The world’s laws were expelling her as a foreign entity. Naily didn’t know where this force would push her. At this moment, she didn’t care about her destination. She simply turned back as Piping had instructed, eyes wide open, personally witnessing the beautiful, crystalline new spiral taking shape, then bursting with the radiance of a newborn star. She closed her eyes contentedly. A name slid across her tongue, and she smiled. In this world, if he still existed, he would surely be living truly and happily. ※ Her body suddenly regained weight, and someone bumped into Naily, nearly causing her to stumble. When she opened her eyes to look at the person, they had already walked far away, leaving only a complaint: “Are you crazy, standing in the middle of the road?” She struggled to adapt to the bright light, realizing she was in the middle of a bustling venue. Judging from the bizarre booths and people’s attire, this was the winter comic convention, the very opportunity that led her to Verdaia. She instinctively searched for the game booth that started everything but could never find the massive banner she remembered. Could it be on the other side of the exhibition hall? Naily walked through the enormous hall but never saw the booth from her memory. She even grabbed a staff member wearing cat ears to ask, who looked confused and pulled out a venue map: “Aren’t you mistaken about the booth name?
Naily awkwardly brushed it off, leaning against the wall and carefully reading through the convention handbook. That booth was truly gone. She spent a long time digesting this fact, then comforted herself that this was only natural – Verdaia no longer needed games as a medium to summon the guide.
The air in the venue felt suffocating, and she escaped toward the exit, her eyes dazzled by the winter sunlight outside. The surroundings gradually came to life, no longer hazy and unreal. Asphalt roads, buses honking continuously, teenagers in anime character costumes – her senses busily collected information, finally concluding that she had indeed returned home.
