Hibiki Tachibana saw a glass display case on the other side of the room. Inside it were dolls of a girl she knew well: Raye, posed in various stances with different weapons.
For a moment, Hibiki could not understand where she had ended up. Wasn't this Raye's Consciousness Space? Why were there dolls modeled after Raye herself?
"Um... Hibiki, did you get here first?"
Just as Hibiki wondered about it, Kohinata Miku appeared in the room amid a flash of blue light. Chris, Akatsuki Kirika, and Tsukuyomi Shirabe followed one after another, and the room, which had never been particularly spacious, suddenly felt crowded.
"Yeah, but I can't tell what this place is at all. Are we really inside Raye-chan's mind?"
Hibiki nodded, then voiced her confusion.
"It really does look like an ordinary girl's room."
"The only unusual thing seems to be the dolls that look like Raye Death."
Shirabe and Kirika looked around the room, sharing Hibiki's confusion.
"Let's try contacting the people outside first. Hey, can you hear me, old man?"
Chris felt the same way, but she knew what mattered right now. She raised the watch that had appeared on her wrist when she entered this space.
To make the investigation easier, Fine had added a device that could contact those diving through consciousness, allowing them to exchange information and receive support.
[Yes, I can hear you, Boku. This is Elfnein. Miss Fine isn't in a condition to handle communications, so I'm helping as the Alchemy support specialist.]
A voice soon reached them inside their minds. It was not the familiar commander who usually supported them, but another voice they knew.
In the real world, a yellow-haired girl with a beauty mark near her eye anxiously but diligently worked the Alchemy in her hands, opening five