"Take this."
Just as Leon followed the red-haired director up the stairs, entering the vault at the Virgo sub-bureau where anomalous items were stored, at a certain location in the middle of a pitch-black river flowing with countless shattered dreams, a giant crowned with a mirror-like crown and enveloped entirely in deep gray mist reached out its right hand to the elder in front of it.
"This is a pass for traveling in the Demonic Soul Abyss, allowing you to move freely in nightmares. You'll need it when dealing with the Scarlet Hair Lady."
With a peculiar, ear-piercing voice, the giant extended its slender gray palm over the river, slowly unfurling five knife-like fingers, revealing a small wooden boat as the dark nightmare swiftly dissipated from its grasp.
"Since it's a pass personally issued by the King of Nightmares..."
