Withdrawing her gaze from afar, Charlotte once again turned to look at the image of the basement blood sacrifice incident in the mirror beside her.
In the image, the scene had progressed to where she had used the Divine Technique Counter to successfully retaliate and kill her attacker.
Looking beyond the mirror into the darkness and the "stars" at the end of that darkness, Charlotte appeared to be deep in thought.
"If this galaxy were the River of Time... then this darkness should represent the thousand years when the 'Blood True Ancestor' disappeared."
"What I need to reach is even further away..."
After a moment of contemplation, she continued to take steps forward.
This step, Charlotte's movements were much more strained.
That feeling, as though her soul was being stripped away, descended upon her once again, and Charlotte felt as if she had entered a space of high density, with tremendous pressure surrounding her, making everything seem to reject her advancement.
