"Sirin... why are you here too...? So even you couldn't keep enduring that pain?"
Though it was very dark, they could still barely make out the things nearby. Aurora looked at Sirin before her, a faint bitter smile on her slightly older face.
She had never expected it... Sirin hadn't made it through either. She had thought that Sirin, who had safely survived several experiments, wouldn't have to come and join them so soon. Yet... she had only just arrived in hell, and Sirin had appeared before her.
"Aurora... I'm not dead, you know☆~."
Sirin waved one hand, and a violet glow shone beside her, illuminating their surroundings. This was merely the simplest application of Honkai energy, so it was not difficult.
"Not dead..."
Not only Aurora, but Agata and Galina beside her also looked at Sirin, who seemed to have changed. The Sirin before them was no longer like the weak girl she had once been. She seemed much stronger now.
"That's right, everyone is alive again! Look... this isn't hell. We're outside that damned laboratory."
"...It really is. This is snow... and it's so cold. This doesn't feel like the world after death."
The red-haired Agata crouched down and grabbed a handful of snow, feeling the icy chill against her hand. This was obviously different from the hell described in legends.
And besides...
"That's Babylon Tower! We're not dead yet."
Galina raised her head and looked into the distance. That familiar, impossibly towering iron structure stood there.
"You weren't not dead. You were resurrected by my big sister."
At that moment, Higokumaru flew over to them, planting her little hands on her hips as she spoke.
"Resurrected?"
Aurora looked in surprise at the strange but adorable fox girl.
"Y-yes, Himeko Mama resurrected you."
Sirin pulled Luna Kindred over