A dazzling flow of light.
There was none of the darkness he had expected. Beyond the spatial rift lay a tunnel of seven-colored light.
Yet the dazzling colors all around him became unbearably dizzying after looking at them for too long.
Once he truly entered, he could no longer find the way he had come. Everything here had completely robbed him of his sense of direction, as though he were a lone boat adrift upon a boundless sea.
Fortunately, he could still sense the locations of those two Soul Coordinates. They gave him a clear direction. Though he had no idea where they led, Shin began moving toward them as best he could.
He reached into the multicolored haze beside him. It felt like mist, yet also like flowing water.
Whoosh—
In an instant, Shin's ears filled with an incomparably grating, inescapable cacophony. Then came a boom, and his consciousness plunged into darkness.
It was a sensation he had never experienced before. His entire body seemed to have been dragged into a bizarre and wondrous space, where hundreds of thousands, millions, even hundreds of millions of colorful threads streaked past him.
Shin struggled within the vortex formed by those threads, drifting helplessly, unable to escape.
At last, his vision began to return, like thick colorful ink spreading over a piece of black cloth.
"Mom, he's awake."
A childish voice rang out beside him. Before his eyes stood two figures, one large and one small.
The larger was an adult woman with blue hair and pale eyes. Her features were gentle and beautiful, and she wore ordinary house clothes.
The smaller was a cute little girl with short blue hair. She stared at him curiously with a pair of large blue eyes, and whisker-like markings lined her cheeks.
Shin could not