35 Echoes Adrift

She treks through a desolate wasteland.

Crimson Red Tide washes over her vision; silhouettes, aged like old film strips, drift through memories, flickering with an uncertain light.

This is Bianca, Captain of the Purifying Force, leading the third rescue team into the aquarium. Commencing fourth mission log.

Through fissures in the heavy clouds, crimson light bleeds into view. At the periphery of your vision, the pale girl appears in silence.

They murmur in indistinct whispers, their voices weaving a haunting, almost cheerful melody beyond comprehension.

Bianca is going through severe M.I.N.D. deviation.

The purple-haired Ascendant drifts like a phantom through this graveyard of their own making.

The Red Tide is rebirth and salvation. God shall create paradise, God shall grant eternal life through the Red Tide...

M—Mannaz—humanity—you're really important.

With such "changes" happening, will the story's "ending"... still be the same as what was seen in the "shadows"?

In the church amid the wind and snow, she sees herself praying devoutly.

Remember, don't trust a word Vonnegut says. Kill Chiko, take the Heteromer Shard.

Don't you want to break free from this endless sorrow? All you have to do is...

He'll drown all the haywire seeds together in this aquarium that's about to crash.

The blue-haired "monster" absorbs this altar and the Red Tide of this sea area; its form grows massive, to the point of distortion.

The "answer" is hidden within a secret only the Commandant knows!

There's still some ground to cover. Let's keep moving, Commandant.

Today is just another ordinary day.

She can only drift like a withered leaf, swept along by the world's grand narrative into the fierce current rushing ahead.

Neither tragedy nor comedy, but a story that belongs only to you... only to "Bianca."

When you're powerless to change things, all you can do is turn to faith.

That is a "reborn" world, where there's no endless fleeing, no Corrupted or monsters, and certainly no death.