The girl stepped into a world without a horizon.
Her head lowered without conscious thought, and her eyes caught sight of an enormous spherical body on the far side of the world.
It looked close, yet at the same time gave the strange impression that she could never reach it.
The girl suddenly felt as though her breath had caught, and her lungs began panting.
Had the world…
Had the world always been this vast?
“Ah…….”
Mist that shone by itself.
Whirlpools made entirely of sparkling light.
Falling comets that occasionally streaked past.
Strange currents that rippled like veils while glowing in five colors.
A collection of things so impossibly distant and unbearably faint.
Standing amid that wonder, the girl began to cry without realizing it.
Many Great Warriors cannot endure this emptiness and go mad.
At last, the words the previous Great Warrior had spoken reached her heart.
There had truly not been a single lie in them.
“Great Warrior.”
When I was with you, you shone so brightly that I never noticed.
Each and every star here is so brilliant.
The dots scattered across that sky feel so heavy that it’s as though they’re crushing me beneath them.
Does someone like me have any meaning in this place?
“I… I……”
The girl’s body shrank beneath the terror of incomprehension too vast to bear.
This won’t work.
I can’t do it.
The thoughts closing in on her were nothing more than fragments of reason bleached white by fear.
Screeech.
Screeeeech.
Then, wait.
For…