"Lin En..."
Her voice began to tremble, fear surfacing in her eyes. When she touched his shoulder, thick blood soaked her palm.
There was no longer a single intact part of his body.
And in that instant, the Red Moon overhead blazed with blinding light once more. As though sensing its host slipping away, it forcibly broke through the Great Sun's blockade and suppression for a moment, driving that world's rejection to its peak.
Bzz-
Hana Ye's pupils dilated sharply. Lin En could finally no longer withstand the surging force of rejection, and the body holding her tightly was torn away in an instant.
As Lin En vanished before her, she lunged forward, trembling, but all she managed to catch were the surging fragments.
It was like a strange, kaleidoscopic dream.
Everything was false.
Memories surged into her once again. Those ancient experiences were like shackles, seeking to drag her back into an ancient fate that did not belong to her.
"Ugh... Lin En... Lin En..."
She clutched her forehead hard again, her little body staggering until she nearly fell to her knees.
But when she called that name, there was no longer any answer.
Yet in that instant.
She remembered.
In Clockwork City, in the Spirit Realm, even when her moonlight pierced his heart, he had kept speaking to her, kept telling her to come back-to return to the reality that belonged to them, rather than be bound by that distant Phantom Dream.
Because that was a fate they had forced upon her.
He had been there all along.
Even at the very last moment, even after he had been banished back to the Warp, he had not abandoned her as he had said he would.
But... which side was real...?
Amid those thundering memories, she had also seen