"Heh! Hahahahahahaha!"
Laughter as heartfelt and delighted as a child's echoed through an endless world fashioned from crimson rose petals.
But perhaps those colors were too dazzling, their intense fragrance too suffocating.
That lovely laughter gradually took on a twisted, evil edge.
Even so, the vampire girl, a stunning beauty whose looks outshone the flowers, could not stop laughing wildly.
"It worked! Just as I thought, as long as they still harbor desires and cannot recognize reality, they'll sink into the illusions of the Rose Mystic Eyes!"
Sharp fangs already showed between Rita's lips as, carried away with excitement, she let her murmurs resound throughout this Otherworld.
"Now, whether illusion or reality, they've already lost!"
On her bewitching face, those crystalline, jewel-like eyes had already blossomed with a deep crimson light as inescapable as a tsunami.
-the Rose Mystic Eyes.
These Mystic Eyes might not possess the fairy-tale dreaminess of the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, whose name alone inspired involuntary longing.
But in beauty of appearance and viciousness of ability, none of the known Mystic Eyes could rival them.
They had the power to forcibly establish a mental connection between their user and their targets, trapping the latter in illusions.
Moreover, they differed from the ocular technique called Tsukuyomi belonging to a certain famously filial Uchiha.
Because they were fundamentally a mental connection, the owner of the Rose Mystic Eyes could go a step further while freely weaving an illusory world.
For instance, she could project her own memories into a target's consciousness, creating the battlefield best suited to herself.
Or, like Servants and Masters, she could use something akin to dreams to read and recreate another's former thoughts, memories, and past, trapping the enemy's mind in an endless nightmare.
Of course, that alone would be nowhere near enough