…Where am I?
As the blinding light faded and shapes slowly came back into focus, I realized immediately—this wasn't the academy.
The grassy hill, the wolves, Elena and Lisa… all of it had disappeared as if erased in an instant.
What surrounded me now was an unfamiliar space—quiet, vast, and strangely empty.
A colorless world stretching endlessly, neither bright nor dark, as if it existed outside reality itself.
And I was alone.
"...Elena? Lisa?"
My voice echoed slightly, but no one answered.
Unease prickled down my spine.
I turned in a slow circle, trying to understand this strange place, when—
"Nice to meet you."
The voice came from above.
I snapped my head upward.
There she was.
Lumine.
Floating leisurely in the air as if gravity meant nothing to her, she looked down at me with the same serene expression I remembered—but here, in this silent world, her presence felt even more overwhelming.
Her magical power spilled into the air without restraint.
