Having made her decision, Tatsumaki raised her small hand and eagerly reached for the seemingly harmless Void Herrscher Core before her.
The instant the two touched, time seemed to stand still.
Violent energy brimming with corrosion and destruction became an ever-expanding expanse of white light, erupting between Tatsumaki's fingers like the pulsing beam of a supernova explosion!
At that moment, another sun seemed to appear in the sky, its boundless radiance completely swallowing Tatsumaki, Josen, and even the entire "Imaginary Space."
-Where am I?
The moment the brilliant white light blossomed, Tatsumaki instinctively raised a hand to shield her eyes.
The rules of space and time fell into disarray under the influence of energy like an erupting singularity. It felt as though an instant had passed, yet also as though more than a hundred years had gone by.
Once her vision recovered, Tatsumaki lowered her hand and opened her eyes.
She abruptly discovered that there was nothing around her. She was in a world composed of pure white matter.
The green sky, the enormous imaginary city, and Josen beside her had all vanished at that moment!
Tatsumaki froze, and a sudden, inexplicable pain stabbed through her heart.
Inside the "Imaginary Space."
The singularity-like burst of white light disappeared, taking Tatsumaki with it. Josen was somewhat surprised, but he did not panic.
He could roughly guess that the activated "Herrscher Core" had probably learned its lesson from facing him last time and used its Herrscher Authority to pull Tatsumaki, its next host, into a Mind Dimension it had constructed instead.
It was like the "Phoenix Space" that the yet-to-appear Dragon-level Monster "Phoenix Man" created using his mascot costume as an anchor.
Just then, bewildered bestial roars rang out through the silent imaginary city.
The herd of Honkai Beasts Josen had