It was like having a dream.
A dream from which he seemed destined never to wake.
There were golden curtains, brilliant sunshine, and warm breezes. You lost yourself in it, even forgetting your own name, forgetting your responsibilities and your mission.
He had no idea how long he had stayed there.
Perhaps a thousand years, perhaps ten thousand, yet it also seemed to have passed in an instant.
Like everyone lost in a dream, you no longer remembered anything about your reality. You had a new appearance, a new life, and you thought that was everything.
And yet, for some reason he could not understand.
Whenever he was about to surrender to that golden bliss, a voice would keep calling beside your ear, keep crying.
You woke with a start, only to sink back under a moment later.
You did not know what was happening, what was wrong with you, or who that voice calling to you belonged to.
It was only familiar, so familiar that it... hurt.
You thought those calls would continue forever, until one day, you suddenly realized... that voice had disappeared.
She no longer called.
Nor did she cry.
All at once, the whole world fell silent.
The golden curtains turned to burning ashes, the brilliant sun became an Abyss of dead silence, and the warm breezes turned into bitterly cold winds.
It was as though you had suddenly been dragged into a bottomless nightmare. Nothing but darkness remained before you, cold and terrible tidings engulfing you. Countless faces appeared before your eyes, calling your name over and over, and that name grew clearer and clearer...
"Lynn!"
He saw those faces clearly.
Those familiar faces, the faces of the people he had sworn to protect, the people he loved.
Bzz-
At that very moment, he snapped