Jiang Yu blinked as he watched Black Swan approach.
"In that case, sorry for the trouble, but please take Stelle and Firefly back to reality. I still have something to do here."
Black Swan said nothing and simply looked at Stelle beside her.
Stelle nodded and said to Jiang Yu, "Then we'll wait for you in reality."
Seeing how quickly they had made their arrangements, Black Swan raised her hand, drew a card, and lightly tossed it aside. The next instant, a plane in space shattered like a sheet of glass. Light and darkness collapsed and intertwined, forming a vortex that slowly expanded until it became a doorway into the Memory Zone.
After saying goodbye to the others, Stelle and Firefly stepped into the vortex. It then began to shrink before finally disappearing, and the space in the Dreamscape returned to its original state.
Only then did Black Swan look at Jiang Yu. "What about you? Where are you going, and what are you going to do? I can help."
Jiang Yu shook his head. "No need."
The boy looked at his companions. "Let's go back the way we came."
None of the others objected.
So they said goodbye to Black Swan, then turned and walked back into the wall Jiang Yu had kicked apart earlier.
Brilliant, multicolored light suddenly illuminated the road at Oti Mall, and four figures emerged from it. The crowds passing back and forth, drinking and reveling in this neon-lit midnight city, seemed not to notice the astonishing sight-or perhaps they were simply used to it. They walked straight past.
Jiang Yu and his three companions emerged from the magnificent light. Then the splendor that had outshone the city's night lights gradually faded, like the tide receding across a mudflat.
Once the four of them