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[nurete]

[ Ah.

Blue gaze opening to familiar sights and sounds. She was back. The world shrouded in smoke and muffled by the footsteps of the undead. Saeko had almost forgotten this sickening sight, faces too pale, their eyes rolled up, unseeing. And the smell--

They really needed to learn to bathe.

This was her reality.

Her fantasy had ended.

She turns to take in her surroundings. Saeko couldn't waste a moment. There were people she needed to find and protect. For that, she had to stay alive. She could not let her sudden return put her at a disadvantage. She would not allow herself to be dead meat.

It was the shopping center. A fire here and there, signs of a struggle. Wait-- Saeko rushes forward, a familiar head of ginger hair on the ground a ways away from her. Her hand reaches out to rest on his shoulder.

It couldn't be. ]

Shou...ichi?