《The New Era Project》Chapter 26: Kotomi’s World
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Kotori Miku and Feng Ye have to go through a few security checks before they had arrived at a lobby area where Akeno was waiting for them.
“Hello Feng-kun and Kotori-san, are you ready?” Akeno walks up and asks.
“Yes, let’s go.” Kotori answers.
Akeno leads them both through a corridor which is filled with monitoring devices, staff, and security. The environment is clean, sterile, and similar to a hospital’s atmosphere. The group enters a conference room which has a one way mirror installed.
Looking through the mirror, Feng Ye can see a dimly lit room which seems to be very sterile and spacious. The room has a single king size bed in the middle with a female strapped down to it. This female should be Kotori Kotomi as the resemblance of her appearance actually can be easily associated with Kotori Miku.
Kotori Kotomi is currently in a medicated sleep as she is in a straightjacket as well.
Akeno explains, “That is Kotori-san’s sister, Kotomi Miku.”
She sighs as she continues. “She is still quite unstable, thus, spends most of the time in medicated sleep. We will be watching here, but if there are any issues, we will be ready to respond and get you out.”
Akeno then indicates to a nearby mechanical door which is the entrance to the room which Kotori Kotomi is in.
“You can enter through there. Good luck.” Akeno pats on Feng Ye’s shoulder.
“Feng-kun, you can do it.” Kotori prays silently in her heart.
Akeno heads over to the control panel for the lights in Kotori Kotomi’s room and turns up the lights. The lights change the room from the previously dimly lit room to a brighter one. Kotori Kotomi had no response to such a change.
Feng Ye nods and makes his way to enter the room. Based on his observations, the room is extremely clean. He notices that besides the one way mirror and entrance which occupies a wall and is adjacent to the centre bed, there is another door on the opposite wall. This door may probably lead to the staff who are monitoring Kotori Kotomi’s condition in order to inject a new batch of medication to prolong her medicated sleep.
He walks up to Kotori Kotomi and takes a look at Kotori’s sister. Her appearance seems to be a bit malnourished. If she eats healthily again, Feng Ye doesn’t doubt that she will be a beauty. Kotori Kotomi also has purple hair with similar facial features as Kotori Miku. As she is the elder sister, she is more developed than Kotoi Miku around the chest area. She also looks around the age of 23-25.
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Feng Ye concentrates and uses Spiritual Awareness to enter into Kotori Kotomi’s world.
Within the mind, it shows an individual’s will, emotions, and essentially a reflection of their thoughts. Just like whe Feng Ye initially had entered the mind of the rank E esper which wsa filled with gloominess.
At this time, Feng Ye found himself in a space consisting of two entirely different environments. There seemed to be a brightly lit area which seemed to emit happiness and similar positive emotions on one side. However, on the other side, there seemed to be a cloudy, foggy area which seemed to be of monotone color. It felt as though he was in a world which only consisted of black, white, grey. An environment where one is devoid of emotion.
At the centre where these two different types of environments meet, Kotori Kotomi’s figure can be seen lying down as though she is struggling on which side to go to. It seemed as though more than half of her figure is on the side that is devoid of emotion. It also can be observed that the cloudy, foggy environment is expanding and slowly pulling her in away from the lit area which is filled with vibes happiness.
Feng Ye approaches her and yells in a loud voice.
“Kotori Kotomi!”
Her eyes slowly open. Her eyes seem to be somewhat cloudy as well as though she is also devoid of emotion. “Who are you? What do you want?”
“I am your sister’s friend! I’m here to help you!” Feng Ye replies.
“Sister….” A trace of light faintly flashes within her eyes, however, it quickly then returns to its cloudy state.
It seems as though she is still numb. Her mind is slow and she is slowly being pulled into permanently being unstable. Feng Ye’s thoughts process quickly on what to do.
He thinks to himself, “Perhaps, the vibration ability may work in a space such as this?”
He emits a frequency. It seemed to work. “Great, let’s try first awakening her then calming her down.”
Feng Ye concentrates on emitting a loud, high pitch sound wave. At this time, Kotori Kotomi’s eyebrows crease sa he figure stands up from her previous lying down position.
“Are you here to disturb me?” Her pupils seem to have restored some color from her previous cloudy vision. The entire space seemed to suddenly have a huge pressure pushing downwards. Feng Ye felt as though the gravity around him had increased 10 times.
