The question of how he was doing had Naoki glancing away. A mix of grief and guilt crossing his face.

"This wasn't really what I had in mind." They said it was like this, people arrived here. But if Kagutsuchi remade the world like this, with a past just made from whatever dream made it.

Or was this someone else's creation across the vast web of realities. What kind of Reason made a world like this? Either way, this wasn't his Earth.