The bleak, frigid wind howled past, carrying a trace of chill along with what seemed like endless dust. Yellow sand filled the air, completely blocking one's vision.
All around... there was nothing but barren rock and sand, not a single trace of human habitation. The only proof that people had once existed here was probably the weathered bones on the ground, eroded beyond recognition.
Desolate, barren, bleak...
Looking around, there was nothing but tawny sandstone and yellow sand... nothing else at all, not even the slightest bit of vegetation.
This was a place... something like a borderland, perhaps even the sort of place that even humans living on the frontier would disdain. The environment was so harsh that not even birds or beasts were willing to come here.
Until... two figures clad in blue-and-white dresses suddenly... appeared out of thin air amid the wind and sand.
"Where am I... ugh~ My head hurts!"
The two girls, different in appearance but similarly dressed... raised their hands to clutch their heads almost in unison.
"No, two fields of vision again. Does that mean there are two bodies again...?"
Suppressing their headaches, the two beautiful women slowly opened their lovely eyes in perfect sync. The next moment... they saw another "themselves" sitting across from them.
"Rita..."
"This is... Bianca... or rather, Durandal."
Through the vision of both bodies, she could clearly see the appearances and identities of her two bodies.
One of them was not unfamiliar. She was Rita Rossweisse, clad in the prototype fourth-generation Valkyrie Godslayer armor [Argent Knight: Artemis]!
She wore an icy thorn-shaped hair ornament, with blue-and-white metal wing decorations on her left arm. Her top was a black lace bandeau beneath a white armored jacket, while below she wore a black short skirt trimmed in white, white thigh-high stockings