“At first, I thought my dead sister had come back since she wanted to see me. But when I saw the way the seven-year timeline seemed incomplete, I finally understood. That you must be traveling here from that hospital room, too. Your reality is still in that room with me when I was six, isn’t it?” Rion’s voice began to crack as he fought back tears. “You were coming over here every day back then, weren’t you?” He gazed around the castle. “That last long year—you spent it in here, in this very doll’s house, together with me and all the others.” He finally began to understand what her last words
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