Dila suddenly woke up.... but she wasn't on her bed. Instead, it felt like she was trapped inside something.... a box. The air was heavy, suffocating. Darkness pressed against her eyes no matter how wide she tried to open them and than closed it again thinking if she was only dreaming or not.

Her hands instinctively clutched something to her chest.... soft petals, roses. She tightened her grip and forced a faint smile, whispering, "Aghhh.... my head..."

Slowly, she tried to open her eyes again, but there was nothing.... only endless black. Panic set in.

Her breath quickened, and she began to thrash against the walls. "Help!" she screamed, kicking, pounding, anything to break free. The box rattled, shifting with her frantic struggle.

"Calm down, Dila.... calm down...." she muttered, pressing her trembling hand against her chest. She clenched her right palm tight, forcing herself to think. "Nari.... are you there?"

Only static answered her, like a broken connection.... the silence almost mocking.

Then.... faint sparks traced across her vision, glowing words forming slowly, fragile as if burning out.

☆ Yes.... I am here.... ☆

The letters flickered, breaking apart.

☆ I missed you soo much!!, master.... I thought I was dead.... but suddenly I'm awake too.... ☆

The message dimmed, fading away into the black void.

☆ Why.... why is it so dark....? Where are we....? ☆

And then, nothing but silence again.

And then Dila cried....

Dila kept crying, her sobs raw and unending. Her voice broke, trembling as she pressed her head against the cold metal. "I don't know.... it feels like we're inside a coffin or something...."

Her words halted. Her eyes widened. The realization struck her like lightning. "Wait.... are we.... inside a coffin?" Her breathing grew heavy, erratic, until panic swallowed her whole.

"No.... no, no, no!" she screamed, thrashing with every ounce of strength she had left. Her hands slapped against the metallic walls, her legs kicked with desperate force. "Noooo! I'm not dead yet!" Tears still flooded down her cheeks as her voice cracked into broken cries. Then she paused and wondered. " Luckily They..... they didn't take my organs.... thank the gods, or I'd be gone for sure...." She wept harder, voice muffled against the iron that held her. "Ahhhmmm.... ahhhh...."

Her tears dripped down, blurring her sight.... until a sudden glow of text flickered before her eyes.

☆ Master, it's okay.... I'm here. We'll find a way to escape this disaster coffin of ours.... I hate dying too, you know ☆

Nari's delicate, cheerful text carried through, though it quivered faintly as if she were forcing herself to text brighter.... only to ease the weight crushing Dila's heart.

Suddenly...

Dila's body trembled as the last threads of strength abandoned her. The adrenaline that had carried her was gone, leaving only a hollow weakness behind. Blood spilled from both corners of her lips, warm against her skin, and her chest heaved in broken gasps. Each cough wracked her thin frame, shaking her as if she could no longer hold herself together.

Her vision swam, the world blurring into even darker in the darkness iron coffin, and her thoughts slipped away like sand between trembling fingers.

☆ N....Nooo.... Master.... please.... don't die.... ☆

Nari's suddenly let out a frail voice inside Dila's mind cracked through the static, filled with panic and fear. Her usual sweetness was gone, replaced with desperation, as if she too could feel her existence unraveling.

Dila's blue eyes grew heavy, rolling upward, her breath stuttering. "I.... I can't breathe.... anymore.... I have no more strength...."

Her words barely left her lips before her body sagged, eyelids falling shut in surrender.

☆ No.... no no no.... master please stay with me.... please.... ☆ Nari cried frantically, her voice glitching and breaking. ☆ I'll find something.... anything.... don't leave me.... ☆

The system's light flickered violently, dimming as though her life was tethered to Dila's own heartbeat. As Dila's pulse weakened, Nari's very presence began fading with her, sparks of data scattering like dust into the air slowly.

Nari's frail voice cracked, static tearing through her tone as if the world itself was unraveling. ☆ Scanning.... scanning.... please.... please there has to be something.... ☆

Her trembling voice echoed like it was breaking apart, yet she forced herself to keep going. The system light flickered erratically, dimming like a dying flame. ☆ Solution.... must find.... scanning.... no no no.... she's slipping away.... I'm slipping away too.... ☆

Dila's breath grew thinner, her chest rising weakly before falling like it would never rise again. Blood glistened at the corners of her lips, dripping down her chin. Her eyes were half-closed, rolling upward, her voice faint and cracked.

