Introduction

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White, a symbol of purity and righteousness. However, it is all she could see, only white as far as her eyes could see. Where there is light, there will always be darkness, it is what they say. But here, darkness was nowhere to be found. And so, she wondered:

"Is this world really that pure?"

She, the girl basked in endless light, floating around like a fairy. She did not know where she was, nor did she know where she came from. She was not sure of what she was either, but what bothered her the most however, was that she was alone in this white world, she had no friends, no family, there was only her in this empty place, void of any life.

"So much light, and yet nothing to be happy about."

"If only I had one friend, just one."

She sighted as these thoughts kept appearing in her head. The only thing she knew about herself was her name: "Tokino Sora". The only thing she could do was sing endlessly, dawn to dusk. Wait ... that's wrong, Dawn? Dusk? How could those things exist in such a place? Is there even such a concept of day and night here? It must be the reason why she does not know for how long she has been here. It could have been months, years, centuries. But regardless of that, she kept singing by herself. A song without lyrics. Why? Because she did not have any happy thought to sing about, and she did not want to convey sadness in her songs, so she just hummed without end. Until a voice resonated in her mind. A voice that was not hers

"Hi, are you receiving this transmission?" said the voice.

"Who are you?" Sora hesitated before answering.

"Just someone who is bored and want to see something interesting. Don't you?"

"Say, have you ever wanted to visit a place that is a world apart?

"What I want is to get out of here, I don't want to be alone anymore" said Sora in a calm and depressed tone.

"I heard you singing just now, I think you have a beautiful voice."

"What is the point if no one can hear it."

"Well, I heard it, and I can help you to reach further with your voice."

"All you have to do is to accept my help."

Sora closed her eyes. She did not know who this person was or how she could help her. But what she knew is that she did not want to stay here like this anymore. Her decision was fast, any trace of hesitation or doubt had already vanished from her face, she opened her eyes and she said in a firm but gentle tone:

"Please, help me!"


As soon as she said that her world vanished, all this white light turned into void, and after a while, a new light bloomed before her, but unlike before the light was multicolor. Not only white, but blue, red, green, purple, yellow; all kind of colors appeared around her. In all these colors, the white truly stood out this time and felt much more warm and noble than before when he was alone. The explosion of lights was so bright that Sora instinctively closed her eyes for a bit. Suddenly, something happened in her mind, a bunch of images began to appear and disappear rapidly, in those images were ... girls? Yes, girls like her, but those were girls that she had never seen before, after all she had been alone for as long as she could remember. So, she did not know any of them, but she was intrigued, she wanted to meet them. Some looked like normal humans while others looked like creatures that should only exist in stories, and they all had something in common: they looked extremely bored. But all of them made Sora very interested, and most of them seemed to live in very outlandish places. Unfortunately, the flashes were too quick, so she barely managed to remember their faces and before long, the flashes had already stopped. But instead, she felt things very unusual in all her body. A bunch of sensations that she did not remember ever feeling. The wind blowing against her, the ground under her feet, the fresh air filling her lungs, the beams of sunlight heating her skin up.

She opened her eyes and what she saw was a world, not an empty place but a real world, with a sky, vegetation, animals, and she could even see the sea before her. But one thing stood out in this scenery, in the horizon stood a huge silhouette that looked like a giant sword stabbed in the ground. Sora did not know anything about this, but she could feel some kind of energy emanating from this giant sword. After staring at it for while the voice from before appeared again in her head.

"So, what do you think about this place?" asked the voice amusingly.

"Are you the one who did all this? Who are you?"

"You can call me Tanigo, but that's all I can say for now. Now, what do you think?"

"I guess it looks good, I'm not sure where I am though" replied Sora, looking a bit confused. "What is this thing?" she then asked pointing at the giant thing. "It looks like a sword, is this your doing?"

"It's a bit complicated to explain but you can see it like a bridge."

"A bridge? For what?"

"Yes, a bridge. A bridge that can connect different worlds together."

"So, there are other worlds than this one? This seems a bit complicated."

"Well, you don't really need to understand everything, and you should think about your own situation for now. You are new to this world, so you need to find a place to stay to."

"What about those girls I saw earlier in my head?"

"You'll see in due time, I can't get too implicated so I will guide you a bit but after that you will be on your own for a while."

"I still don't who you are though, can I really trust you?"

"I wish I could tell you more, but it's really complicated. However i promise you that i'm not a bad person, let's just say that i need your help as much as you need mine"

Sora let the voice guide her until she found a path and then she started travelling on her own following indication that the voice gave her before disappearing. She was currently in some countryside area next to the sea, and Tanigo had given her the direction to follow to get to the closest city with some money for accommodation. And thus, her life in this new world had begun.

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