to this farce
- Step DescriptionCinderborne... It is truly a relief to see him find his footing again after that tragedy.
That is right. "Planarcadia" was never meant to be a place for tears of sorrow. Because there will always be someone who still believes in justice and ideals, someone who looks forward to hope and tomorrow.
- Sequence 33To put an end to the disaster, Blade proposed drawing Shuhu's flesh onto himself. To increase the plan's chances of success, Sunday offered to use tuning to help Blade and all the victims maintain their sanity. In the name of the Synwish Syndicate, Sunday used his tuning to send a request to the people of arcadia, calling upon everyone to offer up their "fear."
- Blade: It seems this world is not completely "incurable" yet.
- Sunday: Don't tell me... you have a plan?
- Blade: ...Gather the scattered flesh and blood of Shuhu into my body, and I will command it as Fulwish did.
- Blade: Maybe... there's still a chance to turn this around.
- Dan Heng: You're insane! You want to let that thing gather in one place to rise from the ashes?
- Dan Heng: We must not repeat the mistakes of our past lives.
- Silver Wolf: I knew it. You just couldn't resist pulling a big stunt.
- Blade: I am the only host capable of maintaining my sanity.
- Silver Wolf: Without the Spirit Whisper, I'm not a hundred percent sure I could restrain you...
- Sunday: But what if... there was someone who could perform thought tuning and control you? Would that improve our odds?
- Ashveil: Halovian kid, don't do anything stupid. Do you have any idea how many infected people there are?
- Ashveil: Can you control the thoughts of hundreds of thousands? You're just adding one more victim to the list.
- Sunday: Mr. Ashveil, there will always be people who do stupid things.
- Sunday: I've been wondering something for a while now: How did Planarcadia get its name? Just like Penacony, the surface is all glitz and glamour, but underneath, the currents churn violently.
- Sunday: But now I understand. Stasis can never bring happiness. Here, all answers are accepted, and all possibilities are allowed.
- Sunday: People's wishes collide, shattering along with this arcadia. But just like all shattered worlds, there is a light here that will never go out.
- Sunday: I once sought to put an end to suffering, and for that very reason...
- Sunday: Today, I hope to have the opportunity to Trailblaze the path ahead for them.
- Sunday: People of the arcadia, I, the exile Sunday, hereby reveal my identity to all of you.
- Sunday: On behalf of the thirty-three martyrs of the Synwish Syndicate, I humbly beseech you:
- Sunday: Please, for the sake of this warrior, offer up your fear.
- Sunday: There is no need to suppress it, nor should you feel ashamed. Please, face your fears. For only the truest of emotions can save this arcadia.
- Sunday: I will weave your desires into a lifeline. This will be an arduous "synchronized wish," a triumphant hymn that transcends the flesh and blood of the Abundance and sounds throughout the arcadia.
- Please, give us your Wishpower!
- (Trailblazer): Please, give us your Wishpower!
- Silver Wolf: Put an end to this farce.
- Ashveil: O Skybow... Please do not cast your gaze here.
- Dan Heng: May the tragedies of the past never be repeated.
- There's still hope!
- Tooltip for 18px|link=ⓘ Sequence 34Through Sunday's tuning, all Shuhu cells across Planarcadia surged toward Blade, driving him into a struggle against the Shuhu within his body. He nearly lost control, but Dan Heng stepped in just in time to help. In the end, Blade absorbed them all. Shuhu's giant tree form manifested, and Silver Wolf altered the parameters of reality to compress it into Blade's body.
- (Cutscene begins)
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- Sunday: Sweet dreams always come to an end.
- Sunday: This time... I will defend everyone's right to feel pain!
- Blade: The time has come, Shuhu—
- Blade: With my death, I bury you!
- Dan Heng: That which began because of us...
- Dan Heng: You and I... will end this together!
- Silver Wolf: Nice. Before it fully wakes up...
- Silver Wolf: I'll end this game with a single parameter.
- (Cutscene ends)
Trivia
- "Because three minutes is all you need to believe in the light" is a reference to the typical transformation length of the Ultras on Earth in the Ultraman franchise.
- The battle against Paramount Bliss Inverted: Illwish Archlotus bears a resemblance to Episode 45 of Ultraman Tiga, "Eternal Life," which features the plant kaiju Gijera.
- The cutscene of the Trailblazer following the Path of Elation bears a resemblance to Episode 52 of Ultraman Tiga, "To the Shining Ones," the final episode in which Madoka Daigo transforms into Glitter Tiga.
- The battle against
Other Languages
| Language | Official Name |
|---|---|
| English | Happiness, or a Fatal Ailment |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 幸福，或致死的疾病 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 幸福，或致死的疾病 |
| Japanese | 幸福、あるいは死に至る病 |
| Korean | 행복, 혹은 치명적인 질병 |
| Spanish | Felicidad o enfermedad funesta |
| French | Bonheur, ou maladie fatale |
| Russian | Счастье или смертельный недуг |
| Thai | ความสุขหรือโรคร้ายถึงตาย |
| Vietnamese | Hạnh Phúc, Hoặc Căn Bệnh Hiểm Nghèo |
| German | Glück oder eine tödliche Krankheit |
| Indonesian | Kebahagiaan, atau Penyakit Mematikan |
| Portuguese | Felicidade, ou uma Doença Fatal |
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