Witch Trial: I Am the Arbiter

Have you ever considered this possibility? That "Nikaido Hiro" never existed at all, from beginning to end. Just an illusory fantasy... She died on the eve of the Witch Trial, before it had even begun. The real Emma had already become a "corpse" after everyone around her had died. Like a sacred religious vision, she hangs forever in the sky, a sword of Damocles suspended over a sinful world. She waits for a new girl to venture into that prison, adrift beyond the mortal realm, and rescue the girls trapped inside, forced to repeat the cycle hundreds and thousands of times.