The Realm of Illusions, the Sea of Nothingness

Before her eyes stretched a blood-red mist, blurring her vision...

She ran wildly through the red haze, with no sense of direction, her heart filled with inexplicable fear...

Why was she running? Why was she afraid...?

She couldn't help but ask herself, but in the end, she found no answer...

She kept running. Fear of something, together with the exhaustion in her body, made her heart pound so violently it felt as though it would leap right out of her throat...

When the sea turned red once more...

A faint voice drifted from somewhere behind her, seemingly far away...

A strange dream, and an eerie phrase that kept haunting her in her sleep.

What was the dream, and the words within it, trying to tell her?

She was resentful and confused. Why had the heavens taken away the happiness she had known and cast her into a world that was both familiar and strange?

Only later did she learn that she had never been able to possess that kind of happiness. Her fate, like that of everyone in that world, had long since been decided for her, helplessly and tragically...

A Twelve Kingdoms fanfic. This author can currently only promise to do her best to keep updating and not abandon the story. As for the pace... there are apparently no guarantees... (wipes sweat)

Fans of The Twelve Kingdoms and those who like Kouri are welcome to come chat

And lastly, before I reveal the protagonist's true identity, everyone's welcome to guess

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