When Kouhei's eyes flickered open, the world around him had already changed. One moment, he was somewhere else entirely—then in the blink of an eye, he stood inside the council office.
It wasn't like walking through a door. No… this was instant. A jarring, unnatural leap from one place to another. The sensation made his stomach twist—the brief, weightless feeling of his feet leaving the ground, only for gravity to slam them back onto a different floor in the very next heartbeat. It was dizzying, like his body had been pulled through a space that shouldn't exist.
"Let's go, Kouhei-kun. We can't afford to be late. My father isn't fond of people who show up after the set time," Yuuna said, her voice carrying that crisp, no-nonsense tone.
"Ah, right," Kouhei answered automatically.
