Creeeak-
Beyond the door lay the mostly familiar Snow Town, a frozen expanse stretching as far as the eye could see.
Why mostly?
Now, dust blanketed the entire ice field. Bones had split and severed the surrounding trees, leaving the artificial snowfield in utter chaos.
Worse still, the moment Killer arrived, an impossible-to-ignore wave of nausea surged through her brain, threatening to turn her stomach inside out.
Shhhhh-
Shhhhh-
That damned white noise poured in from every direction, flooding Killer's mind like a river-it was the apparitions of the monsters who had died.
"What... is going on?"
Killer had experienced this for a long stretch of her past. To be precise, these apparitions had started interfering with her mental state from her very first kill.
In Stage 2, after her killing had brought her determination into its second form-when it surpassed Chara's-the sheer number of kills had left Killer numb to slaughter, and the apparitions had eased somewhat.
Only later, after she locked herself into Stage 1 and began atoning, had everything tormenting her mind mostly disappeared.
Now she had somehow returned to when the apparitions were at their worst.
If her mental state had reverted, what about her determination?
Enduring the agonizing pain in her mind, Killer tried to probe her determination-
Sure enough, her determination in this period was even higher than it had been at the very beginning.
To put it into words, it was probably around a quarter of Chara's.
"This was pretty much when I was at my most unhinged, too... how did just walking through a door do this?"
Killer rubbed her temples and began trying to work out her current situation.
"A change in location... a completely different point in time... a change in determination..."
Connecting those clues, Killer arrived at an unbelievable