Owen Bertram's voice, tinged with complaint, seemed to travel from the Red Horse and Life Gate, "We're not allowed to enter this place? You didn't tell me that, you should've said it earlier..."
Inside the Red Horse and Life Gate, Predecessor Santa looked gravely at the world before them, speaking with annoyance to Owen Bertram, "Enough of this act, they can't see us anymore."
In reality, Owen Bertram hadn't truly let his guard down, because he was equally surprised: We're in already? The Red Horse and Life Gate didn't resist them with full force as expected from history, but rather, "welcomed" them all with a bit of an absorbing force. After they traversed through a channel of blood-red meteor flames as intruders, everything went suddenly silent, and they found themselves in a dead quiet world.
It seemed like even the wind was still here.
