What could be more surprising than wandering the void and suddenly hearing someone ramble on beside your ear in a place where, theoretically, there absolutely could not be a second person? At any rate, I couldn't think of anything. The only comparable thing was probably going to the bathroom in the dark while home alone, only to suddenly discover someone else squatting in there... That analogy was a bit, well, whatever, but it perfectly captured how I felt at that moment.
Only after the other party finally stopped talking to herself, and I had the time to identify that subtle, indescribable resonance unique to our kind, did I respond uncertainly, "Older Sister Hela?"
"Ah, you didn't recognize me?" That voice—though it wasn't really a voice, but information transmitted directly into my mind—spoke again, carrying a faint trace of displeasure. I blankly looked around, then suddenly remembered that I currently had no vision. In fact, not just vision—I had none of the five senses in this state. Every familiar way I had once used to perceive the outside world had left me. After experiencing that strange sensation of merging with the void, my perception of surrounding information seemed to have risen into a state of "supersensation." All information, everything I wished to know, no longer entered my consciousness through "senses." The step of "perception" had been skipped entirely, with information appearing directly in my mind. That was why I had been able to observe the void from all sorts of strange angles and experience those earlier chaotic illusions. And now, when I focused my mind and tried to find Hela in this strange state, I finally made a discovery: she seemed to be... everywhere.
"What are you doing? Don't tell me you're looking for me?" Hela's thoughts emerged directly from the