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Hoshino nodded, not surprised in the least.
When that blazing embrace came, she did not dodge. Yet even at the very end, she remained stubbornly defiant, wearing an arrogant, domineering smile. In the end, she still cursed a couple of times. She truly could not see through it, so she simply stopped thinking about it.
She stared at the ball of fire Amiya was embracing.
"Stop looking."
Talulah spoke. This conversation was entirely between her and Hoshino; Ch'en was the one standing there with wide eyes, looking adorably blank.
"You seem to be a controller of dreams as well, possessing the same authority as that person?"
"Not very skilled at it, and I don't want to use it."
Hoshino answered cautiously. No matter what, this was the leader of the Reunion Movement. Once awake, she would be a broken wreck with a fractured mind, yet at this moment, she stood like a tall, straight pine.
A radiant woman.
Talulah deserved that description. In a wedding dress, she was naturally beautiful—beautiful in a clean, open, unguarded way. Even her little finger seemed capable of letting sunlight shine through it. What Hoshino felt was not pity; that emotion was far too condescending.
To put it another way.
If all their identities were stripped away, and she simply saw this person for who she was, Hoshino would really want to build a relationship of equality and mutual support with her.
"One's mental state and real state cannot be merged. The experience of a dream is very detached. Right now, you empathize with it, as though you have been cleansed, but once you wake up, you will understand that a dream is only a dream."
She put it