[With that sharp gunshot, your consciousness was mercilessly stripped away in an instant.]
[Death came more swiftly and cleanly than you had imagined, but what followed was neither the emptiness nor the absolute silence of a dissipated soul.]
[That sense of weightlessness descended again-a sensation that should not have felt familiar, yet had left its mark deep within your subconscious.]
[You felt as though you were falling endlessly, slowly sinking into an infinite, pitch-black sea without light or warmth.]
[Yet at the bottom of this deathly silent sea, what awaited you was not rest.]
[Waves of ethereal, distant murmuring, carrying a strange solemnity, began to echo through the absolute darkness.]
[You remembered. You had heard this voice before-the murmuring you had faintly caught while simulating and studying Domain Expansion countless times in your mind.]
[But compared with those muffled sounds, as though heard through a thick layer of water, the murmuring now was far, far clearer.]
[Your consciousness, already separated from your flesh, gradually began to distinguish the ancient, intricate words within those endlessly repeating, overlapping waves of magnificent sound.]
[Eye Consciousness.]
[Ear Consciousness.]
[Nose Consciousness.]
[Tongue Consciousness.]
[Body Consciousness.]
[Mental Consciousness.]
[Manas Consciousness...]
[These ancient concepts of perceiving the world and the self from Buddhism's Consciousness-Only school rang continuously in the depths of your soul like great bells, seemingly intent on engraving some ultimate truth upon your shattered soul.]
[But before you could immerse yourself completely and hear all the final words, something suddenly changed!]
[The once cold, deathly silent, pitch-black "deep sea" suddenly boiled wildly, as though scalding oil had been poured into it!]
[Those magnificent Buddhist chants were instantly torn apart, replaced by countless voices belonging to you.]
[They were the madness you had suppressed to the utmost in life, your refusal to accept your fate, your