"Raven disappeared? Did she leave the Imaginary Tree?"
"No, she's still inside the Imaginary Tree, but this signal... is very strange."
Something happened?
Honestly, anything could happen in the Imaginary Tree. Raven was also an unpredictable person; her sudden appearances and disappearances were normal. But disappearing for several days without any message was not.
Her relationship with Raven was actually rather subtle. At the very least, they had some common topics within World Serpent. Raven's lack of a sense of belonging made her far more approachable than the others, and there was also Little Kong between them. They could be called "friends."
"Can you track her whereabouts?" After considering it, Mei asked Klein.
"If you mean her movements before she vanished, they can be found. But after she entered an unnumbered area, her signal stopped between the upper and lower levels of that area. Yet there is no such interstitial space within the Imaginary Tree." Klein tapped her little hands across the keyboard a few times, deeply puzzled by the displayed result.
"Sigh... I'll go find her."
Mei could not help recalling that experience that had left her drenched in cold sweat. Hopefully, Raven had not entered the same bizarre space.
"My name's Kevin. Let's be friends."
"..."
The hooded, masked boy ignored the hand extended before him, walked around the somewhat awkward white-haired boy, and continued on his own way.
"This is..."
Raven saw that scene—the Venerable Lord with the youthful innocence still on his face, and the hooded boy whose back felt familiar to her. She froze.
Out of mercenary habit, she surveyed her surroundings and discovered that this seemed to be a school. Students came and went, brimming with youthful energy. It was an atmosphere that also existed among the children she had taken in.
"Could