This is...
Slowly opening his eyes, Chiba saw an even gentler radiance than that of the pure-white room gradually enter his vision, illuminating everything before him. He turned his head and looked around, a puzzled expression flickering across his face.
Then, his gaze fell on his right hand, which had somehow already lowered.
I remember touching the Light Orb.
But...
Where is this? The moment his gaze settled, this doubt involuntarily rose in his heart.
At this moment, he stood in a world suffused with a gentle milky-white glow. Several dozen meters ahead of him floated a Light Orb, one size larger than the one in his mental space. This gentle radiance was emanating from it.
The ground beneath his feet was paved with bluish-gray bricks. Bathed in that soft milky-white light, the color of those bricks should have seemed out of place. Yet now, they appeared perfectly harmonious, as though the milky-white glow and the bluish-gray bricks were the most flawless pairing in the world.
The newly awakened Chiba stood in what appeared to be a circular plaza paved with bluish-gray bricks. At the edges of the milky-white radiance was something like a white enclosing wall, while the Light Orb floated quietly in the center. At matching angles to either side before him stood two doors.
"No, three doors?"
After the doubtful thought crossed his mind, he seemed to sense something and suddenly turned around. Within ten meters behind him stood another door.
In other words, the place he was in was a circular plaza. Three doors stood around its edge, dividing the circular plaza into thirds. There were no doorframes or walls; they simply stood there bare and alone.
What was going on?
This plaza, these doors... this was wrong. This should not have been what happened after