"Orihime, what do you think?" Natsume Chikage asked. "If you don't want to, I can put it off. But someday, I'll still let you see the real world. I promised you, so I'll definitely make it happen!"
Mido Orihime truly hadn't expected him to be capable of doing this, or that he had been thinking about letting her see the real world ever since then.
After considering it carefully, she frowned. "If I see it, can my vision go back to how it is now? If not, then absolutely not!"
"It can go back," Natsume Chikage explained.
"In that case... all right." Mido Orihime was no little girl. She had experienced many things ordinary people could hardly imagine, so after briefly thinking it over and weighing the pros and cons, she agreed right away.
After all, she had nothing to lose, and she would get to see the "reality" she had always longed for. There was simply no reason to refuse.
Although that "reality" might far exceed her imagination, or even be nowhere near as wonderful as she imagined, she was still willing to look. Otherwise, she would never see her older sister's "true" appearance.
Suddenly.
The dream descended once again.
The scenery around Mido Orihime underwent a earth-shattering transformation before her eyes.
The hellish landscape visibly returned to normal.
The twisted lumps of flesh became ordinary people walking around. The blood-red sky became a clear night sky.
The ground that writhed like flesh became a textured asphalt road.
The pervasive stench became fresh air.
The shrill, grating noises became the ordinary sounds of people talking and cars driving.
Everything became completely different from what she had always seen.
At the sight of it all, Mido Orihime stood frozen for a long time, unable to recover from her shock.
"So