Beneath the night sky, the Dream City began to crumble and collapse inch by inch from its edges. Skyscrapers toppled with thunderous crashes, pedestrians stepped into shadows, and cars drove into darkness. Then everything fell into the ever-spreading, dark and fathomless Mirror World.
"I actually failed to trick any strange people into coming in this time... Looks like those 'great existences' are quite certain the forces inside the barrier will prioritize dealing with the 'Oldest One,' rather than use this as leverage...
"Heh, I'll try again next time."
Driving the black taxi, Amon watched the darkness spread toward him and muttered a few words silently. He adjusted the monocle over his right eye, then his expression froze, and he fell into the void along with his car.
Adam rose from a pew in the Prayer Hall beneath the church. Roselle gazed fondly at his daughter in a luxurious villa. Amanises reluctantly put down her phone in a high-rise apartment...
Their expressions changed as well, as though they had lost their souls. Then darkness swallowed them along with everything around them.
Only when the city, collapsing like a chessboard, had gradually shrunk, its residents stepping into the shadows one after another until only the supermarket shrouded in darkness remained, did the dream's disappearance slow.
Sensing that his other marionettes had "gone offline," along with the warning stirring deep within his spirituality, Klein released Angel from his embrace and asked:
"Is the dream about to end completely?"
Still dressed as a student, but with her expression restored to the one Klein knew, Angel murmured an affirmative. She looked around, her eyes flickering, then said a moment later:
"The other dreamwalkers have all left. We still have a little time before the dream ends."
*After waking up, she seems to have become the