Looking at everything before him, Tail clicked his tongue. "For an employee of the great Land of Dreams, isn't her inner world a bit too empty? And there's so little space, too. Small and cramped."
Cirrus nodded beside him. "Even the Furnace of Creation is roomier than this."
"Let's check outside first. Something about this curtain of water looks off," Tail said.
Cirrus had no objections. The two Heliobi stopped circling around inside and went to the curtain of water instead. They looked left and right but saw nothing unusual.
Mr. Tail simply prepared to head out, reaching out to touch the curtain of water with his tail.
Only when he touched it did he realize something was wrong. He swore:
"Looks like water, but it's rock hard. This is a barrier. It drained everything inside and blocked off the outside, so whatever emotions came afterward just piled up. No wonder that little girl was like that. Who did something this rotten?!"
"Mr. Tail, break the barrier first. Let's see exactly what's been sealed off in this girl's heart," Cirrus said, remembering Jiang Yu's request.
Tail had no objections.
For the two Heliobi, this was their professional specialty, so breaking the barrier posed little difficulty.
As flames rose and burned across the curtain of water, it slowly melted like a transparent wall.
Beyond the curtain lay a deep sea. As the curtain broke apart, surging seawater rushed in almost instantly, sweeping the two Heliobi together and submerging them.
In that instant, Tail and Cirrus finally felt the emotions that had been sealed away within Cocona.
-Sorrow.
Like this seawater, it was silent, deep, mysterious, viscous, and soundless, bringing the despair of drowning.
Less than a second had passed before the four saw two balls of flame fly out of