"You?!" In the elegant little courtyard of her memories, the mermaid Kelly stared at the shadow inside the pavilion, her pupils trembling incessantly.
"It seemed someone set me up, but it's fine. Thank you for your memory anchor. Otherwise, I truly wouldn't have known when I was supposed to awaken." The shadow slowly rose within the pavilion, then gave Kelly a bright, gentle smile.
Then,
Crack!
The surrounding scene instantly shattered before Kelly's eyes like a mirror. Vast swathes of Spatial Fragments continuously fell away, revealing the Chaos Void beyond! Within that Chaos Void, a man dressed in luxurious, resplendent robes of layered flowers walked step by step toward the stunned Kelly.
The man wore a magnificent black robe embroidered with Divine Runes of all kinds of exotic flowers and plants. Golden patterns covered his entire body, while dragon patterns outlined in Golden Divine Marks adorned his shoulders. With every step he took, the void shattered beneath his feet, and a river of stars surged behind him.
"My soul is rather special. This is my world, and also my prison." As the man approached Kelly, the terrifying aura around him gradually faded. By the time he stood before her, he had become a gentle young man in black, bright-clothed and spirited.
"All right, it's time to leave." The young man in black smiled faintly at the beautiful mermaid with vacant eyes before him, and then heaven, earth, and space instantly inverted!
The world was like a canvas, torn down in an instant, spinning as it was sucked into the unfathomable depths of the young man's right eye!
"What's wrong with you? Wake up!" Kelly felt as if her mind had gone blank for a moment, then she heard a familiar voice by her ear.
Her lifeless eyes instantly regained focus,