...Look how badly this kid had been scared. Hurry, have some hot porridge to calm your nerves first?
Kakyoin Noriaki was awakened by a strange sound of crying.
"Ugh, so noisy..."
Kakyoin Noriaki slowly sat up and rubbed his eyes. Then, the sight before him left him completely dumbfounded. "Huh? Wait... where is this?"
That was right.
He had not awakened in a hotel bed.
Quite the opposite—he found himself in an unfamiliar place he had never seen before.
He was sitting in a viewing car that resembled a Ferris wheel, high up in the air. Looking around, he saw all sorts of amusement facilities. If he had to describe it, this place felt somewhat like an amusement park.
But unlike an ordinary amusement park, the scenery here had an eerie sense of blurriness and dropped frames.
The carousel in the distance, the pirate ship, the castle, and everything else... all had an intensely grainy, pixelated quality, as though they were built from countless tiny mosaic blocks.
"Hm?"
Kakyoin Noriaki was also at a loss when he saw this. "This... an amusement park?"
"This is my first time coming to a place like this."
Kakyoin Noriaki looked down over the surrounding scenery again, his expression clearly confused. "How strange. Why am I leisurely riding a Ferris wheel here? I should have been crossing the desert with Mr. Joseph and the others, shouldn't I?"
"Everyone's gone..."
Kakyoin Noriaki had barely said that when, from the corner of his eye, he suddenly spotted something diagonally across from his seat. He froze. "...Huh?!"
About two or three meters away, Kakyoin Noriaki saw a sharply angular humanoid object.
It was an abstract human figure made of a handful of simple rectangular blocks, roughly two meters tall. At the moment, it was sitting opposite him