INTERLUDE: What Once Was

     As Mirai leaned in closer, she placed her foot forward, with the squeak of her rubber shoes against the white marble floors reverberating through the space around her. She felt her body walking on its own down a long path flanked by walls covered in an off-white textured wallpaper and accented by rich varnished wood. She peered at the tall stature and vast shoulders of a mysterious man from behind. With his every movement traveling to her ears like sound moving through a funnel. Her body almost felt as if it was under water.

     He felt towering, and his aura enormous. Only now did she take note of another young girl walking between the man and herself. She could faintly see the girl holding onto her wrist, running her finger underneath a red band. Mirai peered down at her own wrist to find a similar band around hers as well; the numbers 40146 imprinted on it.

     As she glanced back up, the young girl slightly turned her head and peeked over her shoulder at Mirai.

…

“Yukue?”

     Mirai’s lips then sealed shut with her body faintly wavering as a terrifying thought began to fill her head.

That’s right… you’re not my sister…