Kuzunoha's voice came back, cheerful as ever. "Great work, darling! The Revenant is safely sealed, and you don't have to worry about her for a while. Now, I'll meet you in the real world to check on you and your—oh, you know—condition."
Before I could respond, the realm shifted around me, the sea fading into darkness. In the blink of an eye, I was back in the real world, standing in the middle of a drowned forest, probably quite far away from my bastion, which I didn't know the location of, because my brain was still nerfed from that Qliphoth Object encounter.
The thick, wet smell of the night air filled my lungs as I looked around, trees half-submerged in the swampy seawater. The spiraling moon hung low in the sky, casting an eerie glow over the landscape.
