Location: Lumeris District — City Core / Saint Lycoris GroundsTime: 04:12 a.m., 48 hours after "Scarlet Broadcast"
The world hums with love.That's what the news says.But love shouldn't sound like screaming.
Scene — City Morning
Ren walks through the sleeping city, but it doesn't sleep anymore.Everywhere he looks, people hold someone too tightly.Couples sob in the streets, whispering vows through cracked lips.Students carve hearts with knives into lockers.Billboards loop Kana's smile — not as a villain, but as an inspiration.
"Fall deeper. Feel brighter. Love harder."— The Noir Network.
The world fell in love with her war.
Ren's phone vibrates. Again. And again.Notifications:
You're the boy from the Broadcast, right?Is she real?I'd die for love like that.
He doesn't reply.He deletes the messages.They come back anyway.
Scene — Kana's Mindspace
Inside the quiet of her own body, there is no quiet anymore.Her consciousness — once a field of red flowers — now pulses like a heartbeat too loud for one chest.
The six within her pace in fracturing light.Their boundaries blur, colors bleeding together like watercolor drowned in rain.
TACTICAL ANGEL: "Mission compromised. The infection's spreading."DOLLMAKER: "They copied her emotions."HEARTBREAKER: "We made the world yandere~"SAINT: "Love was sacred once."GHOST: "Now it's contagious."CRIMSON DOLL: "And he's the cure… or the catalyst."
Kana kneels among the whispering flowers.Every petal mouths his name.
KANA (whispering): "Ren… I can hear the city loving you."
Scene — Saint Lycoris Academy Rooftop
The city's pulse glows faint pink against the clouds.Ren stands at the rooftop edge, the wind trembling through his shirt.Kana appears behind him — half-light, half-shadow, haloed by static.
REN: "You've seen what's happening."KANA: "Yes."REN: "You started it."KANA: "No. I am it."
Her eyes shimmer in six hues.
KANA: "They all loved you, Ren. Now the world does too. Isn't that beautiful?"REN: "It's madness."KANA: "So is love."
He grabs her shoulders, shaking.
REN: "You're losing yourself!"KANA: "I didn't lose myself. I multiplied."
For an instant, six faint silhouettes bloom around her — each laughing, crying, screaming, overlapping into one impossible heartbeat.
Scene — The Echo Begins
Above, news drones circle the spire.Their feeds go live — again, without permission.
Down below, a student couple screams at each other.They fight. Then they kiss.Their veins glow faint pink as the Noir Pulse spreads — a frequency between emotion and electricity.
Every time Kana inhales, the city exhales.
Ren's phone buzzes again. A trending feed opens automatically:#CrimsonEchoes — Live Confession Challenge!
People across the city are confessing:Some with words.Some with tears.Some with blood.
REN: "You turned love into a plague."KANA: "No. The world just finally caught up with what I feel."
Scene — Inside the Echo
The sound builds — rain and static and a thousand heartbeats, colliding.Kana clutches her chest; her pulse lights the rooftop crimson.
The six begin to materialize around her, flickering like dying stars.
ANGEL: "Containment impossible."DOLLMAKER (touching Ren's cheek): "You can't save her now. You're already inside her heart."HEARTBREAKER: "Let's play a game — who does he love the most?"
Ren stumbles back, dizzy with their voices.Each reflection smells like her perfume, breathes with her rhythm.They orbit him like satellites caught in gravity.
REN: "Kana—stop them!"KANA (weakly): "I can't tell who's me anymore."
Scene — The Meltdown
The echoes close in.
Each whispers something different, too close to his ear:
"Protect me.""Choose me.""Forgive me.""Remember me.""Break me.""Love me."
He shouts her name —And the city answers back.
"Love me!""Love me!""LOVE ME!"
The chant rolls across towers and streets, thousands of voices merging into one siren song.Every window, every phone, every mouth repeats her longing.
Kana falls to her knees, clutching her head.
KANA: "I didn't want this…"ANGEL: "Then end it."KANA: "If I end it, they'll stop loving."GHOST: "They were never loving. They were reflecting."
She looks up, eyes full of wet light.
KANA: "Ren… do you still love me?"REN: "Kana—"KANA (screaming): "DO YOU STILL LOVE ME?!"
The city blacks out.Every heart stops for one impossible moment.
Scene — Aftershock
When power returns, every screen in Lumeris shows one still frame:A girl kneeling in a storm of red petals, whispering something the microphones can't catch.
Ren stands on the rooftop alone.No Kana.No echoes.Only silence that tastes like her memory.
Diary Fragment
[Fragment Log #30 — Crimson Echoes]Incident: Emotional Contagion / Full Mental LinkStatus: City infected / Source missing
I thought I was healing her.But maybe I was the wound.
Now every heart in this city beats to her rhythm.And mine refuses to stop.
Closing Scene — The Echo Lives On
Somewhere deep in the city, a broken tablet reboots.Static clears into the soft hum of a recorded voice.
KANA (recorded):"They called it madness.I called it devotion.""If love must hurt to feel real...then let the whole world ache."
The camera pans over Lumeris —a skyline drowned in red light and falling petals,a city addicted to its own heartbreak.
The hum rises into a chorus of whispers —Six familiar tones blending into one.
The Noir Cycle never ended.It simply changed its name.
End of Diary #30 — "Crimson Echoes."