Ten minutes later.
Dream Hotel lobby.
Staring at the corpses before him, Audie fell into thought.
"So you're saying they were already like this when you arrived?"
"Yes."
Dan Heng nodded. The corpses slowly dissipated, turning into motes of light that drifted into the sky.
Audie watched them float away.
"Now they've all been sent back to reality... They probably won't be able to enter the dream again anytime soon."
For Penacony, the Dream Hotel's importance went without saying. It had previously required repairs and maintenance because of the sheer number of Memes.
Even after the Garden of Recollection's repairs, the number of Memes had not decreased by much.
Or rather, because the dream had been pieced back together, it had become even more fragmented than before.
Every now and then, a Meme would crawl in from who knew where...
"Mr. Audie, why are you here?" Dan Heng asked.
"Oh, didn't Yan Huan just draft a new bill? I came to discuss it with him."
Old Audie hunched over and smiled.
"It concerns humanity's enslavement of the Dreamy Ensemble. He believes the Dreamy Ensemble's current status should not be that of slaves."
"By the way, Mr. Dan Heng, do you have any idea about this?"
"No."
"So those Hound Family people being forced out of the dream just now really had nothing to do with you?"
"No. They were already lying there when I arrived."
"Ho ho ho, very well."
As Old Audie headed toward the Nightmare Bar, he said to Dan Heng,
"Generally speaking, drafting legislation is a very serious matter."
"By rights, all Board Members should discuss it together, then vote on it, before finally reaching a conclusion."
"But Penacony has only just suffered a devastating blow. It needs more time to recover its former glory."
"So news