"By the way... are you really fine with just leaving your main personality back there?"
Murder followed behind Killer01, asking in some confusion.
According to her, the personality he was following now was the first to split off from Killer. Later, even after the number of personalities grew to somewhere between ten and twenty, she had retained a dominant position second only to the main personality.
That was because she accounted for a relatively large share.
Killer02 was similar to her-the personality who had stirred up Killer's desires and thereby gained control over Killer as a whole within the mindscape.
This time, a moment of carelessness had allowed that 02 to seize control.
Fortunately, with the smattering of code Murder had learned earlier, they had successfully trapped Killer02 in a dream within a dream.
At least until the illusion ended, she would probably remain trapped inside.
"It's fine."
Killer01's voice sounded very calm.
"She doesn't have control over our consciousness right now. She's no different from an empty shell. Rather than worrying about her, come help me deal with what's going on inside her brain."
"What?"
"You'll see when we get there."
At that, Murder asked no further questions and simply followed Killer01 quietly through the mindscape.
Along the way, he occasionally saw a few beings who looked like Killer playing inside.
However, they seemed much smaller than Killer01 beside him, presumably personalities who had been in a weaker position when the split occurred.
Speaking of the inhabitants here, Murder had also been paying attention to his surroundings.
This world was even more abstract than the earlier illusion. All sorts of memories from Killer's past intertwined into mentally corrosive images. Once someone looked into them, they would sink in as though into a mire, unable to escape.
Murder could hardly