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Inside the cracked Spiritual Heart lay the bleeding body of a young-looking figure. No one could quite determine their age or gender, yet they radiated an otherworldly majesty unlike anything the group had ever seen.
"Can you speak?" Kireina asked gently.
"I… What sort of attack was that…?" the figure answered in a childish voice. "That power… it was so beautiful…"
"Just the desperate struggle of a foolish woman," Kireina giggled.
"Why were you acting as the core of this Domain?" Matsuo pressed. "Where did you come from?"
"I…" the Esper murmured. "I was taken… kept deep inside a laboratory my entire life… then a portal… bright light… and warm, tender hands… like a mother I never had… they freed me and gave me the world I desired… but now that I've awakened, I realize I was only dreaming… I don't fully understand where I am… or why I'm here…"
