The surroundings resembled a Super Mario tunnel, paved with blocks of various colors. Some bore question marks, while others displayed gold coins.
The tunnel walls were a vivid blue and green, decorated with stars and clouds.
Here, the two of them could only run, jump, double-jump, and collect coins by ramming into them with their bodies.
Whenever they hit a coin, it gave off a crisp "ding" and turned into motes of light that merged into their bodies.
March 7th bounced excitedly through the tunnel, her flattened body unbelievably light.
She crashed through a string of coins, and a chorus of dings rang out.
After a stretch of running, spinning, and jumping, the two of them successfully sprang out from the other end of the 2D passage—
Light flashed before their eyes again, and their bodies returned to three dimensions, their feet firmly on the ground.
They were outside a subway station entrance.
The sun shone brightly over the colorful streets.
All kinds of strange shops lined both sides of the road.
A massive arcade cabinet model stood outside the game arcade. The anime merchandise store was covered in figurines and posters, while the Mech Armor robot shop displayed robot models of every shape in its windows, some of which slowly moved to demonstrate their actions.
The pedestrians on the streets were even more varied.
There were girls with cat ears, their tails gently swaying behind them; elves with pointed ears, waist-length hair, and flowing dresses; and witches in cloaks flying low through the air on brooms, drawing bursts of astonished cries.
The whole place looked intensely 2D/Anime, as if they had stepped onto the set of some anime.
Along the way, block-like creatures also wriggled across the roads.
These blocks were about the size of fists, with eyes and