“It seems like she can freely manipulate and use abilities even in her mind. I can’t hold back then.” He concludes.
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“It’s time to wake up..” Feng Ye replies to her question and immediately emits a sonic wave towards her which seemed have caused her to be a bit disoriented. Following this attack, Feng Ye dashes towards her despite the heavy amount of gravity upon him.
He completes an upper cut while Kotori Kotomi is disoriented and immediately falls to the floor of the space as he gasps for breath. While he lies on the floor, he emits another frequency of 528 Hz which is meant to calm her mind. Following Feng Ye’s uppercut, Kotori Kotomi lies next to Feng Ye.
The calming frequency seemed to work as her breath seemed to become more tranquil while the gravity experienced seem to return to normal.
“Kotori Kotomi, are you finally awake?” Feng Ye inquires gently as he lies a half metre away from her.
“Yes...can you tell me your name?” She replies.
“I am Feng Ye, your sister’s roommate…I am here to help bring you back.” He replies.
“I see.. Thank you.” She sighs. “I have been in this unstable state for so long. So much should have changed….I may have lost myself if not for you.”
She pauses for a moment. “Wait a minute, how are you her roommate?!”
Feng Ye smiles bitterly, “Long story, you can go ask her yourself when you awaken. I will take my leave now. Best wishes on recovery.”
Kotori Kotomi gives a weak smile. “Yes, I’ll see you on the other sides soon.”
At this time, Feng Ye exists from her mind’s world. He can be found collapsed on the ground in reality and panting for breath. Akeno and Kotori Miku have rushed in and are supporting him.
“Everything is alright.” Feng Ye states.
Both Kotori Miku and Akeno let out a sigh of relief.
“We saw you enter and take a look at my sister. Then, you immediately stiffened and collapsed on the ground.” Kotori explains,
Feng Ye is startled sa the comments to Shira in his mind. “Kotori’s sister can even cause his body in real life to collapse even when they were exchanging in her mind.. Truly formidable.”
Shira nods. “Yea, it is best to be careful. She should be high ranked and really formidable. I would recommend trying to get her as your ally through your relations with her sister. Always good to have a super strong backer in addition to the student council president.”
“You are right.” Feng Ye nods.
At this time, the door across from the door that Feng Ye entered from and had suspected was for the staff, a doctor dressed in a white lab coat rushes in. “Kotori Kotomi’s mental state seems to be stable! She will be waking up soon, but we will need to do some medical check ups first.”
Akeno and Kotori Miku nod and give a smile. “Alright, we’ll wait. Thanks for your hard work.” Akeno replies to the doctor.
Akeno, Kotori Miku, and Feng Ye exit and arrive at a cafeteria/lounge area specifically for the staff working on these lower levels.
“Unexpectedly, you succeeded.” Akeno looked at Feng Ye rather surprised, “You are way more formidable than I expected.” At this time, she also hands over an id card to him.
“This is your new identity card. I just need you to take a picture with your original appearance later to add to our database. After doing so, you can wander freely with your original appearance if you like. The status I have given you is a rank D esper enrolled in the Aven Institute of Technology. If you expose more ability than a rank D in your original form, we can always upgrade the rank to better suit your ability. However, for now, rank D is the limit I can provide.”
Feng Ye nods. “That’s fine. Thanks. Rank D is more than enough.”
Naturally, Feng Ye isn’t a fool. Why expose himself by being ranked higher. He had learned from before. Being ranked one for the secondary education already made him noted. If he was placed higher than rank D, it would be a disaster. He would be stared at even more.
This id also allows him to freely wander through all esper only areas as well as parts of the Aven Institute of Technology which is a very good additional pleasant surprise.
For his future development, this id is crucial for when he needs to discard his current status to handle other matters such as seeking for the individual who had “killed” Akimichi.
Kotori Miku gives Feng Ye a hug. “Thank you so much!”
Tears of happiness can be seen on her eyes.
“No problem, it was part of the transaction. I’m glad to help your sister. Also, I’ll be under your care from now on. Please make sure no one harms my weak self.”
“Yes!” Kotori Miku gives a smile.
“Anyways, let’s go get some late night snacks from the cafeteria here. In a bit, we should be able to see Kotori Kotomi.” Akeno smiles and interjects.
The group then head over to obtain some quick food.
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