In distant Ancient Egypt, there was a legend about the goddess Isis.
Isis held an exalted position in Ancient Egypt as the goddess of renewal and abundance.
The only deed associated with this goddess that had much connection to love was probably her rescue of her husband, as recorded in myth.
Her husband, Osiris, was lured by his younger brother Set into a coffin sealed with lead and cast into the Nile River, then later dismembered into fourteen pieces.
Isis transformed into a Kite Bird, recovered all fourteen pieces of his body, and pieced them together to resurrect her husband.
Just then, an enormous Kite Bird happened to fly through the heavy snow filling the sky. Its brown-black feathers were damp with snow, and a faint rustle accompanied each sweep of its wingtips through the wind. Its silhouette passed over the city's spires and gradually melted into the twilight, cloaked in the distant mystery of Ancient Egypt.
The group inside a café watched the Kite Bird fly past, letting out a mournful, piercing cry.
They sat beside the café's floor-to-ceiling windows, all silent. Before the enormous bird could fly far away, the silence broke.
Propping up his chin, Wei Yanchi launched into an easy, fluent explanation, his analysis casual yet precise.
"This Instance requires us to clear four stages, but those stages don't appear one after another in sequence. They overlap."
"Pygmalion's story manifests in the Instance as the couple sculptures that keep appearing. The key to solving it is for each partner to drip blood onto the other's sculpture, matching the dark version of Pygmalion, where blood resurrects a lover."
"Although the dark version is a tragedy, dripping blood onto the sculpture is the way to achieve a happy ending with your lover in this story."
"If we follow