Into the Dream

Mei understood Robin's confusion and smiled as she shook her head. "Because you chose a different answer here, Huang Quan's response is different too."

"I see..."

Robin nodded and turned her attention back to the game...

"I say, why haven't you..." Huang Quan suddenly paused midway through her sentence, then put on a look as though she had finally realized something.

At the same time, her words turned into red subtitles.

"...Could it be that I went to the wrong place? That shouldn't be possible. Before knocking to disturb you, I checked the room number several times..."

"Could I have mistaken the wing... No, did I get the floor wrong too? Sorry, this hotel is so large, and the corridors all look alike. It's easy to lose your way if you're not careful."

Seeing this, Mei could not help explaining, "See? Those two lines of Huang Quan's red subtitles—"

"How should I put this..."

"Actually, no matter which answer you choose here, it won't be wrong, because..."

"Huang Quan's response is random."

"She might say she went to the wrong room."

"Or she might say, 'Just kidding, this really is your room...' I forgot the exact wording, but she did come specifically to help Star Girl out of that situation."

After hearing Mei's explanation, Robin suddenly understood.

"I get it... But... why is Huang Quan's response random here...?"

Mei nodded. "I can't tell you that, since it involves spoilers. You'll understand after you've finished the story..."

In truth, Mei 2.0 did not know exactly why it had been arranged this way either.

But she guessed... it might be hinting that this dream had been looping all along.

In other words, after the Astral Express crew was wiped out, they had all completely fallen into this dream loop.

And when