"My child, my child..."
Through the haze of her consciousness, Yui sensed a voice calling to her.
Who is it? This voice is so gentle...
The next second, her awareness returned, and she suddenly opened her eyes.
"Where am I?"
She remembered. Earlier, after entering a strange dream, she had been swallowed by the "Truth-Seeking Orb" inside it.
"Where am I now? Has my consciousness returned to my body?"
Yui rubbed her faintly throbbing temples, then looked around her surroundings in confusion.
Then, in an instant, her mind cleared...
"Am I still dreaming?"
Looking at her body and the space around her, she understood. She was still inside the dream and had yet to escape.
An endless black void surrounded her. After observing it for a while, she tried to move forward to investigate, but just then, a white Spirit Body suddenly appeared a short distance ahead.
"Child, my child, you've finally come to see me."
The gentle voice echoed in her ears again.
"What is this?"
Yui instinctively directed her consciousness backward, trying to retreat, but she had barely moved before her entire body seemed to be restrained, leaving her unable to move at all.
Just then, the white Spirit Body approached from ahead, drawing close to her.
"Don't come any closer."
Yui called out, trying to stop the white Spirit Body.
This thing looks like Dan Katō's Spirit Transformation Technique. Even if I don't sense any danger, who knows what might happen if it possesses me?
But the white Spirit Body acted as though she had not heard Yui's warning and rushed right up to her.
"I'm done for, I'm done for..."
"Child, you've finally come to see me."
The white Spirit Body suddenly pulled Yui into a tight embrace against her chest.
"Hm?"
Yui let out an