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Everything in this world is dreamed by the goddess, Eve!

We are all visions created by her dream!

Then, what are we?

Where are our true selves?

People, do not grieve the maidens who have fallen ill with the Sleeping Beauty Syndrome!

Those maidens have awakened to their true selves in their dreams

and have been blessed by Eve!

That's right!

They have taken their true forms in their dreams and have been freed!

Behaving like witches, they are more beautiful than anyone else!

Oh? There's actually someone taking him seriously.

ENTER THE RED DOORS

Up above the forest of slumber

Two moons look down from the sky

Where did you come from, and where are you going?

Where are we going?

ENTER THE RED DOORS

"The Thorn Cross Association"

I found a clue!

Huh?

A clue about Yurina in the dream world!

More importantly, why am I the only one who can't wake up?

Huh?

All the witches have woken up.

I'm checking on that.

The girls with Sleeping Beauty Syndrome have all returned to the real world.

Well, with one exception, anyway.

An exception?

One of the girls passed away.

The Witch of First Love, Kayo Sugisaki.

Oh, right...

No, but what about me?!

I'm trying to tell you that the discovery about Yurina

will also be a key to solving the mystery about you!

Not only that, but also to the mystery of Lily!

I don't care about that stuff!

What do you mean, you don't care?

I suspect that everything is connected!

In the end, all you care about is yourself!

As long as you can save your sister, you don't care what happens to me, right?

How rude.

Apologize for what you just said.

No way.

What I want are answers!

At the very least, I am more mature than you.

So what?

I have concluded that there is no point in continuing this unproductive back-and-forth.

Are you going to look for your sister?

Did you say something about a clue?

What?

I don't feel like talking anymore.

Hey!

I want this dream to end!

I am a representative of the Thorn Cross Association, Ehyeh.

Professor Kanzaki, I am honored to meet such a famous researcher of the dream world.

Brother!

Oh, it's you.

You got in a fight with that professor, huh?

How do you know?

'Cause it's a dream.

I don't want to dream anymore.

Do you want to know why you're the only one who won't wake up?

Do you know?

I know why you won't wake up:

because I'm the one keeping you asleep.

Oh? Even the renowned Professor Kanzaki does not know Eve?

I'm afraid not...

Actually, my younger sister also has Sleeping Beauty Syndrome,

and I was wondering if that was related...

That is wonderful!

Your sister is receiving the blessing of Eve in the dream world.

Hey, what do you want from me?

Something that only you can do.

Because I think you're the only one who can stop Eve from waking up.

Eve? What's Eve?

Eve's Eve. From Adam and Eve.

If Eve wakes up...

...then everyone will die.

That is the salvation of mankind.

What we in the Thorn Cross Association worship

is the goddess, Eve, who sleeps in the center of the dream world.

An awesome being who is also the beginning of this world and of mankind.

You said that this whole world is a dream that Eve is dreaming, right?

I don't really understand that part...

You know the story of Adam and Eve, do you not?

The first man and woman who received the blessings of God in the Garden of Eden.

However, they were tricked by the devil to eat fruit from the Tree of Knowledge,

angering God and getting thrown out of Eden.

Yes, I know that much.

After much lamentation, Eve was so tormented by her own actions

that she closed off her heart and fell into a deep sleep.

In the dreams brought on by her sleep is this world in which we live.

If we study history, we can see that the reality is far from the paradise of Eden.

People suffer from one illness after another,

the gap between the rich and poor grows wider,

and there is no end to war and conflicts.

People are only becoming more depraved.

Because they ate fruit from the Tree of Knowledge,

mankind angered God and are receiving eternal punishment.

That is Eve's dream.

It is the "now" that we call reality.

Then, what are we?

This is a temporary form.

Inside dreams is where reality lies.

Then, that's my reality?

Awakening to our dream selves is the salvation we seek.

The key to that lies in the witches who built the dream world.

In the witches?

Eve fell asleep and made this world of suffering.

But what of the maidens with Sleeping Beauty Syndrome?

Yes, they built a dream world of only witches.

In that world, everything they desired came true...

A wonderful world.

It is the true Garden of Eden.

And if Eve awakens,

then we will be freed from Eve's world of suffering,

with no war or poverty--

only an eternal paradise.

Then, does that mean the witches should not wake up?

They've awakened to their true selves before everyone else, right?

Exactly.

And there is someone keeping them from their true selves,

bringing them back to this world...

Someone evil.

All the witches you've saved up until now

were linchpins that opened up the path to Eve's door.

Linchpins? Those girls were?

Yes. Remember.

Game set.

Oh, I feel much better.

Who's the strongest in this world?

The Witch of Thunder!

What "dream world" is this?

You're just being self-complacent.

It's super tiring to be the girl everyone wants me to be.

I can't fail.

But I really want to be spoiled.

But I can't!

That's why I had no choice but to bind myself!

I can do what I want in this world at least, right?!

It was my dream to do this.

That dream's over once you kill all three of them, though.

Your dream will end.

What'll you do after that?

If I don't kill them, I can't live.

Why is it always me...?

Why...?!

When I eat, I lose weight in a hurry.

And losing weight is a bad thing?

Yes, it is.

When I ate and lost weight, my boyfriend dumped me.

Going to school, studying, playing with friends...

...finding lots of love...