(Heartfelt thanks to 'Kaede no Chōrei', 'Icebound Thunder Dragon', 'Youcai Luobo', 'Lei Xiang', 'Yuezuki Tatsuha', and 'Yan Yu Jiangnan' for their rewards!)
Giant Beast Forest, City of Different Eras...
"AAAAAH—!"
In the top-floor hall of the Heart of the Eras, a gap hovered in midair at the very center. An exceptionally shrill scream suddenly echoed from within it, and combined with the grotesque, terrifying eyeballs inside the gap, it made the atmosphere incredibly eerie.
A closer look revealed that the scene playing out within the gap suspended in the center of the Heart of the Eras' top-floor hall was Black Bat being swallowed by the Yamai sisters' El Kanaph, Ikaros' Apollo, and Mikoto's Railgun, letting out a desperate scream before being torn to pieces.
Seated on the sofa directly before the gap, watching the scene displayed inside as though she were watching television, Purple held a paper fan in one hand, habitually concealing the lower half of her face and covering everything below her nose. A trace of amusement flashed through her eyes as she rose to her feet.
"Bzzzz—!"
A gap suddenly split open before Purple like a doorway.
Under the gazes of those grotesque, terrifying eyeballs, Purple calmly stepped into the gap. As it closed, she vanished from the hall of the Heart of the Eras.
"Whoosh—!"
A breeze mixed with traces of battle aura and magic power drifted through the surroundings, raising clouds of dust and grit. It swept through this space, over the gently swaying green leaves, across the immaculate platform, and past the great trees standing before and behind the platform, each radiating a faint, gentle green glow.
At the center of the platform, a palm-sized transparent vortex spun rapidly, its outline covered by a ring of dim light. One person stood in each