Zeka appears on the floor, face sticking through the surface, being slowly crushed by the mysterious gravity.
crack.
The surface cracks like a glass sound, and Zeka falls to the other side.
Surprisingly, Liora was also falling at the same time.
Both of them decided to hold each other's hands without a single thought.
As they fall, they hit multiple floors one by one.
A crash by crash, and hit follows hit.
And Genseki appears out of nowhere, leaving no choice but to hold Zeka's hand. He also wanted to hold Liora's hand to make a complete circle, but Liora didn't even try to catch his hand; her loyalty to Zeka is just on another level.
Three of them are still falling into the nothingness, as it starts to get brighter.
The brightness hits their eyes, forcing them to close.
After falling for something that felt for hours.
The three are floating over a bright surface with the half circle they made.
Akari and her sister Kaguya appeared standing on the surface with Hayaru and Hayato on the other side.
Took you long enough.
Let's take a little break, shall we?
Akari says with a confident tone.
The scene fades to them in a small circle, sitting on the bright ground in a little circle like kids do in kindergarten.
So do you guys remember, ANYTHING from your past?
Akari asks, and the rest shakes their head with no.
none of them remembers anything before they enter the dream world, and somehow only Akari remembers, maybe because she entered this place before?
Basically, we are in the dream world or what known as, Truth revealer...
While Akari tries to explain, none of the team understand a single word from her.
And even though they don't remember anything, they feel they saw each other somewhere before, except for Kaguya, she's completely different than the rest.
Kaguya looks at them and the back to herself.
what if my powers is just magic?
she says in her thoughts trying to understand whether this power is an myth power like them or just a magic book they produced?
eventually all of the team decided to not trust Akari. simply, they don't know her and they don't remember her, and all of them don't even know what is going on.
surprisingly, Akari didn't react, she just smiled.
it was the exact same thing she did when she entered this place before.
even when they said they don't trust anyone, Liora looked... different?
she seems like she knows what's going on but she just go along?
the team went separately except for Liora, she followed her "master", and yet acting like she's actually lost.
While they all went through the bright place with no goal or destination. Akari and Kaguya stayed still without moving much, they didn't follow, nor tracking, just standing there.
But Kaguya was jealous of how clingy Liora is to Zeka. she had the urge to just follow them but Akari stopped her.
What are you gonna do? follow them? we are still in the dream world, we have to finish it first.
Akari says to her younger sister, but Kaguya refuses.
she just want to know what are they doing anyways.
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Flashback
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Kaguya were trapped in her own world, her escape where she can enjoy her presence. the dream world.
everytime something happens in the wrong way she just fix it in her world, as if trying to erase what happend but that doesn't changed the reality.
one day Akari came back from the laboratory explosion with her team, Kaguya were watching from side to side but she didn't want to break the deal which is not showing up no matter what, why? because she might end them up in the dream world by accident that would take alot of sanity and loss of memories inside there. there's five stages of the dream world. the first stage is the Turth revealer.
which shows that person's memories and whether he'll end up in a happy life or a chaotic life.
the second stage is the illusion of reality .
they go through a maze, see their own body dissolve, and run from things that doesn't exist.
the third stage where every person who got affected by the dream will meet. or what known as what is my identity? stage, where the characters meet a mirror and see themselves after years depending on how far the mirror is from the center.
And then the fourth stage, where it shows every possibilities of the exact situation they want to change. or the Failure of realities, stage.
And lastly and the most brutal stage, The nightmare[1], stage.
where every single memory they got is the worse stage in their life. every second they pass here is like going crazy, but slowly.
after that they get out of the dream world as if nothing happend, the catch is getting out alive or atleast not crazy.
While this is for everyone who enters the dream world, Kaguya is the only one who got permission to enter this world and change whatever she wants. whether go through a brutal memory or a happy life. she can get out of the dream world easily but she cannot break it, if she left, those who got affected would have to go through those five mentioned stages. [2]
[1] Lasts for only 10 minutes
[2] Truth revealer, illusion of reality, what is my identity?, failure of reality, the nightmare.