"...Originally, we could get out. This building was the exit."
Dara pointed beneath her and revealed more about the past.
"This building's full name is the Twin Outpost Observation Station. It connects to the building outside through some kind of special technology... No, I feel like it's already beyond technology in the traditional sense. It must be a miracle achieved using something.
"In short, these two buildings were connected in an absolute sense. You could reach both planes through the underground facilities, passing through a Special Scene like a mirror inversion along the way.
"Back then, I fled blindly and retreated here with the last few Players still resisting, but that bastard Eagle Knight fought his way over too. Before long, I was the only one left.
"Although Eagle Knight couldn't kill me, he could capture me. If any other Paladins or reinforcements arrived, I might really have been destroyed, so I had no choice but to use my trump card and trigger a massive explosion, severing the connection between these two buildings...
"In that situation, I really couldn't afford to think that much. I only wanted to survive.
"The explosion nearly killed Eagle Knight. I drove him outside, where he came into contact with that strange light.
"He wasn't this insane at first. He stayed around the building, watching me constantly and trying to break in and kill me. But as time passed, his behavior gradually changed. Watching turned into guarding, and I became some Saintess. It was utterly inexplicable, like he'd become a knight under my command... Maybe his obsession ran too deep."
Dara's account cleared up most of what had happened in the past.
There seemed to be no way to escape this place. Going outside meant being affected by that light, contracting Manic Laughter Syndrome, and