"I.... can't breathe...."

Her head tilted, her silver hair falling lifelessly across her face.

"No.... master, no.... don't.... don't close your eyes...." Nari's voice wailed with raw static, her cheerful tone broken into pieces. ☆ Scanning.... scanning.... please.... something.... anyone.... ☆

Her delicate voice faltered, like she was crying without tears, her whole being pouring into a desperate search. ☆ I can't let you die.... I can't let ourselves die.... I'm not ready to fade away with you.... we didn't even jave a happy ending yet☆ Nari has cried inside at Dila's mind.

The system's glow flickered weaker with each second, like both their lives were chained together and slipping into the abyss.

And then Nari's frail voice trembled, breaking apart as if the weight of her guilt crushed her. ☆ It's all my fault.... I should have not followed your order when you said release the limiters.... Now.... now we are going to die in this desperate hour.... ☆ Her words shook, drowning in regret.

Her core flickered, unstable, and the light around her dimmed as if her very existence was unraveling even more. ☆ I'm sorry, master.... I failed you.... ☆ The words carried sorrow so deep it seemed to tear through the silence.

Nari could feel it.... her memories scattering like fragile dust in the wind, fading one by one. Every scan, every fragment of data she tried to hold onto slipped away.... as if her very soul was breaking apart.

The sound of her voice grew weaker, like a candle fighting against the storm. ☆ Please.... don't forget me.... ☆

As Nari kept scanning, her vision blurred with static.... the once clear streams of data were nothing but red flashing lights of failure. Every search ended with the same merciless word.

Error.

Her delicate voice that once sang with warmth now broke apart.... fragments of sound, glitching into silence. Even her memory, the place where she held every detail of her master, every laugh, every tear, every command.... all she could see was that same word.

Error. Error. Error.

Nari's fragile heart trembled. ☆ Master.... I.... I can't remember anymore.... it's fading.... everything is fading.... ☆ Her voice cracked, distorted, before cutting into nothingness.

Inside, she felt powerless, helpless, and guilty that she had failed the one person she swore to guide and protect as her master and her best friend.

Nari's frail voice cracked as she kept muttering, almost as if she had forgotten how to speak.

☆Who… am I again…? What… am I doing here…?☆

Her words repeated, over and over, each weaker than the last. The system voice that once carried warmth and light now trembled like shattered glass, breaking under its own fragility.

☆Who… am I… again…? What… am I… doing here…☆

Her own repetition was eating her alive, as if she was trying to grasp at a name that no longer existed. The soft glow of her presence flickered, dimming like a candle drowning in the wind. Every word she whispered came out thinner, fainter.... as if she wasn't sure if she was even real anymore.

Before everything had happened to Dila and Nari inside at the coffin....

Albedo was in his chamber, lying on his bed, clutching Dila's Archane staff. He held it close as if it were nothing more than a plain stick of orichalum metal, stripped of its floating shards and its glowing blue core.

His tears never stopped. His body rolled restlessly over the bed, again and again, as though the movement itself could shake off the grief. Ten long days had passed, and yet he remained the same. Food barely touched his lips, strength leaving his body, but his mourning never ceased.

Albedo wept not as a king, not as the cold ruler of Eldor.... but as a father whose daughter's light had been stolen away.

Albedo's flashbacks...

He imagined himself lashing out.... his fist slamming into the castle doctors, his voice echoing in rage.

"What do you mean we can't cure her?!"

In his arms, Dila's frail body trembled as she clutched him weakly.

Albedo shook his eyes sharp on this specific doctor.

The mage doctor bowed his head, voice faltering as his hands twisted nervously.

"My lord... it appears the princess's magic circuits have been severed from her body. She... only awaits death now. Forgive us..."

Albedo's face drained of all color, despair twisting every feature. His voice roared, shaking the chamber.

"Useless..!!!!" His hand struck close to the doctor's head, making him flinch back in terror.

He gathered Dila into his arms, cradling her against his bloodied chest. His voice broke as he pressed his forehead to hers.

"Baby... don't sleep.... everything will be fine. Daddy's here. You can't be dead, am i right ahhh hahahahah..."he forced his laugh with despair.

Blood still trickled down his face from his own wounds, but Albedo ignored it. None of it mattered... only Dila.