Having confirmed that Natsuki Minamiya would not wake up anytime soon, Elysia headed toward the castle deeper within. Its interior had been divided into countless rooms, each one a prison.
The people imprisoned there had lost their freedom. They could only gaze despairingly at the warped sky and spend who knew how many years beneath it.
That was even more despairing than death!
Unless someone possessed immense willpower or some unshakable obsession, being locked up in a place like this for so long would surely drive them mad.
Prisons in the real world at least had work, even breaks where one could read books and the like. But there was nothing here.
Yet as Elysia searched for one particular criminal among them, she had no idea... that the illusion she had woven had already completely gone off the rails.
It had originally been nothing more than an ordinary daily life. At most, Elysia had joined them, becoming another of Natsuki Minamiya's best friends, and the three of them forming an inseparable trio!
Elysia had deliberately woven it that way, becoming Natsuki Minamiya's closest friend in the illusion's story.
Natsuki Minamiya, Aye Kanase, and Elysia had studied together from high school onward. There were no demons in this world, and they were not witches, making their lives much more mundane.
With sociable Elysia taking the initiative to befriend them, the three became friends who could talk about anything. No one could completely resist Airi.
Then, throughout all three years of high school, perhaps under Elysia's influence, none of them dated even once. After all, Elysia could do anything they needed a boyfriend for, so what did they need boyfriends for?
Girls liked a girl like Elysia too.
Just like that, they entered university together, then stepped out into society.
Yet even